October 18, 1874 (4 pages)

pea The Daily T Transcript NEVADA CITY, CAL. " i wl — ns es Sunday October 18, ~tera> What @ Railroad vill do, On the’ Fourth.of July last ground was broke on the Visalia railroad: The road, ‘although a short one, is completed, and the Delta says it is in good order, and four trains pass . been built and it. is almost burried in a mound of freight. A first-class warehouse has also been built, which is 120 feet long, and-is—stored full. of grain. Three hundred than-J} over it daily. A iat depot has —-“#ind dollars of extra banking capital f aN a fe> be run from that place. “expeditious -.~ the animal, has been brought into requisition “49 meet the growing exigencies of trade, each with an anxious inquiry for arfew homie. The Delta thinks this'is only the beginning of a system of railroads that-will eventually. The. fact has b2en. demonstrated that valley. roads in this State can be constructed for from ten to’ twelve thousand dollars per’ mile. Who can doubt that-the completion of our railroad will. not produce similar results , here? Our soil is capable of pro* ducing anything that can. be grown any where, and the mineral resources will not be exhausted for a-century. The climate will attract ‘settlers, and’ vrosperity must ensue. Another year will probably verify the predictign. : ‘\ The Contest. The election contest in the State of Nevada is raging furiously» The Post, Chronicle i The editor of the latter paper Seems to spike their guns as fast as’ th can reload. The:reason is, the Enoe fem: le machine. terprise is espousing thecause of truth and justice and the principles of the good old Republican party; while on the otliér hind, the other papers espouse the old rotten rebel cauge, and the clap-trap Independeut;) or in other words, get into office ish _by throwing sand into the eyes of the ignorant masses. The game “will not win, and we learn from what we believe to be reliable authority, that the Republican party will march onto a glorious victory, as surely as the election takes place. Stand by yourcolors, Republicans, and send the. bogus Independents ‘and the old rebel Democracy up Salt River. You can do it if you are true to yourselves and your country. per The Difference. San Francisco is the general place of deposit forthe whole State. Whenever any one acquires a fourtune in the interior they immediately seek Franciséo fora place of investment, They have no want of funds there to level the hills and erect palaces thereon. Fast horses, fast men and fast women abound. Every one either ‘has coin,or if not is perfectly willing to get some in the easiest and most manner, Men must “have money to keep up appearances, hence those who are elected to office have to play to keep even, and asa rule they do so if the present investigation going on there is a criterion by which to judge, In this county it is different. There is not as much money to steal, and cur officials have no desire to steal it. Political corruption does not flourish here, and our county officers do not fear an investigation, but challange adverse criticism, : we The Other Side. ‘A widow of San Francisco owned 2 horse and cart. She. was ;poor ana depended upon the earnings of tlie horse for support. The horse and cart was let to the Superintendent-of Streets and it has been claim. ed, that in order to induce the Superintendent to continue employing she gave Stephen Barker, the deputy Superintendent, $10 towards the ‘‘buggy fund.’’-’ Stephen explains the matterin yesterday's Chronicle, and says it is a ‘‘damna_ ble plot” to ruin -his-character, and that it is done only to get rid of him because he has hal the manhood to say his soulis his own. He says he did.not want to take the money from ' the widow but she forced it onto his little girl. He says the horse worked regularly and woald have done so had the $10 not been given. Tue V allejo patent brooms are be ing introduced inte the Eastern mag shots. ‘sia, $7 29; id France; $6 01. ny hocus pocus manner, . Wacgs § 1x Evrore aNb THE UNITED Srates.—So far during the present year, the statistics show that imigration to this country has fallen. off nearly 40 per cert. as eompared with previous years, and,-indeed, a large number of emigrants have actually returned home being unable to find employment-This being. the case, and as a reduchion in the price of_labor is now being discussed, the . following tables collected by the National Burear of Statistics, and by the Massachusetts Labor Barean, . have an important bearing On the question. These figures were made for the year 1872, and are rodgoed ato our carrency; __ If we take an ordinary f irm laborer . in Massachusetts,” we findthat his weekly-wages are $5, with “board-whicb is undoubtedly “eqnivalent to $10. The-highest wages in England, paid in Lincofushire, aze $8 17, without board, iff Kent, $681; in Devonshire and CornWall, $4 08; in Ireland, $491, without board; in France the highest ‘weekly wages, are$2.96, with board; in Prussia, $2 84, in Denmark, $1 43; in . Italy $3 89—all with board. If we now take the trades, the dif. ference is even more . remarkable. We find-that a blac&smith in Massachusetts receives $18' 50 per week; in England, .