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Show PACITKJ COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA, A Sacramento lonaiic is appropriately named Laney. A dose ot poison killed a six-foot lone panther at Bownieville last week. Sacramento has caught a "lawyer" eel two feet long and is going to send it to Agassis. Marysville has found a crazy man and wants somebody to prove property and take him away. Tbe Gras3 Vailey Union laments because "the weather is too cussed fair to suit tha miners." Id coDsequenoe cf the unearthly I noise produced by John Chinaman in Stockton, his .New Year lasted but one nivht, Charles Nordhoff, the author of several valuable works, sails on Sunday for the Sandwich Island?; He will write up that country. T. W. Brooks his arrived in Los Ange'os from Arizona, and has a large Dumber of rubies, garnets and opals which he found io the lerrnory. The stones are to be tested as to value. The reason why Saa Diego people drink so much whiskey is because they can't get any water. There is ouly one well in the village and that has to have an eight-horse-power to get the water up. Milton S. Latham drove his spleodid pair of black mares California bred over the San Francisco Agricultural nark track lately, making the mile in 2:36, Budd Doble offered him $60,-uOO $60,-uOO for the team. A colored mao in Grass Valley fired his pistol several times to frighten rivals away from his sweetheart. The men ran. The wman was seea lying uuoo the floor, but was not supposed to be injured, but on raising her from the floor she was found to be dead drunk. MCVADA. A young man in Carson ha? on hand a flying machine. Ho proposes to ascend to the top of Ml Davidson and iiy to Carson. lie says he can do it in ;even minutes. A mad dog is delighting the cetizens of Silver city, and now the people have practiced so much that ii, only takes them two seconds to "shia" up a thirty-two foot tree. The Reese lliver Reville is mad about the money ($7,000) expended last year by Linder couoty in prosecuting prose-cuting criminals, and says; "This item of expense could and should be materially lessened in tho future ; six feet of hemp can be obtained at a cheaper rate, and should be applied to convicred murderers." Gold Hill and Virginia are moving to celebrate St, Patrick's day with proper eclat. The Alkali copper mining company, near Mason Valiey.shipped last month 73,000 pounds o: ore. Over thirty cases of epizootio in Steptoe valley. Schell creek stage route suffering severely. George D. Fryer and Billy Brown, of Carson, had a shooting scrape on Wednesday evening. No one hurt. Patrick Ftsney, of Crown Point mine, broke his arm while saving himself from falling into an open winze. J. T. GoadniaT ont':e Virginia Enterprise En-terprise is named as candidate in 1S74 for U: S. seaator. ireiuia eity is having "grand tleihiDc: parties." Con Orem is teaching the young Pioche idea how to 1 "punch 'im hin tlier snoot" Iu Nevada, the other day, a drunken fellow jumped of a railroad train running run-ning at lull speed. He had dropped a two-bit piece. Being druuk he wasn't hurt. George Fryer, proprietor of the Ornisby house, Carson, Nevada, rebuked his steward, whe cupon that fuactuary planted his mitrailleuse and opened tire, with the intention of sending George where ho would indeed be a fryer, lie is now co&lined in jail to allow his emotional insanity to subside. sub-side. The Reese River Reveille and the Eureka Sentinel are quarreling about the proposed division of Lander county, and in fact, about everything else. Some time ago the editor of the Sentinel Sen-tinel veuuired to write an article on the bullion tax, "in which" says the Reveille, "he demonstrated tho fact that he knew no more about what he wa writing than a Chinaman knows of tho Greek lexicon," and that he went "into n discussion of the subject with all the recklessness of a fool killing snakes." OKEGO.N. An Oregon reverend is lecturing on the "Seven Seals." Wheat is selling at one dollar a bufihel in Jacksonvile, Oregon. IliHsbmo braves are spoiling for a1 tight with the bloody Modocs. 1'amhill wants a jail, and that right speedily, according to the Courer, Tho nest Linn county fair will give premiums to the first and second fire encino companies hand uDgincs. They charge stage passengers two bits aJrink at La Grande, and permanent per-manent citizens only 12 cents. George S. Shiel, ex-member of congress con-gress from this State, is lying ill at his brother's residenoc in Walla Walla. Superintendent Odeneal, who has been on a flying visit to the Siletz, reports re-ports that the i'aquina war has entirely "fizzled out." Jacob SDibley can leBrn of something some-thing to his advantago by writing to . the postmaster at Salem. It is about a pension, and Jacob's relatives can reap a similar advantage if he his dend. Oregon wheat never looked better in crowing than now. 1: is growing finely, having suffered nothing from iMihnr frost or too much rain. Aa one farmer put it, "a rabbit can hide in it now; looks like the first of May," |