Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-10
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Bogus fifteen.cent ferry tickets are in
circulation.
The total indebtedness of Shasta county
is over $685.
Times are SO dull in Virginia, New, this
year that the streets are not sprinkled
Southern California papers are still agi-
tating the subject OF forming a new State.
The salary of the Oakland detectives has
been raised from 500 to Sl25- per month.
The Grand Lodge of the Champions of
the Red Cross convened in Truckee Tues
day.
The fishermen complain that fish are not
very plentiful in Monterey bay at this
season.
The jacksonville Bank has stopped TAX
ing time deposits and paying interest
thereon.
Work has been commenced at San Jose
on the foundation of new Normal School
building.
Grass Valley sportsmen have organized
club to secure proper observance of the
game laws.
There are only three prisoners in the
County Jail at Reno, New, and but four
patients III the hospital.
Between 800 and 500 men, mostly from
Nevada, are at Malad station. Idaho Ter
ritery, bound for Wood river.
Philip Cook, printer, aged 81 years,
died suddenly Tuesday evening at his res
idence, 9l2 Clay street, Oakland.
One hundred bath. houses are being built
On the beach near the railroad depot at
Monterey, and the breakwater will be con-
structed Immediately.
Ninety-four children are being cared for
at the present time at the Orphans Home
at Vallejo. Good homes are found for the
children as fast as practicable.
The total production of wine in Sonoma
county for the year 1879 approximates 1884,
600 gallons. The largest amount made by
any one person or firm was $50, 900 gallons.
1t is said that the price paid by the rail
road company to David Jacks for the Pes
cadero and Point Pinos ranches about
1000 acres), near Monterey, was at the
rate of $40 per acre.
The Santa Clara County Treasurers re-
port for April, 1850, shows the receipts of
the month to have been 81, 500 IS, and the
disbursements $37, 344 p. The balance in
the Treasury May LIST was $50, sic IA.
Says the Los Angeles Journal: Near the
upper end of Vine street, in Los Angeles,
stands an elder tree (the elderberry bush
of the East, which measures two feet
across near the ground, stands thirty feet
high, with branches extending at least
twenty feet across.
A letter from Hamilton, New, says {:
Young Osborne, who was killed by snow
slide on White Pine Mountain over two
months ago, was found May Sd. The body
was in perfect state of preservation. 1t
is expected that they will find his COM
panion (Ward) tomorrow.
Eureka, Humboldt county, is exercised
over the discovery of a wonderful cave of
mammoth proportions, about three hours
ride from Graberville. The mouth of the
cave is about 700 feet above the bed of the
South Fork, on the west side, and up the
precipitous east side of Bear Buttes.
A train of eleven two horse wagons
passed through Marysville Saturday loaded
with women and Children and Numbering
at least fifty persons. The party came
from Fresno county, and are en- route for
Oregon, where as a colony they will locate
on tract of land previously purchased
The Washoe Typographical Union and
the Mechanics Union of Storey county,
New, have issued circular, giving his
tory of the attempt made by the San
Francisco Chronicle to reduce compositors'
wages, and urging all miners and
mechanics to discontinue their patronage
of that paper.
A Spring, street youngster, about knee
high to grasshopper, says the Eureka
New Leader, went for his first time to
Sunday school the other day. On return
ing home he remarked to his maternal
parent, Mamma, some of the boys down
town are FOR Blaine, some for Grant, and
some for Tilden, but all of them at the
Episcopal Church are for Jesus. "
Arthur Kirkness, aged 10 years, son of
William Kirkness, of Oakland, picked up
cartridge that had been dropped in the
street, and commenced picking 1T with his
fingers. The cartridge exploded, tearing
the ends of the two first fingers and thumb
into shreds. A physician was called in,
and it was found necessary to amputate
the thumb and half of each finger.
The Vallejo Chronicle says that, from
January !, 1879, to December 81, 1879, ll3
vessels have loaded at South Vallejo with
wheat and -four for foreign ports, and from
January l, 1850, to the lst of the present
month, SO vessels have loaded with the
same kind of cargoes for foreign ports,
making an approximate tonnage for the
year 1879 of 203 400, and for the present
year about 6S, 400.
The Red Bluff Sentinel of the 7th in
slant has the following sheep item ::
Many of our sheep men will this summer
drive tiocks from here to Colorado, Mon
tana, Idaho and other Territories, where
there are larger ranges for the hocks to
Craze upon. This morning Andrew Smith,
an experienced herder, began long march
to Colorado, driving before him 10000
wethers belonging to Frank Houghton, OF
the sheep firm of Parker & Houghton.
Tomorrow or the next day N. ID. Butler
will follow with 5000 stock sheep belong
ing to w. B. Parker, of the same firm,
bound for the same place"
The Inyo Independent gives the following
approximate attitudes of the various places
named, in feet above sec level Virginia
City, New, 6.026; Aurora, 1865; Bodie
MAN street,, $500; Candelaria. 5, $40
Columbus, 1922; Silver Peak, 5,0l4;
Summit between Silver Peak and Ida,
1852; Ida valley, 6,4S6; Buster mine,
S,072; Fish Lake valley, about 5000
Gilbert's Ranch, Deep Spring valley, g. $50;
Summit pass, on the White mountains be-
tween Deep Springs and Big Pine, 1900;
Owens.river bridge, near Big Pine, 4,4l6;
Independence, Inyo county, 1900.