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Narrow Gauge Honds.
“Now that our people ai
the subject_of a railroad to connect us
withthe. Central Pacific, any informa“tion in reference to narrow gauge roads
will be interesting “The ‘Stockton Republican, speaking of @ levier by E. N.
Robinson’on ‘these roads, says: Last
September,in company with L. Barrozo,
the Government Engineer of Peru,Robinson visited the narrow gauge railroad
in North Wales, rnuning from Portmadoc to Festinoig, a distance of thirteen and. ao. half miles.. One end of this
road has an altitude of 700 feet above
the other, and the sverage grade is . one foot in ninety-two, the heaviest
grade being sixty-five feet to the mile,
and this occurs in curves as sharp as
360 feet radius. From. the nature of
the country the road is forced into a variety of curves, and some of these curves
have a radius of 140 feet, and are from
200 to 400 feet long. Over such curves
and up such a grade the engines used
on our ordinary broad gauge roads
would starcely be enabled to travel,
much less draw alead, yet over this
road of one foot eleven and a half inches gauge, an engine weighing but nineteen and a half tons draws with ease a
train of sixteen cars weighing alvgether one hundred and fifty tons. This
is three times as much asa sixty ton
engine can draw over the Mount Diablo
Range on the Western Pacific Road.—
Over this nurrow gauge road engines
weighing but eight tons draw long
passenger trains at a rate of speed
reaching thirty and, if necessary,thictyfive miles per hour. The engines have.
four drivers ef-two feet in diameter
each. While traveling at the rate of
thirty-two miles per hour, Robinson
writes, everything worked steadjly and
with evety assurance of safety, The
nineteen and # half won eagine has
hauled 180. tons of freight from the
lower to the upper end of the road,making. the . distance—13} miles—ia 65
minutes, including two stoppages. It
is safe to say there are no two engines’
on the Central Pacific capable of drawing that wamber of tons over a similur
grade withid any given time, from one
hour to one week. ‘The engineers. concur fn the opinion that a-tw> aod a
half foot gauge is the cheapest and the
beat road, and can be built with iron
weighing from 30 to 48 pounds to the
yard, The difference in cost of con
struction between the parrow and broad
gauge road, is from 33 to 50 per cent.
in favor of the former. In a country
like ours, where a railroad always runs fromthe valleys inté and over the .
mountains, we believe it'is only a question of time when oiir manner of constructing railroads will be entirely
changed, and.there can be scarcely a
“doubt but that the narrow gauge road
will generally. supercede the broad
track now 1n use.
Tue Caicken Busingss.—If a man
had « well conducted chicken ranch in
theese days, says the Antioch Ledger,
he could make money, Eggs are high
and will be higher before the Winter
is over; and chickens. and ducks will
have & good marketable value about
_ holiday time—in fact, they find sale at
fair prices at any time. A few acres of
land, with four or fiye hundred dollars,
can be.made to-yield a good income,
more than if put to any other use, and
we cannot understand why it is that
farmers do uot’ pay any more attention
to this profitable business. A dozen
of eggsare worth more than a bushel
of wheat in the Western States, and
“can. be procured at less trouble and
risk. Care aad conetant attention are
wrequisite, to be sure, to make success
certain,-but no more than ia any other
business, There are plenty of places
which cannot he advantageously used
for any other purpose, Rabbits, froge
and terrapius. will pay well, to. We
have known fortunes to be made in. thie cnidik” Guid Setailiibks ain Yaw hidielt
this business, with but a small ocatlay
of capital. . We expect Senie day to see.
more attention paid to r poaiey oe
by our pet
‘point to Louisville, Kentucky, and
cost much lower, and few who have
chai The game is lt wild, aa
Fe" diecdaatay . ee obsttuntely refusing to-ve killed, unless hunters get in the mud and water.
One of the party, however,-succeeded’
in making a dry shot. A’ fine large
whité 26086 Was seen in the road, and‘
fone of the huntamen teok deliberate
aim and “blazed away.” His gooseship wiggled hig tail as if to say,
“don’t bodder me.” Another shot was
fired and the goose walked deliberately off. It turned out to bea tamé
goose, belonging toa farm house near
by. It fortunately escaped the murderous dé&igns of the huntsman.
An Expensive Lark.
