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Show PACIFIU COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA. A. N. Broder, of Tulare, recently sold a portion of his stock of cattle lor $1-5,00 J. Two cases of small-pox are reported at Live Oaks, about twelve milod from Stockton. .Miss Sally Hart, of San Francisco, is soon to speak in Truckee ou woman suffrage. The principle of perpetual motion has apain been discovered. This time the inventor lives in Petaluma. Prospecting on an extensive scale is going on in the Grizzly Mountain district, dis-trict, with considerable success. The ca?e of the Valencia brothers, in the Solano district court; has been adjoured till the first Monday in December. De-cember. In San Franci-co stocks on the regular re-gular list have fallen off in price more than $10,000,OUO during the last month. It is estimated that 100,000 tons of wheat will be moved by the California Pacific railroad this season to Vallejo. Hardly one-third of the amount has been sent forward yet. The harvest in Alpine county has resulted better than ever before, and is satisfactory except that of potatoes, which is far below the average cause, cool summer. Five eilk dresses, identified as belonging be-longing te the murdered woman Gibson, Gib-son, in Sacramento, have been found in the trunk of Mrs. Mortimer, whose husband is charged with the murder. On Thursday afternoon a heavy thunder-storm visited the northern portion of Alpine county, raining lor about i'nur hours heavily. It sDnwcd upon the mountains around Hope Valley. Professor Agassiz delivered an abb address on the night of September i?oth at Pacific Hall, San Franci.-co, on the ' Aims of science and the history of the animal kingdom." Thf Rnv Mr- Knonoor of Haverhill Mass , has written a letter declining to accept lhu mioislry of the Unity congregation con-gregation in San Jose, ou account cf the rufus:tl of his own society to accept his ri'siguaiiou. Cooper, U. iS. deputy surveyor at Happy (.'amp, Del Norte county, was dangerou-ly wonndid in a shooting affr;iy lupt week. The regular clean up of Idaho mine, last week, of blanket workings showed $17,000 in pold. The Kmpire mine has realized $30,-000, $30,-000, si nee the recent stri be. The rock now being crushed yields $40 per ton Yolo hfts struck water ac a depth of oito bundled and eighty ib'.t und the citizens are rejoicing. NIC VADA. KIko reports an abundance of fill! fights over dice, faro, poker, and tan gleleg. Another stago robbery is reported between Austin and Battle Mountain. Wells, Fargo & Co. 'e treasure box with 15,000 was taken. Tho Arizona mine has just shipped $5,4b2 of bullion. Carson has three private schools, and one public sohool with 150 regular scholars. For three days ending September 25th, Pioobe shipped $128,279,94 in bullion. Carson mint shipped $25,368 93 in gold and silver bullion, on Friday, to tho credit of the Crown Point mine. Tho funeral of Collins, late foreman of the Sierra Nevada mine, was largely attended, at Virginia oity, on Friday. - H. Harris, assayer at Gold Hill, took a dose of etrypbnine, Thursday night, by mistake He escaped death by swallowing a quantity of sweet oil, but suffered terrible convultions. Pioche lumber dealers say they sell a miliiorj feet of lumber per month. OREGON, ic. The Lynn county fair was to begin on the 24th ult. Work has been oommenced on tho railroad depot at Iloseburg. Good timothy hay is being delivered in Eugene city at $15 per ton. Rev. L- M. Niakorson, formctly of Salem, hits taken charge of Lebanon college. Two hundred Chinese passed Rose-burg Rose-burg on their way to Jacksonville, lust week. Wm. Hurley, a plasterer, fell down stairs at Junction city last week and brfike his neck. The improvements on thofairground at Salem this year will cot the society $2,000. Jo Teal has a fl:ie Cotswold buck which weighs d i6 pounds, on liis farm iu Yamhill county. J. M. Skclton wus lately arrested on a charge of cattle stealing in linker county, but managed to esoapo. Elijah Uristow, whoe-: death was noticed recently, was the firjt tattler within the limits ol Lane coun'y. Byl. C. Simpson, State librarian frr tho past two years, has resigned and is Bicceedcd by J. B. McLanc, of North Salem. L. Samuels, of Portland, will publish pub-lish a daily paper on the fair ground at Salem, d'jriug the coming Slate fair. It is said that the Urcgou and California Cali-fornia railroad will be completed to a point four miles south of Roseburg, this fall. The dwthing house of A. H. Booth-by" Booth-by" on Rogue river caught fife last Tuesday and burned to the ground, and everything therein was consumed. Tho artesian well at Jacksonville reached a depth of 200, at which point the sand pump got last and tho work is at least temporarily stopped. Judge Matlock, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Clackamas Clacka-mas county, died at his residence near Marchfield on Thursday of last week. Tho "Paragraph" 6ays twenty-one skunks were killed at Roseburg last week. The people of that town must be compelled to wear clothes pina on their noses. Tho Hutterfields of California are on their way to the Oregon State fair with 000 bead of Angora goats of half and full blood. They arrived at Roseburg last week. The Roseburg hoodlums, having concluded to follow the wako of the Jacksonville hoodlums, have telegraphed tele-graphed to the latter place for giant powder to go fishing with. The first raee at Albany, Thursday, a single dash, was won by "Koss Hiram" over Tcnncnt's "Black Bill." The second, a trotting race, bet two in three, was won by Ames' "Minnie Par ton," over three others. Time, a.loj and 3.12, The third raw, best two in three, was won by ' Trifle," over Gird's "Buckskin." Time, 1.45 and 1.55. |