The Placer herald., 1866-10-20
When red.hot shot are fired. the ordnance

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kept from explosion by means of the wad-
ding. Between the explosive substance and
the heated mass are generally three layers of
wad. That against ,be,bal is dry, the Sec
ond is wet, and upon the powder another
dry piece rests. The ball is discharged very
soon after being placed in the chamber Of
the piece.
DEMOCRATIC GAIN.-The N. Y. World, Of
a recent date, says:-The Democrats made a
decided gain in the Vermont legislature;
they have elected Is Representatives., and
last year they had onIv IL. On The whole
vose of the State they gain $500.
observation-disclosures Low has offered re-
ward OF 900 for the arrest of Juan Valenzue-
la, alias Valencia alias Zurdo, who is charged
with the murder of Francis E. johnson, in
Monterey county.
A business dispatch was received in San
Francisco a few days ago, in forty. eight
hours from St. Petersburg the distance being
over ten thousand miles in an air line.
Professor Agassiz says he found the valley
Of the Amazon very healthy. 1t is bis opin
ion that it will one day become the nalt Of
the world, supporting in comfort 2OOOO,OOO
Of inhabitants.
School MoNEY.-The new State appor-
topment in February is estimated by the
State Superintendent at So IS per census
child
CoNDEMNED-Th railroad b,idge across
the American river at Folsom has been con.
demned, and the cars are to cross it no more
till repaired.
Coal MINE ON FIRE-A dispatch from
Victoria to the Uuion says The Bellingham
Bay coal mines are on fire.
NED BuNrLfNE. .-The New York CORES
pondent of the Louisville Courier says that E.
I. c. Judson (Ned Buntine) is now a home
less, wretched vagabond and drunkard in
New York.
The patriotic tricklayer of Lowell. who
kicked Doctor Butler, has ado) led Buffers
bottle for crest, and for arms shield bear.
ing boot rampant, with the motto, Let all
the ends thou am'st at be-" etc.
Ar'emus Ward is in London employing
his time in lec'urlng and writing for Punch
A New Yorker says he can build shin
for 5000 that will cross the ocean in sixty
hours. His theory is a vacuum at the bot
tom.
II is perhaps important for the world to
know that Morrssey and Heenau. the pupil.
'st, have recently become warm friends.
A waer'filer manufacturer at St. Paul
Minnesota, is making the Western people
believe that filterd rain water is a sure cure
for the cholera
A New York fat boiler, worth $500 900
was sentenced to the Pententiarv bv the
New York board OF Special Sessions recent
y, for forcibIy resisting the orders of the
Board of Health.
The S. F. Call estimates that seven thou
sand people Of San Francisco live upon the
profits of The liquor business, and that there
is saloon in that city for every twenty.
Tour adult white inhabtants. The consump-
ton of liquor in that city is indeed alarm,
ing.
NOT TO PAY.-Ilonorably DISCHARGED sol
diers in the Federal army arc not required
70 pay The hve per cent income tax lfthev
have been assessed they can 90 to the Col. |
lector of Internal Revenue and get it taken
cff
Copper ore from the Bruce aud yelling.
ton mines Of Lake Superior is now being
stepped direct to England. The vessels take
out Fon to Chicago and the balance of the
cargo, coal, as ballast to the mines.
The editor of the Cleveland, Ohio, Leader,
says he has seen some specimens of quartz
containing rich proportion of gold, which
were found shor, time ago in garden
about four miles from that city.
A PALrADLE Ilr.-Ihe Memphis BuIle,
eln makes shrewd point on those who are
SO ANXIOUS TO have the Confederate debt re,
pudiated and the Federal debt epdorsed.-
lhey propose it says, to put in the Consti-
tuition, that Confederaes would be honest if|
not prevented, while Unionists will not be
unless constrained.
Parson Browulow, the polecat of the Flesh
iot Convention, done his level best" to
BRING that assemblage into bad odor, but
Jack Hamilton "skuuked' him.
LOOK SHARP. - Every internal revenue
stamp used, must have the initials of the
person using 1t and date of cancellation. II |
not, then $50 fine.
CALIFoRNIA OHANoEs.- Orange trees III.
orally loaded with fruit, are growing at Bid |
wells Bar in Butte county. One treo is es.
1lha'ed to have at least two thousand oran
ges growing upon it.
M,"eral paint of superior quality has been
found in Sonoma county.
AFTER HIM Stanton is to be sued by 9TH
er parties on similar grounds with that Of
Sm'thson. The authorities were trying to
keep Sm'ihson S suit a secret, but the fact is
out and the wriIs are pouring in.
HEY CoME.-Eighty Cornish miners cana
ooy the last steamer, bound for Grass Valley.
there is plenty room for more.
LuDR1cATISG 0lL-NAr1vE Pnopucr.-A
lot OF flve hundred gallons of lubrcatine oil,
the product OF wells in Buena Vista District