Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-14
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Napa Jail ia said to be haunted.
Santa Ana thinks of starting 3 Republi.
can paper.
Chambers is prevailing among the horses
Of Fresno.
Crop prospects throughout Montana are
most encouraging.
Mackay telegraphs that he will be on the
Pacific coast in few days.
Land frauds are said to have been dis
covered in Santa Cruz county.
a Truckee man and his son are married
to two sisters. Both have children.
The cornerstone of the new University
Church st Los Angelica was laid Friday.
4 certain Carsonite is having himself a
$3.50 seaI-skin overcoat built il New York.
On Tuesday, in Chico, MoIlie White was
held to answer for the murder OF Riley
Strahl.
Two Indians, who killed Chinaman at
Chilicoatin, B. c., last spring. were hanged
Friday.
DR.. G. a. Shurtleff, Superintendent of
Stockton Insane Asylum, has rendered his
resignation.
The Victoria CoIonist, referring to Pierre.
points annexation talk, calls him g suck
ling statesman.
A Board of Inquiry at Vallejo is investi.
eating charges Of irregularity againa. Fore
man Harrington.
Out of a lot of POS hogs, being driven
from Stony Creek to Colusa, last week, So
died on the plains.
William Altnow, of Otis valley. Or, was
bitten by a rattlesnake recently. IL is
thought he will recover.
The swindler who sells the rock that
prevents eoal-oil lamps from exploding has
worked SOnoma successfully.
William Whitestone, an Indian chief, has
been murdered in Washington Territory,
by William Jackson, half-breed,
The Central Pacific Railroad Company ia
erecting a water-tank at Winnemucca,
New, that will hold $1,000 gallons OF
water.
Important nickel ore discoveries have
been made in Churchill county, Nevada.
Specimens assayed yield thirty per cent.
pure nickel.
CCNSldA new JdSS6uBoI sbtAueEb VIII Db
built on Lake Tahoe this fall, and compe-
tition promises to be lively on the lake
next summer.
San Bernardipo county mas issued bonds
in the sum of $50, 600 to pay off all war
rants drawn prior to January l, 1888, re-
naming unpaid.
Red Bluff is alarmed about a man who
has been seen several times carrying dark
lantern through vacant houses and up and
down dark alleys.
The Greenville Bulletin sounds the
praises of the soil around Oroville for the
raising of currants and olives and the pro.
duction OF olive oil.
A number of fat hogs perished from the
heat the other day while being driven from
Hornitos to Merced Between thirty and
forty porkers succumbed.
Mrs. Eads, of Pomona, has a pair Of
scissors that have been in use by her
mother and heroelf seventy.six years, and
they are good scissors yet.
Dispatches from Moscow, Idaho, state
the town is infested with hard characters.
Several arrests have been made and some
parties ordered out of town.
Cider. making, says the Chico Record, is
now one of the industries of the rancho
Chico. In its composition are used apples,
waternelons, grapes and pears.
There is a poisonous weed in Gallatin
county, NJ. T., which ia death to sheep.
When they eat it they become crazy, leave
the band and run headlong into the water.
DR.. Bishop, Superintendent of the Ne
vads Insane Asylum, discharged his assist
ant Tuesday. The reason given was that
he published card in the Reno Gazette re-
hectipg on the management.
1t is stated by the Scott Valley Nelcs
that the disease which has been killing off
so many of the farmers young stock il
that neighborhood has been fairly investi-
gated and pronounced to be diphtheria in.
stead Of blsckleg.
Joshua Talbot, the oldest printer in the
State, died at Soledad, on the Mojave
desert, of heart disease, during the recent
heated term. He was known throughout
the State as Lucky Josh Talbot. He
was 20 years of age.
The Bank of Woodland on Monday ne
gotiated the largest and the best secured
loan ever made in Yolo county. The loan
was made to a syndicate of the leading cit
liens of the county, and the amount loaned
was $50, 900. which will draw interest at
the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
A Los Angeles dentist claims to have in.
vented an instrument by which, on appli-
cation, the gums of the mouth at the place
applied become numb and insensible to
pain, 80 that the teeth can be extracted
safely aud harnlessly, and without resort
ing to the dangerous anesthetics usually
employed by the profession.