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Show PACIflC COAST CALIFORNIA. The railroad people are goiog to erect a fog-whiftle at the end of the Pacific street wharf, San Francisco, for the benefit of their ferry-boftt. A company of about thirty boys in Stoskton sent to governor Booth lateiy for that number of State muskets. mus-kets. The governor wrote back that he had no authoriiy in the pre tubes. There are now two regular lines of stapes Scott's and Colgroves with a "flyer," running between Santa Cruz and Watsonvilie. Better time is made, and the fare has been reduced to four bits. Hood, a civil engineer of the Central Pacific railroad company, who has of late been engaged in the survey of a branch road from the San Joaquin valley road into the Salisaa valley, has finished his work. He surmounted the Polonia Pass with easy gradients. Remarkable hot sulphur springs havo been discovered near Pat fetation, on the stage road the other side of San Marcos mountain, Santa Barbara county. The flow of water is very abundant and of excellent quality. These springs are reported as very accessible, entirelyifree from danger of landslides. A Marysville man sat up almost all night with a double-barreled shot gun trying to pop over a Chinese chicken thief, finally he went to bed, and when morning came every coicken was gone, and now that man wanders sadly around with a mournful club trying to find that Chinaman. OK EGO N. Portland young ladies buy black to be married in, because it will also answer for mourning in case any of the family drops off. An Oregon editor thinks that offering a bounty lor Modoc scalps would be the surest way to make tha red man keep his wig-warm Last week, Charles E. Warren, as attorney ibr a gentleman at Oregon City, purchased a sheriff's sale in Yamhill county, that tract of land known as the Armstrong estate, and containing 1,200 acres, for $10,017. MciUinville claims a population of 500 persons, a select school, a college, three ohurches, two merchant flouring mills, a fine sash, door, and planing mill, four dry goods stores, two drug stores, one harness shop, and two boot and shoemaker shops. |
