Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-04

The crickets are going for the Lassen
ranehers.
Eagle Lake, in Lnssen county IS said to
be gradually rising.
The fsvorite song of the Sierra alley
grasshopper In this wheat by ana oy'
The publication office OF the Tehama
g,ocsjn has been removed to Red Bluff,
where the paper will hereafter be issued
semi-weekly.
An old resident of Sierra Valley says he
never saw such hay crop rs they will
have this year in the southern part Of the
valley. He reports il simply immense.
The Marysville Appeal says the fruit
crop in that section is turning ont re maj k
ably well. Apricots and pears are unusu.
ally abundant, and there is a good crop of
peaches
A calf belonging to Mr.. Osborn, who
lives near Tehama, the other day, after
eating almost everything inanimate it could
get hold of, including shirts, flannel
drawers and other articles on the clothes
line, devoured twenty young turkeys.
John Commons, farm hand near Te-
hama. fell while oiliug the cylinders of
barley-crusher, the other day, and his left
hand got caught between the swiftly
revolving cylinders, crushing off all the
fingers. He had lost three fingers of his
right hand by previous accident.
The dam near the old Carson diggiugs,
in Union county, Oregon, lately broke,
turning head OF water down Anthony
creek, destroying fences, bridges, gardens
and grain. About 81, 700 worth of prop
erty has been destroyed at the town of
North Powder. The lake where the dam
was is two miles long and half mile wide.
Leonard Stebbins, of Nerd, tells the
Chico Record a story OF lady in that place
who recently set hen on thirteen eggs.
A few days later the hen was missing and
the eggs gone, a large rattlesnake being
cooled in the nest. The reptile was killed,
opened, and the thirteen eggs taken out
unbruken. They were placed under the
chickens all being lively. The Record
vouches for Mr.. Stebbins' veracity.
The Chico Enterprise of Wednesday last
says: 1.-The harvesting on the Colusa
plains is terribly discouraging, although
better than was expected six weeks ago.
The average yield, Ed. Reynolds informs
US, is in the peighborhood OF six and seven
sacks to the acre for the summer fallow.
Mr.. Reynolds says that many of the farm
ers are quite discouraged, having made
little or nothing for several years past.
The harvest on the plains is about over.
Last week Giovanni Dominica, a wood
chopper at Antelope valley, having drank
considerably, cut corn, which was troub-
ling him. so deeply as to sever a small ar
terry. He then walked to his cabin, about
fifteen miles distant, in his bare feet, and
went to bed. His partner found pool of
blood at the foot of the bed in the morning,
and awakened Dominica, but neither did
anything to stop the hemorrhage, and upon
his return at noon the partner found DOM
inico dead, having literally bled to death
from the small cut.
Three men applied to the ferryman at
Eddy's ferry, few miles from Chico, on
Thursday, to be taken across free of charge,
as they had no money. Upon being re-
fused one of them, John Rafferty,, said he
would swim across, and went up the bank
4 short distance. Shortly sfterward his
companions went to search for him, and
found where Rafferty, had waded into the
river with his boots on, but discovered no
other traces of him, except his hat floating
on the water. 1t is supposed that be was
drowned. The three left San Francisco
about two months ago, and had been work.
ing on ranch near Davisville.