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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS CA MFOKXIA. Anfjelcri is to have it sired rail roml, A gootl nrtieUi of cnfll-e hari hcei liiiseti in VenLtinv county. The number of marriage lirem-e; grunted liist vein- in .San Krnm-iNct was 2,00.). 5 lore orange trees have ln-cn plan ttxl in Los Angeles county this yeni than timing any previous one. During the past year 240 penun. were committed to the Insane Anv-hi Anv-hi in from San Francisco. The cflbrt of several Chinese Luslarl a cigar lnctoiy hi Vallejo is not appreciated ap-preciated by the people of that town. San Diego is having eonsiderablu difficulty to obtain Innu for the passenger pas-senger depot of tlie Texiis and Pacific llailway. Three hundred dollars was recently obtain ixl from six pans of gravel out of the Mosher tfc llaworth claim in Calaveras county. Charles White, at present occupying occupy-ing Mortimer's cell, at Sacramento, aworU that tho ghost of the late defunct de-funct visited him Monday night. William Ware, of Santa Clara county, is now harvesting 250 aCres of wheat, which he says will yield a better crop than any he lins harvested harves-ted during the Inst six years. Ci'eneral Thoma.s N. Caenau died on Thursday night, nt his residence 'in San Francisco, of Pneumonia jailer a brief illness. JIc was apparently well on the Fourth, nnd participated in the celebration. The second brigade brig-ade attends his funeral. The San Francisco primary election has resulted in the success of the railroad rail-road Can-Sargent combination by a large majority. The San Francisco committee of the Board of Supervisors and Mechanics' Mechan-ics' deliberative assembly has adapted a final resolution relative ton training ship for thai harlor, and requesting Senator Sargent to apply for some suiUble naval vessel. Tho ship California Cali-fornia is thought to be too large, but a resolution was finally adoptedgiving that vessel the preference. Capt. Bcnj. Pratt, of San Francisco, Francis-co, will be buried on Saturday hy the Xational (Aiard, a military companv of which he at one time commenced". School director Plunkctt, convicted of assault and battery on Mr. Prior, principal of the Broadway of San Francisco, forfeited 0 in the Police Court Friday. ihe can 1'rancixco pearl hshing vessel Witch Queen, will make a trial trip to-day. Her machinery and bell for diving arc nearly completed. Weather cloudy, cold, and disagree-oblc disagree-oblc in San Francisco. NEVADA. . i The Central Taciiic railroad has 'made reports to the County Assessor of Keno, miles of railroad and telegraph line at $j,000 per mile. Its personal property in the county is returned at 144,oouSi. William Combs, a California pio-! pio-! ncer, lost his eyesight recently in a i mine at Virginia City, by the premature prema-ture explosion of a blast. ' Virginia City hoodlums congregate in front of hotels, nnd insult ladies as they pass. 1 A woman in Virginia City recently cut the coat, hat and bauds pretty badly of a fellow who insulted her. Since the Hamilton lire Mm Austin water commissioners have forbidden the use of water in that city for spriiikiing the streets. The people arc complaining bitterly of the dust in the streets. I There is a fellow in Austin lectur-jingon lectur-jingon the "infelicities of connubial j heterogencousncss." Father Hayiies, a Methodist minister, minis-ter, is going to leave Eureka and take I up his residence in H:unilton, because j the former place does not give him j anything like a reasonable support. I The Ijoard of Aldermen of Virginia City has passed a powder ordinance, fining from $20 to j00, for storing explosives in the city, and ten days to; six months imprisonment. " i ORFUOV. ! The hay crop this year is the heaviest heavi-est ever known in Oregon. The Salem fire bell was bivken while sounding an alarm. It cost SiJOO. I j A female boat club is the latest sen-! sat ion in Portland. Jaunty hats, nn-j chore on collars, full bustle and so on. I There is at this time over one bun- j di al tons of salmon on the wharf at Astoria shipments from fisheries along the Columbia river. The Indians in Eastern Oregon complain of hard times, like white people, and say they cannot sell a single pony for anything like its value. |