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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Atr Sra Francisco there wcro remaining re-maining in tho county hospital, on the 24th inst., 302 patients. Tho contract lor tho city and county priuUng of San Francisco, has again been awarded to die Ksaminer. Robert Gordon Milno, the Oxford graduate, is again under arret as a O-'mujou drunkard, at Los Angeles. The railroad company uro repairing the weak places alone; their road, b.-twem b.-twem Vallujo and iSiiismi, unking it Mtannch lor bad weather. Rev. O R Fitzgerald U confined tu his bed by sickness, and has been tor several days Uu could not fulfil engagements en-gagements iu Son ma county en account ac-count ol his illness. It bus been raioioi.-, with iiht interruptions in-terruptions ever huoj Suuday eveuing. The amount of tho rain fall, during tho mouth of December, is only about two inches'. Muiua Hubert, a well known San Francisco lawyer, is dead. Bausmao Iiub written another plaj unuueu jju anu ziora, too tccuu ui which is laid in Australia. Budd Doble, and G. H. Hickok, tho drivers respectively ol Goldsmith Maid and Lucy, elated with their success in the contest between their nags and Occident, are taking some fresh, fast stock to California, to "clean out" the Pacific Coast sporting men. Visalia proposes to connect herself with tho South Pacific railway ot Tulare, by a narrow-gauge road. Ico formed in tho street gutters of Los Angeles on Saturday night. Tho Sacramento Beet Sugar company com-pany Thursday received two carloads car-loads of Bugar boot socd from France. A woolen mill in Los Angeles will be in operation January 1st. Tho magnificent residenco of M. C. Meeker, near Freestone, Sonoma county, coun-ty, was burned on Tuesday evening, the 17th inst. The Sacramento Record says: "If anything was settled in this State by the lato congressional contest, it was the Goat Island question." Caiistoga boasts a boy sixteen years of age, who stands six feet in his socks, measures eighteen inches across tbo shoulders, fourteen inches across the hams, ami weighs 100 pounds. Sinco tho launching of the two new steamers on Lako Tahoe, property at various points around tho lake has risen in value. At Tahoe City it has gone up ono hundred per cent. Tho Saiinas City, Monterey, Index, says that work on tha Southern Pacific rail road has ceased, and that tho road will not be pushed any further south this winter. The ties aro put down for about twelve miles beyond Salinas City. KKVADA. The Rwille of the 23d inst. says that on the day before, George Bibbens shot and killed Thomas Lynch, at Eureka. Eu-reka. Al. Biker, shot by Tom Kelly at Mineral Hill, is dead, and Kelly is ul-der ul-der arrest. Wm. B. Hamlin, a well known teamster, was killed at Virginia on the 20:h inst., by being struck with a piece of timber which ho was loading on his wagon. Reno is tring to cors'ruct a woolen mill. A valuable gold-bearing quartz mine, owned by an English company, is bo-ing bo-ing developed between Reno and Wadsworth. It is thought that John P. Foulks, who was severely stabbed in an atfray at Verdi, fome time ago, will die. The following are the aggrcga'es cf tho operations of the mint at Carnn for the past year: Gold coined, $533,-350; $533,-350; silver deposits and purchases, $4,192,663 14, silver coined, $yti,Uu6 50; unparted and fino bars, $T,S6'J,-287 $T,S6'J,-287 53; total deposits and purchases, is, 504. 430 C9; total number of pieces, 204,340. The Carson Register has passed in its checks to the Appeal, and the latter is now monarch of all it surveys. There was an average attendance of 3,372 pupils iu the pub n echoo'a of Nevada, tor tho present year. At Hamilton, Whito Pine, a man named Robert Grainger has been held in 1 1,000 bail to answer befuro the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny, OKEUOX, Ac. The Scattlo library association proposes pro-poses to raise $1,500 by subscription to purchaso bookB. A farmer in Puyallup valley, near Stellacoom, sold his crop of hops this year for iO.500. Eight inches of snow wero reported on the 21st inst.. at tho Dalles, with tho thermometer at 19 degrees. The production of flix promises to be a very lucrativo business in Oro-gon. Oro-gon. An Olympia paper quotes tbo price of wheat at that place at $1 per bu.-h.el. The Slate Temperance allianco of Oregon meets at Salem on the 22d of February. Several Portland saloon keepers havo been up for viclaiion of the Sunday law. Government land disposed of in Douglas county, Oregon, during the last two years loots up 300,311 acres. In many parts of Orepun firmcrs arc plowing vigorously. Wheat sown one month er more ao looks finely. The Williamson grist mill, on Otter Crck, Yamhill county, was destroyed by fire on Sunday, December l.Vh. Tho Albany Democrat says lit n N. II. Cr.inor's la-t hohN were: "Give mo a lift help me over tho precipice, and I will soon be home." Marcus Smith, of tho Central Pacific Pa-cific railroad Burvey, has explortd the country from Seymour Narrows to within a lew miles of Nanaimo, British Columbia Tho Northwestern stage company have put on a four-horse staijo coach between tho Dalles and Umatilla, to run overy other day. |