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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada Daily Transcript (1863-1868)

May 27, 1870 (4 pages)

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Pearl Fisheries. -'Phe~fian Franciseo Market Review gives some particulars of the pearl fisheries inthe Gulf of California. The Mexican revenue returns for 1869 show that the catch of pearls and pearl-shell _=long'the gulf coast, granted tothe: ~ Lower California Company, amounted last year to the sum of $78,000." This is the value, a8 returned on the estitors on the spot, but the Review says it is clearly + very short of the actual market value, which was probably. four or five times the amount specified, and that it is certain that not more than fifty per cent.-of the whole catch is ever reported to government. The ‘business is carried on in a slip-shod, haphazard manner, which only ¢xcites astonishment that any returns at all are a g.estimated in the neighborhood ,000. .The business is attended sity many difficulties. and. obstacles, 50 that Americanssoon get' discouraged andabandon it. The divers are all Yaqui Indians, in whom no confidence. can be placed. They will contract to dive, but insist on a considerable advance, . either in money or goods. After the advance has been made, the unlucky employer frequently finds himself, some brightmorning without his divers, and then ‘compelled to go over the whole __ ground witha fresh set, only to be treated in like manner by the new comers. If well fed ‘and well treated— things to which they are perfect strangers—they regard their employer as little better than a simpleton, laugh at his easy trast in human nature, and take themselves off without delay. It frequently happens that Indians who are not divers offer themselves in that capacity, requiring the advance; and, as the contractor cannot know the trath, he is as often duped, . The real divers know. their value, dnd ‘take every other difficulties of like nature, it is not singular that the. péarl fishery of this coast» has: not attracted a large share. of attention; but if conducted with system, and supported by the exercise of proper authority, it would prove most lucrative. GILSEMININ, a powerful, nervous and arteria sedative, which is generally beNieved t6 have hastened the death of G. A. Brier, says the Shermantown Reporter; is something comparatively new and but little understood in medicine, Tt is the bark of the root of the yellow or Carolina jasmine, the active princiciple of which is gilseminin, which exercises greater power and force over the muscles and nerves than anything _-@lae known—rendering a person powerJess and insensible t> pain, while conpusness remains and the brain fs unsted. Medical authorities recommend doses of : from. one quarter to two grains, but enjoin extreme caution in Soom sit in all cases of fre, congestion of. the lungs and hemorrhage, and is the most eflicacious remedy known in violent cases ,of typhoid and yellow fever. Both quinine and brandy are antidotes. Light doses produce a pleagant languor and prostration of muscular and nervous power. \ An over dose causes complete prostration, renders a person powerless to move the eyelids or mouth, produces thing appearing double and of a greenish Megs. <a e——— ters in detunse-of his official conduct, . Mr. McConnel’s—reply, unless it be an the-divers-and-specula-} insin. given, The real value of the cateb, for . 4 “possible advantage. Under these and: its use. Brier was. greatly debilitated} dizziness and dimness of vision, everySENATOR Casserly has introduced a bill in the Senate, permitting bonded ee fromthe Govercompelled nor’s views, both as a lawyer anda Det His legal reasons are well joBen i his arguments well put, but still we do not see that they materially affectthe position of the Governor. Governor Haight wrote ‘his letand we can Teally. see no motive for early bid for gubernatorial honors. The above we take from the Oakland Transcript, a Democratic organ. The ; ig_making . a bid Yor the office of Governor is all humbug. There is no good feeling between. McConnell and. Haight, for the reason, so we learn from very-good authority, that Haight violated his word with McConnell, by proniising him,unsolicited, the appointment of one of the Gommissioners to codify the laws of the State, and did not do it. Gay!— At: Tucson, Arizona, while M. B. Duffield, formerly U.S. Marshal of that'Territory, was being examined in the District Court, at the instance of Mr. Dooner, who had brought complaint against Duffield, for having, as he alleged, threatened his life, the DisDuffield disarmed. An order. was issued to that effect, but Duffield prevented anyone from carrying it out, by pulling his six shooter and pointing it at the head of one officer. He then made his way out of the Court, went to his home, whither lig was followed by H. 8. Stevens, who succeeded in pac. ifying him, took him back to Court, when he and A: Levin signed a bond of $5,000 as security that Duffield would keep quiet. How’s that for high? HomicipE at Hamuton.