Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-12-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


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- The debt Of Nevada county is $685.
o40 Il.
The Yolo Democrat has commenced
its seventh volume.
Two inches of snow fell at Eureka,
Nevada, on the 9th instant.
There are 100000 grape vines grow
ing at the Old Mission, San Jose.
Sacriste, Elliot & Co. have establish
ed q branch house at Anaheim.
Eugene City, Oregon, is having a
University built at q cost Of $4,000.
Two hundred acres with tobacco
willbe planted this season in Tulare
county.
The motto of the Santa Cruz grange
Is "Go slow and keep in the middle Of
'As road =. ,.,,, =, ,,,, j., CO.. -,
and Express Companies offices at San
Ia Barbara.
Professor John T.. Morgan OF New
euoo York, is opening a singing school for
the Barbaref1Os.
Four specimens of the Calaveras big
trees have been SET out on the Capitol
grounds at Sacramento.
Lehigh coal has been discovered in
Monterey county, and a. company is
Hi being formed to work the mine.
John G. Grant, farmer living near
Healdsburg, raised this year 1876 tons
. of potatoes from 80 acres Of land.
The Santa Clara Valley Agricul-
tural Society took in Sl5,57l IL at it's
last Fair, and the cost was $1l ,649 "a.
Eureka, Nevada, is rapidly recover
fr.r frNs, loc Itoo ctr G,, ",
new Sentinel building was finished last
Tuesday.
D. Tuttle of Pajaro Valley this year
h5 cultivated eighteen acres in beans, and
obtained a yield therefrom of 43,975
pounds
Alameda flats are well salted, $4,000
tons OF salt having been collected dur
ing the past year in the salt marshes Of
that county.
The acoustics of Grace Church, In
Sacramento, have been improved by
stretching three lines of fine wire, not
visible from the floor, across the
church beneath the roof.
Governor Booth has commissioned
the following Notaries Public: l.. B.
side at Modesto; A. G. Lawrence for
Kern county, to reside at Havilah.
John O. barron, a distinguished
young lawyer from Nevada, died in
Oakland last Tuesday. He was former
ly law-partner of Judge Hawley, now
on the Supreme Bench Of Nevada.
A party of Piutes in Virginia City,
male and female, recently took
possession of the steps in front of the
Presbyterian Church and played there
on q spirited game Of 'seven up" 1t
doubtless struck them as a nice, quiet
place for q "little game"
On the evening of November Goth
the, Oakland Baptist Church took final
V''' action In the matter, deposing Par
shall from the ministry and instruct
Ing the clerk of the Church Society to
,sn ,alEnpon him for his credentials.
San Jose has 6,762 school children,
,9ubeing the second city in rank In the
State. The public schools will take a
four weeks vacation for the holidays.
The attendance at the night school is
still on the increase. The number has
already reached fifty-four
Recently some rich specimens have
been exhibited in Marysville from
the Roberts claim near FOrbestown.
The prospects of this lode are most
fattering. 1t has been prospected for
several thousand feet and holds out
richly.
s"''sS In the Crown Point mine, Gold Hill,
.saas ON the. Gath, swhiic Superintendent
Sam. Jones and p. j. Langan were de-
scending in the cage, and were about
s3istepping off 1.-THE HOO station, they
were struck by pieces Of rock falling
from the 600-level, receiving very Sc
y = we're gashes in the scalp
" - Near Stockton, on the night of
November 10Th, a little boy about Z
years old, son of John Dorsey, who re-
sides near the MOkelumne Hill road,
was kicked OH the chin by horse and
"a ghisilfy} badly cut, his chin crushed in
and Several teeth knocked out.
The Sonora Independent says: "The
water in the lower Phoenix reservoir
having all run out, the. frogs and tur-
ties, on the 18th, formed themselves
into groups, and setting up loud cries,
started all together for the large reser-
voir, where there was sufficient to
,soH keepfupa their existence. The inter-
vening space between the resivOir was
literally covered with these creatures.
They were about two days In all ere
they reached the desired element"
THE MEMPHIS BALE OF COTTON.--
The New York Produce Exchange re-
- e, eeptly receiyed,a bale, OF cotton from
~ 4 HtH EhicagO Board of Trade, to be dis
posed Of for the benefit of the Memphis
sufferers. Originally this bale of cot.
xitoushad been, donated by Colonel Reed