Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-12
Pacific Coast Items.

During the last harvest year Oregon
exported, direct, wheat and -four, val
ued at 1875, 800.
1t costs the city and county of San
Francisco $725 month for whiskey
and wines. Who drinks all this IL
quor
Up to the first instant, this year,
the San Francisco Custom house re-
ceived So, 1873, 600 for duties on import
ed goods. Ig
There were filed Saturday in the Of
flee of the Secratary of State, articles
of incorporation of the Occident Min
ing Company, to opperate in Little
York District, Nevada county. Capt.
tai, $3,OOO,0O0 in shares of 800 each.
Bishop Haven estimates the wealth
of the Methodist Episcopal denomina-
ton as at least one Thousand million
dollars, and says: "We do not pay a
mill per year tax on our capital for the
worlds Christianization, outside of our
own parishes"
There is seldom line of glory writ
ten upon mans face but a line of suf-
fering runs parallel with it.; and they
that read the lustrOus syllables of the
one and stop not to decipher the spot
ted and worn inscription of the other,
yet the less er half of the lesson earth
has to give. ,f.
The estimated expenses of San Fran
cisco, for the currant fiscal year
amount to the sum of So, 1885, Of
which So, 44l, ,756 has to be raised by
taxation on property. The assessment
roll will be about $250,n00, 900, and
the rate of taxation ST. on each 500.
Group, it is stated, can be cured in
one minute, and the remedy is simply
alum and sugar. The way to accom-
plish the deed is to take a knife and
shave off in small particles a tea
spoonful of alum; then mix it with
twice its quantity of sugar, to make
1t palatable and administer as quick
ly as possible. Almost instantaneous
relief will follow.
The official plats of townships 8
south. range 20 east, south, range Il
east and 8 south, range 2l east, Mount
Diabl0 meridian, was received from
the United States Surveyor-General
and filed in the United States Land
Office in Stockton On June 4th. All
settlers are required to file with the
Registry of the Land Office notice of
their claims are liable to be forfeited.
An arrival at San Francisco, from
Melbourne, reports that at the Life
al lei Ia lc
on the night OF. March 2Sth there was
sharp shock of earthquake, followed
: by others the next day. On the eve
ming of the S0th there was fearful
shock, doing much damage to the
buildings, followed by great tidal
wave, sweeping away three villages
and inficUing immense destruction 10
life and property.
On last Friday a shocking accident
occurred at COpp's ranch, near Ante
I0pe, in Yolo county. A little child of
William Howell, who was working
the ranch on lease, accidently set the
house on fire and craweled under the
bed with its clothes in flames. The
father ran in tr rescue the little one,
but in doing this was so severly burned
that he died shortly afterward, as did
also the child
Train has broken out again, and
has several columns in New York
paper about psychology, evolution,
universally pre- natal force and so forth.
Among other things, Train says; 81
have no evidence that l shall ever
die; l have never lived like other
men, why shall ] die as they die?"
Great Heaven! Will not some pa
triot see to it that lie does not die as
other men generally do?- Chicago
Times. I.ta
When Governor Harvey and Treas
urer Hayes, of Kansas, were about
to be sworn into their respective Off
ces, they met in the Governors pri-
vate room. While waiting for the Su-
preme Court Judge, who was detained
for a few moments beyond the APP
pointed time, the Treasurer-elect said:
"It would be a good joke if the Chief
Justice should make mistake and
swear in the best looking man for
Governor" "Yes," the Governor
promptly replied, "and it would be
greater joke if he should swear in the
hOnestest man as Treasurer The Col
onel stopped the conversation.
Governor Pacheco on Monday COM
muted the sentence of Jose de Jesus,
indicted as Jesus de Gordo by the Dis
trict Court of San Diego county for
murder in the first degree, and senten-
ced to die March 10, 1875, which date
was changed by reprieve to June l8,
1875. The grounds for reprieve are
that the murder was committed with
out premeditation and because he
has the misfortune to be an Indian,
young, ignorant, quite deaf, without
moral training, and lack the inherited
capacity to perceive and act upon his
obligations to organized society.