The hydraulic press., 1860-07-21
STATE ITEMS.

On Monday week DIR. Bryant, of Downieville,
amputated the leg of Mr.. Reed, who accidentally
J shot himself through the foot some time since.
At Moore's Flat, the citizens had great time
on the 4th. Among other amusements troupe
OF trained dogs exhibited.
Artemas Hunt broke his thigh in two places,
at Coyotaville on Monday. He was waited on
by DIR. Kibbe, who thinks the limb can be saved.
| Sierra Citizen.
According to the Mountain la Porte) Mes
senger, the highwaymen are having high old
i time up that way. A man named Merchant was
met on the trail between Gibsonville and ST. Lou
is ON Sunday last, by couple of Mexicans, and
told to disgorge. He had only six bits, which
| they corraled.
| Over at Port Wine, Frenchman stole pistol
and made off with it. He was followed to Craig s
Flat, searched, the pistol found upon him, and
then taken to Downieville.
| An American and Mexican had difficulty at
| st. Louis about monte-American shot three
times at Greaser, without efect-Greaser left.
An ssitinerant' Peter Funk ieweller, while
travelling through the northern portion of Sierra
county, accidentally shot the horse he was RI
ding. He had aloaded pistol in his pocket, and
when it discharged itself he thought he was shot
at by robbers, and endeavored to make his horse
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the contents of the pistol in his back and died in
few minutes.
| A leg bone of an unknown animal, three feet
in length and eight inches in diameter, was found
in Poorman's Creek, Plumas county, on the 9th
inst, one hundred feet below the surface.
| A miners cabin near st. Louis was entered
last Sunday night, and robbed of $25-
Water, for mining purposes, is failing very fast
| at Laporte and vicinity.
The Scott river miners are preparing for the
summers mining.
! According to the Yreka Union, county agri-
cultural and mechanical fair will be held in Sis
kiyou county next October.
| The semi-annual apportionment of the State
school fund has been made, which gives a total
of 1886, ,093. There are 48,l24 children in the
/ State, which would make the distribution about
| Is cents to each.
Tom Mcguire has secured the celebrated SEN
sensation drama entitled the "Octoroon," at an
expense of 81 600. 1t will soon be performed at
San Francisco.
The Alta says 1872 have been subscribed at
San Francisco, to test the legality of imposing a
| foreign miners tax on the French. The Consul
of that nation headed the list with $sl00.
! A fire broke out at the saw-mill of David
Phelps, near Galloway's, in Sierra county, last
Monday, and consumed 10000 feet of lumber.
The mill was saved.
| A Sacramento horse named "Morg. Miller ~
paced ten miles, on the Marysville Park Course,
on the 18th, in 33m. 161 sec. The match was
against time-inside stake 81 900.
| 1t is stated that bunch of bay leaves, or the
leaves of the California laurel, ifsuspended from
the ceiling of a room, will speedily. exterminate
| all the flies from the apartment
The Humboldt Times, printed at Eureka,
Humboldt Bay, and the Northern Californian,
printed at Arcata, havebeen consolidated.
Sacramento city has population of about
$4,000, according to the recent census.
A tolerably good vein of cinnabar has been
found near Coloma, Ell Dorado county.
Forbes, of the Sierra Democrat, says Che San
Francisco people are talking of establishing a
Home for the Inebriate.' There is a round doz-
en- of them in Downieville-and all occupied.
Six thousand four hundred and twenty-seven
letters were carried east by the last overland
mail.
| The Gazette and Telegram, of San Francisco,
have been consolidated, and made into Repub-
lican organ.
Ex-SUPREME CoURT BRoKER.-It is stated
that the author of the pamphlet entitled as above
has been discovered, through the efforts of Chiei
Burke and his posse, and will be made public in a
few days.
| WASHOE MINING-From what may he CON-