Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-29
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

mouth, UT.
Scarlet fever has again made its appear
ance in Dallas, Or.
Travel Boulevard from Virginia, New,
is again on the increase.
The Piutes are having big fandango at
Walker river in Nevada.
Grass Valley is to have system of tele-
phones established within few days.
The Central Pacific pay.car distributed
about S45, 600 at West Oakland, Friday.
Los Angeles owns her water works, and
furnishes free irrigation to all who desire it.
With its issue of last week the Mendo-
elmo Democrat appeared for the last time.
The Santa Cruz Water Company is tired
of wooden pipe, and will substitute iron
ones.
An exodus of the citizens of Sonoma
City for Washington Territory is in pro-
gress.
Sad stories are told of the ill-treatment
OF children at the Carson New Orphans
Home.
Three hundred and thirty-two TASKS of
quicksilver were shipped from Calstoga
last week.
1t is said that new paper will be started
in San Diego in May, and that Scipio Craig
is to edit it.
On the 10Th of March there were twenty
one vessels in the port of Eureka, Hum
boldt county.
It is stated that Mrs. J. w. Mackay will
take up her permanent residence at New
York in the spring
Out of 603 voters in Albany Orr School
District, but 6S voted at the annual cleo
ton held on the 9TH inst.
The Democrat speaks of Chinese Joss
House as possible addition to the religious
institutions of Woodland.
"Jaw Bone, /" "Starve Out" !" Cheek-
vile, g Scab Flat" "Wash Out are a
few notorious places of southern Oregon
county.
Poor Lo has begun to patronize the
Postal Department. A letter is in the
Ukiah Postoffice for Frank and Capella
two Indians"
Since October 80, 1850, there have been
l59 persons committed to the County Jail
of Storey county, Nevada, the period of
confinement varying from to $50 days.
A bridge worth from $1,000 to 81, 500
has been standing two years in the chan
mel of Simmons creek, on the road from
Santa Rosa to Sonoma, inaccessible from
either bank.
Toledo is the name of new and pros
porous village on the Cowlitz river in
Lewis county, w. 7. A large warehouse
has just been finished, and several other
houses are now building
An Elmira boy, l6 years old, rode one of
his fathers horses off to Napa and sold it
for $50, it being worth $3.50. His father
followed him until he found the horse,
paid the purchaser $50, and brought the
horse home.
The canyon in which Gold Hill and
Silver City, New, are situated was To-
Gated before 1853 by the Mormons. They
took out considerable gold by rude imple-
ments prior to the discovery of the Com.
stock lode in 1859.
The Nevada State Library contains l5,-
7S5 volumes, as follows 7, 96S law books,
., 7S5 miscellaneous works, 4,472 Congress
sional documents, and 500 unbound PAM
phlets. There were no new literary works
purchased during the year 1880.
There is man in Carson, New, at pres
ent who has served terms in eight different
State Prisons of the Union. Judging from
the company he seeks, the appeal thinks
the chances are that he may serve term
in the ninth, in spite of his snow-white
hair.
A lady in Petaluma celebrated her 18th
birthday by inviting number of her aged
friends to participate with her in reli-
gious services at her church. The preacher
took his text from Bible given to him by
his grandmother, and then preached an old.
time sermon.
The Truckee Republican says that Ham
let Davis received an order for California
trout the other day, and has shipped speci
mems from lakes Tahoe, Bonner and Inde-
pendence and from the Truckee river.
These trout are to be placed on exhibition
in New York city.
How is it, asks the Salt Lake Tribune,
the Church papers have forgotten to men
ton that Miss Josephine Taylor, daugh-
ter of the head of the Mormon Church, is
confined in the Salt Lake Insane Asylum
Are they ashamed of the beastly religion,
or are they afraid to tell the world that
this poor girl lost her mind by reason OF
her father trying to compel her to go into
polygamy.
There are by actual count 10 churches,
chapels or missions in San Francisco, of
which are Hebrew, 26 Roman Catholic
and II Protestant. The Protestant churches
have a membership of some $4,000; the
Catholic about %, 900; the Hebrew, 5000
The seating capacity of these churches is
about &C, 600, but they are seldom over
two thirds full, so that A 600 church goers
is all that that city of 234. 600 inhabitants
has.
One of the frst-class hotels of Carson,
New, will soon employ female help in the
dining-room. The Appeal says the young
ladies are all to be strikingly handsome
and the possessors OF Partisan educations
and manners. After the introduction of
the new help, the cooking OF feet upon the
tables during meals, the picking of teeth
with forks, and the using OF napkins for
handkerchiefs, will be strictly prohibited.
The Salinas Indec says that James A.
Hall, the Jacksonville school teacher,
against whom 81, 600 verdict has Just been
obtained by pupil whom he seduced, has
been engaged to again take charge of the
Mountain District School. In consequence
twenty two of the families residing in the
district refused to send their children to
the school so long as Hall taught there
only nine families, principally tenants of
Halls father, would permit their children
to attend.
The Arizona journal speaks with pride
and hope of Harshaw, trailing on the heels
of Tombstone, and ready even now to out
strip her in the immensely of her mineral
deposits of Lenoria and Washington
Camp, little below, languishing with
mountains of ore in sight, for the want of
mechanical appliances to reduce it; of
Orc Blanco, Arivaca, Globe, California,
Santa Ritas, Empire, Silver District and
many others that might be named which
are struggling into vigor and life.
The new Arizona coal fields in Deer
Creek Valley extend for twenty miles.
The first assays made were taken from the
groupings, and of course gave large ash.
Subsequent assays have been taken from
below the surface, and they display true
combination OF bituminous and anthracite
coal. People are pouring into the coal
fields, and there has been little canvas
city formed there. Stores have been
started up, and there are all the indiea-
tions of busy mining life.
The Bodie Free Press walls as follows