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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFOR.MA. A new fire engine has been shipped overland for Uakland. Two car loads of Italian emigrants have arrived at San Francifeo. Colored children have been admitted to the public schools in Sonora, Tuolumne Tuol-umne cnunty. The Central Paoific railroad company now owns about 3,oU0 freight cars of all classes The Ca iforoia, Atlantic and Pacific railroad company has filed its articles of incorporation. The California paper manufacturing company basfiled its certificate of incorporation. in-corporation. A big strike. A steam hammer that strikes a thirty ton blow is being put up in the blacksmith shop of Mare Island. John Brown, of San Francisoi, who stole a six-bit jewel from a Chinese sweptness, got three months for the theft and ten days for the language he indulged in on the same memorable occasion. - A crazy man from El Dorado county is endeavoring to find a purchaser for what he calls a five-million-dollar diamond, dia-mond, but which is only a piece of hrystallized quartz. George 8. Ladd, superintendent of the Western Union telegraph com pany, was married to Miss L'zzte Miller Mil-ler on last Thursday evening, at the residence of the brido's sister. Bridal tour to Santa Cruz, etc. The Santa Cruz and Branciforte quicksilver mining company have struck very rich rock in their claim, the cinnabar cin-nabar and pure vcrmillion being visible in masses and crystals, sulphurets and seams all through the rock. Commodore Parrott has been relieved re-lieved from command of the navy yard at Mare Is'and, to take effect the 3d of September, and will take command of the Boston yard, in place of admiral Stcedman. MKVADA. There ia a largo fire in the mountains moun-tains near Mountain Bay mine Maurice Hartnutt, foreman ot the Lauder mineB was severely bruised by being thrown from a horse, at Eureka, on Saturday. Frank Kenyon and Wm. B. Taylor are arranging for a new paper at Pioche. Important developments are making on Prospect mountain mines. Jack Morrison and James Clem have been arrested for connection with the Susanville stage robbery. Virginia has had a Greeley and Brown ratification with Frank Pixley as orator. There is a great excitement about a recent strike of Eilver oro two and a half miles west of Carson oity, which is said to bo the continuation of the Comstock lead. OREGON &.C. Puget Sounders aro still operating "as they sail, as they sail." A party from tho Dalles has just visited tho summit of mount Hood. Business at Canvon city, Oregon, this year is very dull. Tho luioea aro : gradually failing. The weather in Oregon is getting hotter, and fires are on tho increaso. A largo oougar was poisoned and i shot a few miles from Seattle, last . Wedncsduy. Grasshoppers.forestfircs and drought i arc ail troubling tho farms this season in British Columbia. Cornelius; Gilieoy has been sentenced t to i in prison uioct for life for killing W. i R. Vale3, at Portland. ! Enough iron has been sent up tho i Columbia river to completo four miles ! of railrjad on tho Walla Walla road. I Washington Territory wants a statute I to punish bachelors for marrying the 1 schoulma'ums as tiit as thoy arrive General Milroy recently took possession pos-session of the office of superintendent of Indian affairs for Washington Territory. Ter-ritory. Tho lead mino on Santiam river receDily opened, prospects rich in silver, assaying one hundrod dollars to the ton. More than 2,000 laborers are now at work on tho North Pacific railroad between tho Columbia and Puget Sound, one half whom are Chinamen. |