Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-23
COAST AND STATE.

The Stockton Gun Club held pigeon.
shooting match on its grounds, near Stock.
ton, last Wednesday.
MERGED has fat boy who is Is years old
and kicks the beam at 2S5 pounds. The
town has hopes of his reaching 300.
Two new schooners, the Fidelity and the
Mary Dodge, were successfully launched
at Eureka, Humboldt Bay, on Sunday last
The Folsom Sportsman's Club intend to
celebrate the Fourth of July in the woods
in the vicinity of Deer creek, Ell Dorado
county.
Quail are reported to be very plentiful in
the neighborhood of Bonner Lake this year,
and hunting will doubtless be good in that
vicinity next fall.
The San Diego Union invites astonish.
ment over leaf from an Isabella grape
vine, which leaf measures four feet and a
half in circumference.
N. A. Covorrubias last week drove a
span of two horses from Los Angeles to
Santa Barbara, l03 miles, in ten hours and
three-quarters travelling time.
The wife Of Glenn Berry, of Carson, New,
who was bitten about one week ago by a
savage dog, died on Monday morning from
the effects of the injuries she received.
Mr.. Warner, San Francisco man, has
been awarded the contract to build the
new brick school house at Maxwell, Colusa
county, at $500. The lowest opposing
bid was 50, APO.
The San Francisco Canoe Club has
seven members and as many fine canoes.
William Brooks is the Commodore, and
there are few canoeists on this coast who
take more interest in the sport.
The century plant in General Jacks
nursery, Napa, has reached a hight of
about thirty feet, and will probably grow
FIVE feet higher. 1t is throwing ont its
blossom stems, which will likely be all out
and ia bloom in about a month.
A telegraph line is to be built this sum.
mer from Linkville to Lakeview and Camp
Bidwell, which will bring Yreka in tele.
graphic communication with these places,
via the branch line already extended as
far as Linkville, from Ashland, Or.
In San Francisco little boys and girls
may be seen industriously engaged in pick.
ing up the scattered cherry pits. German
druggists pay ten cents per hundred for
the kernels taken from the pits, which
they employ in making embrocations.
1t is stated that the quantity of meat
slaughtered daily for the use of Napa and
the Asylum will average about $500
pounds. Add to this the consumption of
sailed meat and fish, and that people GER
tsinly cannot be considered to be vege-
tarians.
Last Tuesday afternoon at Blair's saw:
mill, a few miles east of Sportsman's Hall,
William Rice, one of the choppers, was
killed by falling tree. The tree he had
cut lodged in another, and in getting it free
he was caught and killed. Placerville
Republican.
The committee appointed by the people
of Red Bluff to arrange for the Fourth of
July celebration in that place have decided
not to celebrate, and all preparations are
discontinued. A delegation from Chico
had engaged special cars, and expected to
participate in the celebration.
The Point of Timber section of the
county is the only one that has demon.
strated it's capacity for alfalfa growing, and
its staple pasture and hay crops. The
troublesome gopher, there as elsewhere.
has been formidable obstacle to success
in alfalfa growing; but the farmers of the
section have extirpated the pest with traps,
and feel confident of being able to COM
pletely protect themselves from its depre-
dative incursions in the future. Contra
Costa Gazette.
In Peter Teale's orchard, near Calistoga,
there is mound Of earth probably five
feet higher than the ground surrounding.
On this Mr.. Teale set an orange tree five
years ago, and also set another one about
thirty feet from the one on the mound.
The tree on the elevation of ground has
never been touched with the frost, and
thrives remarkably well, having number
of oranges on it at present. The other
tree is frequently frost bitten, is smaller
and has no fruit ON it. 1t will be noticed
that the result produced by the slight diff.
ference in location is remarkable.