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2 . g@dvise miners of. the county not to acjs untrue. It produces no smoke sach
. are disagreeable and dangerous. Inj
one of the mines near town the workcourse would be no objection to the
~~~“laims, and if it does the immense €x' of giant powder did as much execution
Tue Giaxt Powpen.—We would!
. cept the giant powder of which so much
has been recently said without a thorents have been tried
is pronounced far superior to any material im use for blasting, Experiments
have also been tried in the mines
this locality, and although it has not
yet been fully tested the partial tests
“pave been far from satisfactory in quartz
‘mimes. It is claimed for the powder
‘that itleaves no smoke or sfhell. This
as gunpowder, but when set off it gen’ @rates strong fumes of nitric acid which
men had to leave on account of these
gases generated. The smoke may be
detected by burning a small quantity
of the powder with a match. This of
r for surface blasting in the gravel
ecution claimed for it, miners can well:
afford to get out of the way until the}.
gasesescape. In the Pitteburg minc,
gn the first day's trial; nearly every .
ey Pdr in blew the tamping out
without doing any damage to the hard
rock, and the same rock was afterwards broken with gunpowder. In
these experiments the amount of giant
‘powder which is pronounced by the inventor equal to the amount of gunpowder usually discharged was used. The
Grass Valley National says, “one blast
in the North Star mine as three charges
of ordinary powder.” If, as is claimed
for the powder, that it exerts greatest
force where there is greatest resistance,
and itis unn to tamp it, the
Miners will find it superior to any
known material for mining. Of course
we do not deem the experiments made
as conclusive for or against the powder. It is being tested now in various
r 1 Saeaaebea, when Butler introduced two
_ settled purpose to resist the policy of
mines of the county, ‘and it would be
well for miners to wait until the result
is known, before investing largely in
the giant powder.
EASTERN News.—From the Sacramento Union's dispatches we condense
the following items: The corrected’ re‘tarns of the Connecticut election show
~“g total vote of 99,323; and a majority of
1,735 for Governor English. This is
5,171 in excess of the ste vote of last
‘year.
~MeDevitt beat Foster atChicago: on
the night of the 8th for the billiard
championship. At the end of the count
McDevitt stood 1,268-to Foster's 1,262.
The lake steamer Sea Bird was burned on Lake Michigan, thirty-five miles
from Chicago, on the 8th, and of fifty
passengers and thirty crew, but two
were saved.
‘The Impeachment Court met at noon
', mmord witnesses to prove the President's
“Congress and impede reconstruction in.
Violation of its Acts. Judge Curtis then
-@poke for the defense till four P. M.,
when at his request the Court adjourned tillthe 10th. No Congressional businces of importance was done.
‘The President has signed the treaty
: with the North German Confederation.
‘way next week.
~~ Work, itis said, “will commence oi
the Saucelito and Humboldt Bay RailW. 8. Hutcures, the lightning calculator, formerly of Barnum’s Museum,
has invented a new airship which some .
of the greatest #ronauts pronounce
wonderful. ae
“AnGENTA.”—This is the name of the
station on the Central Pacific Railroad,
‘from which is to be supplied the city of
; State of Nevada. The cars will soon
be running from Sacramento to that
nt as there aioe gap of eight . 4,
: senliacc sa eat the Bok Pacis
of . good prices for their hay and grain.
the town of Carson, in the .
the aber of her medita
papers of the rainfall for each season
no time have two very wet seasons
come together, without a very dry one
be well for planters all-over the State
to produce all that they can during the
present season. Those who have cattle
should sow grain that it may be cut in
the Fall for hay, and that there may be
present season. When the valley crops
fail the-farmers of the mountains get
The amount of rain is very mach greater in the mountains than in the valleys.
