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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS I The taxpayer' convention has been ; in session nearly every night for two I weeks, and has not yet been able to 1 secure a candidate for the office of Mayor. It is not unlikely they will I endorse Captain McDonald, the nominee nom-inee of the Democrats. Thomas lirader, contractor, has I filed a petition in bankruptcy. He ; owes about ssl 3,000; assets small. Frederick French was seized with I an epileptic fit late Friday night, on j Kearney street and carried to a doctor's doc-tor's office. He will probably recover. recov-er. The Iiepublivttn accuses the ladies of Truekce of painting their faces. Such a thing is unheard of in any other community. For attempting to kill two of his countrywomen by blazing away at them with a pistol, a Chinaman at Visalia has been fined in the sum of S100. Santa Barbara is a healthy locality and is visited by many consumptives and invalids, but tiie first signs that meet their sight on reaching it from the wharf are those of two undertakers, underta-kers, which read. "Metallic burial cases for sale." An itinerant preacher, who exhorted exhor-ted a crowd of penitents from the top of a box in front of the What Cheer House, San Francisco, on Sundav," July 27th. was assaulted and had his plug hat " stove in," by one of the ungodly from a flive on Leidesdortf street. The Los Angeles A-Vuv of the 14th says of the San Gabriel mines : A considerable number of the miners are al work in tho bed of tho river, and making good wages. Two of the hydraulic claims are cleaning up, and tiie prospect for a satisfiiVtory yield looks well. XKV.VDA. The Eureka V-,ioc7 intimates in rather positive language that the Carson Car-son T, -i,nt: is started fur the purpose of securing the re-election of Govcr-nor Govcr-nor Bradley, whereupon the latter paper very emphatically asserts that 1 the editor of the JStuiiwf is a near relative rel-ative of Baron Munchausen. At Carson a Chinaman nauied Ah long, alias Charlev, has I teen caught 1 in the act and fined $100 for selling' hcrnm- to the Indians. ! Tiie present hot weather is fast re- j dnciug the volume of Carson river. There is no more enow left the melting of which will in the slightest degree add to the supply. X'evada school teachers are providing provid-ing iheri'selves with arc-cent invention inven-tion in the way of improved ruober switches that "bum like coal every time they strike. There "are few, if any, idle or unemployed un-employed men in Austin at present. X umber 67,742 won the 62-5, 000 viTizv in the Xevuda SliLO lottery, "' h;ch was dr-iwn Wednesday. Inert is a toiisoriul saloon in Austin Aus-tin which i- -aid to be prettier than a pmtn mule. J 01tF(.0. I I E-rii'.- an 1 game are reported ;is 1 plentiful in W-ishmgioa county, but-1 but-1 every Ls t,-j hu-v to gather them, i Ti.e fouii'la:ions of the building de-' de-' signed .1, ,1 home for the -ick of Sa-. Sa-. ar-.- laid and the work is going on Haying L.iL been Cu.umcnc.d all ov'-r Linn county, and consecpieatly Albany is as dull'a- it cm be and not Van, .hi raisvs ii:';y-s.vcn stalks of .i.'-at fn.iui one grain, a:.d one Stalk over f.-et high. Ani thud li a wii.;.: of-uch WUCiM.J |