The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
Proceedings Of the Board Of Supervisors.

| The minutes of last meeting read and approx
ed. The committee appointed to deliver the
ninth instalmcnt of Placer county bonds to the
! Pacific Railroad company, reported the safe de-
livery of the same. surrendered the receipt of the
Secretary of the company for said bonds and were
discharged.
| On motion, the clerk of this Board was author
| lied to procure for the use of the county clerk
such books as necessary for his office; also,
| the Assessment Rolls to be used in the county in
| making the assessment for 1864; and the county
Auditor was authorized to draw his warrant for
| the amount Of the bill and expense of procuring
| the same, when delivered in accordance with the
| order of the Clerk of the Board,
| In the matter of the applications of the Auburn
Turnpike company, and the Big Hill Turnpike
company, the rates of Toll were fixed for the
| year ending February l, 1865.
Bills allowed to the amount of S229 66.
| On motto H. the county Treasurer was authoriz-
ed and required to transfer from the county Cen
era Fund the sum of ST 900, and hold the same
subject to the order of the railroad commissioners
of Placer county.
Monday, Jan. Sth.
| A special meeting of the Board OF Supervisors
was called for this date for the purpose of filling
vacancies in certain Offices ordering the issuance
of the tenth, and last, instalment Of railroad bonds
and transacting any other business that may come
| before them.
| Ordered that bonds to the amount of S25, 900
issue to the Pacific Railroad company, from No.
45l to No. 500 inclusive.
| w. d. Perkins was appointed Collector Of Town
| ship No. 9, pice John White, deceased.
| Messrs. Rogers and Madden were appointed to
deliver bonds to Pacific Railroad company.
| Bills allowed to the amount of s2l4 95.
Tuesday, Jau IL.
| Bills allowed amounting to s64 90.
Gy Bullion to the amount of 1925 ga
was shipped by Wells, Fargo & Co., from
Aurora to San Francisco, during the year
1868.
In Maine, Boston cotemporary says,
rebel deserter who had served two years
with Lee, has enlisted, and claims the extra
bounty on the ground that he is a veteran.
The Mountain Lodge, Odd Fellows, Grass
Valley, have surrendered their charter
Cause, the exodus of members to new mines.
An attempt is likely to prove successful
in Congress to make the tax on whiskey 81
per gallon.
SrABBED.-A gambler namel Sheckles
stabbed an Irishman named Trap, at Campo
Seco, on Friday last. Trap was coming at
him in a hostile manner. The wound is
considered fatal.
At fashionable uptown hotel in New
York, The board for pet dogs has been fixed
at 81 per day.
| PRENTICE AsKs:-How many Of the hun
dreds ofthousands of able bodied men, who
have Just voted that the rebellion INST be put
down, meant to vote that they would 90 and
help to put it down9 And how many meant
to vote the whole work must be done by
other people!
DR.. Adam Clark, the great commentator,
declared against political priests. He said:
"Poltical preachers never convert souls nor
build up believers on their most holy faith
SUGAR AN ANrIDoTE FOR WoRMs.-M.
Debout says that sugar is an excellent des
troyer of worms. He once accidentally put
sugar instead Of salt on a leech which he
wished to detach from the skin, and was sur
prised at the spasms produced by it. He
therefore tried sugar on earth worms, and
found it had similar powerful effect; and
has since used i; in a solution with success
as an injection for children.
British Medical Journal.
West Point is full again. 1t now con.
tain 260 cadets under the instruction of 25
commissioned officers; 81 have been admit
ted during the past year, 46 Of whom were
appointed from the United States Volun-
teers.
The farmers of Orleans Co., N. Y, have
taken half million of dollars this season for
apples.
There are no less than forty eight vessels
of war at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building,
fitting out and preparing for sea.
One Of the diamonds Just imported into
New York, is nine carat dainty, and worth
cool ten thousand spot.
A New York omnibus driver recently pul.
led non paying passenger from his stage
with so much violence that the mans skull
was fractured and he died.
Nearly twenty five millions of letters
went through the Philade phia post office last
year.
Ohio has 545 5,257 male Inhabitants 9937
of whom are black.
THE Cosr OF WAsHoE.-It has been esti
mated, says the Virginia City Union, that
heretofore about 50 has been invested in
mining in Nevada Territory, to 81 in bullion
that has ever been taken out, and this is
perhaps not an over estimate. But the scale
will soon be turned. etc.
The Democratic State Central Committee
of Indiana, has passed resolution request
ing the National Committee to call Nation
al Democratic Convention at as early a day
as practical-not later than May or June.
New DISCOVERIES. Another rich copper
lode has bsen found within twelve miles Of
Los Angeles. Los Angeles is fast changing
her condition from an agricultural to a min.
ing town.