—Tuesday morning, at Hamilton, Dr. R. N. Owen shot twice and-mortally wounded Richard N. Allen, a lawyer. The first shot hit Allen in the leg and the second in the right side. He died in the afternoon. The cause of the difficulty was unknown. Dr, OWen’ is known as a skillfal physician, an anlytical chemist and an abstemious’ gentleman. Mr. Allen is not so well known, bat he was a teetotaler a month ago, and had been for three months previously. Mr, Allen was about 45 years of age and leaves a widow. ‘So says the Virginia Enterprise. Stockton CANAL.—A company to construct a canal from Stockton to Venice, on the San Joaquin river, has been organized, with a capital stock-of $3,500,000.. lt is expected that private land grants, to the extent of ten thousand acres or more, will be made in aid of the work. The object is to reclaim swamp land, and to do the business usually appertaining toa canal. The design is to make the ¢anal fourteen and w half milesilong, twenty-five feet deep, one hundred and fifty feet wide at the top and seventy feet wide at the bottom. In an old abandoned ghaft near the Coanty Hospital, Virginia: ‘City, the skeleton of a man who left the Occidental mine about a year ago, and who. was never heard of afterwards, has been discovered, The skeleton wag partiallydn an upright position when found, and it is supposed that the man was not killed by a fall, but died “from ‘exposure and starvation, Ir Commodore Vanderbilt lives long, enough and meets with no serious backsets, itis not altogether unlikely that the time. will come when he will be the owner'and controller of a continuous line of railway from New York to San Francisco. He now’ controls, individually, a line from New York to Chicago. He is said to be figuring on an extension to Omaha. DIssiPaTION rules supreme in San Luis Obispo. The town is full of mondestination, the duties to be then colgoods to be transmitted by rail to their "Tae Times says Santa Cruz people are asleep in the matter of opening up Wrendeacery sscviseatsm at 2 that county. Axtoaerir, the farming prospects pl Belane eputey ane" 6 considered wr favorable, . béing twice the trict Attorney asked the Judge to have . ~ Union Pacific réad. . bills now before Congress “asking for grants of lands for railroads to the amount of 512,000,000 acres. 186,000,000 have already been donated, and should the land grant polieybé-continued, and the bills now before Congress pass, the total number of acres donated will amount to nearly 700,000, 000—or . more by neaaly two hundred million acres thar:the whole surveyed domain of the United States, including the presTue Appeal notices with pride that Marysville is becoming quite metropoljtan, and mentions among the new at tractions of the town a galvanic battery man at the street corners, an itinerant pen véndor and a blind fiddler. San Francisco may begin to look to her laurels. ‘Tag San Francisco Figaro says there is a rumor that Brother Pickering is going to, buy the Chronicle, knock it on the head and put it out of the way,like the man who swapped his wife fora yellow dog, and then killed the dog to spite her relations. An Indian giri, daughter of the Chief of the Piute tribe in Nevada, writes to Commissioner Parker, bitterly compliining of the treatment her people lave received at the hands of the Government agents-while on the Truckee River Reservation. THE Gilean boys, at Canon creek says the Trinity Journal, whom we mentioned before, are still pegging away, and doing far better than the average of miners. “They make about $60 a week—two boys and twelve years old. A CALL for a mass /meuting of ‘elttedne of White Pine county to take the preliminary action for a railroad between Elko and Hamilton appeared in the Whito Pine News of May 20th, signed by 91 individuals and firms. The mevting -was_to have been__held_inHamilton on last Saturday night. — THE unfortunate James Campbell, who was terribly burned'at Elko by the. explosion of a can of benzine, on the night of the 13th -instant, and which caused the death of his brother Henry the morning after, died on the morning of May 20th. A Westexn Senator wrote home 4 short time ago, that he was enly able to get “four hoursof sleep out of twenty-four, and during that period, a candidate for office sat by the bedside and watched him as he slept.” THE Appeal says that the crops in the vicinity of Marysville look better now than ever they did, and anticipates the largest yield of grain that has ever been produced in that section. As long as green peas are held at 50 cents a’ pound, says the White Pine News, we don’t wantthem. But whenever they reach a reasonable figure “let us have peas.” THERE are fourteen men over in Ne. vada who are mentioned as having the inside track for the momination as Gov. ernor of that State. Racss,.--The Jockey Club of Colusa county will hold their Spring meeting at Colusa, coftmencing Tuesday, June 14th. AN amorous San Franciscan » achieved the Penitentiary ‘twice in his brief career, each time for stealing funds'to defray the expenses of a wedding tour. ~ — OmanA has a man who lives with
