January 2, 1897 (4 pages)

pe appa etts: rene sage seseeseennenneh see for testimonials, THE TRANSCRIPT * Betablished Sept. 6, 1860, La Nt. P. Brows & Co. NEVADA CITY, NEVADA CO., CALIFORNIA BROWN & CALKINS, Proprietors SATURDAY: JAN, 2, 1897. PERSONAL POINTERS, A Concise Chronicle of Various Polks ‘Doings and Intentions. And mpel is with us again. R. of San Francisco is in town. Henry Guenther is on the sick list. Chas. Worthley is down from WashingtonT. B. Williamson came down from Washington yesterday. : : “4. Barnhart of San Franciscoarrived here on the morning train. : Percy Coe, a former resident of this place; is-here from San Francisco, on a visit. ‘ Miss Jennie Adair has been appointed teacher of the Rough & Ready school, a Frank H. Hyatt, the new Principal of the High School, arrived here this morning from National City, San Diego county. Supervisor McPhetres and family, af Truckee, are now at Santa Cruz, where Mrs. McPhetres’ father is lying dangerously sick. Ed. Dement, formerly of this city and one of the well-known San Francisco press reporters, is in town look: ing after his mining interests. GC. W. Godfrey of Moore’s Flat went to San Francisco a few days ago to have an injured ankle examined by the aid of the X rays. He was hurt in the Plumbago mine about a year ago, and _ his ankle still troubles him. BRIEF MENTION, Minor Notes and Comments of Local Interest. ‘Arthur Beardsley had one ‘of his fingers badly hurt Thursday while at work at one of the mines. It was thought this afternoon that . J. P. Stone.could live but a few hours at Grass Valley. George Sargent will have a small dynamo put in at his gravel mine at Quaker Hill in a short time. Court. Banner, A. O. F., will install officers Monday evening, January 4th. A collation after the ceremonies. All members are requested to be present: The snow is 18 inches deep at Trackee and the sleighing. is excellent. The cold weather df the past few days has been just what the managers of the ice carnival have been praying for. The year 1897 was ushered in at Nevada City in the usual manner. A the bells: were rung, trumpets were tooted, whistles blown, gongs beat, and noises of all sorts were heard. New ¥ear’s day was quietly observed. _ ‘The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Federal Loan Mining Company will be held at the office of the Gas Co. Thursday evening, January 17th, at half-past seven, at which time a board of directors will be elected. Death From Lockjaw. Wilfiam Carlyon, aged 20 years, died yesterday at his home in /Grass Valley. Death was caused by lockjaw, resulting from blood poison. Last Sunday the young man was thrown from a-carl while driving down Main street in this city, and struck on his head. He. sustained a severe scalp wound, and it was from the effects of this injury that blood poisoning set in. ee Buying Lots. J. W. Brace, the saloon man, and ¥. P. Hunt, the barber, have purchased from the city lots on the south side of ‘Sacramento street, «opposite the Chapman residence. The former will erect two houses and the latter one. They paid for the lots at the rate of 60 cents per front foot. . The Stuttz Company. The Stuttz Company were greeted with a good house on their opening night. It is one of the best low-priced companies on the road. To hear the company’s orchestra is alone worth the price of admission. . ebctnadeatin sisea enn ienemanse aia! Sate or Onto, City or TOLEDY, } 4, Lucas Country. J Frank J. Gueney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Onensy & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of .ONE HUNDRED . DOLLARS for each and every case of Oatarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hati’s CaTarrH Oure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and. subscribed in my presence, this, 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. : J RVI A. W.GLEASON, SEAL Norary Pustic. Hall’s Catarrh Gure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, Send free. @ FBS. CHENEY & CO,, Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 750. . Hall’s Family Pills are the best. All Recommend It. " Ask,.your physician, your druggist and your friends about Bhi'oh’s Cure for Consumption. They will recommend it. Sold by Dickerman & Co. WE GBT ONLY THE RIND. The Result of People Elsewhere Owning Our Best Mines. San Francisco, Dec. 29th. Eprror Transcriet: The other day I saw an item—a small one—in your of your city did not sufficiently encourage the development. of mines in the Nevada City District. It ocourred to me that it was a timely article, bat itdid not scold enough ; it did not bring as vividly to. their mindswhat they are letting slip from their grasp as I, hundreds of miles away, can 50 plainly see. Why is it that the best ‘mines in the District are owned. by outside parties? Why is it that Peter Taut‘phaus, Dr. Liebrich, Charley Stepp, Andy Goetz, and many others whom I could name, are the owners 0 the best mines you have? ‘They are all nonresidents and they are all good fellows. It is true they put in their money for. purposes: of development, but —.why could not those who were on the ground have done the same? It is true that thousands of dollars are paid out monthly for labor performed and. materials used: but this money does not come out of their pockets. It comes out of the ground,and every ton of quartz that is taken out exhausts the resources of the county to that extent. Every dividend paid is so much money lost to your people. They had the opportunity but they let it slip by. They are timid—-they are afraid to risk a dollar unless they see two in sight. As one of the gentleman I have named,’ or at least have in my mind, said to me the other day, “they are worse than pawn-brokers. Why, look at it ? They let a lot of Dutch butchers, grocers, candle-stick makers, and other poor fellows take away théir heritage, their birth-right, if 1 may so call it, for a little mess of porridge, so to speak. We are glad that they are so blind to their own interests ; we are glad that they lacked the energy and enterprise to develop the wealth which is now ours.” . And he laugh a good, hearty German laugh. I