Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11
General State Items.

w. G. Clark has been elected Secre-
tary of the Sacramento Library Asso-
citation.
Geo. G. Parkinson, of San Fran
csico, has been appointed Inspector of
Gas Meters.
The Sacramento Howard Benevolent
Association relieved one hundred and
forty-three persons last month, dis
bursting therefor 1922 10.
One man had an ear taken off, and
another was badly cut, at Grass VAL
ley, on the Fourth, while in drunken
row.
The assessment roll of Vallejo, for
city assessments, foots up $1,659,S55
This is $4,000 less than the amount
last year.
Two Cape jasmines are now in
bloom in sacramento, which are
stated to be the only specimens of
this plant in California.
Brit de Shields, for six years County
Clerk of Tehama, and who came to
California as mere boy, died on the
9th of June.
The Yosemite Commissioners have
passed resolution that a competent
person be employed to lay out the val
ley as public park.
M. e. Daniels, arrested at Sacra-
mento, en- route for Chicago, on a
charge of embezzlement at Salinas, is
now in Jail in the latter city.
The Calistoga Press says that a new
gold mine has been discovered, lately,
within six miles of Calistoga. The
quartz is very rich.
w. Bacheler, of Vallejo has been
awarded the contract for building q
new Presbyterian church at Napa,
the contract price being $17,365.
On July 2Sth,, the electors of Pleas
ant Grove, in Sacramento county, will
vote on the proposition to raise S400
with which to build a school-house.
A desperate named Riley was
choked to death in the Redwoods,
near Watsonville, last Saturday, by a
man named Selden, whom he had as
sailed.
The resignation of William T.>Adell,
Captain of the San Jose Zouaves, un-
attached Second Brigade, n. G.. c., is
accepted, to take effect from July 7th.
A man known as Sailor Jack, who
up to the 4th instant was confined in
jail at San Jose, commemorated his
country's independence by escaping on
that day.
George w. COLES, of New York city;
George K. Pomeroy, of Toledo, Ohio,
and VIM. b. Hill, of Baltimore, Md, (,
were Tuesday appointed Commissions
ers of Deeds.
A correspondent writing from EN-
maton to the Petaluma Argus says
wheat stands six feet high and more,
and as the crop is removed crop of
potatoes is put in.
Articles of incorporation of the Da-
wilson Quartz Mill and Mining Com
pany were filed Tuesday, Principal
stock, $500, 900, in shares of ten dollars
each.
Three seamen attempted to desert
from Mare Island Monday morning,
by means of a boat lying at the maga-
zine. They were captured, however,
before getting away from the Island.
The assessed value of property, real
and personal, of San Joaquin county
for the year 1874 aggregates 2O,469,-
9O4. In 1878 the sum total was $1S,-
279, 459. The assessed value in 1872
was $2O,520,036.
The South Yuba Canal Company are
erecting dam at Fordyce valley,
which will require two years in the
construction, and will cost about $l20,
900. The dam will be about 700 feet
long and IS feet high.
The receipts for the Fourth celebra-
ton in San Jose reached ST 1923, and
the expenditures were $l,505, and the
patriotic committee are troubled with
the mathematical problem of how to
make the less equal the greater.
The Flagstaff Mine, Pine Flat Dis
trict, was located in October last by
Norris Bell and Marvel, and bonded
to parties in San Francisco for $50, 1000,
who have prospected sufficiently to
warrant them in going forward and
putting up works.
The first wheat shipment of any con.
sequence along the California Pacific
Railroad was made from Dixon the 2d
of this month; 80 tons were shipped
that day, and ITO the day following
Fifty tons were shipped from Fosters
July Sd.
The Sacramento Bee of Tuesday
saws: awe were shown to-day 6
mammoth potato from the hospita
grounds, which is composed of fourteen
parts, all joined at the centre, or per
haps it may be called 'spud' witt
thirteen growing young ones"
There was filed in the office of The
Secretary of State, Tuesday, state
fnent of the moneys in the State
Treasury, as follows: Gold coin, 81,
17O,55O; silver coin, $4,000; legal ten
ders, $9,59S 80; warrants, Sl4S, 42G SO
Total in Treasury, $780, ,066 70.
On Saturday there arrived at Napi
for shipment 20 TASKS of quicksilver
rom the Manhattan, consigned to- Jos
G. Fair, of Virginia City, and II flask
from the California, consigned to Bootl
d Co., Sacramento. Also, on Monda,