May 7, 1878 (4 pages)

: ys ea oie ‘BREVITIES, The Daily Gransevipt. Split tickets were popular yester" NEVADA CITY. CALL —__-). day. “ The Watt: shafite-down: about 425, Tuesday, sated 2, 1876. feet. GEO. M. MOTT 5 our only authorized Ageut in Sncramento: He will re eeive Advertisements and Subscriptions for the TRanscrrer, and — sa us in. our name, ' TL A ee — BOOK. In the May wanton of Sunday Afternoon, the ew periodical for Sunday reading, Mr. Rossiter Johnsou makes a strong protest against tho treatment to which the Bible has been subjected by printers and publishers for many generations. Otuer books are pristed~in style ~ uppropriats to thé character of the . work, and thé most purblind™ Feader can distinguish at a glance between a history and a poem, and=althougt -The-churches were eel attended on Sunday evening. Gold dust has been cube in Slowly. fur the past two or three days. Merchants say that general business prospects are brightesing up -stowly, = Tbe stage company has reduced the fare between-Grass Valley and Marysville to $4. About the only thing that a man can borrow nowadays without giving . security, 18 trouble. —Tlie Workingmen were out in full f POOls RS DORTOR The Caucasians’ pic-nic, on “Sun-. day, was quite largely attended, and was an enjoyable affair. Some $40,000 worth of gold dust the* mistuke Would be in many cases excusable—is in little danger of _2Ontounding a theological disquisitiun with a sensation novel. Bat, in_the casw of the Bible, history, . 'P° . philosophy, doctrinal _stutement, . and poetry are alike chopped -into paragraphs of nearly equal lengths, wita tittle regard-to-sense-and—with nu consideration for literary propriety. The absurd arrangement made some centuries ago—-so tra———qitton runs— by a tat ashe jagged on horseback slong an uneven road has been perpetuated tothe present fidelity to pattern. Not , content wita this, editors aud printers in these latter days have coutrived to wake the/bouk Still more unread-. _ ~—abte by numbering» the-paragraphs, }ipterspersing the text with reference __ mars, vod further disfiguring the page with marginal notes, inter. ’ Margfoal notes, and foot-notes.” As @ tinishing touch to this +itypegraph— jeulcrime” the publishers--alaost {uivartsbly issue tne -work-in-a sin-. gie volume that, if of type large euongh t> read, is too bulky to hoid, and if of convenient size for handoy ling is typographically ruinous to the eye sight. Mr. Johnson demonstratestheabsardity’ ote the arrangement and its damaging coliseqUences __by printing a few lines of one of ‘Yenuyson’s mort famous poems afferthe ordinury style of Bible publication. This protest against the injustice -done the Bible by its publication ju a wonatural form is” none too strongly put. No one who has had the opportunity of comparing the text as printed in what is called the Paragraph Bible, with its form -in the ordinary volume, can possibly fail to recognize the vast superiority of the natural over the artitrary: style of printing the sucred text. In the former, which is rareto be found in book stores, and is therefore, practically almost inaccessible, the textis precisely that of the so-called Authorized Version, but it is arranged to some extent— but not wholly—according to the dictates of common sense. The historical _booka are__printed as would be books of profane history, tue divisions being murked by the requirements of the narrative. ‘The poetical books are presented as poery, and sume sttempt made to preserve the order and arrangement of —_ ines. Where in the prose atives a character breaks out inoe song the metrical form is at once adopted, as is the case in the prophetic books when the Writer rises from the level of prose vuticination or denuneiation to the. heights of poetic inspiration, The result is that the sucred writings become not only readable, bat highly interesting, and even fascinating by their literary beauties. Hewho has read the book ef Job only in the ordinary version, can have but a faint conception of the beauties of that pastoral drama of hoar antiquity, as brought out more clearly by the simple restoration of the lines to their proper poetic form and ur rangement. Were the ‘‘Sacred Volume”’ to be multiplied into a number of volumes, grouping the Historical, the . Poetic, the Prophetic, the Gospel narratives, and the Epistles in separate volumes, aud printing tuem in separate volumes,and in form appropriate to the character of text,suci: un edition would undoubtedly find readvrs amopg many to whom the Bible whioh lies on their tables is now a rwaled book; its beauties would be auore widely appreciated, and its infinence pousibly greatly increased. serpin “tine With more than Chinese slavish = was purchased at Richards’ Banking establishment during Jast month. It is said that an opposition stage line will shortly ‘be established bes . tween this city and ‘North Bloom-. field. The civil cases to be bioaght before the Grand Jury will not be set until the criminal cases are all disposed of. Aun extra venire calling for ‘three -additional-Grand-Jurors-was ordered force yesterday, and worked at the. #*s* Shall Our Citizens Hear the May Festiva Musict ' Preparations. are being made in several cities and towns in the State . to have telephonic connection with the great musical festival, to be held the latter. part of the present month in San Francisco, 808 to give people who cannos“afford the expense and time of a trip to the Bay the benefit of the music, The proposition is a novel one, and the experiment