February 24, 1887 (4 pages)

d invaof our ? hoes, 8, t hands bles us --others . ~ Only 9 CITY.” TORE ngs, LERY -ropriejo 8. ad T. H. CARR. OF EVERYETC. Tes PAPERS. a City.” petent Drugvade City -. # L hw fas a ARR eth THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT, NEVADA CITY, CAL., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1887. The Daily Transcript. __—_—_—_—_— HERE AND THERE. Wood men are now getting from . seven to nine dollars a cord for oak, and six dollars for pine. They don’t appear to care much about delivering it even at that price. The Firemen’s ball at Grass Valley Tuesday evening was a fine affair. Quite-a delegation fromthe Department at this city went down, and they enjoyed themselves immensely. Owing to an error of the printers who set up the account of the Good Templars’ entertainment on Friday evening Jast, there was no mention nade of the recitation ‘which was so admirably delivered by Miss Lizzie Monro. i The stage got through Monday night from Downieville to Camptonville for the first. time since the great storm —began. Mail; express and treight matter are_now being hauled both ways by the company, but the transportation of passengers will not be resumed till about.next Monday, when regular trips will again be run. y The’ Salvationists keep on firing away at Nevada City sinners as hard as they know how. The men soldierg have returned ‘to their labors at Grass Valley,and Lassies Laswell and Sharp are holding the fort here. A drunken fellow went into the barracks, Tuesday evening with a tambourine in his hand and started around among the people to take up acollection. He was summarily fired from the stronghold. When the three engines, pulling Tuesday~noon’s~train~ from Colfax, came into the station here they were coated with snow and ornamented with an army of.shovelers who had been out on the road at work, and were hanging on the locomotives wherever they could get hold. The sight was one long to be remembered. It was never witnessed here before, and everybody hopes that it never will be again. Tuesday afternoon, while Jay Ostrom was bringing a sleigh-load of passengers from North Bloomfield to the county seat, the four liorses’ started to run down the hill just this side of Lake City. ‘There was another sled in the road in front of them, and to prevent a disastrous collision Ostrom pulled the runaways into a snowdrift at one side of the road, piling them up in a mass. No damage was done, except to spoil the symmetry of the bank of snow. me The snowballers could not have had their batteries any more promptly and effectually silencéd by a volley from a whole row of gatling guns, thanthey were*by the posters put up by Mar~ shal Eddy Tuesday evening, giving notice that persons hereafter snowballing within the city limits will be arrested and prosecuted. The Marshal has won the approbation of ninety-nine per cent. of the population by thus putting a quietus upon what had become a nuisance of the deepest dye. Kind Words from the Comstock. The Virginia City Daily Report, says: ‘“‘Rev. Father Nulty is lying at the point.of death in Nevada City, as we learn from the Transcript all hopes of his recovery having been abandoned. Father Nulty is a native of Marin, County Mede, Ireland, and was educated and ordained at the Missionary College of All Hallows, Dublin. For 18 years he has been connected with St. Mary’s Church in this city, and removed to Nevada City only on account of his delicate_health. The sad news has created a profound sensation.’ Superior Court. The following business was transacted in the Superior Court yesterday, Hon. J. M. Walling presiding : Estate of M. Quinn,deceased. Hearing of petition for the sale of personal property continued till Monday next. The People vs. Thomas R. Land, charged with assault with. intent to commit murder. On motion of District. Attorney Long the action was dismissed and the bondsmen released from liability. The prosecuting witness has left the couniry and cannot be found, hencethe dismissal. Ee Oa In Justice Sowden's Court. The charge “of malicious mischief preferred against Joe Dennler by uP: Schmidt will be tried'at 7 o’clock tomorrow evening. Acomplaint has been filed against two youths for breaking window glass in Sam Tee’s laundry on Main street. The parties have not yet been arrested.’ A charge of disturbing the peace has been preferred against Wm. Walker, and his trial is set for 20’clock Monday afternoon. Their Business Booming. Probably no one thing has caused such a neral revival of trade at Carr Bros.’ Drugstore as their giving away to their customers of somany free trial bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. Their trade is sim ply enormous in this very valuable article from the fact that it always cures and never disappoints. Coughs, ( ‘olds Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, and al throat and lung diseases quickly cured, You can test it before buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size $1 Every bottle warranted. a aaeeae ease enna mane Fresu seeds of all kinds at i . —— Fresh vegetable, flower and field soeds at Carr Bros. ” Sour Mash Bourbon at «, a Oup Bou quart, at Charonnat’s. vi alizer is a positive cure, Carr B A CRANK'S LAST KICK. — Ohleyer Fires a Blank Cartridge at the Dam Bill as He Goes Down in Deserved Defeat. In the Assembly last Monday evening the Walrath debris impounding bill came up for a first reading, which prompted Carr, of Sacramento, to demand a call of the House. This, of course, necessitated a roll-call and: developed. the fact of no quorum, which it was expected would result in an adjournment and delay the progress. of the bi. Speaker Jordan, however, proved equal to the emergency by ordering the doors closed and_instructing the Sergeant-at-Arms_ to bring in the special committee on the investigation of clerical irregularities which “was then in’ session on the floor above. Lewis was called to the chair, and a “Judge and jury”? exhib:tion ensued, exciting muchWiierriment. The delinquents were finally brought before the Bar of the House, some being excused and others lightly fined, The debris bill was then passed to a first reading by a vote of 38 to5. Following is the full text of the reportof the minority of the Committee: The undersigned, a minority of the Committee upon Water Rights: and drainage, do recommend that Assembly bill No. 451, entitled, “an act to provide for the impounding of mining debris,” do not pass; and we assign the following reasons for our recommendation : First—There-is-no-necessity-for any of the provisions of said bill, except those which contravene the established law of the Stateas determined by the highest judicial tribunals, which interfere with the vested rights of property, and which, therefore, contravene the Constitution. Second—The provisions contained in said bill with reference to the formation of corporations, are entirely unnecessary, because at the present time,under Section 286 of the Civil Code, private Corporations may be formed