Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-16

laughter in 81 900 bail. in default of which
he was remanded to the county Jail at
Woodland.
Another special fruit train of sixteen
cars was forw arded to the East last evening
by the Fruit-Growers' Association. The
fruit-shippers are making such large pur-
chases, and the yield is so much smaller
than usual, that prices are ruling high, and
growers are likely TO get as much for the
seasons yield as though there was an aver
age crop. The steamer Modoc, from San
Francisco, was late in arriving here yester-
dav morning, because Of her having to
make many stops to take on fruit and she
brought here about fifty tons of it.
People with warrants against the town
of Woodland were very much surprised at
finding no funds to meet them, and insin-
uate that there is something wrong. If
any wrong exists, says the Nail it was in
the Board of Town Trustees that has Just
retired On May 18th they went out of
Office with the town in debt. As the new
Board has had only about $500 of revenue
since that time to meet a monthly expendi-
ture of over $500, some one has to wait for
his pay. 1t is not the fault of the present
Board.
William Christ publishes a card in this
that appeared in Yesterdays RECORD UNION
about me owing disreputable woman $40
is untrue" This paper said nothing about
disreputable woman, and did not say
Christ owed her $40. What the paper did
say, and from what can be learned are the
facts in the case, was this: " Last evening
well dressed woman entered q barber
shop on J street, between Fifth and Sixth,
and demanded of the proprietor. man by
the name of Christ, $40, which she claimed
he owed her."
1t was generally Supposed, as nothing
had been heard concerning their depreda-
tons, that the grasshopper plague had
ceased to exist in California, but the follow
ing item, from recent number of the
Woodland Democrat, shows that there are
some of the pests around yet: Samuel
Hitler brought to the Democrat office this
morning a number of fig leaves to show
the destruction wrought by the grasshop-
pers. Only the framework of the large
leaves remains. Mr.. Hitler says the hop
pers have attacked everything green on his
place, including both trees and vines. The
clover fields of Mr.. Reynolds, which joins
Mr.. Killers, are literally alive with grass
hoppers. They made their appearance
about two weeks since"
Yesterday morning Oofty Goofty -
who at one time figured in dime museum
at San Francisco, as hairy wild man, and
who last Sunday left San Francisco with
the expressed determination of trundling a
wheelbarrow across the continent to beat
Potter's record of 375 days TO New York
City-arrived here by steamer from Mar
tinez. He says he has abandoned the rec
ord-breaking project temporarily, because of
an accident he met with at Pinole, where a
farm team, as he was crossing a bridge,
became frightened and knocked him and
his barrow into a creek, causing him severe
bruises. He has received dispatch from
San Francisco, announcing that bets had
been declared off, and now does not know
whether to go to San Francisco to start
over again, or start from Sacramento, or to
start at ALL but he wants to try the trip.