sighed. The remarks were brought forth by the article or item 1 spoke of in the first part of this letter. For years I have been trying to educate your citizens—my. friends, as I believe,—as to the true means by which they can gain prosperity and the happiness that naturally follows. I have endeavored to point out that the influx of foreign capital, while it may give a temforary prosperity, will in the end cause great misery and suffering. It cannot be otherwise. The resources of the county are not inexhaustible, and when the day of exhaustion comes it will be found that the foreign owners have got the juice while the county has got the rind. The orange has been sucked dry. : Had those who made their money in development of its natural resources, both mineral and agricultural, it would today be populated by ‘the wealthiest, the happiest and the most contznted people on the face of the earth. Nor is it too late: now. It requires but united action on the part of its present inhabitants to bring about this happy result. Everything is at hand— it wants no magician’s wand to bring them into play. Action, action on the part of your citizens in all that is necessary. Do not sit supinely and wait. Let no petty .jealousies' creep in to h'nder this much-toxbe-desired result. You have it within you grasp. Never let it escape you. Encourage by your moral and financial support every enterprise that © gives employment to others. Spend your money in the place where you make it, and ere many days, in the natural course of ‘exchange, it will return to you. If you send it abroad it is lost to you forever. I might write page after page upon this subject. I feel it deeply. I also feel that Iam laboring under a great disadvantage. It has been written that . “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.” In other words, people. who have known the prophet as a baby, saw him as a boy, then asa youth, and finally grown to manhood, both physically and. mentally, cannot realize the changes that have taken place under their very eyes, and they scoff at his utterances, however true they may be’; while others, far away, ‘accept the truth as spoken. © So itis with me, although I am not a prophet. Whenever I write anything of a serious nature for the TRANSORIPT. I imagine I cau hear some of my old time friends say: “Ob; pshaw, that’s only Walter Mead ;-why I knew him when he wasa boy.” Possibly it is'so ; and yet they fail to remember that some boys grow mentally as well as they do physically. That is the reason that I always approach a-serious: subject for the Transonier with misgivings. {To be concluded.] * Waurer Merap. er ee a nen enbieatie A primary teacher in a Watervliet Sunday school took for a subject, “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.” She inthe county spent but a tithe of it in the, ere at Pvior-Park, one of the finest IT MADE ITS APPEARANCE IN ENG= LAND IN AUGUST, 1784. John Palmer, a Theatrical Manager, Brought Out the Idea—Pitt Helped Him to Put It Into Execution Against ‘To Expedition and Property Protection.’’ This was.the legend on the mail coach, halfpenny struck to commemorate:the introduction of the mail coach by John Palmer of the Bath theater on Aug. 2, 1784, an undertaking which is not without its effect today. The careful student of the ‘‘Postal Guide’? ‘will ndt fail to notice what facilities are open to him for the transmission of important letters. Over and above frequent collections and convenjently late hours for posting, he can hand his letter in at a railway station parcels office; he can post in late letter boxes at the station serving the district for which his letter is intended, while up to the last moment there hangs outside the sorting van a box into which letters may be dropped preparatory to being whirled away throughout the length and breadth of England at the rate of 50 miles an hour, and to be delivered next morning at many a distant breakfast table.To appreciate to the full the present state of postal facilities, one should look at the system under which mails were carried prior to the Palmer era. first mail coach ran the post was carried by men or boys on horseback,. but in 1720 Ralph Allen, from whom Fielding took his ideas for Squire Allworthy in ‘*Tom Jones,” sent in a contract to-farm the cross country posts and to carry the mails by what were subsequently known as ‘‘Allen’s Postboys,’’ who were supposed to travel on horseback at a pace averaging five miles an hour. Palmer, in explaining his scheme for reform to Pitt in 1788, thus criticised the then existing state of things: ‘‘The post,’’ he said, “‘at present, instead of being the quickest, is almost. the slowest conveyance in the, country, and although, from the great improvements in our roads, other carriers have proportionately mended their speed, the poat is as slow as ever.’’ Palmer pointed out to the authorities that the system then in vogue was unsafe, “fot,’’ said he, ‘‘the mails are generally intrusted to some idle boy without a character, mounted on a’wornout hack, and who, so far from being able to defen@ himself or escape from a robber, is far more likely to be in league with him.”’ What was known as the robbery of the Brighton mail in 1792 was not by. stopping of a mail coach by a well mounted highwayman, but the stopping of a lad of. about 15 :yeara old by a: couple of loafing footpads named Rooke and Howell, who were afterward hanged in due course, andthe. circumstance-of the mother ‘of Rooke:going night after night to’ the gibbet to dollect the bones as they were blown: down by the wind . suggested the poem ‘“*Mizpah.’’ Those boys without characters and cheap labor, and the profits on the contract enabled.Aljen to turn in. about £12,000 a year and to take up his resift said that it was the sight of this grand place and the knowledge of how Allen’s money had been made which first sughis scheme to the notice of the postal authorities. John Palnier was lessee and managér of. the Bath and Bristol theaters—it was at, the old theater at . . Bath that actors like Lee, Crawford, Henderson; Siddons and Branton made some of ‘théir early appéaranoes, while, thanks to the influence of friends, Bath New theater was the only patent ‘theater out of London. . ; Palmer always appears to have been a man of more or less_horsy. tastes, like the late Mr. Newcome of the Plymonth theater, and “his business-led him to travel a good deal about the country. With him time was money; so, abjuring the slow, rumbling stagecoach, he went about beating ‘up actors, actresses and companies in postchaises, always, of course, ing.’ the coaches om the road along which, he was. traveling. With he asked himself, remembering that a letter took three days to go from Bath to London, why letters should not. be was possible to in’a chaise? He kept-a record of times ‘and distances, and, having thought out all details and deeming his scheme ripe for adoption, he sought the good offices of Mr, John Pratt, afterward Lord Camden, by whom Palmer was introduced to Pitt, who warmly approved the idea, Lords Carteret and Tankerville, the joint poetmasters general, besides not being experts were bound securely hand and foot by fetters of red tape, and so contented themselves with learning the opinions of the postoffice officials, who, it were almost needless to tell, were almost to a man against Palmer. The farsecing Pitt was not’ long in coming to the conclusion that more than half of the objections to the proposed mail coach“had their outcome in jealousy ; so, calling together Palmer, the postmasters general and sundry hostile officials, he decided that the system graph. Just Like Hin. Arthur—Yonu think I don’t. love you, darling? Why, I would die for you. Arethusa—Yes, and it would be just like you to do it so that your funeral would come ona day when I had to give up a real nice engagement to attend it. Oh, you men are so selfish!— quired if any one knew what it meant, when a little 4-year-old boy said: Miss L——, I know what it means. cry over it.” : aed) “Jose thirty years ago today,” said grazed by,a bullet.” : “Well, George, what is it?” Re ey “It means give a whole lot and don’t ; the old soldier, “the top of my head was . ~ Boston pe “There isn’t much grazing there now, is there, grandpa?” was the comment of the youngest grandchild; and as the sertion. ,wine are w llknown. No: finer Sherry . can be found in the State than is sold old gentleman rubbed his bare poll he at the s ore of A. Isoard & Son in’ this had to admit the correctness of the as-‘ city. Will be furnished ed if quantities . For two or three centuries before the . 8°" of a second—say 8,706,000,000 foot Tea is a pleasant cure for Constipation Sold by Dickerman & Co. ieee gestéd’to Palmer the attempt to bring . . the mail coach.of the future in his eye . . carried at ene pace at which it ; should have a trial. —London Tele-. The . Do you. buy your, Groceries ? Have you ever tried my store ?}: of the businéss center, but it would perhaps pay you te tabs a ‘walk up there and see what inducements heard of was one whom I was appointed by the court to defend,’’ said Henry W. Joy, a prominent St. Louis lawyer. “A wealthy man died, and as fine a coffin was obtained as money could buy. There was some very beavy solid silver plate on it. As the hearse moved off a well dressed, businesslike looking man was seen to énter it, carrying a little sack as 4 ‘noisome and oleaginous at all supposed he was.an assistant of) 1 who knocked into shape the effusions of the sporting reporter. Those were the days also when to be an‘assistYears ago a young man carrying on the profession, business of a free lance journalist predignity of his position as assistant. edithe days when editors were editors, title of news editor or sporting edithe undertaker. Just before the procession reached the cemetery the man’ emerged from the hearse and went ahead, disappearing at the gate. When the coffin was removed, all of the trappings were gone, and the. young man was not to be found. He melted the sil-" ver and sold it, and had it not been for a pal betraying him he would never have been caught.’’— Washington Star. _ Power of Modern Guns, A calculation of the power of » modern gun brings out the singular fact that the active life of a 100 ton gun is just one secord. Am Italian cannon of this caliber, with a charge of 550 pounds of powder and a shot weighing about eo pounds; will give an initial volooity of 523. meters per second. The length . ; eee of the time during which whe} F the life of s uecessful conacts is leas than one hundredth of a seotributor is a thousand times more choice-, wet nod atber 100 ehote the. onninba: $e}, Werthy chau teat ot an ole Tene put out of service, © , . write with pleasure and to take a modTi hs ookizanted tintlaring the notlve . C6. Utlce 1 muy wore” Tow ters period of the work of the powder in the write a line me to fill_up ‘white’ or the mean power is greater oe oath tinh of pot ny yl gy paseo 67,000,000 Seok pound pes se the work of others. ”’—National Review. Sir Andréw Clarke, while traveling in Italy, ascended w high tower one evening and found. atthe top another tourist,.an Englishman. They chatted pleasantly for afew minutes, when suddenly the: stranger seized Sir rew by the shoulders and said quietly, ‘‘! am going to throw.youover.’’ The man was a maniac. The physician had only a “moment in which to gather his thoughts, but that moment saved -him. “Pooh,” he replied unconcernedly, ‘“tanybody can throw a man off the tower! If we were on the ground, you could not throw me up. . That would b too difficult.’’ ‘Yes, I could,’* retortec the maniac. ‘I could easily throw yor up here from the ground. Let ‘us g down, and I will do it.’