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Show I PACIFIC COASI NEWS. CALIIOKMA. Biersiadt, tbc artist, is Itvo cotioty. The cp:zM'Jc is iraveiiag UiroucL Marin ccur.ry. Huruboltic county plumes it?-?'.f on the number scd activity of it? eho?:s. Benicia cUims to be so heaitLy that no physician can make aiivisp there. There is to be a Tribe ot' the Improved Im-proved Order ol Kcd Men organized at Marysville. They are smothering strawberries to death in cream in San Francisco. it is predicted that Mount 1'iab'o will soon become a celebrated resort for tourists, Yaiiejo has the matrimonial fever badiy, and the old bachelors are going olf rapidly. The Nevada city Benevolent society has been compelled to disband for want of support. Rev. D. McKay, of MsrysviHe, has received a call to the Ninth Presbyterian Presbyte-rian church at Chicago. Four thousand live hundred pounds of crude borax, the first shipment, Las arrived in Los Anccles. There is a strip of 'aid about 300 feet wide running through the town ot Antioch on which the needle of a compass com-pass will not work, but eteadilj points downward. It is expected that the Benicia will be ready for sea next week. She will immediately proceed to Panama to protect American interests there during dur-ing the revolution now in proercs?. A snoemaker named Georce Towers, residing at Los Angeles, drew a $6,0u0 diamond necklace in the Paris War -Redemption lottery. He now refuses to work and sits on the counter and chews wax all day. The Grass Valley Union says that the surveyors of tho narrow gauge railroad rail-road from Colfax to that place are doing do-ing well. They have reached Bear river, and are progressing toward Grass Valley. The survey is to be a very complete one. The marshes around Vallcjo aro fall of wild boars, which, escaping from the care of man years ago, have multiplied, and are now wild hogs. Many of theiu have attained great size, and ail ot them are very ferocious and make a hard fight when pressed. Kate McGinniss performs household duties for a pecuniary eonsidcra'ion at the residence of the Rev. Dr. Poake, San Francisco. She is a very careful girl, and nevsr leaves a licht burning in her sleeping apartment when she retires to rctt. On retiring lately tho blowcd out the gas and-came very near having her lamp of life blown out. She was not abio to send for MoGin-niss MoGin-niss even. One hundred and thirfy citizens of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, and oho hundred San Franciscans, have signed an address to governor Booih, calling upon him to use all means in his power to cause the arrest and pun-: ishmcnt of the persons who lynched Matt. Tarpey near Monterey, pome weeks ago. They also b:ar testimony to the excellent character of the deceased. de-ceased. PI JSC V A L) A.. Sutro U planting the Australian gum-tree. Hamilton has the toothache and yearns lor some dentist to go there and settle. Nevada house, Gold Hill, burglarized. burglar-ized. Lidy's gold w:itch, in com, and a vaneiy ot articles of less value takn. Biind Tom gives Virginia city three entertainments, com mc being May 5th. Hou-c of Farley, toll gate keeper, J near Gld Hill burglarized; jtlui). L- U. Kluppler, of Virginia city, danKcrou'-ly ili with brain fever. The mysterious stabbing of Virden, Gold Hill News reporter, in Virginia city, is said to have been done by one i C. F. Johnston with whose divorced wife Virden was though', too familiar. Johnston is arrested. Virden remains in a critical condition. The coal vein . discovered near Eureka is two and a half feet thick and has been followed to the depth of sixteen fie'. It promises to load to a large and valuable deposit. The old, grey-headed Piute chieftan known as Adam, lias been abandoned by his people, and is now lying in a tent below the Sutro tunnel office in a dying condition from old ago and general debility. We learn from a gentleman, residing near tho Indian oampoody, on the divide, that during tho past lour or five days, a number of young braves mounted and equipped with guus.liuvo left for parts unknown. It is barely possible that they may have been infected in-fected with tho war spirit and have gone to join their Modoo brethren. Gold Hill News. orkgox.; The court house in Salem only cost $90,000. The East Portland water company has incorporated with a capital of $100,000. Yamill county records were burned eovoral years ago. Many lots in Lay-fayette Lay-fayette can't be identified, and so escape es-cape taxation. The Pleasant Creek mines in Jackson Jack-son county havo a greater supply of water this season than has been the case for five years, and the miners aro doing well. |