Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-01
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Lovely weather along Puget Sound, and
as yet 20 rain.
There are only two prisoners now in jail
at Reno. Nevada.
Seventeen new buildings are being &C n.
structed at Cayucos.
Snipe are very plentiful along the edges
OF San Francisco bay.
The flax crop of California is three times
what it was last year.
The San Francisco mountains, Arizona,
are covered with snow.
a house in Third street, San Jose. ia said
to be frequented by ghosts.
Twenty one liquor licenses were granted
IN one week IN Seattle, w. L.
An immense ledge of choice marble has
been found near Benton, Montana.
Only "A of the 22S papers now published
in california are over 10 years old.
The Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles
has new organ which cost $4,000.
When last heard from the mercn,v at
Laramie City han sunk 81 degrees below
zero.
Over $4,000 acres of land have this year
been irrigated within thirty miles Of
Bakersfield.
Carpenteria farmers have raised SI25. coo
worth of lima beans. They have averaged
nearly 500 per acre.
Ballston, Or, a new town on the Saeri-
dan branch of the narrow gauge. is already
a thriving little village
"Do you skate ?" That's what's the
matter now on the Comstock. Vaccine
scabs and Alta are nowhere.
The Catholics of Mendocino county re
seriously talking about establishing IN edu.
cational institution in Ukiah.
Watsonville has adopted a sanitary ordi.
nance, and is about to wage war against
filthy premises and all the disease breeding
trash of the town.
Every acre of rentable land in San Be-
nito county is already secured for next
season, and the space planted will be larger
than it was this year.
Ruby Hill, New, should be a good place
for manageable ladies to emigrate TO.
The Eureka Sentinel says the supply is en-,
tirely exhausted there.
The Mountain ReoieeC, of Susanyille, has
been consolidated with the Lassen Adro-
cate, and the latter will be published by
Megsrs. Hyer & Shinn.
The first white persons attacked by
small pox at Auburn were the two resident
physicians Boarman and Brown, who
are now in the Pest-house.
The San Francisco Arg0nam announces
that the first number of new daily even
ing paper, to be called the Epigram, viii
be issued from the ArgoRdM office next
Saturday evening.
The local paper says that there was
flour famine in Candelaria, New, the
greater part of last week. The men folks
got along very well, however, 50 the
whisky supply held out.
The Carson and Colorado Railroad is,
within two miles of Dayton, New. 1t viii
probably reach that town within the pres
ent week, there being some % or 20 men.
employed in laying the track.
The farmers of Alameda and Coutra
Costa counties will meet in Livermore on
December llth, to discuss squirrel laws,
road laws, and other legislative require
ments of agricultural citizens.
The Modoc Independent, published at
Alturas, Modoc county, by Slater & Nc.
Kinney, has started on the seventh year of
its existence. The Independent is eminently
deserving of its evident success.
Considerable excitement was occasioned
a few days ago near tie Willow SPRING.
school-house, Ama3or county, by the ap-
pearance of large California hon. He
helped himself to anuinbeF of goats.
Naches, the Piute chief, says Humboldt
lake is about dry, and where years ago
water fowl of all kinds we're plenty, there
are no geese, no pelican, no ducks. and
nothing that an Indian could live upon.
There is bear within couple OF miles
of Roseburg, Or, that has been doing con-
siderable depredatins during the past
month, and is cunning enough to evade ALI
the hunters that have yet attempted to
capture him.
The United States Geodetic Surveying
party, which has been operating east of
Colorado Springs during the past few
months, has disbanded, and left everything
in shape to begin work again next spring
at the Springs.
Gold is known to exist in over fifty To-
calities in the Territory of New Mexico
Evidences of mines worked in ancient times
by the Spaniards are found in many por-
tions of the country, and work has been
renewed on them.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company's
new switch at Cornwall Station has been
connected with the Black Diamond rail.
road, and ON Tuesday last the cars of the
Central Pacific Company were loaded di-
rectly from the bunkers at the mines.
The foreman of the Racine Boy mine in
Colorado recently brought into the Silver
Cliff Mining Company's Office a perfect
skeleton OF snake, found imbedded in q
rock twenty feet below the surface and
sixty feet from the mouth of the tunnel
General E. f. Beale publishes notice
warning all persons against hunting on his
lands. AS his domain extends distance
of go miles in Kern county, hunter would
consider it a good long walk from the hunt
ing grounds on the north of these lands to
the game on the south.
In Island county, Washington Territory,
there were two beautiful and accomplished
young ladies running for the Office of School
superintendent. They were quite evenly
as the following will show Miss
Mary E. Coupe received 90 votes, and Miss
Julia Kinney received 81.
The Siiper State learns that several cattle
VIC nave ING DldckIOOJ. 1LS
first symptoms are shown by great desire
of the animal to scratch. This is followed
BY one of the animals limbs turning black.
The disease rarely proves fatal to full
grown animals, but several calves and
yearlings have died from its effects east of
Battle Mountan.
Wells are being sunk on the borders of
rulare Lake. There is a succession of
gray and white sand-mixed with fine
black sand and brown mica-and thin
strata of blue and yellow clay. Under
each layer of clay new flow of water was
Mussel shells were found to the
depth of 25 aud 80 feet, and in one well
aecayed tule roots were found at q depth
Of 40 feet.
A CHRISTIAN CONVENTION. N.-The follow
ing circular, calling a Christian Conyen-
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