Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-29
.,MADOR LEDGER.
Short Items.

Nv + bees cost 800 each in Sacramento. -
p,b dear and sweet. The largest of the
.,mids of Egypt is 4sl feet high, its base
.;oc eleven acres. /. 4. Mr.. and Mrs. ]
~ Uollack are announced to be in jackson
Good l--now for a "touch of the le-
.;notep p. z. Hull, Gala husband of
,lo Montez, died week ago in MarysyilIe
sraint good manners to ask an editor
4. names of his correspondents. .. State
,mn duties on the shipment of treasure by
~. last steamer amounted to $4,000. :" Is
,cer intoxicating 7" The Supreme Court
: Massachusetts, say it is. Valley in
rbicb is the Calaveras Big Tree Grove, 6.
soo above the level of the sea. The Cal.
unstrels had good house at Sutter Creek
Sunday night. . . The Sunday law will be in
oDeraton week from tomorrow act
i,solf passed to take effect June lst, which
ZONES on Tuesday -. Congress votes 1920,
400 to Col. Jack Hays, due him as Surveyor
| General of California. Rather handsome.
that-would be for poor man Mr..
| Leach and family left Jackson last week for
tAe East, via. the Plains. Senator Gwin,
very properly, wants pn extra u S. war
| steamer to cruise constantly between San
Francisco and Panama &. . Prof Agassiz,
/ the great Naturalist, says the human race ex-
sted on the globe 100000 years ago
Rumored, that the Calaveras county mer-
chants intend to resist the Sunday law.
Somebody says that the effects of poison oak
NAY be Immediately cured by an application
Of dry salaratns The incorporation of
small town don't pay. Sonora owes SIS,
900. ID. A. j. Davis says: American mod
sty is vulgarty gone to seed.". The mes
merc lecturer heads his posters Look Out y
Oue would suppose, desiring people to come
and hear him, that he would more likely head
the bills Look In. D. The Shasta Cour-
w supports Royal I. Sprague, of Shasta for
Supreme Judge. -. Senator Broderick was
TO leave Washington June 5th, for Califor-
MIA, Several parties in jackson contem-
plate an early visit to the Big Trees. This
is Just the right season. The town of Be
ricia owes $4,000. Rumored, that the
American flag has been hoisted on the Island
Of Formosa, in the China seas. i. The first
maple sugar was made in New England in
1865. 1t is said that Chnaman muir
lcred two white men in Shasta county few
weeks ago. .0u-dit, that Ex-senator Nor
man has been appointed Receiver of the
Land Office at Stockton :. A boy only
seventeen years old is licensed preacher in
st Louis. H G. Lee literally rendered
the gross proceeds of his circus performance
at Nevada to the sufferers by the fire. =. 30
large ocean steamers totally lost in the last
twelve years :. f. The Chinese companies at
San Francisco have sent agents to find out
the true state Of things at Frazer river
John don't want TO be behind The re-
gious revival at the East has converted
every soul in one Connecticut village. What
effect does it have upon the price of nutmegs
,. A good many in and about Jackson are
talking Frazer River" strong; but most Of
them will wait to here further. Sensible . =.
The noted "Orleans Hotel" Sacramento,
will be sold at Sherfi's sale, June 18th. .
Gov Weller has appointed John Il. Addison
guager of wines and liquors at San Francis
Ca fat Office The propriety of the
Pardoning Power vested in the Governor has
been discussed in the Sacramento Atahneum
80. The stage opposition between jackson
and Drytown continues. Charley Backus,
Of the S. F. Minstrels, was riding away from
Downieville, on mule, when the beast fell
down bank, so injuring Backus that he
will not be able to perform for some months
CHrvAMAN MuRDERED-On Monday, o.
this week, Chnaman in the employ of Q
Chinese store, left Drytown with a mule
packed with goods to deliver to customers oil
Rancheria Creek. He did not return and
search was made for him, but in vain, til
Friday, when his dead body was found in O
prospect hole near Burt's Ranch oil Rancho
ria Creek. He was shot in the breast witt
a large bullet and, from appearance, had beel
dragged with rope around his neck to the
hole The mule has not been found. The
body was brought into town Friday. Nc
clue to the pernetrators of the act. If shot