The hydraulic press., 1860-01-07
THE COUNTY.


NEvADA.-we condense few items from tie Demo
crat:
The ball given by the ladies for the purpose Of rails
ing funds protect the town from fire afforded net
profit of 1923 so.
The Court of Sessions. Judge Belden presiding, met
On Monday, ssued yenire for Grand Jury, re:urna-
BILE on Wednesday, and adj ourned to that day.
-Four Chinamen were imprisoned 'tor.petit larceny at
Red Dog.
The Nevada Water Company are laying down nine
inch and six inch pipe. and the reservoir is high
ough to raise water the top the Methodist Church
steep,e.
lump of gold and quartz weighing 214 ounces.was
brought to town from the claims of Green Co., Rem
ington fl assayed and found to be worth g. 81 II
Another mining item is, that at the American Hill
quartz mill 327 tons of quartz crushed during
the past year and yielded s65 0OO-neary s2l per
The lead wideDs it deerens and rock is being
taken out at depth of $50 feet where it eight
wide.
Young's Gift Entertainment has been postponed un-
til next Saturday the 14th inst.
Capt Kidd will open granite-fron banking
honse in.dbo ont rwo weeks.
Apreiininhry survey for railroad from Auburn Is
being made by Mr.. Elliot The Democrat and Jounal
earnestly advocating the immediate construction of
such road
GRASS yALLEY-Considerab interest taken in the
temperance here, immediately excitedbya DASH
away tarfa.
The National speaking of the Alta Hill and Buena
Vista diggngs. .ays they thought be portions of
paying gravel lead which has been traced for e. lit
miles
The same paper says ten dollars is asked for
the hillside land lying around town, and that there
many thousand of land in the vicinity compre-
hending broad ridges and slopes that will yield excel
lent grafh crops if sdwed in the fall after thorough
plowing
Rev. Martin kellogg, Congregational pastor, has
been elected to re rrofcssorship of Latin Greek and
Polite Literature in The california College, at Oakland
THE citizens have been amused by Chinese tlleatr-
cabs. The National says that the Cdlestisrre in this
in everything else they do barbarans in their very
civilization.
petition for fe passage of Sunday Tavtheets with
general favor.
miner at Globe Ranch miles from Grass
Valley, shot his partner that he died. mistaking
him in the dark for of party of Indian thieves
for whom both lying in wait.
MINNIE AccIDENT.-Mr Levi Ayres informs us that
last week Samuel Kooly. native of Russia, aged 81
years, was killed Grizzly Hill, in tue claims of
Thompson Kitchen. cave from the bank caused
sudden rush of wafer and earth down the bedrock
sluice-which is very steep above the shaft--carried
him down the shaft 16 feet, through the tunnel and
the grzzly 100 feet along the canon co feet
further. lie was borne along among boulders weigh
ing two hundred pounds, and survived but
short time afterwards
School APPoRTIoNmENT-Thes seDii-anafisl school ap-
portonment. just declared, gives every of the
Ices pupils of this county SO cents, amounting to
.54S A. divided follows: Grass Valley 400 pupils
SI64 OF: Chalk Bluff, 70 pupils. S73 AZ: Pleasant Val
ley the same; Eureka 50 pupils, SO 26 North San
Juan. 1S4 pupils. $171 II; Omega, 46 pupils S42 15
Oakland, 10 pupils S73 Al; North Bloomfield, IS pu-
pills. 81 SIS; Columbia Hill, 33 pupils $50 co. Nevada
345 pupils. $500 S5 Penn Valley, 40 psps, $i5 81:
Rough and ReaGy las pupils. Sl34 So.