Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-24
DAILY RECORD UNION.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Hay is $50 ton in Sierra valley.
Considerable sickness in Sonoma at
present.
A few cases of pneumonia are reported
at San Jose.
Eggs are retailing in Woodland for l6
cents per dozen.
Six to eight hundred acres of the Mer-
ced river bottom are planted to cotton this
season.
The Giant Powder Works at Jennings
Point, near West Berkeley, are being re-
constructed.
The canyon streams of Utah are begin
ming to boom and the valleys are threat
ened with floods.
The Sonoma county treasury paid jurors
fees during the past fifteen months to the
amount of 5000 %.
Judge Warner, of Pilot Hill, Ell Dorado
county, Tuesday found an $50 nugget un-
get under one of his fruit trees.
A Woman's Temperance Society. auxil-
larry to the National organization of the
same character, is being formed in San
Jose.
Although but $50 votes were cast at the
recent city election in Santa Rosa, "a, 600
tickets were printed. A traction over IS
tickets to each voter.
David B. James, the inventor of the
single track railway, is IN San Diego trying
TO induce the people of that section to build
one of his railways to Yuma.
In consequence of the storm and the
large amount of snow on pasture lands,
several Oakland butchers have advanced
the price of beef, mutton and pork.
n. D. Burlingame & Co., of Kelsey, Ell
Dorado county, assayed few pounds OF
the Mansfield rock one day last week from
which they received 500. 1t averaged over
So per pound.
In Napa valley disease similar to cpl
zootic in mild form has appeared among
the horses, and in other localities they are
dying with pneumonia, brought on, it is
said. by the protracted wet weather.
Two boys recently killed a wildcat in
San Mateo county. Their weapons were
sticks, and their aid in the fight their
faithful dog. The boys are aged and 8
years respectively, and the cat weighed 10
pounds.
Wood is getting to be very scarce ar
ticle in Placerville, and neighbors are bor-
rowing and lending to bridge the chasm,
while some are raking up all the old avail
able rubbish, boxes, barrels, etc., to keep
their stoves warm.
There are over l,500 stands of bees on
the Trabuco, Los Angeles, and taking an
average of 100 pounds to the stand, and
not counting anything from the increase,
the apiarians of that place will have $780,
600 pounds of honey to SELL
Were it not for the narrow gauge rail
road, there would be wood famine in
Nevada City at present. For many weeks
the wagon roads have been in such con-
dition as to prevent teamsters from trans
porting fuel from the forests.
A dispatch was received at Grass Valley
from Iowa Hill, Placer county, Tuesday
afternoon, announcing that Peter James
had Just been killed in the North Star n.y.
drauhc claim at that place. His death
was caused by his being washed through a
cut in the claim.
The railroad company have purchased
1000 acres of land near the site Of their
new hotel at Monterey. The company will,
it is understood, make this immense tract
into beautiful and picturesque park, to
complete which they will turn the Carmel
river into the park itself. The opinion of
those who have recently visited Monterey
Is, that when the changes now in progress
are finished, it will be one of the prettiest
and most inviting watering places on the
continent.
1t is probable that the Board of Educa-
ton will request the Normal Trustees to
make other provision for the Normal
School, and surrender the High School
building to the city, says the San Jose
Mercury. 1t was rendered upon the burn
ing of the Normal School to prevent the
stoppage of the institution and now that
there are means at the disposal of the
Trustees, 1t is considered by the Board of
Education that the city schools should not
be crowded to benefit the State. The Nor
NAL School has an annual income of some
S33, 900 for running expenses, and the sur
plus after paying the teachers and provid-
ing for other necessary expenses will be
amply sufficient, it is believed, to pay rent.
Uncle Billy Mayhem, of Red Bluff, who
then lived in Marysville, says that in 1853
1t commenced raining about the 10th of
April and continued to rain for week or
ten days, harder even than it has rained at
any time during this storm. He was then
driving stage for Hall & Crandall, who had
to haul off their stock and stop their stages
on account of the high water. The stage
stock was at Nicolaus when the storm COM
menced, and finding that the waters were
rising SO rapidly he, with others, got into
a whale from the door of the old
United States Hotel, in Marysville, and
went across lots direct to Nicolaus, where
they placed the horses on high knoll,
the town and surrounding country being
under water, and rolled out bales of hay
from the barn and fed them there for sew
eral days. The town of Marysville, or
rather part of the site now built over,
was then under water, and the lowlands
south and west OF that place was one vast
sea of water.