Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-16
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The new Sonoma county Courthouse
cost $780, 900.
4 lady in Chico has twenty-five great
grandchildren.
Napa has public drinking fountain for
man and beast.
Female hired help is in great demand at
Port Townsend, ". I.
The Chico immigration Association was
organized on the 9th inst.
| A new hotel is being built At San Luis
| Obispo. 1t is TO cost S100,000.
Stockton has building boom, there
| being hardly vacant house in the city.
\ new bridge is being built across the
| Tuolumne river at Jacksonville. 1t will be
| finished by May LIST.
Several young people of Anderson,
Shasta county, were recently arrested for
| laughing in church.
Santa Cruz folks are having 4 serious
! time with trampS, who insult ladies and
carry things with high hand.
|, Last week ground was broken at Red
wood City for the erection Of new convent
! school near the Catholic church.
Last week party from Missouri arrived
at Pomona, Los Angeles county, and I'M
mediately located permanent homes there
| new building for the University of the
! Pacific is being erected on University
tract San Jose. 1t will cost about $4,000.
| The Neptune Swimming Club of San Jose
| is in financial distress There is but $40 -
| in the treasury To offset an Indebtedness of
S2,6l6.
The Nupa Register says: = Hatci1ing
! chickens with incubators is not success
| in this country. The old-fashioned way is
better
| The festive youths of Coos Bay amuse
| themselves by throwing chunks of wood
against the church while the Sabbath
school is being held.
Two large whales, one of them measur-
ing about saty feet in length and the other
forty, came close alongside the wharf At
Santa Barbara recently.
! On the 18th ult twenty five farmers near
| Pomo, Mcndocino county met and plowed
sowed and narrowed the thirty-five acre
tract of an invalid neighbor.
1t is claimed by the Virginia Chronicle
that the water in the Hooded Comstock
mines GIBBS and flows at intervals with the
regularity of the tides of the ocean.
! Mudis considered good enough for street
pavements in Alturas, MOdoc county. 4
man who placed some gravel in front of his
| house is said to be cussedly high-toned.'
| Puyallup, W. T., is steadily growing
| Most ofthe farmers in the valley are waking
up to the fact that it is an exceptionally
favorable region for raising all kinds of
| fruits.
An article published in Chico paper,
claiming Il, be an account Of the finding of
a fallen aerolite in the foothills near that
I place last Sunday, is said to have been a
- SELL
In Il small tannery nj Grass Valley the
| leaves and bark of the manzanita tree are
successfully used to make leather. The
tannery is experimenting on native barks
| and trees.
The Tucson A. t. star wants to know
where so many of these impecunious Tue
son citizens, who went up to the capital
without cent, got so much coin rs they
now possess.
In Arizona any person who uses profane,
indecent. obscene, vile or abusive language
or threats, within hearing Of women or
children, is held liable by law to fine or
imprisonment
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Los Angeles has inaugurated series OF
public religious meetings, for the purpose
DI increasing tlS SlIcl4SlH anu tIHCiGltN VI
the organization.
c. c. Stevenson has proflered the free use
of building in Reno, to the Regents OF
the State University, for the purpose of the
institution, until an edifcc can be built.
The removal Of the University from EIko
will soon be completed.
Recently some workmcn. while digging
a well near the Harmony district (Napa
county, schoolhouse, were exceedingly
surprised to find at the depth Of 80 feet
from the surface portions of human skulls
With these were found tufts of tule, pieces
of shells. etc.
\ large gray whale one Of the largest o1
its species, was encountered by Il boats
crew of whalemen last week, while they
were lying by a school of tinbackS, off the
coast of California. The monster had a
large excrescence like a stout horn, about
three feet in length, protruding from its
forehead. When struck with a lance ii
dashed the sea into a foam for few mo-
ments and then made a wicked dash
for the whaleboat. A well-directed
bomb harpoon, however, put an abrupt
stop 10 its career, and doubtless saved
the lives OF the crew The body sank SC
rapidly that it became necessary 10 cut thC
line to avoid q second peril.