?. The desoen was accordingly ‘made, during whic! Sir Andrew managed to secure help ani release himeelf from his perilous situa : tion. ~San Francisco Argonaut. responsibility, trust and power, whereas in these times the assistant editor ir too often nothing better than the edit‘or’s secretary. Theassistant editor anc the free Jance journalist were not far apart in age. They had -almost been contemporaries at Oxford, but the mar of dignified position had a harassed anc weary look, tired eyes and a ragged beard, and the free lance was young and lusty as an eagle. And this was the answer to the congratulation: . ‘My dear X, wait until you have tried your hand as an. editor, then you will know what it is to long for the days that are past. You will realize that pounds per second. This represents a power of 12,000,000 kilowatts, or 17,000,000 horsepower, —Detroit News. Arrested the Sovereign. : Among the gentlemen engaged in.the sport of pigeon shooting at Heiligendamm, a fashionable resort on the Baltic, who were arrested at the instigation-of the Society For Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was one who @:ve his name aa Graf von Schwerin. Late: the police discovered that he was none other than their soversign, the Grand Duke of Meocklenburg-Schwerin, who was staying there incognito. : A Witty Forlornity. A forlorn looking man said: ‘‘I’ve tried everything that I could turn my hand to, bat. couldn't make anything answer, and now I have decided to go up among the hills, where they say there’s a wonderful echo, to see if I can make that answer. ’’——New York Advertiser. : f English Versus German Universities, If the tree is .to be judged by its fruits; we. shall find4t difficult to dispute the proposition that university education, at all events in so far as it bears upon the physical sciences, 4s somehow more satisfactorily managed in Germany than in England, The theoretical and technical output of Germany is far larger, more regular and of better quality for practical purposes than our own, the proof being that Ger. : many is rapidly monopolizing the high” Constipation, causes more than half er and more lucrative branches of mans Clover Root ufacture, and in addition is exporting large. numbers -of. technica] experts. — , London Times. _ : Doubtful, “Shall I say au revoir, and not goodby?’’ he whispered youlfally. . Her long lashes swept her damask cheek, : “I hardly. know,’’ she faltered. “Your French is pretty rank, but’’— —Detrait Tribune, The ills of Women. FOR A NEW YEAR GIFT TRY ‘THE BRANCH WONDER. We thank ou all for the liberal patronage bestowed on us during the Christmas holidays: We now kindly ask you for a share of your trade for the coming New Year. ‘ = * We carry in stock a fine line of Men's, Boys’ and Children’s ee i : . SUITS AND OVERCOATS, UNDERWEAR, . __ . HATS AND. CAPS. Ladies’, flen’s, Boys’ and Children’s ua SHOES. Fine-Line of Handkerchiefs and Neckweé BLANKETS AND COMFORTERS, “TRUNKS, V eh : I Remain, Yours to Please, . J. LEVY, GA, he! ey te. Commercial Street, Nevada City. 4 TRLEPHONE SIGNAL—One knock at the front door. ‘Country orders solicited.” pe Ee pa ———Wher . It’s a little out offer in fine goods a Thave a an all parts of the city, and a nice country trade trouble in retaining their custom, low prices. . to auit-at the lowest prices. alttt JES ae © iss ied ink e W. E. JOHNSTON, ** "fst sumed to congratulate a friend upon the tor of @ great daily paper. Those were when nobody dreamed of assigning the tor to the man who divided “his time ‘betwen the seissors, the paste and. toe mesy or to the ‘ant. editor was to occupy 4 position of JA Certain Firm: ~ [business man from Nevada Cit; OUR MOTTO: “Live and Let Live.” Manager “ x 2 i a sage PE eens < = * ; % . : people once begin buying from me, I have rojc /\Commercial Street, near Mai ~NEW YEAR TO ALI bay aoc To THe PupLIes + We thank you for the patronage you have given us during the year nowending. —— aaa os We have had.the biggest business of amy concern” county. . Our cash books and Bank book prove Pe But we are not in bisiness for one year only. want to retain our old customers and add new ones. To this end we will continue to sell the best goods at the lowest prices— something we easily do by buying and sélling for cash.The knockout blow to the custom of sending ‘to mento and San Francisco for goods was delivered by us. now havea larger mail order trade than all’ the other stores _ in the county combined, and it is growing daily. Our advertisements are read in Nevada, Placer, Yuba, Sierra:and Plumas counties, and we ¢' these counties; for the people have learned they can depend. upon our business methods and our advertisements. = }]0! OR GRASS VALLEY!pit We go to Grass Valley soon to have ‘a set-to with our competitors there. It will be ae . Pieni¢ in the Winter ‘Season, “is And our opposition is going to get frost-bitten. The CGtise Valley people will have the benefit of the scrimmage, for we are going to slash prices right and left. * A¥e-will all the while sell at Lower Prices Than Ever at Our Nevada City Store Which will continue to run as usual while the Branch "Store is running at Grass Valley, where the sale will last only about thirty days. ees nt ee ree be iPass Spa CRIN sett, ete : eae cee In Nevada City has been very for a long time to get the Marysville Woolen Mills Goods, as L. Hyman & Co. are the agents. With that aim in view they wrote to the Marysville Woolen Mills for samples of their tweeds and flannels, claiming they might have use for them. ‘They received a reply to the effect that Mr. Knight positively. refused to sell to them, as L. Hyman & Co. shave had the agency for the past four years, and he would see we were protected. ‘Their next recourse was to send another bus: yan from Nevada City who it was thought was not. interested in this branch of bargains, to the Mills, to obtain the goods for them. .-Although this business man has very winning smiles and a doubly persuasive manner, they managed to resist his pleadings and attractions, and refused to sell to either him or them. Not. being satisfied with these two rebukes they next tried to obtain the goods from. merchants in. Grass Valley with the’ same ‘result. bees J other merchants are advertising the ae flannels, and we are very Sorry to state they haven’t the goods which they are advertising in stock, They are,So advertising: for, spite only, and we.can prove the same as: we have in-our office the letters they wrote: to’ the Marysville Woolen Mills. The flannels that some merchants carry are only of an. inferior quality. : : E i i ee ; it Bigges t establishment 11 tin the : e, with 72 feet front. = Fe oe $ > z . get business from all :

