Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-10
COAST AND STATE.

The Fourth was celebrated by the people
summering at Etns Springs.
Feed for stock in the mountains of Mer-
ced is reported as being very poor.
The Los Angeles Times urges the estab-
lishment of public swimming baths there.
The railroad company expects cargo or
two of steel rails at South Vallejo shortly.
One sheep owner in Utah has lost 200
lambs this spring by eagles carrying them
off.
The five sawr1ills at Guerneville are run
ming steadily, and the great redwoods are
rapidly passing away.
Another 900 barrels of flour, gone to
feed the people of the old world, were sent
from the City Mills of Santa Rosa last
week to China.
A boy at Big Meadows the other day
started to get big haul of fish by stunning
them with a dynamite cartridge. The
cartridge exploded before it left his hand.
The funeral took place Tuesday.
As usual our county, Notwithstanding
the limited amount of rain last winter, is
giving to the farmer and gardener full
crops of grain and vegetables. Rain or no
rain. LAKE uCFCl ouOlG IL uCi
crops.-[ Lower Lake Bulletin.
The tight rope performer of McCue's cir.
Gus fell to the ground, some twenty feet,
while performing at Fort Jones. The acct
dent was caused by one end of the rope
breaking from its fastening. The per.
former sustained broken leg and some
severe bruises.
The Blue Tent Company in Nevada
county are following the example of the
North Bloomfield Company by building a
large dam to check the debris from their
NINE The farmers have damned the de.
bris for long time, and now the miners
are daming them also.
A boy down in Chapmantown has a billy
goat that can kick as hard as a Queen
Anne musket. This morning calf took
| after the goat and chased him several
blocks, when his goatship finally became
tired and stopped. As the calf came in
reach the goat lifted his hind legs and
planted them between the eyes of the
young heifer, killing her instantly. 1t is
now proven that the goat has terrific force
at both ends.-[Chico Record, July Sth.
On July 4th, V. VIM, who lives short
distance from Grass Valley, became sud.
| denly i'll Immediately after drinking some
| cows milk. 1t was soon ascertained that
| the animal from which the milk was taken
had been poisoned, and strychnine was
supposed to be the drug used. The family
of Joseph McCauley, of Boston Ravine,
drank some of the milk, and were taken
sick, but not seriously. Mr.. VIM is i'm
proving, but for a time he was in a very
| critical condition
As the greater portion of the wheat IL
Yolo county has been already headed, and
thrashing is well under way, the size and
quality of the crop can be estimated with
some degree of certainty. From all parts
of the country we hear of large yields and
plump wheat The adobe land in the Will
low Slough district has probably made the
best average, and many pieces of wheat are
turning out from forty to fifty bushels te
the acre. Mr.. Kincheloe, who lives five
miles northwest of Woodland, has finished
thrashing and his crop has averaged twenty
sacks to the acre. The crop in Hungry
| Hollow was better than usual this year,
and in Capay Valley the result is the same.
| The crop of Yolo county will be consider
| ably in excess of what it was last year
Competent judges place it at $4,000 tons.
THE Santa Cruz Couier.Hem says
The spirit of precaution was not strong
enough to secure the railing of the FELTON,
grade, and now the demand has been en-.
forced by the horrors of catastrophe.
Probably no stranger over passed over this
road without wondering that its precipi.
tous side was not protected by railing,
and with timid ones this has developed
into fear. All considerations of economy
sink into insigniicance when compared
with human life. Four hundred dollars
expended for railing on the FELTON, grade
would have saved four human lives last
week. Common law makes the county
liable for damages for accidents caused by
defective bridges, and the county ought
to be responsible for the damage to life
and property on such grade as this,
when it neglects to provide the proper
safeguards. The voice of the people now
is that the FELTON, grade should be guarded
by substantial railing at all exposed
points, and if it is not done, public senti.
ment will hold those in authority as
morally responsible for future disasters that
railing would prevent.