Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-21
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

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view, Oregon.
The lady physicians of Los Angeles are
all getting rich.
The two San Leandro skating-rinks are
10 be rallied Tor.
At the Mare Island Navy Yard there are
49, men employed.
Mumps is prevailing among the old and
young in Gold Hill, New.
The Leland Stanford Jr. University deed
has been recorded in San Jose.
The Chinese in the Oregon City Wooden
Mills are making % cents day.
a Chinaman died at Coulterville recently,
leaving fortune OF over 100000.
Independence, Inyo county, has four
pound baby which is three months old.
More than one hundred buildings were
erected at Spokane Falls, W. T., during
1885.
Diphtheria is reported as being prevalent
in all parts OF Solano county at the present
time.
The Stanford kindergarten at Menlo
Park has thirty pupils between 3 and
years Of age.
An alleged petrified human head has
been found while digging a well at Lean
ington, L. I.
Sid. Walker, of Vacaville, on Wednesday
last cut a ripe watermelon which had
grown on his place.
The number of divorce cases in Lane
comfy, Or, FOR 1885 outnumbers The list Of
marriages twelve to one.
Cloverdale is very quiet place TO reside
Neither Of the Justices has had a criminal
case within the last quarter.
Bricklayers are wanted to work OF, the
new insane asylum at Phoenix, Arizona.
The wages paid are IS per day.
Twenty-six children were admitted to
the Orphans Home. at Vallejo, between
October /, 1885, and January /, 1856.
The total expenses of the Nevada County
Narrow gauge Railroad for the year ended
December 81, 1885, exceeded the income by
s., 1856 II.
The average number of patients in the
Nevada Insane Asylum at Reno, during
1885, was los. The cost per capita daily
was Il IS cents.
Patients are so scarce in | kIah that when
some unfortunate breaks a limb at the
skating rink the doctors fight to see who
shall dress the wound.
Thimbe parties are the latest, and sew
eral Of them have been given lately at Red
Bluff by the ladies'. 1t is probably a new
name for the old style Quilting bee"
A farmer in the Salinas valley recently
shipped $50 sacks of potatoes to San Fran
else and after paying commission, freight,
etc, they Melted him n cents Tor the whole
lot
The Escondido ranch, in San Diego
county, has been sold for $1l4,000 1t is 10
be subdiyided and sold. 4 town is to be
laid ont and a hotel built. So says the
Uatoa.
The stone man which was exhibited
throughout the State has been seized by the
Customs officials at Victoria, B. c.. for false
entry, II being alleged to be petrifaction
instead of a work of art.
Mrs. Hugh Barclay, of Lake City, Modoc
county, is the owner Of silk dress lbs
years old. 1t has been the wedding gown
of three successive generations of brides,
and its present owner intends it for her
burial shroud.
The honey crop of San Diego for 1885
was; Comb honey, l, 107 600 pounds; ex-
tracted, PSI 800 total, PHI, 800 pounds
This is equal to Loss tons, or over 100 car
loads of honey. AT S cents per pound il is
worth over Sl7S,000.
The twelve jurymen who serve, in the
case Of Isom Frost, who was tried for MUIR
der at Ukiah recently, reached total
weight of 2,l27 pounds or an average OF
1774 pounds, while they were unitedly the
fathers of seyenty-iive children.
The Express says: MERGED county can
boast Of the largest man in the State in the
person of Mexican Archibald, q native of
Nova Scotia. He is over seven feet high
and built in proportion. He wears No.
10 boot, and carries his own last.
Tlurs,,,, flo x-ao. oCt 81,
Phoenix, Arizona, sold 10000 two-cent
stamps. In 1885 the total sale OF two-cent
stamps reached $4,000, besides which $4,000
stamped envelopes 1000 newspaper wrap
perS and 5000 postal cards were sold.
The Sierra Valley Leader says: The big
gest thing yet in artesian wells in Sierra
Valley was struck last Monday on the
ranch OF l.. Rosecrans, near Loyalton At
depth of 700 feet a stream was reached
which flows lS5 gallons per minute through
four-inch pipe. This is the biggest yet
The Genoa New Courier tells this: A
Red Canyon prospector gathered rabbit
meat enough during the late storm to do
him till June. He cut a lot of trees. painted
the ends black, and the rabbits butted their
brains out trying to jump into what they
took tor holes. He got 40 the first night.
N. V. 10y, of Shasta county, expects TO
cts>st Il urlNe OF fuUU,OUO feet OF logs from
his camp, down Pit, river to Redding. by
the LIST Of next June. His men are hard at
work, and on an average place on the skids
ready for the chute 103,099 feet a day.
That record is hard 10 beat in any lumber
region.
The residents OF Big valley had a rabbit
hunt last week, and the slaughter was
something beyond the power OF figures to
express. y tract of country nearly five
miles square was worked over, the rabbits
being gradually driven to the center and
shot when they became thick enough to
warrant heavy charge of shot in killing
from three to six.
Mrs Eleanor E. kellogg. of Visalia. acct
dentally punctured the thumb of her left
hand with the tine of a table-fork on the
LIST inst, and the wound, though slight, be-
came so painful on the following Monday
that medical assistance was summoned
when It was found that she was suffering
from blood-poisoning. She continued to
grow worse, and died on Saturday, the 9th
inst.