Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-22
Pacific Coast Items.

The total rainfall thus far in Nevada
has been 5S.91 inches.
The rainfall in Marin county for the
season was 41.41 inches.
James Newbert, of Vallejo, has the
contract for building new structure
ut the Napa White Sulphur Springs.
The San Francisco Christian Adv0-
cate charges DR.. Stone, of San Fran
cisco, with being a supporter of rum
shops.
The Nevada Transcript thinks a
fruit-drying establishment would pay
in that city, and urges the citizens to
try it.
r. e. c. Stearns, Secretary elect of
the Board of Regents of the State Uni
versity, will take up his residence in
Berkeley, as required by law.
The Vallejo Chronicle opposes re-
turn to free exchanges, and thinks
ject had better go where the woodbine,
etc.
If Carson City, says the Enterprise,
does not stop talking about her sprink-
ling carts being out excepting down the
dust" Virginia will come down and
"put head" OH her.
The canal known as Chapman's-
taking water from the San Joaquin
river above Firebaugh's, and surveyed
to strike the Cowchilla river-is under
construction by a large force of men.
In the San Francisco Police Court,
April 18th, Leonard Tufts, the man
fnr 70
days ago, and who is an old hand at
the business, was examined and held
to answer before the Grand Jury. Bail
fixed at $4,000.
The crops in Marin county are now
much better than average, and more
promising than they have been for
several years. They are not forward,
but thick and vigorous, and a few days
Of warm sunshine will be of amazing
benefit. This applies to the grain crop
and pasture fields.
Yesterday morning, says the Gold
Hill NeWs, of April 10th, a man named
James Collins, while working in the
Belcher mine, was severely I'M ured by
being caved upon. On being taken
out of the mine his back was found to
be badly bruised and lacerated, but no
bones were broken.
Miss Forsythe, teacher in the
Reed-street public school, San Jose,
who boarded at Mrs. Dresser's, in the
southern part of the city, was robbed
on Tuesday of $40 at her boarding
house. The thief is believed to be a
Chinaman who was working there,
who has disappeared and cannot be
found by the officers.
Billy Mayo, belonging to Perrin, of
Grass Valley, has been running out
since September, says the Nevada
Transcript, and has not been harnessed
but two or three times since. He has
had long rest, which the horse much
needed, and it is said that it is the
owners intention to turn him loose
again this Fall among the fastest Of
our wigglers.
At Salem, Oregon, April 10th, the
Independent Convention nominated
the following ticket: For Congress,
r.. M. Davenport, of Marion county,;
for Governor, J. F. Campbell, of Polk;
for Secretary of State, J. III. Douthett,
of Wasco; for Treasurer, ID. Beach, of
Linn; for State Printer, VIM. H..
Hand, of Wasco; for Superintendent
of Public Instruction, M. Oglesby, of
Douglass.
A new incorporated bank, the stock
to which has been subscribed by local
capital, begins the transaction of bust
ness this month at Bakersfield, the
county seat of Kern county. There
are few other localities in California
~ in,
than I the TuIarey yaiie SIni r the
counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern.