Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-21
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


A Nevada county stage driver occupied
SIX hours last Thursday in travelling three
miles.
The Mendocino Dispatch has been sold
to Messrs. Peabody and Seton of Sacra-
mento.
There is nothing like originality. A Bodie
sign painter, in his leisure moments, has
painted picture of an angel with red hair.
San Bernardino has a cavalry company.
forty strong, enlisted in the State militia.
Their arms and accouterments arrived a
few days ago.
-Four or five days ago Nevada City bows
were running around the streets barefooted.
The day after they were engaged in snow
balling and coasting
Staging over the Santa Cruz mountains.
which has continued almost uninterrupt-
edly Tor twenty years, ceased Thursday,
probably forever, the cars of the S. P. c.
h. K: Co. running through to the station
near FELTON,.
Bigvalley, Lassen county, is literally afoat.
Pit river is said to be higher than ever
before. From Bleber across the valley for
five miles it is overfowed, and the mail is
carried in boat. Many of the ranchers
have to use boats in going from house to
barn.
An overture has been made by the man.
agement of the South Pacific Coast Rail-
road to extend its line from Pajaro to Hol-
lister, the connection to be completed in
time to carry the present seasons crop, at
rates fifty per cent. less than those now
prevailing.
Living must be tolerably expensive at
PRESCOTT, Arizona. Judge Silent the other
day.. in the divorce suit of Melvin VS.. Mel
win, made an order that the plaintiff
should pay to the defendant $50 per week
for her support pending the determination
of the suit.
Another COW is said to have arrived in
Bodie, which will be a great relief to the
two that have been compelled, during the
whole of a long and rigorous winter. to fur
nish the 1000 inhabitants of that town
with the seventy-five gallons of milk (?)
consumed daily.
The Mormons are holding revivals at
Plaza Hall, San Juan. One night last week
one of their ministers was interrupted by
one in his audience, when hot discussion
occurred, and the meeting broke up. The
disputants retired to the hotel, where they
took drink and renewed the spirited de-
bate
Several parties from the State of Me-
vada and the southern counties of this
State have been prospecting for favorable
opportunities to purchase lands north of
Marysville, on the line of the Oregon divi-
sion of the Central Pacific Railroad, with
a view of settling ON the same with their
families
The Weekly Nugget, of Tombstone, Pima
county, A. T., says Tombstone progresses.
We now have three two-story buildings in
course of erection, two of which have
frontage of sixty feet, and we hear of
Others that are soon to be commenced, to-
gether with additional stories ON buildings
now in use.
When a southern Arizona village is WIS.,
tied by sand-storm, it shuts the doors of
it's adobes-if they have any doors-and
sits down resignedly in the dark, like the
family of Diomed, in the '' Last Days of
Pompeii. There is nothing for the peo-
pie to do but to sit still, covered with
dust, until the storm subsidies.
A bolt of lightning shot through the en-
tire length of a roc'I, making a l.ole large
as a mans wrist Y. ore ifsenter, d and also
where it disappeared, az lslko New, a few
days ago. There were present in the room
at the time three gentlemen and two ladies,
and none were injured, although the bolt
passed within two feet of some of the
party.
Richard Seward, aged 70, and Mile
Catherine Thurman, aged 20, both of San
(i,l Il Hlal o-I I
les County Recorders office agreeing to
become husband and wife. They didn't
want any marriage ceremony, claiming
that they were old enough to adhere to
the terms of an agreement without any
further nonsense.
Hell's Hollow is two miles from Para
disc, and the Reporter describes the people
there as being prosperous, contented and
happy, the cause of their felicity being
that the free fights average seven per day,
the price of whisky has been reduced to
bit drink, lively poker games run day
and night of week days, and they have
horse races on Sunday.
The stream of silver that has poured in
from Arizona to California for many months
past has been constant and uninterrupted.
There is one fact regarding Arizona that
may have escaped the notice of the public.
Ever since the cars have been running into
and from that Territory, there has hardly
been day but the express company has
brought out shipment of bullion of more
or less value.
The honey producing business has be-
come an extensive Industry in the southern
part of the State, and is giving rise to a
novel and tough legal question. The bee
men rent or buy a few acres of land to
plant their stands on, and when the grapes
begin to ripen the bees enter the vineyards,
puncture the grapes and make scores of
tons Of honey annually for their owners
from other peoples orchards.
Charles Hooker, mail carrier between
Scott's valley and Sawyer's Bar, was
frozen to death on Friday, on the top of
Scott's Mountain. He had reached the
summit, and was met there by the mail
carrier from Sawyer's Bar on snow shoes.
He sat down to rest moment, the Saw
yer's Bar man resuming his journey, and
it is supposed he became chilled and
drowsy. He was found on Sunday in the
exact position in which he was last seen,
frozen to death.
The Anaheim Gazette says Among the
probable future industries Of this part of
Southern California is the making of orange
wine, or, as it is termed in France, orange
amere. The taste of this wine is said to
be delicious, and its more general use is
only interdicted by the high price which it
commands. When the production of
oranges largely exceeds the demand IA
state of affairs which some people contend
will be witnessed in few years. the sur
plus fruit can be utilized in making this
wine.
The following instrument was filed for
record il the Office of the Napa County
Recorder last Friday: "This indenture
that the parties named do here
by intermarry or marry each other under
and by virtue of, and in accordance with
the provisions of Section rs, Civil Code,
and do now assume the respective duties of
husband and wife. That the parties do
hereby join in this declaration of marriage,
each promising and covenanting with the
other to assume and carry out during their
natural lives the duties and obligations Of
marriage in the sight of man and Cod"
The agreement is signed by James w.
Thompson, aged 30 years, and Varney Z.
Brookins, Is years of age, and was executed
at Knoxville on the 5th inst.