Show ii t r lp m TI sf 4 I 1 t california nia items A oun onn latest dates 5 sacramento a san francisco and bolh othe r cit cites es in Cli cil california fornIa 1 are to the ut the news as usual of late is not to so very Import important arit A brisk trade in hides had sprung up in those counties where so BO many eattle eattie were drowned and died of cold and starvation af after ter the floods and they were being 0 forwarded to san francisco by thousands about the middle of march a body cf water that had bad as usual in the spring s sason bason ason accumulated in the hills hilla near f he mission delores not far from san francisco but to a greater hive five acres some fifteen feet deep and known as phelps lake laky broke through its sandy barrier and the waters swept everything a before then theo in their course to the basin below destroying 0 and damaging 0 much property among which was the elegant 1 gothic cottage just beaw the foot of 0 the ike belonging to mrs hart but occupied occue ed bellr by mr pioche with the improvement appurtenances furniture ac esti in maled a ed at al by the operations opera tlona tiona of the floods many new developments of gold have been made and good rocker diggings diggins 0 exist along c the streams where ten dollars per day it is said are easily made most of which is secured by who work and say not nothing notting hing bing 0 while many americans who are out of work do nothing but growl about hard times at aurora the snow at latest gates dates was rapidly disappearing and mining operations had been resumed flour was selling belting there at 24 per hu hundred hunared ami ald po potatoes tatos at per pound and other things 0 in proportion pro fortion the small pox is said to 0 o be prevailing 0 the state but the editorial fraternity camf comfort ort themselves that they the cali call forn lans are riot not the only sufferers by the scourges urges that are visiting the northern american rica n states the dita sita bays says when the hoods floods devastated our state it was generally supposed that the pacific slope was waa the only portion of the globe which so suffered buffered it has since been satisfactorily ascertained that the floods were wide wid e spread in their desolation affecting almost the known world of late we have heard and not without I 1 some show of foundation that the small smail pox lox a terrible scourge was not alone preva teni feni ant in our aidt but throughout the state the of the infection whilst it has been greatly enlarged by report as far as we are concerned is not confined to our city or state recent advices advises from the atlantic states describe it at aa prevalent in almost every section of the north south east and west follow j ing edg in the wake of civil and elementary war ir punt gaunt disease strides yet there is no just cause for undue alarm the legislature has made noade provision for paying the states quota of the war tax I 1 by the passage of a bill imposing an ad valorem valoree tax ot oe 15 cents on each of real and personal property and a per capita I 1 tax of 2 on each mae inhabitant the stockton democrat thinks the poll tax an absurdity because it cannat be collected by compulsion and will not be paid in all probability babi lity in more than one case out of ten on the morning of march the town of iowa hill was ald laid aid in ashes goods and furniture were nearly all destroyed no estimate of loss in sacramento on the of march a crop of white clover eight or ten inches high was cut in the yard of J irwin in a location where water mater during the floods stood but a short time the union says it turned off an excellent swath the waters of 0 the river at that place pace were yet bome 16 to 18 feet above low water mark farming operations in the agricultural districts were being pushed forward with vigor asfalt as the ground became dry enough for plowing and seeding and it is believed that nore more seed will be sown this season than ever before but the crop will be late some of the land here heretofore tolore tilled will not be cultivated this season in consequence of the abundance of water but thousands of acres on the hill bill sides and tops have been plowed and sown which have never till this g been br brought into cultivation |