The Shasta courier., 1872-04-06
NUMBER 2.

Inc SutrO tunnel Is now In Z,SiA Ieet.
Eggs are quoted at 81 25 per dozen at
Prescott, AriEora.
John H. Surratt is teaching school at
Brookville, Nd
A Vallejo lady says the latest thing out
is-her husband
Gambling houses are again in full blast
in San Francisco.
A 2,200 lbs bear was killed recently in
Monterey county.
The hay crop of the San Joaquin prom.
ises to be unusually heavy.
Five lives of Jim Fisk, jr., are already
issued, and more are threatened.
The tolls on the Suez canal for January
and February were S5OO,o0O.
There are more empty houses at Vallejo
now than ever before known.
Sandhll cranes are quite plenty on the
Los Angeles plains this Spiiug
A Farmers Club has been organized at
| Knights Ferry, Stanislaus county
The maple-sugar crop of Minnesota prom.
lses to be the best in many years
A thousand British agricuturists are
expe, eed at Breuham, Texas, next fall.
1t is stated that hundreds of coons we're
drowned on Mimic Island, On, by the re-
{, ent food.
Nearly all the swarms of bees around
Wslla Walla On, have been frozen to
death this winter.
Harry Meiggs has contributed $1,000
toward building church at Catskills, his
native town.
Stokes asks for suspension of public
op Dion, and public opinion asks for the
suspension of Stokes.
| The Santa Amty ranch, in Los Angeles,
has been sold to New York company for
SS5,000
A Lodge of Good Templars has been or.
g nized at Lakeport, and now numbers over
sixty members.
An Albany, o., paper says that the veg
etables sold in that market are all brought
from California.
Many families from Texas en- route for
Los Angeles and San Bernardino, are en-.
camped on the Gila river.
Nearly the entire spring wool clip of
Los Angeles has been contracted for at
prices ranging from % to 37ac per lb.
The Annual Fair of the Santa Clara Val.
ley Agricultural Society, will commence
August 26th, and continue FIVE days.
No less than POI societies, with a mem
bersbip of 2S,O00, we're represented at the
late Catholic Temperance Convention at
Baltimore
Carefully compiled statistics show that
Nevada is the leading silver mining coun-
try Of the world, it having exported S22,.
U00,O00 in 1871
Some horrible expositions are made of
an Illinois penitentisry by Springfield
paper. If the half is true, the officers of
the prisod are worse than demons
San Diego boasts OF having one of the
finest yachts on the Pacific Coast She
was built at Mystic, Connecticut, at cost
of S25, 900, and is owned by Captain A. FL.
Wilcox.
By the present game law doves cannot
be killed between the 18th of March and
the 18th of September.
In many localities the ground has be.
come too hard and dry for successful Sum-
mer following.
General Crook has enlisted and armed
one hundred llualpai Indians to operate
against the Apaches.
Mr.. Walton of San Leandro, has been
to Antioch, taking look at that town with
The intention of erecting plow factory
there.
The San joaquin Sportsmans Club has
determined 10 prosecute every person guilty
of violating the provisions OF the law pro-
tecting game.
Stockton intends to build 942 feet
wharves on the north side Of its CHI
and 260 feet on the south side, at
$50 900, this Summer
The real estate business
in Los Angeles. and
from the Coart Hon
$50 per acre,
Ed.er'
self an
90
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