Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-17
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

They are to have an amateur minstrel
show in Petaluma to raise funds to buy a
town clock.
The Lakeport Bee-Democrat says /:
We've had some dam (p) chilly weather
during the past week, first thing you know.
The Calaveras Chronicle has entered
upon its thirty first volume. It is a stable,
reliable journal, and a valued news ex-
change.
The I. o. G. 7. of this State received
$50 600 the past year, expended 5000 to
lecturers and gave Sl3, 600 to the Orphans
Home at Vallejo.
The average Stanislaus girl can kill her
own pork, make her own sausage, chop
her own wood, cook her own dinner, and
run things her own way when she gets
married. Il Modesto Strawbuck.
The Sonoma Democrat Santa Rosa), one
of the oldest and most successful weekly
interior papers in the State, has entered
upon its twenty. fifth volume. 1t is newsy
journal, positive, outspoken and able.
1t is said that the cost of reporting the
Gridley. Boggs case, which was recently
tried before Judge Hundley in Oroville,
and judgment given to the defendants, is
So, 600. 1t required $50 worth Of station
cry to report it.
Last January NJ. D. Atwater placed in
an artificial pond at his place, about five
miles from MERGED, number of German
carp. At that time they were about four
inches long. Good judges estimate that
the largest of them will now weigh over
five pounds, and they are about twenty
inches in length. The growth of these fish
is very remarkable, to say the least. They
have been well fed all the time, and possess
voracious appetites. Atwater has sue.
ceeded so well with his first venture in
pisciculture that he has decided to con-
st1uct two more reservoirs this fall and
stock them with carp.
It is said that great discovery has been
made on the Mojave desert, which seems
destined to revolutionize vine-culture in
Southern California. 1t has been found
that grape cuttings, inserted in the trunk
of the cactus on the desert, grow and thrive
as vigorously as in cultivated land. This
fact is of great Importance to the people,
BY the use of chisel a man can plant a
large vineyard in day, and the vines so
planted will climb the cactus and grow
luxuriantly without cultivation or irriga.
ton. The dry hot sands of the deserts
will afford fine place for drying raisins.
In addition to grapes it has been proved
that melons, cucumbers and tomatoes will
grow from the cactus stock.
Another historic relic has been brought
forth at Pescadero in the shape of the first
United States flag ever hoisted here. Some
twenty odd years ago the citizens erected a
flagstaff and decided to have flag, which
in those days was not such an easy matter.
In order to get the blue cloth necessary,
they had to buy blue flannel shirt, and
all the work had to be done by hand. So
when it was finished the ladies felt not a
little proud of the fine appearance their
flag made. Mr.. O'Brien, the blacksmith,
was the custodian of the flag during his
lifetime, and at his death he gave it in
charge of Mrs B. Weeks, in whose posses.
sion it was till few years ago, when ii
disappeared, to again appear on the occasion
of the Garfield memorial services. That
old flag won't be lost again so long as Mrs.
Weeks hves.-[San Msteo Gazette.