pe appa etts: rene sage seseeseennenneh see for testimonials, THE TRANSCRIPT * Betablished Sept. 6, 1860, La Nt. P. Brows & Co. NEVADA CITY, NEVADA CO., CALIFORNIA BROWN & CALKINS, Proprietors SATURDAY: JAN, 2, 1897. PERSONAL POINTERS, A Concise Chronicle of Various Polks ‘Doings and Intentions. And mpel is with us again. R. of San Francisco is in town. Henry Guenther is on the sick list. Chas. Worthley is down from WashingtonT. B. Williamson came down from Washington yesterday. : : “4. Barnhart of San Franciscoarrived here on the morning train. : Percy Coe, a former resident of this place; is-here from San Francisco, on a visit. ‘ Miss Jennie Adair has been appointed teacher of the Rough & Ready school, a Frank H. Hyatt, the new Principal of the High School, arrived here this morning from National City, San Diego county. Supervisor McPhetres and family, af Truckee, are now at Santa Cruz, where Mrs. McPhetres’ father is lying dangerously sick. Ed. Dement, formerly of this city and one of the well-known San Francisco press reporters, is in town look: ing after his mining interests. GC. W. Godfrey of Moore’s Flat went to San Francisco a few days ago to have an injured ankle examined by the aid of the X rays. He was hurt in the Plumbago mine about a year ago, and _ his ankle still troubles him. BRIEF MENTION, Minor Notes and Comments of Local Interest. ‘Arthur Beardsley had one ‘of his fingers badly hurt Thursday while at work at one of the mines. It was thought this afternoon that . J. P. Stone.could live but a few hours at Grass Valley. George Sargent will have a small dynamo put in at his gravel mine at Quaker Hill in a short time. Court. Banner, A. O. F., will install officers Monday evening, January 4th. A collation after the ceremonies. All members are requested to be present: The snow is 18 inches deep at Trackee and the sleighing. is excellent. The cold weather df the past few days has been just what the managers of the ice carnival have been praying for. The year 1897 was ushered in at Nevada City in the usual manner. A the bells: were rung, trumpets were tooted, whistles blown, gongs beat, and noises of all sorts were heard. New ¥ear’s day was quietly observed. _ ‘The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Federal Loan Mining Company will be held at the office of the Gas Co. Thursday evening, January 17th, at half-past seven, at which time a board of directors will be elected. Death From Lockjaw. Wilfiam Carlyon, aged 20 years, died yesterday at his home in /Grass Valley. Death was caused by lockjaw, resulting from blood poison. Last Sunday the young man was thrown from a-carl while driving down Main street in this city, and struck on his head. He. sustained a severe scalp wound, and it was from the effects of this injury that blood poisoning set in. ee Buying Lots. J. W. Brace, the saloon man, and ¥. P. Hunt, the barber, have purchased from the city lots on the south side of ‘Sacramento street, «opposite the Chapman residence. The former will erect two houses and the latter one. They paid for the lots at the rate of 60 cents per front foot. . The Stuttz Company. The Stuttz Company were greeted with a good house on their opening night. It is one of the best low-priced companies on the road. To hear the company’s orchestra is alone worth the price of admission. . ebctnadeatin sisea enn ienemanse aia! Sate or Onto, City or TOLEDY, } 4, Lucas Country. J Frank J. Gueney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Onensy & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of .ONE HUNDRED . DOLLARS for each and every case of Oatarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hati’s CaTarrH Oure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and. subscribed in my presence, this, 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. : J RVI A. W.GLEASON, SEAL Norary Pustic. Hall’s Catarrh Gure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, Send free. @ FBS. CHENEY & CO,, Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 750. . Hall’s Family Pills are the best. All Recommend It. " Ask,.your physician, your druggist and your friends about Bhi'oh’s Cure for Consumption. They will recommend it. Sold by Dickerman & Co. WE GBT ONLY THE RIND. The Result of People Elsewhere Owning Our Best Mines. San Francisco, Dec. 29th. Eprror Transcriet: The other day I saw an item—a small one—in your of your city did not sufficiently encourage the development. of mines in the Nevada City District. It ocourred to me that it was a timely article, bat itdid not scold enough ; it did not bring as vividly to. their mindswhat they are letting slip from their grasp as I, hundreds of miles away, can 50 plainly see. Why is it that the best ‘mines in the District are owned. by outside parties? Why is it that Peter Taut‘phaus, Dr. Liebrich, Charley Stepp, Andy Goetz, and many others whom I could name, are the owners 0 the best mines you have? ‘They are all nonresidents and they are all good fellows. It is true they put in their money for. purposes: of development, but —.why could not those who were on the ground have done the same? It is true that thousands of dollars are paid out monthly for labor performed and. materials used: but this money does not come out of their pockets. It comes out of the ground,and every ton of quartz that is taken out exhausts the resources of the county to that extent. Every dividend paid is so much money lost to your people. They had the opportunity but they let it slip by. They are timid—-they are afraid to risk a dollar unless they see two in sight. As one of the gentleman I have named,’ or at least have in my mind, said to me the other day, “they are worse than pawn-brokers. Why, look at it ? They let a lot of Dutch butchers, grocers, candle-stick makers, and other poor fellows take away théir heritage, their birth-right, if 1 may so call it, for a little mess of porridge, so to speak. We are glad that they are so blind to their own interests ; we are glad that they lacked the energy and enterprise to develop the wealth which is now ours.” . And he laugh a good, hearty German laugh. I sighed. The