Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-19
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The Carson sink is frozen over.
Palisade ice-houses are already full.
Grass Valley has 9S7 school children.
Snow five feet on the level at Eureka,
Cal
| A drawing school has been established at
Reno.
The fire company at Truckee is showed
in and safe.
The Digger Indians are living on venis0n
this winter.
The fall-sown grain in Walla Walla val
ley looks fine.
An Idaho woman has killed three Indians
with pitchfork.
Denver is organizing company to heat
that city by steam.
Icicles and bicycles are entertaining the
Oaklanders just now.
The Los Angeles papers demand that
theater be built there.
The Reform Club of Carson proposes to
establish a free library.
A new paper mill is being built at So
quel, Santa Cruz county.
Wagon loads of fruit trees have been
sold in Arizona this year.
Two new steamers are about to be built
for the Fraser river trade.
Owing to the eclipse the Typo Sun comes
on the half shell this week.
Mica mines are being worked at Rio
Ariba county, New Mexico.
The Paradise mines in Humboldt county,
Nevada, are steadily improving.
A dog-poisoning mania has broken out
in Chico Twenty.sever in week.
Bodie has invested in two carriages and
1000 feet of hose, for fire purposes.
The Board of Pardon Commissioners of
Nevada has refused to pardon A. Chartz.
There were 697, GAG acres of public land
surveyed in Wyoming Territory during the
year 1879.
The we'll water of Bodie is unfit for
household purposes, and is fruitful source
of disease.
Grant county, Oregon, has ia surveyed
townships, equal to 4,0l5 square miles, or
2,626, $50 acres.
The authorities of Nevada City have a
plan about consummated to get rid of Chi
nese wash-houses within the city limits.
Large quantities of material for the Bat
tie Mountain Railroad, heretofore block
AIDED by snow, is now rolling east for the
new road.
The Mammoth City Herald-a lively
and useful paper-has entered upon its
second volume, with bright outlook for
the future.
The total amount of taxes in Santa Bar
bara paid in to the Tax Collector is $685.
CSC, leaving about $4,000 delinquent
against sll 200 last year.
The Guadalupe Telegraph says: "Our
farmers are all busy rushing in the grain,
and consequently the town presents quite
dull appearance at present.
Stockton people are holding meetings,
gathering statistics, and generally getting
up boom to urge Congress to the improve
ment of the San Joaquin river.
Notwithstanding the moderate weather,
which has carried off much of the snow in
the valley of the Humboldt, the sleighing
continues good between Elko and Tusca-
rora.
A thirteen-year old Silver City boy shot
himself in the thigh while drawing pistol
from his hip pocket. The accident should
procure him immunity from the sound
spanking he deserved.
Three Cinnamon who have been conduct
ing lottery in Napa, have come to grief.
They were arrested, tried and fined $40
each, or 500 in all-sixty dollars of which
were paid in ten-cent pieces.
A Piute delegation, consisting of the
old scalp-lifter Winnemucca, the Princess
Sallie, Natchez and Buena Vista Jim, has
gone to Washington to see the "Great
Father and state to him their grievances
personally.
Judge Harris, of Carson, while splitting
God, caught his ak on clothes-line, and
the implement descending cut severe cash
in the back of his head. There is a moral
in this item sticking out as plain as Car
son bellies foot.
Greater than mustard seed is the faith
of the Reno Journal. 1t says: "We take
it that this year will be good one for the
mining interests. We have faith that
millions of dollars will be extracted from
the north-end Comstock mines"
The trade of Sacramento for 1879 ex-
ceeds that of 1878 over one and half
million dollars. The volume of business
for 1879 aggregates S29, 274, 500, and they
are looking forward to the coming year
with glowing anticipations. Woodland
Democrat.
A gentleman living on the San Juan side
of the Gabilan hills informed us this week
that during the cold spell he cut up a
| fallen tree, l6 inches in diameter, and in
the center of it was cavity about inches
| long by in circumference filled with
water which was frozen solid. And yet
some people say it is not cold weather.
salinas Index.
The Baptist Church at Bishop Creek has
lately been provided with fine toned 80.
inch Blymer bell, weighing 535 pounds
On the fine, quiet Sabbath morning its
echoes are heard in the valley for five miles
around, and if the average Gospel Swamper
doesn't appreciate the presence of such q
clear tongued monitor, it would be well
enough to anchor him-the G. Sin the
river.-[Inyo Independent.
Travis, the victim of Bodies last fight,
had knife thrust through his heart.
"Tex." more scientific than his brother
officers, timed the dying man. The first
ten minutes his pulse beat regular He
was conscious only about two minutes
He lived just twenty-five minutes after the
| fatal wound Can the medical fraternity
cite case equal to this-where man car
live twenty-five minutes after his heart is
cut in twain?
Last Sunday evening a Chinaman was
found hanging in his cabin, about two
miles from San Andreas. 1t seems there
were five or six of them mining in com.
pany together. All but the deceased came
to town that morning, and on their return
home in the evening found him hanging by
the neck, dead, to a rope attached to G
rafter of the cabin. They buried him early
the next morning. without any investiga
ton whatever.-[C alaveras Advertiser, Jan
uary 18th.
The Nevada City Herald, 18Th instant
says: On Friday last Frank Aumet turned
band of fine mutton sheep into Mr.. Oakiey''
| field, near Wheatland The field adjoins
the Oregon Railroad track, and the vino
having blown down some of the fence, the
animals naturally sought the high embank
ment of the railroad for sleeping place
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