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    1. [NORCAL] Sac Union July 15 1880 pt 1
    2. Betty Loose
    3. The Record-Union Sacramento, CA Thursday, July 15, 1880 PACIFIC COAST ITEMS Yolo has 3,066 school children. Tehama county has 2,204 school children. The Sierra Flume Company have built a sawmill in Tehama county. Wells, Fargo & Co., have established an office at Spenceville, Yuba county. The free library at San Jose is expected to be ready for public use by the 20th inst. Limerick, Contra Costa county, has a four-legged, four-winged chicken preserved in alcohol. Number of patients in the Stockton Insane Asylum: Males, 792; females, 325: total, 1,117. The Nevada State Board of Pardons met at Carson on the 12th, and passed upon several applications for restoration to citizenship and pardons. Of the 57,000 Canadians who left Ontario during the past eight months and located in the United States, a number settled in Riverside, Los Angeles county. In the Garfield mine, near Washington, Nevada county, a very rich bowlder was found in the croppings last week, from which several thousand dollars were taken. It is proposed to establish a hospital at Astoria in the building known as the Argoni House. Nearly $2,000 has been subscribed toward this benevolent object by business men of the city. Says the Trinity Journal: On a ridge a few miles from Trinity Centre Thomas MORTON came on seven bears feeding. The presence of bear in such numbers is a rare occurrence in that region. The Yreka Courier says that Schlichtís mill-dam was completely washed out by the heavy thunder shower of the 3d inst., which raised Shasta river higher for a short time than ever before known. Last Saturday, at Stockton, a District Agricultural Society was organized under the new law. It embraces the counties of San Joaquin, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare, Stanislaus, Fresno and Kern. Plans have been adopted for the new asylum building at Stockton. It will have 102 single rooms for patients, 13 double rooms and 50 beds in dormitories. The entire cost, it is hoped, will be less than the appropriation of $85,000. A new industry has sprung up in Bodie in the shape of blanket and bedclothes robbery. During the past three or four days a dozen complaints have been made by men owning cabins that their homes have been entered by thieves and the beds stripped of every particle of clothing. A correspondent at Fall River Mills, Shasta county, sends the following snake item to the Record-Union: Mrs. Ed. W. LANSING, to celebrate her Fourth of July, killed a rattlesnake measuring 3 feet 4 inches in length, and about six inches in circumference, carrying ten rattles and a button. There is an opening for an energetic clergyman in Aurora, Nev. The local editor says: We are sorely in need of a preacher; we donít want any cheap trash. We want a good, muscular Christian, who can catch sinners by the scruff of the neck and drag them howling up the plain of righcousness. During the month of June there were 3,100 arrivals of overland passengers and 2,840 departures, against 3,200 and 2,400 respectively for the same month last year. The June arrivals by sea were 2,542; departures, 1,049; being the largest number of arrivals by sea in any one month since June 1877, when 2,836 arrived. Three steamers from Hongkong last month brought 1,936 passengers, against less than 1,700 during the five months previous. MARRIED Stockton, July 11 - Charles H. Henderson to Rose SUTHERLAND. Near Chico, July 11 - H.C. BURSON to Margaret CHANEY. BORN Sacramento, July 10 - Wife of Charles SCHWARTZ, son. Oakland, July 13 - Wife of G.L. CURTIS, a daughter. Benicia, July 3 - Wife of Charles MELLON, son. Grass Valley, July 12 - Wife of Wm. H. JAMES, son. Grass Valley, July 13 - Wife of John NEVINS, son. San Jose, July 11 - Wife of Fred. J. KAMP, son. Stockton, July 8 - Wife of D.C. SHEPHERD, a daughter. DIED Sacramento, July 13 - George, son of Thomas & Josephine WARMBY, a native of Sacramento 10 months and 7 days. [Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from the residence of the parents, I street, between Tenth and Eleventh, this morning at 10 o'clock.] Franklin township, Sacramento county, Judy Nancy McLANAHAN, a native of Pennsylvania, 56 years. Stockton, July 11, Mrs. Laura RUPERT, 29 years, 8 months and 4days. Stockton, July 11 - Morris WOLROD, 74 years and 8 months. Red bluff, July 13 - Laura Louise HIGGINS, 3 months and 2 days.

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