Patrick Foley got on a lark last Saturday, stripped himself to tle waist,
and went for Mongolian blood: He
assaulted two Chinamen, when he was
captured by the offiéer and taken to
the calaboose. He was yesterday sen
tenced by Justice Palmer on two
charges of assault amd battery. For
the first he was sent up twenty days,
and for the second sixty days.
Furniture.
J. E. Johnston has just received a
ready to supply. the demand of this
market. He has all sorta, from the
finest parlor sets to the cheapest, and
those who need furniture, mattrasses,
or bedding; should give him a call.
Wheels of Fortune,
The wheels designed for the drawing
of prizes of the Cosmopolitan Benevolent Society, have arrived in this city,
by Wells Fargo & Co’s express.
Going Home. es
Howell Tesnes the winner of the
$50,000 prize ini the) Library lottery
passed through this city yesterday, on
his way liome. —
Eptscopal Sowing Society.
The ladies.of.the Episcopal Sewing
Society, will meet: at. the residence ot
Mre. A. Gault; on Broad St., this ‘afternoon at two o'clock.
Personal,
A letter from hes W. Hinds states
that he had arrived in St, Louis, Missourl, He proposes to go from that
then into Illinois, expecting to return
to Nevada in about twenty days.
THE Cost.--Phineas ‘Banning, who
has given much attention to the work.
ing of narrow gauge railroads as a
means of developing the interests of
the lower patt of the State, says that
roads of this-charadter can be: built for
$10,000 per. mile.,.Others place the.
studied the matter estimate the entire
cost of guch a road to Colfax at over
$150,000, The estimate for a broad
gauge road, figuring the highest price
for labor and: gunpowder for blasting,
was only $500,000.
SHOULDER DisLocaTeED.—Last Saturday,in Penn Valley, says the Grass
Valley Union, two sons of William
Gilham were riding a {horse, when the
horse fell and hurt the boys. The elder
aged about fitteen years had ashoulder
dislocated and the younger was somewhat bruised about the iace,
THe San Francisco Postoffice employs seventeen carriers for the deliv
ery and collection of mail matter in
that city, and during the month of
September there were delivered by the
carriers 61,852 mail letters, 9,041. drop
letters, and 18,800 newspapers. During
the same time they cullected 78,459
letters from the street boxes to be forwarded through the mails. This isa
fine showingin favor of the delivery
system.
Santa ANNA has at letigth wearied
of the Mexican revolution business, and
is abuut to buy a handsome place on
the Hudson, where he may rest from
tude of the “soe”
RANCTMEN in tie vicinity of Anti‘from thirty-five to forty degrees. This, he
2 contract for the transmission of all com‘of acent a word up to and under 500 miles
In connection with the military exewhich it is enacted that the Sew ea
should not wear any unttorm or peculi.
ar dress, so that they might not be recthat when there was a levee en masse,
the nature of the contest sanctioned all
means employed in it 5 and that it-was
-the duty of the Landstrum to.deprive
the enemy of all facilities-for invasion
or retreat, to cut off his supplies,, posts
and recruits, suppress his hospitals, ‘at.
tack him by night, harass and not let
him sleep, aad destroy beth gingle soldiers and detachments wherever it.was
found possible.
Sreatine WHeEat BY WHOLESALE.
A San Francisco dispatch to the Appeal says: It has been discovered that
a fraud has been perpetrated in the
loading of vessels here with wheat for
Austrian ports. One thousands sacks
of wheat were taken out of the rear of
the warehouse and charged as being
placed on board, but really were taken
aroand ia froat, and re-stored in the
warehouse. Whois to blame is not
yet known, but the matter will be
worked up. .
Narrow Gavuas. Rarways.—The
Duke of Sutherland has returned from
his inspection of the Norwegian narrow
gauge railroads. Upwards of a hundred miles of railway on the 3 feet 6
inches gauge, have been carried out if
Norway and have been most successful
for the light traffic of that country in
their economical construction and the
convenience-of their smaller carriages
and wagons. The supporters of this
system have no doubt that if the North
of Scotland could have had the advantage of such a cheap deseription of railways,a much greater extent of the
country would ete'héw have’ “been sapplied with railway , accommodation.
The average cost per anile, . including
ett., are said to’be all that,could be desired for public convenience.—— Inverness Cour.
ninety-five through, and twenty-three
thousand nine hundred and eightythree way passengers went East over.
the Central Pacific Railroad last
month; and three thousand two hundred and eighty through, and twentyfour thousand and eight hundred and
seventy way passengers came West in
the same time, ‘T'wo handred and
forty-six free passengers were carried
East and two hundred and twentyeight came West.