remarks were brought forth by the article or item 1 spoke of in the first part of this letter. For years I have been trying to educate your citizens—my. friends, as I believe,—as to the true means by which they can gain prosperity and the happiness that naturally follows. I have endeavored to point out that the influx of foreign capital, while it may give a temforary prosperity, will in the end cause great misery and suffering. It cannot be otherwise. The resources of the county are not inexhaustible, and when the day of exhaustion comes it will be found that the foreign owners have got the juice while the county has got the rind. The orange has been sucked dry. : Had those who made their money in development of its natural resources, both mineral and agricultural, it would today be populated by ‘the wealthiest, the happiest and the most contznted people on the face of the earth. Nor is it too late: now. It requires but united action on the part of its present inhabitants to bring about this happy result. Everything is at hand— it wants no magician’s wand to bring them into play. Action, action on the part of your citizens in all that is necessary. Do not sit supinely and wait. Let no petty .jealousies' creep in to h'nder this much-toxbe-desired result. You have it within you grasp. Never let it escape you. Encourage by your moral and financial support every enterprise that © gives employment to others. Spend your money in the place where you make it, and ere many days, in the natural course of ‘exchange, it will return to you. If you send it abroad it is lost to you forever. I might write page after page upon this subject. I feel it deeply. I also feel that Iam laboring under a great disadvantage. It has been written that . “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.” In other words, people. who have known the prophet as a baby, saw him as a boy, then asa youth, and finally grown to manhood, both physically and. mentally, cannot realize the changes that have taken place under their very eyes, and they scoff at his utterances, however true they may be’; while others, far away, ‘accept the truth as spoken. © So itis with me, although I am not a prophet. Whenever I write anything of a serious nature for the TRANSORIPT. I imagine I cau hear some of my old time friends say: “Ob; pshaw, that’s only Walter Mead ;-why I knew him when he wasa boy.” Possibly it is'so ; and yet they fail to remember that some boys grow mentally as well as they do physically. That is the reason that I always approach a-serious: subject for the Transonier with misgivings. {To be concluded.] * Waurer Merap. er ee a nen enbieatie A primary teacher in a Watervliet Sunday school took for a subject, “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.” She inthe county spent but a tithe of it in the, ere at Pvior-Park, one of the finest IT MADE ITS APPEARANCE IN ENG= LAND IN AUGUST, 1784. John Palmer, a Theatrical Manager, Brought Out the Idea—Pitt Helped Him to Put It Into Execution Against ‘To Expedition and Property Protection.’’ This was.the legend on the mail coach, halfpenny struck to commemorate:the introduction of the mail coach by John Palmer of the Bath theater on Aug. 2, 1784, an undertaking which is not without its effect today. The careful student of the ‘‘Postal Guide’? ‘will ndt fail to notice what facilities are open to him for the transmission of important letters. Over and above frequent collections and convenjently late hours for posting, he can hand his letter in at a railway station parcels office; he can post in late letter boxes at the station serving the district for which his letter is intended, while up to the last moment there hangs outside the sorting van a box into which letters may be dropped preparatory to being whirled away throughout the length and breadth of England at the rate of 50 miles an hour, and to be delivered next morning at many a distant breakfast table.To appreciate to the full the present state of postal facilities, one should look at the system under which mails were carried prior to the Palmer era. first mail coach ran the post was carried by men or boys on horseback,. but in 1720 Ralph Allen, from whom Fielding took his ideas for Squire Allworthy in ‘*Tom Jones,” sent in a contract to-farm the cross country posts and to carry the mails by what were subsequently known as ‘‘Allen’s Postboys,’’ who were supposed to travel on horseback at a pace averaging five miles an hour. Palmer, in explaining his scheme for reform to Pitt in 1788, thus criticised the then existing state of things: ‘‘The post,’’ he said, “‘at present, instead of being the quickest, is almost. the slowest conveyance in the, country, and although, from the great improvements in our roads, other carriers have proportionately mended their speed, the poat is as slow as ever.’’ Palmer pointed out to the authorities that the system then in vogue was unsafe, “fot,’’ said he, ‘‘the mails are generally intrusted to some idle boy without a character, mounted on a’wornout hack, and who, so far from being able to defen@ himself or escape from a robber, is far more likely to be in league with him.”’ What was known as the robbery of the Brighton mail in 1792 was not by. stopping of a mail coach by a well mounted highwayman, but the stopping of a lad of. about 15 :yeara old by a: couple of loafing footpads named Rooke and Howell, who were afterward hanged in due course, andthe. circumstance-of the mother ‘of Rooke:going night after night to’ the gibbet to dollect the bones as they were blown: down by the wind . suggested the poem ‘“*Mizpah.’’ Those boys without characters and cheap labor, and the profits on the contract enabled.Aljen to turn in. about £12,000 a year and to take up his resift said that it was the sight of this grand place and the knowledge of how Allen’s money had been made which first sughis scheme to the notice of the postal authorities. John Palnier was lessee and managér of. the Bath and Bristol theaters—it was at, the old theater at . .

