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Pearl Fisheries.
-'Phe~fian Franciseo Market Review
gives some particulars of the pearl fisheries inthe Gulf of California. The
Mexican revenue returns for 1869 show
that the catch of pearls and pearl-shell
_=long'the gulf coast, granted tothe:
~ Lower California Company, amounted
last year to the sum of $78,000." This
is the value, a8 returned on the estitors on the spot, but the Review says
it is clearly + very short of the actual market value, which was probably. four or
five times the amount specified, and
that it is certain that not more than
fifty per cent.-of the whole catch is ever reported to government. The ‘business is carried on in a slip-shod, haphazard manner, which only ¢xcites astonishment that any returns at all are
a g.estimated in the neighborhood
,000. .The business is attended
sity many difficulties. and. obstacles,
50 that Americanssoon get' discouraged
andabandon it. The divers are all Yaqui Indians, in whom no confidence. can
be placed. They will contract to dive,
but insist on a considerable advance,
. either in money or goods. After the
advance has been made, the unlucky
employer frequently finds himself, some
brightmorning without his divers, and
then ‘compelled to go over the whole
__ ground witha fresh set, only to be
treated in like manner by the new comers. If well fed ‘and well treated—
things to which they are perfect strangers—they regard their employer as
little better than a simpleton, laugh at
his easy trast in human nature, and
take themselves off without delay. It
frequently happens that Indians who
are not divers offer themselves in that
capacity, requiring the advance; and,
as the contractor cannot know the
trath, he is as often duped, . The real
divers know. their value, dnd ‘take every
other difficulties of like nature, it is
not singular that the. péarl fishery of
this coast» has: not attracted a large
share. of attention; but if conducted
with system, and supported by the exercise of proper authority, it would
prove most lucrative.
GILSEMININ, a powerful, nervous and
arteria sedative, which is generally beNieved t6 have hastened the death of G.
A. Brier, says the Shermantown Reporter; is something comparatively new
and but little understood in medicine,
Tt is the bark of the root of the yellow
or Carolina jasmine, the active princiciple of which is gilseminin, which
exercises greater power and force over
the muscles and nerves than anything
_-@lae known—rendering a person powerJess and insensible t> pain, while conpusness remains and the brain fs unsted. Medical authorities recommend doses of : from. one quarter to two
grains, but enjoin extreme caution in
Soom sit in all cases
of fre, congestion of. the lungs and
hemorrhage, and is the most eflicacious
remedy known in violent cases ,of typhoid and yellow fever. Both quinine
and brandy are antidotes. Light doses
produce a pleagant languor and prostration of muscular and nervous power.
\ An over dose causes complete prostration, renders a person powerless to
move the eyelids or mouth, produces
thing appearing double and of a greenish Megs.
<a e———
ters in detunse-of his official conduct,
. Mr. McConnel’s—reply, unless it be an
the-divers-and-specula-} insin.
given, The real value of the cateb, for . 4
“possible advantage. Under these and:
its use. Brier was. greatly debilitated}
dizziness and dimness of vision, everySENATOR Casserly has introduced a
bill in the Senate, permitting bonded
ee
fromthe Govercompelled
nor’s views, both as a lawyer anda
Det His legal reasons are well
joBen i his arguments well put,
but still we do not see that they materially affectthe position of the Governor. Governor Haight wrote ‘his letand we can Teally. see no motive for
early bid for gubernatorial honors.
The above we take from the Oakland
Transcript, a Democratic organ. The
; ig_making .
a bid Yor the office of Governor is all
humbug. There is no good feeling between. McConnell and. Haight, for the
reason, so we learn from very-good authority, that Haight violated his word
with McConnell, by proniising him,unsolicited, the appointment of one of the
Gommissioners to codify the laws of the
State, and did not do it.
Gay!— At: Tucson, Arizona, while
M. B. Duffield, formerly U.S. Marshal
of that'Territory, was being examined
in the District Court, at the instance of
Mr. Dooner, who had brought complaint against Duffield, for having, as
he alleged, threatened his life, the DisDuffield disarmed. An order. was issued to that effect, but Duffield prevented anyone from carrying it out, by
pulling his six shooter and pointing it
at the head of one officer. He then
made his way out of the Court, went
to his home, whither lig was followed
by H. 8. Stevens, who succeeded in pac.
ifying him, took him back to Court,
when he and A: Levin signed a bond
of $5,000 as security that Duffield
would keep quiet. How’s that for high?
HomicipE at Hamuton.—Tuesday
morning, at Hamilton, Dr. R. N. Owen
shot twice and-mortally wounded Richard N. Allen, a lawyer. The first shot
hit Allen in the leg and the second in
the right side. He died in the afternoon. The cause of the difficulty was
unknown. Dr, OWen’ is known as a
skillfal physician, an anlytical chemist
and an abstemious’ gentleman. Mr.
