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Show WK.TEKJi NEWS ITEMS. CALIFORNIA. ! TliO( variou.i financial institution, of i San Francisco, disbursed in dividends i during the year lf7l, upward, of $10,- 1 00(1,000. The Spring Valley water company Wi 1 pay their usual dividend of one-hall one-hall of ono per cent, on tho 10th instant. ( t rrofoF.-or Davidson of the United .States coast survey, has been elected I president of the California academv of sciences. ! Tho Capital savings bank, Sacrameu-; Sacrameu-; to, yesterday declared a dividend at the rate of ten per cent, per anuum i lor tho sis monlhi onding December ,'Jls-t. j Four days alter the death oi" judge : Murray Morrison at Loa Angeles his j wile, a beautiful and interesting wo-'man, wo-'man, aged only aNo breathed her ' hist. The bo ly of Tliouins, liabb, the man 1 who was drowned in the Taeheco river .about a Wlj:;k miicc, was recovered to-'d-iy hy the Masonic irateniily, of ; whi.-h order ho was a member. Mrs. A. A. Sargent and Mrs. Laura I Me l-'oree linrdnn left San Francisco i lor '-ihington January L'd., to endeavor en-deavor to persuade congress to legislate legis-late favorably to the woman suffrage cause. The Herman savings and loan so-j ciety and tho Humboldt savincs and j loan society have each declared eenii-I eenii-I annual dividends at the rate of 10 per , cjnt. on term and ii percent, per an- i num on ordinary deposits. I llunredd of thousands of gophera I in Contra Coat a county have been ! drowned out by the luto floods. The skins of theso animals and ground (squirrels aro being utilized by manu-j manu-j facturiug them into kid gloves. Twitehcll Inland during tho high tide of December 23d, the water raised . to a bight ol' four leet abovo the level . of the land. It camo over tho levee in j avmy places, but caused no damage to . tho levee or the hind. J l. M. Wtdney, has been uotified by i telegram, by Governor Booth, of his i appointment, as judge of the seren-jtcenth seren-jtcenth district, for the counties oi' j Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego, vke Morrison, deceased, j The shipping season of oranges and i lemons from LosAncoles hat i'nirlu commenced. Three hundred and fifty i boxes were shipped by the last two I steamers, and tho yield is fully up to ( I the average in quantity and quality. ' The price of all kinds of meat in San ' , Francisco hes been raised to a very i high figure by tho wholesale butchers 1 since the late rain. A carcase of beef which used lo sell for 7i cent?, a month ago, costs now 1 1 cents a pound; sheep have risen in price fuom 8 cents to 1- cents a pound. Judge Loudcvbaek signalized the j opening of his judicial career yester-(day yester-(day by admitting the testimony of I Chinese witnesses in a case where a i white person was party. The jude ; although the supreme court of California Califor-nia rules against the validity of such : testimony, decided that the Chinese were competent witnesses under the l-lth amendment to the constitution. I ho Amador Lalg. r of December ;.0th, has this item: The report L current in the neigh-; neigh-; borhood that two impoitaut sales of quartz mines, in thiseountv. liKn I edectcd to an lvigiish company, to-wir j the Kennedy, near Jackson, for $150 -1000; and the Amador, or Hay ward timne, at Sutter, at SSoO per share 'aggregating fur the last named mine the sum of Si, 140,000. From the known value of these mines, we ar disposed to give credit to the rumoi that saics have been effected, or that ! negotiations are now pending for the sale cf the mines above named at the I sums stated, j NtVADA. , About 11a. iu. ou Suuday.Sam Hob ;dea, working at the IluO-foot level oi nie le;iow Jacket Mine, Gold Uiil was- lmtc overly injured by the esolo-siou esolo-siou ot a o:as. Ho had returned" to ascertain why a hhi.t he had fired did not explode. The Ktiicka Stti,,--!, of the 3rd . uist., has the subjoined items: ihe South Eureka mining company ; are still prosecuting work on their mine ttfic - 1 l. and have more ore than they van and room for on their dumps. 1 isere was a difficulty in the city hav yard yesterday, in which Joseph Young one ot tie proprietors, received a serious seri-ous wound in the ritht arm, David Laii.-cr.heretolbre employed on a ranch m Diaaund vaiiey, did the shooting; tuc LatWoek crfee: in the elbow, shat' lenr- tue boae ia a manner that will probacy u-:cesitae amputation. Uw-:e.g Uw-:e.g to the todarc of B. S. Benard and nts assce.iiesto a.eet their bond ahe period o; which expired a few days siaee , ar.d the rt-fusal of the owners to reaew the same. ev?n at double the old ucu.es work upon the ExecUior aud . -aace mines w:U aow be vigorouslv ptytd. and the ore disposed of to our; wiu etistoai a:ui. thus keeping nrneh i a:on;y ta tue country which might jthiiwi-re leave it. |