Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-30
COAST NEWS CLIPPINGS.

ter-works.
Oakland police have made los arrests
this month.
There is talk of free public library il
Santa Rosa.
Santa Ana wants to be rid of the Chi
nese quarter.
Ceutreville. Alameda county, has az
Archery Club.
M. j. Shelter has taken charge of the
Salinas Democrat.
The history of Stockton is in press and
will soon be issued.
The census gives Calistoga, Napa county,
a population of l,259..
Chinese monopolize the wild blackberry
business Ill Colusa county.
Camping on the Calaveras, in southern
Alameda, Is popular at this season.
The work of repairing the old Mission Of
Carmelo, Monterey, is to be commenced.
Silver City, New Mexico, receives over
1000. 600 pounds Of merchandise yearly
from the States
a quantity of mountain cat and other
skins were recently forwarded to New
York from Oroville.
Large quantities of wild Strawberries are
being brought into Olympia, Washington
Territory, by Indians.
One of the Indians lately killed in Grant
county, New Mexico, had over $500 in
greenbacks on his body.
Rev. DR.. Kirkland is teaching a school
of Indians at Mendocino They range in
age from 10 to 80 years.
Since the LIST of January Olympia, Wash
ington Territory, has shipped 4,5l7 sacks
OF oysters, weighing 256 tons.
Barley raised this season OH the Salt
river, Arizona, was selling last week in
Prescott at So 80 per 100 pounds.
The hosting works of the New York
quartz mine, two miles east of Nevada
City, were destroyed by fire Sunday night
June Goth fire broke out in the China
town at the lone coal mine, Amador county,
and about dozen cabins were reduced to
ashes.
Point Arena Odd Fellows and Masons
dedicated their new hall on the 10Th. One
hundred couples were present at the ball
in the evening.
James Tarp's barn, Deep Wells, Monte
rey county, was burned on June GOTH The
owner, IN endeavoring to save a wagon, was
severely burned.
A shooting scrape occurred in Nevada
City Sunday morning between f. Jewell
and Eugene Harvey. The latter was
wounded in the leg.
The people of Monterey are making ar
rangements for grand celebration of the
coming national celebration. Gov. Perkins
and staff have been invited to be present
The Lick Observatory is to be built as
soon as the bricks are ready, and II inch
telescope Is to be mounted and used until
the great 39-inch lens can be manufactured.
From census returns, Marin county has
an estimated population Of $4,000, being
an increase of 1000 from last census
Vallejo has 6, 800; Fresno 600 and Mer-
ced ,472.
We like slang phrase says the Idaho
Aratanche. We like it because there's lots
in it. You never knew q mean, stingy.
shrivel-aouled man to walk up to a dis
couraged or afflicted neighbor, slap him on
the shoulder and tell him to brace up
An auction sale of real estate in East
Oakland was held Saturday, and but very
low prices obtained, the entire sale aggre-
eating a little over $4,000, when twice
that amount was expected. A farm of 100
acres, near Livermore, brought only 81, COO
In the town OF Monterey the census.
taker found an old woman named Eumesia,
who said that she came there from the
Sierra NeVadas when the walls of the Car.
melo Mission were only two feet high, and
that she was married at the time. She is
now over l22 years of age.
a resident of San Diego writes as fol-
lows concerning that place: The prosperity
of our city is row fairly based upon the
increasing agricultural of the coun-
try. An attack of intermittent railroad
fever still comes occasionally, but we are
not so easily excited as once.
a letter to C. P. Crawford of Silver
City, n. NJ, describing Parker's battle
ground, on the Upper Palomas, says that
the rocks and ground are covered with
dead Indians. Some attempt had been
made to bury them, but In their flight, the
Indians had lett many of their dead IN
buried, and wagon loads of utensils and
dried meat where they were attacked.
Coming down the road, on the east side
of the river, about dusk, last Sunday
evening, says the Colusa SIN, we ran
through a school Of small frogs about the
SIZE OF the end OF a mans thumb. They
made the road black for about quarter OF
mile, and were all headed for the river
There was a pond on the east side of the
road in which they had probably Matched,
but it was drying out, and they were strik-
ing out through tall wheat and dense
thIcket for the river, d quarter OF mile
away.
The Oroville Mercury says One OF the
most favored counties in the State, so far
as taxes are concerned, is Butte county
| During the past few years large number
of outstanding warrants have been paid
off, the county Indebtedness extinguished,
except the railroad debt large number
of roads and bridges have been built, and
others repaired and made good new and
commodious hospital erected and furnished
throughout and last but not least, large
brick tire-proof addition made to the Court
house. All these things have been done
and the rate of taxation has steadily been
dropping from three cents until it has
reaCHSu, ldS6 year, oue CtuI anu seventy
! five hundredths. We think, owing to the
increased amount OF property returned this
year, that it will go still less. Our rail.
road debt will entirely disappear next year,
and then the rate will not exceed one cent
and forty one hundredths, if it does that
! SAN FRANcIsco MONEY MARKET Money
| is abundant at all the banks. The Bank
| Commissioners, who are now engaged in
making their annual examinations of the city
banks express surprise at the amount Of &C
tual cash in the vaults. 1t is nice thing to
/ have plenty Of money, but unless there is
use for it at fair rates of interest it avais lit
| tie. The reason there is so much money in
| the banks is because capitalists do not see
a satisfactory way Of employing it in active
| business. 1t is not alone here that money is
! plentiful. At London, New York and other
| leading financial centers the supply appears
| to be in excess of the demand. The Bank
of England rate of discount is now 81 per
cent. 1t has been 8 per cent. for nearly a
year. Call loans against United States
J bonds are obtainable at 3@6 per cent. The
regular rate of discount for first.class COM
mercial paper is 9 per cent, but there
/ is more or less business at both and 10 per
cent. The savings banks are loaning on
city property at S(G9 per cent. and paying
| the mortgage tax. This is equivalent to 81
OH per ceut Drafts on New York are drawn
at l21G25c for mail and 15@25c premium per
4 - m II y.