for any legitimate purpose to xercise any legitimate power connected with the industry of mining, or the restraining of mining debris; and the laws on the subject of corporations, to be found in the Civil Code of this State, are ample and sufficient to enable such a corporation to exercise all the powers essential to, the suc cessful conduct of the business of mining, or any business connected with that industry. ‘Third—The provision in said bill with reference to the right of such a corporation to exercise the power of inent domain, for the purpose of monegiaing sites upon which to locate restraining dams, is already substantially contained in subdivision 5 of section 1238 of the Code of Civil Procedure. As, however, the purpose of private mining is a private use for which the right of eminent domain may not be exercised, even by direction of the Legislature, that subdi yision of section 1238 has been declared to be unconstitutional, by the Supreme Court of this State, in the case of the Consolidated Channel Company vs. The Central Pacific Railroad Company et al., tobe fund on page 269 of of the 51st California Reports. The attempt, therefore, is now being made by the friends of this bill, to re-enact this provision into the statutes of the State, in defiance of the Constitution as interpreted by the Court of last reort;and we are of the opinion that our duties as legislators, as fixed by eur constitutional oaths, should admonish us to obey the Constitution,and to refuse to give our official sanction to a provision in any law which that instrument prohibits this body from enacting. Fourth—The only purpose, if any, that can be accomplished by this bill, is an indirect sanction by the Legislature of the process of hydraulic mining, with a continuation of the injuries which it has hitherto entailed upon the people of the valley counties, thus giving to that industry a new impetus which will again necessitate an expensive and lengthy litigation, an increase of the injuries, not only to the navigable streams, but to the lands of private individuals residing upon and near their, banks. This sanction of recognition will be as unconstitutional as the legislation would be if-it undertook to directly authorize the injuries which would necessarily follow a continuation of this process of mining, and it is unquestionably beyond the power ofthe Legislature to authorize such injuries,or to sanction the impairment of the vested rights of any of the people. (People vs. Gold Run D. & M. Co., 66 Cal., 151-2.) The people of the Sacramento Valley, who constitute not an inconsiderble portion of the body politic, certainly have some rights which it is the duty of this Legislature to respect ; and we think that after 30 years of serious injury to their property, and ten years of expensive litigation, in which, by united and. continuous effort, they have succeeded in establishing the law in their favor, they have a right to protest against an effort, made by their representatives, to throw back upon them the threatened destruction which their time and fortunes haye Been expended forthe purpose of partially averting. We challenge ‘the right of a legislative body, in disregard of the commands of the Constitution, to authorize, directly or indirectly, an invasion of the property rights of the citizen, and we insist that it is no longer a debatable question that, if hydraulic mining under the plans of this bill will result “fh injury, it can Legislature without an absowe Q: ad Oe ion che sacred rights of ? as guaranteed by the funneither be authorized nor sanctioned . Fifth—If by the plans proposed to be adopted in this bill, hydraulic mining may be conducted without injury, those plans may be adopted and carried into effect without any legislation, or any sanction of this Legislature, direct or indirect. Common sense will teach any reasonable man. that any person may conduct hydraulic or any other mining without any provision of positive law, passed by this or any Legislature, if he can do so without injuring others. Theélement of ile: gality in mining by the hydraulic mining process, is the injury which results fromit. This was so expressly held by the Supreme Court of this State in the Gold Run case, to be found on pages 156 157 of the 66th California Reports. There is, therefore, no necessity for this legislation if the object is to authorize the. conduct of this species of mining in“a lawful manner and without injury tothe just rights of others. If, however, its object is to authorize, or indirectly sanction. that species of mining in disregard of the rights of others, then the people whose property is imperiled may justly appeal. to: the Constitution as their shield, and demand that the members of this body, with a proper regard for their constitutional oaths, shall refuse to give their sanction, thus indirectly, to a violation of their rights of property which will destroy the security of their homes, and bring ruin and bankruptcy, when. prosperity: would otherwise prevail. . Gro. OHLEYER. [The report is signed by Geo. Ohleyer, but one can, in the. language of Judge Stidger, ‘safely bet twenty big apples against a small stick of candy” that the nincompoop never wrote it. It sounds like some of little Hart’s demnonsenge. } —+2@eo—Who Struck Billy Patterson? George C. Gaylord has returned from Sacramento. While there he talked with a number of the wholesale merchants. who sell goods to retailers in this part of the State. What is more, he talked to them about the ever-fruitful subject of hydraulic mining. Without an exception they claimed to wish that the industry could go on without injury to the valleys. They all ;were apparently strongly inclined to the belief that the building of dams under the provisions of the Walrath bill would afford a solution to the vexed question, and they said they hoped the plan would be given atrial. “Then,” asked he of one of the most prominent and influential of them, “what do those anti-Walrath dam resolutions adopted by the Board of Trade of which you are a member, mean ?” The reply was that the meetings of the Board are generally slimly attended, andthen asarule by a class of men who do not figure very prominently in Sacramento’s commercial circles; that it was at such a meeting as this the resolutions were railroaded through; and that they did. not express the sentiments of the Board or ofeven a respectable minority of it. “Few of us knew anything about them till they appeared in print, and we who-are most interested do not endorse them,”’ said the gentleman. Mr. Gaylordtold him the @ffect was justas bad as though every member had a hand in making them, and that not the insignificant minority of the Board of Trade, but the wholesalers of Sacramento, would be held responsible for them or any other such anti-mining expressions, by the business men and all other citizens of the mining counties. If the Sacramento business men have any discretion, they: will in future govern themselves accordingly. Arrested for Burglary. A few