Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-01
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Lockford has literary society.

Lockford has a literary society.
The Plumas National has enlarged.
Ogden, Utah, has population OF 5000.
Lundy lake, Mono county, is $50 feet
deep.
Oakland wants the next Republican State
Convention.
The town of Santa Clara has popula-
ton of 2,042.
The Mazingo conviction cost Lake
county 81, 72S.
At Boise City, Idaho, the Democrat and
Mqhoian have been consolidated.
The snow in unexposed places on the
tops of the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, Is
still thirty feet deep.
Lower Lake is mountain town, 1900
feet above the sea level, near Clear Lake,
at the confluence of four roads.
1t is supposed that the census will show
that the population of Alpine does not ex-
coed 300-about one to a square mile.
One hundred and fifty persons signed
the total abstinence pledge at Rohnervllie,
Humboldt county, last week, and thirty
more at Ferndale.
The population of Beaver county. Utah,
will foot up to little over 1000. In
1870 the whole county contained only
about l, 400 people.
A little boy at Austin, New. as the Re
veille says, after partaking of an ice cream,
wanted another. but asked if it couldn't be
huttened a little.
According to the Eureka Sentinel, the
"Soapville Trot" is the latest terpsi
chorean racket introduced into fashion
able Tuscarora circles.
Edward Donnolly, who so brutality muir
dered his wife in Livermore valley several
months ago, has been sentenced to twenty
years in the State Prison.
The Idaho Aualonche of June 10th says !:
Although these are midsummer days,
many of the boys and girls in this vicinity
are still doing some coasting.
The following is the record of coinage
operations at the Carson Mint for June ::
Sill, 900 in standard dollars, S4S, 440 in
half eagles. S27, 100 in eagles, making a
total of 1886, $40.
Hercules, the Percheron Norman horse,
died at Genoa, New, Sunday night. His
cost, landed in San Francisco, three years
ago, was $4,000. He was nine years old
and weighed l, 900 Wounds.
The Agricultural Association comprising
the counties of Ell Dorado, Amador,
Placer, Nevada, Mono and Alpine will
hold its zenith annual fair at Placerville,
commencing Tuesday, September l4th.
Henry Dewey, of Plainsburg, MERGED
county, has just completed the largest
header in the world. 1t measures in width
thirty-four feet. This immense header
will be put in the wheat fields in few
days.
Says the Salt Lake Tribune. The census
enumerators of Emery county had rough
time of it. They found the streams high,
and in some instances had to tie their
schedules in oil skins, drive their bronchos
into the foaming streams and ferry across
by hanging on to the tails of the animals.
A Leadville sign reads thus: "John
Smith, teacher of cowtillions and other
dances-games fought in the neatest man.
ner-fresh salt hurrin on draft-hkewise
Godtrey's korjial-rutes, sassage and other
garden truck n. B.-Bawl on friday
nite-prair meeting on chuesday- also
saline singing by the quire.
James Miller recently found on his
mothers farm, below Healdsburg, Cal, a
twenty-dollar piece bearing date of 1854.
It contains no alloy, its real value being
about S24. In pioneer days such TWEEN
ties were common, although few of them
are now in existence. In the vicinity of
where this coin was found, about $50 in
gold has been picked up since the late
Samuel Miller settled on this place. At
one. time there was race track on the
farm, and the supposition is that the
money was lost by careless handling, the
coins found being scattered over perhaps
an acre of land.
OF all the myriad of bugs which our in
genious Lord has invented to poster us,
says the Homer Mining Inden, the Mill
creek woodtick is boss. The thing is about
the size of clearinghouse bed bug, which
it no more resembles than Lundy nabob
resembles Bodie hummer. 1t has shell
like a terrapin, with mouths all around
and dozen or two of legs, each one armed
with diamond drill. 1t burrows into
the flesh like a gopher, and often becomes
distended with blood to the size of hazel
nut, when it drops off, leaving an egg in
the cavity This germ causes an lutolera-
bic itching and burning and sore that Is
often difficult to heal. 1t is next to impos-
sible to guard against them. Men are at
tackled in the most sensitive places, and
out of a dozen persons sitting in saloon or
anywhere else about here three or four viii
all the time be popping up as if hoisted out
of pigeon-trap, shrieking " Goddlemity !!
The newcomer is startled and inquiries the
cause of this queerness. The reply is:
"Woodticks. Carpet tacks and patent