Allen is not so well known, bat he was
a teetotaler a month ago, and had been
for three months previously. Mr, Allen was about 45 years of age and
leaves a widow. ‘So says the Virginia
Enterprise.
Stockton CANAL.—A company to
construct a canal from Stockton to
Venice, on the San Joaquin river, has
been organized, with a capital stock-of
$3,500,000.. lt is expected that private land grants, to the extent of ten
thousand acres or more, will be made
in aid of the work. The object is to
reclaim swamp land, and to do the business usually appertaining toa canal.
The design is to make the ¢anal fourteen and w half milesilong, twenty-five
feet deep, one hundred and fifty feet
wide at the top and seventy feet wide
at the bottom.
In an old abandoned ghaft near the
Coanty Hospital, Virginia: ‘City, the
skeleton of a man who left the Occidental mine about a year ago, and who.
was never heard of afterwards, has
been discovered, The skeleton wag
partiallydn an upright position when
found, and it is supposed that the man
was not killed by a fall, but died “from
‘exposure and starvation,
Ir Commodore Vanderbilt lives long,
enough and meets with no serious backsets, itis not altogether unlikely that
the time. will come when he will be the
owner'and controller of a continuous
line of railway from New York to San
Francisco. He now’ controls, individually, a line from New York to Chicago.
He is said to be figuring on an extension
to Omaha.
DIssiPaTION rules supreme in San
Luis Obispo. The town is full of mondestination, the duties to be then colgoods to be transmitted by rail to their
"Tae Times says Santa Cruz people
are asleep in the matter of opening up
Wrendeacery sscviseatsm at 2 that county.
Axtoaerir, the farming prospects
pl Belane eputey ane" 6 considered wr
favorable,
. béing twice the
trict Attorney asked the Judge to have . ~
Union Pacific réad. .
bills now before Congress “asking for
grants of lands for railroads to the
amount of 512,000,000 acres. 186,000,000 have already been donated, and
should the land grant polieybé-continued, and the bills now before Congress
pass, the total number of acres donated
will amount to nearly 700,000, 000—or .
more by neaaly two hundred million
acres thar:the whole surveyed domain
of the United States, including the presTue Appeal notices with pride that
Marysville is becoming quite metropoljtan, and mentions among the new at
tractions of the town a galvanic battery man at the street corners, an
itinerant pen véndor and a blind fiddler. San Francisco may begin to look
to her laurels.
‘Tag San Francisco Figaro says there
is a rumor that Brother Pickering is
going to, buy the Chronicle, knock it on
the head and put it out of the way,like
the man who swapped his wife fora
yellow dog, and then killed the dog to
spite her relations.
An Indian giri, daughter of the Chief
of the Piute tribe in Nevada, writes
to Commissioner Parker, bitterly compliining of the treatment her people
lave received at the hands of the Government agents-while on the Truckee
River Reservation.
THE Gilean boys, at Canon creek
says the Trinity Journal, whom we
mentioned before, are still pegging
away, and doing far better than the
average of miners. “They make about
$60 a week—two boys and twelve years
old.
A CALL for a mass /meuting of ‘elttedne
of White Pine county to take the preliminary action for a railroad between
Elko and Hamilton appeared in the
Whito Pine News of May 20th, signed
by 91 individuals and firms. The
mevting -was_to have been__held_inHamilton on last Saturday night. —
THE unfortunate James Campbell,
who was terribly burned'at Elko by
the. explosion of a can of benzine, on
the night of the 13th -instant, and
which caused the death of his brother
Henry the morning after, died on the
morning of May 20th.
A Westexn Senator wrote home 4
short time ago, that he was enly able
to get “four hoursof sleep out of twenty-four, and during that period, a candidate for office sat by the bedside and
watched him as he slept.”
THE Appeal says that the crops in
the vicinity of Marysville look better
now than ever they did, and anticipates the largest yield of grain that
has ever been produced in that section.
As long as green peas are held at 50
cents a’ pound, says the White Pine
News, we don’t wantthem. But whenever they reach a reasonable figure “let
us have peas.”
THERE are fourteen men over in Ne.
vada who are mentioned as having the
inside track for the momination as Gov.
ernor of that State.
Racss,.--The Jockey Club of Colusa
county will hold their Spring meeting
at Colusa, coftmencing Tuesday, June
14th.
AN amorous San Franciscan »
achieved the Penitentiary ‘twice in his
brief career, each time for stealing
funds'to defray the expenses of a wedding tour. ~
—
OmanA has a man who lives with
his family in one of the large iron tubes
used in the construction of the bridge.
serial stories, one by &
" ‘Te contract for building the Mills}
te banks and other thieving games, . Institute, at the
Urrretz's } Lave Ace for May 2 21st
in Fiction ; Philosophy at
Crisis in France ; The Poet Moore and
his wife ; Rome in Winter ; The End of
the Paraguayan Experiment, etc. The
Livieg Age, besides the usual large
amount.of the best. scientific,.literary,
historical’ ‘and political matter, is. pub_new.2 ery
“Oliphant and
the other by Charles Lever. The regular subscription price of this magazine
is $8.0 year. Littell & Gay, Boston, . “
are the publishers.
