, 1876-09-09

The White Cedar is an article of
limited demand in California, but is
slowly growing into favor on ac-
oout of the fact that moths avoid
it. Hence, all the windows and
doors in the mansions of the wealth.
ier citizens are cased with it as a
protection to curtains and tapestries.
The logs cost SIS to S1S per thous-
and feet at the mill, and the boards
are worth $45 to $50 per thousand
feet. The limited supply of this
timber is the cause of this prohibi-
tory price, which keeps it out Of
reach of the poor men. The only
belt of it discovered on the coast, so
far, begins about six miles below
Port Oxford and extends up to the
north shore of Coos Bay, a distance
of fifty miles in length by less than
six miles in width. Five mills are
employed partially in saving it,
three at Coos Bay and two at Port
Oxford. 1t was first cut at the
latter place, and is known as Port
Oxford cedar. It takes a polish
equal to satinwood.
P1TIFUL Sitting Bull,
chief of the Sioux Indians, now at
war with the United States Govern
ment, has addressed requestto the
Canadian Government to ask Queen
Victoria, to act as peace-maker be-
tween the United States and the
Sioux nation, and that if necessary
he would send o number of chiefs
with an interpreter, to visit the
Queen and state their grievances,
the dishonesty and unscrupulous-
ness Of Indian ogents, and asking
that the United States Government
give them a large tract of country
as a permanent reservation, border
ing on the British possessions, to
be formed into a civilized Indian
government. Sitting Bull was edu-
Gated at Fort Garry and speaks En-
glish and French with fiuency.
In the "brief mention" of the San
Francisco Bulletin we find this:
Four sticks of sawn timber, each
1874 feet long and 20 inches wide by
20 thick, have lately arrived here
from the Port Blakely sawmill,
Washington Territory, and are
afoat now in the dock at pier 3,
Stuart street. They are to be used
in strengthening the ship Blue Jack
ct. They are the longest timbers
ever sawn anywhere.
A chemist in London, who pro-
fessed to be and practiced as a med
ical man and surgeon, whilst he was
neither, was fined e5. Were penal
ties to be enforced in this country
for such cases Of false pretenses,
tho Courts would be kept busy for
the year, and the aggregate fines
would reach million of dollars.
Itis we'll to be correctly posted.
There are four Presidential candi
dates in the field-Tilden, of New
York, Democrat; Hayes, of Ohio,
Republican; Peter Cooper, of New
York, Greenbacker; and Green Clay
Smith, of Kentucky, Teetotaler.
It has just transpircd that Phila-
delphia has surplus of 10000 fe-
males over males in its population.
A great many people have wondered
why this city was fixed upon for the
Centennial Exhibition. Perhaps
they will leave off wondering after
this.
Young highwaymen near Los An
ge1es, Cal, lasso Cinnamon before
robbing them.
A glass of soda water, with its
ice and syrup, costs the dealer about
two and half cents.
It is so cold nights that prudent
housekeepers are putting an extra
buckvheat cake on the bed.
Corneille:--'A A generous BOBBY
seems to be giving aims to a lady
when he is making her a present"
The first lord of the Admiralty,
on his first voyage down the Thames,
in rather leaky vessel, observed
the men working the pumps. ''Dear
mer' he said, ,.."I did not know you
had well on board, captain; but I
am really very glad, as I do detest
river water"
TERRITORIAL.