will doubtless be tried over the lines of telegraph to the towns all round the Bay. There is no reason why the citizens of Nevada cannot, by a slight outlay, also take advantage of the opportunity, and enjoy the grand music which will be rendered at the festival,without being zreat-an expense as would be We Sacra to take * trip below. to give our readers an estimate_as}— to what the tota-expense would be for reproducing: the—music-at_this point, go that they. will be able to consider the propriety. of making the necessary arrangements, ———— Takein to Napa. “Mrs. Fitzsimmons, 5, of ~ Grass -Valley, who has been confined in the County Jail. for several days for safekeeping, was adjudged insane at a late’ hour Saturday. ~ Yesterday morning Under Sheriff Byrne took Mrs. Fitzsimmonsand Terry. O’Brien by the County Judge to be. issued yesterday. commenced mining operations in the bed of Deer Creek, at # point near the Hospital. The complete programme of of exercises for the Red Men’s excursion and. picenic appears in their advertisement this morning. rte whether or ne Geo, Batts will —be granted a new trial. continues to hold itsown. A large quantity of very rich rock is being taken out regularly. The Nevada City Ice Company are now prepared to supply families with ice at moderate rates. Read their new advertisement. the Theatre in this .city, with his comb,” on the 22d instant. John Driscoll was injured by a ‘piece of rock talling on him in the Centennial mine; last week; and is at present lying in a critical condition. Yesterday was a lively day for local politiciaas, and the various candidates sat with their feet dangling over the “ragged edge” until the votes had all been counted. Mercury fooled around the sun in a familiar sort of way yesterday, and at times it seemed to the unlearned telescopic observer that a collision between tlis two budies was inevitable. in the city were closed yesterday. The rear entrances to some of them ‘were evidently out of repair, so far as keeping out the thirsty public was concerned, The Yuba Tunnel Gold Mining Company will hold their seventh annual meeting of stockhslders, for the purpose of electing trustees and transacting other business, at North San Juan, on Friday next, The dance platform at Ismert’s Grove was destroyed by fire on Sunday-night. It is supposed to have been the work of some mischievous boys. A new and much better platform will be,immediately erected. John H. Judd and Martin Shields were thrown from a buggy while driving along: between Boston Ravine and Grass Valley, last Saturday.: Fortunately, no severe injuries were received by either of the gentlemen Dennis Sullivan, who was badly injured by the explosion of giant powder cartridges, at Auburn, was taken to his home io Grass Valley last week. One of bis eyes was destroyed, and other serious injuries were received. A number of ladies hold regular prayer meetings in the County Jail every Sunday afternoon. ‘It is a good field tor Christian labor, as a more graceless set than is at present confined in that institution is seldom to be encountered, The Red Men's pic-nic, to be held at Ismert’s Grove, on Saturday next, will be more génerally attended than . , any event of a like character that has occurréd here for a long time. Arrangements; have beea wade for i iat t ~Atarge-number-of Chinamen-bave} manageable. —— + neeessary_to bundle himistea wagon On next Saturday it will doubtless . . be decided in the Supreme Court” as . pI -Beq--wa8-on Stas dost ‘Phe ledge in the: Dexdwood mitre Denman Thompson will appear at} popular drama of “Joshua Whit=} The front doors of all the saloons . proved, — to Grass Valley, where they were put in charge of Sheriff Montgomery, who proceeded to the Napa Insane Asy* lum” wit “the two--onfortanates. When O’Brien was being conveyed from the Jail to the N. G. Depet he. became very ‘violent, and unIt was finally found in order to sacussteei him tothe cars, é _—The Population. Increased, afternoon the victim of a little occurrence, which he declares has made him the happiest man on the Pacific Coast. tips the beam at something over twelve pounds, with which his wife presented him. ‘The mother and heir are both doing well. = =< a <-e Personal Mention. Ea In-town yesterday: G. D. MeLean, Sweetland; J. Stidger, N. San Juan; E. Austin’ and M. Friend, Dutch Flat; J. M. Thomas, G. Gill and Jas. Peters, Grass Valley; Wm. H. H. Hart, Capt. Poole, FO. EE ridge and 'T. O. White, San Francisco, CO. A. Brown, You Bet, Bret Harte’ s Failing. Bret Harte has beén to the White House, and has had the felicity to shake hands with the President. The uncharitable Golden Era says it is not informed -whether he— struck Rutherford for a loan or not, but the chances are that he did. Mackay’s Prodigality. A N.w York paper says that Mr. Mackay, the big bonanza millionaire of the Pacific Coast, has furnished Tiffany & Co. with silver ore from his mine, oat of which they are to manufacture a dinner service for hid wife’s residence in Paris. The. service is to consist of .150 pieces and will cost $90,000. — Let the Truth Preyail. First it is the Call that charges the Chronicle with robbing the city of San Francisco by over-charging for legal printing. Next the Chronicle counters on its persecutors with a siiiilar charge. Both charges are When will these two papers get through telling the truth about éaca other? How to Choose One, The St Louis Journal advises young men to choose a wife by the music she plays and the way she plays it. If she manifests a predil tion