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DEPARTMENT VI.


MECHANICAL e. MANUFACTURERS PRoDUcTs.
Best knitting machine, pair scales for fam
ily use, pair farm scales, each, diploma; best
stave machine, single machine, clapboard
machine, each, medal; best steam engine
with any Improvements, hydraulic pump,
lathe for turning irregular forms, sewing ma
chine, machine for pegging boots and shoes,
wringing machine, OK cart job wagon, double
wagon, washing machine, wheelbarrow, half
dozen whips, horse names, half dozen horse
shoes, dozen OK shoes, each, diploma; best
OK yoke and bows, S.; best double pleasure
harness, 5; best single pleasure harness, 3;
best double work harness, 8; best single
work harness 3; best saddle, side saddle, each,
diploma; best display of carriages made in
Maine, from one exhibitor, medal; best sin
gle sleigh, double sleigh each, diploma; best
lot of furniture exhibited by one person, dip
Iona; best exhibition of sashes, doors and
blinds, diploma; best furnace or other appar-
tus for warming houses, medal; best exhibit
ton of stoves for heating and for cooking,
$50; best display of silver ware, So; best
display of britannia, diploma; best display of
cutlery, IS; best display of leather, medal ;
best display of boots and shoes tor mems
wear, s., 3; best display Of boots and shoes
for women's wear, IS, 8.
By MACHINERY IN MAINE IN
1870.
Best piece cashmere, doeskin, broadcloth,
satiuet, wooden carpet, not less than twenty
yards, oil-cloth carpeting, fancy cotton cloth,
each, medal; best piece wide sheeting, com
mon width sheeting or shifting, cotton drill.
ing, cotton flannel, white wooden flannel, red
wooden flannel. pair milled blankets, woven
bags, not less than ten ten pounds cotton
yarn, five pounds cotton Irvine, Ave pounds
WOODEN yarn, each, diploma. Best display Of
$40; hats and caps, %; dress
furs, s..
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Nj A SION HOU $ E,
STATE STREET, /: : Az 6USTA, NE

rINHIS House is provided with Bath Rooms,
/ where Hot and Cold Baths can be had at all
times. 1t has also a Firs-Clsss Billiard Hall, for
Guests only. Connected with the House is large
and commodious Sample Room, on Water Street
centrally located, where Sample Agents can show
their goods, free OF charge.
The Proprietor, thankful for the liberal patronage
which the above House has enjoyed since its open
ing, takes pleasure in informing his patrons that he
will run Free Carriages to and from the Cars and
Boats until further notice
Connected with tie above House is Livery Sta
Bile, where good teams can he had at reasonable
rates W. NJ. TiAYER, Proprietor.
G.. P. CocHRASE. Clerk.
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BY MACHINERY IN MAINE IN
1870.
DEPARTMENT VII.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Best specimen of printing paper made in
Maine, printing by Maine printer, book
binding by Maine binder, blank books made
in Maine, each, medal; best display of paint
ings and pictures by one person, ais; best oil
painting exhibited by an artist of Maine, 10;
be st painting in water colors s best collection
of photographs by Maine artist, s; best speci-
men penmanship, Typographical drawing, PEN
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Gil drawing, crayon drawing, each, diploma;
best marble work made in Maine, diploma;
beet display of soap from one manufacturer,
So; best display OF candles, do, 3 best but
ter salt refined in Maine, 81 best fish guano,
Zone barrel) made in Maine, (dried and
ground,) 5; best superphosphate Zone barreD
made in Maine, 8; best exhibition of roofing
slate, from Maine quarries, 5; best specimen
of mineral paint manufactured in Maine, . /;
best piano made in Maine, melodeon or reed
organ made in Maine, each, diploma; best
display of sugar refined in Maine, not less
than five pounds of each kind, medal; best
display and largest variety Of glass ware made
in Maine, medal; best display and largest va
riety of stone ware made in Maine, medal;
largest collection of insects exhibited by any
one person, of Maine, mounted in case and
properly named, SIS best willow work made
in Maine, 5; best nest common basket for farm
use, l ; best travelling trunk valise, refriger-
ator, meat barrel lard or butter frkin, each,
diploma best windmill for farm purposes,
medal best draining tile machine, draining
tile, each, medal best statement in the pro-
ducton of the greatest amount OF honey from
one swarm of bees, reference being had to kind
of hive and Management of swarm, samples OF
honey with hive to be shown, So; best model
of apparatus for the artificial propagation of
fish, with a written statement of the expert
ence and result of the exhibitor, SIS; model
o. best constructed fish-way, 10; best quintal
of Goldfish, cured, 5; kit of mackerel, 81 box
smoked herring, 2; box smoked alewives, 2.
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DEPARTMENT ii.

