Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-19
NEWS DASHES.
Salt Lake has the bicycle fever.

Austin has great trouble to get mail.
The mountains in Shasta county abound
with grouse, mountain quail, etc.
The amount of delinquent taxes remain
ing to be collected in Napa county is
SIS, 900.
Ulliah Press The license tax yielded
Sl22 more in 1879 than it did the previous
year in Ukiah
The local option petition is being numer-
ously signed by the most influential citi-
zens of the town of Ukiah.
The Bodie Standard reioices that the
mercury only fell to fifteen degrees below
zero in that locality during the recent cold
snap.
During the year 1879, 100, 900 barrels of
beer We're brewed in California. Three
hundred and twenty-eight barrels We're
brewed in Napa.
The placer miners are busily at work on
the slope of Bodie ridge, being well sup
piled with water by streams from the
Jupiter and Dudley mines.
Fine sleighing in Salt Lake. People are
congratulating themselves that winter is
half over The latter half will probably
prove mild, says tbs Salt Lake Tribune.
The cognomen of g Peanut - has become
fixture for the Vallejo train. 1t is no
trouble for it to get up the hill, but the
tug of war is in coming down. 1t takes
all their brakes to hold the thing level
Dixon Tribune,
The Nevada Transcript says: A Nevada
City lady, who is nearly seventy years of
age, has recently begun taking instru-
mental music lessons. She is confident
that by the time she has become pretty
we'll advanced in years she will be suf-
ticiently skilled to play for her own amuse-
ment.
The Teachers Association of Modesto
has adopted the following resolution:
THAT the cause of education would be
greatly promoted by having the teachers
employed BY the year instead of by the
month, and by paying them such salaries
! as will induce them to remain in the pro-
fession."
The recent cold snap was severely felt
along the line OF the new railroad from
Battle Mountain to Austin. Hundreds of
cattle persisted from exposure, and num-
Der of the railroad laborers had their ears,
toes and fingers frozen. On the 26th
drunken man, who had crawled under
haystack to sleep, was found frozen to
death.
OF the S95, 900 paid into the Treasury
by the Tax Collector, 500. 7GS was paid by
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
$50, COZ by J. B. Hasgin, SIS by Boggs
& Revois. 50, 800 by Miller, Lux & Crocker,
and s., 425 by Remington and Livermore
The Tax Collector has upwards of So, 900
still ON hand Kern county Courier Cali
fornian.
a letter from Ehrenberc, on the Colo
RADIO river, where ice hardly ever forms, to
gentleman in Prescott, states that about
Christmas the river was frozen over, allow
ing persons to pass from one side to the
other on the ice. The letter also states
that water in buckets froze to the thick
ness of three inches, something unknown
to the Oldest inhabitant.
While the mercury has been hugging
zero; while the ears and noses and hands
of the white man have been tingling with
cold ; while the earth has been covered
with snow, and ice has formed on exposed
bodies of water, the Digger Indian has
been displaying his utter lack of sensitive
ness to cold. Several of the red men of
the forest who come to town daily from
the adjacent campooda are conspicuous for
their thin bodily attire. With a pair of
gauzy pants and shirt all ragged and
torn, barefooted and bareheaded, they
wander about without any apparent regard
for the frigid atmosphere that surrounds
them. A kind lady saw one of
them in this condition passing her house
the other day, and asked him if he didn't
want pair OF shoes to keep his feet off the
ice and snow. ugh" he answered,
''white mahala she wear 'em. Injun he
no papoose. He all same big pine tree. 5"
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