Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-08
STATE AND COAST NEws.

Colusa wants an agricultural fair in
| October
Amador county's assessment roll foots up
s., 924, ll9.
Boise City has building boom. There
| are eight brick buildings in course of cree.
tion, including $50. 900 school.house.
A man by the name of VIM. Archibald
was drowned in the North Fork of the
Clearwater, ". T., last week. The body
was recovered.
The Healdsburg Fldg gives the expert
ence of the owners of a large alfalfa ranch
on the Russian river. They have found it
more profitable than grain growing.
Population of Solano county, 1875;
of Benicia, l,794 of Rio Vista, Geo; of
Vallejo, 5,9S7 of Suisun and Fairfield.
which are contiguous, 97S; of Dixon, SIG.
Andy Snider is the name OF the new
steamboat on Goose Lake, and the Lake
view Herald says excursions on the lake
are talked of as soon as the boat is ready.
Red Bluff is putting in bid for the To-
cation of the Academy of the Catholic
Sisters, which is to be removed freM Yreka.
1t looks as if Red Bluff would seecre it
[Chico Enterprise.
Railroad surveyors have canped in
John Breen's grove, San Juan. for several
days. They have been surveying on the
north and south side of the San Bento
river. [Hollister Advance.
Colonel Chalmers Scott and patty of
Southern Pacific Railroad engineers are
making survey of line for railroad
from Wadsworth, Nevada, TO MoiaEe, on
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Most alfthe farmers are busy harvesting
their cropsN The yield .s not up to the
average, though as good as any of the
neighboring counties can boast of. La
borers have no need of being without EN-.
ployment, as there is plenty of work for
everybody. y.-[Castroville Argus.
Mss Alice Boston, Santa Cruz damsel
of eighteen, thinks nothing of swimming
out mile and half into the ocean and
back. Next week she is to undertake the
task of swimming from Santa Cruz to
Sequel, a distance of four miles, in com.
pany with swimmer from San Francisco.
We saw novel sight at the telephone
office the other morning, says the Chico
Enterprise. DR.. Stanbury prescribing for
II. p. Cowles' child forty miles away.
This is great country. The telephone is
now in fine working ORDER and the voice OF
the person operating can be easily distin-
guished.
Says the Los Angeles Express A mou-
ster scale-bug, which lays myriads of eggs,
has been found on the olive trees in this
part of the State. Entomologists are busy
investigating their character for the pur.
pose of devising remedy. We under
stand that this pest is particularly numer-
GUS in the olive groves of Santa Barbara.
DR.. Shurtleif, in an interview, stated in
regard to the reported hog cholera among
the swine at the Insane Asylum, that there
had been sort of epizooty among them,
but it was subsiding. The first appearance
of it was over a week ago, when six or
seven died the first day. Others had since
died, until there had been a loss of some
30 out of $50 or 200, large and small. The
disease has been attended with no symp-
toms such as mark cholera in persons.
John w. Shuford, of Trinity Center,
tells US that man who had been herding
sheep on Swift Greek left there Que day
last week to cross the mountains and has
not been heard from since, although his
horse came back into camp the following
day with the bride hung over the horn Of
the saddle. From the fact that the pistol
had been taken from the holster, it is
thought the man may have committed
suicide. Search was instituted at once but
without success at latest accounts
[Weaverville journal, August 9Th.