Show CLIPPINGS the sierra democrat tells ofa of a frenchman who becoming 0 infuriated through losses at rondo discharged his pistol but hit nobody of a faricy fancy nig og er that got into a row with another whilst playing at araw 11 and was wag stabbed between the shoulders bleeden bleeding about fourteen gallons and of a fellow named french pete who on thursday shot at a frail creature and took the top of her skull oer off such ia is townville Down Dow ville riville the marysville marksville Marys ville democrat ia is informed that a hill above timbuctoo yuba county literally tumbled down on monday night sept 26 the Stockton Stock tonj jail jali achs is said to be chock full of of prisoners six of whom are charged with murder the napa reporter has on exhibit exhibition ibn at its ita offidean office cean an apple weing weighing ah I 1 ib ab 9 gozs bayard taylor was lecturing 0 in placer ville el dorado county there are persons in the insane asylum amylu m in california the express office of wells fargo b co in jackson amador county was wag broken into and robbed of in gold bars A fire broke out in auburn placer county which consumed some fifty frame buildings and would have destroyed the whole town had not some brick buildings arrested its fur ther tier progress damage the ship black warrior arrived in san francisco from hon hong hodg 0 kon kong 0 with over one hundred celestials Celesti als A tomato grown at santa rosa measured in its largest circumference 23 inches its largest diameter is 8 inches and its smallest 2 inches and weighs 2 pounds 1 tobacco is being success successfully tully rully cultivated in in the gardens at placerville erville corn is sellin selling 0 in the vicin vicinity ity of marys ville at and 1 per bushel last year the price was ido 1 50 the new directory gives the population of sacramento at persons being colored the illinois farmers are complaining that that the wheat crop does not average so much per acre acne as was expected that indeed there is only two thirds of an average t crop the montreal transcript says that although the victoria bridge will be completed by the end of november the grand inauguration t will not take place until next year it is said that mr bates chief recommendation men mer dation for the presidency is that he is sixty five years old and the father of sixteen children 11 tin d city of wilmari wilmington 0 amton del is BO so well satisfied with the recent experiments with the water gas gaa at that place that preparations are now being made says the wilmington journal to dispense with coal gas an and od use the water gas exclusively A self supporting fence has been invented by charles it needs no posts A machine for the manufacture of ice is i now in operation in london which turns out three tons of 0 that commodity comm odUy daily it is the I 1 I 1 invention of mr harris of australia the refrigeration is produced by the evaporation of either in a vacuum the rev geo scott has given through the london daily nas news a translation of the new projects of late prepared by the government of sweden to be laid before the approaching meeting of the diet granting a measure though not a full one of religious liberty the proposed laws by greater completeness I 1 and more careful preparation are looked upon aa as a great improvement on the proposal 0 made to the last diet alf acif all ali the 0 old oid ld la law w s sat sae at religious liberty are to be repealed there are in egypt three hundred of railroad when the running of the trains was commenced mummies were used for fuel i and are said to make a very hot fire the tha supply is almost inexhaustible and th they eyare arm are used by the cord what a dest destiny inyl to provida for a locomotive one of the most celebrated divines of paris is reported to have declared that tha dresses of the ladies had become swollen with their iniquities j francis snead of san frani franl francisco f so lar lately ely put up in los angelos 2700 cans of preserved ed lio peaches pears jams and figs ile he ibo is about to I 1 V V preserve olives I 1 y an individual in tulare valle valie valley vailey y who has haa an extensive field under fence well timbered with white oaks sold the acorn crop of tha the present year for 1800 to be gathered b bythe bytha X e purchaser the trees throughout the enjiro valley were loaded with acorns and as soon as they begin to fall the hogs will fatten A sale of the overland stage property by the sheriff of placerville erville realized it is said that a tree lately cut a few miles above placerville erville furnished at the saw mill feet of sawed lumber A singla log from another tree of twelve feet in length and sixty five inches in diameter at the smallest end made over 2000 feet of 0 lumber the placerville erville express says that it was demonstrated at the late fair that thaltha the grapes raised on the hills and mountain sides wes alon aion alongside side of the miners were better than thosa raised in valleys and low lands NATURAL CURIOSITY there exists on th tb southern overland mail route two hundred and eighty miles east of el paso on the road leading in Z to san antonio a kenark remarkable able abie spring known as the leon hole the following are a few particulars descriptive of it it is fully one hundred and fifty feet in diameter and has been sounded to the depth of eight hundred feet without finding bottom the surface is as smooth as that of a mountain lake it breaks outrunning out running about three miles when it disappears and again six miles distant reappears forming a stream fifteen or twenty feet deep in many places it is slightly 0 impregnated nat edwith with alkali and salt and contains five varieties of fish |