Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-20
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

The town of Eureka, New, is mile and
half long and mile wide.
Several valuable horses have died at San
Mateo recently of lung fever or some simi-
lar malady.
A San Leandro horse, said to have made
a mile in 2:l7, will be placed on the track
this season.
The Dixon Tribune says that farmer in
the Montezuma hills struck a flowing well
at the depth of So feet.
The Bodie Free Press boasts because the
waters of Mono Lake are nastier than the
waters of the Dead Sea.
The Mendocino county Board of Super
visors reduced the per diem for guards at
the county Jail from SIS to $40.
DIR. VIM. Virgins, who recently died in
! San Jose, was a resident of San Juan 25
years. He came to California in lS4l.
Wives. are wanted in Leadville, and &C
cording to the Stockton Mail, girls expert
in dressing pistol shot wounds preferred.
| The Carson people have a new church
festival dodge in the shape OF a well stocked
pool of fish, which victims are allowed to
angle in at % cents bite
The class of Natural History in the pub
| lie school of Calistoga takes an excursion
into the surrounding fields every Saturday,
under the charge of its teacher.
It is an open secret that ex-Sheriff Was
son is about to marry a charming young
lady named Miss Quinn, daughter of the
wealthy halter of that name in Sacra-
mento. -[Salinas Index.
A log found adrift in the Straits was dis
covered to have live artillery shell i'm
bedded in it as it was about to be sawed
the other day at the Sayward mill. So
says the Victoria (B. c. Standard.
DIR. III. S. Borrette, of Johnstonville, Las
sen county, has book which is 260 years
old. 1t has been in his mothers family of
ancestors and handed down from genera
ton to generation for over 200 years.
]. H. Fender received yesterday, says
the Marysville appeal of May 18th, the
first two shad ever offered in this market.
The fish were of fair size, one weighing
three and the other two and half pounds.
1t costs the Virginia and Truckee Rail-
road $3.50 per month to keep its fat cars in
stakes. This Is not because of the wear
and tear or consumption of timbers put
to that use, but because of the number of
these stakes stolen for fuel.
The Eugene (Or) Guard says: From
present prospects Lane county will have
bountiful harvest this year. From every
/ locality we have encouraging reports.
Much more early grain has been sown than
entertained of possible repetition of last
years disaster.
| City Trustee Locklin has canary bird
of the feminine gender that he very rea-
sonably claims to be the boss multiplier,
not excepting anything in the State that
walks on two legs and wears feathers, says
the Nevada City Transcript. Early in the
spring it laid batch of six eggs and Matched
| four of them. 1t is now covering seven
more of its own production, and will before
many days have another crop of infants.
Says the Ashland tOregon) Tidmgs- A
number of gray wolves have been seen on
the road between Ashland and Linkville
within the past few weeks. They are
large, fierce beasts, larger than a blood
hound, and an unarmed man would have
| little chance of life if attacked by one of
them. A week or more ago Oscar Phillips
heard number of them following him as
he drove the stage through the forest this
side of Ways. He was unarmed, and it is
needless to say that he made good time.
Last Friday Collie Staw sent in foot cut
from one of the wolves he killed. He says
as he was driving the stage through the
weeds he came upon the wolf feeding upon
the carcass of horse Instead of running
off the beast showed fight, and Staw killed
it with an ak.