Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-21
ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY.

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to be held in that vicinity.
The Los Angeles Express publishes ,
| ist of the subscribers 20 the fund to pur
chase site for the branch Normal school.
It foots up $1,000.
The stock of last years grain stored in
| the barns and warehouses of Gilroy town
ship is about 10000 centals of wheat and
1000 centals of barley.
The sportsmen of Oroville are anxious
to match their two best shots against two
OF the Chico Club in q glass-ball contest.
A challenge will doubtless be made shortly.
The Mount Shasta Agricultural Society,
which meets at Yreks October 10Th, and
continues in session four days, will hang up
purses aggregating 81, 600 for the different
races on the programme.
A new station has just been opened be-
tween Trigo and Clyde on the Stockton
and Copperopolis railroad and called Plana.
The place was formerly known by the sug-
gestive and euphonious appellation of Hog
Ranch.
The roads leading into Willows, Colusa
county, are lined with grain.laden teams.
About 900 sacks of wheat are brought in
every day for storage. There are some
20, 900 tons of old wheat in warehouses
there.
Judge Harrison Gwinn died at his resi-
dence near Knights Landing, last Satur-
day, aged 73 years. Judge Gwinn was
one of the pioneer settlers of the Sacra-
mento valley, and has been prominent
man in the history of the State.
William Edwards is about to commence
the construction of new bridge across the
South Yuba river at Edwards crossing.
The present bridge will be removed, and
IN its place will be substituted a fine
structure of the suspension pattern.
A fire has been raging up the valley,
half a mile south of Crystal Springs, since
Saturday. 1t is supposed to have been set
by careless hunters. What serious dam
age it has done, il any, we have not been
able to learn Napa Register, July 18th.
DIR. Crocker, of Geyserville, on Monday
last, while trying to control vicious
horse, was attacked by the animal, knocked
down and stamped on, struck, kicked and
bruised badly, had one leg badly broken,
and was only rescued after half hours
hard contest.
Contra Costa Gazette, The thrashers
from the north side of the bay who begun
to pass this way some weeks ago, heading
towards the San joaquin valley, are al
ready returning in numbers with their ma
chinery, and report having found prices
low and but very few thrashing jobs to be
had.
A Chinaman was killed in mine at
Browns Valley last Friday. The caving
in of mass of earth in a tunnel in which
he was working buried him completely out
of sight and smothered him to death. The
claim was owned and worked by Chinese.
His fellow workmen all ran ont of the tun-
mel when the accident happened, and an
hour passed before they dug the body out.
The frame of the new boat for the Mar
tinez and Benicia ferry is now partially
planked, the deck and guard beams and
carlins laid in place, and the building work
progressing at rate which indicates that
she will be ready within few weeks for
launching, and will make buoyant and
substantial craft for the service in which
she is to be employed.
Bodie boys, aged from 10 to Is years.
assemble daily IN an old cabin of that
town and engage in playing faro. They
have complete "lay-out," and conduct
their game according to rule. hose who
have seen the boys around the table say
that the players, dealer, case-keeper and
"lookou." go through the performance
with all the skill and coolness of old
gamblers.
OF Fresno county statistics, from the
Assessors books for the current fiscal year
is cleaned the following Total value OF
real estate, S6.75S, OIL; personal property,
Sl,975. SO; all property, SS,733, al.
Grape vines bearing, 1000 acres; number
of fruit trees, 81, ,466; cattle, 81, G29 ::
sheep, 637, 1863 /; horses, {, 237. The total
property assessed last year footed up ST.
SIS, lS9. Increase during the year, 81, 1885,
552.
Towards surveyors are now operating
in the vicinity Of Coles (Cal.l, having
passed the State line on the 9th inst,
about one mile east of the stage road.
They expect to reach the klamath in about
four days, when they will retrace their
steps and commence surveying toward the
Rogue river. From what we can gather
we think the route now being run will ne.
cessitate tunnel through the Ssk yous
three-fourths of mile in length, piercing
the mountain about 400 feet below the
lowest place in the pass. L Ashland (Or.l
Tidings.
On Thursday, at Browns station. New,
a freight train broke in two parts and the
rear portion ran back on the down grade
for several miles. Another train, the
officers of which were unaware OF the ac-
cident, came flying along and dashed into
the retreating cars. A caboose was crushed
into kindling wood, and several freight
cars containing tea were disabled. This
was bonapzl for the Piutes, who assem-
bled in large numbers and gathered up the
tea, which had been scattered about The
Indians are as fond of the cheerful bower.
age as the Chinese are.
The losses by the recent fire at Oakland
amounted to $50, 900, as follows Wash
ington Hall and the stores below, owned
by Hiram Tubbs, $4,000; the stables,
owned by the railroad company, with
barns, hay, several sets of harness, etc.,
IS, 900 the two stores occupied by Wilson,
the butcher, and Kirk & Co., ironmongers,
s., 900 stable and barn owned by DR..
Fine, about $500 stables, barn aud con-
tents, owned by Mr.. Crouch and Mr.. East
land, So 600 contents of stores owned by
W. C. Mason & Co., 81, 500; damage to
goods by removal, etc., two horses, two
wagons, harness and stock in meat market,
owned by Wilson. 500 contents of saloon
and laundry, 500 damage to goods by
breakage in ironmongery store, $500
laundry losses, $500.
Mr.. Foster, who has quite thrifty vine-
yard in the lower foothills, near the old
Whisky Diggings, some miles northeast of
Lincoln, makes quality of raisins which
are said to equal the best London layers,
and we understand he finds the business
quite profitable. He sold very recently to
Adams, McNeill & Co., wholesale grocers
of Sacramento, some five tons of raisins,
receiving for those made from the Muscat
grape at the rate of twelve and half cents
per pound, and for those made of the Mall
aga grape at the rate of nine cents per
pound. That there is demand for all the
good raisins that California vineyardists
can make, is evident, and that it pays to
grow grapes for raisins is equally certain.
The grape does better no where than on
the soil of the lower Placer county foot
hills, and no where can land suitable for
the grape be purchased cheaper than
here. Placer Herald.
A romance told by the Los Angeles COM
mercial. Our enterprising citizen, Hora.
tio Marteen, the boss scourer, dyer, and
dealer in junk, is indignant at the Legisla-
ture of California for framing a law forbid