The Shasta courier., 1872-04-27
Miscellaneous News Items.

San Mateo boasts of having lady tel
egraph operator.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller will go East to lee
ture on Oregon.
Sixty-two buildings are in course OF
construction at Napa City.
In Santa Barbara there are, by actual
count, 1868 "yaller" dogs.
The Napa City charter election occurs
on the first Monday in May.
Two hundred men are now employed on
the San Pedro breakwater.
Cats are to be taxed in Paris at the rate
of 81 25 each per annum.
Opheus G. Kerr has gone into the COM
mission business at Newark.
Cornelius Stagg, known as revenue
detective, has arrived from the East.
An artesian we'll has been sunk 1,200
feet in Chicago without finding water.
Blackberries are reported ripe and plen-
tiful In Ell Monte, Los Angeles county.
OF the 12S members of the New York
House of Representatives but % are
married.
Tennessee has 34,66S persons ten years
and upward who can neither read nor
write
Ramie plants sell in San Francisco at
$3.50 per thousand, or twenty-five cents
apiece.
A steamboat is building on Owens Lake.
She will be 80 feet long and 20 feet beam.
Fred. Douglas presided at the Colored
National Convention at New Orleans, on
the 18th inst
Nellie NJ. Raymond was granted di-
vorce from Greed Raymond, last week;
cause, adultery.
The House Committee on Appropria-
tions will report $4,000 for surveys of
public lands in California.
Applications for Northern Pacific Rail-
road lands are received at Kalama at the
rate of forty or fifty day.
The frosts of last week caused consid-
cradle damage to the grapes and fruit in
several counties in the State.
Prof Whitney will visit Inyo county to
investigate the earthquake question, and
his theory Herewith.
7 D. Gregory, Of Winchester, Tenn,
is paying five cents on the dollar for In
terest bearing Confederate notes.
Robert T. Lincoln, son Of the late Pres
ident Lincoln, is quietly establishing him
self as a LAWYER in Chicago.
James Bushton convicted of the mur-
der of Martin Herges, of Monterey, has
been sentenced to be hanged, May 18th
Thirty years ago Edward J. Roye, the
deposed President of Liberia, was barber
in Terre Haute, Indiana.
California has 1924 miles of railroad
completed. Missouri has I ,50S miles Of
railway, leading all the other States.
The Government has accepted the
donation of square on j street, Sacram
mento, for a Land Office and Postofict
building.
The Oregon jails won't hold the prison
ers, and it is suggested to picket them ou
with lariats passed over the limbs of trees
Napa has pelt factory which constantly
employs % Cinnamon and 6 Americans
They tan from 200 to 800 sheepskins pei
day.
1t is estimated that from 10000 to so,
900 fruit trees, principally orange ant
walnut, have been set out in Los Angelo:
since December.
Diamonds have been found in a grave
claim, two miles east of Placerville, OF
Cruson's Flat, and the claim has been solo
for large sum.
Rev. Myram D. Wood, who was convict
ed of seduction at. Atlanta, Ga, has beer
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment in th'
penitentiary.
The crops in upper Colusa never looked
better, and there are ten thousand acre
mere in cultivation this year than any pre-
vious season.
A new geyser spring burst out during
the winter on the eastern slope of Noun
Lincoln, Napa county, which has continued
to puff away at lively rate.