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December 16, 1896 (4 pages)

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THE TRANSCRI by Naz. P. eves hoc. ma = TELEGRAPHIC; NEVADA CITY, NEVADA CO., CALIFORNIA BROWN & CALKINS. Proprietors FIRE THIS: AFTERNOON. Extent of $500. Shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon an alarm of fire was sounded, caused by the discovery of a fire at the Catholic parsonage. The fire started production <of evidence. of a foul by between the ceiling of the first story . operating on Sharkey. prints a statement that Lee approached ing over a space teu or twelve feet . a Teputable physician with an offer of $500 if he would join Lee in stating lathing quite badly. In ‘order to get . that Sharkey’s injuries were the result at the fire it was necessary to tear up. ofa foul blow. and the floor of the second story, burnsquare and charring the floor joist and the floor in the library and to cut through the ceiling of the room down stairs. It is thought the fire originated from the chimney that extends up through the first and second stories; and into which some of the floor timbers extended. The hand chemical fire extingnishers were used, and after emptying: six or eight of them the fire was extinguished. The damage is estimated at about $500 BRIEF MENTION. ‘Minor Notes and d Comments of Local Interest. A weather vane is to be placed on the roof of the Masonic building. Four wagons ‘loaded with Suhers came to town today. Henry Richards is taking out some rich quartz from a tunnel in the Sharp & Nivens ground, near Canada Hill. Several business houses of this city are giving out handsome calendars this month. The Board of City Trustees will hold their monthly meeting tomorrow evening. : Notice the change today in the advertisement of J. Levy of the Branch Wonder. He has something to say that will interest you. Friday the public schools close for the customary holiday vacation, and will open again on Monday, January 4, 1896. A wagon loaded with ‘lumber broke down this morning on Broad street, opposite Mrs. Marion’s millinery store. The lumber was unloaded and the wagon taken to the blacksmith shop for repairs. ee WEDNESDAY. ... ‘DEC. 16, 1896. beyond a doubt the result of a disa eererieerremmeeensenens . sTECetUl Criminal conspirecy.. Besides. the principles in the original plot anothér figure is now involved in ‘the aftermath of the scandal. This man is “Dr.” B. whe # The Catholic Parsonage sonage Damaged to the . at the ee — tg Nn Lean eg the “Sharkey. Case, San Franorsco, Dec. 15.—The Post key was carried thither after the fight. was paid $1000 for his services, w The Post also A Desperate Attempt at Suicide, Ban -Franessco, Dec. 15.—Martin Anderson, a Norweign carpenter, made a desperate attempt to end his life to day. He first fired two shots into the top of his head, and finding they took little! effect, he slashed his throat with a razor almost severing the trachea. Then he returned to his pistol, and fired two shots more into his head. When taken to the Receiving Hospital, all four bullets were protruding — from his skull. He will probably a ee Bimetallists il Council. Wasnineton, Dec. 15—A meeting of ‘the officers and executive committee of the American Bimetallic Union began here today for the purpose of devising ways and means to continue the work in behalf of the unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and incidentally to arrange for the resumption of the publication of the National Bimetallist, the organ of the Union. It is stated, however, that the paramount business of the meeting will be to arrange details for a convention of silver leaders throughout the United States with a view to inaugurating a comprehensive organization. It is argued that want of organization and want of funds were the two causes of the defeat’of silver. in November, and that the evil of disorganization at least can be remedied by -beginning preliminary work at once. Next Year's Campaign. SAN FRANcIsco, Dec. 15—The Republi2Oe Te Paris aeronauts are going to try to beat the balloon record by remain. ing twenty-four hours in the air. The recofd is now held by M. Gaston Tissandier, who in March, 1875, made a balloon journey of twenty hours and forty minutes. Bus Line Time Table. From now on the tin time table of the. Crimmins favors William Oluff for Grass Valley and Nevada City bus line will be as follows: Leave Grass Valley—8:45 a. m.; 1, 8:45 and 6:30 p. m. Leave Nevada City—10 a. m.; 2, 5 and 7:30 p. m. Busses will.call to any part of the city for passengers. free of charge. tf Advertised Letters. The following is a list of the letters remaining in the Postoffice at Nevada City, December 16th : Bearden, F. J. Burns, James N. Kennedy, E. L. Love, Ed. Miller, Caroline if not called for in fifteen days letters will be sent to the dead letter of fice. Parties calling for any of these letters will please say “adve: 2 pay a fee of one cent for each letter. J. EB. see a Postmaster. The Toe Had to 0 Be Amputated. W. P. Eddy had the big toe of his left foot broken and badly mashed at the Providence mine the other day by a heavy timber falling on it. Today * Dr. Hunt found it