$7 90; in* Scotland, $7 62;in'Germany, $675; in PrusIn: the book binding business, the wages are equally remarkable in Massachusetts as compared with England. A first class finisher gets $26 in Massachusetts, and $10 89 in Englane, a forwarder egrns $18 here, against $9 80 in the old country; a _. female folder is paid $9 in Massachusetts, and $3 81 in England. Again, in the great trade in Massachusetts Ofhoots and shoes, a first class upper “etter will .earn $18, while the European is paid $7 08; d is’ paid against $9 in Germany, $3-38 in Italy. Our most expensi are the building . trad and -in them—wesec the enormous difference of-wagcis bet een the two linents. A first class moulder 6 bricks earns $2077, with board. in Massachusetts, and $594, with board in England. A mason is worth $24 here, against $10 17 in England, $9 53-in Scotland, $4 50 in Prussia, and $3 21 in Italy. A bricklayer is paid $24 here, against $10 17 in England, and $597 in Germany. A plasterer commands $24 in-America, while his ,wages in Europe vary from $6 08 in Italy to $17 10 in Prussia, A carpenter earns $17 in Massachusetts, while in England he would earn $18 17, in Scotland $7 62, in Germany $9 25, in Switzerland $8.10. Plumbers earn the comparutively low wages in Massachusetts of $10; in England they are paid $6 78, in Germany $4 86. In the business of slating houses, the wages here are $18, to about $8 in Europe, In painting they are $17, to about $10 in Wipes land, and about $12 in Germany.trades here harvests both at home and abroad, and the consequent decrease inthe ‘price of food of all kinds, it would seem from the above figures that wages in this country are disproportionately_high, and that the tendeney Will be ‘to lower figures, >: ___—_——_— Nut-Beanine trees do finely here in the foot-hills, and we wonder more attention has not been devoted in this direction. Papers down the ecast and in Southern California have for years made a great point of ‘boasting of . the adaptability of nut growing. We eannot see wherein any part of California has advantage over this, either in quantity or quality of almonds produced. About the English walnut we are not posted, but in our own yard here we have two almond trees which have borne this year about fifty pounds each, They are the first trees to bloed: in the spring and will grow and do wellin any situation adapted to the peach. At fifty pounds to the tree and 200 trees to at 25 cents a pouhd, $2:500-<for the product of the acre iu one year. And this prod uct is‘ not perishable, but maybe shipped at leisure to any part of me wel. —FootHill Tidings.factory is about to. meetaein’ § in Sacramento,-Considering the unexampled pile : their country for almond and wal-. the acre, we have 10,000 pounds—, AN agricultural picleasioacens manu. San Juun Items « “We glean.thé following itetis from the San Juan Times: \W.&. Marshall, who was. sdiit’ to” the Penitentiaty about gne year ago, for forging wmote and selling it to Geo. #. Turaet of Nevada city, was ‘getting along switamiingly in his quarters. himself so well fora time that his credits argounted to quite a large number, and-be had fair prospects of receiving-a discharge long before Ltixé time for which he ‘was sentenced expired. Unluckily for him and very luckily for the people, he one day cut up such a dido, that the officers having him in cbarge, wiped ont. all his credits and sent-him.to hard Jabor. This was right. Such seotindrels as he ought net tora at large. Eureka ditch, the other day, nitieteeli cords-of fire Wood. He started the wood in the neighborheed” of Cherokee, intending to stop it at North San J uan; Unfortunately for him he had not taken the precaution to close the gates below, and the result was, it all went into the Yuba river. Ifthe people of Marysville will keep a bright look out they may obtain about scabies cords of fire. wood, cheap. -! Thos. Freeman has constructed the best. road betw een his bridge and Camptonville we have ever seen in tld mountains. A man with a span of horses and a buggy can travel the entire distance between the two points nauied, ina trot. It is in elegant order, being. comparatively free from dust. Freeman is one of the best road makers in the State, At a young folks’ party, which took place recently near Sweéetland, & young man and a young lady made a wager. between them, as to the number of peaches they could eat. The bet resulted inatie. Each of them managed to swallow twentyseven peachies apiece, at one sitting. Nothing serious resulted from this. If.there are any other two persons this State who cat eat fifty-four peaches within an hour’s time, bring ‘em on; Wall go some coin on the Sweetlanders: eee It. rained quite™heavily here on Tuesday. evening last. gentleman Pa., turns out weekly about seventy.tons of sheet iron, by the use for drawn from an abandoned situated about one-fifth of a from the works. The productio has increased about thirty-three per cent. sinee-the gas was first used, about seven months ago. The iron meade by the use of the gas commands from $10 to $20 more per ton then the same class of iron made by. the same firm at other works where coal was used for fuel. This that region, and along the Ohio river it is utilized in many ways for heating, lighting and in-manufacturing establishments. In the current-number of the California Teacher, Professor Bolandér, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, notifies all Boards of Trustees and Boards of Education in regard to the course of study; aud any school district, whether city or county, which neglects or refuses to adopt and use the State course of study, is not a school district, and can receive no apportioamerts of ‘school moneys. Daurias.