HoRsEs. Thoroughbred Stallions-4 years
old and over, $25, Is. Mares-4 years old
and over, 800, 10. Stallions-l year old and
under four, SIS, 10. Mares-l year old and
under four, Si5, TO-
Stations for general use, years old and
over, S25, Is; years old and under eight,
25, Is; years old and under five, 20, l5; 8
years old and under four, 1910; 2 years old
and under three, 10, b.
Mares, with foal by their side, $40, Is.
Geldings and Files, three years old and
under four, SIS, 10; under three years old
10, 8. .ast
Mares and Geldings, five years old and
over, style, action and road qualities consid'
cred, S25, l5; four years old and under five,
20, 10.
Matched Horses, S25, Is.
Draught Horses Il span), 500, 10.
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OFFICERS. Hon. Seth Seaman,
Scarboro'; Secretary, Samuel l.: Boardman'
Augusta Treasurer, VIM. Z. Morris, Esq,
Portland; Trustees Hon. Warren Percival,
Vice President of the Soci ty and Chairman
of the Board, Cross Hill Hon. Samuel Was
son of Ellsworth; S. T. Holbrook, Esq, Ok
ford; Nathan Dane, Jr. Esq, Kennebunk +;
Hon. VIM. p. Wingate, Bangor; Seward Dill,
Esq, Phillips.
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PAPER
For the million Wholesale and retail, at
TITCOMB'S DRUG STORE.
I3rewSt er.S Hotel
SKoWHEcAN, NE. .

THIS large and commodious Hotel is situated
i the head of the Falls on the Kennebec river,
the enterprising village of Skowhegan, the termin
'oi the Portland a. kennebec II. X.
This is one of the best arranged Hotels for famil
borders there is in the State, and better place for
Summer resort, cannot be found in Maine. The
best OF water, beautiful drives on the banks Of the
river, fishing and sailing ponds in the vicinity trout
brooks, where you can catch an abundance OF the
spotted brook trodt any day in the year.
Prices for permanent or transient boarding are
very Iow so our customers afford to come often
and stay good while.
We also have large airy stable TO board horses
for the guests that wish to bring their teams with
them, Also one of the best balf-me trotting parks
in the State, is connected with the House, free for
the guests to train their horses drive for pleasure
tl7jan-ti S. b. BREWSTER, Proprietor.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
Trustees Sale Of Town lotsl

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT UN-
~ der and by virtue of the provisions Of an
Act of the Legislature of the State of California,
approved March 80, 1868, entitled IAN Act to
authorize and direct the County Judge of the
several counties of the State to execute certain
trusts in relation to the town lands granted to
the unincorporated towns in this State by the
Act of Congress entitled An Act for the relief of
the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the pub
lie lands, approved March 2, Eighteen Hundred
and Sixty seven, " will, on
Monday, the 10Th day OF September, =. L.,
1870, at ten O'Clock A. NJ of said day, and at the
Court House door, in the town of Auburn, Pla-
er county, California, sell, at public auction to
the highest bidder, for cash in gold coin, the
several lots and parcels Of land in said town Of
Auburn, which are delinquent for the assess
ments thereon levied under the provisions of the
aforesaid Act. Said lots being particularly des-
cribed on the maps of said town on file in the
County Recorders office as follows:
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
RAILROAD SUBSIDIES. We have been IA

RAILROAD SUBSIDIES. We have been IA
vored by Attorney-General Hamilton with a
copy of his brief in the case of the Stockton
and Visalia Railroad company, vs.. the Com
mon Council of the city of Stockton. The
argument of General Hamilton is submitted
upon behalf Of respondent, and is directed
against the constitutionalty of the law au-
thorizing the people of Stockton to vote aid
to the Railroad company. The argument
covers some one hundred pages of law size,
and seems to be exhaustive of all the ques-
tions bearing on the case We have not yet
had time to examine the matters set forth in
the brief carefully, bu. will do SO with much
interest at an early day. This case involves
matters of vital interest to the people of the
cities, towns and counties of this State, and
if it should 60 against the people, will, and
should lead to an amendment of the Consti-
tntion and reorganization of our Supreme
Court.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
NeaC Advertisements.
cONsTABLE's SALE.
DY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION IssU-

