San Andreas independent., 1859-08-27
0WN AND C0UNTr.


ELECTION PREcINcTs.-We invite attention
10 the proceedings of the Board of Supervi-
sors, containing a list of the Election Precincts
ior this county, published in another column.
A D."-The reader is referred to the
card of Mr.. ]. c. Gebhardt, independent can
didate for the office of County Treasurer, to
be found in our advertising columns.
EXPRESS FAvoRs.-Our thanks are due to
'Red, the very accommodating Pony Express
Snan;; TO j. Knight of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s,
and r. H. Brotherton of Freeman's Express,
for favors during the week.
ADMITTED TO THE BAR.-W T. Lewis of
Nallecito, ex-senator from this county, was ad-
Attorney on the 18th inst.
DECREE OF DIvoRCE.-Margaret L. Madden
received decree of divorce from her late hus
band, g. L. Madden, in the District Court, last
week. Cause-extreme cruelty
DIsrRIcT CoURT.-The District Court will
convene for business on Monday next, goth
inst.
NAPOLEON IN THE LUMBER BUsINEss.-A con-
versation was started the other day between
several gentlemen about the late "Peace" an
nouncement in Italy. Some one who had ev-
identity read the newspapers, observed that
1.-THE basis OF peace required by Napoleon was
that Austria consent to a cession of Lumbardy
Lombardy) to France" An enthusiastic gen
tleman, who had evidently not read the news
papers, vehemently replied "What an out
rageous tyrant that Bonaparte is, to kill of
two hundred thousand men just to secure a
monopoly of the lumber business" We think
so too He ought to be cruciied and cut up
into four-inch shakes, the scamp
PUBLIC SPEAKING.-Judge Weeks of Sacra-
mento, Judge Badgley and w. L. Dudley, ESQ.,,
OF Mok. Hill, with the Anti-Lecompton nomi-
nees for the Assembly, from this county, will
address the people at Campo Seco tonight
West Point, Monday, 29th; Independence
Tuesday, 30th Ell Dorado, Wednesday, 3lst
Mok. Hill, Thursday, Sept. lst; Jenny Lind
Friday, Sept I'd.
PERsoNAL.-We received a visit on Tuesday
last from Judge Currey and DR.. Powell, en-
route from Angels to Jackson, on a campaign
ing tour. They report a favorable political
atmosphere pervading the southern sky
THOSE GLoBEs.-The preceptor and pupils
in the San Andreas school take this opportu-
nifty of returning thanks to those citizens of
the town who generously contributed the
means ($56) for the purchase of a pair of
fourteen-inch globes-celeStial and terrestrial
for the use of the school, The price of the
globes was $40; and they beg to state that
the SIC surplus will not be wasted idly, but
appropriated to the purchase of that most val
liable book, entitled, "Lippincott's Gazetteer
of the World"
GENERoUs.-The citizens of Angels, imme-
diately on hearing of the destruction of MUIR
phys, called meeting and appointed S. s..
Abbott, H. Lion and G. TORY committee to
collect funds and purchase provisions and nee
essaries for the relief of sufferers. In a few
hours $3.50 were collected and appropriated
forthwith to their generous purposes.
KILLED BY AN EARTH CAVE. = Charles Wal
der, miner, was killed by an earth-cave, on
Tuesday morning last at Lancha Plana. He
was very worthy man. In another part oi
this paper the reader will see set of resolu-
tions from Campo Seco Lodge of l. o. o. F..
expressive of sorrow for his death and re-
spect for his memory. Deceased was 81 years
of age; a native OF the Grand Duchy of Ba-
- =.
Under the influence of fearful PRESENT.
ment of danger, Mr.. Walder had never gone
down into the shaft or underground drift in
his claim nor had he ever before the fata
the sluices were laid, and which directly
over the drift The drift was some 60 feet
from the surface on which the sluces were
laid the whole body of the earth in the Vi
cinity is quicksand, and very difficult to make
secure from caving. He had been at work on
the sluices but few hours, when the ground
above the drift and directly under the sluceS
sunk down. He was carried along with it
and covered over by some 80 feet of sand, in
which he soon suffocated. When taken out il
was found that not bone in his body was
broken.
PAINFUL. - Messrs Weber and Deidrick
owners of the Murphys Bakery, in their des-
perate efforts to save their property from des-
trustruction on Sunday last, were very pain
fuiiy, but not fatally burned.
A correspondent writing US from Murphys,
says OF the fire: "Sperry & Perry's loss was
the heaviest to themselves and to the town
They could not have lost less than S25 900,
anciuding over years supply of groceries for
their large hotel; and as some gentleman re-
marked by moonlight in a gathering OF
some hundred wanderers sheltered like
himself by the bright stars, the canonv Of
heaven: chad the hotel been saved we wonld
all have home" 1t was a trite and uo,rnf,,,
history of the ravages of the day. So o,;.L
was the stride of the conhagration that had ),
transpired in the dead of night it is bevond
doubt that one-half our people would have
perished in the flames. Almost notbing wa,
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