AMERICAN ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1832, 19 June 1874, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

The San Bernardino ( Guardian ' says that in that country alfalfa is cut six or seven times a year, producing from 20 to 30 tons to the acre. There are tho usands of rabbits in the valley a few miles east of town, says the Union ville Silver State of December HI, and red and white men are having a big time hunting them. A pale face out on a hunt the other day, brought in 2 score the result of a few hours' hunting. The Eureka, (Nev.) Sentinel says : — The total bullion shipment from this district, for the month of November, aggregated 2,823,000 pounds, viz ; — Richmond, 1,320,000 pounds ; Eureka consolidated, 663,000 pounds ; Ruby consolidated, 550,000 pounda ; K. X., 450,000 pounds. These figures differ but little from those of the month previous, and are quite satisfactory. N. Grayson, who resides about six miles south east of Woodland, has destroyed 1,963 gophers the past season, and obtained 169d0J. 30 cents county bounty for their scalps. The great snow storm drove the tenderer wild animals out of the fastnesses of the mountains, and the hunters of the valleys are having fine sport shooting deer, &c. When the Californian State Capitol building was commenced, the estimated cost was 500,000d015. It had up to the present time cost 2,500,000d015. and the commissioners want only 1,500,000d015. to complete it. The ' Celina Herald' says :— Wild geese are so plenty in this locality that, in many instances, they have nearly eaten bare to the earth the fall wheat. They come down in great droves on the field at about eight or nine o'clock a. m., set a guard to watch and then go to work. A peculiar instinct teaches just how far average shot gun will carry, and it is next to an impossibility to shoot them. Louisiana produces more cotton than any other State in the Union. Of the 3,000,000 bales raised in all the South this year she contributed 1,200,000. Bnt this gain was made at the expense of the sugar crop. The Floridian, records as "worth mentioning " the fact that a worthy lady in Leon country has, at six births, produced 11 children. At the last birth there were three boys, two of whom are alive and are now running about. The mother is only 30 years of age. David Terry, a young man of 18 years, ' son of David S. Terry, who killed Broderick, was killed on the ranch of Colonel Beale, Kern county, last Saturday evening, by the accidental discharge of a pistol he was engaged cleaning. Some time ago the Hob We Company San Francisco, purchased from H. W. Brown, for a consideration of 24,009d015., the building whioh is numbered 751 on Clay street, between Kearny and Dupont and directly in front of the Plaza. The building is now being transformed into a Joss temple, to which the better class of Chinese will betake themselves for worship. Como, situated in the .Palmyra Mountains, about 10 miles south-east of Dayton, is, according to the Territorial Enterprise, probably the most utterly deserted town on the Pacific coast. Far up in a cold, snowy valley on the eastern slope of the mountains stands the town, all of its streets deserted, and not a human being to be seen or a human voice to be heard. There stands the breweries, stores, hotels, lodging houses, the school house, the old Como Sentinel printing office and all the buildings, public and private, but a few years since throrged with a busy and hopeful people. A few buried friends in the little graveyard, but in the shafts seen everywhere on the slopes of the hills, all buried hopes, the obituaries of which the Sentinel did not live to publish. The ghosts have the whole town to themselves, as even the Piutes will not remain there. The Chicago Inter-Ocean is alarmed at the prospect of a timber famine, aad suggests that Congress and the State Legislatures should give their attention to the subject. There will always be timber enough in the country when we have so many blockheads managing its official affairs.

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