Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-05
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Vallejo has got haunted house.
Sea-otters have appeared in Sonoma
creek.
Sheep are dying from cold in Eastern
Oregon.
The SonOma county jail has fifteen oc,
cupants.
A petrifed cactus is on exhibition at
Santa Fe.
Nevada has in the Asylum 40 INDECENT
insane patients.
Epizooty is raging to quite an extent
near Forestville.
In Sierra Valley they have from 100 to
$50 days OF winter.
There are Isl inmates of the Nevada
State Prison at Carson.
There is only one occupant of the San
Bernardino county Jail.
Petriied grass is found about the min.
eral springs of Calistoga.
Nevada people want the office of State
Prison Warden abolished.
Santa Cruz has delinquent city taxes
only to the amount of 500.
Carson papers complain of the inferior
qualty OF gas IN their town.
An Indian mummy was found recently
in the rocks near Silver City.
Sickness among horses prevails at Heads.
burg and other places, and several valuable
animals have died.
1t is feared that "black foot " has got
among the cattle in Grass Valley, near
Winnemucca, Nev.
George B. Leavitt has severed his con-
nection with the Calaueras Citizen, having
disposed of his interest to G. r. Beal.
The Desert, fifty miles northwest from
Cornucopia, New, is wintering an I'M
usually large number of cattle this year.
Red Bluff is indulging in a religious re.
vival, and crowds are attracted nightly to
the meetings held in the Methodist church.
High waters have carried away the old
free bridge that for a number of years
SPAWNED Clear creek at Horsetown, Shasta
| county.
The Red Bluff Jail contains fourteen
prisoners, and gang of four convicted
felons have been set at work grading the
public square.
The cold weather in Idaho has ' shut
down" most of the churches. Only two
are in operation at Boise City-the Method
ist and Catholic.
Sonoma valley has nearly thirty wine-
making establishments, which are expected
to produce this year an aggregate of $780,
600 gallons of wine.
Oregon is still exercised over furnishing
motto stone for the Washington monu.
ment. Nearly thirty years ago the discus
sion commenced in that State.
There is large band of wild cattle
ranging in the hills south of the Deschutes
river, some twenty miles from Olympia,
w. Z. They are said to be as wild as elk.
Even the gamblers attend church at
Dayton, W. L. At least such a crcum.
stance is indicated by the dropping of
faro check in the contribution box last
Sunday.
a new railroad is to be built from Og-
den, u T., to point on the line between
Colorado and Utah, to connect with road
from Denver. The stock is held principally
by Salt Lake parties.
The report that smoke has been issuing
from one of the Olympic range of noun
tains, directly beyond Eagle harbor, has
been verified, and the people in the vicinity
of Seattle are in hourly expectation of wit
Messing grand sight.
On Pine creek, north of the east fork of
the Verde in Arizona, a natural bridge has
been discovered which is the largest in the
United States. It's span is $50 feet, its
width 600 feet, and its composition coarse
grained sandstone There are five natural
bridges already known in California.