The Placer herald., 1858-12-18
News of the State.

capital stock $32,O ,OOO for the purpose of ex-
tending the line to Honey Lake via Quincy,
in Plumas county.
DEBT OF SAcRAMENro.-The city of Sacra-
mento owes a debt, amounting in the aggre-
gate to nearly one and half millions OF
dollars.
The late cold weather was general through
out the State.
A large company is organizing in San
Francisco for gold prospecting tour on the
Gia river.
The coinage in the San Francisco Mint
for the week ending December llth, amount
ed to 100000 in double eagles.
A Panorama of the Yosemite falls is on
exhibition at San Francisco.
The Contra Costa Gazette says a new vein
of coal has been discovered in that county,
about twenty-five miles from Martinez. 1t is
thought to be a valuable vein.
The amount of cash on hand in the Ell
Dorado county Treasury, December 9th, was
$3.50 26.
Gamblingis is openly carried on at Columbia
in Tuolumne county; also at Nevada and
Grass Valley, III Nevada county.
FATAL SHor.-The Calaveras Chronicle
states that Samuel Lawson and James Benson
got into difficulty at the Junction Store,
Mokelumne Hill, on the 9Th of December
Lawson threw billiard ball at Benson, and
struck him upon the temple, wounding him
severely, and possibly mortaly. Lawson is
he'd to answer.
LEGIsLATURE.-As the 1st of January
comes Oh Saturday, the next Legislature will
convene on the Sd of January.
FIRE IN SACRAMrNTo.-Dingley' coffee
and spice mill, Sacramento and two frame
houses adjoining, were destroyed by fire on
Sunday morning.
J. R. Spencer and S. F. Frank lately killed
grizzly bear in Shsta county that weighed
932 pounds. The bear was very thin in
flesh. 1t is thought the animal, had it been
in good condition, would have weighed 1000
pounds.
Robert Creighton and Peter Van Wyck
hdu d HSul III odu TIdHClSCo. CIelSuloil Dil
piece from Van Wick's hand, and was sent
up il consequence.
a number of necessary improvements are
being made in and about the State House,
at Sacramento, preparatory to the meeting
of the Legislature.
In San Francisco last week, young man
named Bradley, feeling unwell, applied to
DR.. O'Dowd. a druggist, for medicine, who
gave him morphia, which proved an overdose,
aud Bradley died within twentyfour hours
Dr.. ODowd was so overwhelmed at the
fatal result, that he took prussic acid and
died in a short time.
The Commissioners Of the Ell Dorado
Wagon Road have accepted the work of the
contractor The newspapers say the road
has not been made according to contract
that is too narrow, and that there are not a
sufficient number of turn outs.
wills Knott, of the Nome Lackee Indian
Reservation, lately killed thirty-nne deer
and one grizzly, in hunt of seven days.
The Sonoma Democrat SAYS that county
stands first among the grape growing coun-
ties Of the State. With the vines to he set
out this winter there will be $4,000 vines
in the county.
Marble, equal, if not superior to the finest
Paran or Carrara, has recently been discov-
cred at Volcano Amador county. The quar-
ry is extensive.
A number Of rich quartz lodes have been
discovered in different parts of the State
within few weeks past
The total revenue collected in Sierra coun
ty for November, was $2,757 54.
LA PoRrE.-The Messenger saws there are
two men in that place who have "been law
ing it" tor more than a year, with thirty dol,
lars as the original amount, and over six
hundred as accruing costs, involved
The rising generation of Shasta have in
dulged in sled riding down hill. The heavy
fall of snow permitted the sport.
On Saturday last the snow was eigh
inches deep at Downevie-
On last Saturday night the streets ane
houses of Placerville were lighted with ga
for the first time
Thompson, the noted Carson Valley Ex
pressman, has contracted to keep the stag,
road over the Sierras at that place, free o
snow this winter
The actual Indebtedness of Amador coun
ty, after, deducting the money in the treasur,
applicable to the redemption Of county war
rants, is $22,s39 81.
The Golden Era newspaper has commenc
ed its seventh volume.
The total number of children in Alamed
county between the ages of four and eighteel
wars is 11T1