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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CAMfOKMA, The .Democratic convention ha nominated S. P. McKec for judge of the .Supreme Court. Tin: raeiiio Mail steamer Cvsta Itia went ashore in a fn;r on tlic coiwt near San Fnmcieo, VxlnestIav night. AH of tho passengers and crew were saved. Two tugs are trying try-ing Ui save the steamer, wliieh has two holes in her and in filled with water. Charles XordhofY and wife, with four children, were among the passenger!. ' 'Die Central Taeific Railroad has declared a diWdend of $3 per share, payahle on the 30th inst. Uov. Stanford is willing1 to match "Occident" in throo races, for if 10,-0(J0 10,-0(J0 each, ngainat any horse, races to he a mile and repeat, to wagon; mile heats, three in live, in harness; and ; two miles and repeat, in harness. The iron for the railroad branch to Los Jwctos will ho laid in a few days The grade is nearly finished to Han Fernando in one direction, and is half way to the Mission in the other. Before Be-fore the time specified the entire road and itd branches will be in running order. An exploration of the Colorado river bottom land, from Fort Mohave to Fort Yuma, shows olo,000 acres of boLtom hind capable o cultivation, and exceedingly ' productive if it is irrigated, ir-rigated, as it can be by the river. J. N. Selbv, of Marysville, who litis just returned to. San Francisco from a visit tlirough the Fa j aro Valley, reports re-ports that the yield of grain hi that valley this season is enormous, and that immense quantities still remain in the fields unthreshed. The Ancloch LeJirt in reference to the crop of Contra Costa county, says: At no time before this season could there be seen as much grain piled up on the wharves as at present. Those who held their grain from market mar-ket are now satisfied with the high prices pajd, and now conclude to sell it. X EVA DA. No gold notes are to be found at Gold Hill. It is said that things were different last year, when Jones was standing in for Senator. Madame Anna Bishop will commence com-mence a season of concerts at Virginia City, on tho '25th ipst. Austin's ice supply is exhausted. , The only refrigerator left in town is whisky. A man who went to Cornucopia, and jumped a rich mine, was bought oil' for $2,000 and started East. At Toano the three-card monte sharps ' jumped him and gobbled every cent of his ill-gotten gains, Virginia Chronicle. An officer of Gold Hill has worn out a pair of coarse boots lately by repeatedly re-peatedly kicking down the room door of a lady who as repeatedly Likes poison poi-son of a mild type and the carpenters carpen-ters are reaping a harvest in repairing or in replacing the doors. Silver City is now one of the most steadily prosperous little towns in Western Nevada. Between the mills and the mines being run in the immediate im-mediate vicinity, the whole population, popula-tion, id kept busy and everybody is content. A number of people in Lower Gold Hill have embarked in the swine business, bus-iness, greatly to the annoyance pf their neighbors. The atmosphere in that part of town is redolent of bog, and several cases of sicknetw have resulted re-sulted from inhaling porcine stench. In Austin, last Saturday, T?r. Sylvester Syl-vester took a shot at Jack Grant, the musician, knocking out several of his teeth, and otherwise disturbing his digestion. di-gestion. The row occurred about a " game of cards, Bcb Roberts found a nuggot of gold weighing $84 in his placer mine, thirty miles from Baker city. The placer mines on Steamboat, creek are paying 92 a day on the lower bar; on the upper bar they have not yet been able to save all the gold, which is very fine. Junction City has six warehouses for the storage of wheat, with a capacity capa-city of 190,000 bushels. Itis estimated that there will be 2-50,000 bushels ol wheat shipped from that place this fail. The farmers on Yaquina bay havo nearly all finished harvesting. Their pricipal harvest is hay. The potatoes will be almost a failure this year. |