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Show PACIFIC COAST JiEWS. CALIFOOMA. tiacramooto is boring for water,and ccls no:hius tut chips, old iocs aod August Dubar was lately fined tweaty dollar? in the Sau Francisco police court tor shooang a.quail in the Golden bale park. In the Cajoo Tallcy the cra?a is trrowiD splcndtly. The ground is rather wet Jbr plowing, but over 5,000 acres ol' wheat are already sowd. The Central I'acilie railroad compariy is putting up a fug-Sell on the northeast north-east corner of Pacifo wharf, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, to enable their i'crry pilots to run I y sound. (Jaklanders are crazed with joy at prospect of the country seat being changed to Oakland. Already have they raised tho price of their property p;r cenr. Urass Valley has a man who always attends to hii own business and never meddles with that of other people. When he dies they are going to build him a first-class sepuleher, with ail modern improvements. During the late battle at the lava beds the Indians arc reported to have , placed rocks about the size of a man's head on their breastworks, to appear as thoueh their heads wero abovo the fortifications, which bait gulled many of the troops. Airs. Charlas Jlyers, of Woodland, has eloped from her husband and joined fortunes with another fellow. Charles went after her.but she refused to have anything to do with him ; and now Charles is going to buy a cannon and have a little artillery practice with :he other fellow. OKEtiOX. The horses of Eagene have the epizootic. epi-zootic. The children have the measles. The first enow of tho season at Eugene Ciiv it 11 on Thnrsilaw nf last week. A couple whose united ages were 1-12 were joined in marriage in Oakland last Wednesday. About $8,000 havo thus far been subscribed to the capital stock of the University Association. The noted Baptist preacher, Kcv. Joab Powell, is dead. li is unusual eccentricity made him quite a local celebrity, and his preaching wis always attended by large crowds. The Pioseburg Pantagraph is informed inform-ed that J ohn D. House, of Canyonville, while sitting ia a chair, eating an apple, and talking and laughing with some friends, suddenly give a gasp and expired. He was about sixty-live years of age, and had been iutirui for some time. K cports from Gardner stato thit four vessels were lying there awaiting a iiivorable lime to go out. One vessel has lain there forty-two days. There is no tug there to assist vessels, aud they can only run out whn the wind is fair. A new saw mill is i)i process of erection near Gardner. Hands are in dem-nd at good w:!geH to work in log-JgiDg log-JgiDg camps and in the mill. The editor of the Portland Statesman States-man has won a pony in a raih And now his trouble has commenced. He has got to go to the expense of building build-ing an expensive baru, oats to buy, hay to buy, boys to get kicked, surgeon's bills to pay, and the epizootic coming, too 1 |