necessary to amputate the toe. 2oe Raffle Every Night. « here will be a turkey raffle every can County Committee will go out of officeat the end of the year and already wires are being_laid to control the new committee, which will manage the campaign of 1898. . Chairman Mainwaring of the present committee is a candidate for re-election and has the support of County Clerk Curry. Phil Crimmins is making an effort to: control the committee and it is said that chairman. It is also announced that John D. Sprécékels favors Cluff and that Spreckels has reconsidered his determination to abandon politics. SD Personal Mention. The Post says it is announced that Lee. piying to the letter, she said that his horse would win the race, the last heat rumor says consisted in the artificial several lengths ahead of a gray horse, Harry Ayers came down from May-. is a scientific fact. Every organ, nerve = VISIONS WHICH WARNED: Two Instances ‘Where Dreams of Horses . ‘ieane like girls, ‘tare queer,’ .and dreams wherein horses figure largely take rank among the queerest. In the year 1890 a gentleman entered a promising pacer for a race to come off some If?so speeding the horse on the last of the snow.,.and. wrote.to his wife, who was visiting in a distant town, that his prospects for a race horse were’ rosy. That night the lady, although not espe. . olally an admirer of horses, dreamed that she was sitting in the stand watching the finish of: the race wherein her . , the only other one she saw in her dream, aud that the judge announced the time 2:20. The letter caused a good deal of amusement in the family during the months previous to the race, and finally when the day came five horses started, among them being a dark gray. The dream came true din. every respect, 4n it, the rest just coming into the stretch; time, 2:2014. Thedream I can -youch for, as I saw the letter weeks before the race took place. Another gentleman, who was sleeping at an inn beside thé track where his horses were stabled dreamed, that he saw the window of a stall containing a valuable young horse being stealthily opened from the outside. They fire flashed and fell among the straw, revealing the hing. Pog Amake it plinie during thé: summer. He was) 4 point: ‘to call on VINTON Christmas Presents ? ‘ . . = Odd Fellows’ Building, Broad Street. batand’s horse was totake part Re . GAe Hinest Stock of Holiday Soods in the city. Most Complete Line of Perfumes and Toilet Goods. * Fine Line of Hlbums, Gotlet Sets, Clegant Leather Soods, Sift Books, Pretty Booklets, Sames, Writing Caves, and a host of Fancy. Goods. We today inaugurate a sale in’ which we Cc é ers anywhere on the coast to meet our prices for fre SOMETHING, NEW, est AND LASTING. Diaries for. 1897, and, Call and see =, {* the Fine Display. a full stock of Unigu Purses, Ete. ry verything First-class: Pocket Wfemorandums, te Zon bang won in Unesbeus st} WWE AN = ONYX NOVELTIE ES, horses in a state of terror, pawing and snorting loudly. The dream was 80 vivid that he awoke and fancied that he oould in reality hear the horse striking the walls of his stall. He partially dressed and ran out, and not a moment too soon. Some miscreant had thrown a cloth burning and soaked with oil The question : WHERE . OH ~ WHERE ““ Where shall I go to trade ?” or, “Where through the window. This had ignited . is-the cheapest place in town?” has been solved to all who the straw, and in a few seconds more have done any trading with the horse must have perished, though, fortunately, as it was be was but slightly injured. —Trotter and Pacer. ‘The Expert Witness. The present custom which permits each side to call in its own expert and pay him for his testimony is calculated to produce. anything but “expert testiand in order to do mony unless the term expert applies to a on Commercial.street. manipulation of facts tosuit his client’s case. It would be about as conducive to justice if each side were allowed to re-[ tain pag ef aeyt and jury = ite ag oe (x0 trash. : own. In fact, the practice is 80 obvious. BOYS’ ALL, ee es ly calouleted, Se-deteet towed sn BOYS’ KNEE SULTS, Mom.. ee ke fect thet a witneas ie employed and sovs HEAVY KID LACE SHOES paid by the defendant or plaintiff un-. 7" a WTRG) VICTA KID PAT. TIP SHOES..... -consciously enrolls him on that side, and there are few experts whose testi-. BABY SHOES, from mony is not modified by such an ar-. x7 ENS SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, per Suit Ee, ie rangement. This custom has led so often to a flat contradiction regarding facts between opposing authorities that the general public has lost confidence in such testimony. This is, of course, very unfortunate, as it is beyond question that a man who has devoted his life to a study, for instance, of poisons and their effects on the body isin a better position to judge of the probabilities in a given case than the. ordinary layman or physician. Under a system where the expert is called by the court no ques-. tion of bias could be raised, and science would not be disgraced from time to time by those who are willing to trade ‘ease ageless SS Pure Blood is essential to perfect health. This and muscle must be fed and nourished.
