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Show PACIFIC C0.1ST SEWS. CALIFOlUfIA, A. &P.R. R. Ager& Pickering's Ready Relief. S. F. , "Chronicle." Patriolt Tieroey fell off a bridge neai Oakland and broke his neck, Ac the camp meeting at Los Nieios, thirty-six coovertB have been made go far. Most of the grain in Scott valley ia threshed. The yield ia not so large as was anticipated. Paschal Oopirins, Liberal candidate for coDgress, is seriously Ul of typhus fever in Sacramento, Two thousand five hundred tons of wheat damaged at the Vallejo elevator eleva-tor ruins were sold at auction. The druggists of Sacramento intend to close their stores at 9pm.. except Saturdays, from October 10th, to April 1st, Pour buildings occupied by Chinese prostitutes on Second and I streets, Sacramento, were burned en Saturday. Robert C. Clark, an old pioneer, died on Thursday at Novato from injuries in-juries received by being thrown from his wagon. Patrick Maokey is in duraooe vile awaitiDg a chance to tell judge Lou-derback Lou-derback why he undertook to analyze His wife's Lead Witn a haujiiou San Franoisoo bay sports a leviathan. levia-than. Boys and fishermen are surprised sur-prised at the size of this funny finny lellow. Californiaos are preparing to "stand from under" as the Indians are all predicting pre-dicting heavy terrestial shocks and quakes. Ah Foo, of San Francisco, gave his lady love, Tee Chee, a gold hair pin. Tee Chee went to the opera with Sam Ling aud Ah Foo becoming jealously angry stole tha pin. As the court was anxious to go to the races Ah Foo was hustled below without trial. Madame Matilda Heron advertises for lady pupils in dramatic reading. She also will colihten the Saa Fran-ahca'eiite Fran-ahca'eiite as to what she knows about drawing room entertainments. Tu!e river trout are being slain with Kiuut fjuwucr auu a bluiui in unjniug iu tho neighborhood. Salioas hay is reported full of maok-erel maok-erel this fall, for the first time in nine years. Fishermen are having rare sport A youngster, bathing near Meiggs' wharf, San Francisoo, last Wednesday, got beyond his reach, and would probably prob-ably have emigrated to Lavy Jones' locker, but for the prompt assistance of a man who fished him out. Mr Edward Tompkins, a wealthy resident of San Francisco, has endow" ed an Agassi- professorship of Oriental languages and literature in the University Univer-sity of California. Miss Man-pie Moore, the talented so brctte of the Metropolitan Theatre company, Saorameo'O, had her left eye quite badly burned last Wednesday night by i'no 2sh of a pistol too close to bar free, A fat female resides on Brannan street, San Francisoo. She weighs 241 pounds. Her name is Waite. The neighbors consider her a heavy weight. NKVADA. The Kentucky mine suit against Raymond & Kly for $8,100,000 is reported re-ported moving. For the yar ending Aug. 31, 1872, Ely distriot produced $5,282,407 of silver bullion. Mineral Hill is turning out more bullion than ever bofore. , On Friday the first shovelful of earth was raised on the grade of the Piocbe and Bull ion ville narrow guage road. Gold Hill reports "foot-pads on the divide," but Joe Rodgers of Virginia Vir-ginia says they took his money and tailed to divide. Tbe Carson City jockey club is now the Nevada State jockey olub. Five days of full racing commence October 22nd. m ! The Pioohe "Review" sayB it "can !do enough lying" without aid of friend , or foo. Every one oonours. Since the entry of the railway, Carson Car-son thinks of rivaling San Francisoo, or, Salt Lake City. "Chicken thief Charley" of White Pino distriot has been jailed fbr 89 days for stealing a ten year old Cochin China fowl. That's a foul affair. John Henderson, of Hamilton, and Sam Wallace, of everywhere, maninu- late tbe Western Union lightning at Pioche. They can't bo beaten, especially especi-ally "Samivel.1' Southern Nevada "jumpists" never hesitate atanything. Spjaimen ohips of the specie have just jumped a corner cor-ner lot, a canvas tent, and a whole Btrent in Piocbe. Virginia City has an "injun" whioh the "Chronicle" says is a he:maphro-dite. he:maphro-dite. . The Virginia "Rater prise" and Gold Hill "News" have finally read each other out of the Republican party. Ploche is touch it) g up all of ber brick fronts. Her brass fronts need no regilding. East Hill, over-looking Pioche, flies daily an American flag, and lights nightly a boaoon fire. Mystery and romanoe Burround both, and tho Pi-ocbeans Pi-ocbeans fail to fathom the matter. Meadow Valley and Raymond & Ely have drifted into each other. Look out for war. They "met by cbanoe, the usual ftay," 0REU05, o. An expedition is being fitted out in Portland for the Arizona diamond fields- The new diggings discovered down on the Klamath are paying an ounoe a day to the hand. William Davidson, a prominent Portland real estate dealer, died in tbe insane asylum on Thursday. A man named Stark, who has resided re-sided at Yaquina for some time past, was drowned in the bay on Monday of last week. He left a family consisting consist-ing of a wife and seven children. A dispatch from Seattle, Washington Washing-ton Territory, October 3d, sayB Messrs. Stone & Burnett's wharf gave way at 2 o'clock, and tbe warehouse, full of goods, was precipitated into the bay. Loss, $4,000. The frost which has visited Pugct Sound, tbe country about the Dalles and the Willamette valley, has not been perceptible at Vancouver on account ac-count of the heavy fog arising from the Columbia every morning, J. G. Daley, of the Dallas "Repub- : Mean," has retired. The gentle youth couldn't Btnd female suffrage, which ' hi? partner, Sullivan, indorses. The Eli-ta mill, at Humbug, which was destroyed by fire some weeks since, has been rebuilt and oommenoed running run-ning regularly on Monday. Astoria, at the mouth of tbe Colombia Colom-bia river, situated on nearly the same degree of latitude as Quebec, has a summer temperature nearly tJ cooler, and a winter temperature 30a warmer than that piaoe. The "State Journal" having said last week that a oeriain individual had been killed by falling down a stairway, now correct it by saying in suh5tanoe that he killed himself by drinking whiskey, and adds that the correction is "cheerfully'' made. A telegram from Oakland, Oregon, says that tbe railroad bridge at the crossing of the North U urn qua was completed last SuDtiay, and that the Sr?t tram was crossed over by Charlie Pond, road tra.ter. This bridge is yuu miles south of Portland. Wapato Dave, an Indian, is under arrest at Salem on a charge of haviDg murdered his sister-in-law. David is not a good Indian when under tho in fluence of "fire water," and is said tc have had a hand in two murders before, one of his victims being his fortoei wife. The lawsuit that has been in the Oregon Ore-gon courts fbr the last fourteen years, for the possession of 640 acres below Holladay's addition, known as the Delay claim, has been settled by compromise. com-promise. The land is valued at $600 an acre. |