Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-14
COAST AND STATE NEWS.

Disheartened pilgrims are arriving at
Eureka, New, on every stage from Cherry
Greek.
After this date all boys under eighteen
found in the streets Of Gridley after
in the town Jail.
A correspondent of the Napa Register,
writing from Yountville, says g that If the
Vallejo base. ballists want a good waxing
to send for the Yountville CLUB"
The Supervisors of Napa county this
week will pay about 81 600 of the bonded
debt of Napa county. This is the first pay
ment since the bonds were issued.
The Tehama Tocsin thinks the cold
weather has caused the grain to strike
deeper root and to stool out, insuring
better stand of wheat, and less straw.
The Board of Trustees of Coluss has re-
duced the salaries of the town officers.
The Sun thinks the reduction is not suffi-
cient, and gives notice that it will contend
for further reduction.
A party of young men left Dixon Thurs.
day morning for Washington Territory.
Their first stopping place will be at Seattle,
from which point they will proceed in any
direction from which they may hear the
most favorable reports.
A gentlemen just returned from Mexico
tells US that he had the pleasure of meet
ing our defaulting Tax Collector, A. ].
Hamilton, while there. His many friends
in this city will be rejoiced to learn that
he is in excellent health and making money
rapidly. Enterprise and perseverance are
houp1 10 win III ApOpies Eypraes
The sea serpent has been seen again, this
time by two gentlemen of San Diego, who
aver that they were duly sober, and saw
an enormous snake thrust it's head out of
the water near shore and swim seaward,
toward Point Lima About twenty feet
of its body could be seen above the water.
Its body was about three feet in girth.
Last Saturday evening the residents of
French Camp reorganized their literary
society by electipg J. Edmund Brown,
President; P. Blankenship, Vice Presi-
dent; w. Matthews, Scribe j, w. Gill,
Sergeant.at-Arm The society started Oft
with from fifteen to twenty members, and
will hold its regular meetings on Tuesday
evening of each week.
A large purchaser of sheep from the up
per country has an extensive band of them
eking out a bare subsistence on the land
fringing the river above and below the east
Los Angeles bridge. Some of them look
very weak, and none of them very strong.
But they are handy to water, and that
with the few blades of grass they can find
along the banks of the river serves to keep
life in them. Los Angeles Express.
w. D. Rugbee this morning exhibited to
the Board of Supervisors some twigs from
the Chinese ailantus and cork. bark elms
srowing in Courthouse square. The twigs
were covered with scale-bugs, the elms be-
ing very badly affected. Mr.. Bugbee
gives it as his opinion that the scale came
originally from the ailantus trees. The
Board promised to look into the matter
with view of making the bugs sick some
time or her.-[Ssocktons Mail.
The Reno Journal says 1t is reported
that oman named Rely shot man by
the name of Dinwiddie at the Long Valley
Junction last Saturday. Dinwiddie went
to the house OF Mrs. Rely, and began
abusing her brother who was present Mrs.
Rely told Dinwiddie to go away, when he
turned his abuse on her. Mrs. Reilly
grabbed a shotgun and Dinwiddie retreated,
still keeping up his abuse. The woman
fred at him and filed him pretty full of
bird shot, with which the gun was loaded.
He was not hurt seriously, and the sympa.
thy is all with the woman.
The breeding season opened at Palo Alto
on last Tuesday. Some eightY.five blooded
colts were raised last year, and third
more mares are listed. February is chosen
to begin with, 30 that the colts foaled
eleven months after can be named for the
racing events that fill in January. General
Benton and Electioneer are to propagate
the trotting track Shannon by Monday,
and Flood by Norfolk, the runners. From
the male parent the progeny derive their
external and bony structure, shape and
gait usually from the female, the internal
parts, the vital organs, the constitution
temperament and habits.
The Winnemucca Siirer State says The
intense cold weather which set in about
the middle of January, and which has con-
tinued uninterruptedly since then, with
the exception of one or two nights, Is un.
precedented in the history of Humboldt
county. With enc exception, we believe,
there is no record OF the mercury going be-
low zero after the 20sh of January until
this year. The wind, which generally blows
from the southwest, seems to have swung
clear around the circle and settle in the
northeast, from which direction it blows
nightly almost sharp enough to penetrate
buffalo robe. The ice on the sloughs
along the river is said TO be fifteen inches
thick, and nightly increasing In thickness.
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