The weekly union record., 1864-12-17
Interesting Items.


horse hesh IS sc srticle Of feOd.
Heavy and destructive foods occurred in
Australia IN August.
At Denver City. bridge which viii cost
$4,000 IS being erected across the Platte river.
There were 223 voting places il New York
city at The Presidential election.
There i good s'eigbiag for fifty miles on the
Plaeervllie aud Carson Nailey Stage route
Se7eral Of The prominent mines at Virginia.
Nevada' have beea compelled TO suspend oper-
atoms on account Of the SNOW.
The San Fraucisco Sunday Mercury snds
use for safe. Who ever heard of q safe
before IN printing office?
Stephen L Gage, one of the Electors. was
selected as Messenger 10 carry The Electoral
vote ol Nevada to Washington.
l. Is announced that General Wool is to take
care OF our Northeastern border aud look after
the rebel saerFIias in Canada
Il Is believed 10 Europe that a great war is
soon take place there ard the fall Of the House
OF Austria IS confidently predicted.
The CopperLeads carried one county in the
new State q Nevada. Churchill gave 81
maJlrlty for BaeH, The CoppeThe4d candidate
woman in Franklin county, Missouri.
raised half acre Of tobacco. this year, doing
all tie work herself and cleared 5000 By it.
The Gold Hill News relates that neither of
the three new District judges Of Storey county
had a cent to pay the magistrate who admins
tered TO them the oath Of ofice.
Jacob Manner an old resident Of La Porte.
was found dead 10 bis bed in that place. on
Saturday night last. He had been wen previ.
oosly, aud probably died from apoplexg.
\ Young man named B F. johnson was
killed near Michigan Bar, on the 9th inst,
while engaged in cleaning up bis slaices, by the
caviug OF an adjacent bank
Thirty three patients of the san Francisco
Hospital write TO one Of the city papers urging
that they should be allowed to elect the surgeon
who Is 10 attend upon and duse them.
Daring eleven months. to December 9Th of
this year, ninety insane patients have been sent
TO the Insane Asylum from san Fraucisco-
nearly two each week.
The will OF a J. Bu,ler, formerly Of this
State. was admitted to probate in New Yo5k,
Nov. l4,h, aad the estate was estimated at
100000, half going to General Butler.
On the 5ih ult the City Council Of Mon,
treal. Canada, professvd to have information
that raid into Canada from the United
States, by the Fenians, had been planned
The Louisville Journal publishes figures to
show that FIVE thousand 6ge hundred slaves
have left their owners in less than oue fifth Of
that State, since The war began.
\ young man. formerly OF humble circum
stances. has an income OF $1,000 per day paid
him as his share OF certain ell lands in Penn.
sylyauia. This amouu,S to s. 54e 600 per
aunum.
The cit;zens of Los Angeles are moving to
construct a railroad to connect their town with
Wilmington. the principal seaport of the lower
country Los Angeles is twenty miles from
the coast.
Jeremiah OBrian, aged about fifty years.
while working in his claim Oh Jackass Flat.
near Hor>etown, Shasta county, was caved
upon. the other day, by bank, and so injured
that he died ID a few hours
Fine large Strawberries Of the Longworth
variety were selling in San Francisco last
week, at twenty-five cents a pound They
were grown at the Mission, in the open air
What c]untry!
The Oreeouian SAYS tAat the record Of NOR
tally Of Astoria, beginning as far back as
1914, and continued to The present time, shows
that fully seventy per cent Of the deaths were
caused 5y drowning.
\ professor in Prussia spent ten years in
collecting materials for volume of proverbs
ard popular sayings. He was prosecuted by
the government oiiici4IS and his book seized as
an otense against public morals.
There are now buildng for through broad
guage routes trom New York to St Louis a
distance Of twelve hundred miles one hundred
and fifty locomotives five thousand freight cas-,
aud elegant pass oyer cars in proportion.
The Richmond Examiner is published daily,
on a half sheet at fry dollars per aunnm, or
Eve dollars per mouth; semi weekly at twenty
five dollars, AID weekly at fifteen dollars
Carriers ami reVs dealers pay twenty five
dollars per one huad.od copies
The tax authorized for general purposes for
the State of Nevada is thirty cents on the
hundred dollars, including mines and miuing
The assessment 7o.I viii rot foot up
less than $4,000. says the Enterprise, which
should Yield the treasury 2-+9.U00.
Among the pears exhibited at the receut fair
Of the Horticultural Society Of the American
Institute, New \ orb was one buShrl Of Duchess
d AnGoulemes, which was sold after the fair for
50. There were sixty one pears in the bushel
they therefore brought forty one cents apiece.
The following statement shows the increase
from year 10 year of the number Of children
born in California, as returned by the school
census; Year ending November lst, 1853
33546 1859, - 450; 1860 81 36l 1861
59644; IsG2, 7Q.734; August 81. 1868,
II s35
\ man raised quite a commouon amoug the
people in house in Virgjaia City by going
underneath it aud firing several shots up
through the 1oor. The insiders didn't know
which way TO move. The reason be gave for
the shooting WAS that there was a man inside
who was in debt 10 him. Great country
The wife Of Warren Potter, of Greenfield,
Massachusetts,, has taken a long nap. She
went to sleep on the 2Ist Of Octoter, aud had
not walked up on tie 1T of November. Ply
sicianS who have visited her cannot account