Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-19
NEWS TAILINGS.
Some Interesting Items from Our Coast
Exchanges.

Some Interesting Items from Our Coast
Exchanges.
Timothy hay is worth $50 ton in Eu.
reka, New.
The Healdsburg people are agitating the
question of town hall, which they de.
clare to be a necessity.
The new depot at Benicia is beauty,
differing widely in architecture from any
other in Solano county.
There has been about seventeen State
tickets nominated in Leadville, with the
last man still to be heard from.
The Placer Argus has wisely abandoned
the "patent outside plan, and is now set
up and printed wholly in Auburn.
A coal mine has been discovered near
Eureka, and the papers there declare that
the vexatious fuel problem is now solved.
A new combination car is building for
the Vallejo branch road, separate COM
partments being for passengers, mail and
baggage.
A rough estimate places our crop of
oranges this year at IS, 900, lemons $4,000,
lines 100000, raisins $1,000 boxes.
Riverside Press.
Up to Monday, January 18th, there was
paid to the Collector of taxes in Fresno
county the sum of 800, 1868 10. The Col
lector settled with the Treasurer on that
day, paying in $50, 1868 10.
The late cold weather laid temporary
embargo on the hume of the MADEIRA Flume
and Trading Company, causing tempo
rary stoppage in the shipment of lumber
from the mills Fresno Expositor.
The railroad company intend making
extensive repairs in the snowsheds by
replacing the old ones in some places with
new, and fixing the breaks made by the
late storm. Much of the lumber used will
come from Truckee- [Truckee Republi-
can.
Tulare Times, An intelligent Italian,
who has been familiar with olive culture
from his infancy, says that eventually the
California olive will surpass the best pro-
duced in France or Spain. 1t is now larger
and of better flavor, and yields an oil equal
to the imported article.
The overflow from Putah creek, in Ire.
mont township, Solano county, was higher
after the last storm than ever before, and
! MI w llSOH LOuSC, W nICll was IIONGu W
get it out of the flooded district, was quite
surrounded. Not so much water came
down as on some former occasions, but the
channel has filed up with sand.
According to the able report of DR..
| Wilkins, resident physician of the Napa
Insane Asylum, it appears that of the Ga
patients admitted last year, 4l9, or two
thirds, were of foreign birth. This is in
accordance with the previous experience of
the asylum and also of the one at Stock
ton. The doctor also says that of the in
mates nearly twenty per cent. are not citi-
Zens.
Four children of Jacob Strauss, who
lives on the prairie about two miles back
of Little river, Mendocino county, were
poisoned week before last, by eating the
leaves or berries of wild plant which they
found near the house. One of the children,
aged about three years, died about an
hour afterward, and second child died
the next morning. The two older children
are still very i'll, but may recover.
The Gold Hill New Neus reporter got
off an imaginative article about the effects
of the. " blizzard in the mountains week
ago, which a contemporary gobbled with
out due credit, but which other papers
published and gave the appropriation the
benefit OF its paternity. The Ne,cs man is
now taking comfort that he has not been
held responsible for the biggest storm yarn
| OF the season.
The Cloverdale RereiUe says that quite
an excitement is just now shaking up the
inhabitants of Hopland and country over
the recent discovery of gold in paying
quantities in that vicinity; that prospect
ing is lively and fumes are being put in ;
that dirt in many places yields from two
to fifteen cents to the pan, and that one
wagon load of dirt which was washed
yielded in the close neighborhood of So of
the precious metal.
The breadth OF grain-land sown in this
county so far is far behind that sown last
year up to this date; but our farmers will
rush things lively as soon as the ground is
in good condition. E. Not only the oldest
inhabitant, but the whole body of pioneers
give it up that the weather we have had
this winter is little worse than-well,
that it does not behave itself at all like
California weather ought to, and looks like
an encroachmeHt from Maine or Minnesota
VI A@ehS i'SOs
On Tuesday last the Indians of Jackson
| (Amador) and vicinity mustered, to the
number of between twenty and thirty. for
their annual migration to jackson valley.
They generally 90 there once a year to
hunt rabbits and other game, and STAY
usually from two to three weeks. As thew
fled away to the hunting ground they
formed a grotesque picture. They were of
all ages, and of both sexes, and dressed in
every style of superannuated costume.
The majority had to foot it but a few
were mounted. Amid the yelping of the
dogs, and the yelling of the papooses they
moved like the fragment of demoralized
army, their battered garments tapping in
the breeze, and keeping time to the signing
of the wind among the trees.
A serious accident occurred near Chinese
Camp on the 18th instant, resulting in the
death of an estimable citizen and an old
resident of that vicinity, Ephraim A Har-
low He started, in company with Miss
Minnie Neighbor, eldest daughter of Jacob
Neighbor, from her fathers house, near
Mountain Pass. on blackboard, to 90 to
Chinese Camp. When few rods from
Mr.. Sims house the horse SHE'D and Mr..
Harlow drew heavily on the reins, break
ing the bit. The horse started at full
speed. Mr.. Harlow directed the lady to
get out behind as quick as possible, which
she did without serious injury. He held
on to the horse until they came to the top
of Sims hill, when the horse turned out of
the road, running over rocks and brush,
throwing Mr.. Harlow from his seat. The
reins became entangled in his legs and he
was dragged 80 yards, breaking his skull,
from which injury he died in about six
hours.