Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-02
CoAsrWISE MATTERS.

Yreka is suffering from malignant nea-
sles.
Chico sportsmen complain OF the scarcity
OF game.
Washington Territory has I3I insane
patients.
There were nine divorces in Storey coun-
ty, Nevada, during the past year.
The army workshops at Vallejo have re.
turned to the eight hours-a-day rule.
\ small cyclone passed the vicinity Of
Haeneme az , o'clock Monday afternoon,
The Los Angeles HeraM calls for an or
dinarc4 against throwing orange peel on
the sidewalk.
Sidney Dillon, President of the Union
Pacific Railroad and a party OF New
Workers, are at Los Angeles.
The citizens of San Diego are discussing
a project to utiliz9 the ebb and flow of the
tide INTO False Bay for a water power.
Nearly twenty miles of the projected
Napa and Lake railway has been graded,
and it is gwen out that tracklaying will be
commenced about April lst.
The Stockton MaU says that Miss Emma
French of that city was out hunting with
her brother, and while I" aiming at a goose
overhead, " accidentally shot herself in one
of the toee.
The Principal of the school at Biggs,
learning that some of the boys carried
weapons, searched them, and found pistols
on no less than ten. and each boy under II
years of age.
A fire in the wood stored in the base,
mept of the Santa Barbara public schooi
created some confusion and alarm Wednes
day, as the fire was discovered during
school hours.
The Usah Legislature has made a de.
mand on Nephi Clayton, the Territorial
Auditor, for certain statements, as he has
been reported for c2ookedness. He is a
Mormon in high standing
Chico has had case of woman vagrant,
The woman pleaded guilty, and was turned
out of the lookup, and allowed to run at
large on her own recognizlnce till time OF
sentence, no doubt with the hope that she
would run off.
Some of the Indian girls in Rancho
Chico have the following names Bessie
Big Soldier, Edna Eagle Feather, Maud
Echo Hawk, frankie Bear, Ella Man
Chief, Fannie Crow, Sarah High Pipe,
Eunice Bear Shield Lizzie Spider and Olive
Battle. - Butte Record.
Twenty-four citizens of Scales Diggings,
in Sierra county, have formed themselves
into company or association, and sent
William Mcdonald, an old settler and
practical miner, to examine the CRur
d'Alene placer mines. If satisfactory re.
ports are given, the company will leave in
the spring.
a very sudden death occurred in Truckee
Wednesday evening. Samuel Chambers, a
man well known and highly respected in
that whole section, while attending mas
ouerade ball was taken in the midst of the
assembly with fairting tit, and was at
once removed to his home, where in about
an hour he breathed his last.
The Red Bluff Sentinel says Colonel J.
E. Crooks, of Benicis, Ex-Governor George
C. Perkins. of San Francisco, and others,
have purchased large tract of land in the
vicinity of Igo, Shasta county, and are now
engaged in fencing it with bsrbed wire.
1t is the intention OF these gentlemen to 90
into the raising Of fine cattle on large
scale.
The camels that were employed in haul.
ing freight across the dry wastes OF Ari-
zoua for the Southern Pacific Railroad
now by natural increase 400 in number
have been bought by John Shirley, an
Australian sheep farmer, and arc to be
used in hauling freight across the deserts OF
Australia. He got them for $4,000
much less than a like number of csmels
would cost him If he were to transport
them from Africa.
1.-TWO hundred and twenty-seven bills
were introduced into Congress the first
days session." "Just think OF it y re-
marked Mrs. Simple; "isn't it ridiculous
These Congressman get salaries big enough,
l should think, to pay as they 20. Two
hundred and twenty sven bills For things
they got last year, OF course. For my part,
l think it's positively scsndalous. - Bos-
ton Transcript.
A relic of the middle ages still exists
and fourishes in Germany, on the banks
of the Elbe, where a colony of Flemiugs
was founded in the year 1900. The colo
nists from the very first kept to them
selves, and have never intermarried with
the Germans, among whom they live. All
their old customs have been preserved
they speak the ancient Flemish they
wear the Flemish costume OF five centuries
ago, and primogeniture is in force among
hem.