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Show PACIFIC COAST SEM'S. CAL1FOR.MA. The fiaeship "California" will sail for HoDoluiu withiQ two weeks The lands Bold by the unirereity cf Santa Clara, at auction last, week, brought $;,S,000. K. J. Muybridee has returned from Yo&emiie with S00 negatives, many of tbom ukeo from new points of riew. The mercury in the thermometer Ln Sierra Valley went down to three degrees de-grees below zero during the Lare cold 1 weather. - 3"he seven woolen mills of California make a return of 4,191,000 poumL of wool ued up to September, lor the year 1S72. A joint-stock concern, to be known as the jNapa Valley Wine company, has been orcamzed, the object being to introduce Napa winea into the eastern east-ern markets. The workmen living in south V al-lejo al-lejo who were recently discharged from the navy yard have most of tliem found employment at Woodland, on tho new railroad. A farmer residing in Alameda Valley Val-ley lighted I his pipe in -his barn, the other day, and care'.es3ly threw tho match among some straw; Ho is now encaged in hauling lumber for anew barn, which he hopes to have finished by spriDg. . A petition to governor Booth in behalf be-half of a man named Hart, who is lying ly-ing in jail at Visalia under sentence of death Cor murder, is in circulation. It is said that another man has oonressed the deed, and a respite is solicited in order that the prisoner's innocence may be established. The hunters about Latrobe have killed four or five deer since last Saturday, Sat-urday, three wildcats, three coons and a large number pf quails. Tho deer are hunted with hounds and their music mu-sic can be heard for miles in tho chapa-ral chapa-ral hills. Deer are largely increasing in numbers here, and deserting the Sierras along the line of the Central Pacific NEVADA. Minnie Myrtle Miller is lecturing about Joaquin at Virginia City. Thomas Chiloy, carman at the Belcher Bel-cher hoisting works, badly bruised by tailing from the trestlework. A sack with ten bars of bullion found under a shoe shop at Silver City. There was a heavy sale of fine stock i in lleno on the 6th of December. They went at an average of $500 -per head ' for the cattle. i The treasurer of Lyou county, Nov., has paid into the state treasury th( ! sum of $13,000 on December settle' mcut. OREGOX. , A boy named Starr was arrested ii Salem last Monday on a charge o stealing 6aw lojffl-State lojffl-State senator Fay. of Jackson county, " has appointed W. F. Herrin a studen ' in the State agricultural college. Thomas McClane, of Marion oounty convicted of grand larcenv, baa beei - sentenced to three years in the peai- tentiary. i The "Statesman" says a company o i men intend starting from Salem oi u Tuesday, to assist in defending th - settlers on Link river from the Indian It was feared that the few ah,ir t days in November had injured tho lal 11 grain and newly bowo grass, but v a learn from farmers that all ib well i: i that direotion. The "Statesman says: iho intense in-tense fever to march on the Modocs nstantly has much abated since Mon-iay Mon-iay evening. Perhaps not oyer 600 coluteers could now be raised in ;alem." John Miller, of Jacksonville, ao-;ompanted ao-;ompanted by Fred. Bernaburg and another gentleman, took a few days bunt in the region near Kancheria, and succeeded in slaughtering nineteen doer. Two of tho party eaoh killed twn deer at one shot. It has been ascertained that the Oregoo mills were set on tiro by men dihcuarged to make room for Chinaman. China-man. , , It is said that the Kalmath river and bars are olaimed for fifteou miles, counting each side of Delany's recent rich strike. |