fer Strauss, she is frivolous; for Beethoven, she is impractical; for Lizst, she is too ambitious; for Verdi, she is sentimental; for Offenbach, she is superticial; for Mozart, she is prudish; for Flotow, she is commonplace; for Wagner, she is idiotic, The girl who hammers away at “Maiden’s Prayer,” “Anvil Chorus” and “Silvery Waves” may be depended on as a good cook, and healthful; and if she includes “Battle of Prague” and the “White Cockade” in her repertoire, you ought to know that she has been religiously. ‘and strictly nurtured. Bat the last of all, pin thou thy faith. upon the} calico tess of the gir! who-ean play ataumemodating over 2,000 people, 5" Home, Sweet ermal The “occurrence” we . refer to is a magnificent boy who e General Items, _ Rev. Talmage bas planned: te sum-. . mer in Martha’s Vineyard. California has commenced to build ready made houses for shipment abroad. P. T. Barnum is three score years straight. About Johnstown, N. Y.}. there are 300 firme in the glove and mitten business, employing about 10,000 persons. ' accommodation of the Shah of Persia and bis retinue, while traveling in Europe, must include thirty-five reems. ay cisco, is in Washington, with a view cf ousting Coiner Cieott from the -Mint, and-substitating himself, James R. Keene, formerly of San Fraucisco, has recently realized $1,+ 500,000 profit on a little turn in the stcck of the Northwestern Railroad. Joseph Jefferson looks like a elergyman ratber than an-actor. He wears plain clothes, is believer in +is-wealthy.— Capt. Eads, having nenea the mouth of the Mississippi river, now intends to clear out the bed. He proposes to widen the channel and wake the river deepen its own bed. -The -slight-mortality--among the erin officers during the late-war} is said to be due to the fact that they wear bullet-proof steel cuirasses . . under their coats. oe As Clara Lonisa Kellogg views it, every great songstress or actress who marries, gets a fellow who speuds ber money and leaves her to die in from right. Japanese architecture may be attractive, but it cannot be “called “ex. K and eight, and he takes his ice water . The hotel accommodations for the George Parkinson, of San Pran=. _. spiritualism, paints fair Sicko and . ! A New Mine . with Good Prossmall crushings, at his mill on Wolf Creek; of-rock from the Irom Clad} claim at Rougli and Ready. .The}: first-was-fourjoads taken from the croppings, which yielded $42 per }load; the senond Was eight loads takep from the sbaft at adepth of fifty feet, which gave $265 50, or a fraction over $33 per load, The gold is of excellent quality, worth $17 50 , per oz. This new claim is making a very fine appearance, and there is every present indication that it will +make,a valuable mine.—Union, Epson says his phonograpbs will cost $100 each. This will enable but they will have toSdispense witb a couble of dogs. ~ Wanted, Situation as cook. Apply at ANTOINE Tam’s. apa Mountain Ice. \HE andiselchen gives notice that he ticle ef—= MOUNTAIN ICE To any business place or private résidence in this city. The Ice this season is most decidedly the best ever put up in this Bec. tion of the-country. Allorders left at the office of the Company.on-the Plaza, willbe. promptly and . faithfully attended to. _Nevada ,>May 7th, 1878. BEER FOR-THEMILLION, — ROGER CONLAN, MILWAUKEE BEER DEPOT, » Joseph Southern has made two “poor familiss to keep a phonograph, —fs 0 Ww: Prepared to-eupply the best ar= J. 5. THOMPSON. > COLOSSAL ORGAN,MAY 28th, 29th, and 30th, ‘AT 280. M, AT MECHANICS’ PAVILION, SAN FRANCISCO, ~~ eee (bonus oF OF 2000 y OICES, . IMMENSE ORCHESTRA Electricity, Artillery and Telephone. g CONDUCTORS, Car? Zerrahan, Boston, John P; —— & R. Herold, Ran {Ths Wanagemeut fe have, at great expense, secured the servicés of the Célebrated Contralto, ANNA DRASDIL. M.W. Whitney, the Greatest: Living Basso. Helen Ames Billings, W.H. Fessenden, of Boston, SUMNER W, BUGBEE, Manager. _ ‘Miss Abbie Clark, —_—. Ree The Bs NEVAD LOCA Fallen Fro: An old cit arrest in this ¢ law, we chre ‘TRaNscurrr, Ww ged, shaggy be ed penniless . tion that hei: . i you will onl, life’s history . will.be found t as a “‘gentlen good family, a possessed of who dressed it © and sported a: —=——gane; and ali supposed to in bea gentlema: resources. Bt It is needless { this man furt he was yester the Court as ‘ & —_——_—_ Pioneer Re At the. an —gteekholders-o tion Company the Union Hot terday afternc ficers_were el ensuing twelv. brated Soloists: Sale of Tickets begins st SHERMAN; +HYDE & Co., San Francisco, April 2 9th. SEASON TICKETS FOR 3 DAYS, $500. Single Tickets from $1 (0 to $2 00, accurding to fScation. No extra charge for Reserved Seats. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. tare: Howise-is not far poverty; and C } Broad S Street, ‘Nevada City. eed SI; pouty" “YOUR atid HOMESREWED in Tokio, four thousand houseswere burned, and the loss was estimated . at only $200, 000. ie timore have suspended operations, and over 300 skilled workmen are thrown out of employment thereby. It is expected that the factories will _—— closed until October. : + “Phe Hartford Times estimates that not less than 1,000 persons, 90 years old aud upwards, have died in Connecticut during the last dozen years, and reusons that the longevity of human life in that part of the country is gradually increasing. ceived annually in England from tbe River Platte; 1,000 horns are usually reckoned as a measurement ton in shipping, though they are frequently freighted by weight. It takes uearly 2,000 horns to weigh a ton. a An American girl went-over to Paris with her brother the-other day, and the instant she was left alone with their companion in the carriage, a wniddle. aged Frenchman,\he insulted her. She told her brother when he returned, ang there was a. fearful outburst. The Frenchmen gave his card, and said he was deeply sorry and would abide by the decisquences tu ensue for his mistake, but ceitainly he never suspected Mademoiselle was a lady, as she was painted! The brother appealed to the best authorities in Paria in these matters to learn what the code was under these circumstances, and all the men of the Jockey Club told him that if his sister’s eyelashes were blackened and her cheeks rouged, he could-have no-redress,; as these practices were never followed by. any but demoiselle du monde.