DY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED
ID by R. c. Poland, Justice of the Peace OF
Township No. 3, Placer county, State of Cali
forna, on the 23d day Of August, A. D. 1870, and
to me directed in favor of d. M. Walker and
against A. S. Cathcart and Asa Croxford-judg-
ment 1924 49, costs $45 30, in gold coin, with
interest from date on judgment at the rate of
one and one-half Il 1-2) per cent per month"; !
have levied upon, seized, and will expose to pub
lie sale, at the Court House, in the town of Au-
burn, on
Saturday, the 24th day Of September, A. ID.
1870, at the hour of II o'clock, A. NJ, for gold
coin all the right, title, interest and claim OF
the said A. S. Cathcart and Asa Croxford, OF
either of them. in and tc the following property
lying and being in Placer county, to-wt:
"All that certain piece or parcel of land stu
ated in Township One, said county and State
known as Cathcarts Ranch and described, accord
ing to the U. S. Survey, as the south-half OF
section Three Township Ten north, range seven
east and the south half of section thirty three,
in Township Eleven north, range seven east
said two half sections being and containing q
fraction over one full section of land.
Together with all Improvements, fixtures and
appurtenances thereunto belonging in any
way appertainng. w. M. CRUTCHER,
Constable Township No. 3.
f. L. CRAIG, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Auburn September 3D. 1870.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
CONSTABLE'S SALE.

10y VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED
ID by w. McClanahan, Justice of the Peace of
Township No 5, Placer county, State of Califor-
mia, on the oath day of August, A. d. 1870, and
to me directed, in favor of r. A. Mcdonnell,
Plaintiff, and against j. H. Arthur and August
Lecoust, Defendants--jrdgment S169 A; costs
S17 90 with interest from date judgment at
the rate of seven per cent. per annum, l have
levied upon, seized and will expose to public
sale, to the highest bidder for lawful money Of
the United States, at the following described
mining claim, on
Saturday, the 24th day OF September, A. ID.
1870, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. NJ, all the right
title, interest and claim of the said j. H. Arthur
and August Lecoust, defendants, in and to the
following property lying and being in Placer
county, to-wit:
"a certain mining claim known as the Red
Gulch Mining Claim, situated between Young
America and Shirt Tail Canyon; said claim hav-
ing front of Two hundred feet, and running up
the Ravne One thousand feet more or less from
this notice"
All of which property I will SELL or so much
thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said exc
cution and accruing costs. Together with all
and singular the appurtenances thereunto be-
longing, VIM. KRYSHER,
Constable Township No. 5.
Sept 3D. 1870
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03

SALE OF MINERAL LANDS. We published
some weeks ago the Act of Congress for Sc
curing the right of way to bitches and for
the purchase ofquartz mines, and the amend
atory law providing also for the sale of sur
face and placer mines, and we give to-day,
on our first page, the rules and regulations
laid down by the Commissioner of the gen.
eral Land Office for carrying out the various
provisions Of that law. The sale of the en-
tire public domain in the mining districts of
California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington,
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho and
Montana, both mineral and agricultural has
been determined upon by the Government at
Washington, and these are the laws and in
structions under which the occupants and
claimants must procure title, if they desire to
purchase The instructions are long and
contain provisions which we think will lead
to delays, embarrassments and expenses
which will render the law nearly dead let
ter to the small and comparatively poor claim
owners, though wealthy parties and the
, owners of rich mines will readily comply
with all the details and obtain title. When
the lands have been subdivided, an indivd-
ual or company owning mining claim COW
ering 40, 80, 12O, or 16O-acres, accord
ing to the legal subdivisions, can file on and
enter up either or all of these subdivisions
without the expense of any further surveys
but in all other cases the ground applied for
must be surveyed and plated under the d-
rection and approval of the United States
Surveyor General and the cost of said work
be paid for by the applicant. In these lat
ter cases the expenses will be heavy and the
applicants will have to run the gauntlet of
immense red tape. The applicant must
have occupied (or his grantor) the ground
Tin this State) two years under the rules and
laws of The local mining district, and expen-
ded in labor or improvements 81 900 on the
claim. Those in this position only can ap-
ply. The instructions are plain but the details
in documents, proofs and expenses are fear
full to fec, or attempt to carry out. Those
who contemplate availing themselves of the
law should read and re-rcad these instruc-
tions and then retain them for future refer
ence.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03


