Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-02-20
Pacific Coast Items,


|. Jane NJ Moylan hassued John Smith In San
Francisco for Sac, 900 for making statements Is in.
curious to her character. X
The owners Of the Eberhardt mine White Pine.
nave fifty tons of ore at their mill which will
yield ten thousand dollars ton.
The new paper mill of King Co.,, at Sara |
'toga, Santa Clara county, is now in successful |
operation, and is turning out a superior article.
The census of Salt Lake City, which has been
recently completed, shows population of 49, |
900 Mormons and 5000 Gentiles, or grand TO- |
tai of 46, 900.
The small pox Is on the decrease in San Fran. |
cisco, but has assumed more malignant tyne. |
Last week there were forty-four cases reported, |
and tweDty-seven deaths.
A nugget weighing twenty ounces. Of pure
gold, was found q few days since in the Joe
Goodwin claim, near French Town, Mud Springs
Township, Ell Dorado County.
There are in San Francisco fourteen Lodges of
Odd Fellows with membership of 3,392.
Their income for the six months ending Decem-
Der 3lst, 1868, was $44, 1855 70.
correspondent of the Mountain Msssenqer re-
ports considerable excitement in Camptonville,
Sierra county, over rich quartz strike that has
recently been made right in the town.
The third ANIMAL meeting Of the Aturas Snow
Shoe Club, will be held at La Porte on the 22d,
23d, oath, and 25th instant. Over six hundred
dollars in purses will be given. The track is
400 feet in length.
A nugget weighing thirty-two ounces, estma-
ted to contain twenty ounces of pure gold and
shaped precisely like horned toad, was found
at Frenchtown, Mud Springs township, on the
lst of February.
At Hamilton, White Pine, hay is worth two
hundred and sixty dollars per ton and barley
sixteen cents per pound. The roads leading to
White Pine are in a terrible condition from the
melting of the snow.
Six pairs of grouse have been recently mpor-
ted from Oregon by Ldde Co.. who design to
set the birds at liberty in some one of the coun-
ties adjacent to San Francisco for the purpose
of stocking the country with that species of game.
A dispatch dated the Sth says that there are
nine cases of small pox at Treasure City, White
Pine. This disease will make terrible havoc
among the inhabitants of White Pine on account
of the meagre accommodations and shelter, and
the inclemency of the weather.
The San Francisco Herald says that no less
than four cases Of hydrophobia have occurred in
the northwestern part of the city within the past
with foaming at the mouth and other symptoms,
that left no doubt of the nature of the disease
The orange crop of Los Angeles county, says
the Republican, is not so large as it was last year.
The fruit has been for two months taking its
rich color, but though it ripens in winter,
warmer sunshine improves the flavor and it is
not till March or April that it attains all its de-
licious sweetness.
1oto L1- A..
terror and fierce about the coast. The surf at
Point Lobos cut away the face of the precipce
to such an extent that it is believed it will be
necessary to move the Cliff House back in order
to prevent it going into the sea, and the bar was
so rough that vessels declined to leave port.
A boy, thirteen years of age, who was de-
tected in some act of gross misbehavior at one of
the public schools of San Francisco, became 80
alarmed lest he should be sent to the Industrial
School or otherwise severely punished that he
purchased laudanum and drank it, but the fact
was discovered in time to use the stomach pump
with success, and he was saved.
Daniel Duff, the man who escaped from the
Virginia City (Nevada) smallpox hospital on
Wednesday morning, February Sd, while labor
ing under fit of temporary insanity was found
dead four days afterwards on the Geiger grade
in snow bank. He had wandered twenty miles
over the hills, and in some places crawled on
his hands and knees for distance of half mile.
He was native of Nova Scotia, aged twenty
seven years.
The following statistics Of Idaho are from the
Controllers report Official total vote for Dele
gate to Congress in 1866 was 1854 in 1868, 81
634. Estimated number of inhabitants, %, 600
-Chinamen, 1900. Forty-eight claims, amoun-
ting to 1850 acres, have been entered at the U.
s. land office for homesteads. Two hundred
and twenty-clams have been preempted, amount
ing to 32,797 acres. Three townships have
been surveyed under appropriations of last year,
principally along Boise river.
There is a company in San Francisco incorpo-
rated with view of manufacturing, stone for
house building purposes. They cast the stones
of any size and in whatsoever shape they may
be ordered-with medalions of any description
"a dogs head or a horses head is just dear
as the most perfect one of Bryon or Shakespeare.
These stones cast also with anchor holes, if
desired, and are coming in demand for house
fronts and pillars. The materials used are COM
mon sand, caustic soda and chloride of lime-all
cheap materials. They propose, also, to manu-
facture fence posts, hollow and light, leaving
holes for rails or wire,
The INDIANA SENAroR.-A correspondent
says the Bulletin, who knew Senator Pratt in
Indiana, gives that paper brief biographical