The Placer herald., 1874-09-26
Local and County Matters.

c. NJ. DORSEY has our thanks for the fine lot
of ''white mans grapes he left on our table
last Thursday.
WE have the best authority for stating that
DR.. s. F. Chap intends coming back to Auburn
in O short time, to locate
Oun proposition for new court house. like
the street railroad project, seems to meet with
popular favor.
We have full account of Fruit Dryer. in
vented here in Auburn, which will appear next
week.
HUGH BURNS is characterized as o man who
puts his money where it will do the most good.
He has $3.50 in street railroad.
PLEASE take notice that 1.-THE Church Aid So
ciety,'' of Ophir, will give Grand Festival, at
the New Church, at that place, on next Tuesday
evening. All are cordially invited
THOSE persons, who are in the habit of turn
| ing their cows in the Old Cemetery, would ac-
COR modate those interested, by doing SO no
more.
SOME people say the street railroad will not
bay. Dwyer & Gubbay have subscribed $500.
Did any one ever know them to invest literally
In dead enterprise?
IT is reported that centain gentleman left his
koung son to tend bar while he was at the fair,
md the first night the youngster got lot Of his
blaymates in the bar-room, and treated them so
liberally they were scarcely able to go home.
CLEANUP a crushing of 152 tons of
|tock from the Booth mine formerly Orleans)
they cleaned up, last Monday, Az pounds of
gold, or little over $4,000. This is over 1923
|per ton, and is considered very good for average
Frock
BELIEvuE.-At the Bellevue proper they are
/ nt work drifting from the new shaft, and expect
every day. to strike the ledge when it is expected
/ stock wifi take rise. From shafts five and six
\ they are taking out milling ore every day How
/ it is paying we did not learn.
In the Penryn quarres, owned mostly by Mr..
G Griffith, there are now one hundred men en-
4 ploy ed; one hundred at Rocklin, makes two
hundred men employed in this county in the
granite business, and the quarries are not fairly
opened yet.
We came through Newcastle last Sunday, but
found the town quiet This we were told was
lowing to the pious disposition of the people.
we are glad to know this, as from what we read
In the Rescue, pious (?) paper, would have
supposed the people of that town on the
direct and speedy road to perdition.
AUBURN MfNE.-At the time the Auburn mine
vas sold by the sheriff, Thos. H. Gordon and ].
B. Hobson bought what rock on the dump.
lone time ago they crushed the best of this rock,
nd got from it $25 per ton. They have, re-
emily, had the balance crushed, amounting to
30 tons, and cleared up about 81 l,G50, as the
esut. Wherefore, the mine is not worked?
RosEvIILE.--From what we could gather from
flying visit to Roseville, we should Judge the
own is more than holding its own, notwith-
4tanding the short crops in that section this
eason. The business men there are not of
bat class known rs chronic complaners; but
hen times naturally are not the best, they go to
orl by their own efforts to better them and
>ey generally succeed.
Nearly everybody has been to the FAIR this past
leek. Some four five teams left Auburn last
fives out of any town, besides which Stanford's
ugges were loaded until the springs knocked.
lbout tonight we shall expect to again behold
bany of the wonted faces on our streets, with
bees bright and hearts light, over the many
ronders they have seen, but pockets lighter than
ver.
The st. Patrick quartz mill is pounding away,
egularly, some of the time on custom rock, but
hostly on rock from the Company's own mines
the Ballevue and Crater. Last week this mill
crushed some rock from a new mine. located,
( Ne understand, not far from the Booth mine,
and now being opened by one Scott and others,
Mhich turned out $40 per ton. We were in
3ormed by the mill boss, that the rock now being
Brushed from the Crater, would 60 ut least S25
GRANGERs.-The Roseville Grange had a big
meeting last Saturday, at which several new
members were initiated. This Grange, we are
Uniformed. now numbers about one hundred
members There seems some little feeling of
dissatisfaction among few of the members on
account of the4ndifference of the Grange as to
who it admits. They fear and Justly we believe
That if every Tom, Dick and Harry who applies
Is admitted, 1t will be impossible to maintain the
dignty OF the organization. 1t is well-known
hat without sufficient dignity to demand respect
hls, OR any other society must 60 down.
NOTED ARRIVAL AT THE COUNTY JA1I.-About
wo o'clock on the night Of September 16th
Sheriff Mccormick was called up, and notified
Nat the long expected and long sought for pris-
pner had, at last, been found. The sheriff. as is
customary on the receipt of prisoners at the
Ponnty Jail, proceeded to take the height, weight
md description of the applicant for admission,
that the prisoner may be identified, in
ase OF an escape. by the description in the Jail