The hydraulic press. (North San Juan, Nev. Co., Cal.) 1858-18??, 1858-10-16
County Items.

The SCHOOL EXHIBITION Nevada DEM
ocrat says that DR.. c. I. Overson, the School
Superintendent, and Others interested ere busy
engag ed in making preparations for the School
Exhibition. which takes place at Nevada on
Wednesday next, the Goth inst. 1t is expect,
tnat pupils from all the schools of the county
will be present.
The following programme has been decided
upon:
THE children will assemble at the public
school house at 10 O'clock, A. N, from whence
they will 60 in procession to the Court House
where the schools will be examined till l O'clock
2. M. After which they will proceed in process
sion to the Sugar Loaf and partake of refresh
ments. At O'Clock the procession will march
through the principal streets; at 81 O'Clock the
doors ofthe Metropolitan Theatre will be thrown
open the curtain will rise and the school exhibit
tion commence at o'clock"
The proceeds of the exhibition and fthe ball
which takes place at the Court House IN the eve
ming. over and above expenses, will be distribu-
ted among the public schools of the county.
The Floor Managers of the ball are w. F.
Anderson, Thomas Hannah and R II Farquhar
Tickets S., including supper
The following items are gathered from the De-
mocrat:
COURT OF SESSIONS -The Grand Jury en-
panneled on the Sth inst, found indictments a
gainst the following parties: l.. P. Stone, Span
lsh John, and Berj. Pascoe, for murder; John
Walsh fer IN assault with intent to commit muir
der, and Timothy Murray. for an assault with in
tent to do bodily harm The three first were ar
rested on Tuesday night of last week near Grass
Valley, by Under Sheriff Van Hagan, and were
charged with robbing Cinnamon, and numbering
one, on Bear River, the Saturday previous Two
Others were arrested but not indicted.
The MURDER TRIALs.-The trial of the rar-
ties indicted for the murder of J. II. McMurtry,
at Grass Valley on the lst of Juyast, was Gem
menced in the District Court on Wednesday the
9TH. The case of John McCabe was first called
up, and the trial occupied four days. The case
was given to the FURY about dark on Saturday
evening, who after being cut fifteen or twenty
minutes found a verdict against the defendant of
guilty of murder in the second Edegree. Notice
was given of motiou for new trial, and the
sentence has been postponed until Saturday
next.
QUARTZ From about hundred and fifty tons
of quartz from the Lecompton lead, crushed at
the Oriental mill, five hundred ounces of gold
was obtained. The gold was run into bar and
left at Birdseye's banking house; it is about the
size and shape of an ordinary brick, and is worth
between sixteen and seventeen dollars an ounce
NEBRASKA SHAFr-The Nebraska Co. took
suit of six nights washing of gravel from their
shaft.
The Grass Valley National describes at length
fue Catholic Church which is going up in that
place. Its dimensions are-length LOG feet
width 80 feet; the tower which is in the center OF
the front, on Church street, is 80 feet to the top
of the brick work, from the level of the street, it
being second to only one in California, as re-
CARDS dimensions, and not surpassed in design or
arrangemeit of its parts. The building is in the
early English style Of ecclesiastical architecture
light and elegant spire is to be erected which
will rise sixty feet above the brick work, making
an entire height of l40 feet. Arrangements have
been made for cast-steel bell weighing 1000
pounds.
IMPORTANT ELECTRICAL DIscovERY.-We
were yesterday called by Mr.. John Pattison the
telegraph operator of this city, to witness most
satisfactory experiments in working tele graph
ic line in water without insulation the discovery
of the mode of doing which Mr.. Pattson claims
for himself.
The secret is in the way of arranging the bat
teries. Mr.. Pattison has between four and five
hundred feet Of wire laid in the creek back of
the telegraph Office, which when worked with an
instrument seems to transmit current of cleo
tricity with the same force and effect as a wire
perfectly insulated and in the most favorable
conditions Should this discovery prove as i'm
/ portant the experiments we saw seem to fore
/ shadow, the results will be astonishing. A COM
N ION wire will answer the purpose of the most ex-
pensve insulated cable for submarine and sub
aqueous communications Mr.. Pattison is about
to make an application for patent for his Disco
Tery.-Neyada Journal.