Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-14
PACIFIC COAST IrENs.

Sneak-thieves and burglars abound at
Truckee.
In Santa Barbara the rabbits are attack
ing the Lima beans
Bananas are growing on the Dorsey
ranch, Stanislaus county.
There are %. 677 cows as reported on the
assessment roll OF Marin county.
Work is progressing favorably on the
State Normal School at San Jose.
The Jerusalem artichoke is being intro
duced with success in Kern county as feed
for hogs.
1t takes about 30 able bodied men in
Salinas to see one man FIX a hole in the
sidewalk.
A resident of Los Angeles sunk hole
for water recently.and at the depth of fifty
feet struck petroleum.
H. P. Taylor, for some time editor of
the Vallejo Chronicle, bids adieu to his
readers il Saturdays issue.
On the 10th instant 500, 600 was dis
bursed on the Navy Yard in paying the
employees, which is the smallest monthly
expenditure yet.
Outi iiltS5 nave DGSll SUCCESSFULLY grow IL
by Mrs. DIR. Davis, of College City, Colusa
She has tank thirteen feet in diameter
full OF lily pods.
About a dozen carp from the Danube
river, Austria, have been deposited in the
Navy Yard reservoir at Vallejo by the
Fish Commissioners.
1t is rumored that Professor and Mrs.
Carr will assume charge of the proposed
high school at Pasadena, Los Angeles
county. to be opened next September.
An agricultural and horticultural fair
will be held at National City, San Diego
county, under the auspices of the Grange.
A hall is to be erected for that purpose.
In that part of Santa Barbara county
which lies west of the mountains and
toward Santa Maria, there is said to DE
100, 900 acres of wheat all good crop.
The peach crop in this locality has been
almost an entire failure, says the Folsom
Telegraph. Apples and pears will also be
scarce, while the plum crop will be large.
Measles-are raging in Tualatin tOregon)
precinct, ard the school has been dismissed
in consequence. One gentleman has about
240 pounds of the measles, and still is not
satisfied
A short distance from Wadsworth, New,
is China ranch, where may frequently be
seen two Cinnamon hltched up to a pillow
horse-fashion, tugging and pulling away
like oxen.
The work of listing the mortgages in the
City Assessors office at Oakland EMPLOYS
that officer and two clerks sixteen hours
each day, and will not be completed for
six weeks.
We are now satisfied, says the Eueaing
Express, that the estimate of 100000
centals is well within the mark for the
wheat crop of Los Angeles county the pres
ent season.
Wool shipments from Cloyerdale for the
half year ending June Both inclusive foot
up in round figures 692, 2l5 pounds. This
wool, at 80 cents per pound, brings just
S207, 664 so.
The fruit season is now fairly opened in
Los Angeles county. Peaches are ripe, and
other fruits are crowding in. The fruit
trade of Los Angeles with Arizona has be-
come something immense.
The countless tons of ice that during the
winter chung to the ragged cliffs overlook
ing Bonner Lake, have disappeared, and
the steep mountain sides are covered with
grasses and strange plants.
The latest snake story comes from Eu-
reka, New, and is about fourteen ratified
reptile that tried to swallow a stick OF
giant powder and Illuminated as we'll as
eliminated its mundane existence.
The population of San Jose, according to
tho Of ha
foots up l2i41 in the city proper In
Guiding the East San Jose and Alameda
sections, it viii foot up nearly $4,000
The Truckee Republican says that Su
perintendent Dodge of the United States
Mint, San Francisco, last week discharged
all the employees OF the institution who had
been placed there through the influence of
Congressman Page.
The Oldest inhabitant OF Los Angeles
county, as developed by the census, is Jose
a. hucero, native of Mexico. He pre-.
sents certificate of baptism which shows
hun to be Il years old. and he has resided
IN California ninety years.
Tulare Lake has risen fourteen inches
thus far this season. Assuming the lake
to have an area of 500 square miles, which
Is close approximation, the total amount
OF water represented in the fourteen inches
Use would be equal TO AS, o0o, 600 tons.
A man, woman and child, who have been
begging for some weeks in Jacksonville,
have been found TO have $50, 900 invested
in San Francisco, have four sons engaged
IN profitable. business, and $500 in gold
was found in the possession of the man.
The recent high water compelled several
families to move from their residences in
Lewiston, Idaho, to higher ground, and
many gardens were entirely submerged
Several of the piers were swept away at
the sawmill, and the water came up about
the engine.
A former resident OF Bode writes that
Leadville is the greatest fraud of the nine
teenth century. ''It is blk from the
center to the suburbs, aud the town has
ten times more people than it can support
Wages are disgnstingly low, and the price
OF living very high"
An unknown man committed suicide at
Placerville Sunday by shooting himself
through the head. He was well dressed,
stout man, > feet inches high, with heavy
sandy whiskers, and is supposed to be a
Dane or German. There is not the slight
est clue as to his identity.
The Colfax (W. T. Tribune says: We
noticed an Indian in town this week with
a pair of nice ponies hitched to good
wagon. As further evidence OF his being
sail the same as Boston man, he pur-
chased while in the city ready glazed sash
for several windows and a reaper.
Bad whisky proved a good agency in the
case of the capture of the three outlaws
near San Luis Rey recently. They were in
drunken sleep when captured. After com.
ing to their senses they remarked thai they
would have given the officers warm re-
ception lad they been awake and sober at
the time.
The Los Angeles Herald says: Jailer
Thompson has pet fawn in the Jail yard
that is very fond of chewing tobacco. At
regular intervals every day the fawn
knocks at the window near City Clerk
Robinson's desk, and as soon as il is sup
Piled with a modicum of the weed it goes
off seemingly contented.
There are at present, fostering along the
road side between the lower end of town
and the Bodie mill, says the Free Press,
twenty-eight carcasses of dead horses and
cattle. Within a mile of town, at the up
per end, there are an equal number A
disease of some sort has recently broken
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