The Placer herald., 1862-03-22
The City and County against the Valley
Railroad.

The Sacramento board Of supervisors have
authorized the public prosecutor to bring
suit for an injunction against tie Valley
Railroad Company. The conduct of the
Supervisors in relation to the railroad has
more in it than appears to the people gene
rally of the city and county. There is a
connivng property interest and mercenary
feeling which is not entirely hidden by GER
tain newspaper professions of profound
regard for the public good of the city
If you will go back to the incidents of tie
first flood, you may recollect tina, the rail
road company was charged with having caus
ed the flooding of the city by means of an
embanknent at a place which a city ordi
canoe said should be crossed upon tressel.
work. he Supervisors, disregarling the
negligence 10y which the ordinance had be
come obsolete, or non effective, took advanr
tage Of the published accusations against the
company and re>cin led the or,linnnre which
admitted the railroad along II street. At
about the same time, and through disnter-
ested publications. of course, it was proposed
to induce, 10y prohibition on the old route
and the offer of one hundred thousand dol
lars, the railroad company to build levee
along street and to remove the track and
business to the north side of the city This
would cost the company about three hundred
thousand dollars, and thus the supervisors
would protect the city from flood by cont
peling the company to pay two hundred
thousand dollars and taxing the whole com
munity to pay one hundred thousand, all to
specially benefit the scheming property
holders in the | street section. Not only
that, the injustice contemplated great injury
to the business arrangements made by tax
paying citizens in the present locality Of the
railroad. 1t is quite remarkable that this
plan has not been seen through by the OBJ
servers Of speculation and intrigue in Sacra
mento But the railroad company has not
obeyed the prohibition of the supervisors
and the road has been rebuilt on r street.
The supervisors finding their mock dignity
was mockery both to the company and city
police who were required to stop the recon
structon of the road, have now presumed
to wrathfuIly take the county and city into
court against work which belongs to the
commercial prosperity of the city and coun-
ty. Folsom Dispatch.
CABBAGE AND DIrro!-We have Just now
heard of a cabbage story, which we will cook
up for our laughterloving readers.
80. loves you like everything" said q
Young man to his sweetheart, warmly press
inc her soft hand.
"Dito," said she, gently returning the
pressure.
The ardent lover not happening to be
overlearned, was sorely puzzled to understand
the meaning of the word ditto but was
ashamed to expose his ignorance by asking
the girl. He went home, and the next day,
being at work in the cabbage yard with his
father, he spoke out:
"Daddy, what's the meaning Of ditto?"
"Why," said the old man, this here is
one cabbage head amt il?'
"Yes, daddy"
"WeII, that's ditto"
"Rot tha: ar goodfor nothing gall" ejac
ulated the indignant son, "she called me
cabbage head, and I'll be darned to darnation
if ever 90 to see her again"
GRAPHICAL Josephine county CORES
pondent, writing to the Oregonian, says
The ground is covered with snow, and the
cattle are dying by hundreds. Times are
blunter here than ever before known. Fari
mers are suffering for want of market, and
from foods Everybody is Solmoned or
Coribood.
Why is dismissed Cabinet officer like
an ornban?-Because he's lost his pap.