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Show PACIFIC C!).VST SEWS. CILIFOBXIA. liiiri:!rs aro rond-'ring uuca-y tbc ' sleep ct' Oiklaolcrs. At Potaluma, January 20th, juJiic Uurbaok. ao old and respected citizD of that city, attempted suicide by taking tak-ing laudanum and also cutting his left arm severely with a hatchet. If Woodland dnesn't subscribe at $100,000 to the Bcnicia and Red BlufT railroad it will be it-f't out iu the cold by the road ruiniug bcv-jral uiilca awaj' t'roiD it. Amuld, the dianiood suiter, advertises adver-tises in the r iizabethtown (K.y.) News fur twenty five volunteers to accompany accom-pany him to the diamond fields in the spring. .No experts or mineralogies are wanted. Alout one millicn and a half dolibrs of the tax levy in iSan Franci.-co ir city purposes are delinquent. '1 be levy was sortie f.ur atid a half million, of which three miliiun ha beeu paid. SKViD.V. John Macuire, late of Salt, Lake, has been giving readings at Bullion-?ii!e. Bullion-?ii!e. Carsoo had bonfires, brass bands, flags flung loose, speeches, firebells, canDons, and "sich," over the election of Jones to the United States senate. Joha Hampton, the man who stuck a lighted caodla in a keg of powder at the Gould & Curry mine, died od Thursday. .Nevada papers are wrangling over the manuscript of Jones' speech. The Gold Hill News got a synopsis by telegraph, tele-graph, and lauphs in its sleep. The Gold Hill News says John B. Winters and other gentlemen have gone to Diamond Mountain to locate mining claims, mill sites, wood ranches, eto. They will also lay out a town. ORKtiOS. OrVgoVcTty'wddfe'S" 'niiitiT aTla1'1! H.fe1 co tracts are now beinc; given out. i The motive power of tho grist mill ; at Prairie city, Grant county, Oregon, is water from a hot spring, which prevents pre-vents any stoppage from a freeze-up. Two men were thrown into the raging Willamette at Salem on M outlay ou-tlay last by the upsetting of a skiff, but were picked up without other damago than a serious fright and a thorough wetting. Religious revivals are id progress at Salem, Jefferson, Gervais and Oregon oity, as well as in Portland. The Statesman States-man says "forty persons were at tho amious seat at Gervais last Sunday night and twenty at Saleji." |