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

Counterfeit standard dollars are in crcu- /
ia;ion in Arizona.
The Oregon State Fair Just closed at
Salem, was Il failure.
Santa Clara saloons are now closed from
1 to / o'clock i'll the morning.
The new opera house in Calistoga will be
formally opened October 4Jh.
4 man ut Reno las had his tongue para
lived ;, that he cannot eat
The Chinese wash-houses in Santa Bar
bara have formed a combination, and put
up the price of washing.
OF the 100000 appropriated for the sup
port of the Nevada State Prison for the
fiscal wear $50, Warden Bell calculates
to return 5000 back into the State Treas
ury.
The water in the Carson river IS so low
that il 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 dog-killer exercises his calling on
tncollared dogs wherever he finds them. in
the public streets or elsewhere making
scene, revolving 10 witness.
Hiram Moore. aged % q resident of Nara
county. cut down two trees the other day
IN four hours. one 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.
Grasshoppers are numerous on some
farms from five to ten miles east of Peta-
luna They have eaten all the leaves from
the grapevines, and on one farm apple trees
are completely girdicd by them, they hay
Ing entirely stripped of the bark.
/ From the increase of one COW in nine
! wears j. O. Batchellcr. OF Salinas has sold
beef to the value of $3.50 killed one beef
/ for his own use has had all the mill, and
/ butter he could use and has now on hand
IS head OF cattle, all the increase from that
! one COW.
\ pcrfcc; opal, with movable drop in
the center. was found on the PesCadorO
beach few days ago. Several irregular
pieces with drops of water in them have
! been picked ny on the beach. hut it Is be
lieved this is the first opal of the kind ever
found there.
On Tuesday night last, according to 4
Salt Lake dispatch, two masked robbers
/ compelled the passengers on Northern
Pacific. train. rs it was going through a
tunnel, to hold up their hands, and then
robbed them Of their vdiuables. ! 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 1SG6, were recently dug up and
removed from the graveyard at that place
by order of one of the six Chinese cpmpau-
les. and sent to san Francisco to be shipped
thence TO China.
Thomas Pattison, well-imown citizen
of Grass Valley, came to his death on
/ Thursday from q singular cause lie fired
oil y 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 10 Gridicv, the
other day, saw 4 small pond, the water Of
which was more or less a.i'utei. He in
vestigatcd and found the pond 20 he swarm
ING with fish of the perch and sucker
species He killed twcntvfOur = less than
ten minutes with buggy whip. The
shortest measured ten inches.
1t is reported that the Northern Pacific
Railroad stockholders, at their annual
meeting on the 18th instant, authorized the
Board of Directors to enter into 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 6
| per cent for the first year and I per cent.
thereafter, and the Northern Pacific Board
! is now considering the offer.