The Placer herald., 1858-01-02
News Of the State.

were also Wnlte.
A correspondent of the Calaveras Chron
icle say there are nineteen quartz mills at
West Point and its immediate vicinity
Fresh STRAWBERRIES IN AMADoR, RIpE.-
Strawberries were plucked from some vines
in Kilham's garden, a few days ago, in the
town of Jackson.
MERGED CouNTY-This county is stated
to be prospering. Its finances are in good
condition, county debt small and it has a
good Court House and jail Facilities for
raising stock are good, while agricultural
privileges are excellent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN NAPA.-Buldings are
being erected in all parts Of the town of Napa
and it is said a vacant house is not to be
found there.
HUMBOLDT VEGETABLEs.-The editor of
the Humboldt Times has been presented
with a cabbage weighing seventy four pounds
and turnip weighing forty pounds.
On Christmas day, at San Francisco, there
was rain fell, and shock of an earthquake
felt
Two men-Lopez, for the murder of
George l'tlugart, at San Juan, and Thos
King, for the murder of Lafayette King,
were found guilty at Los Angeles, and suf-
cred the death penalty on the 9th inst.
A public meeting has been held at Los
Angeles to take measures to prevent the sale
of arms and ammunition to the Mormons.
Hyram Loveall, of Johnson county Mo-,
is inquired for by his son, Thomas jeremiah
Loveall, II years of age, at Los Angeles
A man in Sonora has commenced suit
against his wife for divorce, on the ground
of cruel treatment.
San Bernardno is without officers Those
elected were all Mormons, and have left for
Salt Lake with the exception Of the district
Attorney.
Mooresville in Butte county, is a mining
town of growing Importance The deposit
is a quartz gravel from six to ten feet in depth
which prospects very well.
The citizens of Amador have taken steps
to organize military company at that place
BREAcn OF PnoMIsn IN NEVADA A suit
was commenced last Saturday 10y Miss Nan
cy McGrath against George T. McMurray
for breach of promise of marriage. Dam
aee put down at 100000
The shock of an earthquake was felt at
Santa Barbara and San Buenveuura on the
l4th uIt
Alexander Speer, of Muscatine, Iowa
U,ic TO, hos 4 A
who came to CaliforHia in 1854, and subse-
quently joined Walkers forces in Nicaragua
The new waterproof paint, obtained in
FL Dorado County, and ground at the mill
at the mouth of the American river, by Gov
ert & Co., says the Sacramento Bee, is be-
ing very generally used in the city, and
affords satisfaction.
On White river, fifty miles south Of Visa
liza, in Tulare county, the quartz miners are
doing very well. The quartz yields from
$50 to 5000 per ton
The citizens Of Mariposa county have call
ed mass Convention to take measures fol
the construction of canal to supply til,
mines of Hornitos, Quartzburg, Indian Gulcl
and other places.
The magnificent steamer Gipsey is nov
running as a packet to the metropolis o
Butte-Oroville. She will carry one passen
ger with safety and tolerable comfort. The
boat is expected to make a good report o
herself in due season.
DR.. Annie L. Avery, formerly of Cleve
land Ohio is practlcing medicine in Col
umbia, Tuolumne County.
ORovILLE. - The Methodist ladies ar,
about to give festival, the proceeds to pay
for building the parsonage.
When will the drain be stopped? Yester
day $2,O34,ll9 Is were sent away; on th'
steamer preceding 50, AGA ,66O; on the steam
er of the Goth November, $2,709,938 60
and on the steamer of the 5th November
$2,147,274 5s, making a grand total o
$0,355,o92 SO, in two months. This is tn,
largest amount ever shipped within simi
lar space of time from California. 1t serves
to show the immense wealth of the country
and the immense amounts which are hiC
away where no human eye can penetrate -
The commercial revulsion, and the suffering
or relatives ana lIleuuS consequent tnereon
has opened the purse strings of our people
and millions has been sent away through the
Golden Gate. For decade, at least, W,
shall hear no more about the "giving out o
the mines," and the general collapse Of Cali
fornia 1t stands at the head Of the fnancia
system of the United States, and nowher
will its supremacy again be called in ques
ton. s. f. Herald.
A singular accident lately occurred, at tn
Gilmore colery, England. Two men to b
lifted mp to the surface, placed their feet il
the loop of chain attached TO the engine
and holding on to ascend. A loop in the de
scending chain by some means got over tn
head of one of the men and before he wa
able to extricate himself it was torn complete