Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-25
T R JEWS
C DISPATCHES.
ESPECIAL TO THE EuREK DAILY SENTINEL.
CALlfGRNfA'S YIELD OF GOLD.
AGRICULTURE MORE VALUABLE
THAN GOLD.
ESPECIAL TO rHr EuHEKA DAILY sENrrsrs
CALIfGRNfA's YIELD OF GOLD.
The Pioneer. Dia Not Get Rich.

new York, August "a.
The Times says that despite the i'm
mense yield of gold in California, it is
now shown hat her tillable soil produces
more actual wealth thar her richest mines.
Her grain and her fruit exceed in value
the best of her placers. Her grape crops
this season will be so very large that prop
a~rations are making to convert 600 tons
Of grapes into raisins. Most persons think
of California only as u collaborating State,
and it is pleasant to know that her agri-
cultural resources are beyond those of her
mines. Agriculture is apt to pay better
than gold or silver-seeking in any fertile,
we'll regulated region, but there is a sort
of fascination about the precious metals
which allures mon and blinds them to the
more rational and legitimate branches Of
industry. 1t is said by those in a position
to know, that not one man in fifty who
had dug for gold on the Pacific slope has
procured any considerable amount. The
fortune makers for the most part have
been, and are still, spectators in San
Francisco and Sacramento. The great ma
jority Of men who have gone to California
to get gold, from 1900 the present time,
as it cost them to reach there and return.
The hardest possible way to obtain gold is
to look for it in the ground; it is much
easier to get it, generally, by staying away
from the mines.
The Potter Committee.
NEW YORK. August "a.
The Potter Committee continued its in
v~estigation to-day. j. II. Alcce Ganth-
reux. Of New Orleans, who had charge Of
the registration bureau in 1874, testified
that his bureau ~ascertained that the
number Of fraudulent registrations in New
Orleans amounted to Is, 900, and affidavits
had been made against Q ,400. The witness
said many Of the Supervisors of Elections
and reporters were not residents, and flu
gitives from justice, in several cases, were
under indictment. He said he had q con-
versation with Judge Dibble, who made
the remark that he and Burke were
foolish TO work for the Democracy, for, if
they had q majority of 30. 900. they would
be counted out by the Returning Board.
Enlorscrs for Colonel Mostly.
CHICAGO, August "a.
The Journals Washington special says :
Among the endorsers OF Colonel Mosby for
the position Of Attorney General were
4. W.. Stoughton. Simon Cameron, and
several Union officers who had been pris-
oners during the war. The Gen. Slough
ton whom Mosby captured in bed at Fair
fax Courthouse, Va, was the nephew Of
E. w. Stoughton, and the Stoughton fam
lily have always been friendly towards
Mosby on account Of his courteous treat
ment Of his prisoner. The President, for
satisfactory reasons, concluded to make no
change as to the Assistant Attorney Gen
erals. Of whom there are four-two in the
Department. Of Justice, one assigned to
service in the Postofice Department, and
one in the Department Of the Interior. 1t
was then determined to offer Col. Mosby
an appointment under the Department Of
State, AZ has been done.
Destruction of DistiIIeries.
SHELBYvILLE, Tenn, August "A.
Revenue raiders in Putnam and Jackson
counties report the destruction of three il
licit distilleries and the arrest Of one dis
tiller. Six gave themselves up and said
they were tired Of illicit disabling. A
large number have expressed q willingness
to quit the business II the Government
viii let them give themselves up and mot