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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. tALIFOllMA. Tlio Oisfn llicu, from .Honolulu, reports the United States reciprocity treaty the absorbing topic. Public meetings are agitating the subject. Ten car loads of tea passed cast through Sacramento on Monday. Antonio Alvarsdo, a Peruvian, fifty veara old, was found dead in Sacramento Sacra-mento on Moinlay. Heart disease. On Friday a man was found in his cabin murdered, at American Flat. A lot of Digger Indians wero having a fandango near by, nnd it is supposed sup-posed some of them killed him, w. Qusterbandt, alias Nash, murderer of Martin Gersback, at Pinola, Contra Costa county, has been taken to Martinez. The jail is guarded guar-ded b- an extra force, to prevent lynching. Truckcc is shipping 150,000 feet of lumber daily. The Mint will commence turning out !?:?0 pieces tins week. There have been comparatively heavy rains for the season in tho Southern counties. The San Jose .Ucrcury denies that the people of that city, are troubled with musquitoes. . 'I Large masses of petrified shells aro found in San Diego, liH'' feet below the surface, in well digging. The Calaveras Mountaineer, published pub-lished at Angeles, is going to dio and the material is to be moved to Sutter Sut-ter Creek, Amador county, and a daily paper started there. Chas. Silvey, near Newcastle, Placer Pla-cer county, has sold fctlis year, from twenty peach trees, occupying about one-sixteenth ot an acre ot land, S-oO worth of peached. KEVAD.I, I The bank of California building, Virginia City, which was shattered by the late nitro-glycerino explosion, is being thoroughly overhauled and repaired. It is said tho building will be tiro, earthquake and nitre-glycerine proof. Lawyer Childcrs, of Carson, disappeared disap-peared mysteriously July 15. He had $S00 in coin and some checks when he went away. His friends fear that he has murdered. Fiuby:'l claims a population of five hundil, and wants a post office. About 3,000 people participated in a feast at the Bowers mansion, Washor county, last week. Morris Cahill, carman at the Chol-lar-Potosi mines, Gold Hill, on Thursday Thurs-day morning, fell from the top to the bottom of the main shaft, a distunco of 1000 feet. Ho wassojbadly mangled as to bo scarcely recognizable. A young man in Eureka, recently visited a younc lady, and as he waa ;dont taking his departuro for the night he proposed taking a kiss also. The lady was agreeable, but just as they were alwut to enjoy the oscula tory act a rival lover thrust his head through tho window. Proceedings I were stopped for a few minutes while No. 1 gave No. 2 a sound drubbing, when the former returned and finished fin-ished his work, commencing where he left oil". OitFiiON, A mammoth circus is reported on its way overland to Oregon. Wheat in Washington county is averaging trom forty to fifty bushels to the acre in most instances. The coal shipped from Coos Bay since the 15th ultimo amounts to 2,000 tons, and the lumber to 200,000 feet. The Methodists of Yamhill county are agitating the question of erecting an institution of learning at Sheridan. There arc said to bo between 500 and 1,000 people camped in the neighborhood of the several soda springs on the Santiam. |