September 11, 1879 (4 pages)

fm re » we RIT A __day, ‘It’s a pleasure-to be. assessed ~-gentlemanly way.” The only objec-. ' which-the better part of his life so Se _ considerable, te) read: White, }. 496; Glenn, $42, ~ there will protbi be 4,00) men at Blan eee 7 aveia A anne ents ede octane f ~ of / ; / J BN) OLY LF ARNT TAME LENSE IID , _ a? ' © fos i, i She Daily Transevipt, NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA. Thursday, Sept. 11 cae , Dan. Collins’ Selltary F ailing. th, 1879. cenpieniiomaaaienl Dan Collins got away with the Asséssorship by a round hiindred of votes. Among all the: Demoérats of christendom, we had rather seé-Dan get that office than‘any other. He has a fair and honest way of doing. business, and all classes of préperty holders -get-uniform= justice at his hands. In fact, he seems peculiarly mlapted for the position; and as a property holder remarked the other by Dan. Collins, he does it in such. a tion to him is his undying love for the great evaporated Democracy. He . continues to worship its memory as miidh as he did: the party when it Was a reality. Still he makes a modef Assessor in spite of that deplorable fact.” ‘He must feel awful lonely, though. : tn Fryer’s Ocean Steamer. For several months past’ Ry, M. Fryer, the well-known civil en .ineer, has been industriously engaged at his home. near this city in pecfecting the plans of. the ocean steamer t far has been spent in inventing.‘The drawings and, written specifications are now complete in’ every detail, and he has commenced securing forcign patents, the American one having been already obtained: ‘The . steamer will be, when‘bnilt,’ one of the most ingenious pieces of:mechanism in the world, and many who have thoroughly “investigated its’ character and are regarded as competent authority in such matters say it is hound to revolutionize oceati navigation. _Important Mining-Sate. ~~ The Yuba quartz mine, situated seven niles above Washington, tas been sold by Coleman Brothers & Co., the former owners, to A. DeLand, R. H. Lloyd; Col. Rogers and other San Francisco. capitalists, Mr‘ DeLand is to be the Superintendent. The claim has a good 25-stamp mill upon it. It has been worked through a tunnel with goodsuccess for several years past. The new company propose to run a cros’-tut and push operations ahead as rapidly as possthle. The Winter supplies of provisions anil tools have .arrived:here and are beingSent up. © Washington mining district has never had so’good prospects as now. Miners’ Dam’ peetroyedy Two dargs in Fall.Creek, six mile’ above Washington, in this county, were. totally destroyed Monday. by unknown. parties’ placing seven’ ot eyght kegs of powder underthem-and Mowing them to atoms. The loss*is: For some -time there has been a contest as to the. otvnei:! ship of the dams. betweem the Bluw’ Tent and the Lindsey mining coms . keno; and the Madatie superintended + “la large fortune. . elearing the room and avoiding ‘a “WER LAST DEAL. onecr Femaic’ Gamblérj Finally . Finds Wr Match ina Bottle. Monday morning last the dead body ,of @ womanwith a bottle of rank poison beside it was found two miles south ofBodie, and identified as that of Maelame Dumont, better known as ‘‘Madame Mustache.” The Chronicle s#ys’that the first known of Madame Dumont, as she was then ‘called, on this coast was in Nevada City in 1854, She arrived onefJ day on a stagecoach, a pretty, fresh-faced, dark-eyed woman, apparently twenty years of,age, and her stylish appearance created much commotion among the rough inhabitants of the towh. The Madame at once rented from the proprietor of a large gambling establishment on Broad street; where she started'a game df vingtetun. The novelty. of a pretty womanidealing a game'attracted many players*to her table, and“as she paid—strict attention to business, and wasvery lucky, she soomhad quite a capitat. At that time there lived inrNevads City agams bler‘named Dave Tobin, who: freer ward became very swell known ir sporting circles on the coast. Tobin . recognized. the business ability. and tact of the Madame and ‘fermed a business oopartnership with her. Together they opened an“Ftamense establishment, running a dozen large games, day and night. He managed the large games, such as faro and the small games, vingt et un(Americanizéd as twenty-one) chuck-a-lue‘, etc. The Madame became a great favorite with the a was always agreeable and. smiling, accepting her losses with’. smile, and her Winnings withtric gambler’s indifference. The Madame and Tobin continued their _partnership’ for. a year, when Tobin: weut to: New York, wher2 he died in 1865, leaving The~ mania for gambling and the love of excitement: were insatiable in the Madame,fliow« ever, and-for the next five years she wandered from camp to camp, always suceessful and always a favorite with miners. the miners. It became a saying of theirs-that there was’ more sgatisfaction-in playing against the Ma+ daime’s game and losing, than in winning at any other game. © She pos sessed: a peculiar power over even the roughest of her customers. One’ time in Pioche, the reom in .which she was dealing her game became filled with a noisy, quarreling crowd: of miners, maddened with drink and flourishing -pistols, evidently bound Guild’s store now is, a table atwhich . 6 Fol day hewas seen at the Kennabec toward Nevada.’ On the day of the murder he was seen in the vicinity where it was: committed, . tion to'these cireumstances*is the fact that Blair is a etiminal, witose speci having served two terms in San Quem ing hitirin chasge of Stand fémitting him'si ‘of her' earnitiys. The husband ‘proved 2%worthless mun, and is supposed to have desertether. Since then her history has bkena repetition of her ea*#ylife. Of fate, what was years ago only an infantile fuz’on her upper lip, had deyeldped into» geéwth of unusta¥proportions for a'woman, hence hertsdbriquet+ Madame Mustache. . xX In speaking of Blair, under arrest for the robbery of thé Moore’s’ Plat stage, the Union*takes the following reasonable “grounds: What makes the surrender of Blair singular is his statement that he ascertained that suspicion rested upon him, How > 2 >—More About BMir. the offieers were after him? His name had not appeared in the newspapers as a suspected party, nor had‘ the officers given ‘out publicly that he was supposed to he one of the murderers, although they ad: facts. in their péssession that caused them to fix suspicion upon him. The more probable theory of his surrender is that he found himself hemmed in in every. direction, with Kittle or no chance of escape, and that he relied upor® safety in’ the officers not being able to connect a chain: of evi-. dence that would convict him. But dover her California ‘property, placafte-‘equandertig all of her e&rnings . jnick-nacks ocecupies part of the land-_ to enter the portals, This faet-wagy ‘communicated to those inside, andy * \ : _YE CHINESE “FREE MASONS.” A Transcript Reporter Invades their Temple, and Lifts the Veil from the Meathenish Mystery of Mysteries. Yesterday‘ morning-~ Marshal Baidridge ‘and the DaiLy Transcrier repuster visited the now Frée Mason Temple in Chittatowh. The bu:iding is a two-story.ftime about 12-feet by 40 in ground: dimensions. The. léwer floor is‘ divided into: s#veral apartments thatjare to be devoted to ordinary purposes, The second floor ig reached by a steep and narrow staircase, the stairs is the full width of the building and eight or ten. feet deep, Its was are covered: with rude sketches of renowfed chtracters that are orhave been-connected—with the . order. A table ladened with burning lanips and mysteriors looking ing. The piazza in front is adorned witb brightly painted pictures and signs, most of,them being done in red and’ gold., The. largestsign. being interpreted means ‘‘Free Mason . House.” The rearpart of the-building is partitioned off from the ‘landing and constitutes the lodge réom. Two doors lead into it. Upon first reaching one of them officer Baldridge had informed the burly guard who stood by it that we would like instantly the reply, came back, ‘‘You notwithstanding his denial there are cireumstanees that tell strongly against him. A man who is held at, the station-house at Marysville says Blair proposed to him to rob the Eureka stege some days’ before the attempt: was successfully made. On the Saturday, night previons to the murder Blair was seen in Nevada City. On the following day he was in North Broomfield, and tried to obtain a shot-gnn, Later+in the, House, near Lake City, on the road ho goin.” “But?” expostulated the Marshal, “‘this is: a newspaper man With tne and he wants to print something abeut your nice house.” ‘The flattery had the desired effect, for in a momeht the guard after an excited discussion came out again and said we might enter soon. Then there was~confusion~and~ramning around insideas if hiding heavy: artic’es that ought not to be profaned by the eyes-of uninitiated pale faces, and we were shortly told all -was ready and we might enter. Stepping over the threshhold, we found: ourselves in a! In adalialty has been, highway robbery, ‘he tin for crimes of! that character, From all these cireumstances it is evident that appearances! are much agvinst "Blair, and woless he canisatisfactorily account for hiswhereabouts from Monday, the day of the tourder, until the Saturday following, when he stityenderedi to Sheriff McCoy, at Marysville, there eah no other conclusion reached. thant that the rightman has been seoured.: The officers have no doubt on the snbto have a free fight. The barkeepers and farodealers were fruitlessly try. ing to quiet the crowd when Madame . Dumont, observing their dismay, qhiesly Approached-. the; noisiest, . wiudlaughingly reproving theny for . . ungallant conduct, 1 succeeded. in bloody row. = Among the sporting fraternity she . Was chiefly admired forhe: § rustling . qualities, As an instance of the latter quality, a rare accomplishment ' i panies. The latter is’ réported to . have used the water from them for . several years, but the Blue’ Tent Company claim to have come into possession of the right by purchase, SS rican eeThe Derbee Mine: ———__ The Derbec niine never preseited: better than it does now. The drtts jeteded in raising’ a “stake” in mining camps, it is stated that) once in Boise City, Idaho, she sue-! With . which to capitalize her bank when other well-known gamblers remained: sally stranded for the lack of funds. No miner ever, came “broke” to a camp where the Madame was installed and asked her for a luckless are looking splendidly.‘ The new gravel washing machine will ready to start up this week, and by . its use the large amounts of gold lost . in the common . procesg of washing will doubtless be saved, The Dairy ‘LRANSCRIPT expects to give its readers a complete and correct account Kind Words, Territorial Katerpriser’ "The Nevada City (Cal.) ‘TRANscrIpr with its Saturday issue cntered upon its twentieth year The ‘Prayscrirr is “an excellent papery and we hope to have it amouy our exchaiges for _twenty more ycars.” See ae White and Glenn: eee In ~ yesterday's TRANSCRIPY a typographical c:ror made it appear. that Nevada county gave a larger vote for Glenn ‘hair for White, Such ig not tle case. It sheuld have ~ eet at ‘ounty . "Pimes ‘sys es Tar Lyon & work ‘in the (/ourstuels mines this be . rourdings and unusual mode oftiving _, For a number of years she expended fall, 1 She strke without receiving it. Madame Demont, despite her strange sur. possessed the respect as well as Ihe adthiration of her rough’ companibus for years. lt was not until of luck which inevitably overtakes those who long follow in the path of Chance, found this strange charac. ter penniless among strangers, that . the dark chapter of heyy strange ca. reer commenced. For a yeat she was . known in Saa Francisco asa leader of the demi-monde, but the chaxity of . silence, which the kind remembrance . of a thousand instances of her good . heart and genexggs hand have camba for her, should be granted to this! tainted epoch of her life, Returned . to the nvines she again. becaine fortunate at gambling. Earning in. one i camp several thousand dollars she . invested it in a Catiforniafarm. © She . had been frequently heard to express a desire to own and pass the vest of herglife in quiet in a home of her own. } allof her winings on the improvement of her farm. A few years ago she married-a’man ‘i a mining town in Eastern Nevada, and to him tris daawe ; dered’ Cummings, May é . grand time PAC e , telegraphed: here, and Tuesday af-. aS HAG “OF CORO Sani, . discharged, ject, and in a short time after the commission of the erime, fixed upon. Blair antk “Oregon” Smith as the guilty parties, ‘The latter is still at large, bh as he tod‘is an: ex-convict, whose face is somewhat familiar tothe offiéers of the law in various parts of the Stave, it is believed. that he cannot long remain at large, unless he should be fortunate enough. to’ get beyond the boundaries of the State. Sheriff Montgomery and other offcers have been untiring in. their efforts to work up this case, and: there is excellent) promise that they will long, narrow apartment at. the furth-: er end-of which was an_altar covered: with a myriad of unique lamps, hideous idols, provisions, colored papers, etc, stoodthree important looking Chinamen with their eyes fixed on space ‘ants a At either side of this altar and their hands raised to the Leavens.: In front au old gray-whiskered man with a long scroll in his hands, He wore a long robe of sober colors and from timeto time would: look upen the manuscript, then mutter some talismanic words which seemed tobe the signal for the six attendthe sides of the altar to change their positions. — Waving his right hand through the air so as to describe a circle completed the ceremony. There are no symbols in the lodge room bearing a resemblance to those usually connected. with Free Masonry. One Sam Chee is the high muck-a-muek of the organization here. Our Chinese guard says that the lodge has about 600 members in Nevada City and suburbs. They are banded together for mutual proteetion. None but ‘‘honest” men are allowed to belong. Whem it is eharged that one of them is not worthy of contidence a special meeting is called be successful in bringing the primis uals to merited justice.) SS Oe ee i } > a ; ie The Truckee Avrests. . ' “ » Monday night Constable Reed and ‘ 5 . Warne art-in pe f Jake Cross arrested two men at. , ane _ ps tn peace. Ef that me oe : “! does not suftice he is ° mn dow . Truckee on suspiciow of having rol~ é re ee throw caper stairs head foremost. . Three stated {* } { bed the Moore's: Flat stage and mur. The fact was ternoon Under Sheriff Byrne went up ie tury’ for the purpose of bringing them to. ‘™S *#0"s the unportant features of the County Jail. When he arrived . {there they” convineed him beyond . Mason Temple in Grasg V alley Chiloubt that they were a couple of . tramps who had come direct from’ Battle Mountain by beating their way on the cars, and they were of “course Mr, Byrne returned to this city on ‘yesterday morning's train, 2 man was arrested at the Derbeo mine yesterday on‘a telegram sent, up trom this city, surpicions having arisen among the county —autherities that he was connected with the robbery of the Moore's Fiat stage and murder of Cummings. He had been seen in this city"on the day of the fearful deed, and there was considerable circumstantial evideuce against him. Shortly after being arvested he was discharged again, certein <developments going to. show that he __ 0 Arrested at the Derbec., . to force his way into the lodge, he is own and a trial takes place. If the charge%are sustained he is ‘‘fired ont” in disgrace, and his name is printed. on «big board that hangs in the lodge for that purpose. Ifa stranger tries meetings are held eacly year, and a feasting and drinking and musie bethe programme: There is-no Free natown. A: large number of the ine habitants of that burg have joined here, Thirty ur forty of them came up night before last and took part in the dedicatory ceremonies. The temple cost about $700, the build ers claim,’ : Writing Scheoh As will he seen by the regular announcement, Miss F, A, Honsinger will organize a class in business manship at Brown & Morgan's blotk next Mondey evening, ” "Phe cou will consist of twenty lessons, ‘TY, e terms-are extremely reasonable, and no doubt many will take advantage of the opportunity offered to be} come experts in the usctul art. Miss Honsinger is admirably qualified for imparting instruction, : ge eee ace OWS In. Nevada are exem t The landing: at thé top of4 Board of Saipervisers The Board of Supervisors adjourned yesterday, poh ate tranbactedthe uSual business connect with the late election. The’ amount allowed for exp@nses of Elettion Boards is $1,476 75; for. pay‘of Supérvisors, registratiow, election blanks, etc., $622 70; primting Great Register, telegraphing, . expressage, incidental expenses of Clerk’s office for election purposes; $514 55. V w. F. Camming> old. Lv a The gold taken from the~ Moore's Flat stage is generally supposed to have been in a single bar, and_ the public hold that it.would have been ‘a difficult task for the robbers to weight. Su®sequert: investigation has shown that there were two bars “instead of one, Thus it-was— trans: PRICE LIST. FOR CASH; Sué ct to Correction ported with ease by. its<captors. . Lynch Dees Not identify Him.--. Mike Lynch, who thinks that he ‘saw the robbers of the Moore’s Flat stage, went to the County Jail yesterday and took a square look : Blair, the ex-convict charged with being a party terthe crime. He is confident that Blair dees not resem-ble either of the men-he met; Storerooms in Demand.Vacant #lesrooms are in great deof one that will be vacant-in a few days has been applied to by a saloon keeper, .a timware man and a variety store proprietor, all cf: whom are seeking places toestablish a new business here. Yesterday's Arrivals at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Chas. E. Pearson, Proprictor. 4 C Whitney San Fra.A Rothschild SanuFr D Goodale do J M Bachelder do Mrs Getz doM Marks do J E Clark, :Bodie J Golburn Sierra BuJ C Piper Omege TS Pockman ‘City C Lobner Railroad. &E Brown * do S Richardson Col’Hill J Ostrom Bloomfield T Richardson do G Dixon do E L Wallace Forest Ci T Dianiond Gold Hil J HonsingeF Shultz m B-Young Oakland: Prof Taylor & w NY A A'Sarpert de —A T Lalrd City. H Espil Badie C Thomas Grags Valle C McElyy City: a © <= VYesterday’s Arvivals at THE UNION .HOTEL. NEVADA CITW CAL. Jacob Nafviger, Proprictor. IMaguire Blue’Teut J Tonner Willow Val B Hottinger Quak Hi Rev Powell Grass Va J C Bourne Penn Val EO ‘Tompkins do C H Winchester Osb h A K Bishop Bloom C BShaw Chico T Barker Sheridan © E Goldsmith Chicago O H Tompkins S Fra L' Nordman do J W Berton & f do J Hanly Sacramento. Mrs J'Rook do J Fowler Nevada J Gapnix Grass Valle xt . t ee? BORN. : At Ophir Hill, Septeraber,9,.1879,to Joseph Colton and wife, a son. MARRIED, At Grass Valley, September 8, 1879, by Rev. W. R. Gober, A. $8. Dickinson to Alice A. Kitto, both of Grass Valley, Assessment Notice, OLD SPRING GRAVEL MINING CO! / lwceation of principal place of business’ Nevada City, California. Location of works near Willow Valley, Nevada county,: @ali« fornia. