Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-28
DAILY REC0RD.uNTGN sEEsgs,
VOLUME II-NgMEEs Ill,

telligant. Industrious, shiewd, and in every
way capable Of conf eti1g with the pale
face.
The Stockton Independent says that +.
! Wagner, aged IA years, was thrown from
wagon on the lower Sacramento road and
had his arm broken. This spunky youth
picked himself up, captured his team and
| drove into town, distance of eight miles.
The past winter was disastrous one for
some of the bee growers in this section,
says the Nevada City Transcript. j. H.
Allison has lost all but five out of two hun
dred hives that he owned last fall, and an.
other gentleman saved only seventeen
hives out OF forty-three.
Now that the summer season has set in,
says the Appeal, most every family in Car
son has hung up hammock in the front
yard. You can only lie in hammock one
way and fall out of it ten. A man who
would start nigh.-school to teach people
how to lie in them would make money.
Bank Commissioner Watt has reported
to the Attorney.General the report of his
examination OF the financial affairs of the
Bank of Ventura, doing business in San
Buenaventura, Ventura county, that they
are in good condition The examination
was made at the close of business on the
22d of June.
Says the San Rafael .Joaraol of June
24th: A large bear crossed the Bolinas
road few days since, just in front of q
buggy, and so close as to startle the horse
and driver. Bruin passed on without
hugging anybody, but the Young couple in
the buggy-well, they sat closer together,
and that's all we'll tell.
Dolores Meranda, born in Mexico, says
the Antioch Ledger, died at her residence
on Marsh creek, near the Stone house, on
Tuesday last, at the advanced age of lO7
years, months and 10 days. She has,
for twenty-seven years past, resided on the
Los Meganos ranch. She has several
children and grandchildren living in the
county.
An electric signal has been placed on the
railroad at East Oakland, for the purpose
OF signaling trains running over trestle-
work at East Oakland, on which, on
account of curvature and intercepsing
buildings, trains cannot be seen at any
distance along the track. The passage of
the train over an insulated rail causes a
red flag to be displayed at the opposite end
of the trestlework.
The following is the population of Ala
media county by sities and townships
Oakland, 81, 600; Alameda, 1904 Brook
lyn, 3, 100; Murray, $3.50; Washington,
3002; Eden, 1862 Temescal, 254S;
Berkeley, 2,023. Total, $500. The pop
ulation of Oakland in 1870 was but 10, 500,
and of the county but "a, 2S7 The census
this year will show an increase in the city
OF "a, 600, and in the county of over 81, 600.
An Indian sGhool under charge of the
Sisters of Charity, at the Ceur d. Alene
agency, in Washington Territory, numbers
p pupils, ranging il age from 10 to IA
years. The pupils read, write, spell and
explain calculations in arithmetic almost
equally as well as white children of the same
age and experience. They are neatly clad,
appear interested in their studies and are
evidently making rapid progress.
The Candelaria tNev.l True Essnr, gives
notice that movement viii be made to
form a new county out of part of what is
now Esmeralda county lying east and
southwest of Whisky Flat, and embracing
all the territory in which the towns of
Marietta, Delleville, Candelaria, Metallic
City and Columbus are situated, and also
the mining camps of New Boston, Lone
Mountain, Silver Peak, Montezuma, Ida
Valley, Palmetto and Fish Lake Valley.
Stidger, of The San Juan Times, deals
out rebukes to his enemies as follows:
''There are few parties busily engaged in
making war against the Times, and using
their efforts to induce parties not to take
our paper. One of the parties thus en-
gagged owes us a years subscription for the
year 1877, and another large amount of
money for legal services. Both claims are
outlawed. Opposition from these men
comes with a bad grace. Do you want
names?
Some Chinanen mining at Texas Bar,
short distance above the Chill Bar bridge,
says the Placerville Democrat, a few days
since struck an old tunnel, in which they
found the bones of man long since dead.
They gathered up the bones and threw
them into the river. Near the spot where
they lay, however, they took out some
$500 worth OF gold dust. No one, so far
as we can learn, has any idea of who the
man was. 1t is not unlikely that the gold
discovered was part of his possessions at
the time of his DEATH