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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The Lako Bigler project is to be revived, re-vived, and the tunnel run through the mountain in four years. The committe of 100 will call a mass meeting to take action on the 35 lb parallel railroad proposition. Martinez has voted 85,000 for the erection of a school-houso. Sheriff Mulkey, after a long and hard ride down from Inyo county as tar as Kern county, got back the other day with the object of his trip a young Mexican horse-thief, calling himself Francisco Palema, but whoso real name is Seoul veda, from Los Angeles. A sharper in San Diego lately succeeded suc-ceeded in selling a species of cat-bird known as the butcher-bird to several persons who thought they were buying mocking-birds, He said be thought they were what he represented them to be mocking-birds. Lester W. Lin&ley, an old resident of .Nevada City and Sacramento, died June 2iind alter a short illness. A case of varioloid small pox has made its appearance at Pawii, twenty miles from San Diego, 'Alio puuuui is doing well. The Santa Barbara Times state that Jose tispinosa has eloped with an innocent in-nocent girl of sixteen, leaving behind a wile and two or three children. In Alpine county on the night of June loth, the people were favored with a snow-storm. A foot of snow was deposited ou the Big Trees road over a belt of 27 miles. The .North Pacifio Coast Railroad Company's Directors have been interviewing in-terviewing the members of the Board of Supervisors in Marin county in regard re-gard to tho calling of an election to vote that incorporation a subsidy of $330,0o0, iu order to aid them in building their railroad. A wtieat field of three hundred acres on the Balso ranch, nearHullister, was burned on Thursday last, caused by the carelessness of men engaged in burning the heavy growth of grass that had accumulated on the railroad property. The loss, about $6,000 will tall on Messrs. Moss and Taylor. Great armies of worms, organized in companies, regiments, brigades, divisions and so ou, arc doing great mischief on Wolf Creek, below Grass valley. They devour everything green that they come to, and there is uo use in fighting thorn. The army was, at last accounts heading toward Grass valley. A parly of railroad surveyors have been encamped near Newtown for the past few days. They will probably remove re-move towards Sonoma, laying out the line of the projected road to Suscol. Thc sudden changes of temperature occurring lately have produced much sickness in Sacramento, and the action ac-tion of the sun upon the manv pools of stagnant water remaining from the winter rains produces malaria. Another headless rooster is on exhibition ex-hibition in Los Angeles. His orow is gone but his craw is healthy, and he is fed by a tube. Some oi these experiments ex-periments people are trying on roosters roost-ers might be tried with advantage on thc experimonters. i KBVADA. j A new school-house is to be orected I at Eureka. I The Marshal reports 229 children in Pioche between tho ages of four and twenty-one years. On Monday, Austin was visited by showers of rain, which made things . lovely. In Carson thc arrangements for the new school buildinga appear more promising. General Robert M. Clark has consented con-sented to deliver the oration at Carson city on tho Pouith. Judge Parkinson has been selected as the poet. A man named.William McCarthy was thrown from his horse and killed, a few days ago, fifteen miles from Win oemucca. Chief Engineer L E. James has commenced com-menced tho fcurvey for the extension of thc Virginia and Truckee raiiroad track north, to or near the Sierra Nevada mining works, Virginia city. Grading has also been commenced at tho intersection inter-section of Union and E streets. Virginia city is making extensive preparations tooclebrato the Fourth. Woodruff &, Eunor's stage was stopped by a 'road agent" three milos from Mineral Hiil, on Wednesday, and Wells, Fargo !c Co. 'a treasure box suffered suf-fered as usual. It is not known how much treasure is minus. Tho steamer Governor' Blasdcll exploded ex-ploded her boiler on Lako Bigler, on Thursday. Fortunately no ona was burL VHECONi Fifteen hundred dollars, tho amount needed, hat been raised in Salem to te-curo te-curo the erection of a town dock. The Salem Utittsmm is anxious to discover what bcame of the subscription subscrip-tion to pay the railroad company fur relocating tho track and ruDniog into the town. Tho report of the treasurer of tho Oregon Siaie agricultural boeiely show the espendiiurfrt of the last year to have been $14,044, and the balance on had Januury luth, 1T2, i44 15 Che report of tho secretary shtwo the indebtedness oi" th-i s"eier,y lo havo be-n at ihat dato $5.(XK). Thu Corvallm Democrat says : "Wo leara that a larpu amtiunt of gold dust, i said to be aboui $13 OOu, wM found by 1 soojo treasure burners in tho Donberc ; part of this county, near Soap Creek, U5twk. Th pa-T-a -ra said u be working under the guidance of spirit influence." This item will be ot but little interest, because most people will fail to believe it. Halsey's new hotel, Portland, will i be opened ou Saturday as the Clareu- doo House. Some railroad surveyors have found I near Astoria, Oregon, a box containing a lot of old Spanish coins, to the vaiue j of $j,70o, tecretcd near the line of i their surveys. j |