Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-28
NEWS TAILINGS.

4 Carson wife-beater has been sentenced
to six months in the County Jail and fined
$500 for "sassing" the Judge. 'Oh,
righteous Judge"
There is eight feet of snow at Fordyce
Dam, and ten feet at Mea lowLake, which
Is frozen nearly solid as ice, thus guar
arteeIng to our miners a good long season
for gravel mining. [Grass Valley Union.
The miuers of Amador county organized
a Miners Union in Sutter Creek in De-
cember last 1t is designed for mutual
protection and benefit. The headquarters
are in Sutter Creek. Atpresent the Union
has a membership Of eighty.
The Modesto Herald says: "What prom
ises to he the biggest thing in the wholeof the
San joaquin valley is the fly poison ranch,
situated between Atwater Station and Mer-
ced Think of it-SS0 acres of fly poison
plant enough to kill off all the flies, tieas,
reaches, ants, etc, i'll the country"
The late cold snap, we believe, did no
great damage to the wheat crop. For the
last few days we have had a north wind,
which dries up the ground to some extent,
but not enough to effect wheat in the
ground. The ground is wet enough to
make crop with spring showers. : Colusa
Sun.
A Los Angeles orange grower, Il. Ma
deau, who has a grove of 10, GOO trees, pro-
tccted his young trees from frost by sur
rounding their trunks with cornstalks.
They came out of the cold snap. .unscathed,
while many of the small trees OF his neigh
bors were set back half year or more in
their growth.
a young lady residing in this city has
succeeded in gathering quite IL collection of
ferns, dried grasses, etc, OF which she is
very proud. The other evening compos-
itor of this Office called on the young lady,
and after discussing the topics of the day,
remarked "What quantities of dried
grass you have here. Nice place for a
donkey to get into" "Make yourself
perfectly at home" she responded, with
sweet gravity. Vallejo Chronicle.
Another mineral discovery is reported,
this time on Mr. Roy's ranch near Nicasio.
We were shown specimen of the rock by
the prospector. 1t is of the same general
character as that taken from the other de-
veiopments. We are informed that on be-
ing subjected to the rudest of tests, name
", roasted with salt and charcoal, both
gold and silver were obtained in sppre-
ciable quantities. At the present rate of
discovery all of us will have mines and all
of us be millionaires. Marin Tocsin.
At no time in the history of our county
have our farmers been buster with seeding
than at the present time. Until within
the last two weeks the ground was too wet
for sowing, but was in fair condition for
blowing. and thus large area was turned
over ready for seeding. The present fine
weather is very favorable for sowing and
narrowing, which is prosecuted with unu-
sual vigor. Already many are done, and
others swell this list daily. From all indi-
cations and general conversation with our
farmers, there is every encouragement for
a prosperous season. All the early sown
grain is growing rapidly, summer-fallow
nearly covering the ground, and much of
the late sown is already coming up and do
ing well. All fears of the grain rotting in
the ground during the recent cold snap
have been dispelled, as the grain is now
making its appearance above ground ap-
parently uninjured. d.-[ Yuba City Journal.
Charley Taing, the Chinaman who has
been under sentence of death for some
months. and whose time is set for the 3Oth
instant, has all along been impatient of the
laws delay. lie announced himself as pre-
pared to go when first sentenced, and while
his case was on appeal to the Supreme
Court. Last Saturday evening he got a
small cord, by some hook or crook, and
hanged himself up to the grating on the
top of his cell. The keys to the cell were
locked up in the vault, and after the alarm
was given by Whalebone Jack, Billy Be-
vile was sent for, and in his hurry he
turned the combination too far and had to
60 over it again. A messenger was sent up
to Sheriff Arnold's house after him, and
he arrived in time to try to unlock the cell
with the wrong key. All this time the
poor Chinaman was hanging by the neck.
When taken down life seemed to be entire
ly extinct. DIR. Bolton was sent for, and
the work of resuscitation commenced, and
in short time the Chinaman began TO
writhe in the most fearful commissions. lie
came to life, but the agony was described
as fearful.-tColusa Sun, January oath.