THE BRANCH WONDER. We should like to enlighten those who are yet in the dark, so we kindly invite them to visit our store EN’S DRESS SHOES An elegant line of NECKWEAR, SILK SUSPENDERS, SILK MUFFLERS, SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, For the Holiday trade. bert today. A. Monteith came down from North . It is the function of the blood to furnish J LEVY, fs Bloomfield today. this nourishment, and the quality of town. : Bloomfield. Plumbago mine. E.§8. 8. Irwin of San Francisco is in Theo. Wetzel is down from North M. W. Mather is down from the nourishment these organs receive depends on the quality of the blood. If the blood is Rich Pare and full of vitality it will properly on their scientific reputation. —Popular . Wil} aye You Twenty-five Per Cent. —ON YOUR—— Rubber Clothing, Robber Boots and Shoes, . I Remain Yours to Please, v oods. r We have bought more. Fall. anil Winter Goods than the condition of trade warrants, and are determined to sell them all before next Spring. ‘To accomplish this we mig’ -_— sacrifices, and as a beginning have 90 Young Men's Suits, ages 35 to 19 Black Cheviot, straight out, fall value $7, must goat THREE AND A. 50 ‘s value at 0. Chinchilla Reefer Coats, ages 4 to 15, fullWe will close them out in next three days DOLLARANDAHALF. Cassimere Knee-Pants Suits, 5 to 15, full sue They go for ONE DOLLAR. . a” a. eee eS 5 ee In every decetaiead of our three stores we will tenke a 1 25 reduction. SP Py POET et reer ce i 00 This i is not a sale to fake: money. “We are really over150 stocked, hence start in before the Holidays to cut prices. 25 We employ seven salesmen, -Everybody waited upon PE es OS. BRE Pe ees ye ee TES ee Re AER chain ae 40 promptly. All invited, whether "seve to dagen or not. Manager When we offer a apécial sale; it is only for oe number of days advertised. Watch the advertisements. “We cannot ". guarantee to fill orders at special sale prices. are‘sold out. We give these sales weekly and fl fill orders praerese to the advertisement. — . We ate sole agents for the S. Wilkowski of San Francisco is in town. ooo No Band, No Parade. There will be no band out on donation day, as several of the members are on the day shift and can’t be present. It has been decided also to give up the idea of having a procession. The pupils of the schools can carry to Washington schoolhouse whatever donations they desire. In the afternoon the schools will not open until half-past 1 o’clock. Hon. J. M. Walling will be present to receive the donations, which the Benevolent Society will see are properly distributed: Any one who wants to night at Britland’s saloon until after help along the good cause.is invited to the holidays. alétt T urkeys Fer All. J. J. Coan, at the Mint saloon, has on hand a lot of fine turkeys that he bring donations of food orfuel to the schoolhouse. —s ee Bazaar at Grass Valley. The ladies of the Episcopal Church will put up at raffle every night until] 4 Grass Valley will hold.a t after the holidays. di6-tf Turkey Raffle. tonight and tomorrow night. Splendid programs of exercises have been prepared, and a great variety of fancy Beginning Dec. 16th, there will be) Sricles willbe offered for sale from turkey raffle every night during the! pooths: holiday season at Robert Simmons’ saoe — da15-tf ‘ loon, Pine street. Take a Look at Them. The Power Lost. A distinguished engineer in the Eastern States has found how much power : Take a look at the pretty things in. made in steam boilers is lost in transthe stock of Leutje & Brand, whether . mission. He found that the