The Placer herald., 1859-09-17
NUMBER g..
News Of the State.

receive from California after his arrival at
home will be tha. our State has been shaken
up" by Democratic earthquake.
A Grizzly bear, weighing eight hundred
pounds was caught in a trap near Hunts
Hill, Nevada county, last week.
The Nevada Journal says Dave Kirkland
challenged S. McCane, at Orleans Flat on
the 9Th inst, to fight duel The challenge
was accepted pistols were to be used, and
the distance selected thirty PAGES. The feud
was finally settled without fighting.
The miners of Humbug and Columbia
Hill, in Nevada county, have stuck for lower
water rates, and have made arrangements to
bring ditch to their dggings that will sell
water at fifteen cents per inch.
The journeymen printers Of Sacramento
are organizing protective Union.
Mark Pheeney has been fined $40 in
Stockton, for double voting on the day of
election. Such paltry fine as this is only
an encouragement to polute the baot-box.
SANTA Rosa ISLAND Eight thousand cat
tie were recently taken off the island of
Santa Rosa near Santa Barbara, and landed
at Hills Rancho, near the latter place.
Gy- Tho admission OF California as Il
State into the Union was celebrated bv the
people of San Juan, Monterey county, on
the 9th inst.
ESy- A Swedish Military Company is being
organized in San Francisco
Iggy- There were 1893 votes poled in
Stockton at the late election.
re- The largest steamboat in California
is fast approaching completion, at Steamboat
Point, San Francisco. 1t is owned by tho
CAL Steam Navigation Co.
I.y~ The Dashawav Association of San
Jose is about to erect "lIome of the Inc.
brate" at that place. The morals of San
Jose must be bad.
Two distinct shocks of an earthquake
were felt in San Francisco on the 10th inst.
Tho Pitt River Rangers had fight with
the Beaver Creek Indians, week before last,
and killed sixty or seventy of them.
A regular line Of tr-weekly stages have
commenced running between Pe,auma
through Ukiah city, in Mendocno county,
to Weavervle in Trinity county.
j. GilIig of Sacramento, has placed with
the State Agricultural Board, small bough
taken from one Of his pear trees, which con
tains fifty three full sizsd pears, in u space of
seven and three tourths inches in length an 4
diameter
The District fair recently held in Marys-
vile, is said to have proved decided sue
cess surprising even the State fair of last
year.
Last week two thirds of the business part
Of the town on Poverty Bar, in Calaveras
county, was destroyed by fire.
The amount of money in the State Treas
ury on Saturday, the 10th inst, was $780,
e12 0S.
EXTRAORDINARY Bee -IIlvE.-Zach Mont
gomery, of Yuba City, informs the Marys-
vile Ezpress that he has a bee hive, in
which the bees have been at work little
less than three months, which weighs 1870
pounds. The empty hive weighs forty
pounds, which leaves ninety pounds.
MURDER IN SHAsTA.-A man named Hen
ry Stephens was stabbed on Battle creek,
September 7lh, by negro named Henderson
and instantly killed. The dispute grew out
of the possession of squaw.
A salute of one-hundred and thirty three
guns was fired from Telegraph Hill on Mon
day, by the San Francisco Democrats, in
honor OF their political victory. The one
hundred guns were for the triumph and the
thirty three for the various States.
The San Francisco National says that last
week $l300 900 in double eagles, and SlO,-
900 in half dollars were coined at the
Branch Mint in that city.
Stages now run from the Tower House
over to Trinity Center, the road over the
mountain having been lately completed.
ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY.- Michael Cunning
ham has been arrested in Marysvle for hav-
ing three wives. One wife is in Boston, one
in Ireland and one in Tuolumne county.
PLACING THE Pen BEHIND TIE EAR.-Tho
practice of thus resting the pen when not in
actual use is ancient. According to Wikin-
son, the scribe of ancient Egypt would clap
his reed pencil behind his ear when listening
to any person on business, as the painter
was also in the habit of doing when ,iaasing
to examine the effects Of his painting. In
the Middle Ages, also, public clerks and
registrars carried a pen in the ear.
An oysters month is certainly very ugly,
but it sometimes has more beautiful pearl
in it than the handsomest mouth of the love-
liest woman.
A darkey's instruction for putting on q
coat were:
"Fust de right arm, den de lef, and den
gib one general conwushun.'
pipe, like quack medicine, is worth