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Show PACIFIC COAST NEtYS. C.t LIFOKXIA, A single vibrator threshing machine in tian Joaqinn count v has threslml over 10U.00D budhels" of wheat tliis season . 1 1 was ru nn i i ig eigl i ty-li ve days. ' . The grape crop of San Bernardino county is a hoot an average one notwithstanding not-withstanding the late fronts, and the vinieulturists are about commencing their wine manufacture. Citizens of Yallejo are making up a purse of $-"00 for a trotting race, tree for all horses in the county, to come otVat their Agricultural Park October' loth. A woman giving the name of Mrs. Winn was rescued from an unenviable death by drowning in the bay at the foot of Paeilie street, San Francisco, September i'.'tli. She very coolly and without hesitation walked to the edge of tlie dock and threw herself into tlie witter. Fortunately boatmen were in the vicinity and saved her life. Tlie cabinet makers of San Francisco Francis-co held a meeting on Monday evening, at which an earnest deba-te in opposition opposi-tion to the competition which the mechanics me-chanics of the State now encounter from tlie convict tabor of (he State Prison at San (uent;n was had. The Amador .";; says that for the last twenty years tlie mountains have never been as dry as at present, nor so little water running in our large streams. Many wells, which have heretofore furnished an ample supply of water, are now dry. OEtBGOX. Live quails arc selling at Ukiah for, S1.."0 per dozen. j Epizootic lias reappeared amontj: the horses in Yamhill county in a very severe form. There are now confined in the Insane In-sane Asylum at East Portland, ISo patients, male and female. Cougars aro very iroubiciuino around the shcep-lolds of Knappton, ! and have killed a number of fine! sheep and goats. D'jt-'tGrs are lively at Salem; a eon- sidcrablc number of fever cases havCj developed. ; There is a rush 'of buoinc&s in all the interior towns. All tlie boats that the Oregon Steam , Navigation Company can spare are employed in transporting wheat down the river. XKVADA. ! The Gold Hill division oftheVir-j ginia and Truckec railroad is to be , laid with steel rails. ; A new Indian village is building up on the hill south of Austin, the higher , toned Indians putting up nice tents.. A y tiling daughter of Mr. Devihn, , of Virginia, brukc her ankle by a fall, on Tuesday. The Carson mint is still turning out trade dollars in large quantities. Eureka is importing fine buggy and ! saddle horses fiom San Francisco. j Carson is reveling in Oak Valley butter, the choicest on the coast. H is strong enough to keep twelve, months, j The new borax works In course of construction on Teal's Marsh, Cxilum- j bus, by Mr, R. Nadeau, are the finest , yet put up in that section. ' Tlie workmen are running adrift, south in the Alps mine, and aic nowj ijiiG feet from the shaft. They will j have to go sixty or seventy feet further fur-ther to strike the vein. From the second level a winze is being sunk in a vein six feet wide, of $S0 or 00 ore. A progress of fourteen feet has been made in the we.il drift of the Chief of; (he Hill, and ten feet in tho shaft, which is now feet below the level of ilie Burko tunnel. The company, is working thirty-five men. A little' ore is being taken out, and work is. going on as rapidly as possible all the j time. They will begin to ship ore J neAt month. The miners in the Raymond nnd vly drifts to the south and southwest have not, as yet, struck the ledge, though it is expected that they will ; come upon it at almost any hour. All1 tlie s topes from the sixth 'level to the I third, inclusive, arc in fii-t class ore. j The ore at the eighth level is also of, a very goal quality. The perpendier ' ular rihafi is now nine hundred and ten feet deep. 1 |