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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The net earnings of the Stockton Gold-note .bank for the year 187 -A were nearly equal to 174 per cent, of its capital. Velix, Gillett, of Nevada city, recently re-cently received an order from Mazat-lan, Mazat-lan, Mexico, for two hundred mulberry mul-berry trees. Haggin & Tevia are reported to have lost between 1,500 and 2,000 sheep by the recent flood. The animals ani-mals wore grazing on the Norris Ranch. Messrs. Moynihan &. Aiken, San Francisco, are building a 90,000 lb boiler for the eteamer William Saber, the largest and best constructed boiler yet built on the Pacific coast. . On Monday Robert Moulaton.of San Francisco, a Frenchman, committed suicide in his room, by cutting his throat with a razor; his wife came in at night and stumbled over his dend body. Tula roots are being shipped by the ton Colusa to San Francisco, the Chinamen Chi-namen buying them up at six cento a pound. . j Vasquez is reported to be ''annoyed at the published reports of his conversion," con-version," and denies that he asked the prayers of Mr: Hammond and hia associates. ... The recent heavy rains drowned millions of gophers. Vasquez' case will be immediately appealed to the supreme court. . Governor Bradley is greatly improved, im-proved, but will not return to Nevada until he has fully recovered. . a very singular electrical phenomenon phenom-enon occurred at Mr. J. N. Rose's house during the severe wind storm on Thursday. While the women were preparing dinner, Mr. Rose's little boy directed his mother's attention te what he called a butterfly humming over the Bheathmg under the cooking Btove. It proved to be a ball of fire which rapidly passed back and forth and up over the stove, buzzing liko a small galvanic battery. The pots and kettlcB on the stove were so heavily charged that in taking hold of or touching any part a stunning shock was experienced, lhe ball of fire continued to play for about eight minutes, and cooking had to be suspended sus-pended for an hour. Inyo Independent. Independ-ent. . NJiVADA. Being in ill health and depressed inspirits D. D. Gunnison, a justice of the peace, committed suicide in his i own house in Independence, on the ! 14th inst., by shooting himself through the heart. ! The only objections to. the branch railroad from Austin to Battle Mountain is the subsidy; but the lle-veille lle-veille says that Lander county will , have no railroad within the next ten years, if ever, without giving a subsidy, sub-sidy, and that she makes an excellent bargain in Buying a railroad for the gum named in the bill. The Eureka Sentinel of the 24th says that the Indiana in that section are making preparations for something some-thing more than common. . They seem anxious to secure horses and guns, and it is hinted that they intend, leaving there to participate iu the depredations now being committed in the southern part of the state by the renegade Indians in that locality. Tho Virginia Chroniclt publishes, encircled in black borders, the names of fourteen senators in. the Nevada legislature, who did not believe that the marching of federal troops into a legislative body and the forcible removal re-moval therefrom of five members of that body is a politicaLcrime. |