Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-01-20
From California.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Is, 1858.
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changed in the low lands to > rain. In
the mining distrMts-rnoes Of which are
from !, 900 to 5000 feet shove the sea,
and even hieher-,he cold still prevails.
and most of the bitches are frozen up. so
that there is not much mining doing now.
The head of the bitches are=high up in
the mountains where it is still colder than
in the mines. In the northern mining
counties snow is abundant, and the mail
is carried in sleighs. 5tgrg II
The general tenor Of news from the gold
fields is favorable. Notwithstanding the
fact that about one-fifih of our miners went
to Frazer river during the summer, this
years gold export will be little, if at all.
less than last years.
The quartz veins, near San Francisco,
have not created much sensation yet; there
is doubt whether they contain any gold.
John l. Brady, clerk in a store in
Commercial street, was killed on the ilth
By an overdose of morphine, administered
to him by Dr.. J.. O'Dowd, as a remedy
for slight aa,ask of collie. Dr.. O'Dowd,
who was drunk a. the tire, when he learn-
ed that he had caused the death of BradIey,
took dose Of prussic acid and was soon a
corpse. Bradley was about 80 years Of
age, and native of New York; O'Dowd
was 46 years Of age, native of Ireland,
and graduate of Dublin College. @oa
The editor of the Alta California nc
kno Wedges the receipt ofan apple measur-
ing one foot and four inches round, and
weighing two pounds and one ounce. 1t
was grown in Linn county, Oregon. &
The assessor Of this county has made his
annual report. He says the average yield
of wheat per acre in the county this year is
twenty-eight bushels; of barley, forty
bushels; Of oats, twenty bushels. There
are ten grist-mills, two rice-mills, and four
saw.milIs in the city. There are eighteen
breweries, which employ sixty men, con-
sumo $4,000 bushels of grain, and make
10000 gallons of beer and ale yearly
There are two broom factories, one sugar
refinery, three campl,ene factories, three
ship yards, and seven machine shops and
founlries. aie
1t is reported that bed Of oysters has
been found in an arm of the sea, near Bo-
dega, Sonoma county.
The census Of school children taken this
wear will show that there are more children
in California under four years Of age than
there are between four and eighteen, and
most of those under four have been born
in this State. tat ri4- W e.
The San Andres Independent states
that the riches diggings in the Sourthern
mines are found in the limestone formation.
Biologists supposed, until within few
years, that gold never would be found in.
limestone. 1t deserves to be remarked,
however, that the auriferous limestone of
California is metamorpI,ic in its character
that is, when the melted granite burst
out through the broken crust Of the earth,
in old times, it touched this limestone and
melted il TOO, so that it has now changed
to marble, and has lost its former acque-
Gus, stratified, fossiliferous appearance.
1t is said that the Mex;cans generally
succeed better at quar'z mining than do
the Americans. a as,
William Henry Mewse was executed in
this city on the 10th inst, at ono O'Clock
P. N. He confessed his guilt, not only of
the murder for which he was sentenced to
die. but of many other crimes.
In the United States Court judgment
has been rendered, awarding $500 DANA
ages to o. P. West for the failure of the
Nicaragua Company TO transport him from
San Francisco TO New York according to
contract, in April, 1856. He started from
here in the Uncle Sam, but when the yes
sci arrived at San Juan del Sur the cap
tain found the transit broken up, so he
went on to Panama, where he landed his
without providing for them
Mr.. West succeeded in getting off at the
end of three weeks. He had his wife with
him. The judge allows S4oO damages for
each. There were 800 passengers on
board, all of whom commenced suits some
months ago, and libelled the Uncle Sam.
Ii each one gets $4OO damages, the total
will amount to $4,000, and not very
much of the Uncle Sam will remain. She
is now understood to be the property of
G. K. Garrison.
Governor Weller has pardoned twenty
Two State prison convicts within the last
rear, and one of the pardoned persons has
committed two murders since his pardon.
A large grizzly bear, weighing 9a2
pounds, WAS killed on the 5th inst, in
Sparta county. He was very lean, and
would have weighed at least 1900 had he
been fat.
Bees are worth 500 per hive in Cali
ornia and 1925 in Oregon. Two hundred
,vcs have lately been shipped from here
o the northern coast. The demands ex-
leeds the supply.
The Mariposa Star states that Fremont
employs 500 men in his mining enterprise
n Bear valley, on his Mariposa ranch.
Samuel Stevenson, al Englishman by
birth, was hanged at Jackson on the I'LL,
nst., under legal sentence for murder.
John D. Lavra tried to scare an old
7renchman at Texas Springs, Shasta Co.,
" f1ourshing pistol and bowie-knife at
lin. The French,nan, supposing him to-
,e in earnest, shot him with shotgun
slowing away one side of his face.
In Fresco county, Indians who are ar
ested for drunkenness and fined, and can
'ot pay their fines are sold to the highest
'idder-so it is said.
The new ditch at Columbia-the great
st mining ditch in the States-owes $780,
100, and it bears 8 per cent. interest per
month. The stockholders are in hopes
hat they will be able TO obtain money in
turone at 10 per cent. per annum to pay