Iowa HILL BURNED. Early on Wednes-
day morning the principal portion of Iowa
Hill, in this county, was destroyed by fire.
We have waited in hopes of getting the par
ticulars from one of our correspondents, but
as they are among the sufferers, we suppose
they had no time to write. A telegram to
the Record says:
about two o'clock, Wednesday morning
fire was discovered in a stable belonging
to, and in the rear of l.. Solomon's store at
Iowa Hill. 1t spread with great rapidity to
the adjoining buildings, and before any uni
ted and determined resistance could be offer
ed, it had wrapped the whole business por-
tion Of the town in flames. The building
occupied by Wells, Fargo & Co. and the
Post Office was entirely consumed; but it is
supposed the vault proved fire-proof Macy's
brick store was saved; also, the goods in
Solomon's cellar, Three mules and one horse
were burned to death. Very little, if any,
merchandise (other than above mentionedD,
household goods, or clothing, were saved
The impression prevails that it was the work
Of an incendiary.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
PROBATE NOTICE,

In the matter Of the Estate of W.D. Ii WRENCE
deceased.
IL PRoBATE CoURT, PLACER COUNTY, CAL.
OTICE.-PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF
~ the Judge of said Court, made this day,
notice is hereby given that Saturday the 1st day
of October, A. d. 1870, at II o'clock A. NJ. of said
day, at the Courtroom of said Court in Auburn,
Placer county, has been appointed for hearing
the petition of Geo. W. Baeknam praying for an
order of this Court authorizing the Admnistra-
tor of the estate of w. ID. Lawrence, deceased,
to make conveyance of two certain tracts of
land situated in the State of Wisconsin and par
ticularly described in said petition, to said Geo
W. Baeknam upon the payments by said Geo.
W. Baeknan of the amount of money due from
him to said estate and which land is claimed to
be held by said Estate as a security for the pay
ment of said money; at which time and place all
persons interested therein may appear and con-
test the same by filing their objections in wri-
ting. GEO. G.. SEWELL. Clerk.
Auburn, Sept Sd, 1S70.-lm.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
SETTLES THE QUESTION. charcoal III

SETTLES THE QUEsrIoN.-We charged the
Supervisors with giving the county printing
to the highest bidder, and our neighbor de-
MED it, and now he publishes the proposals
and both bids, which bears us out in every
charge and specification we have ever made
in regard to the matter. The Supervisors
did give the contract to the highest bidder
and we will take the work done now or al
the end of the contract, item for item, and
prove all our charges true; and if the editor
OF the Stripes or any man that believes him
correct will pungle the money, we will cove,
it. Now, back down or put up.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03

SICKENs WITH DIsGUsT.-When the Re-
publican State Convention of Ohio and the
State Central Committee of this State pass
ed resolutions to catch the German vote, the
thing was SO disgustingly transparent that
even the Sacramento Union denounced it in
bitter terms, saying:
THE Germans are intelligent enough to see
through this thin transparency, and will not
thank any party for such an attempt to use theil
sympathes in controlling their reason
In this the Union is right. The Germans
the Irish, the French and all classes of adopt
ed citizens in this country do know that the
Democracy is the only party that has al
ways contended for their rights. Such mis-
erable hypocritical trickery should be and
will be dispised and spit upon by every in
telligent German in the country.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
SUM M ON s.

