Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-16
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Larger water works are wanted in Napa
The Piute population of Nevada is p
965.
Monterey's streets are now sprinkled
daily.
The San Luis obispo 4deoeate has per-
ished.
White Pine New County Hospital is
empty.
Lone Pine, Inyo county, is to have water
1 works
There is talk of redistricting Butte
county.
Napa's chain-gang consists of China
man and an Indian.
! A three days walking match begins on
the 9th at Santa Cruz.
! Four hundred and sixty-three men are
now employed at Mare Island.
| Pennsylvanians have invested over ST.
| 600, 900 in Arizona this season.
| The water-pipes have reached the cor.
poration limits of Tombstone, Arizona.
/ Wages of Virginia City teachers have
been reduced, and the halliday system
extended
! Willie Beatty, little boy living in
Plumas county, killed two bears in one
day few weeks since.
Campers are thick along the roads of
Mendoeino county. Every available cor
ner that affords feed and level sleeping is
taken up.
The snow on the road between the SUIT
ton House and Prattville, Plumas county,
is of, with the exception of one place about
800 yards in length.
The bonded Indebtedness of Arizona is
Slls,000 The floating debt is S79,376,
making grand total of 1874, 376, bearing
ten per cent. interest.
| a Gridley Butte county dispatch says:
The heat is oppressive here. Hands are
very scarce, and harvesting machines are
laying up for want of help.
At Wheatland, Yuba county, Thursday,
while two little boys, aged and 10, sons
OF Edward OBrlen, We're playing with
| shotgun, it was accidentally discharged,
killing the younger boy instantly.
Two small boys at Virginia City lately
uncoupled two cars on a grade, let off the
them whiZzing down the track. The result
was smash-up and one wrecked freight
car. The boys were arrested for malicious
mischief.
4 curious accident recently occurred to
S. O. Hughes, of Waterville, Mont. While
taking from the rack a bottle OF lemon
soda he knocked down two additional bot
ties, which exploded with such force as to
drive the glass into his wrist and cut
several small veins and also main arteries.
Independence lake, on the eastern slope
OF the Sierras, and but three hours drive
from Truckee, is, the Republican declares,
unexcelled in its attractions. The lake is
surrounded by high mountain peaks, some
of them still covered by heavy bodies of
snow. The inlets to the lake are now filled
with little torrents of water just off the
snow.
The population of Marin county is re-
turned at IL, l55, as against 6, 800 in 1870.
The inhabitants of the town of San Rafael
number 1892, and those of the township
number 6,242, including San Rafael and
the prisoners at San Quentin. The popu-
lation of other townships is as follows
Bolinqs ard Nicolaus, 1878 San Antonio
and Novato. 800; Saueeiito, 1850; Point
Reyes and Tonlales, 1900.
--
A minister once told Wendell Phillips
that if his business in life was to save the
negroes, he ought to go to the South, where
they were, and do it. "That is worth
thinking of, replied Phillips " and what
is your business III life - $40 save men
from going to hell, replied the minister.
Then 60 there and attend to your bust