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Show PACIFIC COAST mvs. CALIFORNIA. Antioch is clamorous for waterworks. water-works. Gilroy reports a sharp shock of earthquake. Huckleberries arc found in abundance abund-ance at Shasta. Halibut are abundant at Santa Cruz. Some of those caught weigh occ hundred hun-dred pounds. Dan. Villa, a boy of sixteen, has been lodged in the jail of Santa Cruz county for forgery. Charles A. .Rogers committed suicide Friday night by drowning himself in Butto creek, at Shaffer's Point. Lieutenant-governor Paclicco's ball ; at the State prison s postponed uutil Friday. The Amador "Ledger" says 50.000 sheep are pastured in the slopes of the Sierras, cast of Antclopo Springs. Tho journeymen bakers of San Francisco Fran-cisco arc preparing to strike for shorter hours and more frequent payments. Owens Lake, in Inyo county, which, soon after the earthquake, fell as much as threo fect, is gradually resuming its old lcvcL James P. S urgent & Co. have struck a rich vein of cinnabar in their Corro Benito mine, near the Grando Pa nocho. Auguptin and Ventura, two Mexicans, Mexi-cans, of Bakcrsticld, had a serious cutting cut-ting aft'ray the other evening, in which both wcro badly wounded. In Santa Barbara, side by side, grow tho olive, almond, waluut, orange, lemon, fig, pomegranate, apple, peach, plum, pear, grapes, and strawberries. Tho work on the Yuba Dam is progressing pro-gressing finely, the piles having all been driven across the present water courso, and if nothing happens the wholo structuro will bo finished in a few days. K 11. Puckctt, of Petaluma, exhibits exhib-its what ho claims aro very fine opals, which ho found in Copeland creek, near that citjs a short time ago, and ho believes ho will find diamonds. Several ranchers near Weber lake havo had a number of cattle killed lately by bears. On Monday lat n largo and powerful Spanish bull was killed near the lake by these bears and partially dovourcd. NEVADA. The first through train from ltcrio reached Gold Hill on Monday. T. M. Fillebrown was taken for a quail by a fellow hunter, near lie no, on Saturday, and was shot in the fiico. Henry Laaker of tho Daney mine was badly injured on Monday by tho hoisting reel shaft breaking All the quarts mills along tho Carson Car-son river are running steadily. Carson city is to have a new paper. A Virginia City burglar took two boxes of oigars, three bottles of wine, and seven young pups, on Saturday night. Fred. Jams, at Brown's station, fifty miles east of Wadsworth, had his right hand and wrist crushed while attempting to make a coupling of two ears on Suuday. OIIEUOX AC. Abundant rains, in Arizona, have made grass feed plenty, and mining prospects bright. A whale thirty feet long has taken up his quarters in the bay near Port Townsend. The Port Townsend "Argus" says the town is awfully crowded, and in some eases twenty persons occupy a shanty. The is a large demand from eastern Oregon for blooded sheep, and the general inquiry is for Merinos. The diamond excitement does not infect in-fect any part of Arizona. Tom Miner, leader of the San Francisco diamond expeditions, is denounced by the "M inpr" ns a bilk. The Arizona "Miner," Prcscott, August 2-1 th, says that au appeal which has been mado with governor Saflbrd, on behalf of llichard M. liar-grave, liar-grave, lor reprieve of sentence or slay of proceedings, has been unsucccs.ful. Hargrave is under sentence of death to be hanged November Gib. Some of the sailors of tho ship "Aurora" mutinied as she was being towed to sea, on tho 23th of August, from Victoria, British Columbia, and assailing the captain inflicted severe injuries in-juries upon him. The ship was brought back to port, and the mutineers sentenced sen-tenced to three months imprisonment. |