The hydraulic press., 1859-04-09
VOL: |. NO: 81
Brief Mention.


junk store-keeper, Of human heart,
snugly ensconced in wide-mouthed
pickle bottle. The cold and senseless
organ had probably been lost from the
collection Of some anatomist. This ct-
rious text suggests sermon which need
not be written.
The Union made an amusing blunder
in copying an article from the S'errd
Democrat, thus:
"Last week about sixty men came out
with shovels and cut trail through the
snow to the ground, making passage
way for pack trains and expressmen be-
tween Yreka and Downieville!"
Pretty fast shoyeling, that.
The Editors of the CAL Home Jour-
nal say: "Let us but receive due en-
couragement in the work, and we pledge
ourselves to build up paper OF which
California shall have reason to be, proud,
Every intelligent Californian is proud
of the paper now.
The production of wool IN Tehama
county this year, according to the Gax.
ette, will amount to over 80 900 pounds:
1t will bring ten cents pound.
The Patent Office has imported a
quantity of seeds of the camphor
tree, from China, and intends trying the
experiment of cultivating them in
some portions of the southern states.
A barbarous wretch, named Pendle-
ton, captain of the American barque
Sarah Park, has been committed on
charge of murder at San Francisco, for
inhumanly treating one of his crew so
that he died. He behaved to others
with great cruelty, fogging them and
putting brine on their wounds, claiming
and starving them. When he was
committed an immense crowd of indig7
nant and excited citizens gathered and
attempted to lynch him, but the officers
succeeded in getting him safely into Jail.
The steamer Contra Costa, which ran
to Oakland, exploded last Sunday while
racing with another boat, her fore part
being blown to atoms. Several were
killed and about thirty badly scalded.
Luckily her passengers had all rushed
back to her stern to watch the other
boat, or there would have been great de-
struction of life.
A location has been made for the
State Fair buildings at Sacramento, at
the corner of Fifth and I streets, in the
Chinese quarter. h
The Placer Herald says that's. Briggs,
Of Michigan Bluffs, has been granted
patent for new mining improvement,
which consists in charging the pores of
blocks of wood with quicksilver, which
blocks are laid in the bottom of sluice
boxes. The fine gold in passing over
the blocks so charged adheres readily,
and it is said fourth more is saved than
by the old method of using the quick
silver in bulk. These blocks are exten-
sively used at Michigan Bluffs. The
patent right for Placer county has been
sold for $4,000.
AS an illustration of the way Indian
wars originate in California, we quote
from the Humboldt Times this state.
ment. cit appears from the statements
of the prisoners [taken by Gen. Kibbe1
that the murders which have been COM
mitted from time to time for the past two
years, and which led to this war, were
all the deeds of five Indians, brothers,
all but one of whom are now dead i,
Judge Creanor has decided that school
land warrants cannot be located on min
eral lands SO as to prevent miners from
working them.
The fruit orchards of the lower coun-
try have suffered no injury from frosts.
ScIENTIFIc.-The following para
graph is going the rounds of newspaper
dom:
The dark races have less nervous sen.
sibility than the whites. They are not
subject to ner: GUS disease. They sleep
sound IN euery disease, nor does any
mental disturbance keep them amake.'
Without going into an elaborate ar
gument to refute this evident absurdity,
we may be permitted to remark--boshE j
STEPHEN G. MAssETT.-The Boston
Post states that Jeems Pipes of Pipes
vile, nearly had his pipe put out while
riding in the cars from Augusta, Ca, to-
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