Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-04
NEWS ITEMS.

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Bad roads in Bodie.
Fights are growing less in Bodie.
Leap-year parties boom at Helena.
The cry is for more houses in Suisun.
A mining boom is progressing in Montana.
suisun is happy with a rainfall of 10. y
inches.
beaverton delights at present in a
dancing school.
Helena viii erect one hundred and fifty
new buildings this spring.
Stockton authorities have resolved to
grade the streets of that city
A new paper is to be started in Helena,
Montana, in the month of March.
Utah's new school law has gone into
operation. The Gentiles don't like it.
Captain Weber's barn burned at Stockton
Saturday He is the victim of many mis-
fortunes.
The ladies OF Bodie have organized a
relief society for the sick and destitute OF
that place.
The Free Press is disguised because not
Il flag was fiung to the breeze in Ventura on
Washiugton's birthday.
The record shows that twenty-foar
deaths from diphtheria have occurred in
Honey Lake valley this winter.
The Jacksonville Times severely lectures
the people of Del Norte for their apathy
IN regard to the new wagon road.
1t is reported that the Great Eastern
Quicksilver Mine Company has sent East
for one hundred and fifty negroes
The Oroville papers are jubilant over the
certainty of Edison's black sand reduction
works being established at that place
Spelling bees are all the rage in Butte
county this spring, and the local papers
devote much space to reports of them.
El Monte, Los Angeles county, has
whooping cough and red measles. Forty
one cases of the latter are now reported
The school textbook war has broken ont
in most Of the counties, and the Boards of
Supervisors are now wrestling with the
subject.
Water rates in Chico have been fixed at
81 20 per month per family of five persons
Meters are to be put in to test the supply
if desired.
Sundays Grass Valley Union saws !:
The mild weather still holds, and the
snow is rapidly disappearing from the sur
rounding hills.
The women of Utah are out in twenty
three stanZas of poetical thanks to leeisla-
tors for support of the wonan's bill that
the Governor vetoed
The ice has gone out of the Humboldt
river at PaGsade. The stream is very low,
but hls boom IS expected as soon as the
weather moderates and the snow melts.
a Eureka (Nev.) lady has hair 5 feet S
inches long Miss Negus, a Carson lady,
now living at Reno, has splendid head Of
hair. II IS 4 feet inches in length. bv
actual measurement.
The Messenger, of Downieville, February
18th, says: Sleighs are run every day be-
tween here and Sierra City, and between
here and Camptonville. There is between
i've and six feet of snow in Sierra valley.
Donaer Lake has remained frozen over
all winter. This is something remarka-
bic, and is said to have never occurred
since the dreadful winter If 1857, when
the Inflated Bonner party encamped on its
shores.
The Anaheim Gazette reports that in the
mountains above Silverado snow fell to a
depth of SIX inches, and for twelve DAYS
the ground was covered with the feecv
particles. Ice formed to the thickness OF
Il inches.
The Reno Gazette says: There never
has been time when there was more land
being cleared up in this neighborhood than
now. There viii be nearly dozen new
ranches put in this spring and many old
ones enlarged.
AsBattle Mountain gentlemen writes to
f. w. Wetherill of Reno that the town is
full of people, and the hotels crowded. He
thinks that there will be some mining ex-
element in the vicinity of Battle Noun
tain during the coming summer.
The Austin Receile exclaims: Why
don't some one get up baby show. a
cocking-main, bull-fght, canine en-
counter, foot race, q Greco Roman
wrestling, anything to disturb the dreary
inonotony Of everyday life and make
things a little more lively around town
than has been the case for several DAYS
past? 1t is, SO far as anything of interest
to local items is concerned, the bluest.
dullest, dryest town this side of Yankee
Blade.
On Sunday the emigrant train contained
81 emigrants belonging to one company
who term themselves the "cow boys. !"
They were from Leavenworth, Kansas, and
bound for Eastern Oregon. The design is
to purchase 2, 600 head of cattle and drive
them overland to Colorado and Kansas
The trip will consume about four months.
The cattle, horses, saddles and entire outfit
will be purchased in Eastern Oregon
There are 60 persons in the entire com
pany, eight of whom had gone ON before.
The money necessary to carry on this en-
terprise Will aggregate nearly half mill
ion dollars. 1t is not an experiment. as
the managers made the same trip last year.
making large profits. The party stopped
three hours in Truckee, and contained six
or seven negroes who were sweet singers.
They had musical instruments along to
vile away the journey pleasantly, and their
performance here collected large crowd.
giving the impression that a band of wan.
dering minstrels had appeared among us.
1Truckee Republic