Bath that actors like Lee, Crawford, Henderson; Siddons and Branton made some of ‘théir early appéaranoes, while, thanks to the influence of friends, Bath New theater was the only patent ‘theater out of London. . ; Palmer always appears to have been a man of more or less_horsy. tastes, like the late Mr. Newcome of the Plymonth theater, and “his business-led him to travel a good deal about the country. With him time was money; so, abjuring the slow, rumbling stagecoach, he went about beating ‘up actors, actresses and companies in postchaises, always, of course, ing.’ the coaches om the road along which, he was. traveling. With he asked himself, remembering that a letter took three days to go from Bath to London, why letters should not. be was possible to in’a chaise? He kept-a record of times ‘and distances, and, having thought out all details and deeming his scheme ripe for adoption, he sought the good offices of Mr, John Pratt, afterward Lord Camden, by whom Palmer was introduced to Pitt, who warmly approved the idea, Lords Carteret and Tankerville, the joint poetmasters general, besides not being experts were bound securely hand and foot by fetters of red tape, and so contented themselves with learning the opinions of the postoffice officials, who, it were almost needless to tell, were almost to a man against Palmer. The farsecing Pitt was not’ long in coming to the conclusion that more than half of the objections to the proposed mail coach“had their outcome in jealousy ; so, calling together Palmer, the postmasters general and sundry hostile officials, he decided that the system graph. Just Like Hin. Arthur—Yonu think I don’t. love you, darling? Why, I would die for you. Arethusa—Yes, and it would be just like you to do it so that your funeral would come ona day when I had to give up a real nice engagement to attend it. Oh, you men are so selfish!— quired if any one knew what it meant, when a little 4-year-old boy said: Miss L——, I know what it means. cry over it.” : aed) “Jose thirty years ago today,” said grazed by,a bullet.” : “Well, George, what is it?” Re ey “It means give a whole lot and don’t ; the old soldier, “the top of my head was . ~ Boston pe “There isn’t much grazing there now, is there, grandpa?” was the comment of the youngest grandchild; and as the sertion. ,wine are w llknown. No: finer Sherry . can be found in the State than is sold old gentleman rubbed his bare poll he at the s ore of A. Isoard & Son in’ this had to admit the correctness of the as-‘ city. Will be furnished ed if quantities . For two or three centuries before the . 8°" of a second—say 8,706,000,000 foot Tea is a pleasant cure for Constipation Sold by Dickerman & Co. ieee gestéd’to Palmer the attempt to bring . . the mail coach.of the future in his eye . . carried at ene pace at which it ; should have a trial. —London Tele-. The . Do you. buy your, Groceries ? Have you ever tried my store ?}: of the businéss center, but it would perhaps pay you te tabs a ‘walk up there and see what inducements heard of was one whom I was appointed by the court to defend,’’ said Henry W. Joy, a prominent St. Louis lawyer. “A wealthy man died, and as fine a coffin was obtained as money could buy. There was some very beavy solid silver plate on it. As the hearse moved off a well dressed, businesslike looking man was seen to énter it, carrying a little sack as 4 ‘noisome and oleaginous at all supposed he was.an assistant of) 1 who knocked into shape the effusions of the sporting reporter. Those were the days also when to be an‘assistYears ago a young man carrying on the profession, business of a free lance journalist predignity of his position as assistant. edithe days when editors were editors, title of news editor or sporting edithe undertaker. Just before the procession reached the cemetery the man’ emerged from the hearse and went ahead, disappearing at the gate. When the coffin was removed, all of the trappings were gone, and the. young man was not to be found. He melted the sil-" ver and sold it, and had it not been for a pal betraying him he would never have been caught.’’— Washington Star. _ Power of Modern Guns, A calculation of the power of » modern gun brings out the singular fact that the active life of a 100 ton gun is just one secord. Am Italian cannon of this caliber, with a charge of 550 pounds of powder and a shot weighing about eo pounds; will give an initial volooity of 523. meters per second. The length . ; eee of the time during which whe} F the life of s uecessful conacts is leas than one hundredth of a seotributor is a thousand times more choice-, wet nod atber 100 ehote the. onninba: $e}, Werthy chau teat ot an ole Tene put out of service, © , . write with pleasure and to take a modTi hs ookizanted tintlaring the notlve . C6. Utlce 1 muy wore” Tow ters period of the work of the powder in the write a line me to fill_up ‘white’ or the mean power is greater oe oath tinh of pot ny yl gy paseo 67,000,000 Seok pound pes se the work of others. ”’—National Review. Sir Andréw Clarke, while traveling in Italy, ascended w high tower one evening and found. atthe top another tourist,.an Englishman. They chatted pleasantly for afew minutes, when suddenly the: stranger seized Sir rew by the shoulders and said quietly, ‘‘! am going to throw.youover.’’ The man was a maniac. The physician had only a “moment in which to gather his thoughts, but that moment saved -him. “Pooh,” he replied unconcernedly, ‘“tanybody can throw a man off the tower! If we were on the ground, you could not throw me up. . That would b too difficult.’’ ‘Yes, I could,’* retortec the maniac. ‘I could easily throw yor up here from the ground. Let ‘us g down, and I will do it.’