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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS, CAL1FOHMA. Jlul'cs blood, a plasterer, fell from a scaffolding twenty feet high, on the San Pablo road, and was severely injured. in-jured. San Dieco advices say that the mine of -Julian district are doing well. The calico ball in aid of the Freueh indemnity fund, at San Jose, realized The brig Faster has sailed from San Diego for San Francisco with l,o0 barrels of whalo oil. The potato crop in San Francisco and San Mateo is reported badly damaged. dam-aged. .lames Uueh'anan has brought uh in the fourth district court of California Califor-nia against the Central Pacific railroad company, to recover damages for u broken foot, in the Miai of tf.0,O0i). The earthquake moved a sunken barge in the channel of the river at ; Stockton ten feet from its old resting place. The San Francisco iuUetiu of a late date says : "A strong rivalry is arranging ar-ranging between the steamboats on Salt Lake to a point at West Promontory, Promon-tory, on the Central Pacific railroad, for the transportation of ores and bullion bul-lion from Last Canyon and Hush Yal-: ley." As there is but one steamboat on Salt Lake, cugiged in the transportation transpor-tation of ores, it is somewhat difficult to se where the rivalry comes in. With a few exceptions the orchards and vineyards at Coloma, Unionlowu and Michigan Flat, I'll Dorado county, have Mifl'ered an almost total loss of the peaches, plums, pears and grapes. Tho apples are nut hurt as much as the other fruit. Charles Chapman, a proaii.-ing juvenile juve-nile of Oakland, I 'al., lua been amusing amus-ing himself by placing obstructions on tho track of ihe Central Pacific rail road, with a view to summarily hoisting trains. He was found guilty of the charge in the county court, and sentenced sen-tenced to ten days' imprisonment in tho county jail. Naughty Charley I Several feet of snow have failed during dur-ing the present month on the summit of the Sierras. The Sacramento Record has changed hands lately. Joseph McClcery the billiardist has been fined in San Francisco for fast driving on the streets. Served Joscpfi right. "P. V. Nasby'' is to visit California this fall. IDAHO. The Idaho IVorlJ says that the late unsettled state of the weather has greatly retarded miniog in that section. The Boise Herald has been taking a breathing spell, and will resume publication publi-cation on tho 2-1 th inst. Tho weather in Owyhee has been very cold recently, with plenty of -falling snow. A. J. Borland is to start a Republican Republi-can campaign paper in Silver city next month. Reno has been treated to a little earthquake recently. John MeCabe was accidentally killed in one ol' tho mines of Ophir . canon, Nev., on the 15th instant. Governor Bradley, of Nevada, was in Washington the other day and visited the White House. The Gold 1 1 ill News asserts that the present, intense excitement in stocks and their unprecedented rise is based upon the real merit of the mines. Tho Humboldt Register says the Piutcs hereabouts are becoming alarmed at the approach of the smallpox: small-pox: have raised their wiki-upa and taken up their line of march for Paradise Para-dise valley, there to remain until the scare is over when they will return. They "heap no waututn small-pox; catum Tnjun all up." |