Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-04
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
BozemaD, NJ. T., is organizing an art
school.
| spiritualism is exciting the people of
Carson, New.
Experts at strengthening are in demand
st Reno, New.
Eggs are selling for 20 cents dozen
at Salt Lake.
There is an extensive Chinese hospital
at Dayton. ". I.
The mountains west of Reno, New, are
again covered with snow.
Many dogs are being killed in Chico to
avoid the payment of the tax.
Tackled Anything Society" is a de-
batting club at White Sulphur Springs
NJ. Z.
Hunters are killing coyotes along the
Tongue river. M. T., and get bounty
for their scalrs.
The steamer Eyangel has been released
by Victoria (B. c Customs officials, diff.
culties having been settled.
There is an old poIygamist living in
Bunkeryille, New, by the name of Levett,
who is the father of fifty.t children.
Coryville, the new town in Esmeralda
county, Nevada, has thirteen well-built
houses, and others in course Of construc-
ton.
A Tuscarora (Nev Indian had the doc
tors cut his arm off the other day. There
was tumor On the arm which threatened
blood poisoning.
An enraged mother in Eureka, New,
knocked one of the lady school teachers
down the other day for having spoken too
harshly to her child.
A pitch pine tree on Grant Creek, Mis-.
soula county, NJ. T., is l25 feet high,
and p feet inches in circumference five
feet from the ground.
Mrs. Al. Sterrit, aged % years, native
of Milwaukee, Wis, suicided at HALEY,
Idaho, on the l2sh instant By taking NOR.
phine. Her maiden name was Julia l..
Billy.
The body of the convict recently buried
at the Oregon Penitentiary was claimed by
the medical school, in accordance with
State laws. It was taken up and brought
to Portland.
The publication of the name of gentle.
man in a Los Angeles paper was the means
of reuniting brother and sister, who had
lived three years near each other ithout
discovering the relationship.
One hundred and fifty thousand acres
have been sown to wheat and barley in Los
Angeles, and there is a promise that the
expectation of 1850 I'll 900 tons of wheat
will be doubled, says the Herald.
By the overturning of the railroad pile.
driver near Twin Wells, W. T., last week,
William Henry was go badly injured that
he died in few hours afterward. Eli Ellis
had a foot crushed and William Woods was
scslded.
A bright youth of Reno, New, tried to
send DR.. - off to see a sick man near
Steamboat. The doctor apparently swal-
lowed the joke and asked the Joker into a
saloon to take drink, where he roped in
an emetic on him,
The Plumas National of March 18th
says We have a photograph taken in
March, 1874, showing the snow thirty-fve
feet deep in the main street Of La Porte
Now, in the same place, there is no snow,
or not enough to amount to anything, and
wagons are coming in from below without
any trouble.
E. W. Crutcher, of Reno, New, sold 200
head of horses last Friday for $50 per head,
amounting TO the nice little sum of $780,
600. The animals are graded, and will
average 900 pounds weight. They are
running on Crutcher's range in Humboldt
county, and will be rounded up and deIiv.
cred on the lst of May.
It is reported. says the Los Angeles
Times, that gentleman by the name of
Childs, who lately purchased an extensive
tract Of land near the Verduga rancho, is
about to plant the whole of it with olive
trees, and hopes in few years, if the trees
thrive, to establish an olive.oil manu-
factory near the city.
A species of acacia is growing on farm
near Virginia, New, which was brought
from Australia, and is now eight feet high.
It shows all the characteristics of the sensi
tive plant. When the sun sets its leaves
fold together and the ends of the tender
twigs coil up like a pig tail. If the twigs
are handled the leaves move uneasily for
minute or more.
r. NJ. Cochran, Superintendent OF the
Glenn ranch, feels confident of gathering
large crop OF grain this year from the Az
600 acres that have been sown. A couple
OF weeks ago, during the dry spell, when
there were poor prospects for crop, nearly
all the hands were discharged from the
ranch, but since the rains they have been
employed again by Mr.. Cochran.
Lately the sands on south beach have
shifted so as to expose the entire hull of
the schooner Hunter, wrecked on the
bar sixteen years ago. Last summer the
wreck was 30 completely covered by the
ever.shifting sands that not vestige was
to be seen above the hard, smooth beach
as the tide continued its monotonous and
ceaseless ebb and flow. Now it is prom
inent mark, looming up out of the waste of
sand several feet Yaquina or Post.
Last Saturday night, near Dayton, New,
the death of Mira. Ciarissa Jane McCul.
Tough occurred in a sad manner. The
lady was living with her daughter, whose
husband had come to Chico on Saturday
afternoon in company with man named
Snyder. During their visit here they got
intoxicated, and were in almost helpless
condition when they reached home. Upon
entering the house, the man Snyder fell
upon the floor, and was unable to get up.
Mrs. Mccullough went to his assistance, and
in lifting him up she bursted blood vessel.
The blood rushed to her head, and she
dropped to the floor and died in about four
minutes, suffering great agony. The other
lady in the house was sick in bed, and
could hardly move, but she got up and
made her way to neighbours house for as.
sistance. Mrs. Mccullough was very
large woman, weighing about $50 pounds.
She was SO years of age.