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Show The Italians have aeain hoisted th.'i (: inscribed "Viva Italia Koma Cap-Kuia," Cap-Kuia," the displaying of which a li-w wcek.i ago nearly created a riot. ; A i.utiee calling fur the coming ' t-It-eliuii, issued by ord-T :' th'- b-.-ard , nl'-u"-rvisor.-, proi.-nL.. the ipiahtii-a j tions for voters, under the Nt, 2nd, I :jth, -tth, and "ith sections, and cites ! the (VuMiuiti.iQ u-iiig the words, j "white maie citizen over twenty-one j years of ace,'" or citizens of Mexico; 'before the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo, Hi-dalgo, saying nothine about the constitutional con-stitutional amendment. The omission was probably accidental, but it gives the colored citizens some anxiety. Last uiiht about midnight, the city wa-s startled by a report like that of the explosion of a heavy powder magazine, mag-azine, which shook the buildings in all parts of the town, many turned out, ! under the impression that some great ; disaster had occurred, and reporters ' ran in ull directions seeking the cause. It turned out to be simply the firing of a small signal gun on the .steamer ! Hi'nc3 Alfred, then coming up the harbor, which ordinarily would not bel i heard any distance. Some peculiarity! I of the atmosphere at the moment is i the Mipposed cause uf the unusual con-, ! cussion. Mrs. Lizzie Smith committed suicide sui-cide at 3 G Pine street to-day. San Franci.-eo, 2S. Tho sales of the City Hall reservation lots, on Yerbu Buena Plaza, were about two-thirds through at 4 p.m., aud will be finished to-morrow. The prices realized are reported under the estimates of the experts ex-perts employed by the commissioners, but real estate dealers geneially consider consi-der them very high. The avenge on Market street fur lots 2o by KHI feet has been over $10,000, corners excluded; ex-cluded; and on Park Avenue about two-thirds as much. The lowest price paid was 8;",2S0 for a lot on Park Avenue. Av-enue. The corner of Market and City Hall Avenue, 25 feet on Market by 100 on the Avenue, sold for $24,000. The total receipts from this sale, if prices hold out, will approximate, if not exceed, ex-ceed, $750,000. Tho wheat market affected by the plethora of unemployed capital, is excited ex-cited to an unusual degree to day, and holders ask 2.o0, and getting it in some cases. John Hearn, .tried iu the United States circuit court to day, for smuggling smug-gling opium from Victoria, on the steamer PcJican, was acquitted. Stocks generally arc flat to-day, with a little better feeling at the close of the afternoon board. The transaction') were very light. |