Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-15
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Smallpox among the Indians of Mon,
county,
The Kern county hunters shot %, 90;
quail last season.
Most of the sawmills on the coast ART
running in full blast.
Albuquerque, N. NJ, is to have an in
dustrial fair next October.
H. NJ. Woods and partners have pur.
chased the Tombstone, a. T., Nugget.
Three cases of infectious optbalmia in
Long valley, Southern Santa Clara county.
There are ten blacksmith shops and a
tannery in Cathay valley. Mariposa county.
The Big River mill, Mendocino county.
averaged IS, 600 feet of lumber per day last
week.
Cambria dairymen. San Luis Obispo
county, make 81 900 pounds of butter per
week.
The FL Paso Herald advocates a new
State formed out of the Rio Grande valley
and part of Texas.
San Diego has a gas company, and the
streets will be lighted by July 4th. Mains
are now being laid.
The Cinnamon OF Carson, New, propose
to test the constitutionality of the new
opium law in the Courts.
1t is reported that there will soon be a
reduction of force and salaries on the V.
and L. Railroad in all departments.
Ex-Congressman Luttrell of California,
who has been dangerously i'll at La Noria
for some time, has been brought 20 Tucson,
A. T. He is slowly recovering.
The State Board of Commissioners for
the erection of an insane asylum at Salem.
Or. have formally located site for the in
stitution, and the. contract for the con-
struction Of the foundation of the building
has been awarded. Work will commence
at once.
The little narrow gauge road between
Colfax and Nevada City did very well last
year. It's total earnings were Sis, 500 55,
ing a profit of Sal, l6S 43. This read is
only p miles long, and does nothing but a
local business.
The failures in the State of Nevada for
the quarter ending March 81, 1881. are re-
ported as seven in number, with liabilities
at S73, 243 80, and assets Sat- AIS. For
the same period last year there were four
teen failures. with $3.50, Alb as the liabili-
ties, and 500, 1913 as the assets.
On Saturday last w. s. Seavery, of Port
Townsend, who was on WILDLY Island,
W. T., discovered near Ebey's landing a
shark washed ashore. On cutting the
aquatic monster open few wads of human
hair were found in its capacious nav. This
hair, upon close examination, was found to
be about three inches in length. slightly
gray, and undoubtedly from the head of a
white person.
The Californian of Monterey says "The
report is current that the Southern Pacific
Coast Railroad are making preparations to
extend that road from Santa Cruz around
the bay to Monterey, and possibly down
the coast to the Sur country. We have no
doubt but that sometime that road will
reach this place, but the idea of it extend.
ing to or through the mountainous Sur
country is ridiculous"
The Carson New Appeal says The
parting of a congregation in this city last
evening with their pastor, who transfers
his labors to Virginia City, was a very
affecting one. The good ladies gave their
faithful shepherd blowout, and made
him many presents of little articles of the
higher civilization which he might not be
expected to procure on the Comstock At
the last moment thoughtful parishioner
showed a weighty parcel into the pas
tors hand. "What is this ," asked the
good man. Hush !" said the donor,
English dog-self-c you
know want it there" Heaven bless
you, whispered the clergyman, slipping
the awful weapon into his hip pocket, as
he waved an affectionate adieu to his flock.