Items - A drove of antelope crossed the railroad tracks near Madera on Friday morning last. C.H. Evans of Madera, who has been doing a successful business for the past two months, is building a handsome veranda in front of his saloon and intends erecting a spacious awning. Dr. Brown of Madera recently purchased Sanford's saloon, poured out the whiskey, and fitted up the building as a drug store. A man in the employment of E.W. Chapman, near Madera, while working on one of the gates of the irrigation ditch, allowed the axe to slip and inflict a severe wound on his leg, his kneepan being nearly cut-off. The water of the San Joaquin has been rising gradually since Thursday last, and the river is now not fordable.
All crossing is done at the ferry.