Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-11
COAST AND STATE NEWS,
Santa Ana is to have new bank.

IHe IseuulnS IItuepehueHC has eutefeu
upon its fifth volume.
Cattle and sheep from the mountains are
coming in in great numbers, says the Fol-
som Telegraph.
The Folsom Telegraph says the building
of the State Prison there has not benefited
that place particle as yet.
Allen Henry and Joseph Shearer have
sold the Chico race track to G. 81. Law
fence, of Greenville.
Santa Cruz expects to soon rival Mon
terey, and have hotel that viii eclipse
the del Monte, all owing to the fact that
the S. P. r. r. Company now owns most
OF the Santa Cruz beach.
The settlers upon the Upper Columbia
river, both in Oregon and Washington
Territory, are constantly agitating the mat
ter of completing the locks around the
Cascades, in order that they may have an
open highway to the ocean.
Buffalo are very plentiful this season in
the San Judith basin, Montana, and hun
tiers anticipate rich harvest. If the ami
mails be slaughtered in the future as they
were last year, but snort time will elapse
before the Yellowstone region will no
longer be home for buffalo.
The late smallpox cases at jackson Gate
and lone City cost Arnador county over
81 800, and the Supervisors did considera-
Bile cutting down at that. There are sim
liar bills for Plymouth to the amount of
$766, which have not yet been acted upon.
Smallpox is entirely too expensive to be
desirable disease to have about.
The Rereille gays that Mrs. Leland, of
Austin, New, purchased catfish, about II
inches in length, from a Chinese peddier,
brought from Sacramento in box by ex-
press, and of course was supposed to be
dead Showing signs of life, it was placed
in a pan of water, and to all appearances
it is now good for a live catfish for some
years.
A series of magnetic observations are
being made all over the coast by Captain
James Lawson, of the United States
Geodetic Survey, for the purpose of deter
mining accurately the variations of the
compass. The officer will close his labors
for the season at Port Townsend, WASH
ington Territory, in which vicinity he is
now operating.
A curious mass of insects has been dis
covered by hunters near Eugene, Oregon.
They say that every bush, tree and shrub
is completely covered, and stripped of
every vestige OF foliage, by thousands of
half long. A hunter passing along the
trail soon wears coat Of these insects, and
his gun is covered with them.
gThe Tombstone Nugget has been in
formed that the late President Garfield,
about two years since, invested in Arizona
mines, and at the time of his death was the
possessor of about | 600 shares of Silver
King stock. This Of course will revert to
Mrs. Garfield, and, at its present price,
together with its monthly dividends, is in
itself quite snug fortune.
Judge McGarvey has secured about
twenty five catfish, varying in length from
eight inches to foot, which he has planted
in Russian river near Cleveland's mill.
These fish were caught in Clear Lake and
brought here by Mr.. Woodrum, and are as
handsome specimens of blue cats as we
have ever seen, not even excepting those
our boyhood days.-[Ukiah Dispatch.
Our vineyard people are now every
where busy gathering their grapes and
hauling them to their wine presses. Octo-
Der is the great vintage month. Twoho
wagons may be seen in every direction.
laden with purple grapes. In fact hun
dreds of tons of grapes are being gathered
in this county daily And they bring very
fair price. Raising grapes at $40 ton, at
the rate that California vineyards produce,
is very profitable business. -[Los Angeles
Commercial.
The rain of last Monday morning, to the
measure of about quarter of an inch, fol
lowing that of September ODD, which gave
fraction more than that measure, gives
this season resemblance of those running
from 1858 to 1868, or whereabouts, when
we almost invariably had early fall showers
precedent to the setting in of the winter
rains in November or December while
our seasons for twelve or fifteen years past
have seldom given US the early fall show
ers.-[Coptra Costa Gazette, October Sth.
The sloop Minnie Moody, which has been
running on Lake Tahoe during the past
season, was wrecked in Crystal Bay, near
Marlette & Folsom's camp, on Monday,
October Sd. The wind was blowing fear
fully at the time, and she broke both ca
bles and went ashore. The sloop was laden
with merchandise for Marlette & Folsom,
and the cargo was nearly all lost. Captain
James Powell, in command, was the only
person aboard at the time of the wreck, and
he escaped without injury. He lost, how
ever, $50 in coin.
On Sunday morning, October I'd, Lewis
dead near the barn on the ranch of Mr..
NTor.a1ool fo,,- Ttlnulo,,
ira Costa county, and the jury of inquest
held by Coroner Guy found the probable
cause Of death TO have been an epileptic
fit. The deceased, who was man some
what advanced in years and formerly a
musical band master, had been working a
week or more for Mr.. Morseh cad, picking
grapes. He slept in a cabin on the premises,
and is supposed, On feeling unwell, to have
gotten up to go to the house for assistance,
and fell in the fatal fit while on the way
there.
At the rate at which the redwood has
been and is being removed from the Santa
Cruz mountains, this side of the Aptos and
Santa Clara divides, it will not be long be-
fore the mountains within sight of town
will be as well cleared of redwood as are
the Chittenden hills to-day. When that
time comes the sawmills will close down,
the large working force now employed by
the W. NJ. & L. Company will be discharged
and will hunt new numbering districts, and
marked decrease viii, we fear, be felt in
the total amount of bunsiness annually
done in the town. AT the present rate it
will not be more than five or six years be-
fore the redwood belt of this section will
be thing of the past, as far as numbering
on the present scale is concerned. I Wat.
sonville Pajaronian.