The Shasta courier., 1858-11-06
California News Items.

California News Items.
.....The Nevada Journal informs us that the
Nestor of the California press, Gen. Allen, has
abandoned the tripod forever, and is now turn
ing his attention to the patriarchal pursuit of
vine-growing. We love Gen. Allen, because,
take him for all in alas a writer, as a man, as
afriend-it has seldom been good fortune
to meet his equal. To the people of San Juan
his presence is blessing
......Lee's National Circus is travelling through
the mines We obserro that F. H. Hermon, the
miserable wretch" and once partner of ours
when we were part owner of the Sacramento
Union, is the Agent. A jollier, whole-souled
man never breathed the pure air of California.
.....At the instigation of Gen. Allen, the editor
of the Nevada Journal is going into the vine
growing business. He thinks he will plant about
"a dozen or two vines. Go it, wonderful
pomologist.
..... The Alta of the Goth ult says the amount of
freight at that time going up the Sacramento
river was unprecedentedly large, averaging 1900
tons per week.
1.-THE wagon road on the Georgetown divide
is being put through speedily. 1t has been COM
pleted to within eleven miles of the point where
it connects with the road leading from Placer
vile. A four mule team went over the road on
Sunday last with 1900 pounds.-Coloma Re
publican.
1.-THE first annual ball of the Turner's of this
city, win take place on the 18th of November
1t will be a very elegant atfair-such as the
Turner's uniformly get up in all their celebra-
tions and re-unions.-M MarysuIte Express, 2Sth ult
THE government has commenced excavat-
ing the ground for its mammoth foundry, on the
Pacific coast, which is to be located at the Mare
| Island Navy Yard. 1t will be the largest foun-
| dry in the United States just as the California
Navy Yard, when completed, will be the largest
belonging to our government. But it will not
be completed in less than thirty years l-Sacra-
mento Bee.
......An old codger, over forty years of age ad-
vertises for wife in the Alta. He is rich and
wants wife over thirty years of age, of pure
white blood, of "pleasing presence without be-
ing grossly beautifuP'-'s must not wear cotton
toggery on her head at her annual and only Wis
it to the theatre'-must eschew 's fringed petit
coats and worked under garments" !" and il
case of broken crockery, &C., must always retaii
her friendly temper" The cid curmudgeonl
......Thomas o. Larkin, one of the oldest Ameri
can residents of California, died in San Francisc
on the 27th ult. He came to California in 1873:
and was Consul at Monterey when tn America
officers took possession of the country.
...... Governor Weller has refused to return t.
the lst California Guards the guns taken ava,
from them some time since. The Guards" i
will be remembered, went over to the Vigilantes
1.-THE following is an extract from privat
letter from a gentleman in Oroville to another il
San Francisco:
"Nearly every one in Oroville has been sick
and great many are down yet,
I'm sorry about the river claimants, as, in gen.
eral, they are behind and, with but two OF
three exceptions they will all be losers. In
deed but few have paid yet twenty-five cents on
the dollar expended. The ''Big Union Cape !
will be almost an entire failure. Cost of con-
tract 5000, 1000; labor, of getting out dirt, near
ly Sl00, 900 ; and presume they have not taken
out, all told, 100000"
......A rich lead of copper ore has been discov-
cred on the Middle Fork of the Costumes, about
one mile from Slug Gulch.
...... The marble quarries of Indian Diggngs,
Placer county, are being worked with profit
The marble is of fine quality and will supercede
the imported article for all purposes.
Within a few miles of Shasta there is an mex
| baHstibie amount of the most beautiful varie-
/ gated marble, of a quality not inferior to the
famous marble exported to all parts of the world
| from Italy. Some enterprising persons will one
day make an immense fortune out of this mar
| BILE.
......Mr. Charles Hudspeth informs the Santa
Rosa Democrat that during one week he had
killed four lions on his ranch, near the head of
the canon. He has killed sixteen of these "var-
mints" since one year ago last February.