Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-03
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Tehama county employs ffty-nine teachers.
Snow Is piling up in the SiskiyOu noun
tains.
Victoria is to have two more electric
towers.
Cotsford is in good form to meet Lee at
Victoria.
Seattle talks of placing the liquor license
at 81, 600.
n. E. Judd was drowned in a irrigatiDg
ditch st MADEIRA.
The Tuolumne is SO low that salmon have
ceased running in.
Los Angeles issued fifteen marriage licenses
in two days last week.
A wild deer dashed through the main street
Of Elko, New, the other day.
Samuel Fifeld died at Salt Lake Sunday
it ia supposed from blood poisoning.
An interesting meeting of the Napa grape
growers was held st NapA Saturday.
It ia thought the rustler element in Ari-
iona is endeavoring to originate trouble with
the Mexicans.
All the clocks and watches of Helena, NJ,
T., have been set forward to conform to
mountain time.
A railrosd hand was shot at Yreks Satur-
utys "Iil6 SIIVJlhB VIC hOAue9S VIII hAS
companions in a saloon.
Judge Raleigh Stott, of the Fourth Judi
cial Districs of Oregon, resigned, and Gov
ernor bloody has appointed Seneca Smith
to fill the vacancy.
Fred PAUL, bov about 10 has been sr.
rested at Virginia City New, for forging the
name Of Mrs. Grey, widow of George Grey.
an old-time stage-driver.
boo
placing him so that be can snap vt dough
nuts tied on g string held on level with his
mouth, the thing being agitated by friend,
is a new holiday game in some localities.
The contractors on the Siskiyou tupnel of
the Oregon and California Railway extension
are progressing very rapidly. During Dec9m.
Der 430 feet Of the tunnel was bored and tim
bered. This Is the largest months work ever
accomplished.
John Taylor, in q sermon st kaysville, L.
T., on December 9th, said Shall the uext
Legislature pass law prescribing polYgamY p?
| say no 10 such thought ever enters my
head. Shall we forsake our God? No,
never : we want no towards in our ranks.
We will stick by our principles"
The bridge over the Sacramento river at
Red Bluff has been christened the Cen
tennisl Free Bridge" owing to the fact that
II was hullt IN 1910, JDe centennial 9e9r, IL
is said to be the longest bridge that spans the
Sacramento in the State. Its length is 500
feet, which is divided into five spans and one
approach. It is built on the Howe truss
principle.
A terrible accident happened at Park-street
crossing. Alameda, Monday morning. Jas.
Dolan, 8 brakeman on freight train bound
for Livermore, in jumping from the roof of
one car to another missed his footing and fell
between two of the forward cars. The bal
ance of the train passed over his body st the
hips, crushing them in a fearful manner,
literally tearing the flesh from the bones and
strewiug the intestines along the track. De-
ceased was native of New York, aged %
years and unmarried.
We are informed that veritable volcano
of dininutiye form has broken out in q
mountain about twelve miles south of this
place. Indications show that the interior of
the mountain is largely composed of asphalt
um, which by some means has become ignited.
Large assures have opened on the hillside and
the underb-ush set on FIRE from the fsmes
that issue therefrom. If there proves to be
sufficient asphaltuIn to feed the fire, we may
| he able TO brsz of genuine volcano before
long II Santa Maria Times,