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on Monday the Sth day of. September, 1870, an Assessment, No. 18, of Ten-Cents per share was levied upon the Capital Stock of the corporation, payable immediately in) United States Gold-Coin, te the-Treasurer at his office on Broad Street,. Newada City, Gal. Any stock upon whith’ this Assessment shall remain unpaid on’ Wednesday the 15th day of October, 1879, will he delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before will be sold on SATURDAY the First day of November, 1879, to pay the delinquent assessment, to. gether with costs. of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of Directors. o} A. H. PARKER, Secretary, GRAND SUNDAY PIC-NIC ! AT ISMERT’S GROVE,” Sunday, September, 14th. a Fs Music by Prof. Bucler’s Brass Baud, ‘Dancing Music by Prof. Wood's Orchestra, consisting ef 7 Pieces, Lunch and Ice Cream served at the Grove by Mrs. Ismert. Dancing on the Large Platform. Fare for the Round Trip between Grass Valley, Nevadaand the Greve, 25 Cents. eave Grass Valley at 9.30, 11.30 ‘hk. MM 2.00 and 600-2. Me ' 5 — Leave Nevada at 10.30 A. M”. 12.15 and 6.30 P. M. _ Wyss The last ‘Trem will leave the Grounds fo ¢ ~* * the extent of $1000, mand in Nevada City, The owner } Flour, wer 100 tbs, $975, Wheat, per 100 Ibs; Qo, Cern, per 100 lbs, 17 Bran, per 100 Ibs, 1 19, Mixed Feed per,100 lbs, 1 87 Middlings, per 100 lbs, 159 Potatoes, per 10Q:tbs, $1 9 Crnghed Sugar,, 9 Ibs, 19 Brown Sugar; I2 Ibe 14 Green Coffee, 5 Ibs 1% Ground Coffee,. 3lb cans, ‘¢ Rice, 14-_Ibs —1.99Beans, 32‘Ibs 19 Soap, 8 bars 9%. Soap, per box. Candles;. 14 for % Candles, perbox 175 7 Crackers,, per box, 90 Oysters § 12cansfor 100. Salmon,. Scansfor 100 Tomatoess 7cansfor 100 100 100: Green Corn, 6 cans for String Beans, 5 cans for Sardines, 6cansfor. 100. Green Peas, 4 cansfor100 Blueberries, 5cansfor 100 Kerosene, per gallon, 35 Kerosene, per 5 gallon can 1 50 Syrap,, _. per gallon, 78 Syrup,, 5gallonkegs, 300 Bacon, per pound. ll Hams; per: pound, 11 English Breakfast, “‘ 40: Fresh Butter, per roll, ' 50 Gooking Butter, per Ib, 8. Cod Fish; ~.“ od Ground Coffee, per paper 30 Washing Powder, 3‘papers 25 Corn Starch, 2 papers, 25Starch, 2 papers, 25: Starch, per box, 65 Pearl Barley,. 3 pounds 2B: Spices, all kinds, per bottle 10 Pickles, © per bottle 2& Pickles, 5. gallon kegs 2.06" Lard, 8 pound cans; 90 ‘Everything else in proportion. : “WILLIAM WOLF, Main Street Nevada City’ FOR SALE. A LARGE QUANTITY OF HAY, ON the Excelsior Farm, about one niile: anda half below Smartsville. Fiye or six hundred tons of the best quality of Alfalfa and Red Top €lover Hay, first, second and third crops—will be sold in quantities to, suit purchasers, at Fourteen Dollars per : ton. Any application or reference by mail made to JAMES. O'BRIEN, Smartsville, wil ' receive prompt attention. a26-m WRITING SCHOOL. A Clas¢in Business Penmanship. Zt willbe organized at. Miss: Elliott's Writing Room,. Brown & Morgan Block, For @Term of TWENTY “LESSONS, commencing : : : September 15th, at 71-2 P. M. Newest method in acquiring @ correct and speedy Handwriting taugnt. Business movement a specialty. Tuition, including Stationery, 24.50. Children under 12, $8.50. Payable middle of Term: Miss F. A, HONSINGER. : Teacher. Nevada. Sept, 10th. PERFECTIONS — Vegetable Hair Restorer. o —— ‘TPXHIS VALUABLES. PREPARATION: 18 FREE FROM Any Mineral or ¥egetabie Poison. It restores gray hair to-its nataral color, beauty, and stops its falling out. It cures Baldness, Dandruff and diseases of the Scalp. Sold by all Druggists) 3) JOHN M'RENS A SACKET & McKENNA, General Mining & InsuranceAGENTS, . HEY REPRESENT THE -FOLLOWING Well known Companies : North German of Hamburg. Scottish Commercial of Glasgow. Connecticut of Hartford. Continental of New York Niagara of New York. Tradesmen's of New York. Commonwealth of Boston. Aggregate Assets Twenty Six Million Dollars. All losses promptly * paid as soon as adjusicd. Also Agents for ‘tale & Urban’s Safes, Buffa] Standard Seales, ~ wevls Alarni Tul —— Offtice--Drond Street, opposite Wellsy Grass Valle at 6.45 P. M. _ Fargo & Co., Nevada €ity. Nevada, Sept. 4th. —— THE DAIL NEVADA ( IE PE —— Bric Mr, Oliver house near the will, Piety Hi Several mor Valleyans/wex yesterday mor: * Nevada cou _ infavor of They were ten feSuspension . Several of the the foot-walk broken and loc arid James Dot _ trying to secu _ grocery stor 1 Sheriff Mont San Quentin Vv barglar,. who v year’s imprisor elean up the ene night. _ An Impo “Ed. -Goldsm popular repres L. Siebenhau rers of Havans isin town, . the makers American now takes th brands. Thor nir,” “Base B brands are als hy the same portant fea‘ Siebenhauer & -business is the improving the They are dis workmen and their place:. 1 to-day. InN turn from a tr then show the goods ever bro tains. Be sur ing. s ‘ -Pic-nic A grand pie Ismert’s grove Bueler’s brass: orchestra, bot] ganizations, w ce cream and: at the grove 4 large platform. did shape fo from Nevada t isto be but9 run at frequei by the adverti: ee Killin; Officers Bal killed five unt. morning befo propose to’ eon wntil every ens or licensed. ¢ animals have . to avert a ge now walk Vp: @ tag for vach Mr. Pr E. M. Pres! Citizens Bank, step-ladder on day, and in ¢ right ankle: J crutches, but . or six weeks b Hojured limb a Prof. Tay Prof. Taylor to-perform at. evening, and a the Ridge in d in that part of hat he gives a ment, Proet Messrs, Brat treet book gel less increasing re compelled Som, by remov ral feet to the _ Situat A competent ation to do ch are of childre est of recomn ry at this offic Do Nor bel avassers whc 0. have aban¢ ** Wewwilasy

fm re » we RIT A __day, ‘It’s a pleasure-to be. assessed ~-gentlemanly way.” The only objec-. ' which-the better part of his life so Se _ considerable, te) read: White, }. 496; Glenn, $42, ~ there will protbi be 4,00) men at Blan eee 7 aveia A anne ents ede octane f ~ of / ; / J BN) OLY LF ARNT TAME LENSE IID , _ a? ' © fos i, i She Daily Transevipt, NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA. Thursday, Sept. 11 cae , Dan. Collins’ Selltary F ailing. th, 1879. cenpieniiomaaaienl Dan Collins got away with the Asséssorship by a round hiindred of votes. Among all the: Demoérats of christendom, we had rather seé-Dan get that office than‘any other. He has a fair and honest way of doing. business, and all classes of préperty holders -get-uniform= justice at his hands. In fact, he seems peculiarly mlapted for the position; and as a property holder remarked the other by Dan. Collins, he does it in such. a tion to him is his undying love for the great evaporated Democracy. He . continues to worship its memory as miidh as he did: the party when it Was a reality.. Still he makes a modef Assessor in spite of that deplorable fact.” ‘He must feel awful lonely, though. : tn Fryer’s Ocean Steamer. For several months past’ Ry, M. Fryer, the well-known civil en .ineer, has been industriously engaged at his home. near this city in pecfecting the plans of. the ocean steamer t far has been spent in inventing.‘The drawings and, written specifications are now complete in’ every detail, and he has commenced securing forcign patents, the American one having been already obtained: ‘The . steamer will be, when‘bnilt,’ one of the most ingenious pieces of:mechanism in the world, and many who have thoroughly “investigated its’ character and are regarded as competent authority in such matters say it is hound to revolutionize oceati navigation. _Important Mining-Sate. ~~ The Yuba quartz mine, situated seven niles above Washington, tas been sold by Coleman Brothers & Co., the former owners, to A. DeLand, R. H. Lloyd; Col. Rogers and other San Francisco. capitalists, Mr‘ DeLand is to be the Superintendent. The claim has a good 25-stamp mill upon it. It has been worked through a tunnel with goodsuccess for several years past. The new company propose to run a cros’-tut and push operations ahead as rapidly as possthle. The Winter supplies of provisions anil tools have .arrived:here and are beingSent up. © Washington mining district has never had so’good prospects as now. Miners’ Dam’ peetroyedy Two dargs in Fall.Creek, six mile’ above Washington, in this county, were. totally destroyed Monday. by unknown. parties’ placing seven’ ot eyght kegs of powder underthem-and Mowing them to atoms. The loss*is: For some -time there has been a contest as to the. otvnei:! ship of the dams. betweem the Bluw’ Tent and the Lindsey mining coms . keno; and the Madatie superintended + “la large fortune. . elearing the room and avoiding ‘a “WER LAST DEAL. onecr Femaic’ Gamblérj Finally . Finds Wr Match ina Bottle. Monday morning last the dead body ,of @ womanwith a bottle of rank poison beside it was found two miles south ofBodie, and identified as that of Maelame Dumont, better known as ‘‘Madame Mustache.” The Chronicle s#ys’that the first known of Madame Dumont, as she was then ‘called, on this coast was in Nevada City in 1854, She arrived onefJ day on a stagecoach, a pretty, fresh-faced, dark-eyed woman, apparently twenty years of,age, and her stylish appearance created much commotion among the rough inhabitants of the towh. The Madame at once rented from the proprietor of a large gambling establishment on Broad street; where she started'a game df vingtetun. The novelty. of a pretty womanidealing a game'attracted many players*to her table, and“as she paid—strict attention to business, and wasvery lucky, she soomhad quite a capitat. At that time there lived inrNevads City agams bler‘named Dave Tobin, who: freer ward became very swell known ir sporting circles on the coast. Tobin . recognized. the business ability. and tact of the Madame and ‘fermed a business oopartnership with her. Together they opened an“Ftamense establishment, running a dozen large games, day and night. He managed the large games, such as faro and the small games, vingt et un(Americanizéd as twenty-one) chuck-a-lue‘, etc. The Madame became a great favorite with the a was always agreeable and. smiling, accepting her losses with’.. smile, and her Winnings withtric gambler’s indifference. The Madame and Tobin continued their _partnership’ for. a year, when Tobin: weut to: New York, wher2 he died in 1865, leaving The~ mania for gambling and the love of excitement: were insatiable in the Madame,fliow« ever, and-for the next five years she wandered from camp to camp, always suceessful and always a favorite with miners. the miners. It became a saying of theirs-that there was’ more sgatisfaction-in playing against the Ma+ daime’s game and losing, than in winning at any other game. © She pos sessed: a peculiar power over even the roughest of her customers. One’ time in Pioche, the reom in .which she was dealing her game became filled with a noisy, quarreling crowd: of miners, maddened with drink and flourishing -pistols, evidently bound Guild’s store now is, a table atwhich . 6 Fol day hewas seen at the Kennabec toward Nevada.’ On the day of the murder he was seen in the vicinity where it was: committed, . tion to'these cireumstances*is the fact that Blair is a etiminal, witose speci having served two terms in San Quem ing hitirin chasge of Stand fémitting him'si ‘of her' earnitiys. The husband ‘proved 2%worthless mun, and is supposed to have desertether. Since then her history has bkena repetition of her ea*#ylife. Of fate, what was years ago only an infantile fuz’on her upper lip, had deyeldped into» geéwth of unusta¥proportions for a'woman, hence hertsdbriquet+ Madame Mustache. . xX In speaking of Blair, under arrest for the robbery of thé Moore’s’ Plat stage, the Union*takes the following reasonable “grounds: What makes the surrender of Blair singular is his statement that he ascertained that suspicion rested upon him, How > 2 >—More About BMir. the offieers were after him? His name had not appeared in the newspapers as a suspected party, nor had‘ the officers given ‘out publicly that he was supposed to he one of the murderers, although they ad: facts. in their péssession that caused them to fix suspicion upon him. The more probable theory of his surrender is that he found himself hemmed in in every. direction, with Kittle or no chance of escape, and that he relied upor® safety in’ the officers not being able to connect a chain: of evi-. dence that would convict him. But dover her California ‘property, placafte-‘equandertig all of her e&rnings . jnick-nacks ocecupies part of the land-_ to enter the portals, This faet-wagy ‘communicated to those inside, andy * \ : _YE CHINESE “FREE MASONS.” A Transcript Reporter Invades their Temple, and Lifts the Veil from the Meathenish Mystery of Mysteries. Yesterday‘ morning-~ Marshal Baidridge ‘and the DaiLy Transcrier repuster visited the now Frée Mason Temple in Chittatowh. The bu:iding is a two-story.ftime about 12-feet by 40 in ground: dimensions.. The. léwer floor is‘ divided into: s#veral apartments thatjare to be devoted to ordinary purposes, The second floor ig reached by a steep and narrow staircase, the stairs is the full width of the building and eight or ten. feet deep, Its was are covered: with rude sketches of renowfed chtracters that are orhave been-connected—with the . order. A table ladened with burning lanips and mysteriors looking ing. The piazza in front is adorned witb brightly painted pictures and signs, most of,them being done in red and’ gold., The. largestsign. being interpreted means ‘‘Free Mason . House.” The rearpart of the-building is partitioned off from the ‘landing and constitutes the lodge réom. Two doors lead into it. Upon first reaching one of them officer Baldridge had informed the burly guard who stood by it that we would like instantly the reply, came back, ‘‘You notwithstanding his denial there are cireumstanees that tell strongly against him. A man who is held at, the station-house at Marysville says Blair proposed to him to rob the Eureka stege some days’ before the attempt: was successfully made. On the Saturday, night previons to the murder Blair was seen in Nevada City. On the following day he was in North Broomfield, and tried to obtain a shot-gnn, Later+in the, House, near Lake City, on the road ho goin.” “But?” expostulated the Marshal, “‘this is: a newspaper man With tne and he wants to print something abeut your nice house.” ‘The flattery had the desired effect, for in a momeht the guard after an excited discussion came out again and said we might enter soon. Then there was~confusion~and~ramning around insideas if hiding heavy: artic’es that ought not to be profaned by the eyes-of uninitiated pale faces, and we were shortly told all -was ready and we might enter. Stepping over the threshhold, we found: ourselves in a! In adalialty has been, highway robbery, ‘he tin for crimes of! that character, From all these cireumstances it is evident that appearances! are much agvinst "Blair, and woless he canisatisfactorily account for hiswhereabouts from Monday, the day of the tourder, until the Saturday following, when he stityenderedi to Sheriff McCoy, at Marysville, there eah no other conclusion reached. thant that the rightman has been seoured.: The officers have no doubt on the snbto have a free fight. The barkeepers and farodealers were fruitlessly try. ing to quiet the crowd when Madame . Dumont, observing their dismay, qhiesly Approached-. the; noisiest, . wiudlaughingly reproving theny for . . ungallant conduct, 1 succeeded. in bloody row. = Among the sporting fraternity she . Was chiefly admired forhe: § rustling . qualities, As an instance of the latter quality, a rare accomplishment ' i panies. The latter is’ réported to . have used the water from them for . several years, but the Blue’ Tent Company claim to have come into possession of the right by purchase, SS rican eeThe Derbee Mine: ———__ The Derbec niine never preseited: better than it does now. The drtts jeteded in raising’ a “stake” in mining camps, it is stated that) once in Boise City, Idaho, she sue-! With . which to capitalize her bank when other well-known gamblers remained: sally stranded for the lack of funds. No miner ever, came “broke” to a camp where the Madame was installed and asked her for a luckless are looking splendidly.‘ The new gravel washing machine will ready to start up this week, and by . its use the large amounts of gold lost . in the common . procesg of washing will doubtless be saved, The Dairy ‘LRANSCRIPT expects to give its readers a complete and correct account Kind Words, Territorial Katerpriser’ "The Nevada City (Cal.) ‘TRANscrIpr with its Saturday issue cntered upon its twentieth year The ‘Prayscrirr is “an excellent papery and we hope to have it amouy our exchaiges for _twenty more ycars.” See ae White and Glenn: eee In ~ yesterday's TRANSCRIPY a typographical c:ror made it appear. that Nevada county gave a larger vote for Glenn ‘hair for White, Such ig not tle case. It sheuld have ~ eet at ‘ounty . "Pimes ‘sys es Tar Lyon & work ‘in the (/ourstuels mines this be . rourdings and unusual mode oftiving _, For a number of years she expended fall, 1 She strke without receiving it. Madame Demont, despite her strange sur. possessed the respect as well as Ihe adthiration of her rough’ companibus for years. lt was not until of luck which inevitably overtakes those who long follow in the path of Chance, found this strange charac. ter penniless among strangers, that . the dark chapter of heyy strange ca. reer commenced. For a yeat she was . known in Saa Francisco asa leader of the demi-monde, but the chaxity of . silence, which the kind remembrance . of a thousand instances of her good . heart and genexggs hand have camba for her, should be granted to this! tainted epoch of her life, Returned . to the nvines she again. becaine fortunate at gambling. Earning in. one i camp several thousand dollars she . invested it in a Catiforniafarm. © She . had been frequently heard to express a desire to own and pass the vest of herglife in quiet in a home of her own. } allof her winings on the improvement of her farm. A few years ago she married-a’man ‘i a mining town in Eastern Nevada, and to him tris daawe ; dered’ Cummings, May é . grand time PAC e , telegraphed: here, and Tuesday af-. aS HAG “OF CORO Sani, . discharged, ject, and in a short time after the commission of the erime, fixed upon. Blair antk “Oregon” Smith as the guilty parties, ‘The latter is still at large, bh as he tod‘is an: ex-convict, whose face is somewhat familiar tothe offiéers of the law in various parts of the Stave, it is believed. that he cannot long remain at large, unless he should be fortunate enough. to’ get beyond the boundaries of the State. Sheriff Montgomery and other offcers have been untiring in. their efforts to work up this case, and: there is excellent) promise that they will long, narrow apartment at. the furth-: er end-of which was an_altar covered: with a myriad of unique lamps, hideous idols, provisions, colored papers, etc, stoodthree important looking Chinamen with their eyes fixed on space ‘ants a At either side of this altar and their hands raised to the Leavens.: In front au old gray-whiskered man with a long scroll in his hands, He wore a long robe of sober colors and from timeto time would: look upen the manuscript, then mutter some talismanic words which seemed tobe the signal for the six attendthe sides of the altar to change their positions. — Waving his right hand through the air so as to describe a circle completed the ceremony. There are no symbols in the lodge room bearing a resemblance to those usually connected. with Free Masonry. One Sam Chee is the high muck-a-muek of the organization here. Our Chinese guard says that the lodge has about 600 members in Nevada City and suburbs. They are banded together for mutual proteetion. None but ‘‘honest” men are allowed to belong. Whem it is eharged that one of them is not worthy of contidence a special meeting is called be successful in bringing the primis uals to merited justice.) SS Oe ee i } > a ; ie The Truckee Avrests. . ' “ » Monday night Constable Reed and ‘ 5 . Warne art-in pe f Jake Cross arrested two men at. , ane _ ps tn peace. Ef that me oe : “! does not suftice he is ° mn dow

. Truckee on suspiciow of having rol~ é re ee throw caper stairs head foremost. . Three stated {* } { bed the Moore's: Flat stage and mur. The fact was ternoon Under Sheriff Byrne went up ie tury’ for the purpose of bringing them to. ‘™S *#0"s the unportant features of the County Jail. When he arrived . {there they” convineed him beyond . Mason Temple in Grasg V alley Chiloubt that they were a couple of . tramps who had come direct from’ Battle Mountain by beating their way on the cars, and they were of “course Mr, Byrne returned to this city on ‘yesterday morning's train, 2 man was arrested at the Derbeo mine yesterday on‘a telegram sent, up trom this city, surpicions having arisen among the county —autherities that he was connected with the robbery of the Moore's Fiat stage and murder of Cummings. He had been seen in this city"on the day of the fearful deed, and there was considerable circumstantial evideuce against him. Shortly after being arvested he was discharged again, certein <developments going to. show that he __ 0 Arrested at the Derbec., . to force his way into the lodge, he is own and a trial takes place. If the charge%are sustained he is ‘‘fired ont” in disgrace, and his name is printed. on «big board that hangs in the lodge for that purpose. Ifa stranger tries meetings are held eacly year, and a feasting and drinking and musie bethe programme: There is-no Free natown. A: large number of the ine habitants of that burg have joined here, Thirty ur forty of them came up night before last and took part in the dedicatory ceremonies. The temple cost about $700, the build ers claim,’ : Writing Scheoh As will he seen by the regular announcement, Miss F, A, Honsinger will organize a class in business manship at Brown & Morgan's blotk next Mondey evening, ” "Phe cou will consist of twenty lessons, ‘TY, e terms-are extremely reasonable, and no doubt many will take advantage of the opportunity offered to be} come experts in the usctul art. Miss Honsinger is admirably qualified for imparting instruction, : ge eee ace OWS In. Nevada are exem t The landing: at thé top of4 Board of Saipervisers The Board of Supervisors adjourned yesterday, poh ate tranbactedthe uSual business connect with the late election. The’ amount allowed for exp@nses of Elettion Boards is $1,476 75; for. pay‘of Supérvisors, registratiow, election blanks, etc., $622 70; primting Great Register, telegraphing, . expressage, incidental expenses of Clerk’s office for election purposes; $514 55. V w. F. Camming> old. Lv a The gold taken from the~ Moore's Flat stage is generally supposed to have been in a single bar, and_ the public hold that it.would have been ‘a difficult task for the robbers to weight. Su®sequert: investigation has shown that there were two bars “instead of one, Thus it-was— trans: PRICE LIST. FOR CASH; Sué ct to Correction ported with ease by. its<captors. . Lynch Dees Not identify Him.--. Mike Lynch, who thinks that he ‘saw the robbers of the Moore’s Flat stage, went to the County Jail yesterday and took a square look : Blair, the ex-convict charged with being a party terthe crime. He is confident that Blair dees not resem-ble either of the men-he met; Storerooms in Demand.Vacant #lesrooms are in great deof one that will be vacant-in a few days has been applied to by a saloon keeper, .a timware man and a variety store proprietor, all cf: whom are seeking places toestablish a new business here. Yesterday's Arrivals at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Chas. E. Pearson, Proprictor. 4 C Whitney San Fra.A Rothschild SanuFr D Goodale do J M Bachelder do Mrs Getz doM Marks do J E Clark, :Bodie J Golburn Sierra BuJ C Piper Omege TS Pockman ‘City C Lobner Railroad. &E Brown * do S Richardson Col’Hill J Ostrom Bloomfield T Richardson do G Dixon do E L Wallace Forest Ci T Dianiond Gold Hil J HonsingeF Shultz m B-Young Oakland: Prof Taylor & w NY A A'Sarpert de —A T Lalrd City. H Espil Badie C Thomas Grags Valle C McElyy City: a © <= VYesterday’s Arvivals at THE UNION .HOTEL. NEVADA CITW CAL. Jacob Nafviger, Proprictor. IMaguire Blue’Teut J Tonner Willow Val B Hottinger Quak Hi Rev Powell Grass Va J C Bourne Penn Val EO ‘Tompkins do C H Winchester Osb h A K Bishop Bloom C BShaw Chico T Barker Sheridan © E Goldsmith Chicago O H Tompkins S Fra L' Nordman do J W Berton & f do J Hanly Sacramento. Mrs J'Rook do J Fowler Nevada J Gapnix Grass Valle xt . t ee? BORN. : At Ophir Hill, Septeraber,9,.1879,to Joseph Colton and wife, a son. MARRIED, At Grass Valley, September 8, 1879, by Rev. W. R. Gober, A. $8. Dickinson to Alice A. Kitto, both of Grass Valley, Assessment Notice, OLD SPRING GRAVEL MINING CO! / lwceation of principal place of business’ Nevada City, California. Location of works near Willow Valley, Nevada county,: @ali« fornia. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on Monday the Sth day of. September, 1870, an Assessment, No. 18, of Ten-Cents per share was levied upon the Capital Stock of the corporation, payable immediately in) United States Gold-Coin, te the-Treasurer at his office on Broad Street,. Newada City, Gal. Any stock upon whith’ this Assessment shall remain unpaid on’ Wednesday the 15th day of October, 1879, will he delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before will be sold on SATURDAY the First day of November, 1879, to pay the delinquent assessment, to. gether with costs. of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of Directors. o} A. H. PARKER, Secretary, GRAND SUNDAY PIC-NIC ! AT ISMERT’S GROVE,” Sunday, September, 14th. a Fs Music by Prof. Bucler’s Brass Baud, ‘Dancing Music by Prof. Wood's Orchestra, consisting ef 7 Pieces, Lunch and Ice Cream served at the Grove by Mrs. Ismert. Dancing on the Large Platform. Fare for the Round Trip between Grass Valley, Nevadaand the Greve, 25 Cents. eave Grass Valley at 9.30, 11.30 ‘hk. MM 2.00 and 600-2. Me ' 5 — Leave Nevada at 10.30 A. M”. 12.15 and 6.30 P. M. _ Wyss The last ‘Trem will leave the Grounds fo ¢ ~* * the extent of $1000, mand in Nevada City, The owner } Flour, wer 100 tbs, $975, Wheat, per 100 Ibs; Qo, Cern, per 100 lbs, 17 Bran, per 100 Ibs, 1 19, Mixed Feed per,100 lbs, 1 87 Middlings, per 100 lbs, 159 Potatoes, per 10Q:tbs, $1 9 Crnghed Sugar,, 9 Ibs, 19 Brown Sugar; I2 Ibe 14 Green Coffee, 5 Ibs 1% Ground Coffee,. 3lb cans, ‘¢ Rice, 14-_Ibs —1.99Beans, 32‘Ibs 19 Soap, 8 bars 9%. Soap, per box. Candles;. 14 for % Candles, perbox 175 7 Crackers,, per box, 90 Oysters § 12cansfor 100. Salmon,. Scansfor 100 Tomatoess 7cansfor 100 100 100: Green Corn, 6 cans for String Beans, 5 cans for Sardines, 6cansfor. 100. Green Peas, 4 cansfor100 Blueberries, 5cansfor 100 Kerosene, per gallon, 35 Kerosene, per 5 gallon can 1 50 Syrap,, _. per gallon, 78 Syrup,, 5gallonkegs, 300 Bacon, per pound. ll Hams; per: pound, 11 English Breakfast, “‘ 40: Fresh Butter, per roll, ' 50 Gooking Butter, per Ib, 8. Cod Fish; ~.“ od Ground Coffee, per paper 30 Washing Powder, 3‘papers 25 Corn Starch, 2 papers, 25Starch, 2 papers, 25: Starch, per box, 65 Pearl Barley,. 3 pounds 2B: Spices, all kinds, per bottle 10 Pickles, © per bottle 2& Pickles, 5. gallon kegs 2.06" Lard, 8 pound cans; 90 ‘Everything else in proportion. : “WILLIAM WOLF, Main Street Nevada City’ FOR SALE. A LARGE QUANTITY OF HAY, ON the Excelsior Farm, about one niile: anda half below Smartsville. Fiye or six hundred tons of the best quality of Alfalfa and Red Top €lover Hay, first, second and third crops—will be sold in quantities to, suit purchasers, at Fourteen Dollars per : ton. Any application or reference by mail made to JAMES. O'BRIEN, Smartsville, wil ' receive prompt attention. a26-m WRITING SCHOOL. A Clas¢in Business Penmanship. Zt willbe organized at. Miss: Elliott's Writing Room,. Brown & Morgan Block, For @Term of TWENTY “LESSONS, commencing : : : September 15th, at 71-2 P. M. Newest method in acquiring @ correct and speedy Handwriting taugnt. Business movement a specialty. Tuition, including Stationery, 24.50. Children under 12, $8.50. Payable middle of Term: Miss F. A, HONSINGER. : Teacher. Nevada. Sept, 10th. PERFECTIONS — Vegetable Hair Restorer. o —— ‘TPXHIS VALUABLES. PREPARATION: 18 FREE FROM Any Mineral or ¥egetabie Poison. It restores gray hair to-its nataral color, beauty, and stops its falling out. It cures Baldness, Dandruff and diseases of the Scalp. Sold by all Druggists) 3) JOHN M'RENS A SACKET & McKENNA, General Mining & InsuranceAGENTS, . HEY REPRESENT THE -FOLLOWING Well known Companies : North German of Hamburg. Scottish Commercial of Glasgow. Connecticut of Hartford. Continental of New York Niagara of New York. Tradesmen's of New York. Commonwealth of Boston. Aggregate Assets Twenty Six Million Dollars. All losses promptly * paid as soon as adjusicd. Also Agents for ‘tale & Urban’s Safes, Buffa] Standard Seales, ~ wevls Alarni Tul —— Offtice--Drond Street, opposite Wellsy Grass Valle at 6.45 P. M. _ Fargo & Co., Nevada €ity. Nevada, Sept. 4th. —— THE DAIL NEVADA ( IE PE —— Bric Mr, Oliver house near the will, Piety Hi Several mor Valleyans/wex yesterday mor: * Nevada cou _ infavor of They were ten feSuspension . Several of the the foot-walk broken and loc arid James Dot _ trying to secu _ grocery stor 1 Sheriff Mont San Quentin Vv barglar,. who v year’s imprisor elean up the ene night. _ An Impo “Ed. -Goldsm popular repres L. Siebenhau rers of Havans isin town, . the makers American now takes th brands. Thor nir,” “Base B brands are als hy the same portant fea‘ Siebenhauer & -business is the improving the They are dis workmen and their place:. 1 to-day. InN turn from a tr then show the goods ever bro tains. Be sur ing. s ‘ -Pic-nic A grand pie Ismert’s grove Bueler’s brass: orchestra, bot] ganizations, w ce cream and: at the grove 4 large platform. did shape fo from Nevada t isto be but9 run at frequei by the adverti: ee Killin; Officers Bal killed five unt. morning befo propose to’ eon wntil every ens or licensed. ¢ animals have . to avert a ge now walk Vp: @ tag for vach Mr. Pr E. M. Pres! Citizens Bank, step-ladder on day, and in ¢ right ankle: J crutches, but . or six weeks b Hojured limb a Prof. Tay Prof. Taylor to-perform at. evening, and a the Ridge in d in that part of hat he gives a ment, Proet Messrs, Brat treet book gel less increasing re compelled Som, by remov ral feet to the _ Situat A competent ation to do ch are of childre est of recomn ry at this offic Do Nor bel avassers whc 0. have aban¢ ** Wewwilasy