nights ago a store in Grass Valley’s Chinatown was burglarized, a quantity of rice, silk goods, whiskey and other articles being stolen. A Chinaman living near Slate creek, about three miles from town, had been in the store during the day and asked for somé supplies on credit, which was refused. Suspicion fastened on him, and Tuesday Constable Dennen went to his place and arrested him. He confessed the theft, said that a highbinder who has been living at Grass Valley was concerned with him, and shieed the officer where the plunder was hid in an old tunnel near his cabin. The other Chinaman was arrested upon their return to town, and it was supposed the preliminary examination of the pair would take place yesterday. The second Chinaman captured stoutly denies his guilt. Snowballs and Oranges. As the Sacramento militiamen were starting for this city, the Bee gave them this send-off: ‘‘They will spend the time sleigh riding about the country, and haying a jolly time generally, and supreme above all the fun will be an indulgence ina genuine, unadulterated toboggan ride down a quarter stretch of side-hill, specially improvised for this occasion by the Nevada City boys for the ‘‘tender feet” from here. Just. think of this accommodating and impartial clime of ours! -Here in the valley where we are wearing japonica cammilias in our button holés; our neighbors, only six hours away, are fixing a toboggan slide for our visiting boys and girls, and the latter taking with them oranges to swap for snowballs.”” They forgot to bring along the oranges, but they got ‘the snowballs all the same. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. THE VISITING MILITIA. The Reception and Balt—On the Coasting Course—Homeward . March. Hall Tuesday evening. Before nine o’clock the galleries were filled to overflowing with interested spectators, not only thé seats but all of the standing room being taken, At about nine the dancers began to arrive by the score, andina very short time the floor was thronged with the Sacramen. .to and Nevada City militiamen in their smart uniforms and ever so many citizens of both sexes who had come to help entertain, the visiting boys in blue. The First Artillery Regiment Band of Sacramento occupied the music stand in the gallery at the foot of the hall, and to the-greuat delight. of all . finish and-expressionfor—which the organization has widespread fame. The grand.march was led by Capt. John Cook of Company ‘‘B”’ escorting the wife of Major H. 8. Welch, Surgeon! to the First Regiment.” There were seventy couple in line and as they moved to the fine music of Prof. Goyne’s orchestra who played for—all the dancing, the spectacle was a pleasing one. There-were-on the programs numbered blanks for eighteen dances, but nothing appeared to indicate in advance what the order of darices would be. This innovation was introdticed in order t6 give the Sacramentans an equal chance with our own-people in securing partners for the various numbers, and it seemed to work pretty well, taken in connection with the fact that Captain Rapp as Floor Director and his corps of floor managers were active in the matter of seeing that their guests did not lack for attention. : During the eveniig a squad of sixteen men and three officers under command of Capt. Cook, who ranks as one of the best drill masters on the coast, gave an exhibition of company marching and went through with the silent manual. The movements were executed with promptness and precision and elicited demonstrations of approval in the form of frequent bursts of applause. Miss Ida Maltman by special request favored the audience with a vocal solo. entitled ‘‘The Nightingale’s Trill.” She sang splendidly, as she always does, and was heartily encored. The dance went merrily on to a late hour, and everybody who took part in it had a pleasant time. ’ The receipts at the door approximated $200, which is avery satisfactory result. : : The coasting on Broad street got first-rate towards midnight, when Jack Frost had glazed it over, and many a warrior from Sacramento. tore himself away from theattractions of the ballroom to go whizzing down the long hill on steelclad runners. Some of them stayed with the course till the god of day came almost up to the top of the mountains over east, and then they didn’t feel that their appetite for the bracing sport had been more than half appeased. At six o’clock yesterday morning, after a farewell breakfast, Captain Rapp’s company escorted Captain Cook and his brave men to the railroad station and put them safe aboard the train which was to bear them homeward, They went away feeling ever so tired, but none the less glad that they hadcome. It was in some respects a rough trip for them coming up intothe mountains at this unpropitious season, but the roughness of the trip was of akind that added to its enjoyment. The McGibeny Family Coming. B. 8. Driggs, business manager of the McGibeny Family, was here yesterday arranging for their, return on the 29th and 30th of April when they ‘will give two of their delightful musical entertainments. It is about ten years since they were here last, and since then they have not only greatly improved in singing and the playing of instruments, but have increased in numbers. The family now consists of fifteen members,including the wife of Frank McGibeny. Fresh Seeds. Flower, Garden and Field Seeds at Stich & Larkin’s. tf Please Take Notice. All persons knowing themselves indebted to the late firm of Brand & their. accounts as soon as they can conveniently do so. {16-tf~ Orr oe -Sieepiess nights, made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh’s cure is the remedy for you. Carr Bros. Suiton’s Catarrh Remedy—a positive cure for Catarrh, Diph’ ia, and Canker Mouth. Carr Bros. For ou have @ printed tee on eve bottle of Shiloh’s Vitalizer. It noe fails to cure. Carr Bros. Tuar payee cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh’s Cure. We guarantee it. Carr Bros. There was a gay gathering of beau. , tiful women and brave men at Armory . : played several beautiful-airs-with that . Stich are requested to call and settle . and Liver Complaint SUICIDAL SACRAMENTO. Its Responsibility for the Blackguardism of the Bee—An Organ that 1s Leading the Way to Disaster. ¥ {Borutk's Spirit of the Times.) A néwspaper is supposed to be the representative of the community: in the’ midst of which it is published; that is, ifit receives sufficient patronage and support to maintain itself and uphold its circulation. A paper is no better nor worse under such circumstances, than the community that tolerates it, and therefore as the Sacramento Beeis upheld, maintained and supported by the people of Sacramento, it becomes the absolute representative of those people. No city in the State has needed friends more than Sacramento. No people in California has been more persistent and imperious in their demands from otherloealities in the State, for aid, support and countenance; no people in the State have had the disinterested advocacy of true