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A EMI- T/iOPn ■ CA L tFORXI. I 
RAIN SIGNS. 
JUlVl A»IK‘'l<'» B(Pp>lbll>»U.) 
Haring been in the country over 
Tears, and been as observant as others 
the signs of the times, wo think our opin¬ 
ion is a* good as anv man's, anil as othei 
prophets Han’t wen. W> hi* it vary correct 
[y, wc have thought it be* to roliisn. 11 • 
overstrained anxiety of Lhe general publ >. 
and make » few statements n our own way 
f.vr lhe benefit nf those who w ish to pin u 
and tow. So then, fi ratty, whan clouds I" 
gin to gather, rain tnat lm looked lor W ■ 
have history for this. It was so in the day ' 
of Noah. Sarondly, should rain fsli on or 
before the fifth of any month, it will err 
t.ninly he known Oil or In-fort" the tenth of 
the aanie month. Thirdly, if the «rn*. >n 
has Item a remarkably dry one, and the 
evaporation been great, and if rain tlidn t 
occur in October, November, 1 ieiiemln-i, 
January, n may lie looked for (anxiously l 
til tins iaino rnunths of the following y-.n. 
We place great confidence in this lattr \ 
rule, os «r hare watched closely since 1 ,. 
ami in all the years intervening between 
then and now we have had one kindofl 
weather nr another. Fourthly, 
fall uf any eoaaon has bean 
large, and the nmiaturc was 
l.lirnc nr more, and the ahowera continued to 
full damply for a month later than urnml, 
and th« barley bulged mid muted, and the 
cm grew rank and lull, and tho strode got. 
dusty after the rain ijnil, rain may ho run 
animhly expected mi or about tin* fnuiih 
Tuesday in -Ian nary following tho first Mon¬ 
day in 1 tewniber, aiunier nr later. A ’4'.lei 
gave ns this latter receipt. Hr mined on 
the. Yuba, and dammed it many u time bc- 
eausu uf the email siiperabuniluncc of wall i 
that eanu*, liho ihr wind, ,l \v||cr| if lisle th." 
Now the farmer cun tell when to plow un i 
Messrs. McKinley ilrua., who have an ex 
tensive and thriving nursery south of the 
city, have received a letter from Jim. I’.ni 
ton, a box manufacturer of Ban Jv*e, ht.it 
ing that the pear crop of thut section was 
lust season air - '-* 1 *• -' 
««JI Ml HIM 9taUM.llI »H MAN 1)1 Eft 
Ml season a I man totally destroyed by the 
. oJdling moth. Our fruit-growers must be NHyoiic thousand three hundred and, Mr, C. U. Workman, who resides on 
stir themselves, and m>i let tl.is p,„t »p read | twelve emigrants landed at Caatle <riirdeti, I-^tm in street, presented us recently with 
Vhioujflinul Lns Angelo. county. New York, during lhe month of October. N,i vei-al o| his Kurokn lemons, grown from 
t -———___ imported Block. The fruit teems excellent, 
-___ has •> thin rind, with no perceptibly hilt, r 
N, , Iftutc, and it will undoubtedly become h 
\ j very popular variety with those who are 
| about to act out semi-tropical orchards. 
I You can generally p,|| |,y looks of u 
maii'n place whether h* lakes Skmi-Tuoi'K 
lOAtlJ oitsi.v or any other good horticultural 
w agricultural tnagasinu. If ll.,. w«cda tin 
jfiva frit high it] his fruit t yard, the fa rice i 
jin ruins, Ilia fruit trnea imprui.ed and uu 
earrd lor, and hia children clad in rags, you 
; m*v safely conclude -io,y. you can post 
I lively assert - that h» Ulirvc. ||, nl lt Joe, 
jnni pay to read. If bia piano is in g,.,., 
■ order, ami he. Ins a neat bank account, you 
.will I,...I his table well stocked with papers, 
Naim- WAWKiio.et, Lu, tmtitm *:'* 1'“!* *. cU « 5( J«catorJ, and a general 
Hit of prosperity ovor ail his pwwtaaiooi). 
