Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-03
AROUND THE COAST.

Truckee is rebuilding rapidly.
The Free Press calls for an ice factory at
Yuma.
At present there are but l26 prisoners
| confined in the Nevada State Prison.
The Marysville Ecening Cypress entered
upon its second volume on Wednesday.
Four bears were killed at Weber Lake
lastweek. The biggest weighed 400 pounds.
At Truckee robins are rated as game
birds at Virginia City doves are in the
same category.
The people of Willows are anxious to
enjoy all the modern conveniences of life,
and are clamoring for Jail.
The Shasta Courier has been much i'm
proved geographically by the addition of
new type for the reading matter.
Fort Bidwell has an amateur minstrel
club. 1t is composed of the best local tai
ent and said to be well managed.
A number of horses on Sprague river,
Or, have died lately, it is reported. Some
kind of fever is said to be the ailment.
The Ell Dorado county Pioneers will not
participate in any public celebration, this
year, of the admission of the State, Sep
TENDER 9th.
John Poblec has been held at Livermore
to answer for the murder of John Taylor,
his father-in- law. The examination created
intense excitement at Livermore.
There will be camp meeting held on
Umatilla river, commencing on Thursday
before the second Sunday in September.
| The camn ground &c paar Eobo L.
side of the river.
Grizzly Davis says the terror of the
mountains, the old bear Clubfoot, has been
dead at least four years. He saw his track
in 1858, and it was as big then as it was in
1876, when he saw it last.
The large bands of sheep in the noun
talns are driving the grouse away. They
destroy the nests and ruin the eggs.
Where the birds used to be thick they can
scarcely be seen at all now.
Sardine valley, which is close to Truckee,
has grasshoppers this year for the fourth
year. The ground is bare of feed and the
dairy cows have to be driven away for food.
The butter crop will be about 200 pounds
short.
The hay crop in the vicinity of Sheridan.
Jr., was at least a fourth heavier than ever
before, and was saved in good order, and
the wheat and oats is unprecedented in the
number of acres, the yield, and the quality
of the grain.
The hot earth in the vicinity of Link
vile, Or, is great curiosity. Through
this earth Is constantly ascending hot
vapor, and both earth and vapor are
strongly impregnated with remarkable
cura i've properties.
About 1000 wild goats have been killed
on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of
Santa Barbara, this season. They are hunted
for their pelts, which sell for 81 cents a
pound. 1t is estimated that there are still
about 4, 900 or the island.
The MERGED Express man thinks there is
no more reason why women and children
should become alarmed at the frequent &C.
cidents occurring from the use of coal oil
for lighting fires, and abandon it, than that
men should become frightened at the fear.
full results of whisky drinking and quit its
use.
The new Episcopal church at New Ia.
coma is to be a memorial church. G. B.
Wright, formerly President of the North
ern Pacific, and now President of the Land
Company, having given $4,000 for the
erection of the edifice. 1t is intended to
be memorial of Miss Katie eldest daugh.
ter of Mr.. Wright, who died last June, at
the age of is years. The church will be
known as st. Lukes Memorial Church.
The Elko Independent of Mondays saws
Stanley Rigsby killed bird on the Hum.
boldt, the classification of which puzzles
the heads of Elko's wisest naturalists. The
biped resembles a "hy.up- the. creek" but
is much larger, measuring from tip to tip
FIVE and half feet. The most remarkable
feature, however, is the bill, which is
nearly foot long, perfectly round, and
when closed is SO true that it is difficult to
detect the line OF division.