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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA. Oakland, California, cximplaics of eioessive dolltiess. "A mixture ol tragedy aod farce" what the .Mendocino lemocrat cails the Modoc war. ICicLty Gilroy ladies and genticmeD 1 visited San Jcse, to attend Bind; Tom's concert. i In Mendocino county tbo Indian 1 wife of .Nat. tmith. colored, cut hi.-tiiroat hi.-tiiroat desperately. Ii was sewed up j and he wiii recover, ' M. l ura, Japanese commisjiofier ol' agriculture.. Bailed tor Japan on the I Coiorada, taking with him four Durham Dur-ham cows, a 'ackass and lire rabbits April was a pretty good month for marriages in San Francisco, if we may judge from the number of licenses issued by the county cierk ISiJ being the number. A gentlemaD who recently risited Truckee, declares that ''playing cards I seems to be about the only lesson in Christianity the residents have re-; re-; ceived. " i A Chinaman robbing the sluice boses of Mr. Squires, near Giusonviile. was thot by cne of Mr. S.'s boys. As the gun was loaded with quail shot.the fellow escaped. Saota Barbara is in a fever of delight, and all because an editor down there announced that Pioche was one thousand miles nearer Santa Barbara than San Francisco. Three cars are now daily turned out at the shops of the Central Pacific railroad in Sacra memo, instead ut seven, as formerly, the working force having been reduced 50 per cent. Aooie Stillwcll, a young destitute female, fainted from exhaustion while seeking employment on Wednesday afternoon, on Kearney street, San Francisco. She found friends who will see that the doe not suffer in future. The San Jose Mercury says that the grape vines are coming out finely io spite of tiio frost. In many locaiiti where it was supposed the crop would be a failure, the indications arc favorable favor-able for a good yield-Speaking yield-Speaking of the sentence, of UT. B. McN'eal, for attempted rape, the Crescent Cres-cent City Courier says: ' If justice had her dues he would havo official company com-pany in his future home. The Del Norte county grandjury re-ooudy re-ooudy submitted a report, from which the following is an extract: "Io the case of W. A- XL mil ton, judco of Del iS one county, charged with dealing in county serif, it appears that he-erred through igooraooe of the law, owing to the oon arrival of the new code." As the violated law has been on the statute stat-ute books for twenty year?, the probabilities prob-abilities are that neither the judge or grand jurors are Dame's. HICVADA. J. B. E. Cavalier, of Pioohe, won $3,700 betting on the result of tho iiermes suit. Trout, caught io Sierra lake and packed in ioe, arc sold in Pioche. The policemen in Eureka are in straoted to allow no more foot-ball playing on the streets in that towu. The Kosedale dramatic troupe is playing at Virginia. The Pixiey sisters sis-ters have struck tho public fancy. Palisade hotel keepers charge travelers trav-elers fifty cents for the use of soap, water and towels with which to wash their face and handd. ! The White Pino News says: The Shosbones. a tribe in the eastern counties coun-ties of the State, numbering 5,000, arc indulging in war dances and showing ! other signs of hostility toward the whites ' A company is busily engaged, says tho White Pine News, of tho 20th, opening one of the finest sandstone quarries in the State on the PaDoake range of mountains. The stone is of the finest texture, and totally devoid of the presence of lime or iron. Tying tin cana to tho tails of vagrant canines, and then encouraging them to kill themselves running by wild yells and unearthly shrieks, is the favorite amusement of the gentle Pioohe Chris- . tians. OREGON, The fruit at Canyon oity and vicinity looks promising. The country around fioseburg, Orc-i Orc-i goD, has suffered severely from a heavy frost. Oregonians are amusing themselves by placing fence rails on tho railroad tracks. The exodus of Chinese from the Sound country to the railioad still I continues. A man named Perry is iu jail in Coos county for having bad the bad taste to bite oil a neighbor's nose. Tho boats of the Oregon Steam Navigation company commenced waking wak-ing trips to Lewiston, Idaho Territory, on the 2'2d ult. Tho Vancouver Water company will shortly receive and lay down 7,000 feet of four inch pipe. It will cost about $7,000. Pitching quoits and foot racing arc said to be the means by which Eugene merchants and clerks secure their highest earthly blisp. G. W. Sleeper, tho sheriff of Cods county, 13 accused of being a defaulter to the amount of $2,100, and that he is now in jail in default of bail. Luther KiDg, tho man who parsed examination at Corvallia for shangha-ing shangha-ing a girl sixteen years of age, has been accepted as a boarder at the peni-tontiary peni-tontiary lor one year. From all accounts there will not be any work dono on tbo Northern Pacific on the section between the Columbia river and Pen d' Oreille lake this season, except, perhap?, the setting out of bridge timber and ties on the Yakima, to be ready for the floods of 1874. |