Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-27
Pacific Coast News.

They have had some severe snow
storms in Virginia, Nevada.
1t is proposed to divide Monterey
county,. but strong opposition is felt.
The bricklayers of Carson were sue
cessful in their strike for 81 per day.
The amount of property assessed to
women in Alameda county is So, ,OOO,-
000
1t is intended to convert the Lick
-four mill at San Jose into a paper
mill.
There is some talk of establishing
watch factory at Dacotah, Alameda
county.
The Carson Mint continues working
in full force all day and great way
into the night.
The California Beet Sugar Company
will move from Alameda next Spring
to Santa Cruz.
Winnemucca, Nevada, supports
more saloons than all the balance of
the county together.
Two running horses from Detroit,
belonging to Mr. Armstrong, have ar
rived at Sacramento.
The Chronicle has Just proved the
largest circulation in San Francisco,
and the CAL is raving mad.
The flats across the bay from San
Francisco have produced iabOut $1,000
tons of salt this year.
a SOlanO county woman who went
into the chicken business last year
cleared 5000 in that time.
Rev. DR.. Hitchell, late President of
Middlebury College, Virginia, is in
San Francisco. He will spend the
winter on this coast.
There is vacant military cadetship
at West Point, which Nevada is enti-
tied to fill, and the aspiring youth of
that State are cramming' for all ex-
animation.
We learn from the Army and Macy
Journal that the Rev. Adam A. Meal
lister of Vallejo has been appointed
Chaplain in the Navy, from Novem-
Der 10th, 1878.
The Oakland IOrchHgM believes the
Rev. Parshall innocent of the charges
on which he has been convicted by an
Ecclesiastical Council; and the San
Jose Patriot thinks that the Kinsey
party will be acquitted of the murder
of Green at Pescadero.
Colonel Harry Linden, Third Dis
trict Court Commissioner, and an old
resident of Alameda county, died at
his residnce at Temescal on Friday
night, November 2lst. Colonel Lin
ri n ot1 -; Id
staff, and was for many years promi-
nently identified with the politics OF
Alameda county.
The coinage done at the Mint yes
terday, says the Carson Appeal of No
vember Goth, was $50,O00, Of which
SIS, 900 was coined in gold half eagles,
S2l 900 in gold eagles and $4,000 in
trade-dollars. A shipment of eleven
bars of " fine y silver was made to the
credit of the Crown Point mine, Gold
Hill, Nevada. The bars have an ag-
gregate value of S22,UO0.
S. p. Davis has been engaged as edi-
tor of the COlusa Independent. He has
journalistic experience and ability,
and will make the Independent even
more interesting than heretofore
Davis, rather widely known as "Ne-
braska Sam," has recently been writ
ing y number of humorous sketches
and paragraphs for the Marysville
appeal, and will no doubt continue
these good things in the Independent.
The San Diego race track is in
splendid condition since the rains, and
being naturally one of the best in the
State for speed, it is believed some Of
the best time ever made in Southern
California will be shown. There are
thirty horses now in training for the
different races, all the purses having
filled. San Diego is all animation;
the Julian miners are coming down in
force to back Billy Button, noun
tain 1ive-mile horse, against Vandera.
J. S. Harold, Treasurer of San Joa-
quin county resides at FarmingtLn, in
stead of at the county seat, as required
by the Political Code. He claims that
he removed from Stockton to Farm
ington on account of ill-health. The
Grand Jury has indicted him for mis-
demeanor in not residing at the county
seat, under Section 17U Of the Penal
Code. He was tried, convicted and
Monday is fixed for pronOuncing SEN
tence. Harold was out on bail, but
caused his bondsmen to surrender him,
that he might swear out writ OF
habeas corpus, which was done, the
writ issuing from the Supreme Court.
On Friday the prisoner was brought
before the Court and admitted to bail
ON his own recOgpizance, the Court
taking the matter under advisement.