hearted friends toa greater extent than the people of Sacramento,__Yet-no-people-_in the State, under similar circumstances, i.ave evinced more black-hearted ingratitude than the people of Sacramento, in the fact that they indorse, palliate and sanction every dirty and contemptible insult arfd sneer, every misrepresentation and libel, every personal attack made against their best friends by theirown newspaper organ. We hold the people of: Sacramento ‘responsible forthese brutal, lying and unmannerly attacks that are constantly being made by the Sacramento Bee against those who have always been foremost in good deeds in behalf of Sacramento, and unlike _their—organ, ‘‘without money and without price ;”’ and with many of them forbearance has ceased to be a virtue, and they will resent the lying blackguardism of their organ, even if it becomes necessary to make open and above board fights against the interests of Sacramento. One of two propositions in connection with this matter is selfevident ; either Sacramento has reached a position where she considers herself so strong she can turn her back upon her old friends and advocates, or she isafraid of her newspaper organ, and permits her friends to be villainously insulted because she is too cowardly to protest. The newspaper in question will claim that it has a right to do as it pleases; and so it has; and the people will say they cannot control its conduct or its utterances. We say it is false. The whole remedy is in the hands of the people: who support. the paper referred to, and in whose interest it is allowed to speak: Swart’s photographs are second to none in the State. Goand see specimens at his gallery on Broad street, two doors above Luetje & Brand’s, Prices low. 080-tf PERSONAL MENTION. W. C. Groves has returned from a business trip toSan Francisco. W.C. Tyndale, of San Francisco, mannfacturer of patent medicines, was in town yesterday. J. L. Kelly, a man of means, whose home is at San Jose, is here enquiring into some mining enterprises. Charles Gildea, of San Francisco, and. W. F. Mitchell, of Livermore, were in town night before last. James Tregloun, a mining operator who spent a summer at this city and Grass'Valley a few years ago, is in town. Charles Nathan, one of Grass Valley’s most enterprising business men, was at the .county seat yesterday on business. Geo. Hare, Superintendent of. the Yuba mine, at Maybert returned from San Francisco Tuesday and went up to the mine yesterday. A-party consisting -of Mrs. V. 8, Misses Muitie Bradley, Kate Matteson, Alice Crawford, Florence Bartling and Madge Crawford, yesterday took .a ride to the upper country in Grissell’s big-sleigh;—They—wentto hake-City, had dinner there, and then returned to this. city. ewe eine “Bill” Benson. George W. Benson, the anti-mining spy, who for a longtime made his Headquarters at this city, and who was last week mentioned in these columns as being dangerously ill at the Western Hotel in Sacramento, died Saturday evening and was buried Tuesday afternoon by the Knights of Pythias of Sacramento, he having been a member of Confidence Lodge ‘at Marysyille. -He was a native of South Carolina, aged 88 years, and has latterly resided in Marysville and Yuba City. When T. G. Robinson was killed, Benson was deputized as United States Marshal to succeed him. , This seems to be a bad year-for anti-mining spies, Death of The Beginning of the End. The_ beginning of disease _is-a-slight debility or disorder of some of the vital organs, the stomach, the liver or the bowels usually. There are dyspeptic symptoms, the liver is troublesome,the skin grows tawney and unhealthy looking, there are pains in the right side or through the right shoulder blade. The climax is often an utter prostration of the physical energies, perhaps a fatal issue. But if the difficulty is met in time with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which is always effective as a remedy, and it should be resorted to at an easly stage, ‘there will be no reason to apprehend those injurious effects upon the system often entailed by entirely cured iseases. Far better is it, alao, to emand ague, and other® malarial eae than quinine and other potent and impair the general health. MAJOR ROBERT } . And by a Number of > = hally Round he Hag, Boys Assisted By The Entertainment Will Oonsist of Remarkable Performances on the Drum Wy the World's Champion, Artistic Instrumental and Vocal Music, BY POPULAR LOOAL ARTISTS, And. Thrilling — Patriotic BY ABLE DEOLAIMERS. @MPNothing extra to reserve. Box-sheet at Vinton’s. wn GRAND ENTERTAINMENT BY CHATTANOOGA POST, G.A.R., At the Theater, Nevada City, THE VETERANS OF OHATTANNOOGA POST WILL APPEAR WITH THEIR. OOMRADE, H. HENDERSHOT, The World:-Renowned “DRUMMER BOY of the RHAPPAHANNOCK” . Eloquent Declaimers. Recitations Bradley, Mes. C.J. Nattziger, and . ploy this safe remedial agent in fever comrugs, Which, even when they do prove effectual fof atime, ruin the stomach . . Qn Monday and ‘Tuesday Evenings, March 7 and 8 . . The Best Musical Talent of the County, Under the direction of Prof. E. Muller, . } The Program will be published later. 258 cents . Prices by : . winter goods such as Boots and Shoes for Men, Ladies — —IT IS AN—— . ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO 6000. THE BIG STORM HAS PROVED A GENUINE SURPRISE,And many people who were before complaining of too little water now find fault because there is too much. The snow and wintry atmosphere have caught out many, but the San Francisco Opposition Store IS PREPARED TO MEET IT HALF WAY, Having been overstocked by last month's purchases with and children; . Clothing, Hats, Rubber Goods, ete. There is nothing to be made by carrying these goods over-to-the next season. Vherefore the next best-thiny is to have Clearance Sale Number Two, And_get rid_of everything in this line ate.) what it will bring. Money talks in these hard times, and we want plenty of it on pringand Summer stock with. for the This clearance sale, hand, to buy. a S coming seasons. Which Will Continue Till March tst, «: Will bring us plenty of money;and that is the need of the. hour. We will also sell + Remnants of Calicoes,Sheetings, — Muslins, Ginghams and other Staples __ AT A GREAT REDUCTION. Everything in the way of Winter Goods Right Down at Cost ! We have also received five dozen pair French kid shoes from a bankrupt stock. ‘The full value is $4 a pair, and they will be sold at $2.75. Remember, L: HYMAN of the San Francisco Oppo. sition Stores is the man who brought prices down‘in Ne. vada county. M. J. NOLAN.is.ananager of my Store atNorth Bloomfield. “Nevada City — Commercial Street, near Main. North Bloomfield — Nearly opposite Grand Central Hotel. L. HYMAN, Proprietor of San fF, Opp, Stores of Nevada City and North Bloomfield. THE CELEBRATED SPENRERWYW ELOwkre Can now be purchased in this city. ᐠᐠ᐀ ~——h EPPRERERAYN= (SSSR shat some pers f@Ie the Best in the City. Try It. -w CAL. R. CLARKE, Agent BOLIPrsDE BESTHRA, DRY ohampeagne, Equal to any and Superior to most Imported Brands. kPUNRE SINEFINDAL CLARETTs, —AND OTHER— VERY : CHOICE : OLD : TABLE : WINES, From Our Orleans Vineyard. » ARPAD HARASZTHY. & COMPANY, The Only Producers of Natural Sparkling Wines, * ALSO GROWERS AND DISTILLERS OF California Wines and Bran 530 Washington Street..; ae dies. The above Cl ampague and Table Wines will be sold at Yactec

