The Nevada journal., 1860-03-23
THE NEVADA JOURNAL.
FRIDAY nIoRNING, MARCH asd, 1850.

Sacraniemto Hat Store.-Qdinn's SACRAMENTO
Hat Store will be found advertised nto-day's pa
per. A friend of ours who sports one of Quihh's
superb tiles is enthusiastic in his praise.
Czotking-The Opposition store comes out as
wise business nicI do with an advertisement. The
pretty man Of this Office gets his rig out there.
Ouincv Hall is one of the crack places to get
At ore clothes in San FranSiseo: Our handsome
man will patronize the Hall Oh his way home.
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A QUEER CAsE-Two jurors in tie late case
of Gehrhart VS.. Cady, whom we shall call Snodks
and Popkins, were brought before the District
Court on Saturday last q charge 81 contempt
.f court in holding communication with Mrs.
Gehrhart in reference to The case while ii was
pending. contrary 10 the injunction of the Judge
on adiournins the Court. Mrs. Gehrhaft; who is
no. n woman, however, of the best Eepate, swore
positively that the jurors named came to the res
,aurant where she stopped, invited her to drink
..d requested to see her in her own room. She
swors they declared tho jury had decided in her
favOr, and that they had been mainly instru-
mental in obtaining the verdict. They asked,
T. she said, ard obtained one hundred and twenty
dollars of her to pay the jury of which Snccks;
was the foreman On tho plea that snooks was
not on good terms with all of the jurors, part
of the money she said, was paid to each. She
represented that both by turns kept her up all
night, and attempted to take improper liberties
with her. On the following day, meeting Snooks
in tho Court House she demanded the money from
him which she said he had obtained from her un-
der false pretences. He replied, he had none of
her money and she must be mistaken in the man.
Her evidence Us to the invitation to drink at the
restaurant was corroborated by the landlady Mrs.
Stumpf rs we'll as some other minor occurren-
Ste; and, also her testimony relative to the de-
mand she made of Snooks for money at the Court
House was substantially confirmed by two wit
nesses.
The jurors themselves on being sworn testified
that they were attracted to the restaurant by the
waving of handkerchief; that they went there
to prospect" semc time aftcrward; and while ta-
king drink at the bar, Mrs Gerhart came up
and said 1t was her treat insisted IN their drink
ing with her, and invited them to her room fur
nisAing them with an abundaHce of champagne.
They admitted that she broached the Subject of
the suit and said she would do anything in the
wsFld 10 beat ;he defendant Harry Cady; that
she mentioning having property which she init
mated she was willing to apply I'd pfochre aver
diet in her favor, but they solemnly declared that
they never received dollar of money from her
for any purpose. They left an impression that
they might have been caught in fdgrdhte detictii;
for which and vine they did not pay cent.
The Court took the case under advisement till
Monday morning when its mature judgment
deemed Eve days in the county jail sufficient
atonement for the injury done the Court in the
way Ofeoutempt.
RHPRKHKSsIBLR.-A fellow named Callahan
from Downieville, came to the Livery Stable of
J. H. Helm, Monday night about 9 o'clock,
with a woman of ill repute, and put up mule.
At about two o'clock the same night he called
for the animal and an alteration arose between
him and the hostler in attendance regarding the
pay for keeping the mule Callahan drew a knife.
and the hoster soon thereafter received blow
of some kind in the mouth which cut his under
ZIP cOu5lucTaOiy ana DTOkc on Two front teetn-
Callahan was arrested and gave bonds for his ap-
Tearance. He expressed much sorrow for the
;aet on the following morning and said it was
,dOno while liquored up.
Tine RoAD TO W-AsHoE.-A subscription was
gotten up Saturday last of several hundred
dollars contributed by men of all classes in this
city to send out men to open the road to the sill
mines. The road is doubtless by this time in
= Psssabie condition. Large numbers of our
citizens are going the road A good
many have already gone. The Henness Pass
viii be threnged with travellers for some months
to come, and we hazard nothing in saying the
route will hereafter be kept open at all seasons
of the year.
SILVER 0RE SMELLING IN NEvADA.-The Ne
~ada Motalurgic Company about to estal-
lish an Assay office in Virginia city for the pur-
pose Of testing Of silver with view to smell
sing on large scale at their works in this city.
They propose to transport the ere here, and are
sanrxins that they esn do 50 and extract the
metal as thoroughly and as chespls as it can be
done in the State or in Europe. We are sure
4hAt some OF our Nevada friends operating at
washoe will give the company trial They
arc scientific and practical men.
DEAD.-John Y. Watson, the ysung man who
was struck on the head some weeks since by
ten pin ball aying from the lathe while he was
turning it, died at the house of Judge Searls on
Sunday evening and buried with Masonic
hsaers on Monday The funeral was pretty gem
erally attended. Mr.. Watson was a young man
ofunexceptionableh habits and character and COM
rnanded the respect and esteem of all who knew
him. He was 33 years Of age and formerly from
Oxford county, Maine. The Good Templars
fzrncd out to attend the funeral.
AMPurATED.-Mr. G. S. S. Getchell of Alpha,
who was so unfortunate as to have leg broken
by the caving of bank about two months since,
was obliged to undergo an amputation of the
fractured limb on Wednesday of last week. TT
main artery of the leg was destroyed, and the
bones and nerves so terribly crushed no hope for
the preservation of the foot remained. The op-
Grafton was performedhy DIR. Tompkins of Grass
Valley, assisted by Drs. Harris, of the same place,
and White of Alpha.