Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-16
THE NEWS DUMP.
Matters and Things Pertaining to the
Region West Of the Rockies"

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Matters and Things Pertaining to ths
Region West Of the Rockies"
Bodies water-works cost Sl6,000
Two feet of ice at Mammoth City.
Eggs are 81 25 per dozen in Candalara.
A ledge of copper has been discovered al
Reno.
Tuscarora merchants complain of hard
times.
Sheep dying off of cold in Siskiyou
county.
Methodist revival meetings are active at
Carson, New.
Trinidad, Humboldt county, is trying to
disincorporate.
An orange. colored bat was recently found
in Los Angeles.
| False fre-alarms in Stockton are to be
stopped at once.
Revival meetings progress in several
churches at Petaluma
Reno is building Catholic church 7Ox4O
feet, to cost from $1,000 to $1,000.
The opposition stage lines between Car
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The Wheatland Recorder announces that
it will cease publication there after Febru-
ary Goth.
The hotel now in course of erection at
Monterey is to be 367 feet long and l69
feet wide.
A golden wedding was celebrated at
Eureka on Tuesday-tirst occurrence of the
kind in the place.
Napa Reporter The scenery Of the Napa
Opera House will be completed and ready
for use about the Goth instant.
The Elko Post is responsible for the
startling heresy that neither Carson nor
Reno is the political center of Nevada.
The young ladies of Plymouth are max.
ing extensive preparations for grand leap.
year ball in their beautiful town on the
10Th instant.
The end of the Southern Pacific Railroad
track is IL miles east of Casa Grande, l9S
miles east of Yuma, 446 miles east of Los
Angeles, and GIG miles east of San Fran
cisco. Yuma Sentinel, February 9TH.
While on her way to leap into the river
a Napa girl met a man who proposed mar
riage, and she turned back and was happy.
Almost any day now one can count four or
five Napa girls wandering along the river
bank.
Information is wanted of Wellyn Shook,
a native of Kingston, Ontario, now about
% years old. When last heard of, he was
in Surprise Valley, California, about a
year ago. His parents are anxious to hear
from him.
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yers of his bar the other day and told them
when they had any motions to make to
make them to the Court and not in the
newspapers. He thought it very inde-
cent thing to do.
The ladies of Volcano will give a. grand
leap year ball on Friday evening, the Goth
instant These parties are all the rage
now, and the ladies are taking held with a
vim that shows they intend. to make
the most of the years privileges.
The Amador Dispatch, in its last issue,
advocated the formation of a protective
society in jackson, similar to those
already in existence in lone City and Sut-
ter creek. The Amador Sentinel seconds
the motion. Hoodlnms take notice.
The Bode News says: 1t was in Lower
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Travis was drinking, when stranger ap-
knife, cutting his coat badly. The stranger
got away before any one could stop him.
That was pretty big tree that the
Truckee Republican spoke of the other day,
but they had bigger one at Katz & Hen
ry's mill in Dog valley last week. Tom
Hammom hauled it to the mill with five
yoke OF oxen. 1t scaled G, 220 feet Reno
Gazette.
Marysville appeal. The grain prospects
both in Yubas and Sujter are promising.
Though the cold weather has held the sum-
mer-fallowed fields back, it is reported that
| the grain looks stout and healthy and
ready to grow rapidly with warm sun and
| a shower.
3 Sutter Creek, the largest town in popula-
tion IN Amador county, has nine general
stores, one meat market, nine saloons, one
hotel, one drug store, one hardware and
two variety stores. Mining operations are
reviving, and the general outlook is en-
couragipg.
Snow in Sierra valley is two feet deep,
and five feet deep at Cory's Station. The
sleighing in the valley was never better,
the roads being hard and almost as smooth
as glass. The excellent condition of the
roads is being taken advantage of by the
pleasure
A committee of competent architects
having examined the Courthouse at Santa
Rosa, pronounced it unsafe, as with crowd
in the courtroom the floor is liable to go
down. To temporarily give relief to the
present pressure upon the walls the cupola
has been taken down.
Contra Costa Gazette. The movement
tending to concentrate the interior grain
products ON the Straits of Carquinez for
shipment is now well started, and few
years will find all the available deep water
frontage on both shores occupied with COM
modious wharves and warehouses.
Reno Gazette, February 18th: Little
Frank Harvey, the two-year-old son of
Harvey the auctioneer, was missing yes,
terday afternoon, and it was at onceS con-
| jectured that the child had been drowned
The fear proved too true, for the little
ones dead body was found at noon to-day
in the waste-water way of the English ditch.
Crop prospects here are very fine. Farm
ers tell us that more land will be cultivated
| in wheat this year than last, OF any
previous year. Owing to the continued
cold weather, stock feed is short but we
have heard of no suffering or loss, farmers
generally having extra feed ON hand
1 Petaluma Courier.
/ Says the Anaheim Gazette. Horse thieves
are plying their nefarious avocation An
abundance of grass in the hills and canyons
is always a signal tor these thieves to begin
their .depredations. They can drive the
stolen stock into remote and hidden can
yons, where they live in clover until the
hue and cry is over, and they are then
driven out of the country.
Our correspondent from the north side
wasin Woodland yesterday. He says the
farmers in his neighborhood have all
finished putting in grain and that the pros
poets are splendid. A few, he says, are
beginning to grow anxious for rain, but
| there is no immediate necessity for it. He
thinks we will have an abundance in good
season. Il Woodland Democrat
Richard Webb, publisher of the Amador
Ledger, was charged with advertising a
lottery scheme. The case came up before
Justice Porter, at Sutter Creek, last
Wednesday, and was tried by jury of
| eight men, who, after celebrating all