Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-28
AROUND ABOUT THE COUNTRY.

Roller skating is one of the amusements
of Reno.
There are groves of wild black walnut
in Fresno.
Diphtheria prevails to limited extent
at Tracy.
The Indians in the vicinity of Pioche
call the comet a "smoke star"
Shasta county has larger population
than Siskiyou, according to the last cen.
sus.
Mail service has been resumed on the
route from Tucson, Arizona, to the City of
Mexico.
Several children of Nortonville, Contra
Costa county, have died of what is known
as black fever.
The Good Templars of Greenville, in
Plumas county, have awarded contract
for fine new hall.
A movement is on foot to purchase the
Nevada County Narrow.Gauge Railroad
for Eastern capitalists.
A Grand Council of the American Le-
gion OF Honor is to be instituted in San
Francisco August Sth.
A chief point of interest now with tour
lists to Yosemite is Signal Peak, point
reached easily from the Big Tree Station.
The business men of Fresno. by unan-
imous decision, have concluded to close
their stores on Sunday, and give the boys
chance for recreation.
The hop raisers of Mendocino county
will have no reason to complain, as the
prospects are now good for yield fully
equal to two-thirds of last years crop.
The Merced Woolen Mills have, during
the past year, consumed 400, 900 pounds of
wool, and also the entire cotton crop of the
county, amounting to some Go, GOO pounds.
The $4,000 bonds issued to provide
money to build a schoolhouse in Redding
have been sold to 4. c. Sessions, of Oak
land, at ] per cent. premium and the gold
coin sent to Redding.
The employees on the Arizona divisions
of the Southern Pacific Railroad are pre-
pared to whip any man that says Arizona
is dry country. They say its a bald
headed falsehood without any shoes on.
The Ventura Signal says that Mr..
Cheney, who drives the stage between
Santa Barbara and Ventura, saw the comet
on the morning of the 18th of June, and
has very probably filed his claim for the
reward offered to the first discoverer.
In Santa Barbara and Sonoma counties
olive culture has been found profitable to
the few persons who have given it atten-
tion. 1t has been demonstrated that
grove of ten acres will, after the seventh
year, produce net income of s., 500, an
average of $3.50 per acre. The tree is very
hardy and long-lived.
Grasshoppers are making havoc among
the young trees in Mussel Slough.
In one instance they have eaten all the
leaves off young grove of Carolina pop
lars, and we learn that near Grangeville
they actually ruined a young apricot or
chard, eating not only the leaves but
girdling the trees.
A large fire has been raging on the
mountain between Pratt's and Napa valley,
above Starts. We are informed that it
was started last Friday by a boy with
match, and that it burned dwelling Mon
day morning. 1t sends up vast clouds of
smoke by day and light by night.-[St.
Helena Star. July 23d.
DR.. Luke a. Port, of this city, who
went to the Sandwich Islands about three
months ago to open direct commercial re-
lations between the port of San Diego and
Honolulu, says that communication will be
established by a regular line of steamers
between these ports as soon as the Califor-
MIA Southern Railroad is completed. San
Diego Union.
The people of Ferndale held public
meeting Saturday to discuss the important
question OF improving the entrance to Eel
river. This river has two mouths, or chan
nels, at the present time, which is supposed
to account for the shallow bar that pre-
vents easy access to the stream from the
sea. The meeting was called to devise
some means for closing one of these en-
frances, with view OF improving the
other.
Willows Journal, 1t is nearly time for
horticulturists to begin the work of budding
trees. Ii grating was neglected last win
ter, Or If from any cause failed to be
success, the matter can now be remedied
by the useful and easy process of budding.
1t can be commenced now in the warmer
parts of this State, and may continue
through July and August, according to
the locality and the character of the stocks
to be operated upon.
The Mendocino Beacon says On the
CNtuluS Vi tnC VIl VI hl1 OAC VI oLC
most cowardly and dastardly assassinations
mile river, resulting in the killing of
young man named Philip Gibney. Anum-
ber of parties were arrested for the crime
and all were discharged except two men
Robert M. Darr, the proprietor OF the sa-
loon, and one Morgan Locke, and on exam
ination the latter was discharged.
A company has been organized to es.
tablish a telephone line running from
MARTINEZ, by the way of Alhambra or
Pacheco, to Walnut Creek, Alamo, Dam
vile, the Cotton ranch and Mt. Diablo.
Further extensions of the line will be
made as future requirements may call for
them, and the sections of the county now
without telegraphic connections may all
eventually be afforded means of instant
communication through this telephone
line.
The wheat that has been harvested thus
far in Tulare county is not as clean as it
might be with proper appliances in thrash
ing. The value of the heavy, plump grain
is detracted from by the appearance of bar
ley, oats and smut, which cause the price
to be lower by fifty cents per ton than it
would be if the wheat were clean. Cleaners
can be attached to the thrashing machines
which will throw out the grain in far bet
ter condition at trifing cost. The amount
lost to the county by badly cleaned wheat
is enormous in the aggregate.-[Delta.
Marysville Appeal. July Goth: Marsden
Manson, United States Engineer, accom-
panied by an assistant engineer, arrived
last evening He had been making close
inspection of the North Yuba, under di-
rection of Colonel Mendell. Mr.. Manson
has given three years of close study and
hard labor to the investigation of debris
and drainage problems in this State, and
has perhaps more extensive and exact
engineering knowledge of the great mining
belt embraced between the Mokelumne
river on the south and Deer creek On the
north than any other man in the State.
There is a singular or rather peculiar
green milk weed that is of late years in
creasing very rapidly in this section.
These weeds do not come up, even on our
dryest lands, until about the time grain
begins to ripen. If the grain is cut early
they are seldom in the way. They grow,
however, very rapidly, and if grain cutting
is delayed they will soon show above the
heads of wheat. Even after the wheat is
removed from the field they make a rapid
growth, reaching from three to six feet IN