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Show PACIFIC COAST EWS. CALIFORNIA. The army worm continues its ravag- cs iu Sutler county. They are travel- i iag onward, sweeping everything be-fure be-fure i hem. CVil. J. P. Jackson is to be the orator ora-tor of the Jy at Yallijo on the Fourth of July. ;V S'io of Wiu. Buckler cut hia fool badly with an ux ut ISjq Joc, June 22 1, ticaily severing his t ls. At San lit-rnardiuo lately Arthur Colo, a boy ten years old, killed wilh bis bow and arrow twenty-seven gophers. go-phers. There arc thrco bored wells in Fresno Fres-no city, one about SO and tho others about 4.j i'eet in depth. In tho deep well water rises to within 20 feet of the surface. Judge Iludlum died at Ilealdsburg on Thursday, June 20, of heart disease. dis-ease. He was in tolerable health for a person of his advanced ago to within lour hours of his death. Antone Casseras or Caseneros was inatautly killed ac Timber cove by a falling tree, on the 19th of June, while talking to another man. Ho was among the most expert vaqueros on the Pacitic coast and had passed through many dangers. About half way between San Mateo and Santa Cruz, the settlers are troubled troub-led with occasional visits from grizzly bears. They make a raid from the surrounding mountains and gobblo up a pig or calf, or eat the corn or other products crowing there. James Merrick, living near Linden on the Calaveras river, had a twenty-aero twenty-aero field of wheat burned on last Friday. Fri-day. L. V. Fletcher, a straDger, died of strangulation in Chico, last Tuesday. Mrs. Franc M. Clement, for a kmg timo contralto of Kev. Dr. Stone's church, in San Francisco, by speoial invitation in-vitation appears in the "boquet of singers" at the Boston jubileo. Calvin McDonald goes to St. Louis to edit a paper. The cabin of John Morrow, at Bear creek, Plumas county, was robbed last week. i Joaquin Miller has been rusticatiDg I in Mariposa county. Leo Ivnox, an old resident of Colu-ma, Colu-ma, died on Saturday a week. James Lattimcr was bitten by a rat-: rat-: tlesnake near Sonora on the 16th inst. ! A very liberal internal application of whiskey saved him. A huge wild cat disturbed the seren-1 seren-1 ity of a Mrs. McLeod at San Grego-! Grego-! rioi San Matteo county, last Saturday. She made rapid tracks to her house i and the cat escaped. San Jose has organized an athletic club. H. P. Sweeney died very suddenly at Bowman dam, Nevada county, last Thursday, under circumstances whioh rendered it suspioious. A new and strange shell-covered insect in-sect is killing the maple trees around i Petaluma. It was charged that Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens drew a pistol on Hon. David Meeker, on Tuesday night, in San Francisco in an anti suffrage meeting. Emily denies the soft impeachment and says she is afraid of pistols, but what she did have in her hand she doesn't state. The trial of Laura D. Fair is postponed post-poned until the first Monday in September. Sep-tember. NEVADA. Sally Winnemucca was not fatally wounded, as reported. She is able to "wrastle her hash" yet, and is likely to continue at it for somo time. The laying of brick in the court house walls, Reno, will oommenco about a week from Monday next. On Wednesday hist a row occurred among the Chinamen in Washoe city, in which one of the Children of the Sun bad his light put out by another Celestial bodv. Joseph Fox, an Irishman, was drowned in the Carson river on Sunday Sun-day last. Deceased was formerly a miner in Virginia city. .Nearly the whole portion of Chinatown, China-town, Virginia city, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. S. II. Wright, a teamster, had his heel nearly torn off and his feet badly lacerated at the Douglas mill, lower gold hill, on Saturday. OREGON. The small-pox excitement in Salem is dying out. The vote of Oregon has increased three thousand within two years. Tho school at the Grand Ronde Indian In-dian Agency, has twenty-seven Indian pupils. There is a universal growl from the papers of the State about the irregularity irregu-larity of the mails. Joe Simpson, a bar-keeper at Portland, Port-land, shot and killed Charles Grant the result of an eleotion quarrel. Fire and smoke are issuing from near the summit of Mount Raimer. They appear in jets and clouds, and are distinctly dis-tinctly visible on clear nights. I Tho Le Grande Sentinel says: "If present indications continue, Grand Ronde valley will produce the largest crop of oercals this season ever grown in that county." The proprietor of a fruit orchard on Mill creek, aear Dalles, says that from his two thousand peach-bearing trees he will not have a single peaoh this year, the frost having nipped them all. This is the case with nearly all the large orohards in Wasco county. An extensive deposit of rich iron ore has been discovered by the workmen engaged in excavating for a canal, about three miles from Oswego. The Oregonian says: "The canal leads directly through tho lode, and when that work is completed the ore can be shoveled into boats and transported down the canal to the lake, across that body of water, and through another canal to the river, where tho workB now stand, with but little trouble or expense." |