Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-24
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


in Candelaria, New.
Grasshoppers have cleaned out the poor.
house garden at Reno, New.
The concrete foundation of the Normal
School building is completed
Stockton police have notified the chronic
loaters OF that town to leave.
| Business is reported IN isk in the town
OF Linden, San Joaquin sunty.
The total amount OF money in the
Nevada County Treasury is s 30, ,46S 20.
The daily Bodie Staaday6 c, 'ased to exist
last Tuesday. Cause, too much COMPETE
ton.
A party os Petalurna sportsmen shot a
huge bear on Sanhe3rim Mountain re.
Gently.
| There is talk of constructing narrow
/ gauge railroad between Lodi and Wood
bridge.
The manufacturing of cheese has b como
quite an industry in Lower Carson valley,
Nevada.
Over 32 600 head of cattle have crossed
Big Camas Prairie, Idaho on their way to
the Eastern markets this season.
Twenty patients in st. Mary's Hospital,
Tucson, Arizona Territory, and an addi-
ton being built viii make room for forty
more.
Nearly all the tramps have disappeared
weather or an increasing demand for labor
has caused them to stop travelling is not
known.
Phe various railroads throughout the
State have burned the grass Oh each side of
the track, to prevent, as far as possible,
any fires occurring from sparks from the
locomotive. SO far the damage has been
but slight.
The depravity of this peculiar people is
almost deviGsh, says the Salt Lake Tribune.
But a short time since several of the young
sisters of Zon were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony with sons of Africis
shore, black as the ace OF spades.
A well-authenticated snake story reaches
us from the mountains at the head of the
valley, says the Napa Register. a few
days ago lady threw stone at one of the
reptiles, four or five feet long cutting q
cash in its side, from which ran forty small
snakes of lengths varying from twelve to
fourteen inches.
Fires were burning in the foothills north
east Of town during the past week, says the
Biggs Recorder. In the evening the hills
were one mass of flames, which illuminated
the country for miles around, and presented
a grand appearance. According to the
Oroville Mercuya a tract Of territory two
miles wide and ten miles long was burned
before The fire was checked.
The Pioche New Record says that
owing to the carelessness or negligence of
the Supervisor of the Census in not fur
nishing the necessary papers, the inhahit.
ants of the southern portion of Lincoln
county, estimated at 400, have not been
enumerated, and as the time allowed by
law for taking the census has passed, they
cannot now be embraced in the census re-
turns. The same state OF affairs exist in
this county.
The Reno (Nev.l Gazette has an eye to
business. The editor was sued the other
day for libel, and.now the Gazette keeps the
following quotation from Kinkaid's COM
plant, made on cath, at the head of its
editorial column The Gazette has an
extensive circulation in the State of Nevada
and in other States and Territories. James
Fl, Kincaid. Sworn to before me this Sth
day of July, 1850. Mark Parish, Clerk of
Washington county,
1t is said that Mono Lake is alive with
curious anlHiaicllI6. ooine OF Jneln are
fully an inch in length. and when magni-
fed by glass assume the most grotesque
ard horrible shapes. One particular kind
has savage. looking mouth, fierce black
eyes and long downy tail Their bodies
seem all mouth, eyes and tail. These tiny
monsters swim always on their back, with
mouth wide open like hungry shark.
There are many other kinds in the water,
all looking horrible and repulsive when
magnifed
The business men of Gold Hill are COM
planning of the number of mutilated silver
coins in circulation, says the Neacs. These
coins are not old and worn, but compare.
lively recent droppings fromthe mints, and
have been clipped, and that, too, not very
far away, as is proved by the freshness of
the mutilations. Some one is making him.
self liable to prosecution for felony for
the sake of the little silver gained by clip
ping these coins, and, unless a stop is put
to it, will certainly be found out. The only
way is tor everybody to refuse to take these
coins, and then they will be returned from
one to another till they reach the one doing
the mischief and he will become known.