Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-07
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There will be larger yield of hops in
| Lake county this year than ever before.
! Cipriano de la Cruz a 12-year-old boy,
| has been convicted Of battery in San Jose
! Court.
/ A cabbage was hurled upon the stage at
| the California Theater San Jose, Il few
! nights ago.
The experiment with steam wagons at
/ Emigrant Gap has not proved success,
| owing to the uneven grade
! A night -bloomingc cereus, measuring four
! teen inches in diameter across the face,
| blossomed in i Santa Barbara garden last
week.
| John N. Mcbride, of Fillmore, W. T..
while trying to break bronco a few days
ago was thrown heavily and died in four
hours
/ The red lights that last fall and winter
! preceded the sunrise and followed the sun
! sets have again become very fine in Los
/ Angeles.
Real estate transfers i'll Los Angeles for
the first five months of 1884 exceeded those
of the same period in 1883 by $50 IN num-
/ Der and 100000 in cash.
A young lawyer named Pond, formerly
| of Napa, has been treated to a coat of tar
and feathers by the people of Lodi, for his
cruel treatment of his family.
The Redington quicksilver mine was
sold last Saturday at Sheriil7s sale, to sat
isfy judgment against the property to
the amount of Sl4,637 10, held by John H.
Redington. Redington himself was the
highest bidder, and he took the property
in for s., 600
A meeting of Armenians. resident in
Fresno, was held recently, the object being
nr u.
Railroad Company's London agent, an op-
pOrtunity of consulting with them and
learning their views of that section as a
suitable place for European Immigrants to
settle. As a rule they all speak highly of
the county.
Quarter-milc posts says the Los Angeles
Herald, have been set on the beach for two
miles at Long Beach This makes the
| finest driving or trotting track, perhaps in
the United States The sand is so hard for
about 100 feet between the water and dry
sand that a horse in trotting over it will
not leave hoof-mark if shod with ordi-
nary shoes.
The novel sight of Il school Of sharks was
seen off Howard wharf at San Mateo Sat
urday last lowering around a schooner
moored there. They were of the dark
species, with long black fms, which showed
up above the water i'll sufficient size and
number to chill the blood Of the small
boy at the bage idea of again bathing in
the bay at that point.
Mrs. J. Cummings who resides on Eel
river, in the vicinity of Hydesviile, Hum
boldt county, when returning home from
neighbor's house. was struck in the hand
/ by stray bullet as she stood reading cir
Gus poster by the roadside The wound is
asoainful one, but ii is hoped will not prove
serious The ball was evidently a spent
bullet from some sportsman'S gun.
In blowing up a big stump on the line of
the Iona Prieta Railroad, in Santa Cruz
county last Saturday, fragment weighing
three hundred pounds was blown several
hundred yards and shattered the kitchen
of George McCrells house. The stick re-
bounding broke through the side of the
building and struck Mrs. Nc. who was
standing four or five feet distant, with force
sufficient to break both legs and throw her
violently against an adjacent building.
The Anaheim Gazette says: Some time
ago young son of W NJ McFadden put
his foot in the cogwheel OF a machine
which was being manipulated by his father,
and the result was . badly laTcera;ed toe
Another son, two weeks ago, was Dlayinc
in the vineyard while his father was top
ping vines and received blow from the
knife which nearly look q finger of. On
Monday still another son had the tine nr 8
pitchforl ran through his hand while Mr.
MeFadden was pitching lray. The bows
will learn after awhile to give their enef-
getie father q clear field wren ne i,at
work.