Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
tombstone. A. T, has AS saloons.


Whooping.cough is quite prevalent. in
Truckee.
Wild strawberries abound IN the vicinity
of Donner lake.
Juab county, Utah, is being devastated
by grasshoppers.
Work has commenced on Fort Assina.
boine, Montana.
The hospitals in Arizona are full of sick
people, mostly prospectors.
Counterfeit $50 pieces are plentiful in
Salt Lake, Utah Territory.
Crawford early peaches were ripe July
23d, at Phoenix, Arizona, and sweetwater
grapes.
There is more building now going on in
Tucson, A. T., than at any other time in
the history of the city.
The Tuscarora Tiimes-Rerie,c reports the
town of Cornucopia, New, reduced to less
than twenty five persons.
A. B. Nalby offers $1,000 to any party
that will produce flowing artesian well
on his place in Healdsburg.
Trout fishing in the streams near Lake
Tahoe continues to be good, despite the
multiplicity OF grasshoppers.
The next Legislature Of Arizona Terri.
itory will be composed of SO members
the House and Is in the Council.
Since the Hotel Del Monte opened at
Monterey 5000 people have been turned
away for want of accommodation.
The best trout fisheries in the State are
said to be in the rivers falling into the
ocean on the Mendocino county coast
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reception at Oakland on his return from
the East. A subscription list is in circula-
tion.
A new pound has been established at
Marysville, and the first animal taken in
was cow belonging to one OF the City
Council.
Snake river is 500 feet wide at Black
foot, Idaho. The Blackfoot Irrigation
Canal is 27 feet wide, and waters 5000
acres of land.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company's
assessment iE Yuba county, which includes
sixteen miles Of track and franchise
amounts to S39S, 924.
One of Truckee's little boys went fishing
to Donner lake last Sunday without asking
leave of his parents. Next morning
neichbor's boy met him and asked Did
YOU catch anything mot till got
home," was the rather sad and melancholy
response.
There are thirteen war vessels in the har.
Dor of Vallejo, viz; Benicia, Cyane, Co.
manche, Monongahela, Monsdnock, Mo-
hican, Iroquois, Narragansett, Saco.
| Nyack, Ranger, Independence and Pensa-
cola. These vessels comprise one.ninth of
the United States Navy, and one-half Of its
tonnage-ll, 7S7 tons and l03 guns. -
l The Calaveras Chronicle thus refers to
the prevalence of malignant malaria at
Railroad Flat, few miles east of Mokel-
umne Hill "We are sorry to have to
announce that malignant malarial fever
"a disease which prevailed in that locality
q few years since-has made its appearance
| in Railroad Flat. Two or three deatN
have already occurred from it, and several
are now dangerously i'll.
| The Elko New Independent says that
the whole section of country about Cherry
creek is infested with a band of horse and
| cattle thieves. who are pursuing their
business with extraordinary boldness.
| Horses and cattle are driven off in differ
ent directions, generally nor IN and through
Utah. There is proof as to who the guilty
parties are, yet there are so many ready to
swear to anything that it is hard to convict,
At various places along Feather river,
says the Marysville Appeal, are Indian
mounds supposed to contain bones OF the
departed. Parties coming up on the
steamer which carried the Debrls Directors
down the river on Monday went on the
shore at George Ems landing, twelve miles
down the river on the Sutter county side,
/ h. Ioa cfN fOr
found one of the mounds which the river
had torn open. The mingled skulls and
skeletons of ten Indians were to be seen,
the action of the water having exposed
them. An examination of one of the skulls
was made, but the other remains were not
disturbed.
Salmon have again put in an appearance
in Monterey bay, and large numbers are
being caught. On the oath instant persons
in two skiffs caught eight, and the next
day a party of six persons in three skiffs
captured twenty-one. Fishing with hand
| lines is the general method employed, but
some parties have used rods with equal
success and more pleasure. 1t is a mooted
question if these fish are not running tor
the Sacramento river, but no efforts having
been made by local anglers to determine
the question. 1t would be interesting to
know the destination of these fish, and a
good opportunity is offered local fishermen
to make an investigation.
! Yesterday morning Mrs. Chattermug, a
lady living on Nevada street, says the
Carson Appeal, got excited over the &C.
counts of Tanners fast, and announced
! that she would abstain from talking for
forty days, She began at 9 in the morning
/ yesterday, and at l0:3O her pulse was SO
feeble from exhaustion that the physicians
, feared she would die by noon. At ii her
heart beat 26 minute, and her respira-
tions were hardly noticeable. Her friends
here urged her to renounce her terrible
task, and told her some gossip about
neighhor. On hearing this she immedi-
! ately rushed from the house and going
/ across the street met lady friend and
/ talked until $50 last night, and is now
, fully restored. Her record of nearly two
+ hours and a quarter of absolute silence
: now takes its place at the top OF the list
Congratulatory letters are pouring In from
: all sides, and she has had several offers te
take the lecture field.
:. yVno WANTS Tre-The editor of the