—The Foot-Hill Tidings says:~-The finest show of this magnificent flower to be seen in Grass ‘Valley, is in the yard ofour neighbor Edward Coleman. Under the fostering care of Mr. Laura, ‘the ‘gardner, here are a score or more of thinned to single. stems some of them six inches in cireumferencé — which are from six to nine feet high, with branehing beads four to six feet across, containiug from’ fifty to one hundréd peffect blooms each. Of colors he bus.a great variety,from almost black to aearly white. One noticeable feature of this collection of dahlias is their long continued blooming. By constantly clipping off the fading flowers Mr: Laura has kept them looking fresh from ear finer than at this time: Two car ican of i immigrants from the East arrived at Sacramento on gee s h i Report salt pagent fornia for the waters of Utah. James D. Morris floated down the . natural flow of gas is “plentiful in. : that he will strictly enforge the law . plants—trees more like, for-they are . Warran y Py : Six Months Time Deposin July till now, and never fuller or} FA seating "Months Time ~. Deposits, 8 per cent. per ‘@finurm. e 7 tn fate froin RET to San Fratidisco by the Railroad Company’s steamers has been raised to the old} figntes sincé the opposition steamer Whipple was withdrawn, bie = ; Tae United States Fish» Commisj sioner has ordered one hundred a fifty thousand salmon ‘eggs from New Fall & ¢ Winter Dry Goods. cen MRS. M. A. STERLING, HAS just‘fetirned from San Francisco, where she has ptreRased a large stock of ; . Staple, Fancy & “Willinery Goods, Of the Latest Stytes and see Patterns, . a Wath ghe has selected exprensix, for this mirket Customers can rely-wpon’ ‘getting oie sa thing in ker lime at the : VERY LOWEST PRICES, Aftd-all Goods are WARRANTED AS REP: RESENTED. She has just reeeived diréct from -the East, for. the convenience of the ladies of Nevada County, » beautiful ahd complete assortment. of READY MADE UNDERWEAR, Warranted supérior to any ever betore brought to this State, MRS. M. A. STERLING. Nevada Cfly Sept. 234, 1874. DELINQUENT NOTICE. EVADA COUNTY: NARROW GAUGE : RAILROAD CO.—Location of principal place of business, Town of Grass . Valley, Nevada county. State of California. . Notice. There is delinquent-upon the following described stock, on account of assessment (No. 3) leviédd on the let day of September, 1874, the several amounts set opposite the ames of the respective shareholders, as follows: Names. to. Cert. No. Shs. Amt. E. Goldsm‘th, 80 1. $ 10 Py Hunnefauth 6. 3 2» 10 H. C. Mills, 107 5 50 Estate of A.Delano,decd ,23 10 100 And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board of Directors, made on the ist day of September, 1874, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec« essary, will be sold at public auction, at the office of t.e Company, store of Fletcher & Glasson, No. 59 Main street,Grass Valley, Nevada County, California,on SATURDAY, the 24th day of OCTOBER, 1874, at the’ fe hour of 1 o’clock, P, M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,together’ with costs of advertising and expenses of the sale. GEORGE FLETCHER, Secretary. Office, store of Flefcher & Glasson, No. 59-Main street, Grass Valley, Nevada cotnty, California. Assessment Notice. OLD RUN MINING COMPANY—Loca. tion of principal place of business, San Francisco, California., Location of works, Gold Flat, Nevada County, California.— ticeis hereby given that at a miveting of theRoard of Directors, held on the Fourof October, 1874, an assessment, of Fifteen Cents per share the capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately in United States gold and silvercoin, to the Secretary, at the office of the main yeare onthe 16th day o will be delinquent, and adverti at public Auction, and unless paymé made before, will be sold on Thursday, t day of Sane tel 1874, to pay the delinC. C, PALMER, ‘Secretary. er Market and Spear Streets, San Francisco, Auction, Cominission ‘ety Store. Here been hae and made arrange. ments for Goods, to sell on Commission, I will constantly’ be in receipto a Large Variety of Goods, Which I Rakes selling SATURDAY AFTERNOO D EVENING, AT AUCTION, and during the week at AUCTION PRICES. I would therefore say to those wiahing to purchase anything, trom a ies Cook Stove to a Paper of Pins, To give me 4 cgll before buyin elsewhere, Ladies wishing the BU) ICK PATTERNS, can obtain them by calling on FLORA HULBROOK at the Auction and Variety Store, as she is agent for the same, J. 8. HOLBROOK, se = Broad street, opposite the Bauk, BANK OF NEVADA COUNTY BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY, (Arran stock $200, 000. OFFICERS : R. W. TULLY, President. DIRECTORS : John Cashin, . . .Chas. Marsh, R. W. Tully, Jonathan Clark, M, L. Marsh, A. ¥ Parker, . W. H. Duryea. aan 4s TO LOAN on on good collateral se. Richest, Price paid for City. and. Coun eee Penal Boughtand soid at Regular Gola Dust Bought. Bullion discounted. Liberal advances made on Gold Dust or Bullion for Assay or Coinage at the M General and Speciai Deposits received. Checks on San Francisco, Sacramento, Sa Jose, Stockton and Visginis City. ra. te Ss, London and Gerwy for jams London, Globe Inpy one wo of Califarns , cisco ; Bank of D. O. Mills, Sacramento Agency Bank Bank of Qaliforhia, Virgizfia ody Interest on Time Deposits’will be allowed, as ‘Sine Mo, : SZ Persons rosiding at a distance cau eos! by Express. TIME, 2.14 1-2,“ N. W. KNOWLTON’S Cal} and See the Different Styles. “\ He has alse for Sale, eho : me ‘ , [Consisting in.part-of allthe New — YX Large and Beautiful Assortment of All kinds of, Watch and Jewelry Repairing