Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-14
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

San Diego has had a case OF hydropho.
bia.
Revival meetings are being held at TEN.
escal.
Los Angeles is to have citrus fair next
March.
Tenement houses are greatly in demand
in Benicia.
Kern county has just produced its first
perfect oranges.
Tan and lottery games flourish at Oak.
land unrestrained.
Diphtheria is prevalent among the chill
dren at Haywards.
Corn product Of Los Angeles county fol
1850, 500, 900 bushels.
A fourth death from small pox is re.
ported from Calistoga.
Bears are disagreeably numerous on Dry
creek, Sonoma county.
Hay is now selling IN San Juan county,
Colorado, at $500 per ton.
The grass is now better in Sonoma county
than it was in March last
Gum trees in the vicinity of Santa Rosa
have been killed by the frost.
The recent smallpox cases have cost
Amador county about $1,000.
The C. P. R. r. has built a new depot
building at Clipper Gap station.
An occasional case of smallpox is still
being developed in Virginia City.
Oregon shipped to England last year
wheat to the value of S6,0O0,00
Martinez Is happy with the bright pros
pect for fruit and salmon canuery.
Over 1000 boxes of fine winter apples
were grown in Lassen county last year.
The early-sown wheat and grass lands
throughout the State never looked better
than to-day.
Snow is twenty feet deep on the summit,
above Butte Meadows, on the Chico ana
Prattsville road.
A project is on foot to have all California
Old Fellows meet at San Jose on the 26th
day of April next.
The County Clerk of Placer county
issued only sixty marriage licenses for the
year lSS0-leap year.
At Fort Benton, w. T., during the last
week of December, the Thermometer regis.
tered as low as so below zero.
The total Indebtedness of San Benito
county January l, 1881, was $456, 3S7 %.
OF this amount S369,065 go are in bonds.
The practice of driving wild cattle
through the Castroville streets nearly
proved the death of several children last
week.
a railroad is proposed from Truclee, via
Sierra and Mohawk valleys, to Quincy,
Plumas county. The people promise their
support.
The Land Office at Walla Walla is be-
sieged by applicants for the purchase of
Northern Pacific Railroad lands at 81 60
per acre.
Some of the Oregonians are groaning be-
cause half breed Indians are not eligible to
citizenship, according to a recent decision
of the Courts there.
Rails are now laid to Red Bluff, thirty
miles from Ainsworth, in Spokane county,
W. T., and track-laying is progressing at
the rate OF mile each day.
The Cdlistogian says that parties there
are contracting for grapes for the next ten
years at S25 per ton each year, and some
such contracts have been made.
Daring the late storm the new straw
levees built by Guthrie and other farmers
in fremont township, Solano county, were
severely tried, but stood the test.
Kiickitat county, w. T., looks hope
fully to the future. All she needs is pop
ulation, and thirty -one marriages were SOL
emnized last year within her boundaries.
The Carson Times, speaking of the test
in photography at the teachers examina-
ton in Virginia City, says the words are
SO simple that even legislator might spell
them.
In Wyoming last year there was driven
past Silver City 365, 900 head of cattle and
100, 900 head OF sheep. The country was
alive for width OF fifteen miles with herds
going east.
The Nevada papers do not favor the
erection of an asylum for the insane in that
State to cost $500. 600 but they all insist
that building of moderate size and cost is
absolutely required.
A trout last week was caught in Tahoe
weighing twenty five pounds. The largest
fish ever taken from the lake weighed
twenty six pounds, and was sent as pres
ent to General Grant.
Near Modesto good blowing teams are in
demand. Within the last two weeks a
large number of teams have been brought
in from the foothills and the black lands,
but the supply is not equal to the demand.
A Virginia City minister has sent for
Moody and Sankey, but they decline to
visit the Comstock /; and now the sinners
of that locality console themselves and
each other with the remark that these
evangelical circus men are evidently
afraid to submit their claims for popularity
before a level-headed community like
this"