Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-25
ALL AROUND THE COAST.


to hold its session in Grass Valley.
| The bursting of the steam pipe at Chap.
man 4 McKay's mill, last Tuesday, nea,
Chico, caused the mill to shut down for .
week.
DEMONSTRATING fiourishes as an industrial
pursuit in the lower foothills, while high.
way robbery is the business in the mount.
aims. No arrests.
Quite lot of timber land is being taken
up lately around Truckee, under the late
Act OF Congress. This land is becoming
more valuable every year.
A band of fearless Marysville hunters
are on the trail of cinnamon bear in Hum.
bug valley. At last accounts they were
considerably ahead of the bear.
| The first lot of fall wool to arrive reached
Chico Monday. 1t was from Rice & Ham
lin, Big Meadows. There were twelve
bales IN the lot, consigned to j. c. Noonan.
] The dedication Of the new church of the
Methodist Episcopal South at Penn Valley.
| Nevada county, will take place on next
Sunday, Rev. I. II. B. Anderson officiat.
ing.
| The people Of Capay valley are still suf-
fering from the ravages of malaria. A great
many people have lately been attacked with
the disease and some few deaths have oc.
CURED.
The Nevada Transcript insists that the
county should have pack of blood
hounds, with which to hunt up highway
men and other criminals. No one pack
can begin to do the business.
Major John II. Dennis name has disap.
peared from the publication of the Tusca.
rora Times Recier. That paper is now
published by O. i. c. Fairchild, who is
now its editor and proprietor.
The young daughter of David Smith, of
Thompson's Flat, aged seventeen months,
put her hands into pail of hot ashes last
week, and was terribly burned. The left
hand is charred to the wrist.
The grain crops of this and adjoining
valleys is being rapidly thrashed and hauled
good, both as to quality and quantity,
Lompoc Record.
Chico is one of the healthiest towns in
California, and we state this without fear
of contradiction. Since the l9th of July,
over two months, there has not been
single death within our corporate limits.
[Chlco Enterprise.
George Robson, proprietor of the burnt
Robson Hotel Of Davisyille, will get So, 900
insurance on his property. This will not
nearly cover his loss of personal effects
besides, all the furniture of the house was
destroyed in the fire.
Since the Eureka and Colorado Railroad
has become fixed fact, property along the
proposed route has advanced enormously
in price. Ranches that could have been
purchased for $1,000 and $4,000 two
weeks ago are now valued at 500,
A son of John McGibbon, aged about IA
years, who resides on Deer creek, killed
two foxes Tuesday morning in ravine
just above the Merrifield mine. He says
foxes this season are very plentiful and are
playing havoc with the chickens in that
locality.
a young man named Andrew Phillips,
engaged at work with surveying party
of the California Southern Railroad Com
pany, under the immediate charge of L. A.
Nichols, was bitten by a rattlesnake near
Temecula Friday, and died from the effects
of the wound in a few hours.
a fire has been prevailing for five or six
days past in the forest along Mytys ravine,
about three miles northwest of Nevada
City. Considerable timber is being
scorched and destroyed, but it is believed
that no other property will be injured, as
careful watch is maintained.
The Vallejo Chronicle is informed that
two or three large farms in Pleasant valley
and its neighhorhood have lately been sold
at prices equal or exceeding 500 per acre.
1t is reported that Sacramento parties are
making the investment, and that the prop.
erty will be devoted to fruit growing ex-
clusively.
The people of Orland and vicinity still
think they will have railroad. Thrash
ing is about dune in that part of the coun-
ty, but around Princeton and Colusa there
is a great deal of it do yet. Most of the
farmers have banked their grain, and a
great many who are able intend to hold it
over till next year.
The work of rebuilding Chinatown, Ne
vada City, has commenced. Before many
weeks the place will look about as it did
before the fiery demon swooped down upon
it. The parties who owned the buildings
that were destroyed are furnishing the
Chinese with lumber. and the latter bear
the expense OF putting up the houses.
Professor D. C. Taft, of the Illinois State
University, has written to James Faulk-
ner, of Middletowp, to collect and send
him 100 pounds of Sc the finest specimens
of cinnabar ore," for the Illinois State
Museum. Mr.. F. will procure the speci-
mems from the quicksilver mines of Lake
county and ship them the lst of Septem-
ber.
The Gold Hill Ne,cs perpetrates this
county, where the two robbers refused to
take couple of bars of bullion, worth
about SIS, 600 each, is somewhat signifi-
can't and suggestive. Those bars were too
heavy too carry off. This, now, is good
their pocket money run into bars of that
description and size.
Several women in Oroville sat up all
night to see the burning of joss by the
Chinese. They came in quite early in the
evening, and took their stand on the river
bar below Chinatown. But before joss
was burned, which was not until o'clock
in the morning, they became tired, and lay
down on the rocks and had fallen asleep.
When they woke up they found the fun all
over and they were awful mad. So says
the Mercury.
Speaking of our wheat lands to W. w.
Stewart yesterday, he informed us that
there are two tracts of land in this county
which alone amount to 200, 600 acres.
every foot of which is adapted to the
growth of wheat, and that, too, of the
very best quality. There are many other
localities and uplands- embrac-
ing thousands Of acres, that are as well
adapted to wheat culture. In all, we have
at least 500 600 acres of good wheat land,
and pretty good slice OF it may be had
by simply locating on it. There is no Sec
ton which offers better inducements for
cheap homesteads than San Diego county.
[San Diego Union.