Done’ and Warranted. Ira A. Eaton & C. H. Moore To be found in this city are to be had at his Chetks on Solven t Banks taken at par, . t” Goldsmith Maid Is COMING" ‘ ‘BUT, ard MAKE MUCH BETTER TIME. . ee _ CLOCKS, JEWELRY on ALL . KINDs, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES, &c. As Cheap as can be Bought anywhere in the State, Lad : 7 Nevada City, September 15th,.1874, UNION HOTEL, MAIN STREET, NEVADA CITY. PROPRIETORS. THIS HOTEL is now open in all its branches; and those in search of a desirable stopping place will find it greatly ee advantage to give us a ig supplied with the best the d well cooked and served. ‘The Bar and Billiard Rooms are supplied with the choicest of @ve g one of the best in the State. The Rooms Deing all large, and well furnished. in our power to please and give entire sat> action. EATON & MOORE. Nevada July 6th, 1874, he made arrangement NE ’ ceive Eastern and California Oysters, . Fresh every day, and served up in any style desired, He also laid in a large stock of CONFECTIONERY and NUTS of the freshest and choicest variéties, and lots of otherGOOD things, which he desires the good people of Nevada to call and examine. THE FINEST CIGARS, OYSTER SALOON, and smokers are re. oropeag to call and be convinced. of. the act Families supplied with OYSTERS at their houses, by leaving orders at the SALOON, ) sep 18 ANTONIO TAM, : NATIONAL EXCHANGE a HOTEL, BROAD STREET,... NEVADA CITY. R, B. GENTRY, Proprietor. HIS WELL _KNOWN HOTEL IS ALways open for the accommodation of the ‘Traveling Public. Large additions have been made to it,and it hag been fitted up in elegant style. Phe Sleeping Rooms are large, airy and paren and the lable will compare f ee ee Hotel pe xpense to rend “hla guests e ex his ts comfortable, for all parts of the State h ene me lhe — The House is kept openall night for the accommodation of ed Traveling Fabien Billiard Tabl wikis neat es and Bar connected “¥ “share: of Public Patronage respectfully solicited.j : GENTRY, Proprietor,: Nevada, June GOLDSMITE'S ASSESSMENT No. 3! CoLu MN N Ha AKD PAYABLE pitt: v —AT THE— LNEW DRY G000S BAZAAR wer Pass A. -GOLDSMITH, BROAD. STREET, Who will is-ue to his many patrons {4 this city and county, on and after THIS DAY, one of the © LARGEST STOCKS STAPLE “AND FANCY er ee . aa EVER ‘ao 10 THIS. COUNTY § ‘Grand ‘Opening Or Fall & Winter Styles ! Styles of DRESS GOODS, BLACK CKETOM} DRAP de TETES, IMPERIAL CLCTHS, DRAP de ALMA, ‘ IRISH POPLINS, -” CASHMERES, se MERINOS, ue EMPRESS CLOTHS, AND NEW STXLES OF Water-proof Cloths, : ALL COLORS. “ MILLINERY GOODS. ‘RIBBONS, of ay descriptions. PLUMES, i ORNAMENTS, VELVETS, PLUSHES, ___.__VELVETEENS, SATINS, FRENCH FLOWERS, TIMMED HATS, UN-TRIMMED HATS, OF THE LATEST STYLES. New Styles of Hosieries. GLOVES, RUFFLING, BELTS, wACES. BUGLE TRIMMINGS, CORSETS, HANDEERCHIEFS, WHITE GOODS, TRIMMINGS, ’” BUTTONS, new styles. Particular attention is called to the large assortment of ° SHAWLS AND SKIRTS. NSE STOCK IMME 2 : DOMESTIC GDQDS, CONSISTING OF ANDSOME PRINTS, TINGS from 4-4 to 12-4 wide. bleached and unbleached. "y 4 ’ NAPKINSS CRASHES, \ TOWELS, TABLE LINENS, &e, &e, &c. KC 3 Largest assortment of Carpets & Oil Cloths. Ever brought to this city. Consisting ef ENGLISH IMPERIAL 3-PLY. CROSSBY BEST BRUSSELS, INGRAIN, 2-PLY. ' RUGS, &e. &e. The above described Goods are all of the newest and latest styles and will be sold _ for less money than ever before — offered on account of recent decline im he Drf Goods markets. DO NOT MISS THE GREAT BARGAINS ! T respectfully extend a kind invitation to all to call and examine my new stock, ' A. GOLDSMITH, Brown & Morgan Block, Broad Sireet, 1 Re The Dail NEVADA LOCAL oor 7 Local One than at night got his pi exercises were h he shall not tak cheese factory a. ‘turer in describi the city schools s ly looking fellow sessor, Organ for How dges the know that the < the Truckee ma “whisky was equ: t —~ mechanic o: found idle in 1 ; could find emhplo Bob Scott, the the habit of sto] rinding down h: in on schedule t The Good Ter . city has.a memb and new menibe meeting. The Editor of drinking water finds the ¢han ‘him, The man’ whic at Cherokee ne tempted to sell i The citizens of injustice has bee A hali dozen 1 the roof of our counts for the Transcrier this Turner’s build Street, is nearly afford him plent, ing a large stock The cigar trad now. Nothing . sported article is dicted to the y us some of the b The condition is rapidly impro able to be ont in ‘Beckman is ke *-ers in the line of is having a vera of the building the corner of Bri There was a 1 the horses of RB. (©. Broderick, o! the race track y If any one is their bump of ‘“ is a good opporti -dist Church bu the surrounding ful in the extrem enough, The mines do are all looking that large returr this winter. The Young La tend giving one ties on Friday, O Clouds contint but they fail to g enero The Ew We are ip rece Leport of the E Company of Gri _ .in it the followin There has been year, 8,207%% tc M30 tons wer are 428 tons on t broke in min There has*beén_7 rets concenirated and there is still The receipts from the year were dividends declare 000. The receir since going into have been, $4,30: $2,615,936 94 hay The future prosp cording to the rey _tendent is one of From Pills Dr. J. ©. Ayer medicine man of nominated for ( 7th Massachuseti will probably be « and business saga hibited by him } man of ability anc " purge Congress ax the disorders now Ladies’ Ready . Ladies, go to M sé the beautiful I Wear, just importe A full assortment

