Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-10-04
THE WEEKLY HERALD
Is published every Saturday morning
Pacific Coast Items.

The tide now rises sixteen or
eighteen inches at Sacramento.
Two hundred tons of wheat arrived
at stockton on Tuesday.
A Democratic newspaper will soon
be started at Ukiah.
Work on the Napa Insane Asyium
is being rapidly pushed forward.
DR.. G. S. Haswell is lecturing on
temperance in Plumas and Lassen
counties.
Tehama county farmers are gener-
ally storing their grain, awaiting bet
ter prices.
The Westorn Union Telegraph Com
pany are laying wires between Down
ieville and Sierra City.
1t has been officially announced that
the State Grange will meet at Stock
ton on Tuesday next.
Wheat was quoted at Stockton on
Tuesday last at ST. 35@$1 37k against
~ 10 at the same time last year.
The Danville Grange celebrated the
completion Of their hall on Saturday
by grand festival.
Louis Cousins of Crescent CITY is
sailing down beeves for shipment to
San Francisco.
Philip Welch has been very success
ful in raising tobacco in Fresno
county.
Over Is, 900 immigrants have arrived
In this State, by rail, since the first of
April.
The Celestial Emperor's family
tea" is creating furore at Sacrament
to at $lS per pound.
The salaries of State officials and at
taches for the month of September
amounted to $23,97S II.
The Santa Cruz County Fair fails
this year, but next season the Gran
gers propose to take hold of it.
st. Helena Star is the title of q new
weekly newspaper edited and pub
lished by Dewitt c. Lawrence.
The Teachers County Institute of
Santa Cruz county will be held at
Watsonville the last week in October.
About $4,000 sacks of grain and
nearly 600 tons of hay are awaiting
shipment at Scales embarca adero be-
low Alviso.
A two-year-old Durham heifer of
Colonel Youngers band was sold at
private sail at the State Fair the other
day for 81 200.
General Thomas Van Buren,, a men,
Der of the Legislature from San
Joaquin in early days, arrived from
the East on Tuesday.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office at Mil
lerton has been suspended, the agent
at that point having resigned and
moved to Fresno.
William Wilson, well-known en-
gineer, was found dead near the trail
leading from the Hot Springs in Pam
amint valley.
A man named Snyder, Superintend
ent of the Mountaineer Mining Com
pany, Sierra county, has mysteriously
disappeared. 1t is supposed that he
was murdered for his money.
The Merced Grange is at present
shipping one thousand tons of wheat
to San Francisco, with which they
propose to load a ship for Liverpool
direct.
Sheriff Morse and party made
canvass of the San Joaquin river in
the vicinity of the California rancho,
Fresno county, one day last week, in
search of Chavez.
Judge Eastin, who resides about five
miles south west of Santa Clara, is
experimenting with tobacco on his
place. He has now plants standing
six feet high, and which are of the
finest quality.
James Duffy was arrested at Sacra-
mento on Tuesday on a charge of con-
spiracy for attempting to bribe Dep
uty Sheriff and secure the release of
All Wee and All Fat, two Celestials
canvicted of murder in the first de-
gree.
Cotton picking is now in full blast
in Fresno county. In most instances
Chinese laborers are pressed into SER
vice, that being the only species of
which can be obtained. The crops are
out fully as we'll as antici-
pated.
Warrants were issued on Wednesday
in favor of d. o. Mills & Co. for the
redemption of civil bonds of 1857 to
the amount of $13,277 81; also, in favor
of the Capital Savings Bank, for sur
render of the same class of bonds of
1857, to the amount of SO, 153 SO.