Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-14
PAcIrIc COAST ITEMS.

The sum of $4,000 was distributed
among the navy employees at Mare Island
Wednesday
The assessment roll of Santa Cruz county
shows an increase of nearly $4,000 over
that of last year.
Over twelve. thousand head of cattle
have been driven into Arizona so far this
season from New Mexico
If the Dutch Flat Times is to be believed,
Mrs. John Fuller, of that burg lately gave
birth to seventeen-poundb boy.
The Methodist Sunday School at Gait
will give sacred concert on Saturday
evening, July 10Th, in Brewsters Hall
The Santa Cruz Sentinel says a prohibi-
ton editor at Los Gatos was as drunk as
lord on the occasion of the school election
the other day.
At a meeting of citizens Friday night in
Stockton it was decided to hold rowing
regatta, open to the State, the last of Au-
glst or the LIST of September.
Turkeys are rented in Fresno to farmers
whose fields are overTun with graSShoppers,
The turkeys are said to be good each for at
least quart of hoppers a day.
No tobacconist can sell tobacco or cigar
cites to children less than fourteen years of
age, and Sunday iquor-selling is punished
by SOS fine for each offenSe, at Walla
Walla, W. 7.
A child livingin Woodland, aged years.
which had been ailing for some time, had
recently cut from its side china doll about
two inches long, which it had swallowed
about a year since.
Edward Watierson, discharged yard
master of the Denver and Rio Grande at
Salt Lake, has been arrested for stealing
1000 pairs of ladies shoes and 5000 cigars
from delayed freight.
The Gilroy 4drocdte says; The seal
bug is upon us. Nearly every orchard is
infested Millions cover the branches of
our fruit trees, and Immediate action is
necessary to check their depredationS.
William Moore has been arrested at Salt
Lake for selling some Indians at Pleasant
Valley Junction mixture of glycerine, to-
bacco juice, turpentine and alcohol, which
he called whisky. They all got quite sick
and the chief died.
The impudence of some men is beyond
comprehension. The latest in this line is
stealing the team of Sheriff Kirby, of So
lano county, which he had left standing in
the streets of Cordelia The team was
tracked toward Benicia.
A saloon-keeper in San Jose, who was
burned out recently, has grievance. The
crowd stole and drank all the bottled beer
saved from the fire Still, he would not
have minded that so much if they had not
had the ineffable meanness to smash up
the bottles.
At II o'clock Saturday night fire broke
out in the basement of the Arlington
House, on the corner of Ninth and Wash
ington streets, Oakland, which is occupied
by Richard Meyrick as 4 bakery After an
hours work the fire was brought under
control. The Arlington House was con-
siderably damaged. 1t is kept by John
Nicoll.
The destructive army-wOrm, says the
Gait Gazette has made It's appearance in
the lone valley and is doing some damage
to vegetables and alfalfa The farmers are
digging bitches around their fields into
which the worms fall in great numbers in
their march, and are the more easily de-
stroyed or die by the heat of the sun
which they cannot endure in midday.
A. J. Raney, of Napa county, claims to
have discovered a shrub that may be put 10
good use as an antidote for poison oak On
it grows kernel resembling coffee, and it
is accordingly called the coffee plant"
BY boiling the leaves of this plant and
bathing the parts affected by the poison
oak with the tea thus made, it is claimed
that cure is obtained which no other rem
edy guarantees.
A disease reported to bear great resem-
blance to the foot and mouth disease says
the Journal, has broken out among the
cattle in some parts OF Tulare county. 1t
is reported that Miss May Dillon has sew
eral head badly affected with this disease
H. A. Price says he has found the same
trouble with some of his cows. The first
symptoms are stiffness in the shoulders and
a languid look out of the eyes; loss of APP
petite follows, then ulcers appear near the
gums and in the roof of the mouth