Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-13
COAST AND STATE NEWS.

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Three new schooners have been begun OF
the coast OF Humboldt county.
Over 400, 600 vines will be planted thi
season at Orange, Los Angeles county.
Boring for petroleum is being prosecuted
at Sargent's place on the Pajaro river.
Centreville, Alameda county, has Por
tuguese band numbering twelve performers
The total assessment of San Bernardin,
county for 1881, outside of the town, il
sos l26 81, and $40. 3l2 was collected.
Hon. A. l.. Hart has brought sui
against Jonas Spect, of Colusa, to recove
| So, 500 for legal services rendered the de
PENDANT.
Martin Mitchell, the man convicted o
perjury in the case of B. w. Taylor, wa
| sentenced by Judge Hundley, at Oroville
to serve eight years in the State Prison.
The new pumping engine for the Idah,
mine, Grass Valley, has arrived, but tn,
big crown-wheel which is to be in connec
ton with it is not yet completed, and thu
engine will not be set up until it is re
ceived.
Immense numbers of ducks and geese
have invaded Livermore valley during the
past week, the latter settling in the fields
in hocks of many hundred each. Not fol
many years have the birds appeared there
in such large numbers.
1t is said that while two sportsmen from
Visalia were fishing recently in Tulare
Lake, they caught venerable turtle,
upon the weather. worn shell of which could
be family traced the Spanish inscription,
Padre Vincente, 1897"
Saxton's mill, two miles south of Tahoe
City, has been sold to the owners of tt e
steamer Governor Stanford for firewood.
The machinery has been sold to N. Steep,
who is shipping it to San Francisco TO sell
as old iron. The mill was built in 1863 at
cost of $4,000
The wild ducks over in Colusa county,
near Orland, are making sad havoc with the
young grain. The O'Hara brothers inform
the Orland Times that they have nipped
the blades off all the wheat sprouted on
1000 acres, and are more annoying this
year than the geese.
A recent quartz location in Nevada
county, on Kate Hayes Hill, called the
new New York, is prospecting quite en-.
couragingly. At the depth of twenty feet
the ledge is one foot in width, and shows
we'll in free gold. The ledge is parallel to
and west of the Pennsylvania.
The rain and frost have knocked the
bottom out of the road between Nevada
City and San Juan, according to the
usual winter programme, and the freight
teams are now hauling their loads from the
Hrcfr nod IN ho LOT Mo ly,4h r
of Grass Valley and Bridgeport.
The Candelaria True Fsssure of Satur.
day says When the wind is blowing
lightly from the direction of Belleville the
scream of the locomotive whistle can be
plainly heard in Candelaria. 1t will be but
few short weeks, however, until it will
wake the echoes along the side of the
Northern Belle hill.
w. G. Wright, of Dixie valley, brought
in the claw of gray eagle which was
killed in that valley last week by George
Snadan. The eagle measured eight feet
from tip to tip of its wings. We sent the
claw to DR.. W. w. Light, of Sacramento,
who is skilled in taxidermy, as an addition
to his eabinet.-[Bieber Tribune.
The San Diego Union says: At the
beginning of the new year there will be
about seventy miles of track to lay to CON-
plete the connection with the Southern
Pacific at Cotton. At the rate of three
fourths of mile per day, which we are
told will be the minimum of tracklaying,
it will require 100 days to finish the read
This will extend the time until the 10th OF
April.
On W. S. Murphy's ranch, near Linden,
there was found last week mushroom OF
immense proportions, measuring is inches
in diameter, or 81 inches ia circumference.
The extreme size led to the belief at first
that it must be a toad-stool, but good
Judge of the article was convinced that it
was genuine mushroom, and it was cooked
and eaten by the family, and proved to b,
that delicious eatable.
On Thursday night twenty of the lead
ing citizens of Sonora, equipped with shot
guns and reyolvers, dressed in large black
gowns and wearing masks, made tour Of
inspection through the "Tigre," which is
the name given to the disreputable part of
the town. They went through all of the
dance-houses and houses of ill.repute. Thi:
action on the part of the citizens ha;
created an alarm among the youns
"bloods."
Notwithstanding that our usual amount
of rain has not fallen this season, our farm
ers were never better satisfied with theil
prospects. We have had no driving
storms, but rain fell gently, sinking into
the earth instead of running off and merely
raising creeks and rivers. Flowing is going
on me-rily, grass is growing finely and
stock is in an excellent condition. Never
has the outlook been more cheering thar
at present. Il Russian River Flag.
This is the 7th day of January, and the
sun shines brightly the air is balmy and
pleasant the "bare. footed boy is max.
ing "dirt pies" in front of our office
orange trees loaded with ripaning fruit are
in plain view green trees wave and bright
flowers are blooming all around us a mar.
ket wagon stands on the opposite side Of
the street, filed with cabbage, lettuce,
turnips, carrots, celery and radishes the
hills are covered with verdure farmers
are blowing, sowing and planting trees
and vines the festive strawberry is in
bloom and the editor of this paper feels
tranquil over the situation. Los Gatos
News.
a prominent man in town has wonder
full cat 1t is of the ordinary species, and
is about four years old. 1t can do many
tricks, and has an unusual amount of in.
telligence. It can open door with ease
The way it performs this feat is as follows
When it is located in room and wishes to
get out, it jumps up and takes hold of the
knob. After swinging backward and for
ward few times the power is brought to
bear on the latch, and it suddenly springs
back, and with the aid of its hind feet
the cat is enabled to push the door open.
This may appear unreasonable, but it is a
fact, and the feat may be witnessed almost
every day. This strange feline can dc
other tricks, but the one described is the
most remarkable. Il Bodie Free Press.
The Chinese dry ducks in the sun as
fishermen dry goldfish. Walking on the
levee back of the Chinese quarter one can
see ducks hanging up to dry on the sunny
side of the more opulent of the Monaghan
residences. The ducks are stripped of
feathers, split open on the under side, the
viscera removed, but the head ard. neck
left intact, and are then spread out fat.
The birds hanging up and exposed to the
gaze of the Melicans seem to have had d
preliminary soaking in pickle. Hung up
by the head the dried and hattened duck
hears n comical resemblance tn a dried