THE French Governinent has punished some newspaper proprietors for
forging a proclamation over the signature! of the Emperor, and publishing
the same.
Joun P. Hate, late Minister at
Madrid, and for many years a distinguished Senator from New Hampshire,
is now in Europe, peor and braken in
‘health and spirits.
Sam Merritt, formerly a Senator
from: Mariposa, is nédw the Democratic
nominee for Congress in Idado. The
Convention was in session eight days,
and Merritt gotnominated on the 89th
‘ba'lot by one vote.
‘*‘Uncug Jake” Kellinger was killed
in the Garwood claim, on Canon creek,
recently, by a large boulder falling upon him.
omnn2
the murder of Susan Jones, a coloréd
woman, at Ogden, and sentenced to be
shot on the 17th of June.
A BOAT was upset outside of the San
Francisco Heads, May 24th, and it is
‘supposed three fishermen perished.
Tux Engineers of the Stockton and
Visalia Railroad Company are running
an experimental line to the Stanislaus
river.
Mr. BARTLETT, of the firm of Perry
& Bartlett, saw mill men in Santa
week and terribly bruised.
A: aNeaN, CHARLEY GRaF.
HENNEMAN & GRAF,
OULD INFORM THEIR FRIENDS
and the public generally that they have
opened a New Saloon; opposite the National
Kxchange Hotel, where they will keep constantly on hand the very best "eee Sid
Wines, Beer, Ales.Liquors & Cigars
te which they invite the attention of the entire community. Give us a call. my2t
ee
PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY !
poe
REMEMBER THAT
N. TUTTLE
HAS OPENED THE ;
Church Street Picture. Gallery,
Grass Valley.
stm ESTABLISHMENT HAS ae
DEPOT OF GENUINE
rlin Head And Enameled Card
w.
PICTURES. «i
Tuttle studies to please, and is pre-eminentthe cons tg Photographer .n this section of
my27
Grice Valley Ice Cream —a ’
' JOHNSON & MENGER,
—Preprietors—
7” OPPOSITE HAMILTON HALL, 93
ways on hand.
N= VISITING GRASS VALLEY,
at ee Re furnished and pleasant
» accommodation
. Cruz, wasthrown from.a team last . New
og Se ; The
.
interesting . —
,
Kee Cream, Strawherries, ete., gl-. Cmcinna
one Oak eed-room t Set.
oe Spring Matirass. . ;
*951b Mair Matirass.
Six Chairs.
A
One Setting Room Carpets
os Heir Cloth Sota:
Bedstead, new.
* pPulwu Mattrass, new.
oe
~ 66
ee
Mahogany Table.
Lots of Dishes, etc., ect.
ge For Furtber particulars enquixe of
EH. MOOKE, Piety i iy
a
NEW STORE.
NEW GOODs.
THOS. SHURTLEFF,
MAKES thie method of informin Ign: ua .
7 and the ha generally that
oe JUST RECEIVED
At his new Store, Kidd’s building,
ON BROAD STREET,
AT THE OLD STAND, OF A, . W. LESTER
& CO:
A Large Stock of
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
TO WHICH HE INVITES THE
ATTENTION OF ALL
PURCHASERS,
nos. KNarp has been convicted of . ~~
4s —
At this’ Establishment there will
ALWAYS BE FOUND
a ee a is usually kept in a Store ot
will be sold as Cheap as the very
Cheapest { ;
EVERYTHING SOLD I GUARANTES TO
BE AS REPRESENTED.
New.--Goods wil bo Received. every
few days.
(2 ALL GOODS. DELIVERED WITHIN A
REASONABLE DISTANCE FREE
OF CHARGE. gt
Dont forget the place !
AT THE OLD STAND OF
A. W. LESTER & CO.
BROAD STREET
THOS. SHURTLEFF. .
Nevada May 22m.
Overland Railroad Route!
THE ONLY LINn KUNMING THE PULLMAN HOTEL
CARS EAST OF THE MISEOURI RIVER,
The Best Route to all Cities in the Atlantic States /
REDUCED RATES OF FARZ,
Adopted fer 1870.
PAYABLE IN CURRENCY 0 INLY.
or eee + 2 @ 8000 ‘ed
CHICAGO.. 18 @ 33.00
aviovangy ane’ Tr Bet
Movtrcal oe 4
110 00
108 55
108 55
SECOND CLASS Passengers will be carried in
$128 by the Atlantic Hotel Express Train,
from San —— —
who arrived at Salinas City, May 2!
report that section cov covered with a
rel ynarc Sy Caladedo
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nue, Alameda, has been let for $68,000. . .
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