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Show PACIFIC COAST XEAVS. CALIFOEXIA. A prand hoteI;is projected at Saota Barbara. The thirty-fifth vessel to load wheat at Vallejo has arrived at that port. Those engaeed in the rai.-iDg of ( sheep are eonpratuiatini thomeelves on the favorable outlook for the coming 1 season. Five tht.uar;d.- tens of "chicory" froB three hundred acres of land is the estimate lor that crop in California this year. Fleas are so thick in San Diego, that it is ncceary to blast through a strata of these lively insects two feet in ihickoea to reach the surface of the soil proper. The whaling season in the vicinity of San .Pedro thus far has been quite successful. The company operating at Fortueucse Bend has cut up and tried out eicht whales this seasoo. The depreciation of property in Havilah is without precedent in aoy of the old mining camps in the State. The best of the occupied buildings iLere may now be purchased for a less number of cents than it cost dollars to erect them a few years ago. A young woman, the wife of a Chicago Chi-cago reporter, who had eloped and come to t'an Francisco with a gay deceiver, de-ceiver, was followed by her father and discovered. The Lothario disappeared, and the truant wife and her father started for their wintry home Feb. 3. The trout raisers receive fresh importations im-portations of eggs each week. On Friday last they received ten thousand eastern trout ova, which were placed in the hatching-boses at Point San Pedro, where the society already have 17,000 young fry of this year's hatch feeding. NEVADA. Tho Winnemucca mines are reported report-ed as looking very favorably. The Virginia city Piutes make assurance as-surance doubly sure this winter by piiching their tcuLs inside deserted buildings. A thief in Piochc the other day stole a barrel of butter, and the Kecord comes out in a bloodthirsty article about crimes in Pioche and says the adoption of summary measures aro necessarv. Mrs. Fanny Schussler, now in jiil at Elko for throwing vitriol in the face and eyes of Joseph McLiuehlin, at Mountain city, a short time since, says lhat McLaughlin owed her $300, that he had promised to marry her, and that when she a.-ked him fo fulfil his promise he told her she was too old tor him. OR. EGO H. A thousand Chinese tiles have arrived ar-rived at Salem to be used for paving garden walks by one of the aitizens in t hat place. There has yet been but little or no placiou done in eastern Oregon, bnt prospecting parties are said to be now drilling, with a fair show of success at several points in Baker county. Several large ditches, leading from beaver dam lands on some Washington Washing-ton county farms into the Tualatin river, have lately caved in in many places nearly filling. The post-ofiicc at Hillsboro is about to be the subject of litigation. Our correspondent iulimatcs that the postmaster post-master has sold out his interest in it. 1 bis is rathor a strange proceeding. Therfl have b en recorded in the office of tho oouoty olerk ot Washing-ion Washing-ion county, during the month of January, Jan-uary, fifty deeds and about a dozen mortgages. Two marriage licenses have been issued f rom the same office duringrthe same time. |