Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-02
PACIFIC COAST ITEHS.

SIdlG DaLCLeIN Oh nat CiSSa'
Fresno wants to leYya special tax Of $500
TO built q district school-house.
Swarmng bees created considerable ex-
element in Santa Barbara yesterday
A company has been formed with 5000
capital to manufacture ice at Willows.
Sam Brannan, formerly of San Francisco, |
is about to erect ten-sIamp Hllll 1T No
gales, a. I.
The right of Tax Collectors in this State
TO commissions is 20 be tested IN the Su-
preme Court.
The Humboldt river is overlooking its
banks in many places, and covering the
bottom lands with water
A valuable sandstone quarry has been
discovered on ranch IN the stony brook
canyon, Alameda county.
Northern Montana sheep men say that
lambs born in March are worth dollar
more than those born as late as Nay.
The Spiritualists Of California will CON
vene foF their annual comp-meetinS at San
Jose upon the last Wednesday in Aay.
Between Vacayille and Putah creek the
fruit trees are so heavily ladened that
about 200 men are kept busy II thinning
out the fruit.
The Oldest house in Santa Cruz is an
adobe ON Brancforte avenue, formerly
occupied by Judge Craig. Il was built
nearly 100 years ago.
A farmer OF C0lrsa county protests
against the killing Of hawks. lie says they
do not trouble chickens much, but live on
| rats, gophers and mice.
The bell for the new Catholic church at
Modesto was christened and blessed VITA
religious ceremony last Sunday. It was
dedicated 10 St. S;anislaus.
The Marysrille boys found more fun IN
cutting the strings OF awnings while on
lark than they did in paving SO each into
! The City Treasury the next day.
! The Phoenix, a T., Herald says that
| Wells, Fargo L Co. have paid 5000 to the
| owners Of the bar Of bullion that was
| stolen from the EuItaTe stage coach.
The State Sportesnen's Association j.
| determined to have the alleged swindle
recently p1acticed by the Shelley hatchery
on citizens Of Butte county Investigated.
| The roads between Salt Lake City and
Snake river are lined with emigrant
wagons Some are destined for Idaho
! others for Washington. Territory and Orc
gon.
Constable Bohen, Of Anaheim, was over
| powered and numerically beaten by
| prisoner whom he was taking to Los An
geles. His wounds are serious. The pris-
/ oner escaped.
| Miss Mary Jackson who was employed
| on Daniel O'Reiiiy's ranch, ON the Shonkin
river, NJ. Z, was burned to death on the
/ 10Th inst, while trying to save the animals
/ in her employers burning stable.
| \ child was BON in Ndpa county which
/ weighed bat two pounds. 1t IS boy, per
! fectly organized and formed. An ordinary
/ lingering could be slipped over his hand
and clear up to his elbow. His total
| length IS not over eleven inches.
! A. \ Engles, Of Mt Scott, Douglass
! county, Oregon recently brought some
| Eastern quails from the States and turned
| them loose in the mountains OF southern
! Oregon. He expects that in few years
| the mountains viii be full Of them.
General II. NJ Naglee having called 2.
| J. Rhodes a thief, the latter recovered z
| judgment for S., GOO for SANDER IN the SUI
perior Court of Santa Clara county. This
! judgment the Supreme Court has over
ruled, holding that the damages were
! excessive,
Tie Reno New Gases.s says that the
! heavy stone wall which was built by the
| railroad company 10 sustain the track at
! Cape Horn has been removed and solid
! iron truss suspended across the chasm.
| The wall began settling and was not con-
sidered safe,
Coyotes are both numerous ami bold
about San Andreas, Caiaveras county
IThey steal into the town al night and take
| sheep carcgsses that are left hanging in
| front of meat shops, raid the chicken
! houses, and even give battle % dogs that
| attempt to interfere with their predatory
hincursions.
On Saturday, the 18th inst, q 250-pound
fragment Of = stump that was blown out OF
the ground with giant powder, near Ia
coma W r.. flew past f. Frazier, who
was witnessing the process from . stand
point 42U feet away. l: struck the ground
close by him, Just grazing his person, yet
SO great was its force that it tore his
clothes from his body, rent his boots so
thathis teetWere LEFT bare, crushing the bones
OF both feet. Mr.. Frazier, who is 60 years
Of age, was completely paralvzed by the
blow, and was insonsibe for twenty min
utes. With the exception OF beng par
TALLY crippled in his feet, ne vii suffer no
serious inconvenience from the accident.
TIE SOLAR SYsrEM.-Ow earth. Mars,
| and possibly Venus, are the only planets
Ii IS believed, capable Of sus-
tanning the various forms Of life such
~ We are acquainted with. Jupiter and
Saturn are known 10 be huge globes of fire
end mist, small suns in themselves. with
out life on their surfaces, but perhaps sils-
tanning life on the satellites by which they
are surrounded One other :act hls been
established by scientific demonstration
that is, the identity OF the materials that
compose the universe. We now know that
suns, stars, planets and moons are composed
% carbon. hydrogen. sodium. iron and The