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have filed in the Office of the Secretary of
State certificate of their association under
the name of the "California and Utah Camel
Association" the object of which is the in
PRODUCTION and employment of the Camel on
the Pacific coast. The capital stock is $l2,-
900, in shares of $10O each-the duration of
the company to be twenty years. The trus-
tees of the company are John E. Ager, E. c.
Bryant, and John ]. Cooper. The principal
Office will be at Downieville, Sierra county
1t is to be hoped that the enterprise will
prove successful.
Fourteen prisoners escaped from San
Quentin ON the 22d, by breaking through
three cells and climbing, by means of some
planking, over the outer wall. The notori-
Gus Orlinski was one of the number. Nc
Cauley offers one hundred dollars for the
capture of each convict.
At Red Bluff, on Saturday last, mob
took from Jail the Indian boy who caused
the death of Mrs. Kronk, Mrs Stevenson and
five children, and hung him in defiance of
the law. The original crime was dreadful,
but did not justify popular violence.
The San Francisco "Dashaways" now
number at least five hundred.
The number of letters carried by the
Overland mails is steadily increasing. The
last mail on the southern route took out
over sixteen hundred.
The trick Elephants are now performing
at San Francisco. Albert weighed 1900
pounds when he left New York, and Victoria
$3.50 pounds. Both increased much in
weight while at sea. They have been sold
to Wilson, of the Lyccum, for $4,000.
The prospectus of quarterly work, to be
called the "California Telegraphic Dictona-
ry," has been issued by E. O. Wait & Co.
1t will contain valuable statistics, historical
sketches, and general information in regard
to the various telegraph lines throughout
the State.
Mrs. NJ G. Banding, the Vice Regent in
this State for the Ladies' Mount Vernon As
sociation, acknowledges the receipt ofS3, 297
IS from the lady managers since April goth,
and of $l,95l 80 prior to that time-nearly
all from the mining towns.
The Telegram, in alluding to the prosecu-
ton of the publishers of the Bulletin, under
the obscene publication act, says it is to be
hoped that next year the Lawmakers will
extend the controlling sentiment which pro-
duced the present law, in their own private
rules of speech.
Three different parties are about introduc-
ing water into Auburn from springs, through
logs.
The Union thinks that the farming coun-
ties are gradually gaining an ascendancy
over the mining counties that shall continue
forever.
Isaac Cox, after collecting statistics for
the "Annals of Humboldt County," has de-
termined to extend his researches and pub
lish book, (which will contain a concise
history of the discovery, settlement, progress,
and full and reliable description of the re-
sources and present condition of Northern
California;" to consist of about 500 pages
The S. F. Tines mentions, that an individu-
al at San Leandro has this spring gathered
from rood of ground ton of mushrooms
which he sold at fifty cents pound
suspension fumc, of capacity to carry
400 inches of water, is to be constructed at
Big Oak Flat, Tuolumne county, says cor
respondent of the Alta. 1t will be suspended
in the air at distance of more than $50 feet
from the earth, will be 1900 feet in length,
and supported by eleven towers
The Marysville Democrat attributes the
tardy spring, with its extraordinary cold and
heavy gales, to the uncommon activity of
the internal forces of the earth, as indicated
by remarkable volcanic eruptions and earth
quakes.
The Sierra Citizen says, that in Hog Canon
the mill of Primrose Company, No. i, is
crushing rock that pays about 500 per ton.
The Northern Railroad Company has been
regularly organized at Oroville, and the Re
cord says that 100000 of the stock has al
ready been taken; that favorahle negotia-
tions have been entered into for the material
necessary to the construction of the road,
and q final survey and report have been or
dered, The road is to connect with the Fol-
som railway at Marysvillc.
The coinage at the mint last week amount-
cd to $780, 0,000-all in double eagles.
The famous old war ship Decatur, is now
undergoing repairs at the Mare Island Navy
Yard.
The Times describes strawberries selling
at the Bay, about sixty of which go to make
pound-pearly fourth of an ounce each
in weight!