Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-24

the fallacics or that and similar preten-
sions, and dogmatism will not carry the
day as of old.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
F. E. Rubell has bought the Castroville
Argus.
The epizooty has killed some fine horses
at Pescadero.
Grasshoppers are doing mischief in
Southern Utah.
Several persons in Contra Costa county
are raising silk-worms.
Ice three inches thick formed on still
water in Vallejo on Friday night.
Cinnamon are supplying the Marysville
market with wild blackberries, which are
gathered along the Feather river.
The quarterly report of Alpine county
shows over $4,000 in the treasury, of
which the school fund has $1,000.
Numbers of campers are reported in the
upper Napa valley. The thermometer up
there reached 96o in the shade the other
day.
A trout of the Eastern breed, which
weighed % pounds, was caught in Bonner
lake few days ago. Eastern trout were
first planted in that lake in 1876.
Mrs. Slatterly of Marysville, has had
three chicks Matched in one egg. They
were too crowded to get out of the shell,
but they were all perfectly formed.
The newspapers published in Eastern
Montana claim that more cattle have been
killed at the hands of Indians than per-
ished by the cold during the past winter.
The Merchants National Bank of Den.
yer, Col, Is new financial Institution
which opened its doors to the public on
the 10Th instant, with capital of $780,
600.
Fort Benton, Montana, built over thirty
FIVE years ago, is almost a complete wreck.
The winds and storms of nearly half a GEN.
fury have warped and eaten into the
adobes.
Black gnats are an intolerable nuisance
on the plains, and on several of the roads
running out from Colusa. They try the
patience and have no respect for suffering
humanity.
From several localities in the State
comes the report that the culture of silk
worms is receiving renewed attention, and
generally with good prospects of remunera-
tive results.
The Chico Record says: "There is now
lying in the steamboat warehouse at this
place 10000 pounds of Greenville freight
awaiting teams TO transport it over the
mountains"
A party OF thirteen men have left Sun
River, Montana, for the body OF John
Brown, who killed himself accidentally. 1t
will be necessary to carry the body eight
miles to wagon.
The Purgatoire river in Colorado came
up suddenly last week, and was higher
than before for six years. a few hundred
feet OF railroad track was taken out and
trains delayed one day.
Since the first OF May, according to Gov
eminent measurement at the lower end of
Great Salt Lake, the water in the lake has
risen four inches. There will be a rise of
about a foot this spring.
The Free Press is the title of new
weekly paper, established at Yuma, A. T.,
by Samuel Purdy, Jr. Its twenty eight
columns are well filled with matter per-
tanning to the Territory.
Thirty Red River carts, accompanied by
their half-breed drivers, from the Judith
Basin, lately came to Helena, Montana,
with 600 buffalo robes, besides skins and
furs, dried meat and pemmican.
In Colusa county the joint-worm is do
ing great damage to crops. The farmers
have become much alarmed, and are
anxiously seeking information as to the
best means of destroying the worms.
The Wirnemucca New Slrer State
says It is reported that the marble noun
tain down in Table Mountain district has
been located, and that the quality of mar
BILE is not excelled in the United States.
A Mendocino county farmer reports that
he bought eggs of fancy varieties of poultry
from dealer, and finding that they would
not hatch, made an examination which re.
vealed the fact that they had been boiled.
The Stockton chain-gang is allowed to
wander loose about the streets, the ball
and chain fastened to their ankles, without
the company of the policemen. They
sometimes enter peoples premises, and the
people don't like it.
The loss on the Northern Pacific Rail-
road during the late flood ON the Hart
river, Montana, is larger than at first re-
ported. The road not only sustained loss
of twenty.seven pile bridges, but fifteen
miles of roadbed was washed away.
The Santa Barbara Press issued an eight
page edition last Saturday, which was as
full of information regarding Santa Barbara
county as an egg is of meat. The enter.
prise of the present management of the
Press is deserving of substantial success.
Manuel Ygnacio Prado, late President
of Peru, has been in Los Angeles for sew.
eral days incognito. He is accompanied
by his wife, and travels under the name OF
L. B. Murillo. He has been in Baia Cali
fornia for some time past. and is now on
his way to Mexico.
1t is said that about one fourth of San
Luis 0bispo county may be considered as
silver are found in many places in paying
pounds of chrome ore were shipped from
Port Hartford and Cayucos.
The Carson New appeal reports that
daring porcupine lately took trip down
the V fume on timber. Timber fire.
quently comes down the hume with squir-
rels upon it, and one day stick was seen
making the chute with big rattlesnake
coiled around it. The reptile was more
than astonished with the rapidity of his
travelling, and was gnashing his fangs in a
perfect rage.
The gas from the burning timbers in the
upper levels of the Con. Virginia and Cali
fornia mines is still quite noticeable, and
of evenings is disagreeable in the north
end of town. 1t is thought that come of
the old workings on the side of the hill
connect with the Con. Virginia and Cali
fornia levels, and that some Of the gases
generated by the burning timbers are es-
Gaping that way.
HEADACHE. bilious attacks. dizziness and
loss of appetite, are cured by Kidney Wort.