Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
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A fruit cannery has been started in
Santa Rosa.
Sierraville and Allegheny have Fourth of
July celebrations.
Leaf tobacco of fine quality has been
grown at South Saanich, B. G.
Santa Rosa proposes to have specially
grand celebration on the Fourth.
There is talk of digging canal from
San Rafael to deep water in the bay.
The Fourth of July will be celebrated
in grand style at Sierraville this year.
There will be no celebration of the
Fourth of July in Downieville this year.
Fish are very plentiful in the Plumas
Meadows at present. They are caught
mainly with fly hooks.
Marysville, Woodland and Stockton are
each making extensive preparations to eel.
citrate the Fourth of July.
The Lower Lake Bulletin (Lake county,
has enlarged on its third year. 1t is an
energetic and newsy paper.
Vacation in the public schools Of Grass
Valley began June 18th, to continue till
about the lst of September.
Napa pays s27, 900 annually in insurance
premiums. 1t wants new water works that
this amount may be reduced.
The Fourth of July is to be celebrated
with enthusiasm at Orland George l..
Cutler is to deliver the Grafton.
The gulls on Mono Lake are more plen.
tiful this year than for several seasons
past This is sign of a mild winter.
The Catholic ladies of Fort Jones intend
giving fair next fall, to raise funds toward
building Catholic church in that place.
In three years past Jasper Woollery, of
Puyallup valley, w. T., has killed los
bears, besides numbers of wildcats and
cougars.
The Orangemen of Humboldt county
will celebrate the anniversary OF the battle
of the Boyne by grand parade and ball
in Eureka on the 18th of July.
The sluices of VIM. Franks, Eureka,
Sierra county, were robbed not long since,
the robbers getting well paid for their
trouble. 1t is supposed that Cinnamon
did the job.
A Carson paper says that :" it looks as
though half the people of Bodie were
murderers" Carson should keep track of
its brace of faro games and let Bodie alone,
says the Free Press.
Last Sunday week the water in patches
of hundred or more yards square about
Tillamook rock light, Oregon, was black
with small fish, upon which millions of
birds fooked to feast.
The Yuba Light Infantry, Co. E. First
Artillery, of Camptonville, is ordered to
parade at that place on the Ash of July.
There will be grand ball at the armory
in the evening of that day.
John Culver, teamster from Alturas,
says the newspaper reports about the raw
ages of crickets in Modoc county are
exaggerated that they have not done
damage worth speaking of.
Near Truckee c. W. Bowman, while
working at logging in the woods for Rich
ardson Bros, got his leg broken by chain
slipping off a log and striking his leg, snap
ping the bone in two, six inches above the
foot.
In piping at the Sterling mine, Jackson
county, Oregon, this spring, jawbone
and teeth of enormous size were unearthed
at depth of 40 feet. One of the teeth is
eight inches long, six inches wide and two
and half inches through.
The Colusa, Lake and Mendocino Tele.
graph Company have sold all their right to
the lines, etc., to G. E. Lark, the operator
at Colusa, who is having the repairing
done. The name of the company has been
changed to Northern Telegraph Company.
General John B. Frisbie, late of Vallejo,
now residing in the City of Mexico, where
he is the agent of the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company, is expected to arrive in
New York on the 20th of this month. His
niece, the daughter of DR.. l.. G. Frisbie, of
Vallejo-Mrs Dennis Mccarthy, of Syra-
cuse, n. Y, died in that city recently.
In Sonoma county the late rains have
caused comparatively small damage to the
hay crop, and here and there to late sown
wheat. Clover hay has suffered most, and
in some places the seasons yield may be
set down as nearly worthless, bat other
qualities have suffered very slightly. The
wheat crop will not be at all equal in guam.
tity to that harvested last year, but the
quality will be generally better.
Grain is ripening rapidly in this valley
and barley harvest will soon commence.
Headers will be at work in the Soscol hills
the latter part of next or the first of the
week following Late-sown grain in that
neighborhood is total failure, owing to
the ravages of the Hessian fly. Early
sown grain in this vicinity is headed out
very well indeed, and promises a good
yield.-[Napa Reporter, June 18th.
Santa Cruz county has shooting prodigy
in the person Of Lillian F. Smith, a 10 year
old girl who lives near Corralitos. She
recently gave an exhibition of her skill at
Watsonville, and astonished the oldest
sportsmen. The young miss uses % cali
Der u pound Ballard rifle, and handles it
with ease. She repeatedly broke balls
thrown by hand into the air, hit two ten
cent pieces that were thrown up, and did
other wonderful shooting.
The experiments being made by some of
our citizens in silk culture are producing
results. Mr. Bethlehem has in FIVE weeks
time raised several pounds of cocoons,
which he has sent to the Woman's Silk
Culture Association, San Francisco. w.
w. Smith and Mr. Sellers have mulberry
groves in fourishing condition. Our
climate is seemingly well adapted to their
growth. Raising cocoons is work that
many of our young people might engage in
not only as pastime but as a work of
real profit, as the production always finds
a ready ale.-[Antioch Ledger.
PEPsINE AND TAPEwoRM The tape
worm is able to live in the stomach be-
cause of its ability to resist the digestive
action of the fluids normal to the stomach.
In stronger peptic solution the live worm
succumbs and is digested like any other
flesh. Accordingly a French physician
treated with strong doses of pepsine child
who had passed segments of a large tape
worm. About forty-fve grains of pepsine