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Show CALIItMiMV. A People's barbecue was given on Saturday near Ixintas. A 1)0 ui sixty bauds ate employed at the fruit-preserving works at San Lorenw. It is expected the approaching S.lii Joaquin Valley J'';ir will be the inu4 successful ever held in the district. (.ieorge A. Beei, clerk ul" the lrigg House "in Saeiamcnto. h;ts been arrested on a charge of eiiiiie.-liiej. A Chinaman went fishing in Ihe jrerced river with giant powder. He is now studying up some business that can be performed with the left hand. A patent steam canal boat has ju.-t been completed at Stockton, iler trial trip gave "the most complete satisfaction. Her movement through the water produces no mure commotion com-motion than a sailing craft, During the past week, says the Encimtl, the Pacific Cordage Company Com-pany made to order one coil ol hawser rope, V20 fathoms in lengtli and 13 inches in circumference, auc I another 2o fathoms in length am: t 0 inches thick. Waters.'thc Democratic nominee! for the Assembly, attacked the editor, of the Arim, AV. II. Gould, in Lus'j Aiigelos, 'August 10th. 'Waters is, bound over to keep tlic peace. His friends arc urging him to withdraw in consequence. The cause of the , assault was an article in the Jynx. i ! A big day's thrashing was done one j day last week in Napa county Iuj twenty hours and forty minutes , 2, 170, 100-pound sacks of grain were thrashed. During the time the tlirashing machine was moved four times, The machine that did this, the biggest thrashing ever done in' Napa county, is ow;ted by "William Sweltzer anil Y. A Hose. NEVADA, Indians are Uiking large numbers of quail into Pcno, nnd the people arc buying them, and thus budi parties arc violating the game law. j Six-shooters are trumps in Cur-j nucopia, the new district north ofj Reno. The latest amusement for the ladies ; of Virginia city is kite-flying. As women arc generally high-flyers they , meet grand success in the new spurt. I tin Tuesday 10,000 dollas were coined at the Carson mint. At present thirty trains a day are running over the Virginia & Truckee road. The employes of the Carson .mint number tifty, seven of whom are women. Three houses were uurgiarizcu iu Virginia city, Sunday night. Carson city supports live church organizations, Episcopal, Methodist. Presbyterian, Catholic and Mormon. Pioehc must be a healthy plaee, at least such is imdoubtcdiy the opinion of an ancient Mexican, whose immediate im-mediate ancestors all dried up and blew away to Southern California, and who conlidcd to us that he had been subsisting on red-peppers and Pioche whiskey, and sleeping iu the grave yard for the last three weeks. Said ho, "There uo show for me here; I must return to tlic laud oi my youth, where I too, may blow away and bo happy." And lighting a cigarette he graecful!y"blew a cloud"' and faded into blue ether, "it is an ill wiud that blows nolxxly good.'' Piivbc Record. The usual number of trams appear to be running ever tbc Virginia & Truckee railroad, notwithstanding tlic bliuttLng down of the mills on tlic river. So many trains arrive and depart de-part daily that there is scarcely live minutes at any time when one is not to be seen coining in or going out. A ' good deal of wood is now being brought over the road to this place and Uold Hill. |