— London Latter. Fly-by-night Hotels. The. New York Commercial Advertiser says that under the excise law ‘‘hotels” have become as plenty as corner groceries. Sometimes they come almost in a night—bedsteads being hurried into their positious and dining tables arranged for the entertainment of ‘‘travelers.’’ One of these. inns, so hastily arranged, -has in.eddition a complete annuniciator with an assortment of keys displayed worthy of ajunk shop, but simply a dumb-show. It'is evei doing service “rounders,”’ to A census of ing. pensive. — At the great fire recently All the glass manufactories in Bal-. About 4,000 tons of horns are reion of the other as to the conse-. the thiog ‘don’t work," all being}. intimated that the same beds’ are} answer the or at various places. e actual lodgers at these bogus b hotels would be interest . ALES, LIRCORS AND nivniaernaedl i of the Best. Quality, 2 : -CONTRACT TO LET. CHIE MINE. Apply at the Mine. mad ‘Cc. ¢. ae Supt. ESTRAY NOTICE. Ge to the ramch of E. H. Davis, on thé Rough and Ready road, in November, 1877,a Red and White Cow, having a slit in the left ear; no brands perceptible. “She has a calf with her about a yeur old. and cake her away. E. H. Nevada City, May 4, 18781m CASH OR NO.SALE. TO THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA. ona purely “. Can be carried on in Ne vada to the benefit of both buyer and seller, I have bought the stock of the late firm ef WEBER & CHATY, and will carry on the basiness at the old stand on Commercial street, and will sel? all goods in the line of Groceries, Provisions, Grain, Flour, Peed, ; Ete., TEN PER CENT. LESS THAN OLD RATES. 7 I pay cash for goods, and must have CASH or its equivalent on the counter for whatlI sell. ' W. H. SMITH. March 26 , 1878. . MILLI NERY i —AND— DRESS MAKING. MISS LOTTIE WEISS, WOULD announce to the ED reepectfully and vicinity, that she is now prepared to Cut, wi, and Make all kinds of. IN THE M f FASHIONABLE STYLES AND AT LOW RATES. Millinery in all its Branches. . Ladies’ Hate and Bonnets made to order mad in the _ Ke Latest Spring apd Gentlemen's Panama and Leghorn Hats { Cleaned and Whitened, , ‘ All work éntrusted to my care. will ceive prompt rarer ei I Photograph Qi Paintings, ‘Executed in the highest style of the art. oui mogdaky Tet BEER FROM PREYFUSS BREWERY? The owner is requested to call,pay charsee DA ELIEVING that a business conducted . CASH BASIS, Mitchell; Sec: A. G, Elliott, ~“gistant-Secreta H. Crosby, of ors—A. B. Cro G, Elliott, N. -~P. K. STOCKTON, OF THE LL orders from Nevada City ittended __to at short notice, LUETJE AND. BRAND, NOTICE. has purchased all the right, title snd interest of Jehn King in the store Dame 01 Quong Sing, at Rough and Ready, in the county of Nevada; State of Califorhia, and-will continue the business as heretofore in his own mame. The purchase Was made in September last. WY KBE. Rough and Ready. March 14th, 1878. MASONIC NOTICE. — Nevada Lodge, No. 13,F. & A.M. STAIED MEETINGS ON the Second Wednesday of each month. good standing srecordiaiiy—in-—— vited, JOHN CALDWELL, Master. J. H. Boaxpman, Secretary. ap-12 HE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE stockholders of THE MASONIC HALL fore will be held at Masonic on Saturday Evening, May 18, 1878. for the purpose of electing three Trustees of said Association, and of transacting such other business as may lawfully come before it K. CaSPER, Secretary, Nevada March, 30th, 1878 Caetaes, BUGGIES: 4 EXPRESS, THOROUG BRAC Cor. 13th and 3 ve SACRAMENTO 422-tf ——" CHRIS. NAFFZIGER, PROPRIETOR OF THES Union Market, Nevada City: H: NOW ON HAND, of bis ow™ NEW LARD, Which ‘be offers for sale in quantities suit. Me also hes HAMS and BACON, . THE BEST IN THE COUNTY, Be pct ea gear ete. . OFPICIAL_REPORTER, — County Court, Sacramento. af: eee . and Jewelers. Broad Street, opp. Stumpi’s Hotel — KT OTICE is hereby given that Wy Kee Visiting Brethren m. . AKD QUARTZ WAGO Of his ows maumfacture. ano fad ——Nice Fourteen pr efore the Gr forenuon: Th uber burg! horse thieves, readily imagin fellows these. brought up, as with a lot_of hi majority of the that'is, not oy. of age. “Not The bids for tal buildings, ed until the Bo convened to ¢ the Constitati egates. Stat The Stated Lodge, No. 18 held on Wedni o'clock. A fu bers is reques ren in good 3st es invited. -By o1 J, H. Boarp: 5. The member. No. 49, Imp Men, aré reque Wigwam, on Si 8,30 o’¢lock, A of receiving o1 Tribes invited uS on that day. Gero, M, Receip Within the ps a receipt bool Chaty to Wm. ] will confer a fa store of W. H. . The Domestic Ma machines are th Mestic. Call a m7-3t--. Gao I The place to b md Vv ‘sewer Stephen Rotkx Vari Broad street Laetjo & Branc just received a Books, such as. hie Schools, stat

