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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CALiroBNIA. Trou: hin b good cear Santa tao I'ieo coucty ie iacied at f 2,- tXv, Saa Dicto couoiy is to ship iron ere to ban i raccireo lo be smelted. tacta K) u proud of a head of leasee wiiching three pounds aod ft-ha!f. ft-ha!f. In an artesian wjl tix miles froa; Los ALgeies tjwing wa:cr waj struck at a dt ptb oi'tighu-oue feet. Thus far only eieLuecD jiatricts 0: lied B.uff have anxouoeed their will-ioi(ne will-ioi(ne to tacr.fioe theaiseivca by holding hold-ing ofice. Gorernor Booth has not pardoned the boy Sampson. He thmks the restoration res-toration ot the young criminal's privileges privil-eges as a cn.ieo should depeod on hi future conduct, and will iherelore hoid the pardon in aoeyaoce lor the p:ea-enr. p:ea-enr. The V ilk jo Daily Independent and the Solaoo l'etnocrat have been sold by J. . Lmhicum to Thomas L. Tbonip?on, their former proprietor. He promises to adhere to the ' cardiQ-al cardiQ-al priDciplee of the grand old Detuo-cratio Detuo-cratio party." Speaking of young Jesse Grant, the Calis-tPga Tribuuo says his favorite place of amusement was the swimming bath, where he would remain in the water two or three hours at a time, apparently ap-parently as much in his clement as though he were the son of secretary Fish. j The fanners around Martinez hate 1 00 m me need haying. Considerable 1 grain will be cut for the purpose. Marshal Martin, convicted of the murder of Valentine Eisbler in S'o-, S'o-, vem be r last, will bo hanged on Juno , 27tb. The spring races to come off over the Nap 1 and Solano Agricultural Park oour.o have been postponed until un-til June 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th. j Thomas Hutching, who resides in I Tom ales Bay, Maria county, recently had his leg broken by his horse stum-: stum-: bling. falling and rolling on him. j James Germon, owner of Wermon's I station, near Kort Tejon, was killed near Los Angeles on the 7th by falling under and being run over by his waeon. Francis Halt attacked a sheepman named John H use land on a ranch about sixteen miles lrom Salinas o:ty, and severely wounded him with an axe. The quarrel arose in a dispute about land. Virginia quail have made their appearance ap-pearance in SoDoma oounly, having been propagated by those brought from the oas'. It is to be hoped that they will not be molested for some years yet hi order that California may become stocked with the best of all game bird?. Knox & Co., contractors for tunnels on the shore liuo of the Central Paoifio railroad, commenced work on Thursday morning on Tormey's ranch, about six miles from Martinez, with a force of sixty men. They propose increasing their force as soon as practicable. A man named Rust killed by the accidental ac-cidental discharge ot his b hot-gun while getting from his horse somewhere some-where in tho neighborhood of the Tcs-sehama Tcs-sehama Hot Springs, back of Monterey. Mon-terey. When found he was dead, and an account of how the acoident 00-oourrcd 00-oourrcd was found Dear by him written with his own blood while in his doath struggles. MKVAOA. Eureka oounty has contracted for a new jail to cost $3,'J50. Salt Lake papers for Eureka city go around by the lava beds. The bonds for the funding of the White Pine county debt are selling rapidly. They are said to be safe investments. in-vestments. To settle a dispute at Gold Hill, two men stripped themselves of all clothing aod pummeled eaoh other for half an hour. One of them commenced to bite the other, which caused a general 6ght in which twenty miners took part. Tho Light lasted for one hour and then adjourned, to bo taken up again in ils proper order. White Fine judges exempt from service one half ol the fir old en who are drawn on juries. Hopes arc still entertained that tho Nevada stage robbers v;ill be caughL It has cost $3,000 to Burvey the county line between Eureka and Lander Lan-der counties. The suit involving the removal of the county seat of flumboldt county has been decided in favor of Winuc-niucca. Winuc-niucca. A young man entered a church in Virginia recently, oarrying, unconsciously uncon-sciously to himself, a loaded cignr. The cinar suddenly exploded and created cre-ated quite a commotion, tho congregation congrega-tion thinking that some young lady's patent attachment had busted. OKKUON. Jacksonville canary bires arc dying of opizootic. Caterpillarn are devastating Salem gerdens and Portland fruit trees. The moasles havo about eloed their engagement on the Albany stage. !SouiC lunatic in tho For Hand Orego-nian Orego-nian calls tho New York Herald a religious reli-gious journal 1 Sixty-five convicts aro at work digging dig-ging a ditch to convey water to the penitentiary grounds. Tho salmon fishery at Roguo river is the best on the coaM, except that at Columbia river. It has heretofore been carried on on a small scale, but preparations are being made to increase in-crease the business largeiy during the coming season. |