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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS, CALIFORNIA. Gcoree aowden is iu cu-ttody ut iuL-a for pis-ice a spiel-markc. Ihe Sunday Free Fres dit-d at Sacramento Sac-ramento after having made one appeaj-aDo appeaj-aDo T. EHrl BeaDs is spoken of for mayor ot 'ao. Jose, and is declared to be the richt mac. J. F. Adams, the Australian comc-diaa, comc-diaa, is playiog at Maryavilie with a burlesque troupe. About ?:"0 is all the tax which remains re-mains uncollected from ihe a;t San Jose city asaessmect. The "Octoroon, " phyed by amateurs ama-teurs at San Jose, For the beoetit oi' ihe Library acc:aiion. cleaned upi'o. 10. Jobu Fish died at Burn. Kauch, Trinity county, a few days ago, from disease brought on by exposure while hunting. Some days aeo a youcg fawn entered the town of Colusa, tcok up quarters in tho caurt houe yard, aad has become be-come quite tenic. The Suisun flouring mills, after eev-eral eev-eral months of idleness, have started up. .New boilers have been received, which will be placed in position this weL'k. Work on the Mare Island lighthouse has been commenced. The site of the building ia near the boacb, southwest from the magazine, and is therefore not visible froo Vallejo. The San Jose Mercury wickedly deduces de-duces from the fact that all ihe croquet grounds of that city are overgrown with grass that those who failed 10- get married last season are not going to try any more. Agents or oierks of Uenry Meiggs are taking copies of the records of the San FraDcisco board of supervisors lor some years back, for his particular pur-ipose. pur-ipose. It is thought he contemplates returning as soon as he sees the coast clear. The levee just oompleted around Sherman Isltnd is wide enough to construct con-struct a wagon road ou the top, which ihe islanders propose to do. The it-land it-land contains 15,000 acres, and a smooth road around it, bordering on the San Joaquin, Sacramento, and the slough connecting ihe two .rivers, will make a nice drive. NEVADA. The State prison is to be romoved from Carson to lieno. The semi-weekly State Journal of Reno is to be issued daily after May tirst. Piocho proposes to raise $12,000 for a public school building. The Khedive mine lately incorporated incorpora-ted is showirg finely. Specimens of chloride ore assay from twelve to fifteen fif-teen hundred dollars a ton. Pioche thinks it high time tho Bul-Uonville Bul-Uonville narrow guage was doing something some-thing towards iho transportation of ore. A raid of one hundred teams with two hundred minors and ouo hundred "fiibuog meu- ' ia reported organising at Fiocbe to jump claims in iht W'al lonni iiNV r. The Bullioovilletnills are all running again, mostly on tailings- The Ely &, Kay mood company have laid iron water-pipes from the hot spring mar Bullionville to supply their mills,. Twelve horses havo been withdrawn from the Carson & irginia blage line on account of the epizjodc. The branch mint at Carson received in February 30,145,839 ounces of gold, 389,051,05 ounces of silver, and turned out $1,001,592,41 in coin and bullion. bul-lion. Conrad Meyers, brewer of Virginia, recently died in tho country poor house of mania apotu. The curiosity in Eureka is un Angora coat just imported by Mr. George Bliss, who has purchased him for the improvement of his large flock of common com-mon goats. OllEUOX. Wheat is quoted at seventy-five cents a bushel at Salem. Thirty-seven printers and eight printing effaces havo made returns to the Greeley fund, at Iralem. The diich and "franchise" of tho McMinnvillc water manufacturing company com-pany sold for the sum of ten dollars ! 2ewby was the lucky purchaser. Salem Las a painter, Win. Parrot by name, who, according to the Statesman, States-man, has executed somo Tory creditable credita-ble pieces, i nc representing Mouot j Hood in.'pircs the Statesman's reporter to break forth into poetry. A letter ftom liillsboro, dated tho 4th, says: "For twodays ashington county has been visited by one of tho most severe rain storms ever known in that section. parties rrport the streams everywhere rising at the rate of a foot per hour, while tho whole surface of tho ground appeals like one vast sheet of water." The Statesman of Tuesday says : "Coope-, of Douglas county, late a member of the Oregon legislature, arrived ar-rived in town yesterday. He brought down a specimen of granite from a ledge on bis farm, to submit it to the inspection of tho capitol building commissioners, com-missioners, with the view of ascertaining ascertain-ing its suitableness tor use in the new c a pi to!. This granite is said to ho susoeptiblo ol receiving a high and beautitul gloss finish, quito equal to the granites of Scotland. We understand under-stand that specimens have been submitted sub-mitted from other quarters in vatiouB parts of the State." |