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THE COUNTY.

THE COUNTY.
BUaexARY.-The book store of Mr.. Geo.
Welch, was entered by burglars last Thurs
day @aghs, aud robbed Of various articles
valued at between two and three hundred
dollars. TIE property stolen consisted
mostly of 6ne cutlery aud other skticies
kept in the show cases. The baFefary was
traced to the Chinese, and on Friday evening
Sheriff Van Hagen searched the habitations
of the suspected Celestials, found some of
the missing articles, and arrested five Chi
namen. Four of them were committed to
Jail to await the actiea of the graEd jury.
One Chas. Burdett was committed to the
Nevada Jail on the evening Of sAe llth inst,
having been convicted of petit larceny At
Grass Valley. He was drunk xhen ccnnit-
ted, and during the night was taken down
with the delirium tremens. He was troub-
led with snakes and reptiles for several days,
and on Wednesday afternoon he swallowed
over an ounce oflssdaxam, which had been
left him for medicine. A stomach-pump
was procured, and the man relieved Of the
poison.
There are now ne less thaa Riaeteea Pris-
oners in the Nevada coanty gail, twelve of
jury, aad seven are confined for petty larce-
ny and csher small ofenses. Two Of the
prisoners are females.
The county Supervisors were in session
all last week as Board of Equalization,n land
on Saturday afternoon they adjourned, over
until Wednesday, and two or three days
more will be required to complete the busi-
ness. The total valuation of property in the
county, as returned On the assessment roll,
was little over $500, ,eoo. This amount
will probably be raised $29e,0oe by the
Board, and supplemental assessment, which
the Assessor Is now making out, will bring
up the taxable property of the county to
about 100000.
A wagon load of provisions mining tools,
ETC., left Nevada Tuesday afternoon, for Sar-
dine Valley. They are designed for COM
pany that left Nevada week or two ago to
prospect quartz leads, and placer mines.
Messrs. C. Wilson Hill and Geo. s, Hupp
have entered into eceartnership in the prac-
tice of the law.
A special term of the Board of Supervi-
sors viii be held about the 1st of October,
to establish precincts and appoint the officers
of electiea.-Nevada Democrat.
There are at present organized in this county
ten Republican clubs, numbering in all near one
thousand members. Red Dog has club of 81,
and Omega one of r25 members.
The Journal says tAe Republican county tick
ct is composed of good men.
The Hose Companies OF Nerada have bought
l000 feet of Fulton hose, at San Francisco.
The English Opera Company, advertised to
appear at Nevada ON Saturday night, did not do
SO, on account of the illness OF the prima donna.
Andrew Hasey, who was wounded in the Pah-
Ute war, arrived here in charge of his friends On
Tuesday.
Tother day Nate Jacobs caught forty-three
good sized trout in Deer creek, seven miles above
town. They came down from the mountain
lakes in the bitches.
BY the returns of the census takers of this
county, the population is set at l8,OOO-less by
considerable than the actual number.
The assessment roll of the county shows that
out of 1000 voters, but about I, 900 pay taxes.
The house of Geo. H. Rogers, at Omega, was
entered through the window Or Wednesday
night, and $343 in cash taken.
John Sale designs putting on daily line Of
stages on the Henness Pass road, leading from
Nevada to Virginia City.
A rich strike in the Orc district is reported
From the claims adjoining Yorty & Co., $4,000
are said to have been taken on Monday in few
hours.-Journal 24th.