Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-12
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Over l50 mules are at present employed
in packing wood to Candelaria, New
There is a rose bush IN Oakland that
produces five distinctly different colored
roses.
A heavy white frost covered the roofs
and sidewalks iD Gold Hid and Virginia
Wednesday morning.
The supplies for the Arizona military
posts will be drawn from Los Angeles and
San Bernardino this year.
Change is scarce in Osceola, New A
man with twenty stands the town off all
the week. Every one has gold.
Lizzie Edwards, only years old, is
creating quite sensation at Truckee in
musical and literary entertainments.
In Sonoma county Martha Potter, col
ored woman, fell asleep with lighted pipe
in her mouth The funeral was quite
largely attended.
Twenty-Five of the San Francisco boys
imported into Santa Clara county to pick
Strawberries have given up the job and re-
turned to the city.
The Idaho Statesman tells of chicken
just Matched that has three eyes and two
upper bills, the lower bill fitting between
the two upper ones and the third eye was
in the centre of the head, between the
other two.
An enterprising young man in Red Cliff,
Col, combines in himself yocations enough
for dozen men. He is a surveyor and
assayer, the barber, keeps hotel, edits
and publishes the weekly newspaper, which
is written and hung up for reference III his
grocery store, and While he is resting goes
out in the yard and saws wood
a fellow in Chico went up into the Rec
ord office to clean out the establishment
the other day. About three minutes
afterwards man was seen in front of the
Record Office with a couple of black eyes, a
bloody nose and a completely demoralized
appearance. a passer-by, attracted by
his condition, asked what was the matter.
~ went up to see if the editor who wrote
that piece about me was up there.
"Wel," said the other, did you see
him p g Yes," said the injured man, he
was In.
Some very excellent roadwork is being
done on the prison grounds at San Quen.
tin, says the San Rafael Journal. A new
inclosure anG watch. tower mark the limits
on the east, and splendid piece of macad.
amizing is In progress from that sentinel
post to the bridge. The hill road on the
north Is dressed with rock, which will be-
come smooth and hard and make beauti-
ful approach. Lumber is on the ground
and is being prepared for the erection of
three houses for the officers of the prison.
There is general air of activity about the
institution.
The Census Enumerators throughout the
county daily meet with peculiar cases, says
the Nevada City Transcript. The other
day Mr.. Rogers came across woman in
Grass Valley township who stated that she
was not married But" she added, 6
have one daughter grown, and she has
several children" The Enumeration thought
she had made mistake, and asked,
When did your husband die?" sThere
you go again" she calculated. 81 amt
expect to have one. Just az though some
women couldn't be mothers without being
wives.
former resident of Bodie, now in Lead
vile, Col, writes from that place under
date of June lst: "Since have been here
we have not had a day without storm of
some kind. 1t showed night before last,
yesterday and part of last night. Rents
are high here; rooms, from 81 upward
stores, from $500 to $500 meals, Is cents
and upward dish of cucumbers, so cents
dish of asparagus, 25 cents dish of green
peas, 25 cents; dish of green onions or
radlshes, 25 cents. Value in market One
cucumber, so cents; one bunch asparagus,
40 cents /; one pound green peas, 25 cents
one bunch green onions, Is cent?; one
pound lettuce, so cents, You can get
meal or nights lodging for 25 cents-but
you can judge of the quality. Everybody
is on the make, and nobody gives up any
thing to speak of; everything cash, and
nobody making anything"