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Show PACIFIC COAST AEWS. i CAL1FOH.MA. j i Sacramento had a goodly sized i earthquake on Sunday niht. j A new quicksilver mine has been j discovered in the Los K'luos, Fresno j county i The Gist number of La Crom'ca, a Spadish paper, appeared in lx)s Ange- Us on the liTth inMaut. I Jackson, Amador county, had little rarthutiake shocks last Thursday and Friday. On Friduy li'Jl bales of wool were shipped Irom Stockton, and 4M more arrived. A third crop of gias for this season has just been cut in the ciurl-house square it) Stockton. I The pencil, almond and apiicot trees Lire much alllicted with curled leaf in I various parts of tho State. The wool and mutton interest of Tu lare county is estimated at UUlf. At Visalia the mercury stood at SO0 in the shade two days last week. Two hundred and fifty acres of cot-tun cot-tun will be planted on ihe Merced river, below Snclling, during the corning corn-ing season. Hugh A. Te Laccy & Bro. have commenced the publication of a new paper, the Reporter and Busir-rss I)i-reitori, I)i-reitori, at San Jose. Miss Neweomb, the unfortunate girl iieeidenlly shot, by her brother at the North Uuttc, was at last accounts barely alive. Hy the premature discharge of agun at (Tiieo, last week, a Chinaman lost his head. S. C. Smith's houso at Chico, was burned to the ground on the 24th inst. Silow ts twenty live feet deep at Gold Lake, Sierra county. Whales are killed in large numbers in Monterey bay. Henry Lfarnuin, of t.!rass Valley, nineteen years of age, has been declared insane. The San Lui3 Obispo Tribune has changed hands, Walter Murray having been succeeded by 1L. S. Rcmbaugh & Go. A citizen of Petaluma has been thrashed bv a ladv for insulting lan guage towards her. Served him right. An attempt was made a few days ago to assassinate Isaac V oakum, of Alameda Ala-meda county, by parties who Bhot at him from au ambush. Yoakum was wounded in the leg. Grizzlies are meandering about in the vicinity of Long Bar. Frederick lioggs, of Sherman Island, was drowned in the Sacramento river last week. The Indians are gathering in large numbers in Lake county, which causes some excitemont among the settlers. NEVADA. Albert Watts, proprietor of the Humboldt Wells fast freight line, accidentally acci-dentally shot himself in the abdomen the other day. The wound is serious. The injunction suit against the Raymond Ray-mond & Kly company, urought by the Pioche Western Extension company, has been withdrawn. The house of tho New Yoik mining company at Humboldt city was broken into last Saturday night, and everything every-thing of value carried off. Work has been resumed in the Lady Bryan mine, Gold Hill. An old man named Brown was found dead on his bed at Wilson's ranch, near Pioche, a few days ago. Bush Doolin and Pierre Cazou, well known in the State, werp drowned lately in the Colorado river. "Crazy Tom," a character of Pioche, Pi-oche, died in the oounty hospital Inst week. Tho streets of Virginia are to be lighted with gas. OREGON. Lane county wants school teachers. Salem is to have an opposition ferry. The Ashland woolen factory is of fured for sale. The spring races have begun in Jackson Jack-son county. A four-hundred aero farm near Lebanon Le-banon brought $12,000 in coin. Gail's creek, Washington county, has a fine sandstone quarry. Wolves have had a marked effect on the wool crop of Marion county. Father Harmon, the temperance lecturer, is the oldest Mason in Oregon. Or-egon. A successful blast at Oregon city half killed a half-breed, demoralized a butcher shop, and wounded a married woman. Oregon will eclcbrato the 4th of July in a becoming manner. Large quantities quanti-ties of bottled enthusiasm are en route for that State. |