d invaof our ? hoes, 8, t hands bles us --others . ~ Only 9 CITY.” TORE ngs, LERY -ropriejo 8. ad T. H. CARR. OF EVERYETC. Tes PAPERS. a City.” petent Drugvade City -. # L hw fas a ARR eth THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT, NEVADA CITY, CAL., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1887. The Daily Transcript. __—_—_—_—_— HERE AND THERE. Wood men are now getting from . seven to nine dollars a cord for oak, and six dollars for pine. They don’t appear to care much about delivering it even at that price. The Firemen’s ball at Grass Valley Tuesday evening was a fine affair. Quite-a delegation fromthe Department at this city went down, and they enjoyed themselves immensely. Owing to an error of the printers who set up the account of the Good Templars’ entertainment on Friday evening Jast, there was no mention nade of the recitation ‘which was so admirably delivered by Miss Lizzie Monro. i The stage got through Monday night from Downieville to Camptonville for the first. time since the great storm —began. Mail; express and treight matter are_now being hauled both ways by the company, but the transportation of passengers will not be resumed till about.next Monday, when regular trips will again be run. y The’ Salvationists keep on firing away at Nevada City sinners as hard as they know how. The men soldierg have returned ‘to their labors at Grass Valley,and Lassies Laswell and Sharp are holding the fort here. A drunken fellow went into the barracks, Tuesday evening with a tambourine in his hand and started around among the people to take up acollection. He was summarily fired from the stronghold. When the three engines, pulling Tuesday~noon’s~train~ from Colfax, came into the station here they were coated with snow and ornamented with an army of.shovelers who had been out on the road at work, and were hanging on the locomotives wherever they could get hold. The sight was one long to be remembered. It was never witnessed here before, and everybody hopes that it never will be again. Tuesday afternoon, while Jay Ostrom was bringing a sleigh-load of passengers from North Bloomfield to the county seat, the four liorses’ started to run down the hill just this side of Lake City. ‘There was another sled in the road in front of them, and to prevent a disastrous collision Ostrom pulled the runaways into a snowdrift at one side of the road, piling them up in a mass. No damage was done, except to spoil the symmetry of the bank of snow. me The snowballers could not have had their batteries any more promptly and effectually silencéd by a volley from a whole row of gatling guns, thanthey were*by the posters put up by Mar~ shal Eddy Tuesday evening, giving notice that persons hereafter snowballing within the city limits will be arrested and prosecuted. The Marshal has won the approbation of ninety-nine per cent. of the population by thus putting a quietus upon what had become a nuisance of the deepest dye. Kind Words from the Comstock. The Virginia City Daily Report, says: ‘“‘Rev. Father Nulty is lying at the point.of death in Nevada City, as we learn from the Transcript all hopes of his recovery having been abandoned. Father Nulty is a native of Marin, County Mede, Ireland, and was educated and ordained at the Missionary College of All Hallows, Dublin. For 18 years he has been connected with St. Mary’s Church in this city, and removed to Nevada City only on account of his delicate_health. The sad news has created a profound sensation.’ Superior Court. The following business was transacted in the Superior Court yesterday, Hon. J. M. Walling presiding : Estate of M. Quinn,deceased. Hearing of petition for the sale of personal property continued till Monday next. The People vs. Thomas R. Land, charged with assault with. intent to commit murder. On motion of District. Attorney Long the action was dismissed and the bondsmen released from liability. The prosecuting witness has left the couniry and cannot be found, hencethe dismissal. Ee Oa In Justice Sowden's Court. The charge “of malicious mischief preferred against Joe Dennler by uP: Schmidt will be tried'at 7 o’clock tomorrow evening. Acomplaint has been filed against two youths for breaking window glass in Sam Tee’s laundry on Main street. The parties have not yet been arrested.’ A charge of disturbing the peace has been preferred against Wm. Walker, and his trial is set for 20’clock Monday afternoon. Their Business Booming. Probably no one thing has caused such a neral revival of trade at Carr Bros.’ Drugstore as their giving away to their customers of somany free trial bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. Their trade is sim ply enormous in this very valuable article from the fact that it always cures and never disappoints. Coughs, ( ‘olds Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, and al throat and lung diseases quickly cured, You can test it before buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size $1 Every bottle warranted. a aaeeae ease enna mane Fresu seeds of all kinds at i . —— Fresh vegetable, flower and field soeds at Carr Bros. ” Sour Mash Bourbon at «, a Oup Bou quart, at Charonnat’s. vi alizer is a positive cure, Carr B A CRANK'S LAST KICK. — Ohleyer Fires a Blank Cartridge at the Dam Bill as He Goes Down in Deserved Defeat. In the Assembly last Monday evening the Walrath debris impounding bill came up for a first reading, which prompted Carr, of Sacramento, to demand a call of the House. This, of course, necessitated a roll-call and: developed. the fact of no quorum, which it was expected would result in an adjournment and delay the progress. of the bi. Speaker Jordan, however, proved equal to the emergency by ordering the doors closed and_instructing the Sergeant-at-Arms_ to bring in the special committee on the investigation of clerical irregularities which “was then in’ session on the floor above. Lewis was called to the chair, and a “Judge and jury”? exhib:tion ensued, exciting muchWiierriment. The delinquents were finally brought before the Bar of the House, some being excused and others lightly fined, The debris bill was then passed to a first reading by a vote of 38 to5. Following is the full text of the reportof the minority of the Committee: The undersigned, a minority of the Committee upon Water Rights: and drainage, do recommend that Assembly bill No. 451, entitled, “an act to provide for the impounding of mining debris,” do not pass; and we assign the following reasons for our recommendation : First—There-is-no-necessity-for any of the provisions of said bill, except those which contravene the established law of the Stateas determined by the highest judicial tribunals, which