The Placer herald., 1864-03-26

The Springfield Republican asks what military
order is like lady crossing the street on wet
day? Dress up in front and close up in the rear.
A bill approprating 1000 for rebuilding the
Presidents stables passed both houses of con
gress and became a law in less than two hours.
The insurrectonary hill tribes of India have
yielded to their British conquerors, aud the war
is over They wished to be independent.
The New York Central Park has cost up TO
Dec. |, 1863 including land and improvements,
SS.73l2T,92.
The hotel keepers in New Jersey have doubled
the price Of drinks. The customers thereupon
have doubled the size of them This unquestion-
ably is one of the rules that will work both ways.
An Irish coachman, driving past some harvest
fields during summer, addressing smart girl en- =
gagged in sheaving, exclaimed: "Arrah, me dar-
ling wish was in Jail for stealing ye!'
Captain Majors of the lst Nebraska cavalry, rer
Gently captured a complete uniform an outfit for
General Price, sent from st. Louis.
The Randolph county, Illinois, Agricultural
Society, at a recent meeting resolved to unite
with other county societies in memoraizng the
next legislature to pass a law for the better pro.
lection of quals, because Of their valuable ser
vices in destroying the chinch bug, the greatest
insect pest at the West.
Large stage loads of persons, on their way to
lower country. gentleman from Virginia city
says the road is filed with people rushing to the
silver regions.
Private dispatches say gold was quoted in New
York on Saturday last at l62al63.
The editor of the Portland, Oregon Union, has
been on trip through the Willamette Valley
and reports the grain yield as looking very prom
Using. The crops will probably be large in Ore
gon this year, and we need not fear starvation
nrip as w hlV a
neighbor.
A sick Chinaman has little chance for his life
for the Chinese physicians have 1000 native med
icincs, only &C OF which are used by foreigners.
In the course of the late cold snap at the West
the thermometer ranged from 80 to 40 degrees
below zero in northern Illinois. Hundreds OF
people in different parts of the state were partial
ly frozen.
The police department of Boston numbers 1884
persons. who last year made 2S, $50 arrests, II :
967 of which were for drunkenness. There were
last year in that city MURDERS 1880 larcenies
and 23l fires.
The water in the Calaveras, says the Stockton
Independent. is lower now than it has been for
years. Eight miles northeast of Stockton. et
forts were made few days ago to train the sickly
currently over the banks to irrigate the lands ad
jacent, but there was not water within the banks
to serve the purpose.
VIM. Banleld late Indian Agent on Puge
Sound, was murdered by Indians on the north
west coast of Vancouver Island recently.
On attempting to arrest lately an escaped con
vict, at Salt Lake City, the police fired at ant
killed him. His name was Verlum Dive.
Bannock City, Idaho Territory, will hereafter
be known as Idaho city.
The government pays sl6O for mules per head
The population of Australia is millions.
A woman lately applied for a free ride on the
railroad near Troy, New York, on the ground tina
she had three husbands in the army.
The Carson Independent says new coal min,
has been discovered on the Truckee, vein 10 fee
wide.
A bachelor editor declared that a baske
of peaches which he had received, looked a
if pretty girls had watched their growth ane
tinted them with their bushes.
The spring races over the Marysville Parl
commences on the 9th proximo.
There died in Seneca New York, recent,
a gentleman l0l years old.