Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-17
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


The poundmaster of Stockton has been
whipped twice this week
There is not vacant house in Winnie
mucca, and it is impossible to find one to
rent.
Los Angeles has sent thirty-five persons
to the Insane Asylum since the first of the
year.
There are 1.5l2 patients in the Napa In
sane Asylum, and the number is increasing
daily.
The new theater at Sonora Tuolumne
county, will be ready for opening in Feb
ruary.
The Red Bluff Sentinel says the payroll
of the Sierra Lumber Company amounts to
S100,000 per annum.
Over 15,270,000 feet of lumber and D.
557 tons of coal were shipped from Puget
Sound ports during November.
The material of the petrifed forest in
Apache county is to be utilized for table
tops and variety Of other things.
Near a dozen horses have died at Glen
Ellen, Sonoma county, within the past two
weeks, from & serious and hitherto unknown
disease.
Many Chinese cooks and laborers at
Truckee have been discharged during the
past week and their places filled at once by
white men.
In portions Of Eel Dorado county the
grasshoppers are reported to be Matching
out. and the indications are that there will
be an immense number of them.
There are several cases of scarlet fever in
Chico, and the Chronicie advises the closing
Of the schools if there should appear dan
ger of the disease gaining a firm foothold.
Governor Ross, of New Mexico, has
stirred up an intense feeling of anger and
disgust throughout the Territory by pardon
ing a notorious convict known as Red"
Mclaughlin.
Fifty thousand sheep are now in the
lower end OF Mason Valley, Nevada, some
feeding, and the others being herded in the
brush. There are probably about ten
thousand more sheep in the whole valley.
A Shoshone Indian, while in the Big
Horn region recently, found the skeletons
of a man and bear, clasped together, at
the base of a cliff from whose summit
they had evidently fallen and met death
together.
Samuel Brannan's son left Tombstone
on the 24th of October for MonteZuma, in
Sonora, Mexico, since which time no It'd
ings have been received of him, and his
idtItl ltsliS tildl nc Has iDecIl Nv
Apaches.
The Pacific Journal says that all indica-
tons at present show that oysters in the
natural bed in. all portions of Shoalwater
Bay are yearly increasing and thinks that
by next year the product will be larger
than ever.
The Santa Rosa Democrat SAYS: The
students of the Pacific Methodist College
have private boxing-school of their own
Soft gloves are used in the sparring exhibit
tons, SO that no injury can be inflicted on
one another
r. D. Berry, the hotel-keeper at Camp
Capitola, Santa Cruz county, whose sudden
departure some time since caused consid-
cradle scandal, has returned, and denies
the discreditable reports that were circu-
lated concerning him.
species of insects, bearing strong re-
semblance to black gnats, invaded the town
OF st. Helena recently, and prove a great
nuisance after dark in the vicinity of lights
They are almost as offensive as the Mon
golians, says the Times.
Last Monday General Riley, an Austin
(Nevada) celebrity, mstook the poison
known as Rough on Rats for sugar, and
ladled out several teaspoonfuls into his
coffee. The prompt appliance of remedies
saved the General from dying.
Simon Drew is the real name of the lit
tie Oakland boy who tried to burn little
Jimmy Scott for refusing to dig CLAIMS for
him. Saturday morning in the Oakland
Police Court he pleaded guilty to q charge
OF battery. Drew is an inoffensive-look-
ing, red-headed little fellow.
The trustees of the Home for Feeble
Minded Children at Santa Clara are erect
ing large two-story edifice, adjoining the
present home, to be used as a dormitory.
class-rooms, etc, the recently purchased
building being too small to accommodate
the present number OF children.
The Winnemucca Silr6r State thus gives
the aboriginal name of the Sink of the
Humboldt The Piutes call it Si-du-ca
Tove-wa- pah-ne-nit, which, Buena Vista
John says. means Club lake, so called be-
cause of the countless numbers of these
fish in the lake before the river was OBJ
structed by dams.
The nineteenth annual Convention of
the California State Teachers Association
will be held in San Jose on the 10Th, Both
and 31st. The feature of the Convention
will be the general exhibition of school
work done by pupils and the award of the
substantial premiums to those counties
making the best exhibits
Frank Tubbs, son of Hiram Tubbs, the
East Oakland millionaire, shot himself
Monday night in Oakland, at Tubbs'
Hotel, of which his father is proprietor.
The act was committed while the young
man was in fit of temporary insanity,
superinduced by brain fever with which
he has been confined for two weeks to his
bed. He shot himself about 10 o'clock and
died soon after.