Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-18

thermoh' 'eter marks below the freezing
point.
The Northelr Pacific Railroad Comnanv
has recently solo ten townships to Ger.
man colony on the Pen d'Orielle end of
their line, consisting of 20, 74O acres, and
netting the company over half million of
dollars.
The case of Clarence Gray, charged with
the murder of Theodore Clancy, was
called in the Superior Court at Santa Bar.
bara last Monday. The defendant pleaded
not guilty, and his trial was set for Dscem-
Der 18th.
The Truckee Republican has commenced
its tenth volume Promises are made OF
improvements in she future, but the pub
Usher will undosatedly find that he has
undertaken task which he cannot easily
accomplish.
Fhere are three large rocks $50 feet high
at She mouth of the e5uileute river, w. T.
Ine;r surface on top has soil and trees
They are surrounded by water at high tide.
The largest is called James Island. 1t con.
tains about five acres.
| A Yonsalla, Or, hunter. having killed a
deer, hung it up, and on the following day
went out to bring it in. kfound it almost
wholly eatea up, and dete7rsined to catch
the thief. He accordingly set traps and
| caught two lynxes, weighing 100 pounds
each.
| Stockton grain warehouses are filed with
wheat to thear utmost capseity, and
large amount of grain is accumulated on
| the wharves. Notwithstanding the fact
| hot fc.a
! day, the piles OF grain sacks are constantly
growing larger.
| Says the Placer Herald Whsle in lowe
Hill one day last week we were shown
specimen chunk of gold, which had lust
been found in Whist is known as Weske's
Sucker Flat drift claim, that was worth in
iround numbers 81, ,200-the largest natural
piece of gold we ever saw.
| The northern portion of Santa Barbara
county, consisting of the Santa Maria and
| Los Alamos valleys and their adjoining
tributaries, says the Guadalupe Telegraph,
has been favored, with the most propitious
of seasons this year, and harvesting will
be continued until the rains interfere.
They had dog and bear fight at Carson,
New, Friday night, and after three or four
rounds the bear got excited, broke his
chain and chased the managers of the show
twice around the hall. The spectators,
being in comparative safety, hilarieusly
cheered the bear on, and offered to bet on
the managers.
| One of the charms of a residence at this
altitude, says the Truckee Republican, is
the privilege of skating on smooth, trans
parent ice. just now it is delightful. The
ponds near town are covered with ice about
three inches thick, and old as well as
young America are enjoying the business
to their utmost.
A large quantity of telegraph wire, rays
the Chico Record, was received at the rail
road depot on Monday for the jackson Dlin-
ing Company. The new line will be con-
pany's mills, near the Sutton House, to
about fifteen miles.
Thursday night gale from the desert
came throug Cajon Pass and swept down
the Santa Ana valley with terrible energy.
1t is reported that every windmill in the
valley is blown down. At Santa Ana the
round house of the Southern Pacific Rail
road was blown down, crushing the loco
motive that hauls the Los Angeles train.
One mile from Beowawe, on the Hum.
boldt, ia one of the finest l0-acre groves of
elm, Carolina poplar and maple trees ever
grown in the State of Nevada. A very in.
teresting feature of raising a l0acre forest
is in the fact that after the same is two
years old, and for twenty years thereafter,
the State of Nevada pays the cultigator so
per acre per annum premium.
A correspondent of the Reno New
Gazette says: +: Lakeview, Or, has so
changed in five months that one would
hardly know it. Many new buildings have
gone up, and old ores are much improved
1t draws the trade of a large section of
country. Lakeview expects ere long to
hear the whistle of the Nevada and Ore
gon, and also the Oregon and Eastern Rail
road.
Says the Carson (Ney AppeaI.. There
will be ! grand reunion of escaped prison
ers on Thanksgiving Day in the Capitol
Square. All convicts in good standing
who have broken Jail in Virginia City.
Aurora, Bodie and other points are cor
ernor and his staff will review the parade
pected to be present.
We learn that Haggin Il Carr are so
well satisfied with their experiment in
growing cotton that they intend to plant
one thousand acres next year. A large
factory that is soon to be started in San
Francisco will require all that can be
raised. 1t is possible this enterprising firm
may start one here. 1t would pay to
manufacture the staple into bagging for
local use Kern County Californian.
The rails used on the Brownsville mar
row gauge are unloaded from ships at
Portland, Or, thence by steamer to Rays
Ferry, thence by train to Silverton. From
there supplies are carried forward as
needed. The construction train consisted
of eight or ten fat cars running ahead of
the locomotive. The train runs as close
to the end of the track as possible and un-
loads on each side. Cinnamon go about
hall mile ahead laying ties. Then come
the track-layers, who put the rails on the
track and then push the hand-car on the
loose rails and go ahead. Spikers come
along behind to spike the rails in position,
and the work is done