interfere with the vested rights of property, and which, therefore, contravene the Constitution. Second—The provisions contained in said bill with reference to the formation of corporations, are entirely unnecessary, because at the present time,under Section 286 of the Civil Code, private Corporations may be formed for any legitimate purpose to xercise any legitimate power connected with the industry of mining, or the restraining of mining debris; and the laws on the subject of corporations, to be found in the Civil Code of this State, are ample and sufficient to enable such a corporation to exercise all the powers essential to, the suc cessful conduct of the business of mining, or any business connected with that industry. ‘Third—The provision in said bill with reference to the right of such a corporation to exercise the power of inent domain, for the purpose of monegiaing sites upon which to locate restraining dams, is already substantially contained in subdivision 5 of section 1238 of the Code of Civil Procedure. As, however, the purpose of private mining is a private use for which the right of eminent domain may not be exercised, even by direction of the Legislature, that subdi yision of section 1238 has been declared to be unconstitutional, by the Supreme Court of this State, in the case of the Consolidated Channel Company vs. The Central Pacific Railroad Company et al., tobe fund on page 269 of of the 51st California Reports. The attempt, therefore, is now being made by the friends of this bill, to re-enact this provision into the statutes of the State, in defiance of the Constitution as interpreted by the Court of last reort;and we are of the opinion that our duties as legislators, as fixed by eur constitutional oaths, should admonish us to obey the Constitution,and to refuse to give our official sanction to a provision in any law which that instrument prohibits this body from enacting. Fourth—The only purpose, if any, that can be accomplished by this bill, is an indirect sanction by the Legislature of the process of hydraulic mining, with a continuation of the injuries which it has hitherto entailed upon the people of the valley counties, thus giving to that industry a new impetus which will again necessitate an expensive and lengthy litigation, an increase of the injuries, not only to the navigable streams, but to the lands of private individuals residing upon and near their, banks. This sanction of recognition will be as unconstitutional as the legislation would be if-it undertook to directly authorize the injuries which would necessarily follow a continuation of this process of mining, and it is unquestionably beyond the power ofthe Legislature to authorize such injuries,or to sanction the impairment of the vested rights of any of the people. (People vs. Gold Run D. & M. Co., 66 Cal., 151-2.) The people of the Sacramento Valley, who constitute not an inconsiderble portion of the body politic, certainly have some rights which it is the duty of this Legislature to respect ; and we think that after 30 years of serious injury to their property, and ten years of expensive litigation, in which, by united and. continuous effort, they have succeeded in establishing the law in their favor, they have a right to protest against an effort, made by their representatives, to throw back upon them the threatened destruction which their time and fortunes haye Been expended forthe purpose of partially averting. We challenge ‘the right of a legislative body, in disregard of the commands of the Constitution, to authorize, directly or indirectly, an invasion of the property rights of the citizen, and we insist that it is no longer a debatable question that, if hydraulic mining under the plans of this bill will result “fh injury, it can Legislature without an absowe Q: ad Oe ion che sacred rights of ? as guaranteed by the funneither be authorized nor sanctioned . Fifth—If by the plans proposed to be adopted in this bill, hydraulic mining may be conducted without injury, those plans may be adopted and carried into effect without any legislation, or any sanction of this Legislature, direct or indirect. Common sense will teach any reasonable man. that any person may conduct hydraulic or any other mining without any provision of positive law, passed by this or any Legislature, if he can do so without injuring others. Theélement of ile: gality in mining by the hydraulic mining process, is the injury which results fromit. This was so expressly held by the Supreme Court of this State in the Gold Run case, to be found on pages 156 157 of the 66th California Reports. There is, therefore, no necessity for this legislation if the object is to authorize the. conduct of this species of mining in“a lawful manner and without injury tothe just rights of others. If, however, its object is to authorize, or indirectly sanction. that species of mining in disregard of the rights of others, then the people whose property is imperiled may justly appeal. to: the Constitution as their shield, and demand that the members of this body, with a proper regard for their constitutional oaths, shall refuse to give their sanction, thus indirectly, to a violation of their rights of property which will destroy the security of their homes, and bring ruin and bankruptcy, when. prosperity: would otherwise prevail. . Gro. OHLEYER. [The report is signed by Geo. Ohleyer, but one can, in the. language of Judge Stidger, ‘safely bet twenty big apples against a small stick of candy” that the nincompoop never wrote it. It sounds like some of little Hart’s demnonsenge. } —+2@eo—Who Struck Billy Patterson? George C. Gaylord has returned from Sacramento. While there he talked with a number of the wholesale merchants. who sell goods to retailers in this part of the State. What is more, he talked to them about the ever-fruitful subject of hydraulic mining. Without an exception they claimed to wish that the industry could go on without injury to the valleys. They all ;were apparently strongly inclined to the belief that the building of dams under the provisions of the Walrath bill would afford a solution to the vexed question, and they said they hoped the plan would be given atrial. “Then,” asked he of one of the most prominent and influential of them, “what do those anti-Walrath dam resolutions adopted by the Board of Trade of which you are a member, mean ?” The reply was that the meetings of the Board are generally slimly attended, andthen asarule by a class of men who do not figure very prominently in Sacramento’s commercial circles; that it was at such a meeting as this the resolutions were railroaded through; and that they did. not express the sentiments of the Board or ofeven a respectable minority of it. “Few of us knew anything about them till they appeared in print, and we who-are most interested do not endorse them,”’ said the gentleman. Mr. Gaylordtold him the @ffect was justas bad as though every member had a hand in making them, and that not the insignificant minority of the Board of