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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. I CALIFORNIA. Anna Mehlifr, tha pianist, will give a coDcert at Oakland 'IburFrJay nigbL There are 4 :i09 men subject to miii-tary miii-tary duty in Alameda county. Immense quantities of wheat are od ' the wharrea of South Vallejo awaiting 1 shipment. Tourists to Yosemite state that the volumes- of the waterfalls are greatly beyond any known precedent. The ordinary yield of wheat on the Marsh grant io Contra Costa jcoumy has been nearly sixty busheU an acre this year thirl y-six centals, or $45 per acre at present low prices, clear of sacks and freight. .Robert Gordon Milne, tho Oxford graduate, was released from tbe chain gaog,Saturday, by order Irom the district dis-trict court, upon motion of tbe district attorney, wbo based his action upon the fuot that the ends of justice had been fully met by his incarceration up to this time. A Cherokee liviog in Fresno county has just received the pleasine intelligence intelli-gence that the laoda of hia nation are about to be divided and portioned out to the tribe, 220 acres to each person. As he has eight children, hia farm will be a pretty extensive one. Tbe Yreka Journal says; The Chinese Chi-nese are buying up all the mining claims on McAdams creek and Dead-wood, Dead-wood, and own about all of Deadwood already. A company of Cbinamen have bought the .Enterprise claim, just below Carroll's, for $4,200, and will buy several others, if possible, in that section. A magnificent body ci" ore of the richest quality of the oxodized class : soiiicates. black and red oxides, with a large proportion of native bluestone, has recently beeu opened out iu the Leviathan mine. An average sample taken from the dump, upon assay, showed forty-four per cent copper. This extensive body of rich oro overlies over-lies an immense deposit of native sulphur. NKVADA. The Grand Lodge of Nevada Odd Fellows has presented a magnificent regalia to the Grand Lodge of the United States. James Cook, a miDer iu the Crown Point mine, fell under the cars at Gold tlill and was dragged forty feet having bis head ortished and both legs nearly severed from his body. The Greeley Democrats of Carson jubilated over the news from North Carolina. A cave 10 the Bullion mine, on Friday, Fri-day, severely injured A. B. Parsons. The Democrats of Eureka fired one hundred guns, bonfired and jollified at tbe first reports from the old Tar taie. The grand jury at Gold Hill are engaged en-gaged on the Hubbell Yellow Jacket fire case. The Battle Mountain etage was robbed Friday Dight and a thousand dollars, in coin and watches, taken. Tbe Reese River district shinDed in July $74 930 .d bullion. Wm. H. Carghill, aa old pioneer of White Pine, has just died, from the effeots of a kick from a cow, OREGON, ETC The hark Manilla arrived at Astoria from Hongkong with two hundred Chinese, and has been quarantined by the health officers. Four Chinamen were killed and twelve injured by a blat at Oregon city, which forced itjolf through a weak place iu the rock to where the men were at work. Stock books are to be opened on August 6th, at Victoria, for subscriptions subscrip-tions to tho Canadian Pacific railway, ten per cent, to be paid down. Six millions are apportioned to British Columbia, - |