: ys ea oie ‘BREVITIES, The Daily Gransevipt. Split tickets were popular yester" NEVADA CITY. CALL —__-). day. “ The Watt: shafite-down: about 425, Tuesday, sated 2, 1876. feet. GEO. M. MOTT 5 our only authorized Ageut in Sncramento: He will re eeive Advertisements and Subscriptions for the TRanscrrer, and — sa us in. our name, ' TL A ee — BOOK. In the May wanton of Sunday Afternoon, the ew periodical for Sunday reading, Mr. Rossiter Johnsou makes a strong protest against tho treatment to which the Bible has been subjected by printers and publishers for many generations. Otuer books are pristed~in style ~ uppropriats to thé character of the . work, and thé most purblind™ Feader can distinguish at a glance between a history and a poem, and=althougt -The-churches were eel attended on Sunday evening. Gold dust has been cube in Slowly. fur the past two or three days. Merchants say that general business prospects are brightesing up -stowly, = Tbe stage company has reduced the fare between-Grass Valley and Marysville to $4. About the only thing that a man can borrow nowadays without giving . security, 18 trouble.. —Tlie Workingmen were out in full f POOls RS DORTOR The Caucasians’ pic-nic, on “Sun-. day, was quite largely attended, and was an enjoyable affair. Some $40,000 worth of gold dust the* mistuke Would be in many cases excusable—is in little danger of _2Ontounding a theological disquisitiun with a sensation novel. Bat, in_the casw of the Bible, history, . 'P° . philosophy, doctrinal _stutement, . and poetry are alike chopped -into paragraphs of nearly equal lengths, wita tittle regard-to-sense-and—with nu consideration for literary propriety. The absurd arrangement made some centuries ago—-so tra———qitton runs— by a tat ashe jagged on horseback slong an uneven road has been perpetuated tothe present fidelity to pattern. Not , content wita this, editors aud printers in these latter days have coutrived to wake the/bouk Still more unread-. _ ~—abte by numbering» the-paragraphs, }ipterspersing the text with reference __ mars, vod further disfiguring the page with marginal notes, inter. ’ Margfoal notes, and foot-notes.” As @ tinishing touch to this +itypegraph— jeulcrime” the publishers--alaost {uivartsbly issue tne -work-in-a sin-. gie volume that, if of type large euongh t> read, is too bulky to hoid, and if of convenient size for handoy ling is typographically ruinous to the eye sight. Mr. Johnson demonstratestheabsardity’ ote the arrangement and its damaging coliseqUences __by printing a few lines of one of ‘Yenuyson’s mort famous poems afferthe ordinury style of Bible publication. This protest against the injustice -done the Bible by its publication ju a wonatural form is” none too strongly put. No one who has had the opportunity of comparing the text as printed in what is called the Paragraph Bible, with its form -in the ordinary volume, can possibly fail to recognize the vast superiority of the natural over the artitrary: style of printing the sucred text. In the former, which is rareto be found in book stores, and is therefore, practically almost inaccessible, the textis precisely that of the so-called Authorized Version, but it is arranged to some extent— but not wholly—according to the dictates of common sense. The historical _booka are__printed as would be books of profane history, tue divisions being murked by the requirements of the narrative. ‘The poetical books are presented as poery, and sume sttempt made to preserve the order and arrangement of —_ ines. Where in the prose atives a character breaks out inoe song the metrical form is at once adopted, as is the case in the prophetic books when the Writer rises from the level of prose vuticination or denuneiation to the. heights of poetic inspiration, The result is that the sucred writings become not only readable, bat highly interesting, and even fascinating by their literary beauties. Hewho has read the book ef Job only in the ordinary version, can have but a faint conception of the beauties of that pastoral drama of hoar antiquity, as brought out more clearly by the simple restoration of the lines to their proper poetic form and ur rangement. Were the ‘‘Sacred Volume”’ to be multiplied into a number of volumes, grouping the Historical, the . Poetic, the Prophetic, the Gospel narratives, and the Epistles in separate volumes, aud printing tuem in separate volumes,and in form appropriate to the character of text,suci: un edition would undoubtedly find readvrs amopg many to whom the Bible whioh lies on their tables is now a rwaled book; its beauties would be auore widely appreciated, and its infinence pousibly greatly increased. serpin “tine With more than Chinese slavish = was purchased at Richards’ Banking establishment during Jast month. It is said that an opposition stage line will shortly ‘be established bes . tween this city and ‘North Bloom-. field. The civil cases to be bioaght before the Grand Jury will not be set until the criminal cases are all disposed of. Aun extra venire calling for ‘three -additional-Grand-Jurors-was ordered force yesterday, and worked at the. #*s* Shall Our Citizens Hear the May Festiva Musict ' Preparations. are being made in several cities and towns in the State . to have telephonic connection with the great musical festival, to be held the latter. part of the present month in San Francisco, 808 to give people who cannos“afford the expense and time of a trip to the Bay the benefit of the music, The proposition is a novel one, and the experiment will doubtless