Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19

LUIS Obnsr Oiuo ci Oie5k ItistOfy, AIlcleut
and Modern" by Rev. W. f. Crafts " Ser
mon," By Mr.. Talmags; American Pill
grim in Palestine" by E. De- Leon, etc.
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
Seattle, w. T., has over sixty practicing
attorneys.
Fresno has blooming p@onias as large as
an ordinary saucer.
An organized band of claim jumpers is
said to exist at Alpha, w. 7.
Eleven divorce cases are pending in the
Circuit Court at Portland, Or.
The C.ozier will contest is on trial at
Stockton. The property is valued at $751;
600.
The dam across the Humboldt river at
Lovelock's, New, was washed out Monday
night.
The Guadalupe quicksilver mine in Santa
Clara county has been sold at Sheriff 8
sale for Sl25, 04S.
Harrington is the name of Few town in
the Big Bend country, twenty-five miles
north of Sprague, w. L.
The new hop acreage in Washington
Territory is Just about double the old, or
about two thousand in all.
A number of the children in Bodie are
down with the measles. Even adults are
sick with the same disease.
A white woman, a widow, living near
Half-moon Bay, was married to negro
four miles off shore last month.
The people Of Shasta have subscribed
81, 600 to be applied to building a new road
from the mouth of Middle creek.
A brother of Sullivan. the pugilist. is
reported on ranch at Tongue river, M.
T., giving sparring lessons to cowboys.
Edwin B. Haskell, editor of the Boston
Herald, has, it is stated, purchased vine
yard in Napa county and will return here
next year.
channel between that city and San Diego
| will in the future be utilized for the propa-
CATION ST sponges.
The sea.serpent, eighty feet long, head
| large as hogshead, is reported this time
to have been seen on the beach between
Santa Monica and San Pedro.
A Mexican named Escalanto whipped his
wife at Fairbanks, A. T., recently, for
criminal intimacy with Chinaman, and
was sent to jail for sixty days.
Seven carloads of hay have been shipped
last day or two, being the first hay ever
taken from that city to Portland.
George Crosby recently rode from White
Sulphur Springs to Benton, NJ. T.. die
lance of l60 miles, in forty eight hours.
The last ITO miles were made in sixteen
hours without changing his nag,
A species OF sardine is now caught in
large numbers off the San Juan coast.
About midnight they come near the shore
and are thrown out on the beach by the
breakers, where they are picked up before
the next wave carries them back.
The Mountain View Immigration Society
has been organized by colored residents of
Stockton. The Society has for its object
the bringing of negroes from the Southern
States to the Pacific coast. The men are
for farm laborers and the women for house
servants.
A new road into Cedar and Green River
Valleys, w. T., is in contemplation. This
road will be the third to terminate in
Seattle, W. T., and will be the Sound end
of the Cascades branch of the Columbia
and Puget Sound road. It's length will be
between thirty and forty miles.
A. H. Gillespie, who has charge of a
band of sheep about three miles west OF
Reno, New, says that l, 800 ewes produced
LOCO lambs during the past month. Many
more were born, but were chilled to death
during the recent bad weather. Twins,
triplets and quartets were not infrequent.
W. W. Mccoy, of Corral de TERRA, says
the Salinas IadeD, has we'll that gees dry
during the rainy season for about three
months, while In the dry season it coz
stantly fiows a stream of pure water.
Within three rods OF this spring is another
from which an abundance OF water runs
the year round.
F. Hofer, after sinking a well near
Waitsbnrg, w. T., to depth of eighty
feet, failed to get water. He then went
over the hill about eighty yards, and got
six feet of water by sinking twenty feet
He found the skeleton and antlers of o
very large deer at depth of seventy feet
under ground in his first well.
J. Berano, Mexican living at the lower
end of town, says the Bodie Free Press,
nso SOt14O OulttSAhtOS Oiae df6 dJkIaCtllG no
little attention. He keeps number of
chickens and some ducks. In March one
of his fayorite hens, Brahma. began lay.
ing eggs, some of them being unusually
| large. Berano preserved these eggs, and
when the hen wanted to set the eggs were
restored to the nest. At the expiration OF
the usual three weeks ten chickens were
Matched. leaving three eggs still in the
nest The old hen was allowed 80 keep her
seat. snd in four days more the remaining
eggs cracked open and exposed. not three
well. formed chickens, but a cross between
chickens and ducks. Thew are web.
footed and their bills are somewhat fiat.
but lot so much as genuine ducks. TIE
brood is doing nicely. Is it possible that
the hen loved one of the male ducks not
wisely but too well !?