Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Modesto is to have chair-gang.

Modesto is to have chain gang.
There are IS persons in the Stanislaus
jail
Alfalfa hay is $50 per ton in Austin,
New.
Quail were never so plenty before in San
Benito.
Thrashing machines are in demand in
Stanislaus.
Juab county, Utah, is being devastated
by grasshoppers.
The assessment roll of Shasta county
foots up 81, SIS, 92S.
There are 81 teachers in Monterey coun-
ty-34 females and 81 males.
Trout spawn is being shipped to New
Zealand from the McCloud fisheries.
Catfish six inches in length have re.
Gently been caught in Petaluma creek.
1t is said that S25 per ton has been of
fered and refused for Mission grapes in So.
noma.
Over $4,000 buffalo hides have been
shipped from Custer City, M. T., this
season.
A bee tree was cut on Santa Rosa creek
last Sunday which contained l6 gallons of
honey.
The Woodland Democrat complains of
rowdies, who stand ON the street corners
and make insulting remarks about each
lady who passes by.
The report OF the sale of the FELTON, Big
Trees, III Santa Cruz county, to. the South
ern Pacific Coast Railroad Company is
without foundation.
At place called Wood Gulch, near
Goldendale, w. T., band of sheep YVES
struck by lightning few days ago and six
of the number killed.
A fine bed of soft she'll clans has been
discovered on the beach, near the mouth
Of the Pajaro river, and claiming parties
are now the rage in jacksonville.
The new apportionment will give Tulare
and Fresno counties each an Assemblyman,
and will make the two counties Joint
Senatorial District, if based ON the new
census.
Alameda is the king town of this State
with regard to accessibility. Twenty-Five
trains on the Central Pacific and sixteen
on the narrow-g gauge give the people OPP
portunities to come and go about as they
like.
Says the Tombstone "a. IT, EpadpA. :
We lately noticed partially inebriated
man engaged in the pastime of placing a
live tarantula into his mouth and closing
the same, for the purpose of getting drinks.
He repeated the experiment a number of
times, escaping unframed.
The Carson appeal says that miner in
the Cowing & Zabriskie mine, few days
ago, found at depth of 100 feet petri-
fed rattlesnake of huge proportion, with a
petrified frog in its mouth. A local sci
enlist says that he believes the petrifica-
tions to be about 3, 500 years old.
Some six weeks ago, says the San Rafael
Journal of July GOTH, number of carp
were put in the lakelets in the Mt. Tamal.
pals cemetery. Yesterday number were
taken out, and found to have doubled in
size. The water was stagnant and the fish
received only little ground barley for
food.
There is on exhibition at Oakland sea-
serpent or Fighter. 1t has head a
little larger than a cats, and its mouth is
armed with strong. glittering teeth. The
body is about six feet long and tapers to a
point an inch in diameter. 1t was caught
outside OF the Heads, and is the largest
ever seen hsre.
Says the San Diego Ne'rs. Living near
the st. Nicholas mine, in Lower California.
there is flock of some thirty quails, and
among them there are four or five white
ones-white as any dove or pigeon. They
are seen daily by the workmen at the
mines. Efforts have been made to trap
them, but so far without success
The Phoebe Record states that Bishop
Whitaker, while in Phoebe, called at the
jail to see the condemned murderers con-
fined there. He conversed with each Of
them, giving them the best of advice and
counsel and presented each with Bible,
and then bid them farewell. One of them
remarked, after the Bishop had left, that
g A monkey wrench or a file, would have
been much more acceptable present than
Bible"
Dr. H. G. Ottmer has shown the Healds-
burg Enterprise a curious head of barley,
found in his field. Two rows of grain, on
opposite sides of the head, are bearded.
and four rows two on each side) are not
bearded. 1t is the only specimen of the
kind we have ever heard Of and the Doc
tor was unable to find other than the one
head. He will sow the beardless grains,
and hopes to procure something new and
valuable in barley.
DIR. Woolsey, the Oakland Health OFF,
Ger, has detailed special physician to
attend the Chinese at the jute works, and
every precaution is being taken to prevent
the smallpox from spreading, although
people are being much alarmed because the
Chinaman that died there was packed in
with hundreds of others of his race, who
seem to have no fear of smallpox DIR.
Woolsey says that there are no new cases,
and there is no occasion for alarm, as per-
feet quarantine will be preserved.
More railroad improvements are being
made at West Oakland. A system Of
tracks for the car department has been sur
veyed and will be speedily finished. There
will be ten tracks laid parallel, 1000 feet
long, extending on the company's land be-
low Pacific street, from Peralta street on
the east to point near Cedar street on
the west. At the lower or west end of
these tracks will be located carriage shop
$50 feet long by $50 feet wide, with
large transfer table in front. The office
and storeroom of this department will be
located at the foot of Willow street, and
will be large and commodious At the up
per end will be built a complete round.
house, with stalls enough for 60 locomo-
tives. This will be Guilt of brick. A ma
chine shop, 100 by 60 feet, will be built
near here, with storeroom and an office,
each 20 by 60 feet, and altogether it will
be as complete system for repairing cars
as there is in the United States. Hun
dreds of cars will be repaired here and
manufactured, and it will give constant
employment to 1000 men. All the neces-
sary timbers for the woodwork are now on
che ground, and work will begin imme-
diately, which will materially increase the
Importance of West Oakland.