Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-24
PACIFIC COAST EMS.
Every mechanic in Modesto is busy.
A band of Thirty Indians is camping near

ENeiJ iheohanic III Modesto is busy.
A band of Thirty Indians is camping near
Petaluma.
More wheat is shipped from Madison
than any other point in VI olo county.
E. P. Foster is about to set out an or.
chard of $4,000 apricot trees in Ventura
county.
Dr. King has about 100 beehives near
Boulder, Col. and the result of this years
work of his bees will yield him about
ton of honey.
In the next Nevada Assembly, out of
! fifty members. there will be but seven Re-
pubGcans-three from Eureka, three from
| Ormsby and one from Lander.
A number of persons in Central, Col,
have been treated to letters threatening
them with death if they did not do as re.
quested by the Molly Maguires
The business men of Calistoga complain
of the large number of bogus IS and So so
pieces in circulation in their town. They
seem to come from Lake county.
At the recent Methodist Conference at
Los Angeles the secretary reported local
preachers, IS; white members, l,I27.
Sunday schools, lG; scholars, 652; churches,
u; value, s32, 800.
The San Mateo Journal reports that a
case of Chinese leprosy has been brought
to light in the mountains near Searsville.
| The Chiuaman is about 25 years CT age,
and his disease is In an advanced stage
The Nevada Transcript wants an editor
who can write for newspaper during the
next year and give bonds in the sum Of
81, 900, 900, 600, 600 that he will not make
any person jump stiff legged at what may
appear in the paper during his engagement.
Santa Ana boasts of dog that knows
Sunday from any other day of the week.
On that day he will not bark nor play
with the other dogs of the neighborhood.
and attends church with the family. He
is highly respected by his canine friends.
The total number of packages contained
in the Orizaba's freight list to- day is /, ,927,
says the San Diego Union of November
lSth-the largest brought here for many
trips. The total number of passengers
also exceeded that of any trip for some
time back, there being AZ.
One of the most extensive and disastrous
confagrations ever witnessed in San Mateo
county has been raging for a week past
throughout the region of the headwaters of
Purissima creek, involving an area of ter
Iitory not less than ten miles square, occu-
pied by saw-mills, shingle-mills, dwellings,
grain and dairy farms, splendid timber
lands, and all variety of country.
A copy of ga Breeches Bible, priui ed
in London in l6ll, is owned by a citizen
| of Stockton. This particular edition of
the Scriptures obtained the name of the
''Breeches Bible from the fact that IN
the third chapter OF Genesis, describing
the fall, the translation is rendered that
they sewed leaves together 9" and made
themselves breeches."
A subscriber astonished the editorial
staff of the Hollister AdUdnce, few days
since, by bringing into the sanctum freak
of nature in the shape of lamb with two
tails. The animal was born alive and per-
fectly formed, with the exception of an ex-
| ira TAIL resembling that of wood-rat
growing out of the back of the skull mid
way between the two ears, and hanging a
length of eight inches.
Cotton picking on the Belleview ranch,
in Kern county, IS progressing in salts
factory manner. About $4,000 pounds are
already gathered. Picking will probably
continue until Christmas The crop Will
be better than the average crop of the
cotton States 1t was planted on the
poorest soil in the valley, and the coudi-
tions under which it was grown are far
from favorable. The product is equal to
the best.
The price of lumber has steadily in
creased for the past few years. There was
a time in Truckee, says the Republican,
when lumber men found it difficult to dis
pose of their lumber at any price now,
however, they find it impossible to fill or
ders even at the present rates. There IS
no probability that the demand will be any
less the coming year, nor that the prices
will be any lower. On the contrary, ap-
pearauces favor an increase in the demand
and the prices. There has been more lum-
Der cut in this immediate vicinity for the
season just closed than for the past three
years. The demand for laths, shingles and
wood has also been exceedingly good,