Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-03
NEWS OF THE COAST.

The new hospital at San Diego will soon
be completed.
Deer are reported scarce in the noun
tains of Siskiyou.
A large quantity of dried fruit is being
shipped from Chico.
A Post of the Grand Army of the Re-
public has been formed at San Diego.
Clinton G. Trip has laid claim to the
land in and about Santa Rosa. About 500
citizens have been summoned to appear and
answer as trespassers.
The North San Juan Times, an active,
fearless and newsy weekly paper of Ne
vada county, has entered upon the second
volume of its new series.
The Plumas, Lassen, Sierra and Modoc
Agricultural Association will hold their an-
nual fair at Greenville, commencing Octo.
Der 24th, and continue five days.
The first kiss an Oroville GIRL ever got was
through telephone Her limited expert
ence will not allow her to telephone kind is
any better than the other or not.
Some malicious scoundrel went into the
Office of the Chico Enterprise and deliber-
ately "pied a lot of standing advertise
ments and some reading matter. Seventy.
five dollars reward is offered for the appre-
hension and arrest of the culprit.
Three men in coach drawn by four
mules arrived here September 2Sth. Con-
siderable curiosity was excited in town as
to who they were and what. was their
business. It is rumored that it is portion
Of railroad surveying party.-[Alturas
I-dependent.
Freighting is very lively now between
ReddiDg and Weaverville. John Martins
corral was illed with freight wagons last
Sunday evening, and there were 81 team
horses in the stable. sThese represented
not less than 100000 pounds of freight.
The roads are now in good condition.
Trinity Journal.
At Gridley Saturday the two-year. old
son of Mrs. D. r. little was badly scalded.
The lady had tub full of hot water sit
ting in the floor, and while temporarily
absent from the room, the little fellow tod
died up to the tub, and, losing his balance,
pitched head first into the boiling hot wa
ter. He was so badly scalded that the
skin peeled off wherever the limbs were
taken hold of.
A few days since we picked from one of
our own trees double fg-a fig growing
from the bottom of another perfectly
formed. The fig first grown was large and
fully ripe, and attached to one equally
perfect but smaller and unripe. The tree
was overburdened with fruit, so much SO
that the figs were smaller than usual, but
the specimen alluded to was of large size
and OF delicious favor Russian River
| Flag.
We have read several statements in news
papers about large bunches of grapes, but
the upper Napa valley can get away with
all of them and go few pounds better.
There were picked in McEachran's Alta
vineyard, the other day, two punches of
grapes, one Of which weighed u pounds
and the other BLACK Moroccosl 81 pounds.
Each bunch was well formed, and nothing
was connected with either that was not
really part of the bunch. These fine spe-
cimens were carefully packed and sent to
Cincinnati O.-[The Calistogian.
Senator John F. Miller has been con-
missioued by the George II. Thomas Post
of the Grand Army of the Republic, of
San Francisco, to bear in person to Mrs.
Garfield, at Mentor, the resolutions Of con.
dolence adopted by the Post. The resolu-
tions were beautifully engrossed and en-
cased in silver r-embelished morocco. The
inscription reads: "To Mrs. Garfield,
widow of our late comrade, General James
A. Garfield, late President of the United
States, from George FL. Thomas Post, No.
2, G.. A. R, Department of California"
G. L. Mcintosh, Superintendent of the
warehouse at McIntosh's Landing, gives
US the following wheat figures, under date
of September 10th: Old wheat on hand in
the warehouse June l, 1881, &c, 500 sacks
new wheat received in warehouse
since June /, 1881, 46. S75 sacks
new wheat received in yard. 81, 500.
Total, l65. 175 sacks. Shipment since June
/, 1851, %, ,975 sacks. Balance On hand
September l6, 1881, l42, 2lS sacks. The
largest holders of wheat are A. Mont
gomery, 25, 600 sacks Of old wheat; Bank
OF Butte County, 10, 0O0 sacks old wheat
wheat; Sherman & Reynolds, 5000 sacks
new wheat. t.-IColusa Sun.