Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-22
COAST CLIPPINGS.

does not expire until September 18th.
College City, Colusa, has taken new
start. and number of houses are being
built there.
Hoyt, the assaulter of little Ida Cook at
Astoria, has been sent to the penitentiary
for twenty years.
The Mendocino Beacon reports that bears
and panthers are killing many sheep in the
mountains of that region.
William Byrne, the Nevada county
Narrow.gauge fireman who was hurt on
Thursday, is still unconscious.
A hall used as a schoolroom in Wood
land has been condemned by the local
Board of Health as nuisance.
Some of the parties who have gone to
the mountains from Dixon send back re-
markable stories about the deer they have
killed.
The Lake Tahoe Narrow Gauge Railroad
wood into the hume per month during the
season.
The regular annual Methodist camp.
meeting to continue through the coming
week, commenced on Bear river, near
Wheatland, on Friday.
The managers of the Reno Fair will make
grand effort to have the fair prove a sue.
cess this season. The fair will commence
on the 10th of October.
The Calistogian says there are bogus
half-dollars in circulation in that town.
which it is supposed were introduced by
campers. We didn't go through Calistoga
IN our recent camping trip.-INapa Re-
porter.
Rattlesnakes are seemingly pretty plenty
on the hills this season. One Chinaman,
binding grain on the Coburn ranch, killed
four in one day. John remarked, "'spect
he wante killee Chinaman. "-TSan Mateo
Gazette.
Instructions have been received at Mare
Island to complete the repairs to the Mo.
hican Immediately, to prepare the Iroquois
for sea, and to build ways for the Benicia.
The cost of carrying out these orders will
amount to fully 81, 100000.
Flume connection has been made between
the new Arcade mill and the main fume of
the lumber company. Over l, 100, 600 feet
of lumber has been made at the new mill
since it commenced operations on the 5th
of last month.-[Chico Enterprise.
Assenblyman FELTON,, of Menlo Park,
and associates, are boring for oil on j. P.
Sargent's ranch at Sargent's station. 1t is
reported that fine hotel is to be erected
at the station, the grounds improved, etc :,
for the purpose of making it an attractive
resort.
The Truckee Republican is on its feet
again with new firm, types, etc. The fire
hurt it badly, but it is again alive and
bidding for new lease of existence. 1t
is now issued by the Republican Publish.
ing Company" Weisenberger and Porter
retiring.
The Directors of the Sonoma County
Agricultural Park Association are making
every effort to place the Park in the best
possible condition for the coming races.
Eighty entries are already on the books of
the Secretary, and twenty-five new stalls
have been added to the large number here
tofore erected, in order to meet the require.
ments of horsemen.
In Winnemucca valley the yield of grain
has been excellent and the thrashing is
done. Dickinson has 3, l76 bushels of bar.
ley, oats and wheat from 100 acres. Giles
has ,0S0 bushels. and the Graham brothers
sacked ], 504 bushels. George Alt informs
the Gazette that the steam thrasher is work.
ing steadily, and has enough work ahead to
last until snow flies.
The Bakersfield Gazette says: A tract of
10000 acres of land in San Bernardino
county has just been purchased by capt.
tallst, and is now being cut up into small
farms and put on the market. The gentle
man who has purchased this but short
time since bought two other large pieces
of land, and colonized them very easily.
giving entire satisfaction to the purchasers.
The grape yield in this locality will be
much larger than last season. From what
we have observed an increased interest in
the culture of the grape promises in the
industries in this section. Much of the un.
land that lies in the foothills is
thought to be peculiarly well adapted to
grape culture, acres of which will shortly
be planted to the vine.-l Folsom Telegraph.
Upon his small orchard in Upper Placer
vile, L. n. Spencer has this season raised
more than twenty five tons of peaches and
plums as fine as the sun ever shone on.
From ten acres of this orchard he has sold
five tone of honey clings-a lovely and
luscious peach-besides drying three tons
of peaches and plums. The remainder of
the peach crop has been contracted for by
l.. d. Marks, who shipped three and half
tons to San Francisco last Thursday, and
has gone to receive them in person.
Placerville Democrat.
The fall term of the Woodland public
school opened Monday morning, about
80 pupils putting in an appearance. The
higher grade scholars and fair proportion
of lower grade students, numbering in all
nearly 275, reported at the Main school
house, while the primary children pre-
sented themselves at the Washington Hall
school. house. Professor Mcconnell told
the reporter that the interest manifested
the first day was greater than he had ever
known it to be, and he said the opening
was larger than it had been
during his management of the institution.
A few days ago man was released from
the State Prison, where he had served
seven years for highway robbery. He
promised the Warden that he would never
be seen there again, and would avoid all
and bad company. He then
went to Virginia City, and being well known
was offered place in a brokers' office. He
hesitated between his promise and his love
of money, and at last sobbed out: "No,
can't do it I've started out to reform, and
I'll do it with the help of heaven. My aged
mother knows l was highwayman, and
the news nearly killed her. Now, if join
the brokers' gang it'll wind her up, )" and he
started off to hunt job in the mines
Carson Appeal.
Contra Costa Gazette The amount of
smutty wheat that finds its way TO mar
ket is astonishingly large, considering that
the blue stoning of the seed has been so
long known as positive preventive, that
no farmer can have reasonable excuse for
raising smutty crop. Our own farmers,
who seldom or never neglect the blue
stoning preparation of their seed, and have
avoided the smut nuisance these twenty
i've years past, would be greatly surprised
Oh visiting Port Costa to find how consid
cradle a portion of the wheat received
there is deteriorated by smut, and would
therefrom take warning not, in any case,
to omit the Questioning preparation of
their seed.
We are informed that arrangements for
the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad
to connect with the c. and o. Z. r. and
terminate at Shasta have been satisfacto.
rily made. 1t is estimated that it can be
for SEQ 600 and will nav n