Ir is announced that Russia will
soon send an imposing fleet of iron-.
cluds into the Dardanelles, ‘The vessels have been bought in the United
States with the Alaska purcliase money,
It is also announced that the Sultan is
preparing an etiergetic resistance to
the pretensions of Russia.
An Austrian artillery officer, writing to
a Vienna paper, demonstrates the pozsibility of the bombardment of Paris without
ognized and hunted by thé enemy ;}:
plant, is about £4.000, and the works, .
One thousand eight bandred.and)} will
ishmetit the
ir ag a
. The perty,
prises of
eral square miles. Zinc and lead are
} mined, dressed andmelted, -purified, .
“alloyed and manufactured on the Spot.
THE Souther: Pacific Railroad Comalong the lines.of the road senth 0
Gilroy. ° This looks like Work.
THE Grizzly bears on Little Chico
creek,-Butte county, are becoming
trogblesome,, Billy Bonness says they
carry off some of his stock every few
days.
vessels loaded with wheatat the Oakland wharf. More would have been
loaded had the accommodations been
completed earlier in the genson.
EsTIMATES place the Wine . produét
of Anaheim at upwards of 700,000 gallons this season, or a quarterof a million gallons in excess of last year’s vintage.
THE San Jose Mercury, says it has
fallen to the lot. of Justice Stewart, of
that city, to count over 40,000 squirrel
and gopher scalps since the law went
into effect.
anemone cee SeAIRORE
ATTENTION SIR KNIGHTS!
A STATED ASSEMBLY OF NEVADA
Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar,
will be holden at Masonic Hall, on Thursday
evening, the 24th, at halt past seven 0 “elock,
Pp. m. Visiting Fratere are invited to be
present, CHAS, MARSH,
n 28. Commander,
LARGE SALE . OF FURNITURE
J. E. JOHNSTON
()FEERS, EVERYTHING IN His S10RE
AT LOW * PRICES, on and after this
date. The stock consists in part of
PARLOR SETS, x
BEDROOM SETS,BED AND BEDDING,
SOFAS, :
CHAIRS,
BUREAUS,
LOUNGES,
And in fact everything that is ueually found
in an establishment of this kind. Cali and
examine the goods raped Specs sat .ajaction
be guaranteed in all instances.
J. E, JOHNSTON, .
Ji Natiégal’ Exchanze Hotel Building,
Nevada, es 8th, 1840. xin
CREATEST DISCOVERY
OF THE ACE:
2
TIME, MONEY & LABOR SAVED.
ee e
NEILSON?S
Celebrated Washing Fluid!
For Washing Clothes, Paint, &c.,
Taking out Stains, Grease, &e.
ARRANTED not to injtre the finest fabrics, and by the use of which, washing
machines. boilers and w are no longer required.
Why will you tire tne and Portes the
Clothes MESON a board all day,when
by cine ON’ PLUID & Whole week's
washin; mpleted in a few hours
withent either ROBB GOR BOILING, thus .
effecting an immense i. in labor
money.
labor, time and .
the previons capture of any of the forts,
He states that the heaviest shells can be
thrown to a distance of eight thousand
yards by giving the guns an élevation of
says, has been demonstrated by the bombardment of Venice,
Te coroner’s jury in the case of Harriet
Stewart, the colored woman, in Providence,
R, I,, who was fatally poisoned recently, by
the mistake of an incompetent druggist’s
clerk, are of the opinion that “all prescriptions should be written in plain English,
discarding the present mode of a dead language and characters not readily understood, and liable to result in mistakes,”
‘Tux new telegraph company, using Little’s automatic system, hes notified the
Postmaster-General that it is ready to make
munications of the department, at the rate
distance, no. message to be less than ten
cents.
BattTmmore packs annually 40,000,000 cans of oysters, fruit and vegetables,
. Examination of Teachers.
Ts REGULAR QUARTERLY EXAMI.
NOTICE.
This preparation is far superior to all othere, a6 it is warranted not to contain Potash,
Soda, or any other hurtful ingredient.
CRAWFORD SELLS IT,
At the Hardware Store.
Opposite Express Office, Main St.
Dwelling House For Sale.
