The Nevada Democrat. [volume] (Nevada, Calif.) 1854-1863, 1857-03-04
WHOLE NO. 1885,
VARIETIES.

Miss olive Oatman, Wn0se recovery from lne
Mohave tribe of Indians last year, created so
much food for newspapers, is now at Yreka with
her brother, who had been left for dead at the
time the family were killed and Olive taken
prisoner They are now having prepared for
publication, q full account Of their eventful
lives from the time they left Illinois, in 1850,
up to the rescue of Miss Olive. The work is
being prepared by the Rev. Mr.. Stratton, OF that
place, and we have been informed that there IS
an abundance of material to render 1t thrill
ling narrative.
A SURpIus OF DoCToRs to a cor
respondent of the Medical World, physicians
have multiplied so rapidly in this country that
newly fedged NJ DIS. are puzzled to find a COM
munity which require their services. They are
exceedingly numerous in the eastern cities, while
the west is actually overrun with the sons OF
Esculapius. In all the thriving towns and set
Elements in Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska,
there are more medical men than patients The
writer very wisely counsels his young brethren
to become farmers. M A.in'
THEocRAcY AND DEMoCRACY.-A French wrl-
ter, in the Paris constitutional, in speculating
on American affairs, says, ''sacerdotal influence
is nowhere in the civilized world more active
and potent than in the United States, and the
Republic is as much Theocracy as Democ-
racy.n The Frenchman must have come to this
conclusion from the late Presidential contest,
when so many preachers took to politics The
result oe the election shows that his conclusion
was somewhat hasty.
FIRES IN ls5G-To the 227 considerable fires
in the United States during the last year, wfere
the amount of property destroyed has been es-
timated to be equal to and upwards OF S2O,O0O
at each, the number has been added, wherein
the'amount destroyed has been less than that
ctI1n an q OOr amount
stroyed by fires is estimated at twenty-seven
millions of dollars The loss of life by fires
during the past year has numbered 1883 persons.
MORE CAMEIs.-The United States storeship
Supply has again gone to the Mediterranean for
a cargo of camels, and will stop TOR them at
Smyrna. Mr.. Heep is engaged in selecting the
best kind for transportation to Texas, and the
Turkish government has ordered the officials at
Smyrna TO furnish him every facility and to
give him six of the finest cames in the country
to show the respect felt by the Sultan for tho
United States.
A SKIILrL DRvER-The Shasta Republican
says that Lew. Burke, one of the best drivers In
the employ of the California Stage Company,
has during the late storm, had his skill put to
the test in crossing the swollen streams and
overfowed flats. Last Tuesday he swan his
horses and coach over one hundred yards not
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laid down in the books.
CHINAMEN FOR ALGIERs.--A young Chinaman
has arrived in France from the central howery
land, on his way to Algicrs, where he is to as
certain whether certain Chinese products are
likely to be cultivated with success in that colo
NY. If so 200 IIindoos and 800 Cinnamon will
be brought over to establish plantations and at
tend to their cultivation.
FooD FOR PRISONERS. is advertised that
proposals will be received for supplies for the
subsistence of the San Francisco city and coun-
ty prisoners for three months from the 18th of
March next. Each prisoner to be furnished, per
day, with one pound of beef, one and a quarter
pound of bread, half a pound of potatoes, and
one gallon of water
MINER KILLED.-A man named Edward Smith,
says the Iowa Hill News, was killed while at
work in q claim on Brushy Canon, by the fall
ing of an embankment Another person at work
in the same claim narrowly escaped, having been
caught by the slide and nearly covered up.
Smith was an Irishman had lived in Boston,
Mass, and leaves family there. -aH
An UNLUCKY SNEEzE-A man sneezed so loud
during the performance of the French Company
at the American Theater, San Francisco, on
Sunday night, that he set the whole house in an
uproar. An attempt to put him out was resist
ed, and great excitement ensued for ten minutes,
several ladies leaving the house. .4
BLANToN McALPIN.-A correspondent Of the
Town Tolk, writing from Manzanillo, in Mexico,
says that the above-named gentleman, formerly
Seargent-at-Arms of the Assembly of California,
IS living in that God-forsaken town, "luxuriat-
ing OH the fruits of tropical climate, and the
pleasant reflections of a well-spent liie"
No ACCOUNTING FOR TAsrE.-Two white men
took places each by the side of q oolOred fem-
nine in the negro gallery Of the Marysville
Theater. on Saturday night. The yells and
hisses of the audience did not disturb them but
the police did, and they had to come down among
white folks or leave.
A NoBIEMAN IN JAIL.-A superior looking
man, who represents himself as Baron Rocheau,
late private secretary to the Prussian minister
at Washington, is in Jail at Liverpool, charged
with coming from that port, in the steamship
Persia, without baving paid bis passage
REASON WHY.-Quite laugh was raised in
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, not long
since, by an official, who, when the Judge called
out for the crier to open the Court said, "May
it please your Honor, the crier can't cry to-day
because his wife is dead"
SELLING LIQUOR TO DRUNKEN MEN.-Four men
were arrested at San Francisco, a few days ago,
for getting drunk and disturbing the peace.
They were discharged, but the man who sold
them liquor when they were already drunk was
fined twenty dollars. ....s
STOCKTON ARTEsIAN WEEL.-The artesian well,
on the square in Stockton, is now six hundred
feet in depth. At last accounts the workmen
we're boring through a stiff blue clay,
In LUcK.-A miner picked up, on Sunday
week, near Sonora, lump of gold weighing
two pounds and quarter 1t was found on
pile of taings thrown from a tom. ..
CHICKEN EPTDEMIC.-Large quantities OF fat
chickens have recently died in Shasta. One
person lost twenty-three. No cause is assigned
for the epidemic. ..,
FATAL MINING ACCIDENT.-Peter McCann,
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