Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-03
COAST AND STATE.

Gold Hill has neither preacher nor livery
stable.
The Carson Mint will employ sixty.six
persons on November 1st.
A handsome business block is being built
on the scene of the Washington Hall fire
at East Oakland.
A rancher between Grass Valley and
Smartsville has saddle mare that he calls
False One" because she shakes him so.
a few days ago the large crop of grapes
on the ranch of ]. w. Waters, Sr.. were
put out to dry. An immense scaffold.
covering about an acre was erected. which
barely accommodated the crop. The re-
cent rains have totally ruined them.-TSan
Bernardino Index.
This rain has been regular soaker, and
would do credit to Pluvius two months
hence. Many OF our farmers, who were
not prepared for SO early rain, have been
caught mapping, and considerable hay and
grain that was not under cover will be
damaged. .-TSan Be,nardino Times.
The Tombstone (Arizona) Nugget, of the
25th ultimo says: We were informed last
evening that the position OF Governor of
the Territory had been, or would be, of.
fered to Judge Stilwell that he had zig.
nified his acceptance, and that wJudee
would be appointed to fill the vacancy
caused by his resignation from the bench.
Numbers of beavers are found on the
Humboldt and its tributaries-fice fat fell
lows, weighing from twenty-five to forty
pounds. They built dam near Mr. Shep-
herds ranch, on the South Humboldt, last
winter, turning the water out on his
meadow, irrigating it nicely but they do
not always use the same judgment in To-
eating their works.
The Dixon Tribune says: The excite
ment occasioned by the appearance of
small pox near fremont has greatly SUBJ
| sided, and there does not now appear to
exist any real danger. No new develop.
ments are reported. The attack on MIR.
Stichs' children turns out to have been
varioloid in mild form, and they are
nearly well. One case of varioloid occur
red in town, but it was kept very quiet,
and the child almost recovered before it
was generally known.
The Government is now engaged in lay.
ing telegraph line from Ashland to Fort
Klamath. A company of soldiers from the
fort are pushing the work ahead rapidly.
Fifteen of them are engaged in digging the
holes for the telegraph poles. The Office
at Ashland, which will be conducted by an
operator employed by the Government, is
located in the Ashland 7'idings building in
the center of the town, opposite the public
square. The town has got the principal
Indian trade from the Klamath Reservation.
The Nevada Transcript says that mar.
ried man of that city has received .
pamphlet from a company in Pennsylvania
which insures married people against hav-
ing babies-that is, every time a child is
born to one of the insured the company
pays all the way from LOCO to S3, coo to
the happy parents. There may be some
inducement for company of that kind TO
get members and float its stock in Nevada
City, but Grass Valley would in two years
time break any such institution that might
be formed. 1t is now in order for the Ne.
vada paper to strike back.
A phenomena as yet unexplained by any
of the several local scientists whose atten.
cality yesterday about noon. The heavens
were apparently filed with vast sea of
cobwebs that floated from cast to west, the
lower portion OF the strata being within
twenty-five feet OF the earth, and reaching
upward a distance of from three to four
hundred feet. By standing in the shade Of
building and viewing, from e certain an
gle one could see the millions upon millions
of fine threads-declared by some to be
spider. webs-swimming gracefully along
with the wind and glitteriug in the sum
light. Looking at another point of the
compass, nothing of the kind could be ob.
served. Il Nevada Transcript, November2d.