A DWELLING HOUSE pleasantly situated
containing nine rooms, hard finished
and a cellar, is effered for sale at a reasonable
ert On the und isa
e Stable and a large number of excellent
fruit trees. The place is but a short distance
ht tke oS part of town. For further
T. SHURT — ulars apply to URTLEFF, pigs
NATION OF TEA’
County, will be held at Came. he
" GRASS VALLEY, t
Wepnespar, Tuunspay anp Fripay,
pplcats for Curticaon
Sea
o'
Nevada
see
a
ade and receives for them about “$10,000,. Va
000, vet
Near Aixla-Chapelle, in Prussia, is
Durine the present Fall fourteen .
TOMBOLA
ieton* * louse.
NEVADA CITY, NOV¥26th, 1870.
: _GIYEN . BY THE
ean:
Bisse enue: OF NEVADA COUNTY,
FOR. TER oc xs
Benefit of the Families of the Killed and Wounded of the French
army .
OFFICERS Of THE DAY.
President—L, CHARONNAT, of Nevada.
Honorary President—G. TOUCHARD,
of San Francisco,
Vice Presidents—Nevada City.
Judge T. B. Reardan,Ira A. Eaton,
A. LD. Tower, D. B. Frink,
C. C. Leavitt, H. H. Haskins,
John I. Caldwell, H. C. Mills,
W. W. Cross, _ M. 8. Deal,
John Dunnicliff, Dr. R, M. riant
Jonathan Clark, —~T. H. Rolfe,
T. W. Sigourney, Dan Clancy,
W. H. Davidson, .G. W. Allen,
John Cashin, ~—P>MeAusilan,
W. L. Tisdale, J. A. Lancaster,
A. H. Hanson, Gev. W. Welch,
r ? Grass Valley.
A.B. Dibble," M. P. O’Connor,
C. W. Smith, A. Delano,
Frank Cleveland, Dr. McGormick,
R, Shoemaker, 8. P. Dorsey,
Dr. Davis, Justin Michel,
A. Hooper.
North Bjoomfield.
W. Waldron, Robert McKilican,
Henry Helwig, John Stone,
; Julius Poquillon.
Lake City.
M. Bremond, James Cregan.
Eureka.
D. McCarty, Richard Dillon.
French Corrai,.
D, Alexander, T. W. Sullivan,
T. B. Villain. Be
San Juan.
A. Gavard, N. Netter,
P. Gainard. © .
Truckee,Frank Rabcl,’ ‘Dr. Lasvignes;
' Commaittee. of Arrangemé nts
L, Charonnat, President; Felix Gillet
Secretary ; A. Isoard, Treasurer Charles
Ferrand, James Fleming, J Figuiere, hi.
Fininger, J. Michel, ‘f. B. Villain; A.
Gavard, W. Waldron, Julius . Poquillon,
Dr. Lisvignes.
ae
PROGRAMME,
PART I.
ming Address by A. B, Dibhie
ot Cece alley. ‘ te iy
PART II. —'The “Girondins,” or, “Tis good to die
for our Country,” by Mons. 9, Bonnet, of the
Francisco. French Dramatic Troupe, San ,
PART IL,
Phantom Chorus, from si Sommemibals,”
by the Nevada Choral Society.
PART Iv.
The ‘“‘Wearin’ of the Green,” from °‘Arrah Na a ” by: Miss Cecilia, of San
Francisco
PART Ve..
Away,” (quartette) Messrs.
ct ing Fairchild, and-Glasson, of
Nevada City.
‘PART VI.
“Le Pe mg, (words b
os Cauwet, oy by arnest meat Gaiber, a
rancteco, Mons, Bonnet, San
Francisco. “i nd
PART VII.
“Who will care for Mother now?’ by
an Ada and Alice Davenport, of Nevada
ci
PART VIIL.
Bigeye _ la France,” from-‘‘The Daughof the ment, Miss ina
full pled a Vivestion e, net
PART IX.
“Q, Hail Us, Ye Free,” from Ernaui, by
the Nevada Choral Society.
FARE _ :
ecarat tae amy ie Tonnet, oO °
olin haus, 7
The whole to conclude with the
zes valued at over $2.000.
ORCHESTRA—ED. MULLER, of Nevada oity. ee
ment to commence at 7.15:
alt . .
sige =n
Fot sale everywhere in the County.
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