Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-21
Pacific Coast Items.

The Visalia Delta brags because there
is only one prisoner in the Jail of Tu-
lare county.
Harvest hands are scarce around
Santa Clara, and farmers are in town
almost every day looking for help.
On Sunday, July 18th, Charles Me-
Cabe, of Stanislaus county, died from
the effects of q bite by noxious
spider.
The managers of the Great Western
mine, ten miles below Healdsburg, have
contracted for one of the WinterbLrn
furnaces.
A farmer engaged in heading grain
on the south side of the Tuolumne
river, reports that the heat was
so intense last week that one of his
mules was killed.
The Indians in the vicinity of Lower
Lake have been very much excited
about the appearance of the comet,
having some superstitious dread on the
subject.
Large quantities of butter-tubs are
required to supply the wants of the El
Dorado county dairies, and local
paper wonders why some one does
not engage in their manufacture up
there.
Says the Lakeport Bee, of Thursday:
Butter appears to be scarce in Lake
port at present. Last week q pound
could not be had for love or money.
What are our dairy men about?"
The army-worm has appeared in the
vicinity of Woodland, Yolo county,
and letter received from an interested
party in that locality states that the
clover-tops are being eaten by the
worm as fast as they appear.
A Chinaman, while working at the
borax mines in Lake county, last
week, in an open cut, secluded from
the air and in full force of the sun, fell
to the ground in an unconscious state,
and expired in about three hours after
ward.
The SonOma Democrat advocates the
building of a road from Santa Rosa to
Knights valley, to be extended via
the Great Western mine in Lake
county to Middletown. This would
furnish short route from Santa Rosa
to Lake county.
John Duff, native of Ireland, pur-
chased some strychnine at Santa Clara
on Wednesday noon, and, going to his
house, dosed himself with it. The ply
sicians were sent for promptly, but ar
rived too late to do any good, for Duff
died the same day.
The County Clerk Of Santa Clara
has been comparing the statements of
the various taxpayers of the county
with the records of mortgages, and
has, up to the present time, issued $50
notices to parties whose statements do
not agree with the mortgages of re-
cord
Says the Sacramento Bee of Friday:
"Last night and this morning the
weather was probably the coolest ever
known here in the middle of July. A
stiff cold wind prevailed, the ther-
mOr1eter was down to 40. and thick
coats were not at all uncomfortable
Downey City, the name of the little
town that has grown up at the termi-
nus of the Anaheim branch of the
railroad, is quite a thrifty and improv-
ing little burg. There are some twenty
houses grouped together including all
classes OF country business stores.
Two men named John Deadly and
Daniel Whaley, employed at a ma
chine-shOp at Donahue, had an alter
cation Monday night, when Whaley
drew knife and stabbed Deadly in the
abdomen. Whaley was intoxicated
Deadly was taken to Petaluma, and is
now in critical condition.
Says the Russian River Flag of the
10th: "Our latest intelligence from
the spirit world, through Healdsburg
medium, is on mining matters. The
richest gold mine on the Pacific coast
is to be discovered in less than four
years, within fifteen miles of Healds-
burg. At this point in the message
the wires seem to have broken down.
We hope as soon as communication
can be re-opened the spirit mining
sharps will tell us the exact location Of
that mine.n