The Georgetown news., 1856-01-03
News Items.

statement, showing the number of maria
ges in San Francisco county, during the
year 1855, to have been 267.
The Los Angeles Star says that $4,000
sheep recently crossed the Colorado, and
are now on their way to the North.
The greater portin of the new town Of
Folsom situated at the upper terminus of
the Sacramento Valley Railroad, has been
within few days squatted upon by par
ties who refuse to acknowledge the validity
of the Leidesdorff claim.
A gentleman who is engaged in the brick
business, informs the Sacramento Union
that there have been manufactured within
the limits of that city, during the present
year, no less than fifteen million one hun
dred thousand bricks.
The number of devotees to the spiritual
ist doctrine in the city of Troy, n. Y, is
estimated by competent authority at twelve
hundred.
The census Of Nebraska, just completed,
shows total population Of 1866. The
number Of legal voters, after deducting the
fifty white males residing on the halfbreed
tract, is ,465. There are eleven slaves in
the Territory, five residing in the half-breed
tract, and six in Otoe county.
The Scheische Zeitung of late date,
states that 700 Polish emigrants from Up
per Silesia, men, women and children, all
dressed in their national costume, passed
Bresian on their way to Galveston, Texas.
Returns from thirty of the forty-one
counties in the State, show that there are
in these thirty counties 10 Flour mills, with
ll5 run Of stone; 25O saw mills, and 40
quartz mills.
1t is reported that there is now in store
in Chicago, or in transitu for the seaboard,
via Detroit, 100000 bushels of wheat, which
have been purchased on account of the
French Government.
During the year 1855, the number of ap-
plicants for the benefit Of the insolvent laws
in the Courts Of San Francisco, has been
1871, whose liabilities have exceeded the ag-
gregate of eight millions of dollars The
heaviest failures were l. C. Woods and Ad-
ans & Co, for 81 $780, Albert j. Tobi-
as for S279.579; Markwald & Caspari, for
S268, i'll; j, B. Bidleman, for $26l ,461;
Edward ViScher, for $l92,000: John Mid
dleton, for $l84 800; Gibbs & Co., $780,
600; and Thomas F. Gould, for $145,00O.
The State Tribune says extensive ar
rangements are being made by the commit
tee of Arrangements for the Grand Inau-
guration Ball to be given on the 8th of
January, the anniversary of the battle of
New Orleans. Noexertions will be spared,
we are assured, to render the ball the grand
est affair ever gotten up in California.
1t is estimated that within the last five
months, fifty persons have lost their lives by
falling through holes in the streets of San
Francisco.
A miner friend of the editor of The Sierra
Citizen calculates the value Of the late tenn
pestuous storm in that region at $4,000
per hour
Hon. Sherman Day left Sacramento on
the 3lst ult., to finish his reconnaissance of
the Wagon Road route across the noun
tains. He will return in time to be present
at the organization of the Senate. So says
the State journal.
At the last advices from Oregon battle
had been fought with the Indians near
Seattle. The result was unknown.
There were under treatment in the El
Dorado County Hospital during the quar-
ter ending Dec. 10th, forty persons-largest
number at any one time, nineteen-present
number, twelve.