?. The desoen was accordingly ‘made, during whic! Sir Andrew managed to secure help ani release himeelf from his perilous situa : tion. ~San Francisco Argonaut. responsibility, trust and power, whereas in these times the assistant editor ir too often nothing better than the edit‘or’s secretary. Theassistant editor anc the free Jance journalist were not far apart in age. They had -almost been contemporaries at Oxford, but the mar of dignified position had a harassed anc weary look, tired eyes and a ragged beard, and the free lance was young and lusty as an eagle. And this was the answer to the congratulation: . ‘My dear X, wait until you have tried your hand as an. editor, then you will know what it is to long for the days that are past. You will realize that pounds per second. This represents a power of 12,000,000 kilowatts, or 17,000,000 horsepower, —Detroit News. Arrested the Sovereign. : Among the gentlemen engaged in.the sport of pigeon shooting at Heiligendamm, a fashionable resort on the Baltic, who were arrested at the instigation-of the Society For Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was one who @:ve his name aa Graf von Schwerin. Late: the police discovered that he was none other than their soversign, the Grand Duke of Meocklenburg-Schwerin, who was staying there incognito. : A Witty Forlornity. A forlorn looking man said: ‘‘I’ve tried everything that I could turn my hand to, bat. couldn't make anything answer, and now I have decided to go up among the hills, where they say there’s a wonderful echo, to see if I can make that answer. ’’——New York Advertiser. : f English Versus German Universities, If the tree is .to be judged by its fruits; we. shall find4t difficult to dispute the proposition that university education, at all events in so far as it bears upon the physical sciences, 4s somehow more satisfactorily managed in Germany than in England, The theoretical and technical output of Germany is far larger, more regular and of better quality for practical purposes than our own, the proof being that Ger. : many is rapidly monopolizing the high” Constipation, causes more than half er and more lucrative branches of mans Clover Root ufacture, and in addition is exporting large. numbers -of. technica] experts. — , London Times. _ : Doubtful, “Shall I say au revoir, and not goodby?’’ he whispered youlfally. . Her long lashes swept her damask cheek, : “I hardly. know,’’ she faltered. “Your French is pretty rank, but’’— —Detrait Tribune, The ills of Women. FOR A NEW YEAR GIFT TRY ‘THE BRANCH WONDER. We thank ou all for the liberal patronage bestowed on us during the Christmas holidays: We now kindly ask you for a share of your trade for the coming New Year. ‘ = * We carry in stock a fine line of Men's, Boys’ and Children’s ee i : . SUITS AND OVERCOATS, UNDERWEAR, . __ . HATS AND. CAPS. Ladies’, flen’s, Boys’ and Children’s ua SHOES. Fine-Line of Handkerchiefs and Neckweé BLANKETS AND COMFORTERS, “TRUNKS, V eh : I Remain, Yours to Please, . J. LEVY, GA, he! ey te.. Commercial Street, Nevada City. 4 TRLEPHONE SIGNAL—One knock at the front door. ‘Country orders solicited.” pe Ee pa ———Wher . It’s a little out offer in fine goods a Thave a an all parts of the city, and a nice country trade trouble in retaining their custom, low prices. . to auit-at the lowest prices. alttt JES ae © iss ied ink e W. E. JOHNSTON, ** "fst sumed to congratulate a friend upon the tor of @ great daily paper. Those were when nobody dreamed of assigning the tor to the man who divided “his time ‘betwen the seissors, the paste and. toe mesy or to the ‘ant. editor was to occupy 4 position of JA Certain Firm: ~ [business man from Nevada Cit; OUR MOTTO: “Live and Let Live.” Manager “ x 2 i a sage PE eens < = * ; % . : people once begin buying from me, I have rojc /\Commercial Street, near Mai ~NEW YEAR TO ALI bay aoc To THe PupLIes + We thank you for the patronage you have given us during the year nowending. —— aaa os We have had.the biggest business of amy concern” county. . Our cash books and Bank book prove Pe But we are not in bisiness for one year only. want to retain our old customers and add new ones.. To this end we will continue to sell the best goods at the lowest prices— something we easily do by buying and sélling for cash.The knockout blow to the custom of sending ‘to mento and San Francisco for goods was delivered by us. now havea larger mail order trade than all’ the other stores _ in the county combined, and it is growing daily.. Our advertisements are read in Nevada, Placer, Yuba, Sierra:and Plumas counties, and we ¢' these counties; for the people have learned they can depend. upon our business methods and our advertisements. = }]0! OR GRASS VALLEY!pit We go to Grass Valley soon to have ‘a set-to with our competitors there. It will be ae . Pieni¢ in the Winter ‘Season, “is And our opposition is going to get frost-bitten. The CGtise Valley people will have the benefit of the scrimmage, for we are going to slash prices right and left. * A¥e-will all the while sell at Lower Prices Than Ever at Our Nevada City Store Which will continue to run as usual while the Branch "Store is running at Grass Valley, where the sale will last only about thirty days. ees nt ee ree be iPass Spa CRIN sett, ete : eae cee In Nevada City has been very for a long time to get the Marysville Woolen Mills Goods, as L. Hyman & Co. are the agents. With that aim in view they wrote to the Marysville Woolen Mills for samples of their tweeds and flannels, claiming they might have use for them. ‘They received a reply to the effect that Mr. Knight positively. refused to sell to them, as L. Hyman & Co. shave had the agency for the past four years, and he would see we were protected. ‘Their next recourse was to send another bus: yan from Nevada City who it was thought was not. interested in this branch of bargains, to the Mills, to obtain the goods for them. .-Although this business man has very winning smiles and a doubly persuasive manner, they managed to resist his pleadings and attractions, and refused to sell to either him or them. Not. being satisfied with these two rebukes they next tried to obtain the goods from. merchants in. Grass Valley with the’ same ‘result. bees J other merchants are advertising the ae flannels, and we are very Sorry to state they haven’t the goods which they are advertising in stock, They are,So advertising: for, spite only, and we.can prove the same as: we have in-our office the letters they wrote: to’ the Marysville Woolen Mills. The flannels that some merchants carry are only of an. inferior quality. : : E i i ee ; it Bigges t establishment 11 tin the : e, with 72 feet front. = Fe oe $ > z . get business from all :