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Show PACLTIC COAST SEWS. CALlPORSli. Sixty thousand pounds of quicksilver were shipped from riew Idris. during November. Large ripe BtrawberrieB were lately grown on the place of Robert Swan, seven miles from Napa. During the past few days, more particularly duriog ihe night time, large flocks of geese have been making, their way northward. It is reported that different parties have left and are about leaving San Francisco on diamond searching expeditions expe-ditions for Arizona. A man justly named Edward Savage has been arrested in San Francisco lor an attempted outrage upon a little girl of five years. Machinery for a qnarti mill to be erected near Hermosilio, Mexico, by San Francisco capitalists, is being oast at the Pacific foundry, i The Central Pacific railroad company compa-ny have contracted with the Natoma Water and Mining company of Fol-som Fol-som for 3,000 tons of cobblet to pave around their works in that citv. A German actor named Kethwick was hissed from the stage of the California Cali-fornia Theatre while tinging a song that contained offensive allusions to general Grant and the republican 1 party. Tho Vallejo papers complain that that many of the men discharged from the navy yard leave without paying their dry goods and BTOcors' bills. The business men of Vallejo have lost, thousands of dollars by them. H. P. Masscy, of Los Angeles, recently re-cently discovered a swarm of wild bees comfortably housed in a dried -pumpkin in Martin's cornfield. The pumpkin pump-kin was apparently of last year's growth, and was perfectly dry, and contained ten or twelve pounds of beautifully beau-tifully clear white honey. ' Gov. B joth has granted a reprieve of two weeks in the case of Donovan, who is under sentence of dtiath, and was to have been executed on Friday. Tbo previous insanity of the prisoner is strongly urged in behalf of a commutation. com-mutation. Diptberia, catarrh, pneumonia and influenza, the doctors par, appear to have formed a sort of afflictive copartnership copart-nership id San Francisco within the past few weeks. That is to say a new and trouble some disease, possessing many of the characteristics of those mentioned, is quite prevalent. Mr. McGowao, who has a farm on the Sacramento, iu Yolo county, had this year eight aores of peanuts, yielding yield-ing 4,000 pounds, which are worth from four to five cents. He is storing bis peanuts, and to thai end has erected a building especially for the purpose. NEVADA. Pioche h as from 400 to 500 lodging bouses and calls for a first class hotel. The "Territorial Enterprise" (Virginia (Vir-ginia City), says that a new first-class piston steamer has been ordered from the east for engine company No. 4, at a cost of $4,500. The Carson "Appeal" advooate a town incorporation for that plaoe. The capital of the State should be incorporated. incor-porated. Over in "Virginia, a Mrs. Dc Wolf advertised to lecture, but when the hour for speakine arrived the audience did not arrive. The lady was of course astonished, but it leaked out that the disappointment had been occasioned by amD nna n.rl.,,a,,nff rV.A i-Ptwr rhat the lectures was Mrs. Fair in disguise. dis-guise. Dr. W. H. Taylor, an old resident of White Pine, and brother-in-law of Forbes, of tho White Pine "News," died at Hamilton on the 5th inst. OKEWON. A boy was arrested at Salem, Oregon, recently, for stcaliog saw logs. Kalama contains five whiaJty mills, one brewery and a jail, but no school-house. school-house. The "Oregon Beacon" says: "We havB two churohes operating, cither of which is more than capable of seating all the cburch-goiDg population popula-tion in town." The Modoc Indians are a Btraggling remnant of a onco powerful tribe, whose habits aro very nomadic, and who generally range between the Snake river on the nortb and Yreka on tho south. A Mr. Sherwood, of Tillamock, was recently stopping at the house of G. W. Phillips, near Amity, in this ooun-ty, ooun-ty, and complained of being unwell. Pretty soon he was noticed to drop a ; newspaper on his lap, and then his speotaolcs. Upon being addressed he made no answer, when it was discovered discover-ed that bo was deaf and dumb. A pencil and pnper wero given to him, when he attempted to write, but failed aod fell to wcepinir. A Portland di?palch of the 10th says; "Tho Btcamor "John L. S.cph- , ens, sailed at eleven o'clock this morn-iojr. morn-iojr. with 130 passengers, 5,000 barrels ; of flour, 3,200 bags of oats, and 1,600 boxes of apples. Among her passengers passen-gers is Dr. A. M. Lorioa, a prominent oitizen of this oily en ronr f'nr Kui-wve to inauKiuato iirtjacer commeroi&l inter course between Oregon and hngland, and in the interest ot emigration to the Coast. Tom Tindall, one of tho drivers of the overland 6'agc, was driving across Yocum's bridge, on tho South Umpqua, la.st Monday night, on bis way to (janynville. ome person had removt-d a sufficient number of plariks to allow tho team to go through, which he only prevented by pulling them up suddenly on the ory brink. The bridge is about thirty feet high. The motive for the aot is unknown, and it seems almost iocrediblo that aoy one could be so depraved. |