and the mountain ranches not fail — apett sa. aoe
ae 2 = Snot ‘ _ & “4 * e
even in the dryest seasons. “Such being . . (a san Franci JA Ross San Juan
the fact, the ranchers of—this-conntr 1H Day do 2 en a
may look forward to an exceedingly'. 3 Cremrey > oes Maley. ae
i . Sam Moore édo 4d Marks -do profitable crop in 1869. Prva oA Perth pd
» < . ea J Dabb Kelief Hill DrJAGuffin do
MANUEL Robjo, a Cuban negro slave, } D sunivan Sacrament P Somers Lincoln
Ste “try . A Cunn RS do has written some remarkable poetry, . 4 inghem, do OH Nelsot Grase Val
and solicits aid to. publish it; so that za ‘otter Colasa soe B Jamies eS:
with the foe he may purchase his . ; Fi ga Whiices Paine do:
R McMurry wi Osgood __de
ae as LM Coffin” Was “eee Bradbury Waahing
Manxyof ‘the sailors in the British na. nc. me pind Jones.bA Molierus do
vy have formed a sort of religious sect
called “non fighting meti;* and are Jeav-.
ing the service Senactiomaaae they are“allowed,
THERE are now ten milliéns more in
America speaking the‘ English language than in the British Isles, and}
soon the number will be multiplied several fold; thus the language belongs
more exclusively to tis than to the
country in-which it originated.
THE surveying party which left Kansas. ten months ago, surveying the
route for the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, arrived at San Juan on the {
Sist ult.
Oven six hundred letters have been
received by Senator Morton congratulating him on his ‘great speech. The
Senator's health is greatly improved.
THE total loss by the fire at Jefferson,
Texas, on the night of the 29th ultimo,
foots up over $1,000,000. The Phenix
and “tna Insurance Companies are the
chief losers.
GEN. HANCOCK has issued an order
fizing-the 17th and 18th of April for the
election on the ratification of the new
Louisiana constitution.
SAMUEL Merpits was elected Mayor
of Oakland on Monday by a miajority
of 225.
NEw York has twenty thousand tenement houses averaging fifty inhabitants each.
THE project to lay down railroads in
the streets of Sacramento has ‘been
abandoned.
A LETTER put into an-Indiana post’
oles one addressed: “Mr. Coldfacts,
the Senater of Congress.”
Brsnor Kip, at the Church of the
Advent. in SanFrancisco, on Sunday,
confirmed 26 persons, of whom 20 were
females.
THE bellows of the organ in the London St. Paul’s Church burst during divine service, and the congregation was
immediately struck with a Fenian panic.
Two young women in Vienna lately
waltzed on a wager until both fell exhausted on the floor, and both have
since died of heart disease.
THe Common.Council of Penn., has
agreed, that whenever a member is ab
sent three minutes after the regular
meeting, he shall be’ fined $1 for the
benefit ef the poor.------~
NOTHING so adorns the face as cheerfulness. When the heart is in flower
its bloom and beauty pass to ‘the features.
A PROMINENT journalist in New
York, who is perfectly bald, has offered a reward of $1,000 for a tale that will
make his hair stand on end.
Tne ladies of Cork have ted
Francis Train a pair of silk garters. or‘namented with bunches of alkene.
which he exhibited to the: public. ata
“meeting. .
A PRETTY young bride, was observed
to ng in n deep reflection on her wedding
her bridesmaids 4 her
= be
Lanny aboa be
ae Sesame te ae > ear
for thirteen years, and it shows that ‘at . ™
2 surplus over the requirements ot the} iP.
% Ne aN
Improved Quartz Mill Screens!
‘fallowed herein amount
‘a the iy, Apel Sth, 1968, to the wife of
as
‘At Washington, April wife
of J. W. Brown, a con. encom .
MARRIED.
2 es ak Spt
—
ARRIVALS AT THENATIONAL EXCHANGE HOTEL.
Broad Street, Nevada City, California.
LANCASTER & HASEY, Prop’s.
—
C Barker Penn Valley J W Barns Chalk Bluff
aetna a
At half the Established Rates!
. CAN FoRNise THESE SCREENS three
. or four # sizes finer than any ever punched. They have greater discharge than the oid
cine punched screen and for strength,
ssemeee or durability are not exwhere usigg these screens will save
Two Hundred Per Cent.