In THE JUSTICE Court OF FOURTH TOWNSHIP IN
CoLFAx, COUNTY OF PLACER, STATE OF CALI
FoRNIA.
J. Fingland & S. F. Gwinn, doing business
under the name and title of FINGLAND 4
GwINN, plaintiffs against j. N. Brown, de-
fendant.
VINHE people of the State of California send
L greeting to J. N. Brown, defendant You
are hereby required to appear before me- at my
office in the Fourth Township, at Colfax, County
of Placer, in action brought against you by
the above named plaintiffs, and answer the COM
plant in said action on file in my office, within
fifteen days exclusive of the day of service)
after the service you of this Summons
The said action is brought to recover the sum
of tn rty-ive and twenty-five one hundreth dol
lars $35 % balance due from you to plaintiffs
on book account for meats sold and delivered, by
plaintiffs, to you, at your special instance and
request, at Colfax, Township Four County Of
Placer, State of California, from September I'd,
1869, to February lst, 1870. And you are hereby
notified that if you fail to appear and answer said
complaint as above required, said plaintiffs will
take judgment against you for the said amount
of thirty-tive and twenty-five one hundreth dol
lars S35 221, together with costs and damages.
To the Sheriff or any Constable of said Placer
county, greeting: Make legal service and due
return hereof.
Given under my hand this 25th day of May,
A. ID. 1870.
N. r. D. TRAPHAGAN,
Justice of the Peace of said Township 4.
1t appearing from affidavit filed by j. Fingland.
of the plaintiffs in the above entitled action,
that the plaintiffs have good cause of action,
and after due diligence the defendant cannot
be found, he, defendant, having left this State,
so that service cannot be had on him personally
therefore it is ordered that the Summons herein
require the defendant to appear and answer
within fifteen days, exclusive of the day of
vice, after service thereof, and be published for
the period of three months from the first day of
publication in the PLACER HERALD a paper pub
lished weekly in the county of Placer, State of
California And it is further ordered that copy
of the Summons be addressed to the defendant.
J. n Brown, and placed in the post Office at
Colfax, said Cofax being his last known resi-
dence.
Given under my hand this Sth day of June,
A. D. 1870. n. II. d. TRAPHAGAN,
Justice of the Peace Township No. 4.
Auburn, June IL, 1870. jel1-3m
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03

OVERLAND MONTHLY. The September
number of this verv popular Pacific Coast
Magazine has been received. The follow
are the contents of this number:
Twelve days "absence without leave;
The Yuba Hydraulic Mines, (No. ~; Om
Scout to Black Canyon; At the Hacienda; A
Day on the Weser; Road Making in the
Tropics No. 1.); Mexican Bandits; Confes-
sion of Crme-its Value; With Wreath
Of Laurel; lxotle; Less Recent Minnesota
Salt Lake City; Rough Times in Idaho
Plain Language from Truthful James; Cur
rent Literature; Passages from the English
Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthome-Man
and Wife-The Rob Roy on the Jordan
The Writings of Anne Isabella Thackera-
Queen Hortense.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03
ASTOUNDING STATISTICS. Sacramen.

ASTOUNDING STATISTICS. Sacramen-
to Union of the 4th inst, contains a letter
from its special Washington Correspondent,
which, for the astounding figures it contains,
beats anything we have seen in print. We
give place to the Correspondents own Ian
guage and figures which are as follows:
'Let me give interesting Revenue details,
which are fresh from headquarters and will first
see the light in your columns. The receipts
from the general sources of revenue, viz: Spirits,
tobacco, fermented liquors, banks and bankers,
gross receipts, sales special taxes not elsewhere
enumerated, income (including saaries,) lega-
cies, SUGGESTIONS. articles in schedule A, pass
ports gas, sources not elsewhere enumerated,
penalties and net receipts from stamps-for the
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03

WHY, yes, Mcbride was only mistaken
about the big nugget, but the Stripes, two
or three days afterwards, and when the
truth should have been known to the editor,
sent out a "buncombc" leader treating the
story as an approved fact, and never since
has had the courage or disposition to set the
public or its exchanges right by publishing
an honorable contradictions If Mcbride had
have had charge of the Stripes and written
such an editorial as appeared in that paper,
we feel certain that he would have taken it
back or explained it away A refusal to
contradict the editorial error was what made
it what Webster calls a lie. Our neighbor
is hard to please. He sometimes growls at
US for not talking plain enough, and then
again he scolds because we talk too plain.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03

HURT.-John Dwyer, of Pleasant Grove creek
was in Roseville with his team on Friday even
ing the 26th ult, when from some cause his
team became frightened and started TO run, and
this frightened another team which also become
unmanageable, and sort of double runaway
was the result Mr.. Dwyer was thrown from
his wagon and quite seriously hurt, but as he
was Immediately taken to his ranch, our Rose.
vile informant could not give us the particulars
or the extent of his injuries.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-03

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ARaUs.-This ex-
cellent Democratic paper, edited and pub
lished by our old Placer friend, R. J. Steele,
has just closed its first volume. The Argus
is large, well printed, well filled and ably
edited paper, printed on new material and
bears every impress of being success, as
its merits justly deserve. The Argus can
not meet with more success than we wish it.
nor its editor more honors and prosperity
than we hope may crown his labors.