Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-25
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CloverdAle proposes to use gas.
Butter famine in Tuscsrora, New.
Hollister is to have a steam laundry.
Napa is shipping five car loads Of wine
daily.
Stockton has mystery in a veiied
woman.
A war against the eucalyptus hiss begun
in Hollister.
Red Bluff and Chico complain of their
passenger depots.
Men are being put back into the Gold
Hill New mines.
The young ladies of Cloverdale are be.
coming expert with the rifle.
In 1883 Nevada county produced S..
10000 10 gold and $4,000 IN silver.
Vae&ville has established Prohibition
Club, with forty.three members enrolled.
The losses by the floods in Los Angeles
county, it is thought, will foot up $4,000,
St. Helena wants public hall, with the
accessories necessary for public entertain
ments.
Santa Cruz has an ordinance against boys
under l6 years being allowed to smoke
cigarettes and tobacco
It is reported that the recent cold snap
has nearly ruined one Of the Truckee ss-
loon men by freezing all his whisky.
Tie First Congregational Church st Port.
land has refused to accept the resignation
OF Dr. Marvin bY vote Of siSty-hvo 20
thlteaa.
The jute mills of the San Quentin Prison
have shut down for lack OF material It is
believed that the mills viii remain closed
for some time.
A few days ago the Chinese Court inter.
prefer at Nictoris, b C., married a coun.
try woman. Thursday several Cinnamon
drove up in 3 sleigh and foroibly abducted
the woman.
Ia 1883 California produced in gold and
silver SIS, ,02S, 600. OF which amount the
five counties of Nevada, Amador Mono,
Plumas and Sierra produced over one-haf
80 ll0, coo.
The transfer of the Coos Bay Wagon
Road land grant to Captain Besse, OF the
Oregon Southern Improvement Company,
was completed Tuesday at Portland, Or,
the last payment, 5000, having been
made.
Deer have been seen in several localities
within a few miles of Grass Valley within
the last week. They seem to be aware
that they are under the protection Of the
game law, and have no present cause to
fear the bullets of the sporssmen.
The trial of Barney Finnegan, charged
with the killing of William James. at Nord,
was concluded at 0roville 1hursday after
noon, the jury bringing in a verdict of not
guilty. IL will be recolleoted that James
was mysteriously stabbed while playing a
game of cards in Finnegsn's saloon.
A tall, well. built colored man, from San
Francisco, calling himself the Black
Diamond, is now in Chico trying to ar
range a Knockout match. He offers to put
up 100 pieces of silver of the stove-lid pat
tern TO anyone who will stand before him
for the period of four rounds.
The late heavy rain.storms havs played
havoc at w. p, Hays carp ponds near
lone, AmadoT county. Since the storms
10, 900 of the finest fish have died. These
fish were in the smallest Of the three ponds,
and about half of them were large enough
for the market, averaging between one and
two pounds apiece.
George Higgins, carpenter employed
on new building being erected as Emery
Station, Alameda, fell while at work
Wednesday afternoon distance of twenty
feet. He struck on his back, and was
picked up unconscious. He was conveyed
by train to West Berkeley, where he has
family. AT latest accounts he was not ex-
pected TO recover.
Owing to the fact that to hang Francisco
Peres at Placerville on Friday, the day
fixed by the Court, his head would prob
ably be severed from his body, the Judge,
! attorneys. Sheriff and other El Dorado
county officers have joined in a petition to
the Governor asking for a respite of the
sentence for thirty days. This will, in all
probability, be granted, and the execution
fixed for the last of March.
Mount Davidson is now a grand bonanza
of snow. This snow the winds, Waiting
about the top of the mountain, pick up and
shower down upon the Just and unjust
alike. AT times this snow hurled down
in the city is moist, that on the mountain
is still dry and frozen. With gale blow
ing, though the sky be cloudless, the snow
often comes down over the town faster
than when the heavens are overcast and
every cloud is showing it's best Virginia
Enterprise.
When the First-street bridge gave way
on Sunday night, the poles that supported
the electric cable went into the river, but
so strong was the current of electricity that
the light on the east side gloYei for three
hours afterwards, and in spite of the fact
that the cable lay in the water without any
protection or insulation of any kind. AS
water is good conductor of electricity,
the phenomenon of carrying it through
water in this manner is most remarkable.
Some people thought the wire would IS set
the river afre, and were surprised that it
did not.-[Los Angeles Herald, February
Goth.