"RY THEM—Orders Solicited.
{1 am‘aleo fy to furnish punched
Screens of all si r Quartz, Cement, Flour
and Pice Mills at Greatly Reduced Rates.
San Francisco. Pioneer Screen Works.
JOHN W. QUICK, Manufacturer.
Removal to Vulcan Iron Works, Tremont St.
bet. Mission & Howard, San Francisco. apli
Special } Notice.
AVING leff my Notes and Accounts with
J. B. GRAY, all persons ifidebted to me
are requested to make immed!ate payment to
him or-costs will be added:
apli . Cc. M. BATES, M. D.
CITY ELECTION.
T a Reenilar Meeting of the ar of ae
tees of the City of
1868, C. H. Mead wee go be
W. Knowlton and W Judges od
Election and a Board of Tesiotretion, to register the names of voters at a oy Election to
be held on the firet Monday in May, 1868, for
the election of City Officers
Ww. Zz. ORGAN, Clerk.
Hégistration.
The Board of Registration will be in session
every Saturday, until the election, and on Friday. May let, at the Marshal’ . Office, from 10
A. 43-46 4-Po ME H. MEAD,
Clerk Board Hepletretia:
Nevada, March 20, 1868. apli
GS HERIFE'S SALE.— Whereas, Geo =
McLean on the 8th day of April, 1
covered a ju mtin the District Gonrt Of
the Fourteenth Judicial District, of the State
of California, in and for the County of Nevada,
: inst B. L. Lamargne for the sum of Eleven
Hundred and Bighty-Four 60-100 ($1,184 50)
doliare, with interest thereon from the date of
said ont ant at the rate of hen tA cent
th gold ia cole of Gained Bretne with
costs of suit taxed at $23 7% and
to the eum of $107,
Pom yemgetaws, in gold coin, which ju ent is recoried in the Fuagment Book of the said District
Court on 19 and 520, and. whereas it is
ordered that the mortgage set forth in Piaintiff's complaint be forecl Rap the property
therein described, to-wit : t certain town
jot, in the town of Grass Valley, county of Nevada, State of California, situated on and between Mill street. and Church street. be
ning, say at the south-east corner of Hota <
& Co’s and oe south aleng the west line
of Mill Street, eighty-seven feet to the ~ ye
east corner of the lot formerly occupied b
Miss Long: thence westerly al the no
line of the said “Long” lot two-hundred and
fifty-six feet to the east side of Church street ;
thence norther} —, said side of Church
street, one-hu twenty feet to the
south-west side of Hotatts "slot ; thence easterly along Hotaling’s south line two hundred
and fifty-six feet tothe point of beginning ;
having theréon dwellings, and houses and imrovements, and all an every be levied upon and sold to satisfy judgment, =
terest, counsel fees, costs, and expenses of
a
gale.
‘Notice is hereby given that I will e t
pubic sate alle above dnerivod property to t eas:
in front of the Court House door in “the =
of Nevada, on =
Tuesday, May 5th, 1868,
wr the hours of 94. .m. and 5 Pp. ». of said
ours under cay ere ph Reveds ENTRY. orca 4
Se mig Attorney. » mil
OHAWK & MONTREAL CONSOLIDAMons Gold and Silver gm . Company.
ie jm ining Nevada
Claime by death.. M45258.
mente matured.. 36,200 00Cash dividends to Pol =
icles.. .2-2--.. 25ND
Surrendered Policies 256,687 35
Annuities.. .-.2. 14,6735 06
Commissions and
‘commutations of
M aon a 750; 32
xchan ‘ostage,
“Advertising. Print.
ing and Stationery 116,630 10
Medical Examiners, e
. Salaries and Law
~ Sxpenses.s...° Bi 965 G1
Taxes and sundry
Office Expenses.. 106,921 87
Office Rent Sinking
Fand. .oscccicoccce 20,000 (0— 5,149,902 44
Net assets Feb1, 1868, $22,662,452 14
Invested as follows :
Cash on hand and ia
Ban cose 1D TW RM
25th Annual Statement
—oF THE—
__. MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE. ~~
VY \eDOWNFALL In PRICES. =:
VA
re
el Sine SE asic
Ty suotuing:
intend CLOTHING . a
CAMPAIGN OPENED!
