Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-28
COAST AND STATE.

Temperance revival meetings are being
held with great success in Grass Valley.
The farmers at Gridley are feeding
ground corn to hogs, they being unable to
give chem barley on account of the high
rates a. which the latter is selling.
..stand and deliver" is becoming a
very familiar greeting IN the northern
counties. The business of stage-robbing IS
looking up, as the stock sharps would say.
At Governor Stanfords place, at Menlo
Park, 200 men are employed, principally
in taking care OF the 500 horses. There is
a mill to grind feed, and mile track, on
which some of them are being trained.
The recent cold snap, says the Times
Rerie,c OF Friday, has driven the deer
down from the mountains into the valleys.
Yesterday gentleman counted twenty
eight in one drove between here and Rock
creek.
Why are you 80 late ?" asked one of
the teachers in the Chico Grammar school
of little girl last Friday. She hung her
head and said eve have baby at home. :"
"Don't lee it happen again. said the
teacher, savagely, and the little girl said
she would not, aud took her seat.
AS zephyr was passing over, about 2
o'clock this afternoon, says the Austin
Reueille of Thursday, an Indian reported a
squaw on the mountain west of town being
picked up by the breeze and taken in the
air distance of five hundred feet, and
when found, wonderful to relate, she had
sustained no other damage than few
scratches on her forehead.
The San Jose Mercury, remarking on
silk manufacturing in California, says !:
The Pacific Silk Manufacturing Company
set their weaving apparatus in motion one
day last week, and turned out their first
web OF fabric-a piece of six or eight yards
Of the best quality of black silk. They
have as yet but one loom put up. Other
looms have been ordered from the East,
and will soon arrive. There were none to
be had on this coast.
The farmers about Maxwell, Colusa
county, met few days ago and resolved
to bore a community or stock artesian
well. The Willows Journal says: The
plan Of operation determined upon is that
after the necessary amount of money shall
be raised by subscription, the committee
are to determine the location of the well
by advertising for bids. The party or
parties that will pay the most money for
the well after it may be bored, provided it
discharges not less than 500 gallons per
hour, can have the well bored where he or
they shall designate, provided it is within
the above bounds. The money paid for
the well, together with whatever may re-
main OF the subscriptions. shall be returned
to the subscribers pro rata.
There stands in D. Frank yard one of the
most remarkable apple trees that has been
seen by any one. 1t is now ten or twelve
years old and has borne an excellent
quality of fruit of the June apple variety
for the past eight or nine years. This year
the crop was as large as usual and the
flavor of the fruit quite good. The apples
matured in July and were used as in former
years. A discovery of novel character
was made few days ago. when it was as
certained that there were fifty or sixty
apples on the top branch of the tree. The
apples are small, ill-shaped and devoid of
seeds and are as sour as the sharpest vine
gar. Will some pomologist give an explain
alton OF this freak of nature? 1t is sup
posed by some to have been caused by too
much irrigation. Let's hear from the wise
men on both these matters. Red Bluff