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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS CALIFORNIA. The Grass Valley people nsk of the Lick Observatory to be erected on Banner Mountain. Meteors in numbers have been seen for several evenings in the aky in the region about Marysville. Aear Truckce, at Prosser creek, Wednesday, the ice in the pond was from two to three inches thick, and skating was in order. The suit of McGarrah against tho New Idra Quicksilver company is to come up in the District Court at San Jose on Monday next. Plaintiti"elaimsv the mine and $5,000, 000 damages. Santa Cmz is a Manufacturing town, yet at the county fair held last week nothing in the shape of manufactured manu-factured articles were exhibited except ex-cept a bunch of shingles. A teletrram received at the Humboldt Land Office, from Washington, withdraws with-draws from sale the lands in Hound Valley, recently thrown open to gur-chasc gur-chasc by actual settlers. John "Linderman, who was terribly mutilated bv pn explosion of bad air in his mine at Mt. tro,Xcvada county, coun-ty, October 23, is still lying in an unconscious un-conscious state, but suftering considerable consid-erable pain. Scarcely a hope is entertained en-tertained of his recovery. A party has gone from Ukiah to prospect a route for a ditch'from Walker Wal-ker Valley creek to tho gold fields near Calpella. These mines were Drospected years ago, and gold found, but not in sufficient paying quantities quanti-ties for ground sluicing. A San Luis Obispo date of the 25th instant says: This morning while the driver waa having mail changed at Korn's store, nine miles east of here, the horses attached to the stage ' were frightened by some drunken men, and ran against another team with such force as to drive tbe wagon 1 pole through two of the horses, killing kill-ing both. During the last three days thirty- five cars loaded with lumber have been shipped from Truckee eastward. Each air averaged about 7,000 feet, giving a toLil of 245.0J0 feet. The total shipments from Meadow Lake township within the past seven days will exceed 4,000,000 feet. Von Scnmidt says that the only obstacle ob-stacle which prevented him from bringing the whole of Lako Tahoe within the jurisdiction of California is the 120th meridian of longitude, if Pnnrrvpa would onlv amend the longitude and remove it five miles to ihe eastward it would be easy to bring the whole of the lake within tho boundaries of this State. Perhaps our readers, says the al-Irjo al-Irjo lndcp-:ti'knt, are not aware of it, but it is a fact that Governor Booth has been elected United State Senator. Sena-tor. The election took place at tho fair, held by the ladies of St. Patrick's Church in San Joe, at an expense of twenty-five cenls a ballot, and result-1 ctl as follows: Booth, 1,450; Casserly, 1 955; Wallace, 554., AEVADA. Tom Wheeler, "the handsome blonde of Esmeralda county," who now feeds hia flocks on the green pine hills of Oregon, was married to Miss v Lizzie Perkins, at Careen, on cd- nelav. It was a huge atlair. A locomotive, express, and baggage car went into the ditch on theTiuckec road on Wednesday night. No one Near the entrance of the American 'lat railway tunnel ft promising oiu laim is being worked. H is said to o. in the language of '40, 'iousy with old." , , G. W. Hutchinson, arrested for ape in Silver City, New, about three ,-ccks a co, was tried before the Third )istrict Court at Dayton, Nev. The tiry returned a verdict of not guilty. John Tibbits, a miner of Gold Hill, lied suddenly in Virginia City on iVcdncsdav. Pyramid Lake trout arc plenty m 3old Hill. Edward McCarthy, of the Belche: works, broke his leg on Thursday, while unloading a car of lumber.' Piochc is infested with petty thieves. Blankets, clothing, evoking uteusils, and small sums of money disappear every night. The Nevada Gift Concert Lottcrv is acain agitated in the Virginia City papers. S265.000 in gold coin is sure to be distributed to ticket holder., they say. Which is "all in my eye, BetVy Martin." OREGON. The City Council of Portland refus ed to paw an ordinance for prevcntioi of cruelty to animals. Petty larcenv thieves at the Dallw ohuin knowledge by stealing book and papers from the scnool houses. Pro-nectors lor quartr ledges oi Wacncr creek, are doing a Cod bust ness and that section ot countr promiscs to be one of the best minin; fli-trirts in the State- A oncfonrtl in.oreft in the W;gncr mine has bee; sold for $ 2..500. V local paper sums up a m.lho .inJ ,i ouart.r bushels of wheat an rvYl C'hu-'.e.s of lbx and ...IX1 i 1,-p.i.els of oats as the surplus prodtu f Linn couTitv, d-ir.ng l:ic preset vcar. I-ur thw the fanners will n 0ivC -d-our two million dollars. We.lnt-5'.lav afternoon alwit 1-.? -.nic cV'hv.i p'.avinc with match. U fire to a large torn and shed . t,.,v owned hvllunl A Co., ol A. bar and totally ch.troyl both. By U 'tvtt exertion- of the fire d-partmei , aWisted by citizens, residences ar ;uljomiiv tuiiidings were 3aved. li. ' aslroiig'suutii wind leeu blowing. is common at this time of the year, tho entire northern part of the city would have gone, as the water had given out. |