Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-16
Pacific Coast Items.

The scarlatina is abroad in Vallejo.
Fires are raging in the foothills
outside Calistoga.
Smallpox has abated in the noun
tains east of Gilroy.
The assessment-roll of Nevada
county foots up to $S6 ,240.
The assessment-roll of Santa Clara
county reaches $31, 129,272.
There are from one hundred and
fifty to two hundred visitors staying
at the hot springs near Gilroy.
In the county of Butte the prices of
land vary from $40 to $50 per acre.
The Santa Cruz Narrow-guage Rail-
road has purchased its first locomo-
tive.
The citizens of Del Norte county are
circulating a petition for increased
mail facilities.
w. G. Ralston has determined to
rebuild his Belmont barn, burned
down few days ago.
A lady named Mrs. Inas was burned
to death at Nevada City, last week,
through kerosene.
Plumas is shortly to have the ad-
vantage of telegraph communication
with the outer world.
A miners cabin at Mokelumne Hill,
occupied by two men named Gwin,
was burned on Tuesday.
Mrs. d. J. Wiley, who was injured
dent, died Saturday evening.
The Napa Valley Mining Company
proposes to alter its name to the Napa
u Sonoma Miling Conn any.
The Santa Clara College has re-
ceived some coffee-seed>, which they
intend to plant as an experiment.
Fifteen hundred eucalyptus trees
have been planted in and around San
ia Cruz within the past year.
Joe Billou, of Colusa county, recent
ly thrashed 25S sacks of wheat from
twelve acres of land-over fifty BUSH
els per acre.
San Francisco capitalists are pro-
jecting salmon fishery and canning
establishment at the mouth of Smith
river.
There was born to Judge O. S. Ma
son and wife, of Colusa, on the 9th in
SAINT, a son, being only the seventeenth
child!
The Colusa .Sun is informed that
Wells, Fargo & Co. will put their ex-
press on, the coming week, to Bartlett
and Munchville.
Mary Ann Lyon, girl about fifteen
years of age, committed suicide by
taking poison, about three miles from
Auburn, on Tuesday last.
There never was a finer prospect for
grapes in Auburn than the present sea-
con Tho VIM oo ra 1oaHad with hnnoh-
es of unusual size.
The smelling works at Truckee are
running day and night, and turning
out from 1000 to 1000 pounds of bull
lion every twenty-four hours.
Robert Briefly, an obstreperous SOL
dier of the Eleventh United States In
fantry, is in the Ukiah Jail for two
hundred and five days for resisting
civil authority.
The assessment roll for The current
year for Sonoma county foots up to
S16,700,S25, and further assessments
will run the sum to upwards of $l7,-
100000.
The citizens of the lower counties
are much dissatisfied with the recent
large increase of rates for freight and
passenger travel by the southern coast
steamers.
An immense fruit crop is expected
in Tuolumne county this season. The
farmers in many places have to shake
off the fruit to prevent their trees
breaking down.
George HOag, of the Glenn Ranch,
is running a thresher with u fifty-two-
inch cylinder at the rate of PIG sacks
per hour, or little more than 5000
bushels per day.
A young lady named Louise Trier,
aged sixteen years, was burned to
death at Modesto on the 9th inst, by
her dress coming in contact with fire
in kitchen stove.
The San Mateo Gazette says: "There
are l40-odd mortgages on record in this
county, amounting to nearly $350,000.
The largest is for trifie less than
$4,000.
The Colusa independent says that
Hon. John Boggs on Wednesday last
disposed of his entire stock of grain to
VIM. Billips, which will amount TO
ten or twelve thousand tons.
Doctor Webber has established tri-
weekly stage line between Truckee
and Webber Lake. Stages for the lake
will leave Truckee on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays.
The Steam Engineering Department
at Mare Island Navy Yard has re-
ceived advices from Washington that
it has been allowed $4,000 month
Z for three months. ..-.. Il. -.
A little girl four years of age, named
Katie Blake, was burned to death in
Gilroy on Monday last, catching a
light through some fire-crackers which
were exploded in the street.
On the Fourth of July some boys in
firing their fire-crackefsset fire to and