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Show VMFOKM V. E. Ellen of Truckce runs two shingle mills and turns out from 30,- 000 to 40,000 Bhiogles per dny. Truckee is troubled, with a great muny dogs; it hsus more dogs than it wants. Last week they grumbled ubout having annkea tliero in their boots. The anti-Granger candidate for Supervisor in Napa didn't run well; he only received 6 votes out of 811 cast. A Nevada City milkman is rejoiced that 80 much snow fell on tho mouu-tiins mouu-tiins last Winter, and that it is melting melt-ing oil gradually. He says that water will hold out until late in the Fall. Nevada City has recently had so many lecturers, there that it begins to call itself the "hub." That's because be-cause "spokes" have been driven into tho places until the fellows are all tired. The Local Opinioniats of Grass Valley Val-ley are taking things quietly. They want to see how cold water will operates oper-ates on Rough and Ready Township before they cause a sudden change in Grass Valley. The bond of the Treasurer of San Jose has been iixed at $L00,OO0; that 01 Chief of Police at $.,000, and that of Street Commissioner at $-5,000. In San Fr;vncis"0 hist week 73 persons per-sons died 5(i males and 17 females. Paul Sansevain last yenr made from the Barton vineyard, in Han Bernardo county, 19,000 gallun6of white wine, 1,500 'of angelica, 300 of port, 3,000 of madeira, 1,000 gallons of brandy, and 5. (XX) tfallons of red wine. The vine yard consists of 80 acres, with vines irmn 11 to 2o years old. There is not a prisoner in the Sutter County Jail, and the jailer's occupation occupa-tion is gone. San Diego pays one dollar per day : for the maintenance of her poor. One thousand acres of cotton will ; be planted this season in Merced County. NEVADA. The Centennial Commissioners recently met in Carson and action was taken to get the quota of stock for that Statel$ll,000)subscrihed for; and other bnisness was transacted. The Humbolt River is rising fast, and the probabilities are that it will soon cover the bottoms. Some of the stock raisers near Walla Walla contemplate driving their bands of cattle to Nevada, where they expect to sell at good figures. The number of feet of lumber manufactured man-ufactured Ln 1873 in the Lake Tahoe Basin is estimated at o0,000,0u0. Nearly all of this was shipped to Virginia Vir-ginia City and Gold Hill. A considerable consider-able portion of it was mining timber. A cavalry company is being organized organ-ized at Virginia City. At present there are 12-5 convicts in the Nevada State Prison. On the ISth inst. a man named Joseph Marks, a shoemaker, at Gold Hill, shot his wife, and then supposing suppos-ing he had killed her, shot himself in the head and soon after died. Cause. family trouble. Thg woman will recover. A man named Rush, charged with murder, in Alpine County, who was being conducted from that county to another, recently, was taken from the sherifi and hung. OUF.GON. There are 14,000 bushels of wheat in the farmer's warehouse at Gorvallis. In King's Valley, Benton County, every available acre of ground is being ploughed and prepared for sowing Srin' There were nine different tickets m the field in the municipal election at Eugene City last week. The iron girders for the State Capitol Cap-itol building have been shipped from New York. The Independent Convention at ' Gorvallis was well attended. The streets of the city were thronged from an early hour with' farmers and candidates. can-didates. I The total value of the exports of wheat and flour from Oregon to , foreign ports for the year ending on 1 March 31, 1874, amounted to $2,412,-oB2. |