pea The Daily T Transcript NEVADA CITY, CAL. " i wl — ns es Sunday October 18, ~tera> What @ Railroad vill do, On the’ Fourth.of July last ground was broke on the Visalia railroad: The road, ‘although a short one, is completed, and the Delta says it is in good order, and four trains pass . been built and it. is almost burried in a mound of freight. A first-class warehouse has also been built, which is 120 feet long, and-is—stored full. of grain. Three hundred than-J} over it daily. A iat depot has —-“#ind dollars of extra banking capital f aN a fe> be run from that place. “expeditious -.~ the animal, has been brought into requisition “49 meet the growing exigencies of trade, each with an anxious inquiry for arfew homie. The Delta thinks this'is only the beginning of a system of railroads that-will eventually. The. fact has b2en. demonstrated that valley. roads in this State can be constructed for from ten to’ twelve thousand dollars per’ mile. Who can doubt that-the completion of our railroad will. not produce similar results , here? Our soil is capable of pro* ducing anything that can. be grown any where, and the mineral resources will not be exhausted for a-century. The climate will attract ‘settlers, and’ vrosperity must ensue. Another year will probably verify the predictign. : ‘\ The Contest. The election contest in the State of Nevada is raging furiously» The Post, Chronicle i The editor of the latter paper Seems to spike their guns as fast as’ th can reload. The:reason is, the Enoe fem: le machine. terprise is espousing thecause of truth and justice and the principles of the good old Republican party; while on the otliér hind, the other papers espouse the old rotten rebel cauge, and the clap-trap Independeut;) or in other words, get into office ish _by throwing sand into the eyes of the ignorant masses. The game “will not win, and we learn from what we believe to be reliable authority, that the Republican party will march onto a glorious victory, as surely as the election takes place. Stand by yourcolors, Republicans, and send the. bogus Independents ‘and the old rebel Democracy up Salt River. You can do it if you are true to yourselves and your country. per The Difference. San Francisco is the general place of deposit forthe whole State. Whenever any one acquires a fourtune in the interior they immediately seek Franciséo fora place of investment, They have no want of funds there to level the hills and erect palaces thereon. Fast horses, fast men and fast women abound. Every one either ‘has coin,or if not is perfectly willing to get some in the easiest and most manner, Men must “have money to keep up appearances, hence those who are elected to office have to play to keep even, and asa rule they do so if the present investigation going on there is a criterion by which to judge, In this county it is different. There is not as much money to steal, and cur officials have no desire to steal it. Political corruption does not flourish here, and our county officers do not fear an investigation, but challange adverse criticism, : we The Other Side. ‘A widow of San Francisco owned 2 horse and cart. She. was ;poor ana depended upon the earnings of tlie horse for support. The horse and cart was let to the Superintendent-of Streets and it has been claim. ed, that in order to induce the Superintendent to continue employing she gave Stephen Barker, the deputy Superintendent, $10 towards the ‘‘buggy fund.’’-’ Stephen explains the matterin yesterday's Chronicle, and says it is a ‘‘damna_ ble plot” to ruin -his-character, and that it is done only to get rid of him because he has hal the manhood to say his soulis his own. He says he did.not want to take the money from ' the widow but she forced it onto his little girl. He says the horse worked regularly and woald have done so had the $10 not been given. Tue V allejo patent brooms are be ing introduced inte the Eastern mag shots. ‘sia, $7 29; id France; $6 01. ny hocus pocus manner, . Wacgs § 1x Evrore aNb THE UNITED Srates.—So far during the present year, the statistics show that imigration to this country has fallen. off nearly 40 per cert. as eompared with previous years, and,-indeed, a large number of emigrants have actually returned home being unable to find employment-This being. the case, and as a reduchion in the price of_labor is now being discussed, the . following tables collected by the National Burear of Statistics, and by the Massachusetts Labor Barean, . have an important bearing On the question. These figures were made for the year 1872, and are rodgoed ato our carrency; __ If we take an ordinary f irm laborer . in Massachusetts,” we findthat his weekly-wages are $5, with “board-whicb is undoubtedly “eqnivalent to $10. The-highest wages in England, paid in Lincofushire, aze $8 17, without board, iff Kent, $681; in Devonshire and CornWall, $4 08; in Ireland, $491, without board; in France the highest ‘weekly wages, are$2.96, with board; in Prussia, $2 84, in Denmark, $1 43; in . Italy $3 89—all with board. If we now take the trades, the dif. ference is even more . remarkable. We find-that a blac&smith in Massachusetts receives $18' 50 per week; in England, .