Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-01
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.


A great many German people are settling
In Shasta county.
Sugar cane is being planted in Walla
Walla county, w. t.
Placer County Jail contains no prisoner
charged with a felony.
Stockton's new Courthouse will be ready
Tor occupancy next month.
March 24th there were 557 men al work
IN Mare Island Navy Yard
Shipping at Benicia and Port Costa is
about ended for the season.
so-called deserts of Arizona are now
covered with grass and flowers
Ex-Congressman Thsddeus C. Pound is 8
candidate for the Governorship of Mon
tana.
Rumor says that rich gold mines have
been discovered in the foothills near Te.
hama.
-Four hundred English emigrants are to
start for Washington Territory in the early
spring.
Red Bluff boasts it is the only town o.
us SIZE IN the State that is not afflicted witt
the skating craze
The anti-treating law is bein,. evaded II
Virginia City, New. Men who were neye,
known to treat any one before are now
doing so, just for spite
The Horticultural Society of Santa Glars
VIII probably give fruit exhibition, to in
| clude dried and canned fruit, between the
10th and Both of August.
The Chico Record says There are 500
ooo oplunl-eaters in this country. TIL,
| majority of the victims of this drug ar,
iaales, and the number is rapidly inoreas
ing.
Three plural-wife Mormons are living il
Bullionville, Nevada. The ladies of tn,
camp are making it hot for the District At
torney there because he docs not go for til,
polygamists.
Mormons along the Nevada line art
backsildlng, or protesting to backslide
One hundred of them were indicted bv IT,,
last Grand jury of one of the border coun
ties of Utah
The San Jose SpirituahstS expect : 900 O
5000 of that belief at the State Camp in tina
city May 10Th. 1t was stated that delegate
would be present from all portions of tn
| coast and from many Eastern States.
| w. L. Peacock, of Marysville, offers
large crnithological collection. some 200
| specimens, to that city, on condition the
| the city Will furnish a suitable room for it
reception, and provide for the proper main
tenance Of it.
The Gait Gazette says: "a Young lad,
teacher of Acampo, San Joaquin county
made too free use of carbolic acid this weel
in trying to eXterminate troublesom
corn. The corn disappeared and the foo
came near sharing the same fate"
The Walla Walla w. T., Unio,, gives tb
citizens of that place q scorching for thei
lack of enterprise. 1t says that none o
them have energy enough to build up
well-regulated back yard, much less city
and that if new blood is not quickly in
fused, 'Walla Walla will cease to prosper
| her industries will become dwarfed, he
growth decay her enterprise myth he
power fable, her importance legend"
1t is reported that Superintendent Gar
rard of the Carson Mint, has list of owe
1000 applicants for the eighty positions a
his disposal. A Comstocker applied to hin
the other day for the position of head car
penter. The Major drew a book from
his pocket, entered the applicants namt
and, after scanning the column in which
he had made the entry for second, re
marked with great solemnity: Mr.. -
you are only the fortieth applicant on tn,
list for that position, thirty-nine of whom
| must invariably get left.