Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-25

Total, pounds. 5,72S, 500
SACRAMENnO
Total, pounds. 2279, 4a0 Grand total. :. 10 ss51
COAST AND STATE.

In the case of Kirkendall, for killing
Miss Morse in Amador county some time
since, the jury brought in verdict o.
manslaughter, after being out all night.
1t is reported that paint mine, com
prising five different colors, has been dis
covered near Los Angeles. An extensive
lode of gypsum has also been found in thai
vicinity.
The Central Pacific Railroad is about tt
erect new machine shops at Wadsworth
New. The buildings will be extensive
and are to be located on the opposite side
of the river from town.
Last week the engines used in thrashins
on the ranch of Charles Hansen, Tulart
county, set fire to the stubble surrounding
it. reached large stack OF wheat and de.
stroyed about coo sacks.
Recently calf belonging to Joe North,
on South Coos river, Oregon, died Of muir.
rain. In skinning the animal North got
poisoned in the left arm, and came near
losing his life in consequence.
Swarms of crickets are now raiding upon
Sprague river valley, Oregon. They de.
stroy grain and vegetables where found, and
the dinner table or crawl on the beds.
Bears are reported to be more numerous
than known for number of years in the
spurs and ridges running out from St.
Helena Mountain. They seem to have
migrated from the mountain wilds to the
northward.
A farmer living on the Duarte, near Los
Angeles, brings to town apricots some of
which will run three to the pound. The
trees are five years old. He has sold his
crop to cannery, and the yield nets him
1855 to the acre.
Camas Prairie idaho crops are reported
to be in splendid condition. The same is
true with many fields in Genesee and Pot.
latch sections, and in some portions of the
northern part of the county, while some
spring -sown grain will be very light indeed.
The sawmill at Jefferson, Marion county,
Orr, owned by w. 7. Rigdon and Mr..
Thompson, was entirely consumed by fire
on the night of the 10Th. Loss, about "a, !.
600. The fire was discovered about mid.
night, and was evidently the work of an
incendiary.
A boarding house keeper in Red Bluff
Since.
but when she went to kill them one was
missing. Two weeks afterward the lost
fowl, still alive and hearty, was found
tightly wedged in piece of stovepipe that
lay in the yard.
Besides paying all his expenses for med
ical treatment, etc., the people of St.
Helena and Rutherford have raised over
$500 for the purpose of establishing in bus
mess F. Dickinson, who had his hand shot
off by the premature explosion of cannon
on the Fourth of July.
NJ. A Ballard, young man working on
a sheep ranch near Mound valley, Elko
county, New, had an attack of toothsche
and suffered great pain. The nerve ulcer.
ated, and affected the entire lower jaw.
Blood poisoning had set in, and the young
man died in few days.
A pretty whirlwind appeared in street
at Red Bluff the other day, and after some
circling around entered the door of store
and waltzed through the building. In try.
ing to make its exit through another door
it slammed it 60 hard against the frame as
to completely shatter the thick plate glass,
valued at S715.
1t is reported that crickets are making
cad havoc with crops Of all kinds in the
Alturas country. Every thing green in
the shape of growing vegetation has been
destroyed, and many farmers have had
their crops eaten up by these travelling
marauders. The people in that region are
badly discouraged.
A Virginia City livery stable keeper owns
a horse which has five distinct and WELL
formed hoofs The extra hoof is on the
left hind leg, and is somewhat smaller than
the Others The animal is very bright,
handsome aad perfect in every respect, ex-
cept that it has one more foot than nature
usually provides.
The Redding independent says: ga
party, to consist of some of the most dis.
tinguished professional people of Redding,
will probably be made up in few weeks
for visit to Mount Shasta. They earn
estly covet the privilege of playing game
OF croquet on the summit of the old mon
arch" No doubt there will be many in
this county DESTROYS of joining in SIM! Ar
expedition. The best time to mako the
ascent is about the middle or last of An.
gust, when the weather is clear in that
section.
Says the Lassen Advocate. Fires and
smoke can be seen for miles down the north
side of the valley, occasioned bv the ranob.
ers burning the sagebrush, by which mean,
the crickets are turned or held in cbooI-
somewhat, and thousands are also burned
to death. What the outcome of this in.
vasion will be is hard to predict, as it is evi
dent that we are as yet only contending