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Show PACIFIC COAST SEAYS CALIFORNIA. Vallcjo has sixty saloons and only sii schoolhouses. An inmate of the j nil of Santa Cruz county claims that he is annoyed by the yliot ot'Clmries Mortimer. Ine .Stockton F.iper Mill is supplying supply-ing bc vera, newspapers in tlietiute With the material for their journals .made of San Joaquin straw. Klim I'ulsiler, a man tH years old, committed, suicide near Modesto, on the Uth instant, by cutting hid throat with a razor. Wm. Graham of San Jose has been arrested for taking from Wells, Fargo fc (J.o's Express, $i0 belonging to another man of the same name. A limestone ledge, which yields a quality af lime far superior to (hat manufactured at Santa Cruz, has been discovered near Ukiah. It is believed that the lime can be shipped to San Francisco and euccessiully compete with the Santa Cruz article. l'rulcssor iSLillman ot .New York finds topaz crystals, and a few small masses, of a highly refractory substance, sub-stance, which, from its physical and chemical characteristics, is believed to be true diamond, in the sluices of hydraulic washings from Cherokee Flat, Caiilornia. The force on tho railroad tunnel at the mouth ot tho Carquinez Stiaita has lately been increased, and the lower tuunel is now being worked from each end with day and night shifts of hands. In the upper end of the tunnel work has been impeded .by water springs but has now gut by them and is making satisfactory progress, pro-gress, though in firm, hard rock, Joseph Trembly hired a horse and buggy at Sau Francisco October 16th at iriugh Mcli ly mi's stable, en Fourth KtrciT. nPtir HnHftirrl tn tsitfl ft rlrivp out on tue road. He had a pleasant time during the afternoon, but it is alleged, that he applied the whip very freely to the horse's back, and just its he entered the stable again the horse dropped dead. Trembly is under arrest for cruelty to animals. NEVADA. The Humboldt Register snys there is an abundance of antelope in the i mountains north of Clover Valley. The Keno Cr&sent says that Mayor Brown of St. Louis is in town and invested in-vested in Peavine mines. A -lady in Winnemucca the other day wore out a bran-new cowhide on an Ir.sh gentleman because he remarked re-marked that she wasn't as good as she ought to be. 1 The Record of the 25th says: Neither ' man or dog indulged his beliggerent1 propensities yesterday. Pioche is beginning be-ginning to be a model town with regard re-gard to peace and quiet. OR EG OX. Beef retails in Baker city at from two to ?ix cents per pound. i The Santiman and Albany Canal Company want to let the job of digging dig-ging the canal through the city of Albany. A gentleman just returned from a trip up the valley says that the farmers farm-ers are now busily engaged in preparing pre-paring the ground and putting in their Fall crops. On every hand the vlows and harrows drills and sowers ru-e seen busily at work, insuring, with the ordinary good seasons of climate, most abundant harvests tho coming year. , The whole number of fisheries on the Columbia river, the past year, was seven, which gave employment , to about two thousand hands. Next year there will probably be four more ! "fisheries in addition to those already established, which will increase the number of employes to not less than four or five thousand during the salmon season. Mrs, Howell, of Marion county, last week cleaned a chicken preparatory prepara-tory to cooking it for dinner, and placed it in a pan which rated unj the cooking stove. After being ml tlie pan a few minutes, she took hold I oi it to rcmovo it to the cooking vessel when she received a severe I electrical shock. She called in the; neighbors, and they too experienced ; tho same shock when touching tbo i chicken. Let them explain this who; can. . j Very rich mines have been discovered discover-ed on the Sinoek, a tributary of the Yakima, twenty-five miles from Kittitas Vallev. Work s literally suspended in 'Kittitas Valley. The people are greatly excited over it. Some are leaving in the night for the new placers, reaching there .soon after daylight. |