The hydraulic press., 1860-01-14
THE COUNTY.
GRAND Jury.

This body found indictments for grand
larceny against Ed. Briscoe, (who says his
true name is Ed. Briscoe Boyer,) and Jim
Naphe. They were to have been tried this
the Court House, Jail and county hospital.
Repairs and Improvements are needed in the
first two, for greater security cleanliness,
comfort and health. In regard TO the hos
pital, the report says the "Indigent Sick
Fund" is indebted $4,000, the interest
whereon is S. 800. The total income for
1859 was $7,7s3 80, and the expenditures
Sl1, 1886 l6; leaving deficit for the year of
1882 "a, and swelling the Indebtedness
The adoption of economical measures is ad :
vised, and likewise the exclusion of all ap-
plicants but the most needy.
NEVADA ITEMs.-We condense from the
Democrat as follows: The Irishmen of Ne
vada and surrounding townships have de-
termined to organize mutual benevolent
association.
Three thousand tons of rock were crushed
at the mill of the Oriental Mining Company,
up Deer Creek, during 1852 and yielded
about 100000. The cost of quarrying,
hauling and crushing the rock averaged
about $l3 a ton. 1t was mostly from the
Lecompton Lead, which pays from SIS to
$40 ton, and has paid its proprietors since
it was opened in the spring of 1853, a net
profit of 100000.
The receipts of the city government for
six months preceding the lst inst were
$500; expenditures, 1886 so.
Speaking on the railroad topic our cotem :
porary thinks the amount Of freight that
would be brought to Nevada and Grass VAL
ley could scarcely be less than 1900 tons per
week, which at $40 ton, would amount to
S624,000 per annum. If we estimate the
business OF Placer county at two-thirds that
of Nevada the road would pay for itself in
less than three years.
Grass VALLEY.-The National strikes a
would pay 20 per cent. per annum, admit
ting that it cost two millions and Il half DOL
lars.
The turnpike connecting Grass Valley and
Nevada has paid more than five per cent per
month on cost
Two Indians were probably lynched at
Globe Ranch, (where Carpenter was acci-
dentaly killed fortnight sincc) for stealing
from teamsters.
Grass Valley Lodge of Odd Fellows is in
highly flourishing condition; numbers
sixty-onc members, and its semi annual re-
ceipts were s 900, independent of 5000 in
come from rent.
FRENCH CoRRAL.-A post Office has been
established at this town, Huston Black, post
master One has long been needed. The
contract for carrying the mail has not been
let.
CHERoKEE.-There is talk of forming a
joint stock company of one hundred shares,
iOi WV PaiP iPoSS VI iuHhiiiS &" Pioor roStinS Z
tunnel into Cherokee fat, from the Badger
Hill side. 1t is supposed the work will cost
$4,000 or $4,000. Below the deepest
ground yet worked there is thick stratum
of clay and one of quicksand, under which
it is thought good diggings may be found.
Whether this be so or not deep tunnel is
needed for draining and washing ground that
does pay. Clark & Co. ran in a tunnel six
hundred feet from the lower side of the fiat
raised mp a shaft, and were astonished by a
food of water and sand that checked farther
operations.
A society of Dashaways is about to be
started, and the District school will soon he
reopened.
The man who was injured by blast at
Humbug, last week, is a Frenchman, named
Alphonse Baptiste.
The Citizens of Orleans Flat have sub
scribed for forty shares of stock in the Eu-
reka wagon road project.
Punch cleverly satlrzes the English fear
of French invasion, by presenting an en-
craving of Britannia-the unprotected fe-
male-as stout woman s'with peard un.
der her muffler," a helmet on, revolver in