Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-07
Drug store Burned
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


Bsnicia unesrthed an ivory tusk eight feet
in length the other day.
The Chinese are encroachirg upon the bust.
ness center of Portland.
Twenty men are kept at work soaring wild
geese off the Glenn ranch, in Coluss.
The Republicans carried the city election
Tuesday at Salem, and the Democrats at AL
bany, Or.
The Napa Water Company is pumping
water into the reservoir at the rate Of 10000
gallons per hour.
The people Of ST. Helena have been swim
died lately by person who claimed to be a
son Of ex,Attorney General Hamilton.
The raisin crop for the past season in the
counties OF Fresno, Los Angeles, San Diego
and San Bernardino is estimated st 123, 600
boxes.
Three men have been arrested near Ren-
ton. King county, ". t., for cutting timber
on Government land. and in default of bail
were placed in the Territorial PenitentisrY,
A Nevada man bears the imprint of
horseshoe plainly and perfectly outlined
upon his hip. He does not think il is q
birth.msrk; he thinks il came from fooling
around a mule.
A Stockton journalist calls for reform In
that lie might as we'll be told about the
price of wheat as about the character Of q
public entertainment thst costs something to
witness"
According to Warden Bsll's report, the earn
ings of the Nevada State Prison came within
S424 of covering the expense Of the institu-
tion for the month of November. The exc
penses for the month were 81, 7S5, and the
earnings S2,S71.
Judge Jenison, nesr Red Bluff, had q
stroke of paralysis, and badly-scared neigh
Dor, supposing him dead, rushed into town,
sent out q coffin snd fixed the hour for the
funeral. When the undertaken arrived with
the coffin he found the Judge recovering from
that attack, although few.daYs later he did
succumb to his infEmiEies,
The railroad company had to put wood.
passers on the big engines on the hill to help
the fremen. Ca the 1st the wood-passers
were taken off and the head brakemen on
each train ordered to do the WORK. a dozen
of them quit as soon as they got the word
from Roeklin, but Trsinmaster Ogler sup
piled their places at once, al except one man
who went back. Their pay is $50 month,
Two mice we're recently placed in q cage
with large rattlesnake al Portland, Or. The
snake seemed Indifferent to the presence of
the mice, only shaking them off when they
would run over or on him. At first the mice
were timid and fearful, but ss the days wore
away they became hungry and bold, and
commenced TO devouy 5he snake. They ate
of his rattles and then enawed hole in his
head near the eye, which killed him. The
snake was placed in alcohol snd the mice
killed.
The Grocer and Gamer, speaking of the
bass imported into the waters of California 8
few years ago, and which were placed in the
bay near Martinez, says that fish of this
variety was taken in the Bay of Monterey
recently, which weighed about seventeen
pounds and was about three feet in length,
the largest csughs on this coast previously
weighing about four pounds. The fish was
female and full Of spawn, indicating that our
va ers are favorable to +he propagation Of
this ti-h, which is extremely palatable, max
ing very desirable acquisition.