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NEVADA DEMOCRAT JANUARY 7, 1857 1
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1857.
CITY GOVERNMENT.—We call the attention of our citizens to the report of the Board of Trustees,
and that of the City Treasurer, which will be found in another column. It will be seen that the total amount
of expenditures since the present city government was organized, is $6,341,79. Of this sum, $3,668,48 has
been expended in the last six months in building bridges, (mostly to replace those destroyed by fire)
grading the streets, and building the city prison; while the ordinary expenses for the same period has
amounted to $2,119,04. The city debt, after deducting the cash in the hands of the Treasurer, is $4,671,79.
The taxable property in the city amounts to about one million dollars, the tax on which, at one per cent,
will be ten thousand dollars. This will be amply sufficient to pay up the present indebtedness, and defray
the expenses of the city for the remainder of the fiscal year.
STAGING.—The great quantity of snow and rain which has fallen during the past week, has
rendered many of the roads in this county almost impassible. The Sacramento stages seldom get in until
late in the night, and in some instances they have had to stop and come in the next day. Big Jake informed
us the other day, that the bottom had fallen out of the road in many places between Grass Valley and
Auburn.. . The Orleans Flat stages have been taken off from that route, but communication is still kept
open with Camptonville, Forest City and Alpha, sleighs having been substituted for stages on the latter
route.
THEATRICAL.—The theatrical company which has been performing upon our boards for some five
weeks past, closed their engagements on Saturday evening. The season on the whole, has been a
successful one. For the past week the house has been but slimly attended, owing more, perhaps, to the bad
weather, than from any lack of interest on the part of our citizens in the entertainments presented. . . . Last
evening was set apart for a complimentary benefit to Miss Demming, Mrs. McGowan and Miss Louise,
tendered by the ancient and honorable order of E Clampsus Vitus. We go to press at too early an hour to
speak of the performances. The members of the Order were to appear in full regalia, and the attractions
presented could not fail to bring a full house.
JUVENILE EXHIBITION.—The Sunday school children of Nevada gave an entertainment at
Temperance Hall, on New Year’s night. The exercises consisted of songs, declamations, dialogues, &c., in
which the young folks acquitted themselves in a very creditable manner. Every person who attended was
highly pleased with the performances. The proceeds of the exhibition are to be appropriated to the
purchase of a Sunday school library, to replace the one destroyed by the fire of last July. The receipts
amounted to about two hundred dollars, after deducting expenses.
For the Democrat.
Court House Bell.
The shrewd men of all ages have ever considered punctuality a cardinal virtue in every department
of human affairs. It is, indeed, the great main-spring which regulates, harmonizes and keeps in motion the
business machinery of the world. Many a luckless mortal has forfeited his rights or sacrificed his property
by failing to appear in season to prosecute the one or defend his title to the other.
The last remark is especially true in relation to the proceedings of the District Court of the
fourteenth judicial district. This tribunal is presided over by a Judge who always “comes to time,” with
the Clerk and Sheriff closely in his wake. The admonitory “Oh Yes!” rings out upon the air and the Court