Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-08
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Lewiston, 1. T, will soon have three.
story school.house.
An association for growing forest trees
is proposed in Fresno.
Farmers find the ground TOO hard to
pillow. Rain is much needed.
An extensive ledge of gray granite has
been discovered in jackson county, Or.
H. l. Miller has burned his first kiln
of terra Gotta ware, opposite Oregon City,
Oregon.
Rich silver and gold bearing rock has
been discovered in the San Juan mount.
aims, near Gilroy.
The ship Harvester, lying at Seattle, ". |
T., is unable TO get crew, the reputation |
of the officers for cruelty is SO great.
A new steam saw and planning mill is |
being erected on Wiley Chapman's place, |
near Marshfield. C.ackamas county. Or.
It is Eaid $50, coo has been subscribed at
San Bernsrdino to induce the California |
Southern TO extend the railroad from Col.
ton to that place.
There were fifty freight teams in Pen
dleton, Or, one day last week, waiting to
start over the mountains, loaded for differ.
ent points from Grand Ronde to Idaho.
a Washoe squaw gave birth to triplets
Monday morning at Reno, New, and that
evening she got drunk and danced low
necked hornpipe all the way doBn Main
street.
The Willows Journal says it has been
informed that the private subscriptions nee
essary to insure road from Colusa to in
tersect the Northern Railroad at Williams
or Maxwell have been contributed.
Milton Parrish, while hunting last Fri
day in Yamhill county, Oregon, stub5ed
his toe ard fell, which caused the gun to
discharge shooting one of his fingers off, and
his hat, and putting several shot In his
head.
The work of raising the railroad bridge
across Feather river will not probably be
undertaken until spring, SO the railroad
people do not like TO undertake the work
until the stormy season OF high water is
passed.
When Petaluma woman was shown
picture OF Lydia Piakham, and informed
that it was a portrait of Mrs. Langtry, the
English beauty, she looked at it with
critics eye few seconds ard then replied,
"Wel, I've see as pretty women right
here in this town"
The Colusa San says: J. B. Dunnagan,
of B5rlin, has a model method of soaring
geese. He saws black pine logs and lays
them around in the field with a stick
across them. Once in while he goes out,
lays down and shoots few geese, and they
imagine that evsry pine log is man lying
in wait.
Dr.. E. T. Burnette, OF oakland, is report
ed to have foundlarge deposits of sulphur il
mountain on pasturing ranch, recently
purchased near LIS Gatos. In tuaneling
into the mountain to improve the water
supply the workmen struck the sulphur de.
post. About 9G per cent. Of sulphur is
obtained iron tie deposits.
Albert HaffenGen, of Caollaa valley, two
miles cast CT town, placed On our table yes
! terday box of most superb straw berries.
They are white, very large and OF most de.
licious flavor. Taree or four OF them will
quite ill an ordinary fruit saucer, and one
Of them makes, literally, mouth. filling
morsel.-[San Diego Union, Dec. 81.
Daring the past few months the miners
of the Comstock have formed q sort of
mutual insurance society. a number OF
men enter into an agreement by which if
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purse of $40 week and pay him until he
gets On again. Sometimes two men agree
that when one is discharged the other shall
pay him $40 week as long as he is idle.
Early Tuesday morning freight train
on the Central Pacific Railroad, near Mar
tinez, Contra Costa county, was badly
wrecked by parting in the center, and the
rear portion gaining momentum ran into
the forward portion, which had Stacked.
Thirteen cars were badly smashed, and some
I of them thrown from the track. No one,
as far as known, was injured. A train was
sent out from Oakland with men who were
engaged all day in clearing away the wreck.
The longest continuous run ever made In
any flour mill in the United States has
been accomplished by the Oregon City Or
mills, of which John Humphrey is the
head miller and J. II. Strickler the mana.
ger. The run was thirtY-two days (day
and night, the average daily grind being a
little over 800 barrels, being nearly 10000
barrels of -four without stopping. In the
East weeks continuous run is thong nj
extraordinary.
An amusing story is told of bride and
| groom who went to Corvallis, Or, TO spend
their honeymoon. In the hotel where the
couple stopped was a man suffering from
the effects OF protracted debauch, and
who had prepared and left en- the counter
in the saloon stiff desc Of laudsnum to
take before going to bed. The bridegroom
| happened in the saloon, and without look
| ing into the glass containing the opiate
| filled it with water and drank it. He had
barely strength enough to get to bed, and
in doing so frightened his bride, who was
sure he was drank because he slept SO
heavily, and she is now contemplating a
| divorce.
On the last trip of the Danish steamer
Vollmer, from Hongkong to Victoria, dur
ing severe storm which prevailed in the
China and Japan Seas, the vessel fell in
with an immense mass of floating trees and
coarse foliage, uprooted among the islands
by the heavy rains and winds. The storm
was local, extending over a circumference
not greater than a few hundred miles. The
Vollmer at the time had on board over 500
Chinese passengers, intended as laborers
upon the northern railroads, and the curl
Gus sight created great CONSERVATION among
| them. The vessel experienced much diff
Guilty in steering through the floating mass.
Three blades of her propeller were broken
off. She put into Yokohama, aud after re.
pairing proceeded on her voyage.
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