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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA. There is an Indian at Xicasio who is said to be one hundred and ten jcars old. Ten thousand acres of low land in Yolo will be flooded in time to secure good crop?. San FrancL-co niorn'mi; papers are now delivered in Oakland by early breakfast hours. Smelt fishing from the Long wharf, Oakland, is new in voue. Ladies take a hand at it every pleasant after- DOOD. iSam. Cruz gets indignant because men shoot oH pistols in the streets and nobody arrest them. The San Francisco Chinese take kindiy to pockei-pieking, as well as other varieties of manual labor, There are several photographers in Modoc regions, all intent on teouriog pictures of that locality. Up at Heaidsburg the epizootic is so bad that a recent picnic puny couldn't g.. t any horses, atd had to "foot it" or stay at heme. They walked. The children who wcie injured by the late explosion iu San Francisco arc somewhat improving, except young Shannon, who is nut expected to recover. re-cover. One of the Yisalia physicians haviog , recommended a chromo patient to sock some celebrated watering place, ho was seen a few days later riding about with the milkmen. The Clay street savings bank, San Francisco, sold recently a tract of land in Alameda contain ug about thirty acres, for $3o,0U0. An offer was soon alterward made of an advance of $10,-000 $10,-000 on tho price paid. Almost every dhamphool in the country ia writing letters to the papers, making impracticable- suggestions how to catch the Alodocs, and blaming the government lor not adopting them. S. F. Bulletin. The engineers arc now surveyiDg the liue of tho Stockton and Visaiia oar-row oar-row gauge road, and when last heard from were near the Tuolumne river, a few miles below Liijrange. It seems as if, after all, that (he judgment of $12,0o0 which Miss Fraser obtained against Thrift will reira n unsatisfied. un-satisfied. The wily bachelor, anticipating antici-pating the result, quietly disposed ol' the greater portion of his property. NK VAUAi The Chapman sisters appeared at Pipe's opera house, Virginia city, on tho 12th. The Virginia Cbromole'a "devil" spout Sunday afternoon iu making his opponent lake a back scat in a sparring exhibition. Devils generally come out first best-Gold best-Gold Hill hoodlums hire livery trams, run toll gates, don't pay house hire, get into jail and nearly kill the teams. Oq Sunday there were four funerals funer-als in Gold II ill, and the stable keepers keep-ers reaped a harvest. Fi .ohc people are now oraoking shell-bark shell-bark hickorv nuts and black walnuts all the way from Missouri. Tho gold quartz discoveries near Shoshone Valley continuo to attract much attention. Washoo and Reno hoodlums aro conducting con-ducting themselves in suoh a manner that the editor ol tlic Crescent threatens to publish their names in a black list. The people of Liumboldt county are excited because the legislature have moved tho county seat from Unionville to Winncmucoa, to tako effect May 1st, and they have brought an aation to restrain tho removal of the records, on the ground that tho aot is special and unconstitutional. The quostion will probably go to the supreme court finally. The citizens of Elko are moving in the matter of the State university located lo-cated at that p!a:o by the last legisla ture. A board of trustees have been elected and committees appointed to solicit subscriptions to the building fund. Tbo new wagon road direct from Winnemucca to Boise is being fast completed and the ferry boat across Snake river is in its place. The Pioche Record reports newly discovered gold fields in Osceola district. dis-trict. Thiy aro said to bo very rich in tree gold and sulphurcts. There is some land jumping in that vicinity. The musical prodigy, blind Tom, is performing at Virginia city. Ho was born blind, and nature, "as if to make amenr's for tho alliictiOD of the poori negro boy, poured a flood of liht into his brain, and his mind became an opera of beauty written by the hand of God in syllables of musio for the delight de-light of the world." Hank Monk, wbofc fame has became world wide, as the driver who took Horaco Greeley across the Sierras saying "keep your seat, Horace," ;s handling the ribbons on Benton's stage line from Carson to Glcnbrook. ORKtlO.f. Ben Holladay has gone to Clatsop Beach to spend the summer. Mrs. Brothcrton and three children, Eurvivorsof the Modoc massacre, are at .1 ackaonvillo. The Mercury fays the prospects for a Inrce fruit yield arc good in all parts of Marion county this year. Tangent is soon to become the depot for Corva lis instead of Albany. It is ix mties from CorvaliU, while Albany is ten. In the coming municipal election at CvrvaKis an auemr.t wili bo made to prohibit Ikrn-es for the sale of piritu- II,,,, ira A num't'cr of strancc Indians, whm nobody kniws, bave been prow.mg 1 about the Iaiie. and through V-a?co county for some day I Mr. Baidwm, ot Nt wrort, inforn ft 1 tho Gx?t'e that the Iniiann about Yainina Bay are a1 (ict, and that feu; lew are allowed to leave the ifilttz reservation. i A ooiony of arxat twenty German? have gone to work on a 2.4 "J acre tract of co.i land in Sntiam val.:y, 1 ' beiorfine to capuin I'. Ankeny oi , , ih c.y. j 0-" t0 r,ar3 t'tref and no rkniind ( ir- it,e u,arju'a,"1;r.-'i ar:.- :t.o ' c. n irn wo:k- a: i'onlan 1 have c ; 1 I ; t. r;r wrck-, ktter Ci.Khart ;:,g a.. . ' the work men, . A r ad crervis-r in I.Dn ccom;y ' had q i':e a "set tr' w.:h ?-rr.c C'h;- ' j nf.-e, t:-c o: iK'to, wh- rc; ti work-i work-i og: tr-.'ir rrd tax. tlf era r. d t cm to w,c.d tie pick an 1 fbuvci. Bu; , j tr-.e J;ha a;i: "Mc no vo'tc ; ci" no wrke hf-n di:i,i; ' ar.-i wi:w 1 a :;.:.B t.."iw he brr'ke hu .-hove. a;.j ! :hrc iw-y tr.o pioco?. S :;'CrT.-.r j Grt ( rjwjcd, "stiih a sxile tLat wv 1 cLidke ax.d Uaad," q'iictl; picked I up a saiineelm club and knocked that oLaireiterva heathen stomach over jai ptiite. The other t'onr Celestial; then started lor the supervisor, when I he siiied into them with a Modoc! i whoop and a flourish of his club, which j j the same was "too luuchee fig j tee" tor I the Johns, and they calculated andi went ro work. |