be tried over the lines of telegraph to the towns all round the Bay. There is no reason why the citizens of Nevada cannot, by a slight outlay, also take advantage of the opportunity, and enjoy the grand music which will be rendered at the festival,without being zreat-an expense as would be We Sacra to take * trip below. to give our readers an estimate_as}— to what the tota-expense would be for reproducing: the—music-at_this point, go that they. will be able to consider the propriety. of making the necessary arrangements, ———— Takein to Napa. “Mrs. Fitzsimmons, 5, of ~ Grass -Valley, who has been confined in the County Jail. for several days for safekeeping, was adjudged insane at a late’ hour Saturday. ~ Yesterday morning Under Sheriff Byrne took Mrs. Fitzsimmonsand Terry. O’Brien by the County Judge to be. issued yesterday. commenced mining operations in the bed of Deer Creek, at # point near the Hospital. The complete programme of of exercises for the Red Men’s excursion and. picenic appears in their advertisement this morning. rte whether or ne Geo, Batts will —be granted a new trial. continues to hold itsown. A large quantity of very rich rock is being taken out regularly. The Nevada City Ice Company are now prepared to supply families with ice at moderate rates. Read their new advertisement. the Theatre in this .city, with his comb,” on the 22d instant. John Driscoll was injured by a ‘piece of rock talling on him in the Centennial mine; last week; and is at present lying in a critical condition. Yesterday was a lively day for local politiciaas, and the various candidates sat with their feet dangling over the “ragged edge” until the votes had all been counted. Mercury fooled around the sun in a familiar sort of way yesterday, and at times it seemed to the unlearned telescopic observer that a collision between tlis two budies was inevitable. in the city were closed yesterday. The rear entrances to some of them ‘were evidently out of repair, so far as keeping out the thirsty public was concerned, The Yuba Tunnel Gold Mining Company will hold their seventh annual meeting of stockhslders, for the purpose of electing trustees and transacting other business, at North San Juan, on Friday next, The dance platform at Ismert’s Grove was destroyed by fire on Sunday-night. It is supposed to have been the work of some mischievous boys. A new and much better platform will be,immediately erected. John H. Judd and Martin Shields were thrown from a buggy while driving along: between Boston Ravine and Grass Valley, last Saturday.: Fortunately, no severe injuries were received by either of the gentlemen Dennis Sullivan, who was badly injured by the explosion of giant powder cartridges, at Auburn, was taken to his home io Grass Valley last week. One of bis eyes was destroyed, and other serious injuries were received. A number of ladies hold regular prayer meetings in the County Jail every Sunday afternoon. ‘It is a good field tor Christian labor, as a more graceless set than is at present confined in that institution is seldom to be encountered, The Red Men's pic-nic, to be held at Ismert’s Grove, on Saturday next, will be more génerally attended than . , any event of a like character that has occurréd here for a long time. Arrangements; have beea wade for i iat t ~Atarge-number-of Chinamen-bave} manageable. —— + neeessary_to bundle himistea wagon On next Saturday it will doubtless . . be decided in the Supreme Court” as . pI -Beq--wa8-on Stas dost ‘Phe ledge in the: Dexdwood mitre Denman Thompson will appear at} popular drama of “Joshua Whit=} The front doors of all the saloons . proved, — to Grass Valley, where they were put in charge of Sheriff Montgomery, who proceeded to the Napa Insane Asy* lum” wit “the two--onfortanates. When O’Brien was being conveyed from the Jail to the N. G. Depet he. became very ‘violent, and unIt was finally found in order to sacussteei him tothe cars, é _—The Population. Increased, afternoon the victim of a little occurrence, which he declares has made him the happiest man on the Pacific Coast. tips the beam at something over twelve pounds, with which his wife presented him. ‘The mother and heir are both doing well. = =< a <-e Personal Mention. Ea In-town yesterday: G. D. MeLean, Sweetland; J. Stidger, N. San Juan; E. Austin’ and M. Friend, Dutch Flat; J. M. Thomas, G. Gill and Jas. Peters, Grass Valley; Wm. H. H. Hart, Capt. Poole, FO. EE ridge and 'T. O. White, San Francisco, CO. A. Brown, You Bet, Bret Harte’ s Failing. Bret Harte has beén to the White House, and has had the felicity to shake hands with the President. The uncharitable Golden Era says it is not informed -whether he— struck Rutherford for a loan or not, but the chances are that he did. Mackay’s Prodigality. A N.w York paper says that Mr. Mackay, the big bonanza millionaire of the Pacific Coast, has furnished Tiffany & Co. with silver ore from his mine, oat of which they are to manufacture a dinner service for hid wife’s residence in Paris. The. service is to consist of .150 pieces and will cost $90,000. — Let the Truth Preyail. First it is the Call that charges the Chronicle with robbing the city of San Francisco by over-charging for legal printing. Next the Chronicle counters on its persecutors with a siiiilar charge. Both charges are When will these two papers get through telling the truth about éaca other? How to Choose One, The St Louis Journal advises young men to choose a wife by the music she plays and the way she plays it. If she manifests a predil tion fer Strauss, she