Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-05-01
CLIPPINGS.

1t is said that one Of the men recently
hung at Bangor in this county, was George
Grugg. alias Lindsey, who escaped some
time since from the Amador county Jail.
The proprietor of the Spring Hill, ANA
dor and keystone Quartz Mills have donat-
ed 5000 to the University OF the Pacific"
Belshaw's Jewelry store at Fiddletown.
was robbed on Sunday night OF Valua0Ies
amounting to over $1,000.
NoRrHERN RoAp The Siskiyou Chron-
icle says that preliminary measures for
building wagon road from Crescent City 10
Illinois Valley are being vigorously pushed
10y the inhabitants on and at both ends OF
the route.
SMALL. Pox.-The Stockton Pacific Meth
odist is informed that the small pOX is now
prevailing to some extent III the southern
part of that county. a gentleman who
came out on the last steamer has died with
it, and the disease is prevailing in the tam-
ly of Mr.. Bailey, at whose house the man
died.
RESIGN ALTON ON Saturday last, H. II.
Byrne, District Attorney Of the city and
County of San Francisco, gave in his resig-
nation in the Court of Sessions, TO take eff
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Of salary.
CRrIcAL.-The robber Of Wells, Fargo &
Co.'S Express, who was shot while making an
effort to escape in Calaveras county, week
before last, il not expected 10 recover, he is
lying at Mokolumne Hill in very precari-
Gus condition
\ large sized Italian, named Carlo Caseza
was shot by another Italian, small man
called Jack" in San Francisco on Sunday.
AspHALPUM. The Santa Barbara Gaz-
ette says: This county abounds in asphaltum.
There is probably enough here to load all
the ships of the world anl supply all Chris
tendon for generations 10 come,
APPOINTMENTS toR SAN QUENTIN, The
Govt of Sessions, sitting at Mokelumne Hill
made the the flowing appointments for
San Quentin: Henry Browning and John
Brown, robbery, twenty years each Felipe
Cast'o, rape, seven years; William Watson
and Frank Perkins, horse stealing, three
years; John Smith, grand larceny, seven
years.
EXECUTION SUsPENDED.-The Sheriff OF
Tuolnmne county has received official notice
of "a stay of proceedings i'll the case of Ed
ward McCAuley, WHO was to have been hung
on the LIST Of May.
Calvin Wells was found murdered near
San Leandro on the l9th.i
AT San Audreas, Cinnamon caught
stealing chickens, received fifty lashes, and
had the tail of his head cut oft.
The. Baptist congregation in Placerville
are about to erect new house Of worship.
The Editor of the Iowa Hill News, who
boards at Hotel, walked up the other NOR
ming, and was astonished to see a INDUSTRIOUS
bug sitting on the back Of a chair, pulling
pins from coat and picking his teeth
The crops in lone, Bucna Vista, and Jack
son Valleys have not yet suffered from the
drouth.
The Spring fights, says the Ledger, have
commenced IN jackson.
WHO PUT 1T THERE THE American
flag has been placed at the top of n tall tree
on CAPE Mendocino. This is the most west
erly point in the Republic; its rough noun
famous front rises haughtily out of the sea
and away down its base the waves make
foam and roar, and strike in dircst anger,
the great Interchangeable rocks The GA es
whlrling up coast or dashing along from
Oregon, lodge with the grand family 0: trees
whose leaves are never still at the green
summit Of the Cape.
A German barber was wounded in the
thigh Mt Shasta, last Thursday, by the ac-
cidental discharge Ola pistol
A man named Gibson, was shot dead, at
Sawyer's Bar, by Mr. Petty the cOroners
jury justified the shooting on the of defense
of lie aud property.
VIM. Freeze a miner, was found dead at
his cabin, at Lower SPRINGS, Sh lsta county,
Oh Sunday week.
Another robbery is reported on Trinity
Mountain.
FATAL ACCIDENT-On the 10Th April,
Stephen Trickle, a resident of Humboldt.
while employed in unloading logs trom "A
car, was caught by one of the logs and so
horribly crushed that he survived but few
hours. His situation was not discovered IN
til some hours after the accident.
Negro JIM" charged
with the murder of white woman in a
mouse of i'll tame at Uniou, HUMBOLDT Bay,
has been examined and discharged.
HoPE-There is a report on Sa lmon river
saws the Humboldt Times, that the Rev. Mr.
Brooks, who was believed to be lost among
the SHOWS on Salmon mountain has been
found alive.
THE BIG TREE RoUrE.-The friends of
this route will hold meeting on Saturday
at Mokelumne Hill. The object Of the gath
this road to Carson Valley.