San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, June 8, 1861, Vol. 3 No. 10 FOR SALE. The undersigned having engaged in other business to which after the 1st of July he will devote his attention, will sell the business, Printing Material, etc., of the San Mateo County Gazette Newspaper and Job Printing establishment. Terms, one-half cash, the balance in six months. For particulars, apply to the undersigned, at Redwood City, or to Frank Eastman, Esq., Washington street, opposite the post-office, San Francisco. Wm. Godfrey Editor and Proprietor San Mateo County Gazette Also for sale, the Printing Material of the late San Mateo Courier, conditioned upon its permanent removal. Price $300 cash Wm. Godfrey, Redwood City IMPROVEMENTS AT BELMONT. - We observe that Mr. Maxwell, proprietor of the hotel at Belmont has enlarged and much improved his establishment by an addition to the front portion of the building. New buildings are also being erected in the neighborhood of the flourishing town. Mr. Fonda, of San Francisco, has much improved the appearance of his property, adjoining the place, by careful tillage, and tasteful pruning of the trees and shrubbery thereupon. The bells mont from which the town derives its name, is a lovely elevation, and its groves of evergreen oaks and fragrant shrubbery are an attraction to many visitors. The view of the Bay and the surrounding country from this point is not excelled. The mount itself is a most prominent landmark the whole length of the peninsula. Sheriff's Sale By Virtue of an execution issued out of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of the State of California, in and for the City and County of San Francisco, in the suit of Peter Donahue against Wm. P. Morrison, by which I am commanded to make the sum of three thousand nine hundred dollars, ($3900) and one hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-five cents ($134.25) costs at the date of the judgment, and all accruing costs, I have levied on the following property, to wit: The mill known as the Bear Gulch Mill, situated on the Mountain Home Ranch, in the County of San Mateo, together with all the singular the tenements, heriditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Notice is hereby given that on Friday the 21st day of June A.D. 1861, at 2 o'clock P.M. in front of the Court-house doors of San Mateo County at Redwood City, I will sell the above described property at Public Auction for cash in hand to the highest and best bidder, to satisfy said Execution and all costs. SILVAS HOVIOUS Sheriff San Mateo County By John Ames, Under Sheriff Dated, Redwood City, May 30th, 1861 EXECUTION. - On the 4th, in San Francisco, Clarkson, colored, was hung for the murder of Caroline F. Park, a servant of Mr. F.A. Woodworth. The murder was caused by jealousy. STATE NEWS The body of Wm. Meek, of the house of Dupuy, Foulkes & Co., noticed by us a few weeks since as having been missing since 7th May, was found on Sunday last, near Martinez. He is supposed to have died in a fit. Ex Senator Gwin arrived on the 3d on the Golden Age. The San Francisco Daily Times has changed hands, and will hereafter be published by an association. It is edited by F.F. Fargo, late editor of the Alameda (Illegible) Gen. McDougal started for the east on the steamer Orizaba, Saturday last. GRIZZLIES IN THE MOUNTAINS. - Mr. P. McMahon informs us that a number of cattle have lately been destroyed by grizzly bears in the vicinity of his place, on the mountains, near Halfmoon Bay. The fellows would afford fine sport for the amateur hunters from San Francisco, who infest the fields in this county, in quest of game. MAIL CONTRACTOR AND MAIL AGENT KILLED BY APACHES. - A private letter, received in San Francisco from Mr. W.B. Hooper, written at Fort Yuma, under date of the 26th ult., says; Lloyd and Kerr arrived to-day, and reported that Mr. Giddings, the mail contractor, while on his way from El Paso to Tucson, was killed by the Apaches, near Stein's Peak' together with Mr. McNeese, the Overland Mail agent. TOBACCO CULTURE. - The Stockton Republican says: W. McPridgeon and J. Frape have commenced the culture of tobacco, on the San Joaquin rive, about eight miles from this city. They have several thousand plants of the Havana, Connecticut and Virginia varieties, and will thoroughly test the practicability of cultivating it in this locality the coming season. DROWNED IN FEATHER RIVER. - A corpse lately found in the Feather river, has been identified from the description given as the body of an Englishman named Charles Townsend, a miner, and resident of Carpenter's Flat. It is believed he was not murdered and thrown in the river as was supposed at the time, but that he committed suicide. The wounds found on his head were caused by his accidentally falling into a shaft a few days before he was missed. - Butte Record THE HIGHLAND COUNTRY. - All who pass through San Mateo County, along the highway traveled by the stages, and many too who do much business among our people, are of the opinion that all the arable land adapted to farming and gardening purposes, lied before them in the valley, and that only so far as their vision extends is the land worth the having. This is a very natural error. From the high road mentioned, the view to the westward is bounded by the mountains, and but few are accustomed to look upon high land as being susceptible of cultivation, and it is generally regarded as but fit for grazing cattle - in fact, an unproductive if not a waste country. So we thought until lately, having an opportunity to pass through a portion of it, which we found to be covered by some of as good farms as were to be seen in the valleys. Here exists as peculiarity in our soil and climate. High upon the ridges of the mountains, where one would expect to see nothing but a bleak waste, unwatered and untellable, stretch out, far as the eye can see, innumerable fields of luxuriant, waving grain and verdant meadows, with running streams and here and there a lake, hundreds of feet above the vallies skirting the Bay to the east and the ocean on the west. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ BLACKSMITH And Wagon-Makers' Shop, San Mateo C.H. Remington proprietor of this establishment, takes pleasure in informing his friends and the public, that having added a Wagon-Making and Repairing department to his Blacksmith-Shop, he is now prepared to do that description of work in connection with Blacksmithing. --> Ploughs sharpened and all work guaranteed, both as to material and workmanship. San Mateo, May 25, 1861 Dressed Lumber, Flooring, etc. Charles Hansen will supply dressed lumber of every description and in large or small quantities, at less than San Francisco prices. Apply at Hanson's Wharf, Redwood City. To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com <http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/>