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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA. The fire that is raging on the Humbug Hum-bug mountains was occasioned by a thunderbolt Tha delegates to tho congressional convention chosen at Vallejo favor the renomination ot'Coghlan. The Republican delegates from Yolo county are instructed to vote forjudge Hutton for Congress. Tho Contra Costa Republican delegates dele-gates are instructed to vote for Nathan Sorter, of Alameda. Tho Northern Enterprise says; "The Aider creek claims pay from $3 to S4 per day to the hand, with rocker. Hon. Frank SpauldiDg, formerly judge of Oolusa oounty, intends starting start-ing a Democratic paper at Lukeport, Lake county, about the 1st of September. Septem-ber. On Saturday tho barge Clara Crow, laden with lumber, struck a snag on the San Joaquin river, a few miles above, the railroad bridge, and sunk. Ground was broken on the North Pacific Coast railroad on the 2Gth. The point selected is oo White's hill, six miles west of San Rafael, on the Olema road, A new road has been surveyed from the Geysers to Healdsburg, which avoids all heavy grades. It wil be costly, but will be by far the best road. The steepest grado is one foot in ei?ht. Judge Eeldeo, of the twentieth district, dis-trict, has rendered a decision in favor of the people of Santa Cruz, against Henry Cowell, claimant of Land in the harbor of Santa Cruz. Bids for the construction of tho Sutter Sut-ter canal are advertised lor. But eight miles on the upper end remain urtGuished, and the estimated amount required to finish the canal is G0,-000. G0,-000. The residence of William Reeves, in Gallatin, Los Angeles county, was entered by burglars last Thursday night, when a shot from a revolver by Mrs. Reeves drove them away. The Amador Ledger says tho forty stamps of the Original Amador mine are pounding away on the largo ac cumulation ot valuable rock taken from the mine during the construction of the mill. W. R. Cox, of Vallejo, has been held to answer in $1,000 bail for shoot-"?5 shoot-"?5 boy who was passing his place. Ihe boy, whose name is Timmy Cortes, Cor-tes, and only eight years old, is severely wounded. Cox suspected him of stealing fruit The Calaveras Ch'onicle says the sinking of the central shafc in the Gwin mine has developed an immense body of rich ore, extending from the surface down, but it will not be disturbed until un-til the shaft reaohes a depth of 200 feet or more. On Monday last, some timo in the evening, about a dozen Chioamen wilted into an establishment on China alley, Watsonville, and captured a fair moon-eyed female, and departed for parts unknown. Officers are now after the kidnappers. The Napa Reporter says the numerous numer-ous mines of oinnabar in the oounty are all reported to be in a promising condition. Valley mine has yielded thirteen flasks within a month, and the Washington, with a force of five men, has yielded twenty-eight flasks and a net profit of $1,000 within the same period. The Phoenix has 4,000 tons ot ore on hand, NEVADA. J. P. Jones has seoured the management manage-ment of the Gould & Curry mine. Carson city was lighted by gas for tlie first time oo Saturday evening. The Oneida mine, at Pioche, has been Fold to a San Francisco company for $40,000. y TheAuiericao Basin company of Humboldt county i3 about ereottng large concentrating works in Star district, dis-trict, The Pennsylvania coal mine, near Llko, is being actively worked, and a stratum of coal of good quality has been struck at a depth of 150 feet. A portion of the heavy hoisting machinery ma-chinery for tho shafts of the Sutro tunnel has arrived at Steamboat, and some forty car loads of miscellaneous machinery, pumps, etc., are expeoted there id a few days. OREGON tbo. Hay in the Salem market is selling at from M5 to $1SS per ton. A wagon road is to be constructed irom Ireka to Sawyer's Bar. A bridge 1,000 feet long and to cost t-SO.OOO is to be built across the river at Salem, Oregon. Byron E. Daniels has been appointed private- seoretary to governor Ferry, of Washington Territery. Henry Smith, tho ferryman at Dn-wamish, Dn-wamish, near Seattle, burst a blood vessel and died whilo crossing the river. Coarso gold, which returns nine cents to the pan, has been found while digging a well on tho California and Oregon railroad. Joe Brannan, while in a fit of delirium del-irium tremens, ran iuto a fire, in a clearing near Portland, on the 26th instant, and was burned to death. W ATER IJ HOI'S. A new boating olub has been organized organ-ized in Toronto, of which Henry 0 Brien is president. Samuel Archer, a leading citizen of Hoboken, has boon elected vice-president of the Atlantic Boat Club. An amateur regatta is to oomo off at Pettaquamocot Cove, Narragansott flights, on August 3. Prizes are ottered for four-oared and single-scull races. i The Potomac regatta, about which the oarsmen and press of Washington ' and Georgetown, D.C., talked so enthusiastically en-thusiastically several months sinco, has been abandoned- j The Union yacht club, of Long 1 Island, held their annual regatta on ! the 30th inst. This club now owns twenty-two yachts and has 160 members mem-bers on the rolls. The Williamsburg yacht club held their annual regatta on the 23d- The Sorceress took the first prize in 1:25. In tho Brooklyn yacht raoo the Grade won in 1:14, tor a $250 cup. On the 6th instant, Geo- E. Cooper and George Johnston, of Toronto, rowed from Tinning's wharf to Parkinson's Park-inson's Hotel, on the bay, for $100 a side, Cooper winning by half-a-dozen lengths. A four-oared match, for $100 a side, was made between the Clipper and J. M. White boat clubs of Pittsburg, on July 13. They were to row two miles, with a turn, on the Alleghany river, 20th inst The Manhattan yacht club regatta came off on the 23d, the Orion winning win-ning tho first, and the Mystery the second prize for first class sloops. The Sophia Emma and Mary Louise the same in their class. William Thomson, a gentleman well known in commercial circles, and David McCleary, a member of tho press, rowed a scullers' race for $200 a side in Toronto bay, on June 2'.), the former winning by half a length. The Shatemuc Boat Club of Pouch-kecpsie, Pouch-kecpsie, held their annual review and regatta on the Hudson a few days since; The main event was a single scull race, which was won by George an Vliet, G. S. Burnap second, John Grubb third, T. R. Roosevelt fourth, and John Reynolds filth. A tub race followed, and was won by J. White-house. A rowing regatta came off recently on LakeQuanissoitt, Wakefield, Mass., several thousand persons assembling to witness it. Tho single scull raoo was won by L. Johnson, and the double . scull by W. L. Coon and E. Edge-comb. Edge-comb. This is the fourth time Coon has been one of the victorious pair. Wm. Dagnall, of the Moorhead club of Pittsburg, Pa., has challenged Wm Albertson of the Clipper to row in shells, for $150 a side, on the Upper Monongahela cour?c. John Snyder of the Beck club has also challenged Hen Deiscnroth, of the Sheridan, to pull three miles for $100 a side over the course. They had a tilt last summer. Mark Addy, the well-known Manchester Man-chester (Kng.) scnller, saved a young girl of sixteen, who had fallen into the river Irwell, from drowning, on June 24. The rescue was accomplished with great difficulty, Addy being much exhausted, and the members of the Manchester Nemesis Rowine club are endeavoring to obtain the Royal Humane Hu-mane Society's medal for him. |