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Show PACIFIC COAST CAnroisii. i A drunken man in Sacramento City thought he oould stop '.he cars by laying lay-ing on the track ? He was not 6uo-ceasful, 6uo-ceasful, being dragged off in time-It time-It is rumored that the son of one of the most prominent physicians in San 1 Franci'co will soon unite in marriage with Mrs. Horace Hawes, A young and beautiful lady rushed from her hotel in Sacramento to the river to drown herself and her troubles. trou-bles. Brought back, Temporary insanity. in-sanity. Capt. James Tolc, of San Qaen-tin, Qaen-tin, reports that there were 91S prisoners prison-ers on band October 31st ; 16 were received re-ceived during November, and 24 discharged, dis-charged, leaving 9U5 in prison. There have been lo,S33.9:7 pounds, or 6'2 car loads of grain shipped from Live nil ore Station to Oakland thus far this season. The warehouses there contain about 21,000 Iods yet. The Philadelphia "Ledger" says that the Brotherton brothers aro well known in that city, where they were concerned in forgeries on the Corn Exchange Ex-change bank, and George, the elder in foreory on the State bank of Camden, Cam-den, New Jersey. A dispatch from Yankee Jim, dated December 2nd, gives the particulars of a bold robbery. M. B. Tubba closed his saloon at midnight and put the key in his pocket and went to bed. The thieves entered his back room, took safe key and ISO in coin, but left one gold note and some greenbacks, also a check of $100. They left no due. W. S. Watson, chief engineer of the naarow gauge railroad between Bene-cia Bene-cia and lied Bluff, has arrived with a party of engineers, and is now engaged in making the survey. The obstacles on the line are of a very slight cliaiao-ter, cliaiao-ter, and the company have received sufficient encouragement to justify them in the belief that tho stock will be promptly taken. The present survey will run six or eight miles west of the town. The vein of coal discovered on the Grovcr ranch a few moDths ago, has been prospected and a large scam has been developed. 'J he ranch is about fifteen miles from Oakland, in Contra Costa county. A tunnel has been run a distance of seventy-five feet, and a seam of coal four foot thick has been struck. The coal is much better than that from tho Mount Diablo mines, and the discovery promises to bo of great importance to Oakland. OREGON. Regular passenger trains commenced running through Rescburg, OrcgOD, ol December 3rd. Major Tilligham, who served honorably honor-ably in the Mexican war, died in Portland Port-land on the 2nd inst. Says a Portland dispatch: D. B. Hannah has sold bis interest in the Oaruthers estate to the other claimants, claim-ants, and this case, which has been in litigation several years, is now considered consid-ered finally settled. A letter from Yakima City says the weather is very cold and the hills all covered with snow ; wheat $1 per bushel, oats 75 cenis.corn $1 per bushel and potatoes 50 coots. At Flannigan & Mann's ( Newport coal banks, Coos uounly,) considerable building is going on, and the place presents pre-sents a flourishing appearance. The people there take great pride in keeping keep-ing things tidy. A correspondent of the Jacksonville "Sentinel," writing from Goose Lake valley, says: "The weather has been very stormy for several weeks, but was more pleasant when we left, tand bid fair to be mild, open winter. The cattle cat-tle are fatter than ever before known at this season of the year, the mi lob cows being in good killing condition. Throughout tho country the farmers have a good supply of hay put up for tho winter, in oae any should bo re-: quired." KKVADA. For November Austin shipped 57 bars of bullion, estimated at $70,432.-40. $70,432.-40. ... Austin has a runaway wife sensation, spiced with the fatal stabbing of her paramour by the exasperate husbmd. Oo Monday, Fred Piezct, of Gold XI ill, aged seven, was caught between a shute and ore car and instantly killed, kill-ed, his skull being crushed and hi eyes forced from their sockets, Ex-licuteoant governor James S Slingerland is confined to his bed, at Carson, with inflammatory rheumatism. rheuma-tism. At Battle Mountain a very rich ledge of galena and silver was struck in the Trinity mine on tho let inst. Seven cars of rich copper from the Battle Mountain Mining Company were shipped to San Francisco, preparatory pre-paratory to being seat to Liverpool on the 2d of December. |