The Placer herald., 1871-10-07
TELEGRAPHIC SUMNAKT.

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Grant faction organized and nominated
State ticket, while the Greeley ring organ
lied and adjourned, after bitter speeches,
the appointment Of Committee on an ad-
dress. and with power to call State Con-
vention. i. d. The weather has been extremely
cold at Chicago for the season Of the year,
and heavy frosts have done much damage.
=. =. John =. Hale was knocked down by a
runaway team and badly hurt. John
Quincy Adams has written an able letter
accepting the Democratic nomination for
Governor Of Massachusetts. =. The crops
are light in Europe 1t is supposed that
Queen Victoria is dangerously ILL.,. .. The
cholera is bad in Constantinople. The
reports of the suppression Of the rebellion in
Cuba are denied. d. . The smallpox is raging
in Brooklyn, and yellow flags are floating to
warn people from houses where it exists.
=. =. Professor Wilbur and G. II. Napp
started to take balloon ride at Paoli, Ind,
on Monday last. AS they were about get
ting in the cords broke and they sprang for
the car and caught the ropes; the balloon
ascended rapidly. Napp let 60 at thirty
feet and fell and was not badly hurt, but
Wilbur held on, trying to reach the car,
until ho had been carried mile up, when his
hold broke and he came whirling to the
earth and was mashed to jelly. w. II.
Seward has returned from his trip around
the world. . Gen. Jas. Totten,a celebrated
artillery officer is dead. .. Terrible fires are
raging in the prairies of some Of the south
western States and doing great damage.
Juarez has 18 majority in the Mexican Con-
gress, which secures his election as President
of that misnamed Republic once more, at
which the States Of Oaxaca, Chiapa and
Tobasco will secede and join the Republic Of
Guatemala, and inaugurate formidable re-
bellion. The Democratic State Conven-
ton held at Rochester, n. Y, organized
and adopted platform, on Wednesday last.
There was great crowd present, and har-
mony and enthusiasm was the order of the
day. New York is good for 100, 900 Dem
ocratic majority. The Democracy of
Illinois, in State Convention, have nominated
S. S. Hayes, leading lawyer of Chicago,
for Congressman at large for that State.
The great prairie fires in Wisconsin are
spreading and threatening to overcome all
opposition, and devastate and depopulate
many counties. Fires are also destroying
forests. fields and property in northern Ohio
and Indiana on the line of the Toledo and
Wabash railroad. The Democratic plat
forms of New York and Illinois recognize the
binding force Of defacto laws and Constitu-
ton on the country and party-the so-called
"new departure. . The Labor Reform
party Of Massachusetts, with Wendell Phil
lips at its head, has nominated full State
ticket.
Summary Of Coast Dispatches.
The Raymond and Ely mines cleared
| $50, 900 in the month of September. -.
Some big tea merchants in San Francisco
and China, and the G. P. R. r. have fixed
discriminating rates Of freight, so as to have
monopoly of the business. 80. "A French
man has been exhibiting the wonderful c1-
plosivc qualities of a newly. inv ented bullet.
1t is said to be splendid for bear, elephant,
lion and tiger hunting, and also for commit
ing suicide. =. Two brothers, named Valen-
cia, were sentenced by Judge Wallace to be
hanged at Vallejo on November oath, for
murder. T.. James Phelan, the noted bill
liardist, is hopelessly i'll in New York. ..
A narrow gudse railroad line has been sur
veyed from San Francisco to Los Angeles,
44S miles, at an average grade OF forty-s;-
feet to the mile. "A deputy U. S. Mar
shall has been stealing the goods he was left
to watch in San Francisco. o.. The Indians
have quit war and gone to picking grapes in
Los Angeles county. 90. Mexican outlaws
from Sonora are committing depredations on
American settlers on the lower Gila river, in
stealing stock and numbering citizens. "A
big irrigating ditch has been surveyed in San
Joaquin Valley, at heavy expense. 1t is
now found that the survey required the wa
ter to run up hill, and there is some doubt
as to whether the water will undertake that
job. =. . Since the big fire, the San Francisco
people are hunting fre-extinguishers, and
Babcock's machine is attracting attention.
.Old-Line Republicans are being dis
charged from the Mint in San Francisco to
make room for the friends of Senatorial
aspirant Thirty-four vessels have been
loaded with grain at Vallejo, this season.
E. Brigham Young has been arrested on
an indictment charging him with having 160
wives. This will amount to nothing and
Brigham's s wives will again be happy