Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-01
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UP AND DOWN TEE COAST.
A woodchopper at Donner Creek re.
Gently caught young wolverine or lynx.
The young men of Downieville are or.
| ganizing brass band, to be composed Of
about dozen pieces.
Prospects are good for hay and grain in
Sierra valley, and the ranchers feel good
after three years of grasshoppers.
The Modoc Independent has been en-.
larged from six to seven column paper,
owing to increased advertising business.
The Napa county WeekH Reporter, a
uewsy, energetic and outspoken journal,
has entered upon the 26th year of its ex-
istence.
Jesse Near, one of the earliest pioneers
of Hood River valley, Eastern Oregon, died
at his nome there on the 2lst instant, of
consumption, aged 43 years.
D. K. Boas, of Pittsburgh, Pa, gentle.
man who has been visiting the mines of
Plumas for several weeks, left for his home
in the East on Thursday morning.
A couple of country girls walked into a
shooting gallery at Truckee, the other day,
and after playing green on the bystanders
for little time, astonished all present by
hitting the bull's-eye every time.
In some parts of the State there has been
deficiency of harvest hands this year ;
but in Dixon the supply, though not quite
SO numerous as in former years, has been
great enough to meet the demand.
The Reno Journal says: 1t is proposed
to entertain the excursionists who arrive
here on the evening of the I'd of July
bound to San Francisco. A programme
will be arranged and a dance will likely
follow.
Says the Free Lance A friend writing
from North San Juan says that the sus.
pension of mining there has already had
the effect of causing two families to leave
the place, and it is very probable that
third will soon follow the example.
The Carson Iade1 learns that the affairs
of the Nevada and Oregon Railroad are not
prosperous. The settlements on the COM
pletion of the first five miles are by no
means complete, and the capitalists are
said to be disappointed at the underesti-
mated cost.
Orange growers in Los Angeles county
propose to use their surplus and inferior
oranges in making orange wine. 1t is
said that bushel Of oranges, even of an
inferior grade. will yield two gallons of
wine, which will readily command 81 a
gallon in crude state.
The "Sunday closing movement" has
taken hold of the people of Colusa. The
Sun says: "We are informed that it is the
intention of certain parties to file CON-
plants against such persons as shall keep
open saloons and other places on Sunday.
The District Attorney will be compelled
to proceed under such complaints.
A monument to the late General Sutter
should be erected by the pioneers. IS. f.
Post. Should be, but can't be. The pio.
neer, as general thing is scarcely able to
pay for the erection of his morning cock
tail, which is to him a matter of more i'm
portance than that General Sutter should
have monument. t.-[Grass Valley Free
Lance.
Nevada City has an ordinance which
compels Cinnamon who pack loads through
the streets to keep clear of the sidewalk.
The Chinese style of carrying things is not
conducive to the comfort of the man the
tuluduldn may HGCI. Lie pOlc Is
slung over the Chinee shoulder and TO each
end of which is hung basket or bundle,
does not feel good to the Melican man into
whose dignity and stomach the outfit may
be run. The ordinance is good one.
A fire broke out in the woods near Dry.
town, Amador county, last Thursday after
noon, burning over q considerable extent of
country and destroying large amount of
hay, fences, etc, on the ranches in the Vi
cinity before it could be checked in its
course. Some of the buildings at the Go
yer mine, as we'll as some of the buildings
in the edge of Drytown, came very near
being destroyed by the flames, but were
fortunately saved by the energetic and
prompt action of the people in the neigh
borhood.
At Nevada City the electric light prob
lem has been solved satisfactorily by the
Trustees, and Nevada's streets will soon
be bathed of nights in the wonderful arti-
fetal light. A contract has been awarded
to Geo. G. Allen, of the Nevada Foundry,
to erect an iron mast 80 feet long on the
hill in front of the Courthouse. The pole
ia to be in four sections of equal length,
made respectively of Nos 10, u, IA and
l6 iron. At the base, which will be set
into the ground distance of ten feet, it
will have diameter of two feet, and will
taper gradually to the top, where it is to
be eight inches in diameter. The weight
of it will be . 800 pounds. ]. c. Locklin,
President of the Board, was instructed to
prepare the necessary cross.arms for the
lamps to be suspended On and the other
fixtures, such as pulleys, etc.
The Contra Costa Gazette says: I. J.
Smith, of Clayton, informs us that he has
a considerable number of soft-shell almond
trees the trunks and branches of which are
all thickly covered with minute insect,
of reddish color, that appears to subsist
upon juices drawn from the bark, to the
evident injury of the trees. He proposes
applying wash of soft. soap to them, which
we do not doubt will prove an effectual ex-
terminator of the insect, and beneficial to
the trees as well. Mr.. Smith mentions
circumstance of peculiar interest respect
ing the habitat of these insects (which we
imagine are of the red spider family in his
orchard He finds them only on the soft
shell almond trees which were originally
obtained from some nursery dealer, and
there are none at all upon his soft-shell al
monds grated by himself on peach stocks,
with scions from the nursery stocks. This
fact would seem to indicate an original re-
lation Of the insect with the almond, re-
specting which we must look to the insect.
olopists for information.