Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-09
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Portland imported q 900 dozen eggs from
Iowa last week.
San Diego is now buying large quantities
OF goods in the East.
This year Penryn has shipped 575,732
pounds of fruit East.
The Santa Cruz Powder Works will not
start IN until next spring.
The price paid for the San Diego penin-
sula is said TO be $4,000.
In and around Butte, Montana, 1000 men
are employed in the mines.
There were 167 entries at the Los Angeles
Land Office during November.
The Indians, in recent drive in the Car
son Sink, captured 400 rabbits.
The trout shipments from Wadsworth
now average 1900 pounds daily.
In St. Helena 100 days imprisonment is
the penalty for opium smoking.
Dennis Mccarthy of the Virginia Cyoni-
Gle Is dangerously i'll with dropsy.
Dressed raccoon meat is regularly kept
on sale at Cloverdale butchers stalls.
During November $122 937 so was dis
tributed among the employees by the Com
stock mining companies.
During the past eleven months thirty
five insane people have been sent to the
asylum from Los Angeles.
The Vallejo Times says that several i'm
portant changes will lake place at Mare
Island on the first of the year.
Riverside orange growers have Organized
vigilance committee, and threaten to
hang any one caught stealing their fruit
A gold nugget worth So rs was picked UP
on the main street of Auburn, Placer coun-
ty, last week, after the heavy rsin-storm.
A resident of San Diego has written a
pamphlet to prove that the earth is in
imminent danger of second deluge in
1892
There were more arrivals of Kentucky
NEGROES at Facayille last week The new
corners have already found farm employ
ment.
a nugget of nearly pure native silver,
weighing 81 pounds, was found by pros
pec,or in the mountains near Tucson re-
Gently.
An Indian near Prattville. Cal, recently,
caught with seine front that measured
thirty inches in length and weighed 14s
pounds.
A man in Orland made wager that he
could smoke ninety cigars in two hours.
he failed on the ninetieth, which made
him sick.
The immediate delivery" carrier at
Vallejo received 81 50 for his services dur
ing October, and 81 76 for November. He
has resigned.
William NJ. Boggs, the new Inspector of
Fruit Pests, came across the plains in the
same train which included the Inflated
Bonner party.
Several of the sawmills around Santa
Cruz. which suspended operations during
the November storm, are preparing to re-
| sumo operations again.
A resident OF Santa Rosa lately COM
planned to the police that his poultry was
being stolen. When the thief was discoy-
cred it proved to be his son.
The Phoebe Record says: The Mormon
polygamisis are thick in the lower part OF
this county. They can practice poygamy
with impunity in free Nevada
The people of San Buenaventura want
the name of their postoffice changed, as
there is much confusion in mail matter be-
longing there being carried TO San Bernar-
dino, and vice versa.
Grant county, Or, has revived its scalp
bounty list, and now offers the following
rates: Panther and cougar, IS; bear, 81
wildcat or catamount. 81; black tail rab-
bit, 3 cents; wolf or coyote, 81.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel says: A Soquelite
is about to establish frog pond in SEQUEL.
lie has had much experience in the bust
ness, having supplied frogs at some of the
swell weddings in San Francisco.
The Vallejo Chronicle says: One of the
new clerks on the navy yard. appointed
from abroad, has been so befuddled lately
that the Government keys in his possession
were taken from him, and he was ordered
off the yard.
The Santa Cruz Surf says: A few weeks
ago little child of Seth Blanchard's was
playing with some broken twigs from flo
tree and got some of the sap which exuded
therefrom in her eyes. Her eyes became
badly infiamed, and it is reported that for
some time the child has been entirely una
bic to see.
While the soldiers were at Seattle num-
Der OF them who were impecunious struck
brilliant plan for making a raise"
They started out and made a census of all
the chinese in the town. charging each one
tee for taking his name. The whole of
Chinatown was gone over. and $3.50 was
realized.
The Petaluma Argus says: J. R. Rose
recently sold an inbred Mcclellan colt that
will not be two years old until next spring
and, therefore, he ranks as a yearling UP to
January l, 1886, for 81 POO This is the
largest price ever paid in this market for
a yearling" of any breed, that we have
any authentic account of.
There are many stray cattle in the
mountains in state of starvation, SAYS the
Tuolumne Independent. Some of them
prowl around the ranches in the endeavor
to pick up a stray bite The grass is start
ing, but frosty nights will prevent vigorous
growth, so that there is not much chance
for these poor animals to live through the
winter