Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-11-02
BREVITIES.

| L HE curvature OF the SdIlu duOuuts u
seven inches per mile.
A WIFE with capital is not always (
capital wife.
CHICAGO has lost $9S2,710 by fire during
the past three months.
! BARNUM has succeeded in importing live
| gorilla from Africa.
A GOOD quality of hay is selling at $l(
per ton in Stockton.
FRENCH soldiers are prohibited by law
from marrying until they are twenty-seven.
SMALL pox is prevailing to some extent in
Virginia City.
The Bulletin advises the next Legislature
to make gambling felony.
In Vienna, last year. the legitimate births
were II, 945, and the illegitimate 1892.
OPPOSITION fare from San Francisco
to Stockton has been reduced by tie Navi-
CATION Company from five to one dollar.
GAS. DICKENS, the slanderer of American
institutions, is coming to the United States,
to be once more lionized by the snobs.
LOUISIANA and Alabama have decided in
favor of Conventions, to assist Congress in
the work of reconstruction.
The cholera is approaching US overland.
There were five fatal cases at Omaha on the
23d ultimo.
Wool has now reached the lowest price,
on the gold basis, that ever has been known
In this country.
PEACHES are. so plenty in Illinois that
they don't bring enough to pay for box
ing.
A BOY in Milpitas tied his neck to cows
tail, gave the animal kick and the result
was he had his neck broke.
ROBERT BoNNER's income last year was
100000. Over $500 day out of his weekly
Ledger is "big thing
AT wedding in Scranton Pa, the bride
received ten thousand dollars worth of
presents. Good place to get married in.
AN OLD EDITOR GoNE.-George W. Ken
dali, the veteran editor of the New Orleans
Picayune, died in that city on the 2lst
inst.
A LETTER only fourteen days from Boston
reached Stockton on Thursday last Good
time; the East and the West are coming to-
gether.
AN election will soon take place in Kansas,
which will decide whether the Constitution
of that State is to be amended so as to admit
females to vote.
HE Cincinnati Enquirer, assuming to be
well informed, declares that if Congress at
tempts to impeach Andrew johnson he will
resist with all the forces at his command,
A NUMBER of papers in Georgia and
Alabama have placed the name of Gen. Grant
at the head of their columns for the Presi-
dental nomination.
The daughter of James Porter, foreman of
the San Francisco Examiner, eloped a short
time since. with young man who was OBJ
noxious to her parents.
RICH CITr.-The city of Chicago returns,
as the City Assessors estimate of the value
of its property, total valuation of 1892
900, 1000.
ScARcE.-The Stockton Independent SAYS
there is great scarcity of school teachers in
that county. Ten or twelve districts are
vacant.
1fRs. LINCOLN has gone to Chicago. Only
two hundred dollars were raised BY the sale
of her goods. The people are disguised with
her behavior, and are slow to make pur-
cnases.
A FRENCH botanist believes that by the
end of the present century all tie genera of
plants on the globe will be described, and
that then the only scope for botany will be
with species and variety.
The rebels of Maryland are so much
afraid of the Gospel that they have put
clause in the new Constitution excluding
all ministers of the Gospel from seats in the
Legislature.
THOMAS BoYcE.-Thls long experienced
and perfectly reliable advertising agent, has
removed from his old quarters to more ex-
tenslve and sumptuous apartments in room
No. 80 new Merchant Exchange, California
street. Interior journals will please make a
note of this. To them and the public his
rooms are always wide Examiner.
WILL PREs1DE.-Chief Justice Chase has
written to Judge Underwood at Richmond,
that he Will preside in person at the District
Court at Richmond, November 18th, but
will only be present during the first week of
e'S sNA"i O"AG ~ tiiC otsSiOH Vi lue Z nlleu
States Supreme Court. which begins on the
following Monday. This is to accommodate
jeff. Davis counsel, who wished the Chief
Justice to preside.
GRAND LODGE OF MAsoNs-ELEcT1oN OF
OFr1cERs.-The Grand Lodge of Masons
elected the following as its officers for the
ensuing year:
William II. Davis, of Columbia, Grand
Master; H. H. Hartley. of Sacramento IRE
electedD, Deputy Grand Master; Thomas
Beck, of Watsonville, Senior Grand War
den l.. E. Pratt, of Sierra. Junior Grand
Warden; James Laidley, of San Francisco
(re-elected), Grand Treasurer; Alex. G.
Abel. of San Francisco (rc.electedl, Grand
Secretary.
GEN. CROOK, with forty United States
troops. met with one hundred Piute and Pitt
River Indians up in Oregon and was forced
to retreat with loss of an officer and six
men. He claims to have killed twenty In
dians. At this rate why should he retrea:
He was winning the battle, and at this rate
would have had ten men left after he had
killed all the Indians. If General Crook Is
forced to run under such circumstances,
somebody else had better be put in COM
mand.-Bee.
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