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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS. CALIFORNIA. Tbs boe opera still dras in Oat-la Oat-la nd- Several vessels are emp'ojed in brioping twbblefctonea from Kolsom to San l'rancicr. The average wool receipts iu Lo Auguics are about seventj-five bales daily. 'i wo thousand fallout, of wioc fr mi the Kedbauk vineyard, near tolsom, was sent to St. Loois on Thursday. Some very fine special una of coal have be-:n taken from a led;e in liorry-es.-a valley, the fits!, it is ttil, ever struck on the coast. Booth, tho oyster man, has &ioce March 10th, received from the OAtt iweDiy-.even car loads of oysters tor plamiDg, and three more car loads aro now on M'6 way. The currant growers of Alameda have combined Lo demand a wholesale price of seven aod a half cents per pound for that varktj of fruit this year. Thomas Enoch, a San Francisco boy. returning from a picnic ou the horse cars, while experimenting to fee bow near he could put his loot to the car track, had his fiicat toe out off by the car wheel. He knows now all about it- i The aoti-Uhineso people of Oakland stuck up poftors May L'liod giving otioc that Hov. M. B. Surr would deliver an adJrcsS in opposition to Chinese immisraUon on Fnday evening, even-ing, May 23rd. Thursday night all tho posters wcro torn down Ls some person, " nup posed to havo bocn Ctu-ploycd Ctu-ploycd by Ohinamen J'or that purpose. NliVAUA. The Gold Hill assessor carries a six-shooier six-shooier to protect himself from dogs while taking assessments. A Sao Francisco Chronicle correspondent, corres-pondent, writing from l'ioche, indulges indul-ges in bitter strictures against tho liccord, denies tho existence of the many strikes recently alleged to have been made, and discourses pitifully abnnt the dull times in that section. Nevadans arc anxiously awaiting for the appearance of the circus. There is an $S0 Bible in soak at a Gold Hill saloon for a whiskey bill. A patent whistle pcddlar has boon trying to whistle his landlord out of l be ptiy for his hash. The heavy hand of trie law was laid on the whistle, and i be mocking bird is no longer heard in the land. In the foothills letwccn Dayton aid the mouth of the Sutro tunnel, fossilized fossil-ized palm trees aro found in great abundancr. Cadet Albert Micbn.lson. sou of Albert Al-bert Michelson, of Virginia oi'y, has completed a four years' courso of study at the Naval academy, Annapolis, and will return home early next uiootb. The amount of ere shipped by rail to the various luillB in ibis vicinity from the Comslock mines', during the present work, averages about ninety-tivo ninety-tivo tons per day. OHKWOX. The Willamette woolen mills manufacture man-ufacture annually SOO.UOO yards of cloth, and about -00 500 pair of bliD-kcts. bliD-kcts. Oregon panerB report ihc crr-ps good. There will be, at asafo calculation, calcula-tion, GOO.Oi'O bushels of grain raised in Umpqua V alley alone. L F. Moshcr, who baa edited tho Koseburg 1'laindealcr for some time, has been appointed judec of tho Second Judicial I'istrict, to fill tho vacant y mada by the death of judgo Thayer. A t iU it, A Democratic paper up tho va'by says : " We are out about $ loO on the Greeley campaign for election ticket?, club notices, hand-bills, etc The total amount collected during the canva- by us was $o.5o." Thccdilorsof ihc Oreconian and Bulletin are publicly diseusiug the qucsiion as to which one pos'eeics the most beauiy. " What mighty contests rise from trivial triv-ial things ?" The Burnt River Dit:h in Ka-(e:n Orriion is leased for a term of three ynrs by U, l-'lca-ftntcn o' lltvk L-l:ind, Illinois for tiic money to be applied to the payment of wl.atcvcr d; ids the company has contrnclcd for the lat two yi ars, and aV-o to rf J' riu the ditch, which was f-o'd by fdier.ft s sale in B.iker ci'y Ia-t Fobruary, and P'ireha.'-t'd by farier and Knrkwood, who held a rporicapc thetfon for the amount of J LiA "0. |