Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-13
gos Aaoelss Aerald,
Pacific Coast Items.

Two cases of smallpox have been
discovered at Eureka, Humboldt
county.
A carload of California cigars and
tobacco was attached to the eastern
bound trainon Monday.
There are five tickets in the field
for city officers at Eureka, Humboldt
county.
The San Jose Mercury says that it is
supposed the fire at the Los Gatos
Wooden Mills was an act of retaliation
by some malicious person affected by
Local Option.
A man and woman were married in
Sacramento about the middle of last
month, and on Monday the husband
applied for a divorce from his spouse,
alleging marital unfaithfulness as the
cause.
The Trustees of the San Juan School
District will receive applications Of
teachers for the Primary School of
that place until the 3Oth of this month.
None but parties holding first grade
certificates need apply. Salary, SIS
per month.
A barn, owned by Dr. McMurtry, of
Suffer county, was burned on Sunday
night, together with span of horses,
harness, wagon, and large quantity
OF hay. The proprietor, on Saturday,
had finished haying, and the barn was
full.
Mornings and evenings, for the last
three days, says the Sacramento Bee
of the 9th inst, myriads of gnats have
pervaded all parts of the city. They
appear in cloudy masses so thick that
a scoop through them of an ordinary
sized bucket might catch quart of
the insects, and six-foot pedestrians
are compelled to stoop in order to pass
under them.
The Peoples Northern California
Stage Company has been incorporat-
ed for the purpose of running stages
in Shasta, Trinity, and Siskiyou coun-
ties, and elsewhere. This company
has secured the mail contract from
Shasta to Yreka, on the Trinity
Centre and Scott Valley route,
and will put on daily line of stages,
commencing the first of July.
A correspondent of a contemporary,
writing from Woodland, says that no
compromise has been made there be-
tween the temperance people and the
saloon keepers. All parties under
stand that evidence is being quietly
noted and prepared, to be submitted
to the Grand jury, which convenes
within month, and that all persons
violating the law will be prosecuted.
Tuesday morning, the men employ
ed by contractor Murphy, in excavat-
ing the dry-docks on Mare Island,
finding small gang of Cinnamon on
the spot, engaged by the contractor to
work at the same job, Indignantly
quit their employ, and now the Mon
gols, to the number of ten, are pick
ing and shoveling alone in their glory.
Their wages are S2S per month. One
hundred and fifty more Cinnamon
will be put to work in a day or two.
About sixteen persons are at pres
ent employed at the Normal School
building, under Robert McCord, gen.
eral foreman. The force will be some
what increased this week. Painters,
plasterers, and grainers, and ornamen-
tai workers and finishers, are engaged
now. The intention is to finish the
exhibition hall in plain style for the
present, and as soon as possible, but
the work therein will be taken up the
last thing.
The Ukiah Dispatch is informed by
T. w. Beattie, who is engaged in
making lime on the mountain between
that place and Little Lake, that a few
days since he put blast into large
lime rock, and following the explo-
sion a petrified pine log rolled out
from the fissure. In the center of the
petrified mass it was discovered, after
breaking it, that there were pieces of
charcoal and wood in which the pro-
cess of petrifaction was only partial,
while the outside was solid rock. The
log is about three feet in diameter.