Trade, but the wholesalers of Sacramento, would be held responsible for them or any other such anti-mining expressions, by the business men and all other citizens of the mining counties. If the Sacramento business men have any discretion, they: will in future govern themselves accordingly. Arrested for Burglary. A few nights ago a store in Grass Valley’s Chinatown was burglarized, a quantity of rice, silk goods, whiskey and other articles being stolen. A Chinaman living near Slate creek, about three miles from town, had been in the store during the day and asked for somé supplies on credit, which was refused. Suspicion fastened on him, and Tuesday Constable Dennen went to his place and arrested him. He confessed the theft, said that a highbinder who has been living at Grass Valley was concerned with him, and shieed the officer where the plunder was hid in an old tunnel near his cabin. The other Chinaman was arrested upon their return to town, and it was supposed the preliminary examination of the pair would take place yesterday. The second Chinaman captured stoutly denies his guilt. Snowballs and Oranges. As the Sacramento militiamen were starting for this city, the Bee gave them this send-off: ‘‘They will spend

the time sleigh riding about the country, and haying a jolly time generally, and supreme above all the fun will be an indulgence ina genuine, unadulterated toboggan ride down a quarter stretch of side-hill, specially improvised for this occasion by the Nevada City boys for the ‘‘tender feet” from here. Just. think of this accommodating and impartial clime of ours! -Here in the valley where we are wearing japonica cammilias in our button holés; our neighbors, only six hours away, are fixing a toboggan slide for our visiting boys and girls, and the latter taking with them oranges to swap for snowballs.”” They forgot to bring along the oranges, but they got ‘the snowballs all the same. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. THE VISITING MILITIA. The Reception and Balt—On the Coasting Course—Homeward . March. Hall Tuesday evening. Before nine o’clock the galleries were filled to overflowing with interested spectators, not only thé seats but all of the standing room being taken, At about nine the dancers began to arrive by the score, andina very short time the floor was thronged with the Sacramen. .to and Nevada City militiamen in their smart uniforms and ever so many citizens of both sexes who had come to help entertain, the visiting boys in blue. The First Artillery Regiment Band of Sacramento occupied the music stand in the gallery at the foot of the hall, and to the-greuat delight. of all . finish and-expressionfor—which the organization has widespread fame. The grand.march was led by Capt. John Cook of Company ‘‘B”’ escorting the wife of Major H. 8. Welch, Surgeon! to the First Regiment.” There were seventy couple in line and as they moved to the fine music of Prof. Goyne’s orchestra who played for—all the dancing, the spectacle was a pleasing one. There-were-on the programs numbered blanks for eighteen dances, but nothing appeared to indicate in advance what the order of darices would be. This innovation was introdticed in order t6 give the Sacramentans an equal chance with our own-people in securing partners for the various numbers, and it seemed to work pretty well, taken in connection with the fact that Captain Rapp as Floor Director and his corps of floor managers were active in the matter of seeing that their guests did not lack for attention. : During the eveniig a squad of sixteen men and three officers under command of Capt. Cook, who ranks as one of the best drill masters on the coast, gave an exhibition of company marching and went through with the silent manual. The movements were executed with promptness and precision and elicited demonstrations of approval in the form of frequent bursts of applause. Miss Ida Maltman by special request favored the audience with a vocal solo. entitled ‘‘The Nightingale’s Trill.” She sang splendidly, as she always does, and was heartily encored. The dance went merrily on to a late hour, and everybody who took part in it had a pleasant time. ’ The receipts at the door approximated $200, which is avery satisfactory result. : : The coasting on Broad street got first-rate towards midnight, when Jack Frost had glazed it over, and many a warrior from Sacramento. tore himself away from theattractions of the ballroom to go whizzing down the long hill on steelclad runners. Some of them stayed with the course till the god of day came almost up to the top of the mountains over east, and then they didn’t feel that their appetite for the bracing sport had been more than half appeased. At six o’clock yesterday morning, after a farewell breakfast, Captain Rapp’s company escorted Captain Cook and his brave men to the railroad station and put them safe aboard the train which was to bear them homeward, They went away feeling ever so tired, but none the less glad that they hadcome. It was in some respects a rough trip for them coming up intothe mountains at this unpropitious season, but the roughness of the trip was of akind that added to its enjoyment. The McGibeny Family Coming. B. 8. Driggs, business manager of the McGibeny Family, was here yesterday arranging for their, return on the 29th and 30th of April when they ‘will give two of their delightful musical entertainments. It is about ten years since they were here last, and since then they have not only greatly improved in singing and the playing of instruments, but have increased in numbers. The family now consists of fifteen members,including the wife of Frank McGibeny. Fresh Seeds. Flower, Garden and Field Seeds at Stich & Larkin’s. tf Please Take Notice. All persons knowing themselves indebted to the late firm of Brand & their. accounts as soon as they can conveniently do so. {16-tf~ Orr oe -Sieepiess nights, made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh’s cure is the remedy for you. Carr Bros. Suiton’s Catarrh Remedy—a positive cure for Catarrh, Diph’ ia, and Canker Mouth. Carr Bros. For ou have @ printed tee on eve bottle of Shiloh’s Vitalizer. It noe fails to cure. Carr Bros. Tuar payee cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh’s Cure. We guarantee it. Carr Bros. There was a gay gathering of beau. , tiful women and brave men at Armory . : played several beautiful-airs-with that . Stich are requested to call and settle . and Liver Complaint SUICIDAL SACRAMENTO. Its Responsibility for the Blackguardism of the Bee—An Organ that 1s Leading the Way to Disaster. ¥ {Borutk's Spirit of the Times.) A néwspaper is supposed to be the representative of the community: in the’ midst of which it is published; that is, ifit receives sufficient patronage and support to maintain itself and uphold its circulation. A paper is no better nor worse under such circumstances, than the community that tolerates it, and therefore as the Sacramento Beeis upheld, maintained and supported by the people of Sacramento, it becomes