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Show PACIFIC COAST KEWS. CALIFORNIA. John Smith was drowned inMendo-oino inMendo-oino bay a few days ago. We don't know which of the seven hundred and odd California John Smiths this was. Greeley campaign clubs are being nrfTiinizpil nil nvp.r the State. J. Mo. M. Shatter, Jesse 0. Goodwin, Good-win, S- A. Duffy, D. B. Hoffman, and Robert MeGarvey aspire to be Republican Repub-lican electors. The hay crops of Marin will be short this year. The crops of Napa valley havo had too much rain, and tho yield will be materially reduced in consequence. Caroline Ncwcomb, who was accidentally acci-dentally shot by her brother some time ago, near Marysville, is slowly recovering. recover-ing. Shade trees are dying in various por-, por-, tions of California. Fresh currants have made their ap-: ap-: pcarance in the San Francisco market. A branch of the Internationals has i been organized in Santa Clara. A Catholic church sisters of charity convent and a Catholic school,aro to be erected soon at Bakcrsficld. Tho body of Thomas Hobson, formerly for-merly book-keeper for Billings & Co., Sacramento, was found floating on tho Sacramento river a few days since. Louis Red, a Sacramento butcher, tried to reap his head off with a brush scythe the other day but failed inglori-ously. inglori-ously. Deputy sheriff Skinner, of Treka, shot and killed a fleeing horse-thief named Duff, at Strawberry Valley, last week. Sacramento river fishermen are capturing cap-turing tons of salmon this season. Cloverdale has earned the right to be called the "dark and bloody ground" because of the number of murders committed there. Chinese labor is being employed to reclaim the Sacramento river swamp lands. . W. C. Spencer, a lodger at the American Exchange hotel, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, committed suicide by shooting himself with a derringer in his room, on Sunday night. The shoemakers are about to strike in San Francisco. Fenwick, for the killing of Wiisoo, at San Diego, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, and is sentenced to be hung on Friday, June 21. Walter Fay was killed by a cave in the American company's diggings, at Morristown, last week. Mrs. J. R. Corwin was found dead in bed oa Monday morning in San Francisco. The Democratio Stato central committee com-mittee will meet in San Francisco nest Thursday. Mrs, Henry Lonhardt, of Oakland, committed suicide on Monday by taking tak-ing strychnine. The Indians have found a spring in Kern river that they say will ''make drunk come." A severe lightening storm recently did a good deal of damage at Yisa-lia. Yisa-lia. Yuba city is improving considerably this spring John Limey has been missing from Red Bluffs for several days. A note found on the bank would indicate that he committed suicide. NEVADA. Jack Lapslay, a desperado, has been placed under $1,000 bonds at Truckce for "running a mok" among the saloon sa-loon keepers with a cocked revolver. There is a scarcity of laborers in Truckce; and it is almost impossible to get teamsters. Mrs. Muldoon,who shot her husband at Hamilton a few days since, has been : discharged from custody. A trout was brought into Carson ; city the other day, which weighed lbs. Couldn't the scales of that piscatorial pisca-torial specimen be passed of for half doliar piece-? Mary Ann Power has commenced suit against J. D. Fower, of Austin, for a decree of divorce. IV. John I. Kills died at Virginia on Monday, of pneumonia. V. Fellows, a fruit peddler was "bighwayed" on the Ophir grade the otherday, and made to "lork over" Indian Tom, an Austin celebrity, died at that place last week of consumption. con-sumption. John Wesley, confined in jail at Unionviilc on a charge of burglary and house stealing, made his escape a lew nuhis ago, and rode off with a horse belonging to Mrs. F. Mullcr. This is not the original John Wesley. There is trouble about water rights in Paradise valley. Building is very lively in Virginia, particularly oa B street. |
