The Placer herald., 1859-04-02
NUMBER 30.
News of the State,

ShaWs FIAT, and one Shirley OF VallecltO.
1t originated in dispute about horse race,
which came off there some months SINCE
The parties had been quarrelng several times
during the forenoon. AS near as can be as.
certaned, they both fired together. Some
seven shots were fred, and Shirley was kill
ed almost instantly. Davis was severely if
not mortally wounded.
LAND SALEs-The Humboldt Times says,
the sale Of public lands in that District COM
menced at the Office in Humboldt, on the
14th ult and ended on the 18th. All the
lands advertised, not having been previously
entered, were offered, and the following ag.
gregate of lands sold in the several counties
in the District: Humboldt county, 1T45
acres Del Norte county, SIG acres; Siskiyou
county 200 acres, and in Napa county, 2lsO
acres
young woman went into Drug Store
at Nevada, last week, and wanted dose of
poison-somethng that would take her "out
of the world easy" Being refused and re-
monstrated with, she left, declaring she
would yet destroy herself.
CHANGED THEIR TAcrIcs.-We learn that
the Shasta county anti-China party have re-
solved upon disbanding as an organized force
to resist the law, and to harrass and run the
the Chinese out of the mines in small parties
wherever they may find them, at times and in
places where they can escape the vigilance
OF the officers. This mode of law less war
fare will undoubtedly prove much more for
midable to the officers of the law, in the
discharge Of their duties, than though they
ms n al tbair
Red Bluff Beacon.
REMARKAnLE.-Mr. Benjamin Block, of
San Luis Obspo County, has in his possession
a sheep that has eight iambs all of which
are perfectly developed, and doing well.
What is more singular four of the lambs
are white males, and the other four, black fe-
ma s. This can be relied upon as we have
seen them. Santa Barbara Gazette
The Brockliss bridge was swept away by
the late storm, cutting off communication he-
tween Placerville and Carson Valley.
RAILRoAplsH.-A meeting has been held
at Oroville and $4,000 subscribed for the
extension of a railroad from Marysvile to
that place.
The lady managers of the mount Vernon
Fund, in San Andreas, collected in that
town the very handsome sum Of 5000.
LIBRARY ON MoKELuMME RIvER-The
ladies' on Molelumne river, near Staples
Ranch, through their efforts in a sewing So
cety, succeed lately in obtaining one hun
dred Volumes OF standard works from San
Francisco, as a foundation for local library.
The merchants of Sacramento complain
that they lose many articles from their stores
after nightfal by the light fingered opera
tions of a number of young boys.
Over sixty hives of bees were disposed of
at one public sale in San Francisco last week.
The highest price paid for any one hive was
$3.50, and the lowest SIG.
On the 10th inst, in Santa Clara county,
one Joseph Newman shot a Mr. Davis, his
former partner, in the abdomen-ive buck
shot entering. The wound was not mortal.
Francis Durkin and Jacob B. Brown were
killed at one o'clock, Saturday morning the
Goth inst. by the oavng of the bank of tho
claim of Johnson, on American Hill, Neva-
da.
The political settlers Of Sonoma county
have formed Settlers League.
New potatoes, the first of the season, have
made their appearance in the Sacramento
market
OPPOSITION STEAMSHIP LINE TO THE EAST.
C X. Garrison & Co. are selling tickets
for the steamer OriSaba, which will most
positively leave on the 5th of April. The
following are the rates: Steerage, $50; Sec~
ond Cabin, 500; First Cabin, $3.50 and
$175. S. r. Telegram.
VESSELS FOR CALIFoRNIA--There are now
on the passage to San Francisco, from East
ern ports, fifty seven ships and one bark.
Twenty nine are out over one hundred days
from New York and Boston
MOUNTAIN WIyE.-Mr. Wynans, of Spring
Gulch, near Bic Oak Flat, in Tuoumne
county, has q vineyard under cultivation,
from which he produced the past year, eight
hundred gallons of red and white wine, all
which he has bottled. The Sonora Demo-
crat testes to its good quality, and states
that Mr.. Wyuans will enter largely into the
cultivation Of the grape the present year.
The Sheriff of Calayeras threatens to test
the constitutionality Of the new law depriv-
ING him of the right to collect foreign mi
ners licenses and comforting that power on
the appoiutees Of the Board of Supervisors,
The San Francisco Mint in few days
will commence coming silver dollars. None
haye ever been made in that establishment.
A telegraph CABLE for the Alta Telegraph
Company, has Just arrived from the States,
and is to be laid down across the Straits of
Carnuinez a distance exceeding a mile. Its