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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. An old Frenchman named Eutiene Gnigneult attempted to assassinate Kdmund Breuie, the French consul, with a slung shot in San Francisco, on Tuesday. A Chilcnian named Garoche has disappeared from Downieville, and is , supposed to have drowned himself, in a fit of insanity. ! An artesian well at Campton, Los Angeles county, which is 150 feet deep, ejects speckled trout with its water. Other artesian wells near by exhibiting tho samo phenomenon, indicate the existence of a subterranean lake. There is a serious scarcity of harvest hands around Anaheim, Los Angeles county. The painters of San Jose have formed a painters' association to bring a pressure in favor of the eight-hour law. R. S. McLellan has been appointed sheriff of Del Norte county, because Henry Doolittle, who was elected, would not qualify. August Masscrly, one of tho professionals profes-sionals at the new dice games which have succeeded faro and monte in San Francisco, was convicted last Monday. A pest-house is to be built at Sacramento. Sacra-mento. Los Angeles is to have a n?w Odd Fellows' hall. There were 942 prisoners in San Qucntin on May 3 1st. There is a scarcity of hirvest hands in Los Angoles county. Dr. Biber and a man named Seh-wind Seh-wind each took a shot at each other in Downieville lately, which, says the Messenger, so scared thorn both that they ran away in opposite directions. The city council of Oakland has authorised au-thorised the tire commissioners to purchase pur-chase a Silsby engine and 1,000 feet of new hose. The work on the building and the cr.innds surroundinj? the Sr.itn rnnirnl begun June 1st, under the supervision of architect Cummings. Too North Pacific Coast railroad company now propose to run their line from Saueelito to San Rafael, and thence by way of Novato and San Antonio An-tonio creek to Tomales. A corps of engineers is now in the ce!d engaged in making the survey. Judge H. P. Coon is putting a $10,- 000 building on his lot in San Mateo. . Thirty-live new cases on appeal were filed in May lor the action of the supreme su-preme court. The average cost of maintaininc, the State officers of all degrees is ?22,00A' per month. NEVADA. Aleck Hill, residing near Mottsvillc, Douglas county, seduced an innocent ' ycung girl, who was livinc in his family fam-ily as a servant, and theirth of the child so preyed on her mind that she died on Monday. There was strong talk of lynching the scoundrel. The bullion production of the Crown Point mine, for a year op to May 1st, was !?3,50o,6lJ9.21. M.oers are scarce in the Eureka miner. A little sfn of jt:de Lo-an, of Austin, had the ends of his thumb ar.d fore-Lnger blown off by a giant powder pow-der cip, last Sunday cvr nioz. Another attempt to tiro Piochc va made on Friday of lat week. The j houst of J. C. Foster was d 'wove red to he on fire by minors retnrnio from I work, but it was er;inc-u.-.hid b-.l'ore 1 axiv s. nous duruaco w.is d .no It 13 .-spoci.-a lh:.t tl.o n-w tcn- i 'tamp mih to couro of erection at Bu.iiil3vuia Will icidy to siart up 1 en OK about the lat ot" July. |