the absolute representative of those people. No city in the State has needed friends more than Sacramento. No people in California has been more persistent and imperious in their demands from otherloealities in the State, for aid, support and countenance; no people in the State have had the disinterested advocacy of true hearted friends toa greater extent than the people of Sacramento,__Yet-no-people-_in the State, under similar circumstances, i.ave evinced more black-hearted ingratitude than the people of Sacramento, in the fact that they indorse, palliate and sanction every dirty and contemptible insult arfd sneer, every misrepresentation and libel, every personal attack made against their best friends by theirown newspaper organ. We hold the people of: Sacramento ‘responsible forthese brutal, lying and unmannerly attacks that are constantly being made by the Sacramento Bee against those who have always been foremost in good deeds in behalf of Sacramento, and unlike _their—organ, ‘‘without money and without price ;”’ and with many of them forbearance has ceased to be a virtue, and they will resent the lying blackguardism of their organ, even if it becomes necessary to make open and above board fights against the interests of Sacramento. One of two propositions in connection with this matter is selfevident ; either Sacramento has reached a position where she considers herself so strong she can turn her back upon her old friends and advocates, or she isafraid of her newspaper organ, and permits her friends to be villainously insulted because she is too cowardly to protest. The newspaper in question will claim that it has a right to do as it pleases; and so it has; and the people will say they cannot control its conduct or its utterances. We say it is false. The whole remedy is in the hands of the people: who support. the paper referred to, and in whose interest it is allowed to speak: Swart’s photographs are second to none in the State. Goand see specimens at his gallery on Broad street, two doors above Luetje & Brand’s, Prices low. 080-tf PERSONAL MENTION. W. C. Groves has returned from a business trip toSan Francisco. W.C. Tyndale, of San Francisco, mannfacturer of patent medicines, was in town yesterday. J. L. Kelly, a man of means, whose home is at San Jose, is here enquiring into some mining enterprises. Charles Gildea, of San Francisco, and. W. F. Mitchell, of Livermore, were in town night before last. James Tregloun, a mining operator who spent a summer at this city and Grass'Valley a few years ago, is in town. Charles Nathan, one of Grass Valley’s most enterprising business men, was at the .county seat yesterday on business. Geo. Hare, Superintendent of. the Yuba mine, at Maybert returned from San Francisco Tuesday and went up to the mine yesterday. A-party consisting -of Mrs. V. 8, Misses Muitie Bradley, Kate Matteson, Alice Crawford, Florence Bartling and Madge Crawford, yesterday took .a ride to the upper country in Grissell’s big-sleigh;—They—wentto hake-City, had dinner there, and then returned to this. city. ewe eine “Bill” Benson. George W. Benson, the anti-mining spy, who for a longtime made his Headquarters at this city, and who was last week mentioned in these columns as being dangerously ill at the Western Hotel in Sacramento, died Saturday evening and was buried Tuesday afternoon by the Knights of Pythias of Sacramento, he having been a member of Confidence Lodge ‘at Marysyille. -He was a native of South Carolina, aged 88 years, and has latterly resided in Marysville and Yuba City. When T. G. Robinson was killed, Benson was deputized as United States Marshal to succeed him. , This seems to be a bad year-for anti-mining spies, Death of The Beginning of the End. The_ beginning of disease _is-a-slight debility or disorder of some of the vital organs, the stomach, the liver or the bowels usually. There are dyspeptic symptoms, the liver is troublesome,the skin grows tawney and unhealthy looking, there are pains in the right side or through the right shoulder blade. The climax is often an utter prostration of the physical energies, perhaps a fatal issue. But if the difficulty is met in time with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which is always effective as a remedy, and it should be resorted to at an easly stage, ‘there will be no reason to apprehend those injurious effects upon the system often entailed by entirely cured iseases. Far better is it, alao, to emand ague, and other® malarial eae than quinine and other potent and impair the general health. MAJOR ROBERT } . And by a Number of > = hally Round he Hag, Boys Assisted By The Entertainment Will Oonsist of Remarkable Performances on the Drum Wy the World's Champion, Artistic Instrumental and Vocal Music, BY POPULAR LOOAL ARTISTS, And. Thrilling — Patriotic BY ABLE DEOLAIMERS. @MPNothing extra to reserve. Box-sheet at Vinton’s. wn GRAND ENTERTAINMENT BY CHATTANOOGA POST, G.A.R., At the Theater, Nevada City, THE VETERANS OF OHATTANNOOGA POST WILL APPEAR WITH THEIR. OOMRADE, H. HENDERSHOT, The World:-Renowned “DRUMMER BOY of the RHAPPAHANNOCK” . Eloquent Declaimers. Recitations Bradley, Mes. C.J. Nattziger, and . ploy this safe remedial agent in fever comrugs, Which, even when they do prove effectual fof atime, ruin the stomach . . Qn Monday and ‘Tuesday Evenings, March 7 and 8 . . The Best Musical Talent of the County, Under the direction of Prof. E. Muller, . } The Program will be published later. 258 cents . Prices by : . winter goods such as Boots and Shoes for Men, Ladies — —IT IS AN—— . ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO 6000. THE BIG STORM HAS PROVED A GENUINE SURPRISE,And many people who were before complaining of too little water now find fault because there is too much. The snow and wintry atmosphere have caught out many, but the San Francisco Opposition Store IS PREPARED TO MEET IT HALF WAY, Having been overstocked by last month's purchases with and children; . Clothing, Hats, Rubber Goods, ete. There is nothing to be made by carrying these goods over-to-the next season. Vherefore the next best-thiny is to have Clearance Sale Number Two, And_get rid_of everything in this line ate.) what it will bring. Money talks in these hard times, and we want plenty of it on pringand Summer stock with. for the This clearance sale, hand, to buy. a S coming seasons. Which Will Continue Till March tst, «: Will bring us plenty of money;and that is the need of the. hour. We will also sell + Remnants of Calicoes,Sheetings, — Muslins, Ginghams and other Staples __ AT A GREAT REDUCTION. Everything in the way of Winter Goods Right Down at Cost ! We have also received five dozen pair French kid shoes from a bankrupt stock. ‘The full value is $4 a pair, and they will be sold at $2.75. Remember, L: HYMAN of the San Francisco Oppo. sition Stores is the man who brought prices down‘in Ne. vada county. M. J. NOLAN.is.ananager of my Store atNorth Bloomfield. “Nevada City — Commercial Street, near Main. 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