The Nevada journal., 1858-09-17
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chawed and smok ed away annually by
the French. -. .Rasey Biven,late editor
of the Stockton Democrat wants to be
Secretary to the Senate next winter. -.
The Placer Herald nominates Mr. STRAIT
ton for Speaker of the next Assembly.
- The vote of Placer county at the
late election was 4720.. They pro-
pose making new State out of the up
per peninsula of Michigan, called Onton-
agon. The late celebration by the
Jews was the commencement Of the
year 5619, of their CHI onology..
Briggs, the fruit raiser at Marysville, al
lows two-thirds of his peaches to rot, to
keep up the price on the other third.
Something is wrong somewhere :. The
steamer Senator brought to San Fran
cisco, from the South, 5000 boxes of
grapes on Sunday last. The Presi-
dent has sent John Nugent. an Irish
man, to teach Americans how to be-
have themselves towards Englishman in
the Frazer River country. They had
a shower of rain of three hours duration,
accompanied by thunder and lightning,
at San Diego, on the 21st ult...
The total number of persons that left
San Francisno, for Frazer River from
the Goth Of April, to. o..the. 11th of Sep
tember, inclusive. was, 23,961, returned,
4,939. >. The Fair of the Sisters of
Charity, San Francisco, brought in $40,
SOP. Net, 1929. :. Mrs. John Wood
is playing in Sacramento with great
success. Rich diggings have been
struck on Soda creek near Shasta Butte,
creating considerable excitement among
the miners of Siskiyou. 80. A miner
from Shasta, in the Frazer River coun-
try says the most arid deserts and gloom
lest glens of California are paradise spots
compared with the most pleasant places
on Frazer river, and says every ounce
of gold collected there in the next three
years will cost one hundred dollars. -.
Gen. Kibbe is about to wage war upon
the northern Indians if he takes a notion.
-. Hrude drag, says the Shasta Re-
publican, took over 400 trout at one haul
in the upper Sacramento Jim Beck
wourth says the Pi Utes made one "sur-
round" in his valley recently and killed
4s3 deer. The bears, lions and cayotes
they didn't count Sands, who killed
Snowhite in Marysville has been held to
answer at the next Court in the penal
sum of $4,000. Judge Sexton has
decided that person is no more required
by law to fence in his grain than his
band Of cattle. :. There is no such
thing then as "lawful fence. ~. 1t is
reported that old Joe Chambers and
Goodrich are on their way from Texas
with 1,500 head of stock. The San
Francisco mint will close about the 1st
of October for the annual settlement.
The Butte Record has changed from
a daily to a weekly paper. That paper
says there is great deal Of Sickness at
Oroville, though not of dangerous
character. 80. The first mail on the
overland route via Fort Yuma to Mem
phis, Tenn, left San Francisco on the
18th. 80. There were S33S,679 35 in the
State Treasury on Saturday last. 49,.
Fresh Salmon is rapidly coming into our
markets. .. The laws for the protec-
ton of game were suspended for sea-
son on the 18th. A scamp lately
pardoned by Gov. Weller was caught
stealing in San Francisco the other day.
and was shot in the hams. The la
test returns give Baldwin over Currey
1856 majority. -. They have discov-
cred lead of quartz at Vallecito which
washes out from 50 to $12 to the pan;
an ounce and half of quartz yields
sometimes an ounce of gold. 1t is
expected that the Cape clatm at Oro-
vile will yield from 100000 to s1,ooo,-
before the water drives the miners ont.
-. "A government pet named Dorsey
was killed by his father-in law, at the
Monte, Los Angeles county. The
steamer Great Republic is on the way
to San Francisco with 1000 tons of coal.
-. The Bay city is supplied with fine
fresh mackerel from Monterey-macker-
ell catchers are bound to increase in this
state. "A Mrs Mason was poiso ned so
that she died, in Sacramento, on Sunday
last, from eating peaches supposed to
have prepared for the purpose. Henry
Smith and Andrew Hawes were severe
ly injured by blasting accident, at San
Andreas, on the 9th inst . "A coal mine
is worked sc miles from Oakland, Ala
media county.
Did not get him, you 6et.'-One day
last week, says the Crescent City Herald.
at Victoria a California man was ad-
dressing a crowd in one of the principal
streets. The topic was the unhappy
state of things up there, and the crowd