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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA. A religious reriril is agitaticg Val-kje. Val-kje. The horse d;seaso is rapidlr spread-bp spread-bp through nut the State. Los Angeles oounty ships haytoSaa Dieeo and maJt to Ivong Pioe. K very body io Saata Cruz complain-inc complain-inc of hard times and want of employment. employ-ment. Eastern tourists now visit the Grass Valiey gold quanx mines us pari of the California elephanL Cattle shooting is becoming a fav-jr-ite pastime with srme of the farmers in SaDta Cruz county. Peach trees in Ventura county, known to be twenty-fire yeari olJ, are in viKJrous health and bearing. Johnny Kelts, of Yuba city, shot and killed a snake six feet in length on Friday last. Myron Lisa", of SoledjJ, lost three of the fingers of his left hand by ihe accidental discharge of his shotgun. The people of Southern Oregon and Northern California fear a general Indian war and are arming them' selves, Peter Bran nun, a sheep herder on the ranch of Kobert Aliisou, Solano county, was fouud dead. Verdict, apoplexy. According to an envious Piacer county paper, it cost the editor of the rivival jou nal S6o 50 in poffi and advertising ad-vertising to get a ten-cent chicken. Marysville youths who go to Yuba city to make lovo are shelled back to their lava beds by jealous potato-throw-ioft juveniles of Yuba. On the San Jose Va'U-y railroad work is bciog pushed rapidly ahead on the southern end'. Large quantities of railroad iron pass daily to the fron. On the 13;h insr., Wm. Siarrett diod at Saiith's Fiat, E! Dorado Co , of concussion of tha brain caused by falling from the porch of tho hotel at t'jat place. The tithing for trout along the ooat was never better tl i at tho prcseU time. Big siltuon trout and brook trout on long strings daily reward the fishermen. Bill Dadi, the Scribe, was shot in the boot heel by the Modoca, Unliko Achilles, it did not provo to be his vulnerable point, though, the Indian's aim wns judiciously taken as ho rao. It is now understood that cap'ain Jack evacuated the Lava bed on technical tech-nical grounds ; ho moved for a new trial. '"Yankee" Robinson is equppinghis circus troupe for a ftrand campaign against tho people of Sao Franotsoo, The jury have disagreed in the trial of Winchester Doyull for killing Alexander Alex-ander lilade at Sierra City.last November. Novem-ber. Doyall has been admitted to bail ia the sum of $12,000. The girls of the Martinez public schools are becoming quite proficient base-ball players, and are as proud of their achiovemedts in "fly catching," "pitching," ' field scouting," etc., as the most enthusiastic basc-ballists of the other s x. H. C. Lopeland, or Antelope Valley, has los: daring the past winter five large, fine horses and two splendid mules. He docs not attribute it, however, how-ever, to epixooty, but attributes their singu'ar deaths to eating poisocoui substance?. The wool puliing and morocco tan-, tan-, ning enterprise that begged so long for aid at Santa Cruz has found more encouragement en-couragement at the hands of tho Sequel Se-quel people, and will bo soon arranging tor its I'uturo operations. The glove making business wilt bo oonnccted with it, and a woolen factory will soon follow. fol-low. An Oakland policeman hes giined glory ihuK A Fenian panic was pro-pressing pro-pressing at Uumboldt Park, when some bold Fenians hoisted the Irish Sag above tho red, white and blue of the United States. The policeman insisted on a change being mada, declaring that the American ti ig oould occupy no second position in the land that honored if. "Bully for him," say the Odklandere. Joseph t lowers, a oolored laborer ol Chico, on returning home at an earlier hour than usual one day last weck,W4s disagreeably surprised at boding his wite and a colored man concealed under the bed, lie pulled the wicked Lotha rio out, and ahor testifying his dis pleasure by stabbing him, eudeavorod to shoot him, but tho frightened destroyer de-stroyer of his peace was to quick for him, and escaped. Tho way Bigger Indians take trout in .Nevada county is this: They wait until tho season of the year when the streams run but little water, and when the fish colieot in ihc deepest and widest holes of the stream. They then out off tho water above such holes, and use soap root rubbed into a lather in the holes. The soap root causes all the fish in the hole to float on tho surface sur-face of the water in a etupificd condition. condi-tion. Not one escape?. OREOO.X. Linn county will produce a large acreage of flu this year. Two of Albany's pioneer citizens have departed on a foreign tonr William Wil-liam Crawford to Irclaud, and John Gmter to Germany. The Randolph gold mines at Coos Ray ard creating considerable attention. These mines were discovered in I53, and have been worked np gradually. The youths cf Corvalhs amuc themselves them-selves by having pitched battles in which eggs are the weapons of offense. In consequence the town bogins to look like a va-t omelet, and everything is pia-tercd over with ecc. People who live at the foothills of the Cascade ranee in this county complain com-plain that since the game law went into force the deer and elk tramp up their gardens and tear their c'.'"he.-from c'.'"he.-from the line in the bark -yard?. They can't bother at this thing much longer. |