The Placer herald., 1856-12-13
Variety.

RECEIPT FOR POPULAR LECTURE-The
following is DR.. Elders receipt for a popu>
lar lecture: "Take one drop of thought, beat
it up in brshel of bubble, and throw rain
bows on it for one hour"
DEATH OF AN OLD CALlFoRNIAN.-Barton
Lee, an old Californian and a member of the
Pioneer Association died at Sacramento, on
Monday last. In 1910 and 1850 he was
wealthy, but died poor.
Table Mountain is one of the richest min
ing localities in the State. 1t is estimated
that about $250,O00 will be realized from
dirt piled up there within a space not eX-
ccedmg three or four acres.
SALE OF FoNTIuLL-W notice that Mr..
Edwin Forrest has sold his magnificent house
on the Hudson, below Workers, to Arch
bishop Hughes. Only portion of the
grounds WAS sold, the price was S50,O0O.-
Under the patronage of his Grace the home
of the tragedian is to become nupnery for
damsels of the Roman Church,
STEAMSHIPS Though but eightean years
have elapsed since the first vessel wholly pro-
PEELED by steam, crossed the Atlantic now
there are fourteen lines of steamers, com
prisng forty-eight vessels, plying between
Europe and the United States
New MINING TowN.-A new town call
ed Bangor, has been laid out in Butte county,
about twelve miles from Oroville. Its loca-
tion Is said to be excellent and the mines in
the vicinity good. 1t is within half a mile
of the South Feather River Ditch.
A company has been formed at Benson
vile, Tuoumne county, for the purpose of
huming Columbia Gulch, running some IL
feet lower than the present tlume. The
capital stock is $25, 900, composed of two
hundred and fifty shares of 800 each.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN FRANcE.-Louis
Napoleon has positively and peremptorily
ordered the projects of France to allow all
the protestants in their districts the free and
undisturbed exercise of their religion, desiring
that he may hear no more persecution of the
Protestants, and that they may never again
be disturbed in their worship. .ls
Never 90 to bod at ten leaving your wife
up till two with sick baby, and look pitch
forks at her at the breakfast table, bacanse
that meal is half an hour too late.
Short AND ExpLlcrr-Itis said that dur=
ing the recent difficulties in Kansas, General
Lane sent message to General Doniphan,
that ON certain day he "would eat dinner
in Westport." Donphan replied, eff YOU do
you'll take supper in hell"
A Suspension Bridge is to be built across
the Mississippi, at St Louis, Mo-, to be eighty
four feet above high water mark, and more
than mile in length. The greatest dis
tance between towers will be 1900 feet, and
the foundation of some of the towers will be
60 feet below the surface of low water. Mr..
J. w. Bissel, of Rochester, New York, has
received the appointment of engineer. The
bridge is expected not to cost less than two
millions of dollars.
MARIposA IIocs.-The AIariposa Gazette.
thus deals with an intruder upon the rights,
of his private domicie:
That black hog, long, slim and wiry,, OF
the masculine gender, first person, singular
number-particularly of tbs possessive case,.
and governed by CIRCUMSTANCES, according to
the rule in this burg, that hogs have the right
to steal, invade kitchens, and are entitled to.
perqaisites when- eyer they can make grab +
the aforesaid porker was laudably engaged
in tipping over our cooking stove, when We
took him slightly in the head with a pistol
ball, from the effect of which we hoped to be
able to record his discease but 10. after an alb
! sence of a week he has returnd, seeking WHOM
he may devour lie looks somawhat rustey
and attenuated but we know him, i-n him.