Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-11
ALL AROUND TIE COAST.

The Etna Weekly Post ia a new paper
published at Etna, CAL, by Il. Beerslow.
1t is bright, newsy and vigorous local
Journal.
The Pacific Improvement Company has
terey since it commenced work there some
three months ago.
The Nevada Insane Asylum foundation
is progressing rapidly, and by September
LIST the work OF erecting the superstructure
will doubtless commence. 1t is located at
Reno.
F. o. Scarlett, of Pleasant Valley, has
sold his entire crop OF Muscat and Tokay
grapes at 500 per ton. G. G.. Briggs has
contracted to deliver 900 tons of grapes
at Davisville for $50 per ton.
The Wood River Times is the title of
new weekly paper just issued at Haley,
Idaho. 1t is published by I. E. Picutte,
and appears to be paper devoted to local
interests, but fair, outspoken and vigorous.
VIM Hart, who, short time since, at
Mariposa, had an alteration with his
father, and attempted to kill him by
emptying three chambers of a five shooter
and severely but not fatally woundipg him,
has been admitted to bail IN the sum of
50, 600.
w. i. Hupp, of Weaverville, who has
been in Red Bluff for several days, and
with whom the Masons of that city made
arrangements to secure a loan of several
thousand dollars to aid in constructing a
Masonic Temple, left Sunday morning for
Paso Robes Springs.
T.. ~ =, i
Fem Fem. Were we denizen of that
locality we would ask the next Legislature
to change the name to Yum Yum. Fem
Fem doesn't mean any thing. that we know
of; but Yum Yum intoxicates with its
suggestiveness. -[Grass Valley Free Lance.
Says the Napa Reporter. A faint idea of
the extent of the ravages of the Hessian
fly in some portions of southern Napa
county, may be formed from the fact that
Robert Brownlee, a well.known farmer of
Soscol, gets only IL sacks of wheat from
l25 acres sown. He seeded l40 sacks Of
wheat on the tract.
The sports have new game over in Ar.
cata, Humboldt county. 1t is called g Har-
ness poker" because when young married
man gets roped into the game his wife Gala
him, about the time he gets g full, ;" and
when she gets him home she nearly
"raises" him out of his boots, and then he
bucks and makes the harness fly as high as
Gilroy's kite.
The grasshoppers are coming into the
beautiful grain fields around Loyalton.
Sierra county, but opinions differ as to the
amount Of damage they can do, considering
the advanced stage of the crops. The bar
ley is getting yellow, and some pieces are fit
to cut now, but the hay is not all cut yet,
and the ranchers are not ready to begin the
grain harvest. Only three or four heads
cut off to the square yard is all the damage
reported from hoppers at this date, but the
stalk-leaves are all eaten of. The oats are
not SO ripe. and the entire stalk is being cut
off by the hoppers.
The San Diego Ne,cs says: We are
told that the disease SO destructive to cat.
tie. and particularly to calves. originated,
so far as is known here, at Tecate and Po-
trero. the first In Lower California and the
last in California. In those places it has
been very fatal It has been spreading,
and will perhaps continue to spread. 1t
is depriying our county of its prospective
beef supply, and all efforts should be made
to suppress it. At present the disease is
not so bad as Films, because it has killed
pretty much all the calves; but it is de-
structive at Laguna, and has gone into Pine
valley, where it is doing its work. So far
it has not reached the great milk ranch Of
John Treat. and we hope will not but
still it may do so, unless como remedy IL
found to stop its progress.