OF NEW YORK.
F. §. WINSTON,
President.
February 1, 1868.
Net aerets, January 31, 1867, $17,639,296 97
For ‘Premiums and Annnites.. i6.. ccc ee8 B57, 2 SI
Interesta secs.. .. 1,205,011 3
61,750 Q0—10,1 73.04 61 eet .. . 6-85 Sc Gaake
: $27,812,344 58
DISBURSEMENTS.
Bonds and Mort
ESacess B55. 176 945 62
Government Stocks $,003,168-75
Es adios eos 937,835 12
eo due from = -_ey 791 7
—— ——— $2,662,452 14
Add: 3 bam
Interest unpaid. . : 177,265 45
Value of fature commissions commn,
ted as above..... 547,255 11
Premiums de ;
semisna an ie 16.500 58
quarterly
eipaly f due (pris
for Policies
mows § in Dece’ber
—January).-.-.« 385,785.63
Market value of
poo dee vical
80 8e,0000 © 499,942 €9 — 2,656,867 41
ics ive 9 enuettllg $25,319.319 55.
Increase in net cach
19,460 No of Policies in year,
No of deaths in year, 301
Amount insured thereon, $871,200
No of Policies in force,
Feb. 1, 1868, 52,384
INCREASE OF 1867 OVER 1868.
1867—Total Receipts,
, $10,173,047 61.
1866—Total Receipts,
$6,217,035 88.
2. <> $3,956,011 73
LOSSES PAID.
1866 so.. $048,714 48.
1867....«-.-. 914,587 78.
Decrease: : =< +<<+ =: $832,176 70. =D
$1,248,011,
about Exceeding Losses,
H. 8. HOMANS, General Agent
224 Montgomery St. San Francisco.
i
withthe
GEE SALES OF
CLOTHING, —
. FURNISHING Goons,
AT : THE :
»
. Corner of Broad and Pine Streets,
BANNER BROTHERS,
Having éstablichéd the fact that they
eam and do sell Clothing, Boots,
Shees, Hats, &c. cheaper than any
of their competitors are now in the field
Largest and Saeat assortment
oP —
Gentlemen's and Boy's
iS SPRING CLOTHING &
AD
FU RNISHING GOODS,
Ever batete brought to the interior of the State
We sell our Goods at from 50 to 75
per cent Lower than former rates.
Attention! ll yein want of Clothing .
We now offer you Goods at Lower Prices than,
you ever bought them before and
Cheaper than you can get them
anywhere else,
ing Goods, and Business Snits are of the
; LATEST STYLES
And superior to any hitherto imported.
Fine Fashionable Dress Suits !
We will sel! for Less Money than they can be
bought for anywhere else in California,
Gentlemen ! We ask you to examine our Ciothing--we feélassur-—
ed we can satisfy you, both as to
style, quali.y and price!
HATS! HATS! HATS!
Enough ‘o cover every tnan’s head in the
county—of the Latest Styles and of every
conceivable shapes and colors.
SHIRTS & UNDERCLOTHING.
On Hand--An unlimited snpply of Fine
White Shirts, including the celebrated
Star and Adkinsoh make.
Under Clothing, Hosiery, Handkerehiefs, Patent Gutta Percha
‘Cravats, Neck Ties, Collars, Suspenders, and Yankee Motions of every de
scription.
TO ALL MERCHANTS !
Who deal in Clothing, both in this city and
county, we would say, call on us before going
. to San Francisco to make purchases. We ean
sell you goods in this city, at Lower rates
than you can buy them at the Bay.
t#” OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE
forthe Spring Trade and our
of any others.23
And everybody in want of any Goods in our
line, had better consnit their own interest by
Sesnndngpescpatoe an
HATS, BOOTS, SHOES. sc, -&e.
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