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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CAXIFOKMA. A parry in San t'raxjeisco is collect ing raL-bits of almost every TarietT, to ship to Japan by tbe steamer Colorado. Colo-rado. Tbe Benicia cement works have been purchased by the California oemem company, and the works wLU be preatiy eniarptd. James J. Ayres, i'cr Fereral veari connected with the press of this State, has late;y assumed editorial control of ihe his Autoes Star. While tbe prain crop upon the ea.-t-em or upper end of Sherman IsUnd promises a larcc yield, the lower end is (rready damaged by salt. Kund V aily is about seTen miles wide and ten miles in length, the hills sloping back farming a basin-shaped valley. Tbe crops are lookiop well. The black beeile is coiumittiDjr serious seri-ous ravages in Fetaluma and vicinity. Tne beetle is about a quarter of an inch lone and nearly an eighth of an inch thick. Tbe iSanta Ciuz Sentinel proposes that tbe newspaper publishers of California Cali-fornia make arrangements with Weils, Frgo tt Co., by which they can get free exchanges. The San Lois Obispo Tribune of April 26th says : Unless it rains within with-in the nest ten days, the late sown graiu will be a failure in this sec lion; id fact, much of it will scarcely be worth cutting for hay. A large quantity of railroad ties have been landed at Donahue, and on ihe opposite side of the creek; but the San Francisco and urth 1'aciSc rail-load rail-load officials don't reveal what use is to be made of them. A gentlemaD from Linn's Valley, Tuiare coosty, informs tbe Times ibai crops there will be short as well as upon the plains unless it rains shod. There has been do rain for two months and crops are drying up very tadly. A belated Saoramentan, on Sunday morning, icaring garroters, -put his purse containing two twenties, under the waistband of his pants, thinking it would sJi'je down into bis biot, and be secure. It went outside and a policeman police-man found it. The deputy in the offiee of the secretary of State, who sleeps in the nir,.l hiiil.li wa; armwrrt ntl ll on Friday morning, by a delegation from FoUom, who desired to obtain fony cents worth of election paper. A school election was to be held the nest day, and tbe committee bad neglected to attend to tht-ir duty in liUsiuess hours. The deputy gave an order for the paper on Li. S. Crocker, who has charge of il At about two o'clock in the morning, Crocker's bookkeeper, book-keeper, Mott. was aroused from his bed at one of the bo'els, and the paper was duly delivered to the oommittce. AtCVAUJa. Dr. P. CodbpI'v, an old physioian of Eureka, has become thoroughly dc-irjentcd. dc-irjentcd. The roads beiwecu Toano and Fiocbo are reported to be iu excellent condition. Ciesar Caspar!, a musical genius direct di-rect from Como, Italy, has turned up in Virginia. Thero are twelve prisoners in the Storey county jail, two of whom are females. The Bristol furnace went into operation opera-tion on Saturday last on ore from the National lode. ' Prospecting and mining aft being prosecuted with great activity iu Gold Mountain district. Hinnemucca has a fnro game green pea.-9, olotbes-line thieves and strawberries a nice combination. Sum Wagner, the Virginia toot-black, toot-black, has bct-Q attacked with th- epizootic having caught it from a horse. A young Crown Point miner eloped with a daughter of one of the P.P. V. city, and when last heard from was enjoying en-joying wedded bliss at San Francisco. Last Friday, twenty-eight trains, segregating 360 cars, passed over the Virginia & Truckce railroad, between Virginia and Carson. The Humboldt Register says that Genaca's mill is kept constantly running. run-ning. It is now working cd oro from the Natchez mine that assays ? 1,000 per ton. A gang of men under charge of Thomas Fisk have oommeoced operations opera-tions at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the aqueduct for the Virginia water company. An Indian, well known in Carson as "'SohermerhorD." has beeo essaying the role of a highwayman, and slopping slop-ping travelers on the highway, in regular regu-lar Claude Duvnl style. A good article of ooal has been discovered dis-covered a short distance above tho old Koalin smelting works at Eureka. The nnin ia thin hilt trivti pvi-lAnno nf widening as it is developed. An enterprising Prepobmao has purchased the drove of camels that have been herding on the Carson it r some ycarf, and will take them cast as a show There are twenty-seven of thm. The Su'ro tunnel is now in a distance of 3.S6-1 lee'. A few days since quite a stream nf water was tappod, but in the course ofa few hours it was diminished to about two inches. UKKUOX. Surveyor general Odell haa sent to the commissioner of the geoerai land office bis report on the swamp land question. The Oregon Herald is anxious for persons sighing for divorce to come that way, and promises speedy accommodation accom-modation at small cost. It is rumored at Corvallis that tbe steamer Onentta, now plying between Pioneer aed Newport, on the Yaquiua Bay. will soon be transferred to the Willamette river trade. j EugCDe has more city marshal for' the same money than any other town in the State. Longitudinally he measures meas-ures six feet seven inche?, and his "plug" hat makes it seven feet. The juvenile hoodlums of Corvallis have a new amusement, which consists in pelting one another with eggs. Sidewalk?, build iocs and fences bear the marks of "sanguinary egg - conflict?." con-flict?." The Benton farmers' club have adopted this: "Kesolvcd, That tbe farmers of Benton couDty will attend btrictiy to farming and farming interests, inter-ests, and leave the busincu of shipping to others." Says the CorvallU Gazette: Manj of our citizens retusc to sigo the peti tion to increase me saioon iioen. out say they would sign a pe;ition for pro-j hibition. But we guee Corva.iis will I I not prohibit." I The Portland Bulletin ?ay;: Now that the murdcrine Mod x chiefs whem ! Steele, of Vrk. baa nil tbe timecun-1 sciled and backed, have drenched their i bauds in the preciou? life b.ooi of tjn-1 rue victims, what ahaU be done with him? Is he not a partieeps criminis,' an accessory before and to the atrocious crimes? He has iccitcd the Indian? to rebci'ion; ha. he not indicated i he 3 t-i murder? The b'ood ol crn-wa. crn-wa. Ca-.tj r 1 of the Rev. .cr.z-7 Thomas ca'.'.s lr vencrasre. J.t Stee.e aoswer. |