Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-09-22
THE DAILY RECORD-UNIGN.
up AND DOWN THE COAST. Aa
,e hotels are nearly deserted.


Sneak thieves are troublesome In Oak
land.
Sneak thieves are plying their vocation
in Tuscarora.
A new wharf, 400 feet long, is being
built at Tahoe City.
Thirty thousand cords of frewood are
piled at Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe.
There are 46S Good Templars in San
Joaquin county, divided among nine lodges.
Bodie Free Press They have found
LOT of fossils in the yard of the Carson Peni-
tentiary.
A meeting OF those interested in estab-
fishing a college at Bieber is called for
Sunday, September 25th.
w. W. Smith, of Pleasant valley, it is
said, cleared $40 600 on his fruit crop this
year, Vallejo Chronicle.
The Southern California Horticultural
Society has signifed it's desire to assist in
making successful Citrus Fair at River
side next spring.
Under the direction of D. H. Haskell
the Central Pacific Railroad Company is
now engaged in surveying the new town.
site of Gerald, Nevada.
Wool l-gathering, fall clip, will begin next
week. The yield will be more than aver
age in quality and cleanliness i Russian
River Flag, September 18th.
W. F. McMicken, Surveyor General of
Washington Territory, has been visiting
Fort Cour d'Alene and adjacent territory,
and has gone to Fort Colville.
New Mexico is now one vast pasture
field. The rains have made the deserts to
blossom as the rose. The extent of vege-
tation this season has never been surpassed
in that Territory.
The San Bernardino Times reports that
30 sacks of picked ore were stolen from the
Silver King mine, Grapevine District,
Calico mountains, the other day. Eight
sacks were also stolen from the Hartman
claim.
A man brought to Woodland, the other
day, a queer animal, which he had cap
tured in the southern portion of the State.
It is called the Pacific cat and has some of
the characteristics OF cat, fox, dog, coon
and squirrel.
By an untinely explosion of blast in
Temecula canyon, young man by the
name of John Bradford had a hand blown
off and his eyes so badly injured that his
physician despaira of saving them--[Col-
ton Semi. Tropic.
II. Escolle returned on Wednesday from
a trip to his ranch below 6oledad. He
saws that his almond crop this year will
turn out well, and that he expects to make
about ten casks of wine from his vineyard.
Monterey Californian, September 18th.
The alchemist, Tichenor, who claimed
that he was extracting gold from the water
of the hot springs of Calistoga, made a
failure. The CdlistogiGn thinks that he
was worth $40, 900 when he purchased the
property, and says that he lately departed
shorn of it all.
The Nevada Transcript of Friday says
It is rumored that Henry Frazer, who was
arrested at his home on Bear river last Sun
day, and is now in the Jail at Auburn, is
the party who gave away" to the officers
the names of his confeierates in the train
wrecking at Cape Horn Mills.
The Los Angeles Commercial learns from
Colonel Walter S. Moore, Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue, that twenty-five dis.
tilleries have already gone into commission.
for the present vintage, twenty-four of
which are situated in Los Angeles county
and one in San Bernardino county.
The rsisin crop is now being picked and
cured. The prospects are good for much
better season than was had last year for
this work. The picking is fully month
earlier than last year, and therefore there
is no probability of our people being caught
by the early rains.- Riverside Press.
Major S. a. Mann, lawyer of ability,
died in Reno on Tuesday evening He had
been Secretary and acting Governor Of
Utah, and during early times he was law
partner of Tom Fitch at Washoe City and
in the eastern part of the State. The dis.
ease which carried Major Mann away was
dropsy.
The Dixon Tribune says The deep
water in Carquinez Straits makes that the
natural shipping point for two.thirds OF
the State. This waterfront property is
not very valuable. except prospectively
but in fifty years it will be worth more per
foot than property on Kearny or Market
streets.
There are in New Mexico the following
independent companies which are officered
and armed Rio Arrita, IS men; So
rocco, 40 men; San Mateo, go men Los
Lunas, 40 men; Las Cruces, 35 or 40 men
La Mesilla, 40 men and there are thirty
six stands of arms at Silver City, intended
for company there.
MsThus the jealousy of the Chico Record :
a dog was run over by stage coach in
Oroville the other day, in front Of the
hotel, and it was astonishing to see the
animal, as soon as it was able to crawl,
make bee-line through the barber shop
for the hotel kitchen sausage stuffer.
Faithful and true to the last.
Wild grapes are now ripe and plentiful,
and can be gathered on the banks of the
creeks in all directions. These grapes
make the finest jelly, many preferring it to
currant jelly, while for port wine they are
claimed to be unsurpassable A day spent
in the gathering of these grapes will prove
profitable. Red Bluff Sentinel.
A new horse disease has appeared in
Stanislaus county. 1t begins by the swell
ing of the fore legs, breast and throat un-
der the jaws. Sometimes the disease
breaks and runs. in which case the animal
is likely to recover 1t is said in many re.
spects the disease is like the old distemper,
in others somewhat like the modern cpl
zootic.
News reached Glover valley the other
day, says the Phoebe Record, that the bod.
les of G. A. Bergin and Francis Stainer,
both well known in this county, were
picked up on the banks of the Colorado
river. DR.. Bell, who brings the news up
from Clover, says that he was unable to
learn any particulars in regard to the cause
of death Of the men.
While coming up from the Colony, G.
E. Bateman had quite snake adventure
Within distance of 200 yards, directly in
the road, he killed five large rattlesnakes
The first one encountered struck one of the
mules on the leg, and from the effects of
the poison the limb has become much
swollen and the animal temporarily badly
crippled Yuma Press.
The Ward Refer cites as case of de-
cidedly bad luck that of Dan Morris, of
Ogden, Utah, who, few days ago, while
out gathering mp cattle, was dangerously