Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-15
COAST AND STATE.

Sergeant Stewart, of the Eighteenth In.
fantry, Fort Assinaboine, NJ. T., while on
escort duty lately, had one hand and 10th
feet frozen.
Colonel Long, of Kentucky, has been en-
gagged as Grand Lecturer of the Good Tenn.
plars of Oregon for six months, and lect.
ured in Hillsboro on Thursday, Decem.
ber lst.
An Albino spring-tail duck was killed a
short distance below Petaluma the other
day. The bird is beautiful cream color,
and quite curiosity, being the first of the
kind killed in that vicinity.
The Sequel paper mill is turning out
eleven hundred reams of brown paper per
week, and cannot supply the demand. The
company has 1000 tons of straw on hand,
enough to keep the mill supplied for eigh.
teen months.
The new Episcopal Church at Albu-
querque, N. NJ, is to be built of stone, and
the section now building will cost about
SC, 900. The plan contemplates extensions
as fast as funds accumulate, and the ulti-
mate cost will be $40, coo.
a few miles west of Las Vegas, n. NJ, is
buried forest. The trees are petrifed and
crystallized into solid stone. The bark,
grain and knots of the trees are shown.
The trees can be taken out almost perfect,
and make fine lawn ornaments.
Mitchels & Co. have commenced a tun.
mel in the bank of the river at Kernville.
about two feet above the present stage If
the water. 1t Will be about 1900 feet
long, and will strike the Big Blue below
the 240 foot level, draining large guam
tity of good ore now under water.
Twenty thousand ties are frozen in the
Yellowstone, NJ. T., between Plummer's
ranch and Powder river, distance of
seventeen miles. The running ice carried
away the boom at Powder, and scattered
10, 900 more in a distance of 80 miles. All
told, the loss will exceed $4,000.
"Wassau was the original name given
to Washoe county, Nevada. The name of
the county was taken from the beautiful
lake and valley which lie in the southern
extremity, being the name of tribe of In
dians that occupied the western slope of
the Sierra Nevada from the Truckee to the
Carson river.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad has now
four sawmills in operation between Corval-
iie ahu az UNA pay, anu tWO HuOTe HdNe
been ordered, and will be running in Jan.
uary. By the time work can open next
spring all the bridge, culvert and tunnel
timber needed for the first sixty miles will
be cut and framed ready for putting to-
gether.
Notwithstanding the dangerous charac
ter of the ford across the Rio Grande at FL
Paso del Norte, n. NJ, people still persist
in attempting to drive across. During one
week two wagons and Mexican carreta
were lost in attempting to ford the river,
and the animals rescued with great diff
Guilty. The Rio Grande has a shifting bot
| tom, and is almost as treacherous as the
| Missouri.
| An artist of Santa Barbara county, Mr..
Ford, has visited the old Missions of the
State and his paintings of them are now
on exhibition in that place. The Press
says The views embrace the following
Missions: San Carlos, Carmel Valley,
founded June 3, ITO; San Luis Obispo,
September |, l772; San Miguel Archangel),
July 25. 1897; San Antonio de Padua, July
ID, l77l; Nuestra Sonora de la Soledad,
October 9, 1871 San Juan Bautista, june
"a, 1877; Nuestra Pane Dolores, San
EEdIcisVoI' OSsooeA d, ltiV, Oauta Niai a,
June is, I'LL or l777; San Jose, June IL,
1877; Santa Cruz, August 2S, 1871 or 1894
San Francisco Solano (Sonomal, August 25,
1923; San Diego, July l6, 1869; San Luis
Rey de Franchia, June 13, 1895; San
Gabriel, September S, l77l; Sar
Juan Capistrano, November l, l776; Sar
Bernardino Pala; San Fernando, Sep
tember S, 1877 San Buenaventura, March
"a, 1882; Santa Barbara, December A
1856; Santa Ynez, September II, 1904
first Purissima Conception. Lompoc, De
cember s, l7S7, destroyed by earthquai {
of 1911; second Pufissima Conception
Guadalupe, Lower California, 1888.