The Shasta courier., 1859-10-15
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......Judge Field, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, is expected to arrive on the next steamer
......Gen. Williams, Senator from San Fran
cisco, has resigned, whereat the papers of that
city appear to be filed with grief We think the
State may survive the lawful dispensation"-
like a.
1.-The cotton crop of 1868 amounted to 81
s5l 1892 bales.
......Robt. Rankin, lawyer of San Francisco,
and formerly Alderman, is dead.
...... Burns, the Express agent, who attempted
to run off with three thousand dollars belonging
to Langton's Express, attended the recent State
FAR, "bucked" against "Tiger," lost returned to
Marysville and bucked against the same animal
with the hope of recovering the sum lost-lost a
gain; then, finding itimpossible to hide his breach
oftrust attempted to make the best of bad thing
by appropriating $4,000 additional, and therer
with making his escape from the country Thus,
as is always the case, one crime led to another
And in the case ofBurns the crime of gambling off
his employers money may lead him into the State
Prison. Beware of the first wrong doing, let it
be apparently ever so insignificant, for he who
steals pin may be tempted by the devil to
steal greater thing.
1.-THE Beacon says great many Tehama
| farmers have gone into the sheep-raising busi-
ness.
......In the Calaveras District Court, case is
on trial where land claimant brought suit to
e.
cutting frewood upon his land. The question,
and highly important one 1t is, too, is "Hava
miners the right to cut frewood for their own
use, or timber for mining purposes, anywhere in
the mineral lands?"
1.-THE inhabitants of St. Louis are the
greatest lager beer drinkers in the Union The
capital employed in their breweries is nearly
S2O,00o,oo0. Last year they produced lie, 900
barrels of lager, and $4,000 barrels of common
beer which, at Ss per barrel for the former and
Sc for the latter, amounts to 81 1886, 400.
...... The San Francisco Free Love Associa-
ton has departed for San Salvador. They left
their country for their countrys good
......Empire Engine Co., No. l, of San Fran
CISCO of which Mr.. Broderick was a member,
has changed its name to that of the Broderick
Engine Co. No. l.
$50. new reservoir is being constructed in
the Central Park, New York, which will cover
an area of LOG acres, presenting water surface
of 90 acres, with depth of Sc feet To prevent
the city against inundation from this immense
body of water an embankment has been thrown
up to the uniform height of forty feet The
gate-hoases, two in number, alone cost $780,
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1.-The Right Rev. Bishop Onderdonk, Epis-
copal Bishop of New York, who was deposed
nine years since for taking some improper liber-
ties with one Of the females of his flock, we learn
by the New York Express, is about to be re-
stored.
......Mr. Sickles, says a correspondent of
Charleston paper, is unalterably determined to
take his seat in the next Congress.
......Mr. John Sereiter, of Detroit, publishes in
the last Spirit Of the Times a challenge to the
whole world, to play game OF billiards for
$1,000.
...... Bondin has announced discontinuance
of his Niagara rope -walkings for the season, and
says he will resume them again on June st,
1860, when he will cross on stlts.