Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26
NEWS TAILINGs.
rerv little snow left at Bodie.

mont.
Last year us mortgages were recorded
in BSlie.
Mike Owens, who killed Traver of Can.
delaria is in jail
The works for bringing water into Bodie
are about completed.
The Sisters Hospital near Tucson, Ari-
IONA, was dedicated last week.
Keep away from Leadville. You have
to pay your board in advance.
The Mammoth City Herald comes in
coIors this week, but it is nevertheless
brimful of news.
The editor OF the Tehama Tocsin was
seriously injured.
Chinese are no more to be employed in
any manner ON Nevada county roads, OF in
any capacity except as interpreters.
4 Calaveras Chinaman hanged himself on
the llth instant, because he thought from
the eclipse OF the sun the world had come
to an end.
The Boca Brewery had narrow escape
from fire the other day. The flames made
considerable progress, but were subdued
by the workmen.
A Bodie man has invented car that
runs from the shaft to the dump, unloads
and returns entirely of its own motion, re-
quiring no one to attend to it.
Mrs. Norwood received her appointment
as Postmstress at Belmont on Tuesday,
and is the first lady that lever received
IN, Navajo
Iclcles the size of a mans body fringe
the mouths of the mountain tunnels along
the Central Pacific, and constantly endan-
ger the brakemen on top OF the freight
cars.
During the past season over 40, 600 head
of California sheep were driven into Col
orado. The average price obtained per
head was Ewes, So; wethers, 81 so;
lambs, s..
Exclaims the Bodie Free Press: No
incorporation, no sewerage; no sewerage,
plenty of sickness next spring. But incor-
poration means extra expense, and that
indicates growl.
We learn that the farmers in the Clark S
valley country have got every available
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looking splendid and the planters are in
high spirits. Fresno Expositor.
During 1879 the Helena postoffice re-
ceived and disbursed upwards of 5000, 900.
In the same time and same line of business
the Salt Lake city office exceeded the
Helena office by less than $4,000.
An intelligent italian, who has been
familiar with olive culture from his in
fancy, says that eventually the California
olive will surpass the best produced in
France or Spain. 1t is now larger and of
better favor, and yields an oil equal to the
imported article.
A correspondent of the Oregonian, at
Rockville, Wasco county, says: The mer-
curry ranges from 10 to 20 degrees below
zero. We lost seventy head OF sheep,
mostly old ewes and late lambs, frozen to
death. One of our neighbors lost his entire
band and his herder.
At Walla Walla, Washington Territory,
last Monday night, while the teachers and
pupils were at the City Hall enjoying the
festival, some one went through the build
ing and robbed the school children of all
their pocket money. The total proceeds of
tne enterprise were doouI f-O.
The people of Suffer Greek have effected
the organization of Police Department,
and the boys of that town will hereafter
be obliged to retire from the streets at S
o'clock p NJ They will be informed when
that hour arrives by an alarm from tri-
angle erected for that purpose by the citi-
zens, which was tested on Tuesday. Hood
lums, beware
The Winnemucca Silrer State says that
party of woodchoppers have discovered
new mines in the Rose creek mountains,
about fourteen miles south of Winnie
mucca. Pieces of ore from one of the
lodges discovered have been brought to
town and are very rich in silver, some
specimens assaying $4,000 to the TOP IN
silver.
The Bismarck (Dakota) Tribune says :
The several hundred men working on the
extension of the Northern Pacific In the
bad lands and on this side of them are hav-
ing pretty rough time of it. With ex-
IRENE and unusually cold weather and
short supplies and little fuel, it will be a
matter Of wonder if many of them do not
suffer.
William Nichols, young man employed
for the past month at the Oakland House,
Bodie as bar tender, attempted to COM
NIT suicide, or at least it was supposed so,
Friday night. He took an immense dose
of absinthe and went to bed. In little
while his actions created alarm, and DIR.
Deal was called. The doctor applied some
antidotes, and In short time Nichols was
restored to consciousness.
On account of an abundance of rain thus
far this season. very favorable reports as to
prospects for grain crops, ETC., are received
| from different parts of California. OF all
the reports sent forward, very few are as
favorable as those from Napa valley. But
| this valley never fails to produce well, and
the reports, therefore, are good at any
| time almost without exception. Calls.
logan.
W. H. Nash and Mr. Lamb, old Napa-
ties, now living in Santa Rosa, were run.
ming tunnel into their mine, near Coul
terville, when they uncovered, sixty feet
below the surface, a wooden maui and sew
eral wedges. The implements are white
oak wood, and in a good state of preserva'
ton, showing the marks of sharp cutting
instrument in their fashioning. Trees five
feet in diameter are now growing ON the
surface.
Three men started from the Savage mine
| during one of the recent storms, on snow
shoes, for Sierra City. One of them gave
out entirely, and the party returned and
made fresh start the next day. The at
mosphere was chilling and the wind blew
perfect hurricane, darkening the air witt
fine snow so they could not see twenty feet
ahead of them One had his right hano
frozen and another wrist severely frost
bitten. [Downieville Messenger.
The Plumas National says: The storm
of last week was the most severe ever seer
in this county since the coming OF the tirs'
settler. The snowfall was not extremely
heavy, but the wind was perfectly furious
in the higher localities, and it is something
wonderful that no more loss OF lte oc
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