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Show UKSTERS NEWS ITEMS. The San Francisco Bulletin states that a flood may bo expected before next summer. The writer discovers that the coast has been Hooded every tenth year since lH'22. None of the street railroad companies compan-ies in San Francisco are paying dividends divi-dends this year, and but two of the lire insuranco companies. Precious stones, including the topaz, amethist, agate, opal, jasper, clialco-dons clialco-dons and garnet aro among the productions pro-ductions of Wyoming Territory. A man in Victoria, V. I., who had the earliest news of the loss of the Arctic whaling fleet, bought up all the oil in the market, some -10,000 gallons, and made a good thing. The farmers in the San Joaquin valley and other places where crops failed lat year will rejoice at the present storm. They will now be able to obtain credit tor seed for planting another crop. i Niuety-eight thousand three hundred hun-dred and ten ounces of gold and 1 10,- , Ol,C, of silver were received at tho San; Francisco mint dining the month of November, and tho coinage was ! $1,."5'-),0W in gold and l:U,nOO in silver. In Clover valley, Nevada, there has '. been the heaviest fall of snow known in that locality since its setilement by 1 tho whites. The robbers who took Well-, Fargo ; ,v, Co'scash box from the l'ioche stage ' last week, cautioned tho driver to be ; quick about it or a shotgun might , accidentally go oO'. lie handed out : the box with alacrity and the road su-1 pcrvisorsab.-iraeled the cash, auioutjt- : id-- to something like $1,0'0. i During the "past year Io,000,0n0: ' pounds of tea were sent East by rail fro in San Francisco. In the previous ; year l,700,u0u pounds was the amount . sent thence. The proportion of the : , entire tea imports of the Uuied States : ! received ai San Francisco has now j ; ri-eii to thirty per cent., and tho : j steamers are packed fall in advance, j The railroad company is making an , enclosure around the gangway a at their whrf z' "South Vuilrjo, with' gateways for the pa.-sengera to piss through, .-i:iiar to that at the San Franci-eo wlnrf. A!.it'::.i:':'. br&udy, Liado from dis-tiliiii;.' dis-tiliiii;.' ti;-: .-..-ii'-- Jf'that name, which ru.v .-;--.!.. uik..'jsiy in California end Ni-Yj'ij, H ujin.,' iu:iuui'ucturcd in c.m-.-idfrabie. quautitics uq the Pucitic c.fi"t. It is . -.Hid to have r.rvre body, and a siuc'lhcr u-te ttruu grape brandy. PACiric coast m:ws. ! CA.Liroit.MA. j San Francisco, 4. Thiriy-livu.viilors I . from the late Arctic whaling Heet have , arrived here by the Mote Taylor; also captain Hopkins, the sole survivor of i j the brig Skelchftl'. j The MrMahon grenadier guard, I captain Cannovan, will go to Sacra- i i mento to escort ihe now governor on ; inauguration day, an invitation to the j national guard, captain Humphreys, ' ; first given, having been declined. The i na tioiiaU last e veiling resolved, however, to'go if possible; t-ui. lhrnes' entire ; regiment will also go. Kichard L. Green was drowned ; while out in a small skill' yesterday, j The steamship Mostt Tnylor brought ( a heavy shipment of Australian tallow i fnr Snn Kronfkno Thfm I- nolluntr ! in the Australian cr New Zealand dis- 1 paiche8indicaliiig the resumption of! Hall's Australian line. It appears probable that the recommendation of; the inter-colonial conveuiion will be ao- j cop tod and all tho colonies will unite in I subisdising Wnbb's line v;r San Fran- cisco and tho Suez line. Tho Fijians i continue lo fight auioncst themselves. ! The wild natives who dn not recognize i his majesty, Ebenezor First;- as King j of tho Cannibal Islands are raiding on the plantations, and the people of Leonka retaliate by killing the hostile i natives and deslroving their villages. The Evening Eost, the new penny ! Democratic paper mado iis appearance i this evening, ll ia neatly printed and ; sold rapidly. ' The trial of Mrs. Osborne, alius Wilson, charged with assault on Au- I gust us Hesless, a well known lawyer, by a jury to-day elicited snmo very ; racy information a to life in San Fran- I cisco, including ihe social relations of , some peoplo occupying quite ' promt-: ncnt positions at present. When the case was given to (he jury Ihe foroman : said there was no need to retire, as they had already agreod on a verdict of not guilty, whereupon two jurors declared that on tho contrary they wero for a verdict of guilly. The judge sent them out and they are slill unable to agree C. II, 1'iirwin has been appointed .assistant district attorney vie judge Free Ion. Mrs. N. Tyler has been appoiufed copying clerk for the fourth district i court. ! Col. T. H. Holt received a dispatch from Washington to-day annouuoing the death of lion. Thomas L. Smith, who for thirly years has hold the position posi-tion of first auditor of tho U. S. treasury, having been appointed under Jackson. Four hundred (roops for Arizona arrived here to-duy from Cheyenno under command of general Carr. A second dividend of 25 per cent, on the defunct Mooney bank wiH bo declared de-clared in January, and probably a third in about six months. The Bel-levue Bel-levue and Talulah mining company have levied an assessment of one dollar per share. Sacramento, L Uoth branches of the legislature met to-day and (he new members were sworn in. Both houses adjourned without transacting any business. busi-ness. San Francisco, 5. The Hawaian government has agreed to pay $2,000 per month, for months, to Webb's Australian line, contingent upon the steamers touching at Honolulu. Six companies of the fifth cavalry, which arrived from the east yesterday, sailed on the Nficbcrn for Arizona via the Colorado river. The first regiment N. G. C, Col. Barnes, will not go to Sacramento in full, but the officers will. Mexican Consul Decider gives noliea that the port of Magdalena bay, Lower California, will remain open to foreign commerce until tho 31st inst, when it will be closed by decree of tho supreme government, not by order of the late collector. Owing to the detention of trains on the Union Pacific railroad the Ausfcra-' lian steamer Moses Taylor, will not leave until the end of the week. The day is not yet fixed. jrnvace iciters irom vvasnington say Vincent Collyer is practically shelved, and no further interference from him in Arizona matters need be feared. Stockton, 4. I t is rumored that the transfer of the Stockton, Copperopolis and Visalia railroad to the Central Pacific railroad will take place to-morrow. ARIZONA. Los Angeles, 4. Tho Prescott Arizona Ari-zona Miner of November 23, snys tho work on the mines inBradshaw district is mostly suspended until spring with the exception of Jigros, who keep n small force in Walluper's district and a five stamp mill, charging $50 per ton for crushing, arid have more than they can do. Five tons of ore shipped ship-ped to San Francisco yielded $2,500 per ton. Emigration to the district continues almost unprecedented. Mail j facilities will soon be extended from Prcscott. A party of 40 left Florence for the now mines in Pinal district. The excitement is spreading throughout through-out the whole Gila and Salt Lake country. A party left Prcscott last week lor the district. There is great activity at military head quarters noticeable preparatory to the winter campaign of G en. Crook at Fort YVhi p-plo. |