average you wish to buy or mage pleeenlen eos eir goods. Oo 54 Get the ‘Best. a Four-dollar Calf Shoes, and $6 Mining Boots made to order. at L. J. TrautSave labor and go nd go to Apres and get some of Heinz’s Mince Meat in sceat-ainae, They are al-. ioss is about 75 per cent. that the loss is rarely below 50 per cent. and often is amazing waste is going on all over the world wherever men are applying the. forces of nature, stored in fuel, to the tse on: the best ses going steamers feed and support the whole mechanism of the body. If it is poor and thin disease and suffering will be inevitable. The great success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla in curing stubborn cases of scrofula, eczema, rheumatism, neuralgia and many other similar troubles, is based upon ite power to enrich and purify the Blood This is also the reason for the great popularity of Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a building up medicine. By making pure, rich blood, it gives vigor and vitality even in tryimg seasons, when, owing to impoverished blood, thousands are complaining of weakness and weariness, lack of energy and ambition, and that tired feeling. Hoods -. Sarsaparilla » 1: Saree Liver Ills . Hood’s Pills tate, ensy o operate. 20 Application for License. NOB tart aot sears Eeeearnaer sents so Yuba River. 8. D. Hlageport Crosting, Dec. 16. . A fine assortment moving of machines. It was this loss) WILL BE RECHT a 6 Pew DATS that brought about the invention of the triple expansion marine engine now —ar— < THE NATIONAL sRU Broad 8 opp. Cities Bas Candies. Holiday Delicacies . = Marysville Woolen. Mill Goods GRIMES CLOT 1 Making tut Nowadays most people endeavor to select them with a view to their utility as well as their beauty. It is the right thing todo, for in these hard times very few folks have And then the recipient of what you bestow is pretty sure to be better pleased with a present that is for practical use as well as pleasing to flook at. NG EMPORIUM “money to burn.” ‘This Winter Offers Many Such as the very latest in Rich and Tasty Neckwear, pitere den HOLIDAY NOVELTIES, pos Silk Handkerchiefs and Mufflers, Dress and Driving Gloves, Fine Shoes and Pu Best Grades of Underwear, I w rn) wan ras And we sell them at rices ed at es Mills. Tacit’ are known to all. The Marysville Blankets are the B The Tweeds and’ Flannels eannot be beat. If you need a thing in this line, get it from us at Mill prices: We are ag agent for Nevada county. We eepecelly dave GRASS VALLEY PEOPLE to call and see us. before, but they don’t reealiay’ what we can do now. Fare . paid both ways till — 1st for ae Grass Valley « customers. We buy for spot cash jad can er all competition. Telephone—No. 63, I bell, at store. ~No.* 53, 4 “hells, at residence. Call us up at any hour (day° or ni ght), and we will try to accommodate you with. snythingia our, pane of ser you may desire. © EP aaatiy A romptly fill . spot cash only. ptly filed. One ‘ice to al, for, WM. F. LISB§N, Proprietor: ” know what we have done for them . Y Neca CHICAG talked p! cans wh hear “Ot extolled. priest W advocacy clared be the soul Chicagot vert. H service 1 were app There being sti The sp existenc tician Ww: life.” “Polyg divorces arate fi wives Ca out reco The p suggeste off of he from off Wong am from newly a men 80 1 ten the 1 love. th other thi tonight. thing so wrong — country! my tong “For have stu turies ¥ force dc ing hea all at se “How among ! finemen women actually the cold every 6 of gear fundar religiou ethics. fail to for sor to thro a big st else? . ~*> wo