The Placer herald., 1866-02-17
NEWS ITEMS.


county. During the same period of time
seventeen actions for divorce were COM
menced, nine of which were granted. So
says the Democrat.
In Montana, immensely rich gold plscers
have been found on Sun River, south Of the
Missouri, As miles from Fort Benton. The
pay dirt yields S25 to the pan, and the gulch
is very extensive. One thousand persons
stampeded there, from Helena, in one week,
The quartz mills at Helena are turning out
large yields
A SICK SEr.-The entire chain gang in
Marysvlle were taken suddenly sick last
Saturday night. They were attacked soon
after supper. The symptoms in all were the
same. They are supposed to have been Gro
ton,oiled.
dispatch dated Texas, Feb. l, says that
the President Of the Secession Conven ton Of
1851 has been chosen President Of the Re-
construction Convention Just assembled. A
large majority of the delegates are secession~
lists.
The total losses by fire the past year
amounted to over forty three millions of
dollars, against about twenty eight and a
half millions the previous year.
Only two revolutionary pensioners survive
VIM Hutchings, of Penobscot, Me-. aged
1Ol, and Lemuel Cook, of Clarendon, n Y,
aged 99..
BAD FOR MEMpH1s-A Memphis paper
thinks that here is not another city in the
country Which harbors so many disrepuiable
women, and their twin companions. gamblers
and thieves, in proportion to the population,
as that city does.
KILLING PHILANTHRoPY,-Upw of thir-
tv thousand negroes have died in and around
Atlanta, Georgia, during the last twelve
months. Philanthropy can no longer even
furnish cotfins.
The Monterey Gazette says that the Peru
vian who killed the Chlamen, on the Sail
mas, last summer, escaped from the county
Jail last Monday. The officers are in hot
pursuit.
DROWNED. - The Placerville Recorder
learns that J B. Fries, formerly of thai
county, was drowned on the 25lh of anuary
last, while attempting to cross slough or
horseback.
FOUND DEAD.-The body Of French
man, aged so years, but whose name is moi
given, was discovered in barn near Pacheco
few days since.
SrABB1NG AFFA1R-A boy II years old,
named E. J. Clark, stabbed E. d. Billing .
herst, his teacher, with butcher knife at
Cache Creek Canon, Yolo county. The life
of the teacher is despaired of.
A magnetic bank lock, without key or
key>boe, and impossible to pick is among
the recent inventions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Wetherbee, of Rindge,
N. H., the former 80 years old, and the lat'
ter 81, still live in the same house where
they commenced their marriage life 60 years
ago.
FEDERAL AssEssMENTs.-Th amount q
Federal assessments in the Third District OF
California, for the month of December, was
$6,l02 50.
Three hundred persons were killed by the
explosion of the steamer Missouri, and Mi
ami on Green and Arkansas river, JAM 2Sth
and 30th.
1t is expected that the cotton tax paid al
Macon alone, for January. February and
March will exceed s5,ooo,ooo.
Two fine screw rams have been built iu
England for the Chilean Government.
The Fenans of Columbia, Tuoumnt
county, and of lands Flat, Sierra coun
ty, are preparing to have balls 10 their re-
spective localities on the night of st. Parick't
Day.
RuMos.-It is rumored that John Nugent
eontemplates establishing first-class morn
ing paper in San Francisco at an early day.
5000 Citizens Of San Francisco petition fol-
aPad Fire Department.
January 9Th was the coolest day, in the
Atlantic States, known within 60 years.
Santa Barbara is the land of Olives, to tic
tune OF 1000 trees forty years old.
Large droves Of horses and cattle are be
ing driven from Los Angeles county, north
ward, via Salt Lake. Ito Montana Territory.
A room in the u S. Patent Office is SET
apart for specimens Of gold and silver
OLD BRowNLow- President johnson is ev'
identity not very vndictive, for be has shown
DO anger against Gov. Brownlow, of Tennes.
see notwithstanding the latter used in bis
"Knoxvile Wing" to slander and vlify An
drew johnson, after bis usual ornate and re,
fined STYLE At one time, be told huge lie,
to the effect that one of Johnson's relatives
had been hung, and on the strength Of this
falsehood Brownlow had cut in his paper
exhibiting the picture of man hanging on
a scafod, with slurring aIIusion to Andrew
johnson printed beneath. For all this, old
Brownow is the best Of the family of Brown
lows, for all the male Brownlows were great
horse racers or gamblers or loafers, except
w. G. who turned Parson to save the repu-
tation of the family, and h-ll Of parson
ho oyaI ho