Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-05
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Stages from Truckee to Tahoe will COM
mence running in few days. Steamers
are making regular trips around the lake.
Judge Keyser of Marysville has decided
that the city ordinance against opium
smoking is illegal, taking the ground that
the Council could as well prohibit drinking
or cigar smoking.
Much excitement has been caused at
Mooney Flat, Yuba county, by the appear
ance of diphtheria, two children dying OF it
very Unexpectedly. There were other
cases, but no more have died, and with the
exception of one all patients are recovering.
A train of emigrants encamped near the
depot last evening, says the Chico Record
of June I'd. They were from Prescott,
Arizona, and on their way to Oregon.
They state that Arizona is failure; that
thousands of men are lying there idle, and
cannot get employment
The following is the coinage.of the Car
sen Mint for May Half eagles, $500,
value SIT, 545 $1,000 standard silver dol
lars. Present force of employees sixty five,
including ten ladies. When the full force
is employed the monthly coinage viii ag-
gregate $500, 000 in gold and $500, 600 III
silver.
The Lyon County Times says Nevada
bees do not suffer much from the miller or
moth, these pests to bee-keepers not being
nearly so numerous here as in the East
The worst enemy with which the bees
have to contend is the frog, which will
hop on the box if possible, or as near as it
can get, and swallow dozens of them as
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The people of Paradise, New, do not
seem to appreciate the efforts of the editor
of the Reporter to furnish them with a
newspaper. He says: 1.-TWO men have
been busted out trying to run this paper on
VIVID. With the example of our prede-
cessors staring us in the face, we shall
make no further experiments OF the wind
process. II the people want paper they
must support it if they won't do this,
then we shall be compelled to close the
shebang"
The following story is told by the Val
lejo ECeaing News. On the last trip of
the steamship China from Panama, when
lying in Acapulco harbor, the officers of
the vessel baited a large hook with a
sleeps head and threw it overheard, with
chain attached. A shark eighteen feet
in length swallowed the bait and hook. 1t
was hauled alongside, cut open, and in the
stomach was found the remains of man
in three pieces. The head, hands and feet
were well preserved, but other portions
were considerably decomposed. The re-
mains were identified as those of seaman
who fell overheard from British man-of-
war few days previous.
]. c. Riley, resident of Santa Barbara,
one night recently heard something strike
the ground near his door with heavy
thud, preceded, however, with whizzing
noise, the latter fact leading him to sup
pose that it fell from the heavens, and was
meteorolite. On making an examination
of his premises the next morning, he
found a substance, composed of metal
principally, of the weight of six pounds,
that had penetrated hard, dry ground to
some depth. The metal seemed to be lead
and silver, the former predominating. An
assay was afterwards made, and it was
found that ton of the same material
would produce 81, 200 in silver.
a great nuisance in mining on the Com
stock, says the Virginia Enterprise, are the
swelling clays that are occasionally encoun-
tered. They move in all directions. Often
they rise up from the bottom of drift or
tunnel and displace the track. Cut down
the clay and level the track and it is but a
short time before the same work must
again be done. In tunnel in American
Flat an account was kept Of the different
cuttings, aud it was found that over thirty
feet were cut off before it ceased to rise.
In places along the Sutro tunnel this spe-
cies OF clay is giving a good deal of trouble
the same is also the case in the Union shaft.
The clay may either rise up from the bot
tom of drift or push its way in on one or
both sides. Some have compared the creep
ing Of this species OF clay to the motion of
a glacier, but it is more like the swelling
out of a piece of some pithy or spongy sub
stance that has been subjected to powerful
pressure. All that can be done is to keep
cutting it away as long as it crawls out
and gives trouble, until it has lost its elas-
ITCHY or the power behind can no longer
force it forw ard.