Clippings from newspapers including the Daily evening bulletin, Daily alta California, and Weekly tribune (N.Y.). Includes poetry, anecdotes, articles on various topics, and news from all over the world. San Francisco topics include: horse-cars; hotels; value of church property; coal for domestic use; growth of San Francisco compared with Eastern cities; Art Association's spring exhibition; map of Mission Bay lands; treasure from the steamer America; Hualapai chief Quiwhathanava detained at Alcatraz; the Farallones. California topics include: Judge Edward Norton; Governor Seward; General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (portrait); Bret Harte; Bierstadt's new painting; droughts; value of land; the first California legislature; Northern Pacific Railroad; Santa Cruz railroad; Modoc wars; grasshopper plague in southern California; rodeos at Santa Marguerita ranch; Livermore Valley; Yosemite; Lava Beds in Siskiyou County.