The Placer herald., 1865-09-23
NUMBER 4.
CLIPPINGS.

fire proof building for the reception OF the
archives Of the late rebel Government. Gov,
pays $500 per month rent for the
building, with the privilege of purchasing il
for 100000 when Congress meets.
MUSTER RoLLs.-Uuder the laws of the
State, the militia are required to hand in
their muster rolls to the County Clerk and
to the brigade headquarters, before the last
Monday in September.
Thirty.fve white men have been discbar.
ged from the gas works at ST. Louis, and
one hundred and fifty negroes employed to
do their work. The negroes receive twenty.
five cents day more than was paid to the
whites.
Thirty Eve tons Of mail matter are received
daily at the Pos,ofice in New York, and an
equal amount sent away. The Postoff1ce
receipts for first six months of this year were
$685. ,929 SO.
The assessed valuation Of real and person.
al property in Nevada county this year is
over s4,ooO,ooO.
OlI~-The Nevada Transcript says an oil
spring has been discovered in the Excelsior
District in that county.
The Placerville Mirror SAYS: $50. great is
the amount of travel that one piece of toll.
road below Placerville paid ten per cent.
dividend on its entire cost during the month
Of August aud eight per cent. during each
of the two preceding months, while 10 Sep.
twelve per cent. The great increase latterly
is owing to the enormous amount Of barley
being transported across the mountains.
The city gates of Quebec have never been
without guards since its capture from the
French by General Wolfe, until last July,
when they were permanently withdrawn.
~"WeIl. Sambo, is your master a good
tarme'9" 20, yes, he be berry good farm
er-he makes two crops in one year" "How
is that Sambo'" "Wby, he sell all his hay
in de Fall, and make money once; den in dc
Spring he sell all de hides oh de cattle dat
die for de want OBJ de hay, and make money
twice."
The forces now operating against the In
dians consists of rebel prisoners who entered
the Union army rather than be sent South.
They have been sent there from time to time,
and are now organized into six regiments
doing good service under the old flag.
The Heralds Washington special says
there were 100000 men in our national
armies on the lst of May last. Since which
time over 100000 have been discharged,
leaving still in the military service Of the re.
public about $40 900.
In pleading for damages for breach of
promise 10 New York, woman said she
might have married three other mon while
losing time with her faithless one. The court
was much impressed with her statement.
At Newburg, New Jersey, family named
Clyde were all poisoned by eating veal soup
after it had turned sour. Clyde himself died,
and bis wife, at last accounts, was not OK.
pected to survive.
There was surplus Of 100000 women in
Pennsy syIvauia in 1884.
The total appropriations of the last Con.
gress will amount to eighteen hundred and
twenty million dollars in round numbers.
Since the close Of the war the applications
for pensions have increased very rapidly
Over 100000 applications for pensions, from
widows, have been filed in the pension Office
at Washington.
An old fellow in Wayne county, who had
advertised" bis wife six or seven times. bad
the assurance recently, to ask the genial edi.
tor of the Lyons Republican to print the
customary advertisement for half price. in
consideration of bis being "a regular GUS
tomer''
In LUoK.-At recent target shooting of
the Stockton Union Guard. Clayes, of the
independent won bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup" for the second worst shot.
The official report Of all the American
gold received at the United States Mint and
It's branches from our first gold discoveries
down to June 80, 1864. shows the amount to
be 94,ls7,734 2l. OF this amount Cali,
fornia has furnished $55e,7ls,s7a IL.
IMMENSE. - The Grass Valley National
says that Mr.. Holmes who has an orchard
on the Grass Valley road, has gathered this
season, from tree only three years old, five
hundred pounds of apples.
The other day, at San Francisco, woman
drowned herself because of quarrel with
her husband. If all victims of family broils
were to do likewise, what lively times there
would be among the Coroners!
The Oregonian says that Portland is i'm.
proving wonderfully. A great number Of
brick stores and dwellings have been built
this summer. The streets are being improv.
ed by the Nicolson pavement.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has decided
that the re marriage Of widow terminates
all claim to pension from tho date Of such
re-marriage, although she msy again become
widow.
A man in Salem, Massachusetts, owns
farm which bas been in The hands OF the
family for ono hundred and twenty-five