The Shasta courier., 1870-03-26
: III AST A COU Err.
miscellaneous.


CcL> - viii build a woolen mill.
Gan. Wool bequeath 81, ,OUO to Gen
Hardie
NORTH CAROLINA allows first cousins
to matrlmony.
INDIANA has thirty seven towns named
after jackson.
THE Sacramento Union has entered up
Oh Its twentieth year.
THE construction OF the San Jose W,ol-
Ell Milis Is prosr, sslns finely.
The practice of indiscriminate hand
shaking is going cut Of fashion.
THE Legislature OF North Carolina i'm
pores protective tariff on peanuts.
THE defenders of corporal punishment
in Boston, says that "a switch in time
saves nine.
ANsoN- BURLINGAME's father, Joel
Bhrlingane, is still living in Dunton, Cook
county, illinois.
The Lost River region, in Sskiyou
county, is being rapidly settled up, prin
cipally with Oregonians
The French Prince Imperial contem-
plates tour through Germany and Prus
sia with his military tutor
GENERAL PRlM denies that he has
made any prOpositi' ms for the sale Or cession
of Cuba to the United States.
= Tue net proceeds of the Camilla Urso
Concert for tn benefit OF the Mercantile
Library Association was S26.73S 48.
A MAN in England has just been re-
leased from prison, where he had been con-
fined for twenty sven years for debt of
e1.
OF the four Mississippi members of the
House sworn in last week two were Union
officers and two rebel officers in the late
War.
THERE ere abou. hnnsand klamath
Indians euc,s...ped OH the banks of Ma
niath Lake, engaged III catching aud curing
trout.
TIE allgators in swamp near Talla
hasse, Fla, dined on So,UUU camel and
Il Sl,OJU pony from passing men,gerie,
recently.
THE Cuban question is being debated
in the S panish papers, many journals be-
ing in favor of abandoning the island to he
United States
THE people of Weston, Missouri, having
recently hanged an innocert man for horse
stealing, are now raising money to get bim
a gravestoue
A STEAMBOAT has ascended the Ump-
qua river, In Ore. on. "A distance OF 1VU
miles. The citizens OF Roseburg are jubi-
liant over it.
The ONO House OF Representatives
has rejected the woman suffrage amend
ment to the Constitution by vote OF 81
ayes to o. uoes-a close vote.
A SALT LAKE letter says the Norm ms
threaten to fight if Cuilons bill passes.
Many Gentiles feel UNEASY and will leave
he Territory if the bill passes.
A Down Easter few days since ate
ifteen dozen raw oysters on wager. The
silver trimmings alone on his coffin cost
twelve dollars and thirty-fve cents.
AN exchange says there is faro bank
IN Fourteenth street, Washington kept by
a woman, and that the clerks of the Treas
ury 90 there and gamble away their salaries.
A MISSOURI gentleman carries about
with him a memento Of lost brother in
he shape of cane from the tree on which
that relative was hanged for horse ste,l
ing.
The hy has its uses. He serves to keep
b1ldheaded sinners awake at church on a
hot day, so that tn ir unregenerated hear )
may be touched by the preached word
THREE daughters of Mr. Smith, n
Indianapolis. having eloped. the fou th and
is kept under 'ock and key =
Bets of ten to one are offered that she will
escape parental est'aint, and marry before
three months.
The cliffs of the Cumberland river, in
Kentucky, are swarmng with robins
One roost is three miles long They can
be picked off the bushes by hundreds. aud
persons come distance Of ten miles to
fill their baskets with them.
The Mormons have made large nun
be of converts on Long Island They are
scattered through dozen towns, major.
ity Of whom are girls from eighteen to
twenty five years old. They are to be sent
out early in Spring.
SEVERAL stores in Folsom have sun
flower seed for free distribution to those Of
that t,,wu who viii w it about their dwell
ings The sun flower is known to be a
preventive of nlalarious feyers, and the
seed should be sown to windward, or be-
tween the house and the origin Of the
noxious vspor.