$7 90; in* Scotland, $7 62;in'Germany, $675; in PrusIn: the book binding business, the wages are equally remarkable in Massachusetts as compared with England. A first class finisher gets $26 in Massachusetts, and $10 89 in Englane, a forwarder egrns $18 here, against $9 80 in the old country; a _. female folder is paid $9 in Massachusetts, and $3 81 in England. Again, in the great trade in Massachusetts Ofhoots and shoes, a first class upper “etter will .earn $18, while the European is paid $7 08; d is’ paid against $9 in Germany, $3-38 in Italy. Our most expensi are the building . trad and -in them—wesec the enormous difference of-wagcis bet een the two linents. A first class moulder 6 bricks earns $2077, with board. in Massachusetts, and $594, with board in England. A mason is worth $24 here, against $10 17 in England, $9 53-in Scotland, $4 50 in Prussia, and $3 21 in Italy. A bricklayer is paid $24 here, against $10 17 in England, and $597 in Germany. A plasterer commands $24 in-America, while his ,wages in Europe vary from $6 08 in Italy to $17 10 in Prussia, A carpenter earns $17 in Massachusetts, while in England he would earn $18 17, in Scotland $7 62, in Germany $9 25, in Switzerland $8.10. Plumbers earn the comparutively low wages in Massachusetts of $10; in England they are paid $6 78, in Germany $4 86. In the business of slating houses, the wages here are $18, to about $8 in Europe, In painting they are $17, to about $10 in Wipes land, and about $12 in Germany.trades here harvests both at home and abroad, and the consequent decrease inthe ‘price of food of all kinds, it would seem from the above figures that wages in this country are disproportionately_high, and that the tendeney Will be ‘to lower figures, >: ___—_——_— Nut-Beanine trees do finely here in the foot-hills, and we wonder more attention has not been devoted in this direction. Papers down the ecast and in Southern California have for years made a great point of ‘boasting of . the adaptability of nut growing. We eannot see wherein any part of California has advantage over this, either in quantity or quality of almonds produced. About the English walnut we are not posted, but in our own yard here we have two almond trees which have borne this year about fifty pounds each, They are the first trees to bloed: in the spring and will grow and do wellin any situation adapted to the peach. At fifty pounds to the tree and 200 trees to at 25 cents a pouhd, $2:500-<for the product of the acre iu one year. And this prod uct is‘ not perishable, but maybe shipped at leisure to any part of me wel. —FootHill Tidings.factory is about to. meetaein’ § in Sacramento,-Considering the unexampled pile : their country for almond and wal-. the acre, we have 10,000 pounds—, AN agricultural picleasioacens manu. San Juun Items « “We glean.thé following itetis from the San Juan Times: \W.&. Marshall, who was. sdiit’ to” the Penitentiaty about gne year ago, for forging wmote and selling it to Geo. #. Turaet of Nevada city, was ‘getting along switamiingly in his quarters. himself so well fora time that his credits argounted to quite a large number, and-be had fair prospects of receiving-a discharge long before Ltixé time for which he ‘was sentenced expired. Unluckily for him and very luckily for the people, he one day cut up such a dido, that the officers having him in cbarge, wiped ont. all his credits and sent-him.to hard Jabor. This was right. Such seotindrels as he ought net tora at large. Eureka ditch, the other day, nitieteeli cords-of fire Wood. He started the wood in the neighborheed” of Cherokee, intending to stop it at North San J uan; Unfortunately for him he had not taken the precaution to close the gates below, and the result was, it all went into the Yuba river. Ifthe people of Marysville will keep a bright look out they may obtain about scabies cords of fire. wood, cheap. -! Thos. Freeman has constructed the best. road betw een his bridge and Camptonville we have ever seen in tld mountains. A man with a span of horses and a buggy can travel the entire distance between the two points nauied, ina trot. It is in elegant order, being. comparatively free from dust. Freeman is one of the best road makers in the State, At a young folks’ party, which took place recently near Sweéetland, & young man and a young lady made a wager. between them, as to the number of peaches they could eat. The bet resulted inatie. Each of them managed to swallow twentyseven peachies apiece, at one sitting. Nothing serious resulted from this. If.there are any other two persons this State who cat eat fifty-four peaches within an hour’s time, bring ‘em on; Wall go some coin on the Sweetlanders: eee It. rained quite™heavily here on Tuesday. evening last. gentleman Pa., turns out weekly about seventy.tons of sheet iron, by the use for drawn from an abandoned situated about one-fifth of a from the works. The productio has increased about thirty-three per cent. sinee-the gas was first used, about seven months ago. The iron meade by the use of the gas commands from $10 to $20 more per ton then the same class of iron made by. the same firm at other works where coal was used for fuel. This that region, and along the Ohio river it is utilized in many ways for heating, lighting and in-manufacturing establishments. In the current-number of the California Teacher, Professor Bolandér, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, notifies all Boards of Trustees and Boards of Education in regard to the course of study; aud any school district, whether city or county, which neglects or refuses to adopt and use the State course of study, is not a school district, and can receive no apportioamerts of ‘school moneys. Daurias.