Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-28
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Bodie has six faro banks running to
good business.
Tillamook, Or, is the favorite resort of
Yamhill pleasure seekers.
d. T. Phillips of Cornelius, Or, has
nodded about l35, 600 brick this season.
The Chinese residents of Stockton will
hold grand national fair in August.
Six bands of cattle. aggregating %, 400
head, passed through Fort Harney recently
en- route to Cheyenne.
The pony gang of the Utsalady (W. IT,
saw-mill cut 50. 260 feet of lumber in
single day last week. In two hours and
hall 5000 feet were cut.
A great deal Of snow is still lying in the
canyons around Summit Flat, says the
Idaho World of July 23d, some of which
will remain till snow flies again.
The silk mandatory at San Jose is to
be enlarged. The proprietors express the
opinion that California can compete with
France or Italy in the silk business.
The average price paid farm laborers by
the month in this State, with board, is
about S26. In the Northern Atlantic
States, sl5. In the Southern States, SO.
The town of Candelara, Nevada, is grow
ing rapidly. Its population is about 1900,
and an impetus to its mining interests will
be given by the extension of the V. and I.
Railroad.
Olympia, w. T., has gained in population
during the decade just ended 81 persons.
Thurston county, of which Olympia is the
capital, reports during the same period a
gain of OBJ.
A ranch about six miles from Chico pro-
duced over fifty three bushels to the acre
last week. That's pretty good, and what |
makes it seem more strange is that it is
owned and bossed by woman.
The Census Enumerator of Nevada |
county in his rounds came across two Ia
dies who were twins. One of them placed |
her age at 2S, and the other D. Cause
one was married and one was single
Steve Vennard, the well-known exter-
minator of stage-robbers, had the misfor-
tune to break leg about year ago. The
Nevada Transcript reports him well now,
and at work as a carpenter in Nevada
City.
Since the beginning of the present year
Wasco county, Oregon, has sent an average
OF two persons per month to the insane
asylum. Most of the male cases had been
employed as sheep-herders, and the long
and weary periods of monotonous solitude,
enforced upon them by their peculiar voca-
tion, may have had some part in causing
SO many cases of mental arrangement.
Thompson, you are add fool. You
conduct yourself badly, and, although do
not justify the act committed upon your
person, yet hope if you are ever again
caught in such scrape you will get your
id head knocked off," Such is said
to have been the moral lecture delivered
by a Justice of the Peace, residing at Au.
burn, to a complaining witness in battery
case, after disposing of the case by fining
the party complained of.
The School Census Marshal of Grass VAL
ley township this year included seventy in
mates Of the Orphan Asylum as part and
parcel of the rising generation entitled to
draw school money in that district. The
Attorney General has just declared that
inasmuch as the Sisters in charge of the
orphans are not their legal guardians,
therefore the little ones, who hail from
various parts of the State, have no claims
10 Iue per CAPITA lax bOuSQC lot.
A report is current in British Columbia
that the Dominion Government declines to
continue the subsidy of 500, 900, payable
on account of crown lands on the lst of
July and the lst of January in each year,
in consequence of the refusal of British
Columbia to allow the Dominion to select
lands for railway purposes in portions of the
province remote from the line of railway.
1t is added that the payment of $50, 900
now due has been or will be refused.
There is a certain man in this township,
says the Nevada City Transcript, who is
credited with having drank an average Of
half gallon of whisky per day for two
weeks past. He stays at home all the
time, and has the whisky conveyed to
him. This story seems rather improbable,
but it comes to us from reliable parties
Probably his next step will be to issue
challenge to the world to meet him in
whisky drinking match, if he does not
stumble off into perdition before he stops
testing in private his capacity and endur.
ance.
Deviltry Of all sorts seems to be on the
rampage in the Mussel Slough country,
just now, says the Visalia Delta. What,
with petty thefts that often occur in the
day time. the purloining of grain by the
wagon load that also takes place fire.
quently, but in the shadowy hours of
night, the numerous cases of horse-stealing,
the attempted establishment of bawdy-
houses and the indecent exposure of their
habitues ON the streets, are criminal cir
cumstances well calculated to arouse the
minds OF orderly people living in latitudes
colder than theirs.
The big bear with the club foot that
used to haunt the mountains around Sierra
valley, says the Reno New Gazette, and
between there and the railroad, is supposed
by those whe have known his habits best
to have been dead for several years. There
is no well-authenticated account of his
having been seen for six years, and no one
has seen his track. There is still bear in
the mountains with some of his toes gone.
but they are not the same ones nor on the
same foot; neither is the track SO large.
Old Brin's track measured thirteen inches
in width. The outside toes were lost in a
trap in 1862. He was seen at Independ-
ence lake in 1874, but not SINCE
A gentleman who has a large number of
sheep in the mountains, says the Red Bluff
Peoples Cause, states that although feed
is abundant, sheep do not seem to gain in
flesh, and he attributes it to their being
ANNOYED by flies. 1t seems that as soon as
the day has advanced far enough for them
to come out, the flies attack the sheep and |
compel them to huddle together to avoid
being bitten. Thus the sheep only
have an opportunity to Craze a short
time in the morning, before the flies come
out, and short time in the evening after
the insects retire. The sheep are never
corraled, on this account, but are allowed
to roam free during the night. The flies
are becoming an intolerable pest, and no
amount of feed will cause the sheep to
gain while they are present.
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