Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
COAST STATE NEWS.

Charles Gensen, aged Ga, was found dead
in his cabin near Bear valley, Mariposa
county, last week.
Says the Yreka Journal: Judge Under
hill, the Central Pacific Railroad attorney,
has been in Yreka at different times for
week past, circulating around this section,
In securing the right of way for a railroad,
and says he has received most of the land
on survey without any objection or consid-
Grafton.
The Los Angeles Express says: A local
company of this city has been very sue
cessful in the experiment of canning quail,
and proposes to try mutton next. We be-
lieve this is a new addition to the immense
number of articles now put up in cans, and
there is no reason why it should no. prove
profitable.
The California black walnut has yielded
quite heavily in this locality the present
season. They are a rich, fine mt, and the
trees will Dear in about seven years, and
are al the same time useful for shade. The
( tree, as well as the nut, however, does
better where planted in rich soil and well
watered. -[Stanislaus News.
It is matter of surprise to us that some
one has not long since taken advantage OF
the rich soil and fine climate of Stanislaus
county, so peculiarly adapted to the culture
and curing of the raisin-grape. We do not
know of one person engaged in this pleas
ant, healthful and lucrative interest, and
yet it has been demonstrated that it brings
to the producer more money to the square
acre than any industry engaged in by the
tiller of the soil on this coast Modesto
| Herald.
Sam Dodge and Jim Alec, alias Jim Far
| ley, alias Jim Edwards, were called up for
sentence Monday morning at jackson,
Amador county. Their respective counsels
moved for new trials, which were denied,
and sentence of death by hanging passed
upon them, to be executed Thursday, De-
cember Sth. An appeal will be taken to
the Supreme Court in both cases, the
ground of insufhciency of evidence being
alleged, in addition to various technical
objections.
The business of Petaluma is good
Farmers are getting fair price for their
| produce, and merchants are consequently
doing well. To give some idea of the
amount of business in the way of shipping
along the creek, we are informed that, be-
sides the regular daily steamboats,, there
are about forty sailing vessels regularly en-
gagged in carrying produce from along
Petaluma creek to San Francisco and other
points on the bay. There has been more
work for mechanics in town and surround.
| ing country this than for many years past.
[Petaluma Courier.
We are informed by gentleman who
visited National City, that the Macmillan
was the only one of the three foreign yes.
sells, loaded with railroad material, that
was discharging Yesterday. The crews of
the other two (the Connaught and Lizzie
Perry had nearly all deserted melted
thereto, it is said, by men on shore. As
slime is precious" the vessels offer So per
day for men to work, but they are holding
out for So so. Our informant says he saw
twenty men sitting in front of boarding
house, idling away their time, refusing the
liberal offer that had beenamade them.
This is about as much as many skilled me-
chanics are getting, and is certainly better
wages than most common laborers are get
ting anywhere. We venture the assertion
that many of these men, and perhaps all
of them, will be compelled to labor for
less, when this little rush of work is over.
We have always advocated paying as good
wages as the nature of the business and the
services rendered will justify, but there is
neither sense nor justice in lot of men
taking advantage of such an emergency as
this to extort higher pay for their services
than they could get under ordinary circum-
stances.-[San Diego Union.