—The Foot-Hill Tidings says:~-The finest show of this magnificent flower to be seen in Grass ‘Valley, is in the yard ofour neighbor Edward Coleman. Under the fostering care of Mr. Laura, ‘the ‘gardner, here are a score or more of thinned to single. stems some of them six inches in cireumferencé — which are from six to nine feet high, with branehing beads four to six feet across, containiug from’ fifty to one hundréd peffect blooms each. Of colors he bus.a great variety,from almost black to aearly white. One noticeable feature of this collection of dahlias is their long continued blooming. By constantly clipping off the fading flowers Mr: Laura has kept them looking fresh from ear finer than at this time: Two car ican of i immigrants from the East arrived at Sacramento on gee s h i Report salt pagent fornia for the waters of Utah. James D. Morris floated down the . natural flow of gas is “plentiful in. : that he will strictly enforge the law . plants—trees more like, for-they are . Warran y Py : Six Months Time Deposin July till now, and never fuller or} FA seating "Months Time ~. Deposits, 8 per cent. per ‘@finurm. e 7 tn fate froin RET to San Fratidisco by the Railroad Company’s steamers has been raised to the old} figntes sincé the opposition steamer Whipple was withdrawn, bie = ; Tae United States Fish» Commisj sioner has ordered one hundred a fifty thousand salmon ‘eggs from New Fall & ¢ Winter Dry Goods. cen MRS. M. A. STERLING, HAS just‘fetirned from San Francisco, where she has ptreRased a large stock of ; . Staple, Fancy & “Willinery Goods, Of the Latest Stytes and see Patterns, . a Wath ghe has selected exprensix, for this mirket Customers can rely-wpon’ ‘getting oie sa thing in ker lime at the : VERY LOWEST PRICES, Aftd-all Goods are WARRANTED AS REP: RESENTED. She has just reeeived diréct from -the East, for. the convenience of the ladies of Nevada County, » beautiful ahd complete assortment. of READY MADE UNDERWEAR, Warranted supérior to any ever betore brought to this State, MRS. M. A. STERLING. Nevada Cfly Sept. 234, 1874. DELINQUENT NOTICE. EVADA COUNTY: NARROW GAUGE : RAILROAD CO.—Location of principal place of business, Town of Grass . Valley, Nevada county. State of California. . Notice. There is delinquent-upon the following described stock, on account of assessment (No. 3) leviédd on the let day of September, 1874, the several amounts set opposite the ames of the respective shareholders, as follows: Names. to. Cert. No. Shs. Amt. E. Goldsm‘th, 80 1. $ 10 Py Hunnefauth 6. 3 2» 10

H. C. Mills, 107 5 50 Estate of A.Delano,decd ,23 10 100 And in accordance with law, and an order of the Board of Directors, made on the ist day of September, 1874, so many shares of each parcel of said stock as may be nec« essary, will be sold at public auction, at the office of t.e Company, store of Fletcher & Glasson, No. 59 Main street,Grass Valley, Nevada County, California,on SATURDAY, the 24th day of OCTOBER, 1874, at the’ fe hour of 1 o’clock, P, M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,together’ with costs of advertising and expenses of the sale. GEORGE FLETCHER, Secretary. Office, store of Flefcher & Glasson, No. 59-Main street, Grass Valley, Nevada cotnty, California. Assessment Notice. OLD RUN MINING COMPANY—Loca. tion of principal place of business, San Francisco, California., Location of works, Gold Flat, Nevada County, California.— ticeis hereby given that at a miveting of theRoard of Directors, held on the Fourof October, 1874, an assessment, of Fifteen Cents per share the capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately in United States gold and silvercoin, to the Secretary, at the office of the main yeare onthe 16th day o will be delinquent, and adverti at public Auction, and unless paymé made before, will be sold on Thursday, t day of Sane tel 1874, to pay the delinC. C, PALMER, ‘Secretary. er Market and Spear Streets, San Francisco, Auction, Cominission ‘ety Store. Here been hae and made arrange. ments for Goods, to sell on Commission, I will constantly’ be in receipto a Large Variety of Goods, Which I Rakes selling SATURDAY AFTERNOO D EVENING, AT AUCTION, and during the week at AUCTION PRICES. I would therefore say to those wiahing to purchase anything, trom a ies Cook Stove to a Paper of Pins, To give me 4 cgll before buyin elsewhere, Ladies wishing the BU) ICK PATTERNS, can obtain them by calling on FLORA HULBROOK at the Auction and Variety Store, as she is agent for the same, J. 8. HOLBROOK, se = Broad street, opposite the Bauk, BANK OF NEVADA COUNTY BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY, (Arran stock $200, 000. OFFICERS : R. W. TULLY, President. DIRECTORS : John Cashin, . . .Chas. Marsh, R. W. Tully, Jonathan Clark, M, L. Marsh, A. ¥ Parker, . W. H. Duryea. aan 4s TO LOAN on on good collateral se. Richest, Price paid for City. and. Coun eee Penal Boughtand soid at Regular Gola Dust Bought. Bullion discounted. Liberal advances made on Gold Dust or Bullion for Assay or Coinage at the M General and Speciai Deposits received. Checks on San Francisco, Sacramento, Sa Jose, Stockton and Visginis City. ra. te Ss, London and Gerwy for jams London, Globe Inpy one wo of Califarns , cisco ; Bank of D. O. Mills, Sacramento Agency Bank Bank of Qaliforhia, Virgizfia ody Interest on Time Deposits’will be allowed, as ‘Sine Mo, : SZ Persons rosiding at a distance cau eos! by Express. TIME, 2.14 1-2,“ N. W. KNOWLTON’S Cal} and See the Different Styles. “\ He has alse for Sale, eho : me ‘ , [Consisting in.part-of allthe New — YX Large and Beautiful Assortment of All kinds of, Watch and Jewelry Repairing Done’ and