is frivolous; for Beethoven, she is impractical; for Lizst, she is too ambitious; for Verdi, she is sentimental; for Offenbach, she is superticial; for Mozart, she is prudish; for Flotow, she is commonplace; for Wagner, she is idiotic, The girl who hammers away at “Maiden’s Prayer,” “Anvil Chorus” and “Silvery Waves” may be depended on as a good cook, and healthful; and if she includes “Battle of Prague” and the “White Cockade” in her repertoire, you ought to know that she has been religiously. ‘and strictly nurtured. Bat the last of all, pin thou thy faith. upon the} calico tess of the gir! who-ean play ataumemodating over 2,000 people, 5" Home, Sweet ermal The “occurrence” we . refer to is a magnificent boy who e General Items, _ Rev. Talmage bas planned: te sum-. . mer in Martha’s Vineyard. California has commenced to build ready made houses for shipment abroad. P. T. Barnum is three score years straight. About Johnstown, N. Y.}. there are 300 firme in the glove and mitten business, employing about 10,000 persons. ' accommodation of the Shah of Persia and bis retinue, while traveling in Europe, must include thirty-five reems. ay cisco, is in Washington, with a view cf ousting Coiner Cieott from the -Mint, and-substitating himself, James R. Keene, formerly of San Fraucisco, has recently realized $1,+ 500,000 profit on a little turn in the stcck of the Northwestern Railroad. Joseph Jefferson looks like a elergyman ratber than an-actor. He wears plain clothes, is believer in +is-wealthy.— Capt. Eads, having nenea the mouth of the Mississippi river, now intends to clear out the bed. He proposes to widen the channel and wake the river deepen its own bed. -The -slight-mortality--among the erin officers during the late-war} is said to be due to the fact that they wear bullet-proof steel cuirasses . . under their coats. oe As Clara Lonisa Kellogg views it, every great songstress or actress who marries, gets a fellow who speuds ber money and leaves her to die in from right. Japanese architecture may be attractive, but it cannot be “called “ex. K and eight, and he takes his ice water .

The hotel accommodations for the George Parkinson, of San Pran=. _. spiritualism, paints fair Sicko and . ! A New Mine . with Good Prossmall crushings, at his mill on Wolf Creek; of-rock from the Irom Clad} claim at Rougli and Ready. .The}: first-was-fourjoads taken from the croppings, which yielded $42 per }load; the senond Was eight loads takep from the sbaft at adepth of fifty feet, which gave $265 50, or a fraction over $33 per load, The gold is of excellent quality, worth $17 50 , per oz. This new claim is making a very fine appearance, and there is every present indication that it will +make,a valuable mine.—Union, Epson says his phonograpbs will cost $100 each. This will enable but they will have toSdispense witb a couble of dogs. ~ Wanted, Situation as cook. Apply at ANTOINE Tam’s. apa Mountain Ice. \HE andiselchen gives notice that he ticle ef—= MOUNTAIN ICE To any business place or private résidence in this city. The Ice this season is most decidedly the best ever put up in this Bec. tion of the-country. Allorders left at the office of the Company.on-the Plaza, willbe. promptly and . faithfully attended to. _Nevada ,>May 7th, 1878. BEER FOR-THEMILLION, — ROGER CONLAN, MILWAUKEE BEER DEPOT, » Joseph Southern has made two “poor familiss to keep a phonograph, —fs 0 Ww: Prepared to-eupply the best ar= J. 5. THOMPSON. > COLOSSAL ORGAN,MAY 28th, 29th, and 30th, ‘AT 280. M, AT MECHANICS’ PAVILION, SAN FRANCISCO, ~~ eee (bonus oF OF 2000 y OICES, . IMMENSE ORCHESTRA Electricity, Artillery and Telephone. g CONDUCTORS, Car? Zerrahan, Boston, John P; —— & R. Herold, Ran {Ths Wanagemeut fe have, at great expense, secured the servicés of the Célebrated Contralto, ANNA DRASDIL. M.W. Whitney, the Greatest: Living Basso. Helen Ames Billings, W.H. Fessenden, of Boston, SUMNER W, BUGBEE, Manager. _ ‘Miss Abbie Clark, —_—. Ree The Bs NEVAD LOCA Fallen Fro: An old cit arrest in this ¢ law, we chre ‘TRaNscurrr, Ww ged, shaggy be ed penniless . tion that hei: .. i you will onl, life’s history . will.be found t as a “‘gentlen good family, a possessed of who dressed it © and sported a: —=——gane; and ali supposed to in bea gentlema: resources. Bt It is needless { this man furt he was yester the Court as ‘ & —_——_—_ Pioneer Re At the. an —gteekholders-o tion Company the Union Hot terday afternc ficers_were el ensuing twelv. brated Soloists: Sale of Tickets begins st SHERMAN; +HYDE & Co., San Francisco, April 2 9th. SEASON TICKETS FOR 3 DAYS, $500. Single Tickets from $1 (0 to $2 00, accurding to fScation. No extra charge for Reserved Seats. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. tare: Howise-is not far poverty; and C } Broad S Street, ‘Nevada City. eed SI; pouty" “YOUR atid HOMESREWED in Tokio, four thousand houseswere burned, and the loss was estimated . at only $200, 000. ie timore have suspended operations, and over 300 skilled workmen are thrown out of employment thereby. It is expected that the factories will _—— closed until October. : + “Phe Hartford Times estimates that not less than 1,000 persons, 90 years old aud upwards, have died in Connecticut during the last dozen years, and reusons that the longevity of human life in that part of the country is gradually increasing. ceived annually in England from tbe River Platte; 1,000 horns are usually reckoned as a measurement ton in shipping, though they are frequently freighted by weight. It takes uearly 2,000 horns to weigh a ton. a An American girl went-over to Paris with her brother the-other day, and the instant she was left alone with their companion in the carriage, a wniddle. aged Frenchman,\he insulted her. She told her brother when he returned, ang there was a. fearful outburst. The Frenchmen gave his card, and said he was deeply sorry and would abide by the decisquences tu ensue for his mistake, but ceitainly he never suspected Mademoiselle was a lady, as she was painted! The brother appealed to the best authorities in Paria in these matters to learn what the code was under these circumstances, and all the men of the Jockey Club told him that if his sister’s eyelashes were blackened and her cheeks rouged, he could-have no-redress,; as these practices were never followed by. any but demoiselle du monde.