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Show PAC1FIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. The flume of the Buckeye company, at Sawpit, Plumas county, was robbed recemly, and it was supposed the robbers rob-bers cleaned up about $3,tX0. Wesley Owens has got the appointment appoint-ment of inspector of the port of Vallejo; at a salary of $2, 500, beiDg an increase of $1,000 over the amount hitherto paid. A man named Jerry Howard, foreman fore-man of the Lincoln Mini op company, Sutter Creek, while oiling the mill on Tuesday evening, was caught in the shaft. He died shortly alter being takn out. The grounds in front of the State capitol have been neatly laid out, preparatory pre-paratory to ornamentation by the planting plant-ing of trees and shrubbery, and a large lot of treea have been brought from Oakland for setting out The editor of the Santa Barbara Press has beea reveling in ripe etraw-berries etraw-berries and delicious watermelons, grown in the open air in that vicinity. At the Yuba bridge, at 10 o'clock p.m., December 26th, at Marysville, the water had reached within seventeen seven-teen inches of high water mark of last year, and rising rapidly. The San Francisco directory, by H. G. Langley, will be published about the 1st of February, It will Bhow a considerable increase in population, and a decided improvement iu manufacturing manu-facturing enterprises. Ice formed to the thickness of eight and ten inches in the lakes near the summit during the late cold term, aud the ice companies have been busily engaged en-gaged in putting up their supplies for next season. L, O. Ponhallow, mate of tho ship Panther, was tried in the United States district court and convicted of assaulting assault-ing a seaman named Martin King on board that vessel on .he 1st of September, Sep-tember, llo was 6nod $30. A scamp in San Francisco, on Christmas Christ-mas day, called at a house and asked lor money to buy a dinner with. Tho lady present put some victuals before him, and stepped out for a moment. When she returned (he beggar had disappeared with her large, fat Christmas Christ-mas turkey Captain Alfred C. Ray and James F. Kay, sons of Capt. Benjamin R-iy of Nantucket, Wafs., were recently drowned at sea, near Valparaiso. The brothers, who were young men of more than ordinary capacity, were greatly respected iv their employers and companions. com-panions. J vuies was orderly sergeant of a com pa Dy of California volunteers during the war, and served with credit in Arizona. Afterwards ho resided in San Francisco, OIIEGOX, ike. The whulu number of pupil- in the public schoo's at Salem is 468. Extensive revivals of a religious cha-iao!erare cha-iao!erare in progress at Jefferson and at Gervais, Stephen 'Maybcll, iho Oregon poet, is going on a lecturing, or rather a reading tour, through the State. The Mercury says iho street crossings cross-ings of tialctn would be a disgrace to the most miserable country town in the lowest sink hole in the State. The Democrat's fashion editor says, "It is astonishing lo see young girls parading the streets of our modest and unassuming town with a tuckupbi-hiodwiggledarnfuolaiiveness tuckupbi-hiodwiggledarnfuolaiiveness on larger than they aro. But we s'poso ils tie fashion:" A neighboring pepor tells the story of nocturnal serenader who sang, "When the mo-hoon is shi hi-hi-ning ov-er the lake, Oh th-then I'll th-bi-hi-hink of thee eo eel" Tho musio aroused a dog about the size of a Sour bsrrcl, and the musician is doing as well as could be expected. AibaDy seems to have bad boys as well as Portland. Tho Democrat aaya, "Stones are thrown at houses and pedestrians, rude language is frequently fre-quently heard at play hours, and much other boisterous condaot is exhibited, which would disgrace tho notorious hoodlums-of large cities." Iluble, a Polk county farmer, proposes pro-poses to meet the farmers of Marion and Polk in Salem at 2 o'clock on Saturday, the 2Slh day of December, for the purpose of organizing a general shipping movement in behalf of tho farmers of the State of Oregon. Ho proposes giving them a lecture upon tho subject, after which he proposes that they adopt a plan of organization 1 by which farmers will not be left to the I morn? of overv wheat rine that mav bo formed to flich them their hard and honnst earnings. So Bays tho State-man. |
