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Show j PACIFIC COAST JEWS. j CALIFORNIA. 1 San IVancisco, 10. Yesterday M. j B. llagan, formerly a conductor on the C. P. It. 11., died suddenly in a grocery on Jackson street. The annual sale of pews in the Unitarian Uni-tarian church last evening only pro- duced 1,1 SI, a mere fraction of what I was realized at the sales for several I years. i The weather is warm and cloudy, j Wind variable from south-east and . and north-east by turns. It is not ' j raining this morning, t James C. Conroy, of the firm of ; Conroy .v. O'Connor.died at San Haalcl j last night, after a long illness, lie ! was one of the oldest and most suc-: suc-: ; ccs;ful business men of San IVancisco. Special treasury agent Lobdcll has been making a full examination of the custom house, and has directed several 1 changes in collectors and naval officers of the departmont to facilitate the transaction of business, lie generally ' found the dill'erent departments in a good state of efficiency. The Hercules Silver Mining Co. ' was incorporated to-day, 0,0110,000 ; capital, to operate- in Bristol district, ; Nevada. j The city is completely over-run with thieves and roughs, the number being twice as great as at any former time in twenty years. There are l!40 prisoners prison-ers in the county jail, of whom it is ; believed lo", at least, are able bodied I men fit to do hard labor, sent up l'or I petty larceny and other minor offenses. 1 It is believed that the proposed chain gang bill, and the enlargement of the powers of the police court, will drive a : large portion from the country, or compel them to go to work; the chain gang boiug a perleet terror to those who look upon the jail as far prefcra- ble. j ; , G1eorfe Car.-ten, a rag picker, fell j I dead while pulling over a pile of rub-1 rub-1 bish to-day. I 1 The vacancies mads bv the removal ' ot the appointees made a lew davs ago, on the plea of necessity for economy, ' . have all been iiiled bv now appoint-; appoint-; mcnts. It is noticed as remarkable ' that a!! the removals for economy were ameng the friends of one congressman ' and the appointees ro friends of -n-' other. At nL'hitah the aky became .,uddcn- . y cjuudy again, the wind fell aud the barometer also, and at a p.m. it be-an raimug. It appears now like the com- ' mencement ot a heavy storm. Dispatch Dis-patch from other parti of the State " L; ramm., heavily with every livelihood ot mere beini a severe torm. Sacramento, D. Weather cUan-eJ ju-am during the night, and it b now b.owmg fresh from the southeast' no rain, i tiere 15 no truth in the rcport-. rcport-. ea flood here. Sana Bj-a, U-.-J. M. Urown, the atavi TQj-azr acd murderer. p;eaj Mony. The trtd of the othr atace rooocrs is set tor next Monda- i-uia, 1:. Uver an ineh of rain 1 his t.i ,oq. m tne last twenty-four , uouri. Ihe stages are still very irrcau- ' lar on the Cniroy route, |