— London Latter. Fly-by-night Hotels. The. New York Commercial Advertiser says that under the excise law ‘‘hotels” have become as plenty as corner groceries. Sometimes they come almost in a night—bedsteads being hurried into their positious and dining tables arranged for the entertainment of ‘‘travelers.’’ One of these. inns, so hastily arranged, -has in.eddition a complete annuniciator with an assortment of keys displayed worthy of ajunk shop, but simply a dumb-show. It'is evei doing service “rounders,”’ to A census of ing. pensive. — At the great fire recently All the glass manufactories in Bal-. About 4,000 tons of horns are reion of the other as to the conse-. the thiog ‘don’t work," all being}. intimated that the same beds’ are} answer the or at various places. e actual lodgers at these bogus b hotels would be interest . ALES, LIRCORS AND nivniaernaedl i of the Best. Quality, 2 : -CONTRACT TO LET. CHIE MINE. Apply at the Mine. mad ‘Cc. ¢. ae Supt. ESTRAY NOTICE. Ge to the ramch of E. H. Davis, on thé Rough and Ready road, in November, 1877,a Red and White Cow, having a slit in the left ear; no brands perceptible. “She has a calf with her about a yeur old. and cake her away. E. H. Nevada City, May 4, 18781m CASH OR NO.SALE. TO THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA. ona purely “. Can be carried on in Ne vada to the benefit of both buyer and seller, I have bought the stock of the late firm ef WEBER & CHATY, and will carry on the basiness at the old stand on Commercial street, and will sel? all goods in the line of Groceries, Provisions, Grain, Flour, Peed, ; Ete., TEN PER CENT. LESS THAN OLD RATES. 7 I pay cash for goods, and must have CASH or its equivalent on the counter for whatlI sell. ' W. H. SMITH. March 26 , 1878. . MILLI NERY i —AND— DRESS MAKING. MISS LOTTIE WEISS, WOULD announce to the ED reepectfully and vicinity, that she is now prepared to Cut, wi, and Make all kinds of. IN THE M f FASHIONABLE STYLES AND AT LOW RATES. Millinery in all its Branches. . Ladies’ Hate and Bonnets made to order mad in the _ Ke Latest Spring apd Gentlemen's Panama and Leghorn Hats { Cleaned and Whitened, , ‘ All work éntrusted to my care. will ceive prompt rarer ei I Photograph Qi Paintings, ‘Executed in the highest style of the art. oui mogdaky Tet BEER FROM PREYFUSS BREWERY? The owner is requested to call,pay charsee DA ELIEVING that a business conducted . CASH BASIS, Mitchell; Sec: A. G, Elliott, ~“gistant-Secreta H. Crosby, of ors—A. B. Cro G, Elliott, N. -~P. K. STOCKTON, OF THE LL orders from Nevada City ittended __to at short notice, LUETJE AND. BRAND, NOTICE. has purchased all the right, title snd interest of Jehn King in the store Dame 01 Quong Sing, at Rough and Ready, in the county of Nevada; State of Califorhia, and-will continue the business as heretofore in his own mame. The purchase Was made in September last. WY KBE. Rough and Ready. March 14th, 1878. MASONIC NOTICE. — Nevada Lodge, No. 13,F. & A.M. STAIED MEETINGS ON the Second Wednesday of each month. good standing srecordiaiiy—in-—— vited, JOHN CALDWELL, Master. J. H. Boaxpman, Secretary. ap-12 HE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE stockholders of THE MASONIC HALL fore will be held at Masonic on Saturday Evening, May 18, 1878. for the purpose of electing three Trustees of said Association, and of transacting such other business as may lawfully come before it K. CaSPER, Secretary, Nevada March, 30th, 1878 Caetaes, BUGGIES: 4 EXPRESS, THOROUG BRAC Cor. 13th and 3 ve SACRAMENTO 422-tf ——" CHRIS. NAFFZIGER, PROPRIETOR OF THES Union Market, Nevada City: H: NOW ON HAND, of bis ow™ NEW LARD, Which ‘be offers for sale in quantities suit. Me also hes HAMS and BACON, . THE BEST IN THE COUNTY, Be pct ea gear ete. . OFPICIAL_REPORTER, — County Court, Sacramento. af: eee . and Jewelers. Broad Street, opp. Stumpi’s Hotel — KT OTICE is hereby given that Wy Kee Visiting Brethren m. . AKD QUARTZ WAGO Of his ows maumfacture. ano fad ——Nice Fourteen pr efore the Gr forenuon: Th uber burg! horse thieves, readily imagin fellows these. brought up, as with a lot_of hi majority of the that'is, not oy. of age. “Not The bids for tal buildings, ed until the Bo convened to ¢ the Constitati egates. Stat The Stated Lodge, No. 18 held on Wedni o'clock. A fu bers is reques ren in good 3st es invited. -By o1 J, H. Boarp: 5. The member. No. 49, Imp Men, aré reque Wigwam, on Si 8,30 o’¢lock, A of receiving o1 Tribes invited uS on that day. Gero, M, Receip Within the ps a receipt bool Chaty to Wm. ] will confer a fa store of W. H. . The Domestic Ma machines are th Mestic. Call a m7-3t--. Gao I The place to b md Vv ‘sewer Stephen Rotkx Vari Broad street Laetjo & Branc just received a Books, such as. hie Schools, stat