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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Trinity county is full of yellow jackets, jack-ets, which kill all the llica. Marjsville has ft youtli 10S years old who gcU his whiskey all at one house. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Sacramento on .Sunday evening. even-ing. Mortimer's ghost is again tearing nround the Sucramento jail o'nights. Kniglit'g Landing. Yolo county, is a lively place. From 50 to 70 carloads car-loads of grain leave there daily. On Saturday "Occident" made a half mile in 1 -Ofi. Every dwelling-house in Lakcport is occupied, and families going there to reside iind it dillicult to lease a place for residence. The Los Angeles Mar says: The railroad is making rapid headway up the river; nearly 200 hands are now employed in its construction. A valuable cow on W. I. Kugglcs' place, at Point Keyed, was sick. After taking an emetic she threw out of her throat a deer's horn nearly six inches in length. There is one town in Colusa county which can boast of not having a preacher or a saloon in it, and that town is Jacinto, situated twenty-eight miles above Colusa. Two Peavine .Indians in Plumas county wore recently lynched by the Indian Valley tribe for outraging a young maiden of their nice and were lynched in the most savage manner. XEVADA, Gold Hill was visited by a terrific ! hail storm early Monday morning, : which did considerable damage to window glass, etc. Boys between eight and fourteen years of age found on the streets of "Gold Hill during school hours are ar-i ar-i rested and taken to school. The compulsory com-pulsory education act keeps many .youths out of mischief, i About 700 children put in an appearance ap-pearance at the opening of the Fall ,tenn of the Virginia City schools, on Monday. The drawing of the Bowers Mansion (.tift entertainment has been again postponed, this time till .he loth of Oc toiler. "Virginia City boys tic their kite strings to dogs' tails, and then make the dogs run. Hy this means the bovs are ahle to Hy their kites Lu Hie t'almet of days. Sixteen hundred dollar rock from Cornucopia is being shown in Gold Hill. The Crown Point and Belcher dump ivrc tilled to overflowing. The mills on the Carson river, owing to tho scarcity of water, are unable to crush the rock as fast as it is extracted from the mines. Fires are raging in the woods in every direction from Carson. The entire en-tire region between the summit of the Sierra .Nevada and the Washoe range of mountains is hazy with smoke. oitj;;o. Two young ladies of Salem procured marriage licenses of the County Clerk- Inst Friday. Wonder what they want to do with them? The Marshal of Salem tlircalcns (o stop people driving on the sidewalk around vacant lots at the expense of a fine if they will not desist without. The potato rot in Clatsop county is not so general as it was lastycarvheu it destroyed nine-tenths of the crop. This year, so far, with lew exceptions, it lias only a fleeted those on the low landj-j. Governor Graver, Parrish, Miller, mjhU. ojjJ. rwidson of Marion county have each purchased sonicw ovrKr,.Ji Saxc's line blooded sheep. Old Marion Mar-ion seems bound to get ahead in the matter of fine stock. At Portland August 20th, the steamer Telfair arrived from Sitka, having made the round trip in eighteen eigh-teen days. Purser IGoodhuc reports intense excitement prevailing in Sitka over tthe quartz mines recently dis-j dis-j covered in the vicinity. |