Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-22
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Counterfeit standard dollars are in circu-
ia;inn in Arizona.
The Oregon State Fair Just closed at
Salon, was failure.
Santa Clara saloons are now closed fr; m
1 to 1 o clock III the morning.
The new opera house in Calistoga will be
formally opened October 4th
\ man at Reno Las had his tongue para
lived - that he cannot eat.
The Chinese wash-houscs in Santa Bar
bara have formed a combination, and put
IN the price of washing.
OF thc $4,000 appropriated for the sup
port Of the Nevada State Prison for the
fiscal year 1881, Warden Bell calculates
to return $4,000 back into the State Treas
ury.
The water in the Carson river is so low
that it has become necessary 20 curtail the
operations at several of the mills which are
running on low grade ores from the Com
stock.
Ladies in Tacoma complain that the
public Gog-killcr exercises his calling ON
uncollared dogs wherever he finds them in
the public streets or elsewhere, making
scenes revolving TO witness.
Hiram Moore. aged -, q resident of Nara
county. cut down two trees the other day
IN four hours. one n madrone. four feet in
diameter, and the other live oak. three
feet across. His friends would like 20 see
somebody OF his years beat this.
Grlsshoppers are numerous on some
farms from five to ten miles east Of Pea
luna. They have eaten all the leaves from
the grapeyines, and on one farm apple trees
are completely girdlcd by them, they hay-
Ing entirely stripped off the bark.
From the increase Of one COW in nine
years !. 0. Batcheller, Of Salinas, has sold
beef to the value Of $3.50 killed one beef
for his own use, has had all the milk and
butter he could use, and has now ON hand
.25 head OF cattle, all the increase from that
one COW.
\ perfect opal, with movable drop in
the center. was found on the Pescadero
beach q few days ago. Several irregular
pieces with drops of water in them have
been picked NJ on the beach. but it IS be
lieyed this is the first opal of the kind ever
found there.
On Tuesday night last, according to
Salt Lake Dispatch two masked robbers
compelled the passengers on a Northern
Pacific train, rs it was going through a
tunnel, to hold up their hands, and then
robbed them Of their ydluabes. 4 horse
jockey from Salt Lake was shot through
the thigh.
The remains Of ninteen Cinnamon. who
were killed by the explosion of the boiler
of the steamer Yosemite at Rio Vista in
November, 1866, were recently dug up and
removed from the graveyard at that place
hv order of one of the six Chinese compan-
les, and sent to San Francisco to be shipped
thence to China.
Thomas PattiSon, 4 well-known citizen
of Grass Valley, came to his death on
Thursday from singular cause. lie fired
of shotgun a few days ago, holding the
gun with the butt against the upper part OF
the abdomen, and the rccoil was so severe
as to produce an injury which resulted in
inflammation of the bowels.
The Gridley HcrGld says a gentleman
coming from Butte City TO Gridlev, the
other day, saw small pond, the water of
which was more or less aritatei He in
vestigated and found the pond 10 be swarm
ing with fish OF the perch and sucker
species He killed twenty four /. less than
ten minutes with a buggy whip The
shortest measured ten inches.
! It is reported that the Northern Pacific
/ Railroad stockholders, at their annual
meeting on the 18th instant, authorized the
/ Board of Directors to enter into a lease of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany if they thought best The Oregon
| Railway and Navigation Company has sub
mitted a proposition offering to lease for
per cent. for the first year and per cent
| thereafter, and the Northern Pacific Board
| is now considering the offer