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Show PACIFIC COAST .EVS. CALIFORNIA, The police of Sacramento are making mak-ing Dight'y raids on the gambling lia-ternity. lia-ternity. The ra'm will dampen thouaou3 of tons of grain which lies exposed to the weather. The Catholio Fair joat clnscd in ; Stockton yielded a laree profit, the i gross receipts being over $6 000. In the M. K State conference two Chinamen were continued on trial for the ministry. Subject for a painter: Thirty Diggers Dig-gers drying salmon on the bushes near the banks of the Sacramento. The mayor of Marysville has vetoed the resolution of tbe common council, appropriating $500 additional cxpeoi'C on the data across the Yuba river. Mrs. captain Clary while taking a horseback ride on Mare Island, was thrown from her horse, and received a compound fracture of her collar bone. The Sacramento and Stockton Boat clubs, two of the boat clubs intending to enter for the four-paired race at the State Fair, have lost their boats by ao oident. Sacks for 23,000,000 bushels of wheat have been sent into the inicrior, and the estimates of the crop call for 7,000,000 bushels more, or 30.000,000 bushels in all The cool winds of the last few days have relieved the Stoektonians of i he myriads of mosquitoes which in warm weather hunt for b!nod pudding with a voracity unappeasable. Tho State Fair ha- attracted a variety varie-ty of exhibitions, such as circus, dramatic dra-matic performance 3, etc., also a sniaii menagerie, which includes a throe legged leg-ged cow, an Aleutian bear, Cariboo, c;c. , etc. . A gentleman in Marysville, two years ago, obtained asniallslip of pampas pam-pas grass, at Sacramento, and now has u oluster of stalks fourteen feet in height, each wi;h a beautiful plume on ibe top. Some Arizona returning diamond miners have reached Los Angeles with a great quantity and variety of gems thought to bo valuable. NEVADA, Two men have been arrested" for lobbing the mail sack recently between be-tween Austin aud Battle Mountain. Joseph Simmons was ki led hy a cave in the tunnel of tho V. &T. R.R. in Virgioia City on Thursday. The total amount of mixed bullion-gold bullion-gold and silver received at the Carson Car-son mint, September 16th, for meltiDg and assay, was 13,74S ounces. About fifty taama per day pass over the Sutro Tunnel road, their principal business being that of hauling wood, lumber and maehmpry for the tunnel. The Eureka mine in Nevada oounty is looking up again. A crushing of the last two weeks, with filteen stamps, resulted, on September 18th, in a bar of gold, valued at $11,000. The rook taken from tho 700-foot levol of the Empire mine, continues to prove singularly rioh. Over $10,000 in specimens alone have been taken out, and the lodge as it is being stripped strip-ped showa equally rioh. Surveyor-general John Day, register of tho land orBce, has sold laode of the State as follows: Scptomber 12, 1.S00 hores; September 13, 901) acres; September Sep-tember 14, 120 acres. Joseph McDonald tried to extinguish the lamp of his life last Tuesday niht, in Gold Hill, by cutting hia wind pipe open with a razor. He is not dead, but probably will be soon. Whisky. By the Virginia and Truokeo railroad, rail-road, September 18th, five bars of un-parted un-parted gold and silver were shipped to the Bank of California, Virginia Oity, worth altogether $13,640 14, goiDg to tho credit of the Crown Point mine. The Sutro Tunnel company have commenoed a tunnel from tho canyon. The tunnel will strike the shaft at a depth of 100 feet, and is to servo a double purpose that of draining tho water from tha shaft as well as affording afford-ing a plaae of exit to the workmen in oate of fire. OttEGON. fcc. The Dalles is once more suffering ! from an attack of burglarism. Work has been resumed on the new Methodist church at Salem. The people of Koseburg expect to see the railroad train reach thero next week. Mammoth college has 100 students, and the WilUmetto uoiversity over 100. Tho "Plaindealer" says that the Coos Bay wagon road is the best mountain moun-tain road constructed in the State. Wm. 11 Odoll, surveyor-general of Oregon, will deliver the annual address at the approaching Stato lair. l'eaehes are almost abundant enough at, tho Dalles to ho a drug on the market, mar-ket, xhey are 6 a buihel in Portland. Port-land. The "Mountaineer" says there arc , enough vagabond savages about tho i Dalles to start a good-sized Indian agency. Business is brisk in Hillsboro. The town is tilled with farmers laying in supplied of the all needful, to wit : Calico, sugar, coffee and tobacco. The total amount of taxable property in Washington oounty this year is $1,-44y,475. $1,-44y,475. The assessment is fifteen and a half millH on tho dollar. Judge Shattuck addressed a small audience at Eugene City on the crew eating business last week. Judge Pago also made a short speech on the same topio. But little hope is entertained of tbe recovery of judge Matlock, of Clackamas Clacka-mas oounty, who has been ill for several sev-eral weeks with softening of the brain. He is an Oregon pioneer and an estimable esti-mable eitisen. |