The Placer herald., 1866-04-28
NEWS ITEMS.

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engines are to be used in the paid depart
ment of that city.
The cholera has made its appearance on
the steamship Virginia, recently arrived at
New York from Liverpool, and over fifty of
her passengers have died. The ship was
| placed in quarantine and no communication
allowed with the city. One person is re,
ported to have died Of the same disease at
Portsmouth, N. H., and three at Cincinnati
Ohio. Strict quarantine regulations are be-
ing established, at all the Atlantic and Gulf
ports, and municipal authorities everywhere
are looking to the sanitary condition of
towns and cities.
| AT the claim Of Squire Jacks, at Badger
! Hill, Plumas county, in one week s run, with
two hydraulic claims, $500 was cleaned up.
The Harbor Commissioners of San Fran
cisco, otfer 81 900 in coin, for the best plan
for seawa along the city front, from
Chestnut to Harrison street.
The Sentinel declares the promise for
| abundance in grain crops in Santa Cruz
county is astonishing.
Judge Tyler, of San Francisco, well known
as noisy and vituperative Abolition stump
speaker, has just been fined $75 by Judge
Hoffman, for practising in the U. S. District
Court without license. The fine and costs
amounted to $l05.
The millionaire Michael Reese, of San
Francisco, having been sued for breach of
promise of marriage, in the amount of $780,.
900, by one Catherine T. Clark, AYERS in bis
IN nj oil hot bo ia
crime is "a woman OF uuchaste and immod-
est behavior, and of incorrect habits and
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SENTENCED TO BE HuNG. Robert Dodge,
convicted of The murder of Mark Hammock
at Allison Ranch, on tbt 9th of January,
1866, was sentenced by Judge Mcfarland,
in Nevada county, to be hung on Wednesday,
May 3Oth.
Judge Pratt, of San Francisco, sat the in
stance of the State Telegraph Company, has
granted an Injunction RESTRAINING the United
States Pacific Telegraph Company from do.
ing business between San Francisco, Stock
ton and Marysvile.
The conductors and drivers of The street
cars, numbering over 300 men, are about to
form an Association for mutual protection.
The first step they propose to take, is to ask
that l2 hours may constitute days labor
which is certainly a reasonable request.
SILK FAcToRy.-L. Provost, the pioneer
silk grower at San Jose states in letter to
the Sacramento Union that a pioneer silk
factory is to be established in San Fran cisco
within few months; and that party has
already gone East to purchase looms and
other machinery for this purpose.
COMING TO AN END-A man named II.
| Clark, writes to the Alameda county Gazette
to say that the world is coming to an end
on the lst Of September next. No post
ponement on account of the weather.
CHEESE MAKING.-Tbe Monterey Gazette
says that the manufacture of cheese on the
Salinas has become an enterprise of no
slight importance. Mr.. Buell., of the Buena
Vista Ranch, is doing a land Office business
Some $50 cheeses were shipped by him on
the Fogoway, last trip. and we are informed
that he furnishes about the same quantity
every trip.
SIX CHINAMEN DRowNED-The Sonora
Herald says seven Chipamen. while crossing
the Tuolumne at jacksonville, in a small
boat, on the 18th instant, were capszed into
the river, and all save one drowned. The
one saved left the boat and swan to shore:
the six clung to the boat and were carried
over the falls.
The Police of San Francisco are making
wholesale arrests of Chinese prostitutes, and
have crowded the city prison. After serv-
ing out their imprisonment many of them
leave for the interior towns, where they
hope to ply their deplorabe occupation
without hindrance.
The steamship Continental, containing the
Mercer emigrants, or the Female Brigade"
of young women, destined for Washington
Territory, arrived at San Francisco Much
curiosity was manifested by the public to get
sight at this feminine consignment, but the
vessel anchored in the stream, and the
crowd was disappointed. The young women
will be shipped north by another steamer.
ANOTHER DANGEROUS ExpLosIvE.-The
San Francisco Call says sodium" is a more
dangerous compound than niro.gycerine.
''ln decorating power one ounce of it is
equal to about twenty five pounds of gun,
powder, or two and half pounds of nitro.
glycerine. A spoonful Of water coming in
contact with two hundred ounces of sodium
would produce an explosion equal to that
which would follow the ignition of five thou
sand pounds of powder, or five hundred
pounds of nitro glycerne"
ROUTES TO SUMMIT CIrY.-The Appeal
says there will be three independent stage
lines from Marysville to the new mines about
Summit City. Each line will run through
to Summit City daily, leaving Marysville
every morning at an early hour.
The rate of taxation iu San Francisco has
been fixed at So 10 per $lOo.
A man named J. G. Clark was recently
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