The Placer herald., 1862-10-04
CLIPPINGS.

CLIPPINGS.
A son of Douglas Jerrold, the witty Eng
lsh writer, has lately enlisted as private
in the Union army.
Cu.xcE TO WoRK-2OO men are wanted
A. Dowuievle to work on the Yuba Gap
Turnpike road.
DONATING The mining camps Of Red
Dog and You Bet, in Nevada, have raised
$500 for the Relief Fund.
SCARLET FEvER.-This disease prevails to
considerable extent among the children OF
Columbia, Tuolumne county.
Up to the 10th of September over 80 900
had been subsc ibed to the War Relief Fund,
in Oregon. The Salem Gazette thinks the
State ought to furnish $4,000.
On Monday evening 9Th of October, the
Sacramento Library Association will hold its
annual meeting.
Mr. Craig, of Sonoms county has this
year twenty acres Of tobacco.
On Sunday night asst, man named Robt.
Smith hung himself in a small cabin near
Lewis Station, on the Carson road.
Immense quantities Of Petroleum have
been discovered in sight of Santa Cruz. 1t
has been tried and produces the best Of rock
ole
E.J.C. Kewen, member of :he Legisa
ture elect from Los Angeles, denies the truth
of the statement that he hurrahed for jeff
Davis on election day.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel learn Of parties
in Psscadero, Santa Cruz county, who have
made from six to eght thousand dollars this
year in raising potatoes.
The taxable property of this ye,r Of Ne
vsda county is $4,447,734.
James B. McQniIan has become assoca
ted in the editorial and business manage
ment of the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
The taxable property in S.nta Cruz coun
ty is $930,2l9.
AT a late camp meeting of the Christian
Church, near Liberty, San joaquin county,
some fifty persons were added to the spirit
ual fold.
Gold bearing quartz from the ledge Of the
Greehorn Gold and Silver Mining Company,
about five miles from Grass Valley, has been
teste and found rich.
According to the estimates Of the engi
neer, the first division Of the CopperopoIIs
Railroad, being the first II miles out of
Stockton, will cost 1862 ,O75, or 500, ,49l per
mile.
The Stockton Daily News has made its
appearances. The proprietors are Benham
Il Shane.
Army Surgeon. say that old table cloths
make the best lint.
A severe shock of an earthquake was felt
at San Francisco, at two O'Clock on Monday
evening last.
The News, published at Downieville, has
been discontinued.
1t appears that no less than twenty inc
applications have been made to the parties
interested in getting up the regiment for
the East for companies, from different parts
of the State.
Stockton sent 1902 to Archbishop Ale
many in aid of the suffering poor of Ireland.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel says: herd of
40 cows was recently sold in this region, at
$40 per head
The price of fare on the Steamer east
ward was-Firsi Cabin, outside, S267; in,
eide. s24l; Second Cabin, Sl87; Seerage
1893.
Considerable quantities Of salt is now be
ing manufactured at Charleston, South Car
oina.
A. W. Bishop Of the Red Bluff Independ
ent has been appointed Fede al Tax Collect,
or for Tehama and Colusa counties
There have been filed in the Pension Bu
reau, nnder The Act o. July IA. 1862, about
2,200 appIi, ations of nvads for pensions,
growing out of the services in the current
war.
The negroes are thinking of the valley Of
the Amazon for y colony of Republicans.
The Louisville Journal says it is not neces
sary we should become savages to carry on a
war with savages. We didn't scalp Indians
in the war Of 1912.
Republican editors are like small faults I'M
duIged in-liltle tiiever that let in greater
ones
Recent frosts in the Willamette valley,
have been very destructive to vegetables,
corn, etc, in Marion, Polk and YamhilI
counties