Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-11
Summary of Interior News.
PLACER CoUNTY.-The annexed items are
from the Placer Press, of Saturday:

mascus furnishes hs full particulars of an ac.
cident occurring there one day the past week.
but the manuscript has been mislaid and we
are only able to give the main facts. which
are as follows: Two men were timberinc in
the Lee Company, and by some cause the
caPping flew off the main timbers, which let
down with much force large amount of
grave. completely covering and crushing
one OF them and badly injuring the other
about the legs The miner who was killed
spoke but once after the accident, replying
TO question asked him whether he could
breathe or not. He replied no-no, and then
all was silent. Efforts were Immediately
made to dig him out and it continuing to
cave 1t was found necessary to replace the
Gaping which required hours to accomplish.
The body was finally taken out and buried
at Iowa llill, the corpse being drawn there
IN hand sled. The deceased was an indus.
trlous and sober man, and leaves considerable
money, which, together with IA quantity OF
| the companys dust is buried in some un-
/ known spot
The same correspondence contains an ac-
count of the hair-b breadth escape of Thomas
Moreand, Esq, from the deadly fumes of n
charcoal furnace lie retired one night last
week to his couch and was awoke by sense
of sutfocation-and on reaching and partly
opening the door, he fell from exhaustation.
and lay in an insensible state for several
hours. When he recovered he found he had
fallen into the kettle of GOALS and was badly
burned. The correspondent facetiously writes
! 'that he walks wide"
The Auburn and Bear River Canal Co.
are making arrangements for running water
immediately through the Caperton Ditch, on
the divide south of Gold Hill also, into and
down Antelope ravine There are good dig
gings untouched and unclaimed in both these
localities and we expect there will be ex-
tensive surface mining in the ravines making
northwest and southwest out of the Divide.
The Bridge over the Auburn ravine. at
| Ophir is complete, and is a great improve
ment to the road-decidedly preferable to
that of fording during low water. This is
the fifth substantial bridge across the Auburn
ravine, the Auburn Turnpike crossing the
same that number of times
We have been favored with the dimensions
of ii mammoth pear, in the possession of ex-
sheriff Henson, which are almost too great to
be believed. Latitudinally it measures II
inches, ard longitudinally almost 10 inches
This is a big pear.
SAN Joaquin CoUNrY.-The annexed intel
lgence is from the Stockton Argus, of Satur-
day:
A Scheme 10 Ro5-A rascally plan to rob
the dwelling house of Mr.. Storms was CON
cocted during the present week Mr.. Storms
had mad at work about his house for some
time past, who was called Erred" Several
days since Storms carried h)me bag of
coin, which Erred" noticed, aud made some
remarks to him concerning the value of it.
shortly after he told the occurrence to per-
son with whom he was acquainted and pro-
posed to him to break into storms house du
ring the night and rob him, the person ac-
quiesced to throw Fred off his guard. and
informed the police of the fact. During sew
everal nights the police guarded the house,
with the view of securing Fred" while COM
mitting his proposed robbery; but he put off
the time night after night TO his acconplice,
until Storm, who was notified Of the matter.
in order to save himself and family from
longer anxiety naturally attending the watch.
ing Of q robber who might enter the house
at any hour of the night charged "Fred'
with his designs. The fellow finally acknowl.
edged that such was his intention, and prom
ised to leave the city, never to return Du-
ring this conversation he ACKNOWLEDGED that
he had murdered two men in San Francisco,
and robbed them of $3.50. After Storms had
ceased talking to him. he informed the police
what he had done, and they threatened
"Fred' in such Il manner that he will hardly
return to Stockton, as he left in lex time
for parts unknown.
ArresteL-OGicer jerome Myers arrested
Il man yesterday, on the charge of drunken
ness and disturbing the peace The fellow,
with drunken dignity that was irresstably
ludicrous, denied the right of any officer to
arrest him. lie said that the Maine law and
the Sunday law wer both unconstitutional
and a mau had the right to drink Sundays or
week days. lie said he wasn't abusn' any
body and nobody was abusin' him. Even if
he was drunk, he said, it was constitutional
right, and he threw himself back upon the
Constitution ofthe Unsted States But he
denied being Crunk, and with hiccup. en-
deavored to prove he was sober. lie said if
he had quarrelled, he meant no more than
Buchanan did in the Mormon war-he in
tended to pardon those who tried to whip
him, all on en- He acknowledged that
he was little tdizzy, but that was, he
said, because he had always been a Demo
crat and had read the Presidents message,
and had got little bewildered, or, "wilder-
ed as he called it, trying to convince him
self that Buchanan's doctrine in favor of
specific duties "warn't what Henry Clay and
the wings all fought for" He asked the of
ficer his name, who answered it was jerome.
Jerome says the inebriate, that's the name
of a king-we've kings here-you ait. And
Jerome got but it was the tipsy man who
wanted to eight on general principles" that
lie got.
Close Ahcr Hjm.-On Wednesday night,
a man stol ped at Mr.. Bradford's stable on
Hunter street, with a mule, saying he had
rode sixty niles that day. The following
morning at o'clock, he called for his mule
and left. a few hours after, person rode
up and inquired if anything had been seen of
a mule, at the same time describing the ami
NAL which proved to be the one that had
been taken away SO early in the morning
The person said it was an animal that had
been stolen the day previous, sixty miles dis
tant. We did not learn whether he got track
of his mule from this city.
Ell DORADO CoUNrY.-The following items
are from the Coloma Times:
Jourdon & Co., whose claims are located at
Gold Hill, about three miles from this place,
cleaned up their sluices last Saturday, after
having run two weeks, greater part of the
time with a scarcity of water. They have
employed five hands during the above time
the result of whose labor was 60 ounces of
gold dust. Their prospects for the future are
even better than this
Diamond Springs The miners of Diamond
Springs District in this county, passed
resolutions at meeting recently held, to
give all Cinnamon ten days notice to leave
that locality, or be driven out ly force