Warranted. Ira A. Eaton & C. H. Moore To be found in this city are to be had at his Chetks on Solven t Banks taken at par, . t” Goldsmith Maid Is COMING" ‘ ‘BUT, ard MAKE MUCH BETTER TIME. . ee _ CLOCKS, JEWELRY on ALL . KINDs, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES, &c. As Cheap as can be Bought anywhere in the State, Lad : 7 Nevada City, September 15th,.1874, UNION HOTEL, MAIN STREET, NEVADA CITY. PROPRIETORS. THIS HOTEL is now open in all its branches; and those in search of a desirable stopping place will find it greatly ee advantage to give us a ig supplied with the best the d well cooked and served. ‘The Bar and Billiard Rooms are supplied with the choicest of @ve g one of the best in the State. The Rooms Deing all large, and well furnished. in our power to please and give entire sat> action. EATON & MOORE. Nevada July 6th, 1874, he made arrangement NE ’ ceive Eastern and California Oysters, . Fresh every day, and served up in any style desired, He also laid in a large stock of CONFECTIONERY and NUTS of the freshest and choicest variéties, and lots of otherGOOD things, which he desires the good people of Nevada to call and examine. THE FINEST CIGARS, OYSTER SALOON, and smokers are re. oropeag to call and be convinced. of. the act Families supplied with OYSTERS at their houses, by leaving orders at the SALOON, ) sep 18 ANTONIO TAM, : NATIONAL EXCHANGE a HOTEL, BROAD STREET,..... NEVADA CITY. R, B. GENTRY, Proprietor. HIS WELL _KNOWN HOTEL IS ALways open for the accommodation of the ‘Traveling Public. Large additions have been made to it,and it hag been fitted up in elegant style. Phe Sleeping Rooms are large, airy and paren and the lable will compare f ee ee Hotel pe xpense to rend “hla guests e ex his ts comfortable, for all parts of the State h ene me lhe — The House is kept openall night for the accommodation of ed Traveling Fabien Billiard Tabl wikis neat es and Bar connected “¥ “share: of Public Patronage respectfully solicited.j : GENTRY, Proprietor,: Nevada, June GOLDSMITE'S ASSESSMENT No. 3! CoLu MN N Ha AKD PAYABLE pitt: v —AT THE— LNEW DRY G000S BAZAAR wer Pass A. -GOLDSMITH, BROAD. STREET, Who will is-ue to his many patrons {4 this city and county, on and after THIS DAY, one of the © LARGEST STOCKS STAPLE “AND FANCY er ee . aa EVER ‘ao 10 THIS. COUNTY § ‘Grand ‘Opening Or Fall & Winter Styles ! Styles of DRESS GOODS, BLACK CKETOM} DRAP de TETES, IMPERIAL CLCTHS, DRAP de ALMA, ‘ IRISH POPLINS, -” CASHMERES, se MERINOS, ue EMPRESS CLOTHS, AND NEW STXLES OF Water-proof Cloths, : ALL COLORS. “ MILLINERY GOODS. ‘RIBBONS, of ay descriptions. PLUMES, i ORNAMENTS, VELVETS, PLUSHES, ___.__VELVETEENS, SATINS, FRENCH FLOWERS, TIMMED HATS, UN-TRIMMED HATS, OF THE LATEST STYLES. New Styles of Hosieries. GLOVES, RUFFLING, BELTS, wACES. BUGLE TRIMMINGS, CORSETS, HANDEERCHIEFS, WHITE GOODS, TRIMMINGS, ’” BUTTONS, new styles. Particular attention is called to the large assortment of ° SHAWLS AND SKIRTS. NSE STOCK IMME 2 : DOMESTIC GDQDS, CONSISTING OF ANDSOME PRINTS, TINGS from 4-4 to 12-4 wide. bleached and unbleached. "y 4 ’ NAPKINSS CRASHES, \ TOWELS, TABLE LINENS, &e, &e, &c. KC 3 Largest assortment of Carpets & Oil Cloths. Ever brought to this city. Consisting ef ENGLISH IMPERIAL 3-PLY. CROSSBY BEST BRUSSELS, INGRAIN, 2-PLY. ' RUGS, &e. &e. The above described Goods are all of the newest and latest styles and will be sold _ for less money than ever before — offered on account of recent decline im he Drf Goods markets. DO NOT MISS THE GREAT BARGAINS ! T respectfully extend a kind invitation to all to call and examine my new stock, ' A. GOLDSMITH, Brown & Morgan Block, Broad Sireet, 1 Re The Dail NEVADA LOCAL oor 7 Local One than at night got his pi exercises were h he shall not tak cheese factory a. ‘turer in describi the city schools s ly looking fellow sessor, Organ for How dges the know that the < the Truckee ma “whisky was equ: t —~ mechanic o: found idle in 1 ; could find emhplo Bob Scott, the the habit of sto] rinding down h: in on schedule t The Good Ter . city has.a memb and new menibe meeting. The Editor of drinking water finds the ¢han ‘him, The man’ whic at Cherokee ne tempted to sell i The citizens of injustice has bee A hali dozen 1 the roof of our counts for the Transcrier this Turner’s build Street, is nearly afford him plent, ing a large stock The cigar trad now. Nothing . sported article is dicted to the y us some of the b The condition is rapidly impro able to be ont in ‘Beckman is ke *-ers in the line of is having a vera of the building the corner of Bri There was a 1 the horses of RB. (©. Broderick, o! the race track y If any one is their bump of ‘“ is a good opporti -dist Church bu the surrounding ful in the extrem enough, The mines do are all looking that large returr this winter. The Young La tend giving one ties on Friday, O Clouds contint but they fail to g enero The Ew We are ip rece Leport of the E Company of Gri _ .in it the followin There has been year, 8,207%% tc M30 tons wer are 428 tons on t broke in min There has*beén_7 rets concenirated and there is still The receipts from the year were dividends declare 000. The receir since going into have been, $4,30: $2,615,936 94 hay The future prosp cording to the rey _tendent is one of From Pills Dr. J. ©. Ayer medicine man of nominated for ( 7th Massachuseti will probably be « and business saga hibited by him } man of ability anc " purge Congress ax the disorders now Ladies’ Ready . Ladies, go to M sé the beautiful I Wear, just importe A full assortment