Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-19
COAST NEWS ITEMS.

a two.pound oysser is on exhibition at
Marshfield, Coos county, Oregon.
A century plant in Mr.. Laura De Force
Gordons park at Lodi is in blossom.
Baker county, Oregon. shipped lao, 900
pounds OF wool to San Francisco the past
season.
There are reports of numerous ano val
nable strikes in the gold mines of Ell
Dorado.
Already horses are arriving at Salem,
oregon, preparatory for the coming fall
meeting.
Santa Cruz county receives the gum of
So,sI0 30 as her portion Sof the State
School fund.
At Hlllsaale, M. T., new hay is selling
for $40 ton IN the stack and 81 per ton
In the shock.
| The Cotton cannery put up 100, 600 cans
OF apricots during the season, and is new
running on peaches.
Hop pickers have begun operations in
the hop fields on the Mokelumpe river in
the vicinity of Poland.
Hay ia now rolling into the Roseburp
(Or.l market. Timothy sells at $40 and
grain hay at 81 per ton.
Freighters from Benton, NJ. T., to the
northwest territory load with goods on the
up trip and bring back coal.
Winnemucca, the old Piute Chief. has
| taken new wife. This is his seventh
wife, and he is nearly 100 years old.
j. B. Beckner, of Brooks station, Marion
county, Oregon, rhrashed $40 bushels of
wheat from ten-acre field last week.
Twenty thousand pounds of red fish
have been packed this season by fishermen
on Silver lake, Wallowa valley, Oregon.
| It is reported that 600 head of beef cat
tie on the Carr ranch, at Clear Lake, were
sold recently at $50 per head for three
year-olds and upwards.
The proposed canal from West Gallatin
to Bozeman, NJ. T., has been surveyed. It's
object Is to furnish water for irrigatipg all
the bench lands along the route.
Judge John W. Watson, one of the pio-
neers OF Pajaro valley, and out of ccmpli-
ment to whom Jacksonville was named,
died recently at Elko, Nevada.
There is a dispute over the town. site IL
ties IN Butte, NJ. T., and further work on
the public buildings will be postponed un-
til the disputed questions are settled.
Chinese railroad workers have eaten up
most of the hogs in Douglas county, Ore
gon. Pork bids fair TO be high and scarce
in the Southern Ocegonian market this fall.
The shipment of beef from Miles CITY.
M. T., this season will not fall far short of
%, coo head. The cattle are in fine condi.
tioD, the last shipment averaging over coo
pounds each.
Coal taken from the deposit recently dis.
covered near Horseshoe Bend, l. T., was
tried in Boise City. It burned splendidly,
having all the qualities of good steam,
making coal.
There were ninety-four applicants for
admission to the academic department of
the State University at the commencement
of the present term, of whom seventy
seven passed examination
The Chico Record says that a party of
Good Templars, while out fishing in Iron
canyon, saw a crimson colored snake eight
feet long and as thick as mans leg, which
was catching fish for his breakfast
The fire in the mountains about Shasta
has spread to Trinity Mountain, north and
west of the Tower Honse, for five miles.
The destruction of private property has
| already reached thousands of dollars.
j. 0'Brien, of Big Valley, Lake county,
hops, from which he will gather sos
pounds per acre. His income from his
present crop, he estimates, will be Sl4 900.
The Northern Railway is now at point
within ten miles of Tehama. 1t is thought
that the road will be completed by the 10th
of next month, and that through trains from
Redding will commence running at once
thereafter.
no q
have secured ground for two LARGE ware.
houses at Orland, Colusa county. The
warehouses are on the line of the railroad.
and they will be able to store very large
amount of grain.
The Bank of California is about to enter
upon the work of reelsming some Is 600
acres OF swamp land located on the San
Joaquin river, in MERGED county. 1t is
expected the work will be completed by
the 18th Of December next
The business of the United States Ian
Office at La Grande, Or, has increased to
such an extent that four persons are re-
CURED. There are more improvements
being made in La Grande at the present
time than at any other time during the
past year.
At Austin, New, last Sunday evening.
man who desired to bring to bear upon
an opponent a knock-down argument, fred
at him heavy lager. beer glass. He
missed his man, but his shot was by no
means wasted. He sent the glass into
the center of mirror worth $500. and
left it complete wreck
The Redding Independent says -Four
ladies bathing in Cedar Creek, who had
left their outer garments, three small chill
dren and poodle dog on the bank of the
stream, saw large-sized animal, that the
ladies supposed to be lynx, jump across
! the creek twice near them, then climb a
tree, and from limb make jump, gather
up the poodle, and was seen to 90 into a
hole under large pine stump. 1t is more
than likely that had it not been for the
dog the animal would have attacked one
of the small children. The fair batbers
stated that they took but little time in ar.
ranging their toilets, and were soon clear
from danger, though they admit tina. tEey
had lynx on the brain.
The FIRST DEAD REBEb-A dispute
having arisen over the question of who is
entitled to posthumous honors as "the first
dead Rebel" S. B. Wight. one of the staff
of the Sixteenth Georgia Regiment, affirms
that the first soldier who died in the serv.
ice of the Confederacy was an Augusta
taller in the First Georgia Volunteers.
The knight of the goose was not killed in
battle nor kicked to death by mule, but
died from the bite of garter snake. which
be had placed in his bosom as joke, sup
posing it to be of harmless nature.
whilst going around with the snake in
his bosom, writes Mr.. Wight, ga crowd
of his fellow soldiers gathered around. and
In spirit of bravado he took il out and
provoked the reptile until 1t bit him. on the
back OF his band, from which he died verv
SOON. The snake was killed, taken to An.
gusta, and preserved in alcohol. Being in
that city few months afterward. saw
the reptile, which was two feet long and
about the size of child's finger. All che
members of the First Georgia Regiment
will recollect this circumstances.