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and W. H. Brodhead. The Eureka Sentinel says While the little run was being made on Paxton & Co.'s bank, County Assessor Powell got in his work and gathered a considerable amount of shells for the county and State by assessing the money which was drawn out by depositors. One hombre drew out $8,000 whose sworn statement to the Assessor contained a couple of ciphers opposite "cash on deposit,' and another individual. who had given in his cash assets at $1,300, drew out $4,500. Such little discrepancies amount to nothing nowadays, but in the old fogy times of our fathers they would doubtless have been designated as perjury. An inquest was held at Reno last Tuesday over the body of Frederick N. Twiggs, the unfortunate victim of the shooting affray between Messrs. Mooney and Raymond at the race-track near that place the day previous. The testimony did not differ materially from the accounts previously published. The jury rendered a verdict to the effect that deceased came to his death by aleaden bullet fired from a pistol in the hands of Thomas W. Raymond. The Territorial pioneers have decided to celebrate the anniversary of the admission of California into the Union on the evening of September 9th, at Platt's Hall. The exercises will consist of an oration, poem. music. etc., to conclude with a social hop. This society, which has been less than a year in existence, numbers some three hundred and fifty members and has a healthy treasury. The proposed celebration will be the first public reunion of the members. A new grove of colossal redwood trees has been discovered in California, one of which eclipses all that have been discovered on the Pacific coast. Its circumference is as high as a man can reach standing and passing a tape line around, is only a few inches less than 150 feet, which is beyond the measurement of any tree in the Calaverals grove. The hight is estimated at 160 feet, and a part of the top lying on the ground is over 100 in length. Of the Yellow Jacket the Gold Hill News says: At the 1740-foot level the principal development work of this mine is being done. The main north drift is in 505 feet to-day, with its face in very hard porphyry. The north winze below this level is down 146 feet, and the south winze 211 feet, both in dry, tough working material. The east cross-cut, between those two winzes, is in 65 feet, with the face in quartz and porphyry. No water. New mines have been discovered on Four-mile Creek, this side of the Owy. hee River. The discovery was made by a blacksmith from Battle Mountain, and a son of Mr. Winters, who has a ranch near the Owyhee. The ore is said to be rich, and the leads well defined. The new district is twelve miles from Cornucopia, on the Winnemucca road. County Assessor Lupton will soon complete his labors of assessing and taking the census of Douglas county. He thinks the entire population will not exceed sixteen hundred, or about five hundred voters, with an assessment roll of over $1,000,000 --- or $2,000 for each voter. The body of a man supposed to have died of thirst was found at Telegraph Gap, Arizona, nine miles from the Gila river on the 25th instant. The coroner came from Phenix, but there was nothing on the body to identify him. He had been dead about two weeks. A certificate of the increase of the capital stock of the California Mining Company from $2,000,000, in 20,000 shares, to $10,000,000. divided into 100,000 shares. was filed with the County Clerk of San Francisco on the 24th instant. There has been graded, packed and shipped from Battle Mountain station this season 311,700 pounds of wool. This constituted the bulk of the wool crop of Lander, Nye, Eureka, White Pine and Elko counties. During the second week in August the shipments of treasure from New York amounted to nearly one million six hundred thousand dollars, against $1,000,000 for the previous week. After twenty-five years of active ser. vice, the bark Uncas was Tuesday docked at Hunters' Point to be broken up. She was one of the fleetest of the Confederate blockade-runners in her day. Wells, Fargo & Co. have extended their express route from Los Angeles to Prescott, Hardyville and Phoonix. The other route is from San Diego and Silver City via Tueson. Over fifty Mormons recently received their final naturalization papers and were made citizens of the United States in Oneida county, Idaho. The citizens of White River are to have a public school. It will commence on the first of next month. Dr. Linderman, Director of the U.S. Mints is in Carson