Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-02

The Town trustees OF Alameda want the
carriage way of the Webster street bridge
widened.
About $50 men, women, boys and girls
are employed at the Los Angeles cannerv
establishment.
During the year which ended June Goth.
$1,000, 600 worth of lumber and $500 GOO
worth of coal arrived at Wilmington har.
Dor.
The big engine is now making regular
trips over the Tehachipa mountain r.
readily performs the work of two ten.
wheelers.
The Afturas Jockey Club, Gays the No.
doc Independent has decided to give three
days races, to commence on Tuesday. Sep.
TENDER 9Th.
Officers of the Virginia and Truckee
Railroad say that there is no truth in the
rumor that the road is to be changed to a
narrow-gauge.
Parties have been making the ascent of
Mount Shasta lately, but the weather has
not been favorable in consequence of the
thurder-storms.
ID. w. Walker, near Cloverdale. while
saddhng vicious horse, was thrown to the
ground, and the animal kicked him. Walker
10 about sixty years old, and his injuries
place him In a very critical condition.
The Supreme Court has granted new
trial to the two Indians who murdered
Ezra DE GEama, in Amador county, year
or more ago, one of the grounds being that
the transcript shows no evidence that the
crime was committed in that county.
The thoroughbred stallion, Cardinal, died
at the ranch of Jake Cries, near San Bue.
naventura. on the 25th ult. Cardinal was
owned by Charles Clayton, of San Fran.
cisco. and was very valuable. Although
unframed, ne had trotted mile in 2:35.
The -Hodoc Independent SAYS that the
prospects for good crops are not favorable
| in Surprise valley. 1t is thought there
will be but half crop harvested. There
is still an abundance of last years grain,
and the lightness of this crop will not be
felt.
A Frenchman, living five miles from
Tucson, came to town the other day and
got drunk, then went home, shut his dog
and chickens in his cabin, to which he set
fire, and then put the muzzle of his gun
into his mouth and blew off the top of his
head.
Some specimens of what appears to be q
very fine quality of photographic stone bave
been brought to San Diego from Lower
California. The pieces are small, but as
they were found on the surface, it is
hoped the find will develop into mine of
value.
A petrifed horn, measuring three feet
/ tive inches in length, and ten inches in cir.
conference, was unearthed at the Winter
hydraulic mines in Josephine county, Ore.
gop, last week. 1t is probably an ele.
chants tusk. 1t will be sent to Professor
Condor, of the State University
Last week Indians to the number of one
thousand met near the mouth of Rock
Creek, w. T., to have what they called
their Fourth of July (which lasted several
days. 1t consisted of feasting, dancing
and horse-racing. The Umatilla, Yakima
and w arm Sprung tribes were represented,
the tirst-named getting away with nearly
all the prizes.
Blackberries by the bushel, large and
luscious, grow wild on the Mendocino
coast. AS this season whole families 90 in
colonies to gather them, journeying forty
or fifty miles and camping out. The an.
nual biackberrying up in Mendocino is an
event OF great local Importance, and is
looked forward to and enjoyed by hum
dreds of people.
Tbs Tombstone (Arizona) Republican of
July 24sh says: Byron Scoville was bitten
on the back by a centipede that crawled
into his bed last night The vermin was
about six inches long. He Immediately
scaritied the wound with a needle, and an.
piled ammonia and took whisky internally,
and feels no evil effects from the wound to.
day other than little soreness.
w. J. Heath, of Spokan county, w. T..
shows samples of two varieties of winter
wheat, the Mediterranean and Walker.
The wheat was sown September 2Sth, and
when harvested, July 18th, was five and
half feet tall, well filed, having been in no
way affected by the dry weather. Mr..
Heath thinks his yield this year will be
about forty bushels per acre, which is
pretty fair for half CROP
A Carpenteria. correspondent of the
Santa Barbara Press says Orchardists are
quite blue at the prices paid by the can.
neries this season for fruit. A leading one
says that every pound of apricots he
raised cost him two cents, and that there
Is nothing left fog profits. Two or three
years ago over 100 acres of land was bought
for the purpose OF setting out the apricot,
but the projsct ia:abandoned, the present
prices not warran ing any further outlay.
According to the Enterprise, the butchers
on the Comstock have been for some time
past retailing iadkass rabbit for spring
lamb. 1t is a we'll known fact that the
rabbits of that section are very large, and
the lambs small, So that but few Com
stockers can tell the difference when they
are dressed ready for market. As to that
matter, parties down Reese river valley
and along the Humboldt have been doing
good business all the season shipping grass
hoppers to the Co nstock for shrimps.