The Record-Union Sacramento, Cal. Wednesday, July 14, 1880 Pond lilies have been successfully grown by Mrs. Dr. DAVIS, of College City, Colusa. She has a tank thirteen foot in diameter full of lily pods. About a dozen carp from the Danube river, Austria, have been deposited in the Navy Yard reservoir at Vallejo by the Fish Commissioners. It is rumored that Professor and Mrs. CARR will assume charge of the proposed high school at Pasadena, Los Angeles county, to be opened next November. An agricultural and horticultural fair will be held at National City, San Diego county, under the auspices of the Grange. A hall is to be erected for that purpose. In that part of Santa Barbara county which lies west of the mountains and toward Santa Maria, there is said to be 100,000 acres of wheat - all a good crop. The peach crop in this locality has been almost an entire failure, says the Folsom Telegraph. Apples and pears will also be scarce, while the plum crop will be large. Measles are raging in Tualatin (Oregon) precinct, and the school has been dismissed in consequence. One gentleman has about 240 pounds of the measles, and still is not satisfied. A short distance from Wadsworth, Nev., is a China ranch, where may frequently be seen two Chinamen hitched up to a plow horse-fashion, tugging and pulling away like oxen. The work of listing the mortgages in the City Assessorís office at Oakland employs that officer and two clerks sixteen hours each day, and will not be completed for six weeks. We are now satisfied, says the Evening Express, that the estimate of 750,000 centals is well within the mark for the wheat crop of Los Angeles county the present season. Wool shipments from Cloverdale for the half year ending June 30th inclusive foot up in round figures 692,215 pounds. This wool, at 30 cents per pound, brings just $207,664.540. The fruit season is now fairly opened in Los Angeles county. Peaches are ripe and other fruits are crowding in. the fruit trade of Los Angeles with Arizona has become something immense. The countless tons of ice that during the winter clung to the ragged cliffs overlooking Donner Lake, have disappeared, and the steep mountain sides are covered with grasses and strange plants. The latest snake story comes from Eureka, Nev., and is about a fourteen-rattled reptile that tried to swallow a stick of giant powder and fulminated as well as culminated its mundane existence. The population of San Jose, according to the returns of the census enumerator, foots up 12,472 in the city proper. Including the East San Jose and Alameda sections, it will foot up nearly 15,000. The Truckee Republican says that Superintendent Dodge of the United States Mint, San Francisco, last week discharged all the employes of the institution who had been placed there through the influence of Congressman Page. The ìoldest inhabitantî of Los Angeles county, as developed by the census, is Jose A. LUCERO, a native of Mexico. He presents a certificate of baptism which shows him to be 117 years old, and he has resided in California ninety years. Tulare Lake has risen nearly fourteen inches thus far this season. Assuming the lake to have an area of 500 square miles, which is close approximation, the total amount of water represented in the fourteen inches rise would be equal to 118,000.000 tons. A man, woman and child, who have been begging for some weeks in Watsonville, have been found to have $65,000 invested in San Francisco, have four sons engaged in profitable business, and $690 in gold was found in the possession of the man. SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS [From San Francisco exchanges of July 13th.] The steamer Bolgie will leave for China and Japan on July 15th. The steamer Gaelic will be due from China and Japan on July 18th. The annual election for Directors of the San Francisco Produce Exchange will occur on next Tuesday. United States Senator Allen G. THURMAN is coming to California to stump the State in the interest of Hancock and English. Superintendent Provost of the House of Correction, reports 13 prisoners received last week, 9 punished for violation of prison discipline, and 208 prisoners now in the institution. Joseph Samuel HESS, Vice President of the Exempt Fire Company, died yesterday at his residence, No. 1768 Larkin street. The deceased was a native of Baltimore, Md., and was 54 years of age. Information has been filed against Isaac M. KALLOCH by the District Attorney charging him with the murder of Charles de YOUNG. The previous information had been dismissed on a technicality. The funeral of the late George B. HASTINGS, who died from the effects of wounds received at the explosion of a can of powder in G Companyís camp at Monterey, took place at 2 oíclock this afternoon from the Church of the Advent. It is reported that a new line of steamers is about to be put in operation between this port and Tahiti. It is understood that the venture is supported by the French Government, and that the two screw steamers now building at Philadelphia will fly the American flag. The ship John Gambles, which vessel arrived here from New York Sunday night, reports encountering severe gales in the South Pacific, and that for several days she was nearly submerged, the after hatch being washed off, and boats, the galley and deck spars lost overboard. BORN Sacramento, July 9 - Wife of E. MEIERDIERKS, a son. DIED Sacramento, July 15 - Julia M., wife of Samuel Jelly, 42 years. [The funeral will take place from No. 1516 Second street, this (Wednesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock.] Sacramento, July 12 - Louis VANLENBROUCK (grandfather of Ida. C. SPACHER and Mrs. W.T. BIRD), a native of France, 79 years, 11 months and 12 days. [Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from late residence, Third street, between N and O this (Wednesday) afternoon at 2 o'clock.]