his family in one of the large iron tubes used in the construction of the bridge. serial stories, one by & " ‘Te contract for building the Mills} te banks and other thieving games, . Institute, at the Urrretz's } Lave Ace for May 2 21st in Fiction ; Philosophy at Crisis in France ; The Poet Moore and his wife ; Rome in Winter ; The End of the Paraguayan Experiment, etc. The Livieg Age, besides the usual large amount.of the best. scientific,.literary, historical’ ‘and political matter, is. pub_new.2 ery “Oliphant and the other by Charles Lever. The regular subscription price of this magazine is $8.0 year. Littell & Gay, Boston, . “ are the publishers. THE French Governinent has punished some newspaper proprietors for forging a proclamation over the signature! of the Emperor, and publishing the same. Joun P. Hate, late Minister at Madrid, and for many years a distinguished Senator from New Hampshire, is now in Europe, peor and braken in ‘health and spirits. Sam Merritt, formerly a Senator from: Mariposa, is nédw the Democratic nominee for Congress in Idado. The Convention was in session eight days, and Merritt gotnominated on the 89th ‘ba'lot by one vote. ‘*‘Uncug Jake” Kellinger was killed in the Garwood claim, on Canon creek, recently, by a large boulder falling upon him. omnn2 the murder of Susan Jones, a coloréd woman, at Ogden, and sentenced to be shot on the 17th of June. A BOAT was upset outside of the San Francisco Heads, May 24th, and it is ‘supposed three fishermen perished. Tux Engineers of the Stockton and Visalia Railroad Company are running an experimental line to the Stanislaus river. Mr. BARTLETT, of the firm of Perry & Bartlett, saw mill men in Santa week and terribly bruised. A: aNeaN, CHARLEY GRaF. HENNEMAN & GRAF, OULD INFORM THEIR FRIENDS and the public generally that they have opened a New Saloon; opposite the National Kxchange Hotel, where they will keep constantly on hand the very best "eee Sid Wines, Beer, Ales.Liquors & Cigars te which they invite the attention of the entire community. Give us a call. my2t ee PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY ! poe REMEMBER THAT N. TUTTLE HAS OPENED THE ; Church Street Picture. Gallery, Grass Valley. stm ESTABLISHMENT HAS ae DEPOT OF GENUINE rlin Head And Enameled Card w. PICTURES. «i Tuttle studies to please, and is pre-eminentthe cons tg Photographer .n this section of my27 Grice Valley Ice Cream —a ’ ' JOHNSON & MENGER, —Preprietors— 7” OPPOSITE HAMILTON HALL, 93 ways on hand. N= VISITING GRASS VALLEY, at ee Re furnished and pleasant » accommodation . Cruz, wasthrown from.a team last . New og Se ; The . interesting . — , Kee Cream, Strawherries, ete., gl-. Cmcinna one Oak eed-room t Set. oe Spring Matirass. . ; *951b Mair Matirass. Six Chairs. A One Setting Room Carpets os Heir Cloth Sota: Bedstead, new. * pPulwu Mattrass, new. oe ~ 66 ee Mahogany Table. Lots of Dishes, etc., ect. ge For Furtber particulars enquixe of EH. MOOKE, Piety i iy a NEW STORE. NEW GOODs. THOS. SHURTLEFF, MAKES thie method of informin Ign: ua . 7 and the ha generally that oe JUST RECEIVED At his new Store, Kidd’s building, ON BROAD STREET, AT THE OLD STAND, OF A, . W. LESTER & CO: A Large Stock of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS TO WHICH HE INVITES THE ATTENTION OF ALL PURCHASERS, nos. KNarp has been convicted of . ~~ 4s — At this’ Establishment there will ALWAYS BE FOUND a ee a is usually kept in a Store ot will be sold as Cheap as the very Cheapest { ; EVERYTHING SOLD I GUARANTES TO BE AS REPRESENTED. New.--Goods wil bo Received. every few days. (2 ALL GOODS. DELIVERED WITHIN A REASONABLE DISTANCE FREE OF CHARGE. gt Dont forget the place ! AT THE OLD STAND OF A. W. LESTER & CO. BROAD STREET THOS. SHURTLEFF. . Nevada May 22m. Overland Railroad Route! THE ONLY LINn KUNMING THE PULLMAN HOTEL CARS EAST OF THE MISEOURI RIVER, The Best Route to all Cities in the Atlantic States / REDUCED RATES OF FARZ, Adopted fer 1870. PAYABLE IN CURRENCY 0 INLY. or eee + 2 @ 8000 ‘ed CHICAGO.. 18 @ 33.00 aviovangy ane’ Tr Bet Movtrcal oe 4 110 00 108 55 108 55 SECOND CLASS Passengers will be carried in $128 by the Atlantic Hotel Express Train, from San —— — who arrived at Salinas City, May 2! report that section cov covered with a rel ynarc Sy Caladedo Naied bb MeaiaaeieA n nue, Alameda, has been let for $68,000. . . Rasy nn gy EZ secon aoeeycn, to New = a Ge Posses The fo filed in t taken up ="Jand for in Bloor of the B Lake Ci ee pany’s d said ray North E Order Mrs: Germatr North £ the chai Doetors to Stocl tunate childré: insanit the pas ued to . low thi Insan A prc merly . in the lessly friend: son hi spittin minist he wil the C¢ ereasii Gras The in a fli yolum are all thée-co the co The r They did or henefi The Ths ~~ darity wigee e SSPE ie Ka Rt dition about passe coun with o’clo Flat a i same o’clo wg me