Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-15
STATE NIwS OF LATEST DATE.
COLI weather even at San Diego.


4 An ice-makine company has been orgal
, lied at Stockton.
Steps have been taken to establish frt
reading room in Stockton.
, The construction of water works
talked OF in lone City, and also the el'ectio
OF seminary.
The public schools of Sonora close o.
the 10th for want of funds, and will not re
open until October next
The PGjaronian, published at Watson
vile, an excellent local paper, has entered
upon its thirteenth volume
The late heavy snow crushed in the roo
of the audience stand on the Washington
county fair grounds, Oregon.
Sixty-one Napa people have petitioned
the Grand Lodge, /. o. G. T., to be allowed
to establish Lodge in that town.
During the recent norther in Napa a
strip OF wheat about four rods wide and a
quarter OF a mile long was literally torn up
by the roots.
Alameda has new lock-np. It has two
cells, and Is said to be proof against the
most skilled burglars inside. Hence Ala.
media is happy in her safety.
| An enterprising gentleman from San
| Francisco has leased LOCO acres. more or
less, one mile west of Copperopolis, for
the purpose of raising eagles.
T; ): Mitchell has obtained the right to
work the talllngs from the keystone and
Original Amador mines deposited in ANA.
dor creek within. the limits of Amador
City.
Patrick Il Radebau have established
themselves at Tacoma Washington Terri
tory, with the Santa Cruz Comser ma.
terial, where they intend to publish a.
paper.
The Marin County Focsin comes tohand
enlarged and generally improved in appear
nee. The Marin Journal has entered
ul ION new volume, its twentieth. Itis.
all In Its twentieth year
A two-story barn belonging to Mr..
Ka.,ee, in Fairfield, was fiattened by the
late norther, and the school lheuse in Cor
don Valley was removed from its founda--
tion some fifteen or twenty feet.
The Alameda A,yus says : ComparedI
with one year ago, but little building isa
being done in Alameda. We need not say
that the distrust and uneasiness caused by
the Thugs of the sand lot issthe reason.
A parsonage for he Congregational
Church is being erected on the church lot.
between the Congrega tionab and Baptist
Churches, at Grass Vail ey. The parsonage
on Lloyd street belongn g to the congrega-
tion has been sold.
The Chinaman who robbed the hay
stack near Princeton, Coluss. county, of
81, 600, placed there by the owner of the
l. L L
Sheriff Sprague. There is some question,
however, as to identity.
At Folsom many persons who-haEe hith.
erto considered grape culture unpreftable,
are this spring extending their vineyards
by setting out more vines, and many are
putting out new vineyards who were never
before interested in grape culture
There are about 500, COO head of cattle
in California, and S,000,0 900 sheep. The
stock breeding was begun in 1863 by.
Spanish friars at San Diego, who went
there from Lower California with 300 head
of cattle and 100 sheep, besides few
horses and some hogs.
The Plumas National says they tapped a
Lassen county patient in the Modec Hos
pital the other day, and the result was
three gallons of benzine whisky and three
pints of pure alcohol. He died in three
quarters of a minute after the operation
from =" lack of nourishment."
The next Fourth of July celebration is a
prominent topic of conversation at present
in Plymouth, Amador county. Every year
Amador county celebrates the nations
birthday, but Plymouth has never had the
honor of having the celebration, and is de-
oJ fr roro apo,1E +biS
\The run of salmon this year is expected
to be unusually large, and we hope our
Fish Commissioner, L. Levy, Will see to it
that ladders are in readiness so that they
may climb into Tuolumne county. We
will guarantee warm reception to hos
pitable graves. "-[Tuolumne Independent.
The Galloway canal, Kern county, is
completed. 1t is twenty-six miles in
length, has an average width Of ninety-six
feet, is four feet deep, and supplies at
present about seventy-fve miles of. dis
tributing bitches. 1t is now irrigating an.
immense tract upon which good crops are
assured.
DIR. G. A. Cook, near Healdsburg, is
the owner of a most remarkable cow. By
actual test in seven days she gave lSS;
quarts of milk, from which sixteen pounds
and three ounces of butter was made. The
doctor offers to wager 500 that he can
make 200 pounds of butter from the milk
of that COW within the next 100 days.
The Mendocino Hotel, in that city, was
destroyed by fire on Thursday of week be-
fore last while the proprietor, Hamilton
Bever, was in attendance at the murder
trials in Ukiah. The building and con-
tents were insured for So, 200 On the
night previous the Centennial House, at
Cuffey's Cove, owned by Thomas Roach,
was also destroyed by fire. Loss. fully
covered by insurance.
The South Pacific Coast Railroad Corn
pany, on the completion of their road to
Santa Cruz, will put on line of steamers
from Santa Cruz 10 Monterey, by which
arrangement it is proposed to land passen-
gers in the latter town three and half
hours after leaving San Francisco. This
company also designs the erection of a
hotel at Point Pinos, and has applied to
David Jacks fer land for that purpose. -
[Castroville Argus.
The Chico Record, of the llth inst,
commenting on the burning of Hupp's
Hotel, at Dogtown, says: 1.-THE burning
has created much talk, and will lead to
serious business for somebody if there is
anything in the many rumors afoat with
reference thereto. One party has been ar
rested on suspicion, just ON what grounds
we have not learned. There has been too
much burning of buildings in that vicinity
of late years to be entirely accidental. The
fact that the hotel had just been rented
and the furniture ordered to fit it for occu-
pancy, would seem to indicate that it was
not an accidental fire, and that it was de-
stroyed for purpose"
A million and half new vines have been
set out this year. But few of these are of
the Mission variety but almost all Of the
varieties which our successful vinicultur-
| lists have recommended. Within the next
two years our wine production will be
doubled, and great proportion OF it will
be of a quality that will bring higher prices
than the common wines heretofore man.
ufactured from the Mission grape. Re-
ports come in from all parts of the county
of the fine appearance of the growing
crops. The wheat ia in flourishing con-
dition every where, and the volume of the
harvest, unless some unforeseen backset
overtakes it, will exceed all the estimates
yet made.-[Los Angeles Express.
| A ride southwest of Bakersfield presents