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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Tho small-pox is increasing in San Francisco. Addie Mustard, a child three years of age, whose parents reside on Caroline Caro-line street, San Francisco, was killed by being run over by one of the Lone Mountain cars, on Tuesday. Miners are in active demand at Havilah. Grasshoppers havo appoaredin Kern county. Good farm bauds command three dollars and a half per day in San Joaquin Joa-quin ccunty. The citizens of Colusa county offer $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction con-viction of the person or persons who lately cut Mr. Doty's throat on Sulphur creek. Mr. Doty will, it is believed, recover. John Whitney, formerly of New York, has been murdered by Indiana or Greasers at his store near the mouth of the Colorado. Dixie Thompson, of Santa Barbara, has invented a "man bellows" for exterminating ex-terminating squirrels by puffing sulphur sul-phur fumes into their holes. The Texas Facific railway ia to be 1,315 in length. For 250 miles the road will be an air line, and in a stretch ! of SI 5 miles there will be but six bridges. N. F. R. R. surveying parties report the discovery of rich bottom lands in the valley of the Skagit river, and that there seema au cuay grade from the Sound to Skagit pass. Tho number of Cashmere goais in tho State, from one-quarter to full-bloods, full-bloods, is estimated at 40,000. The fleece, according to giade, is worth from 25 cents to $1.25 per pound. A wood-shed on the Central Pacific road, about a mile from Colfax, was destroyed by fire on Monday, with about four hundred feet of track, several seve-ral hundred cords of wood and the water tank. The Rural Press learns that the attempts at-tempts to grow tea in California as an article of profit, have proved failures. The Kl Dorado experiment resulted in great pecuniaryloss. The experiments at Calistoga were also unsuccessful. NEVADA. George J. Nuss, a Prussian, thirty-five thirty-five years of age, was killed in the Daney mine by a cave on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Tiut, a washerwoman of Gold Hill, died of sickness superinduced by starvation, at that place, a few days ago. Her neighbors knew nothing i about her condition until it was too late. 1 R. Shean endeavored to take out a piece of broken cam from one of the batteries in Lynch's mill, Virginia, on Tuesday. He has but one forefinger now, and that is on his left hand. It is estimated, that 7,000 acres of grain will be harvested in Paradise valley, Humboldt county, this season. The request of Ryan, who murdered his wife in Virginia city, to be buried with her, was not complied with. The parents of Mrs. Ryan aro on the road to Virginia city from Ohio. At the circus in Virginia city on Saturday evening, a chandelier containing con-taining five gallons of gasoline fell; the oil took fire, and the flames reached nearly to the top of the tent. No one hurt. |