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Show M EHTKHM KKWS ITEMS. There are several caccs of srnall-pox reported in San Prancisco. The snow on the Sierra Nevada is now docper than at any time since 1801. It is conceded (hat senator Cole cannot be re-elected. Sargent is ! i thought to be the coming man. j In tho Turner-Ortiz breach of promise case a stay of proceedings for fifteen days has been granted. The California theatre company have declared their usual dividend of one-half of ono per cent, per month. The president of tho city council of Los Angeles has been indicted for nuisance, in renting houses to prostitutes. prosti-tutes. J. West Martin, vice president of the Union savings bank of Oakland, has been appointed regent of the university of California vice William i Watt resigned. Mrs. Kcefer of Smartsville, Califor- 1 nia, has doped and her husband offers 1 $J50 reward. Kcefer is not smart. One cent would be a high price to pay for Mrs, Kcefer. California has 1,1-10 insane persons. The Call attributes the large number ol insane to disappointments in acquir-i acquir-i ing sudden wealth in mining spcoula-; spcoula-; tions in California. The fire in Taylor & Co's printing j . office, Sao Prancisco, lately, is found I to have originated in a defective gasoline gaso-line gas generator, which had been out of order for some time. i The opposition steamers running bc-j bc-j twecn Sacramento and San Prancisco have been hauled olT, owing to the recent reduction as regards fare and freight made by the railroad company. I |