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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFOUM.V. The schooner Johanna arrived at San Die so Frithiy, with 2,o)0 telegraph tele-graph pole;, -.and n, quantity; nt wire ami other nuiLfrials to hctisetl m tho conrtfiiction of the San Difgn anil Arizona military tcle.iMph. The Coloratfo steam navigation Company lias piirch;fstxl the l'arilic mail screw steamer Montana, ami thai portion of the Pacific mail route along the Peninsula and in the Gulf uf California. Laura De Force Gordon has purchased pur-chased the Xarruir (,'tiny ;i weekly paper puhlishod in Stoekton. Jiy reason of the undcrpinnini: uf an old slianlyon Loin hard street, San Franciscn, givint; wav on Satunlaf. the hujlding fell on Alary Krl.., killing kill-ing Iht insjintl". S. M. Hul.ha'nl, a Paptit eler.y-man eler.y-man from New York, has hecn taken in charge by the San Francisco commissioners com-missioners ol lunacy. He went to California on a pleasure tour, and while there was altackcd with mental d isi irder. The yellowjarkcts are doing very great injury to fruit in Sonoma Vai-hiy. Vai-hiy. The Stockton paper-mili is now turning out a very good quality of newspaper. Stockton's street lamps are soon to be lighted with gas for the first time in several years. The old channel of the American river opposite Babel's tannery is dry for the first time in the memory of man. The Union broom factory of Yal-lejo Yal-lejo has been obliged to close for the season. A "corner" lias been made in the broom corn, and the proprietors proprie-tors of this factory were not on the inside. In San Joaquin County a man is under arrest for stealing a mowing macnine. J.ms is prouauiy me m-; dividual who attempted to walk of with a quartz mill some time ago. Nicholas Simon, an escaped lunatic, luna-tic, was arrested in Sacramento on Sunday, and taken back to Stockton. He had a leather satchel stuffed full of tin-foil, which ho imagined was gold. Vast numbers of gray curlew have congrograted in the fields near "White Rock Station, on the line of the Sacramento Sac-ramento Valley railroad. Those who have seen them say it looks as if all the curlew of the State were holding a convention there. A most brilliant meteor passed across the sky from the zenith to the horizon Friday evening, at Anaheim, breaking, seemingly, as it vanished from view, into a thousand pieces, and brilliantly illuminated the heavens as it passed across. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company Com-pany lias given the Texas Pacific road right ol way over their property and wharves in San Diego. The German brig Catharine, from Hamburg for San Francisco, already reported lest, collided with an unknown un-known vessel on the ."Hh inst. and was sunk. A blast of 450 kegs of powder, at Sucker Point, threw out an immense quantity of rocks and gravel which smashed in several roofs and windows. win-dows. XEVAD.V. The wife of a Eureka n recently presented him with a fifteen pound son, and the newly-made father gave away S150 worth of wine. A drunken man at Ruby Hill fell oft' his horse, and then got up and shot the animal. A Gold Hill grand juror has been fined oOO and sent to jail five days, for being absent from court without leave. Silver City is said to be the most prosperous mining town in the Stale. Burglars enteral a house in Gold Hill on Tuesday, and stole valuables worth 6750. The Crown Toint Mining Company, Virginia City, uses coal from Wyoming Wyom-ing Territory. 'Carson City is suffering from a plague of flics. The humming that issues from some of our restaurants, says the Appeal, falls upon the ear of the passcr-by like the chorus sound of a thousand mu tiled drums. Large numbers of miners continue to leave Gold Hill and Virginia City dailv. fur Cornucopia di.-tru t. A pile of coal c aught tire at Eureka on Monday, and belWe it was put out SoOO worth of coal was Cunsumed. A lot of game vnek. import il fr.iiu Kentucky" sold in Virginia City ti -r ' s:X) each. An Austin lady backed a hui.-c and hug'-iy through a barber sh..p window on Sunday evening, and on Monday h- r husband paid the t him.i--s ial artijt $-X. Indians are cmployd to sweep tin-streets tin-streets in Au-tin. It is pruM.v-eil to build a canal around the cascades of the Coluiul'i; river at Dalles, Oregon. He-idem vs are in demand at Pendleton. Pen-dleton. No vacant houses in the town. Tho si til. rs in the neighborhood of Wr.-t.ni, Oregon, oiler a bonus of :s-"n.tHH (o Ji. liakcr, c mditioned on his building a branch railroad to their town. A Clat.-i.p county, Oregon, lady named Minion, rhax d a bear with a club the other d:iy and made him drop a line porker which he was carrying car-rying oil". Urave lady; cowardly bniiu. Owing to Uic severity of the weather weath-er last winter and the great lack of provender, lle re will nut he wintered ui Grand Hondo Valley, the coining sraMin, one-half the number of cattle there was I:i4. I |