Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-12
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS,

Santa Clara county has s,45l school
children.
A Pekin duck at Lodi eats Legho,s
chickens.
Santa Rosa gives employment to l57
Cinnamon.
Ripe peaches can be bought on the
streets of Los Angeles for two cents per
pound.
Monterey is making good market FOR
the fruits and vegetables of the Paiaro
valley.
A Chinaman was found hanging to tree
on Judge Thomas place. near San Jose. on
the 9th.
Chester Ford, aided by his sister, Miss
Ella Ford, killed a panther in Mendocino
last week.
A young man arrived in Mammoth City.
from Georgia, last week, who never saw a
sail vessel.
Every day long trains OF ears loaded with
ties and other construction material leave
Los Angeles for the front
1t is believed that the plains north of
Kern river are peculiarly fitted for the sue
cess of wine and raisin grapes.
An attorney in Marysville claims. the
ordinance making it a misdemeanor 20 visit
an opium den is illegal and void.
The S. P. C. r. Il. Co. are erecting an
other large warehouse south OF the Ala
media at San Jose for storing grain.
A band of nearly three thousand head of
cattle was recently driven through Walla
Walla, w. T., bound for Cheyenne.
S. Shattuek and William Walker, of
Northern Siskiyou, near the State line, re-
Gently killed four full grown panthers
The total assessment of Marin county
foots up SS S9l, ,606 San Rafaelis assessed
at Sl,47S, 1856; last year it was 81 1897, 900.
Bishop Simpson left San Jose for Santa
Cruz on the 9th with his invalid WIFE, Her
illness will delay his departure for Japan.
There are twenty-five inmates in the Los
Angeles Orphans Home at present. The
number will be increased to thirty shortly.
The Reese River Rcveiie complains OF
the drought in thas section. 1t says
the springs, creeks and grass are all drying
up.
The population of Modesto, according to
the census just completed, is | ,69l of
whom are Chinese. The town was located
in 1870.
The San Josquin river has commenced
to recede. The spring rise from the melt
ing of snow has this year been greater than
ever before known.
There is a juniper tree near Lundys
Mono county, which is sixty feet in cir
cumference, and has limbs growing from its
trunk six feet in diameter
The school census for Auburn district
for the present year will show about 27S
school children entitled to draw public
money, as against about 24o last year.
John Nj. Miner, the newly appointed
clerk OF the Folsom Branch Prison, was
formerly Director OF the Oakland Bank
of Savings and Councilman from the Fourth
Ward of Oakland.
The house and contents owned by James
Wallace, near Nelson, Butte county, caught
fire about | o'clock Thursday nightan- sas
totally consumed. The cause of the h.S is
unknown. Loss, 81, 0C0.
Sam Caldwell has presented the Bank Of
Healdsburg with q piece Of bowlder OF
which was found near Geyser Peak, about
Z,OUO lcct dRONC tuC BSNCi vi Viz SCi-
The carcass of huge sea hon was seen
on Duxbury reef, on the coast of Marin
county, last week. 1t was thirteen feet
long, and was thought to be the remains of
'' Ben Butler of the Cliff House rocks.
Rev. w. M. Prottsman informs The ed
itor of the Woodland Democrat that he
soemnized the rite of matrimony between
Major General Hancock and Miss Elvira
Russell at the city of st. Louis in the year
1850.
The Directors of Napa Insane Asylum
for the Insane have decided to st up The
attics Of the asylum for the accommoda-
tion OF patients By the improvements
and alterations, $50 more patients can De
cared for than at present.
Sam Chung, noted Chinese desperate.
shot and mortally wounded a Mexican
herder six miles from Bodie early Friday
morning Half an hour after Chung re-
visited him, felt his pulse, and, finding
him still alive, shot him again.
A thirteen-months-o son of G.. Fl. Rice
of Redwood City found screw upon the
floor, and picking it up, placed it in his
mouth, when it became lodged in the
larynx. Being firmly fixed in the flesh,
before it could be removed the little fellow
died.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel gays: Since the
organization of San Mateo county, in 1856,
there have been some thirty murders COM
mitted in that county, and not one execu-
ton. Politically, the Spring Valley Water
Mateo county,
The Arizona Citizen says that horse
thieves are becoming too numerous III San
Pedro valley, and that the ranchers must
soon organize for protection. The animals,
it is believed, are run into Sonora, the
proximity of the boundary line atfording an
easy avenue OF escape.
William +. Hester yesterday, says the
Tuscarora New Times ReUieao of July 7th,
while digging vault for an clubhouse near
his cabin in Eureka Gulcb, anearthed a
Yeast can which contained about fourteen
ounces OF gold dust. The can was nearly
consumed with rust, and fell to pieces upon
being taken from the ground.
A hen belonging to S. w. Henry, of
Fresno, recently laid an egg which o
female pigeon covered, and with the assist
ance of its mate drove the hen off and cap
tUo HuIhS plo-
ceeded to ipoubate the egg, and in due
time fine chick was produced. The old
question again arises, ''Who is the mother
of that chick ~
John Jordon, l3 years of age, Of Vallejo
township, while hunting in the Sonoma
mountains on Thursday accidentally shot
himself. He laid his gun upon the ground
to open gate, and upon taking up the gun
it was accidentally discharged, the charge
passing through his right forearm just
above the wrist. 1t is feared that smpu-
tation will be necessary.
A prominent Auburn grocer gave a lot
of clothes to his washerwoman to be
laundried, and the honest woman found in
the pocket of the garments SS, goo in bills.
Being an honest woman she promptly re-
turned the money to its rightful owner.
Many a man would have Thanked the
woman and thought no mere about it, re-
garding her act as only one of duty. Not
so as the grocer. He believed in encourage
ing honest worth by rewarding honest
deeds, so he gave her--a bar Of soap.
! Word was sent to Reno last week, says
the Gazette, that on Monday as2;30 P. NJ,
a heliotrope on Pah Rah would be directed
so that its flash would be seen from the
depot here Pah Rah is the name OF "a
mountain All Pyramid lake ON which ther,