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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. Tom Scott and party have gone to enjoy the scenery at Yoscmite. Albert Leonard has been elected president ot'ihe Pioneer Society of Sao-ramento. Sao-ramento. Wood choppers and saw mills are spreadine havoc in Yosemite valley. Tbe Southern Pacific railroad hap formally opened its new passenger depot de-pot in San Francisco. Ground for the extension of the Southern Pacific railroad was broken at. Salinas City on the 4th instant Mr. Piochc left by his will a splendid collection of mineralopical specimens to the university of California. D. J. Harmon announces himself as as an independent candidate for congress con-gress in the San Francisco district. Miss Julia Thomas, some years ago a conspicuous b2lle in Sl Louis society, socie-ty, has taken the black veil at the convent con-vent of the Sacred iiearL J. S. Hunt, superintendent of the Russian Hill mine, at Railroad Fiat, Calaveras county, has been missing since last Tuesday. Doubts are held in San Francisco of the loss of the Pacific Mail company's China mail steamer "America," as reported from Yokohama Aug. 24th. Ten thousand oitizens of San Francisco Fran-cisco petition in favor of voting a municipal mu-nicipal subscription to tho Atlantic and Pacific railway. Ah Foy and Miss Quo, two Celestial lovers of Sacramento, who wished to return to tho Occidental land but couldn't, took poison and died in each -other's arms. Colonel D. E. Buelj the well-known mining engineer, is making extensive arrangements to develop the celebrated celebrat-ed placer claims in the San Gabriel, ' by hydraulics. " Jerome won a $600 trotting race at Marysville, Friday, against Regulator : and Handy Andy, taking the third heat without a break in 2:2Sj, over a rough track, forty eight feet over a mile. Several gentlemen from France are now in San Francisco inquiring into Practicability of esLihlriinD- a fantn-rr, for the manufacture of silk piece goods, J and it is understood they have reported report-ed favorably on the sabject. San Diego reports give an aooount of . the massacre of eight Mexicans and one or two soldiers by Apaches near Tucson. Thirty heart of cattlo and ' horses were stolen. Governor Safford i culls for volunteers as the only way to r hold the country. 3 1 KUVADA. f A. S. JBlair, of the Bowery mine, was severely injured last week, in jumping from a dump. Tape-worm raids are reported at Pioohe. A hundred feet is the latest result. Lake Bigler mountains are covered with snow. Two boys of Uoiooville were lost forty-eight hours in the mountains last week. The Hamilton and Piocho telegraph line will be ready for business September Septem-ber 17th. Wadsworth has a bonax mine. Eureka is preparing for horse raoing in- October. The Gold Hill water oompany is laying pipe across the valley to the Sierras. The killing of James Gibson, of Genoa, by T. Hawkins, is deolared in self-defence, by tho coroner's jury. Humboldt Walls stage robbers have whipped the sheriff nd hi poasc. OREGON, tfco. Fishing with giant powder is becoming becom-ing common in Jackson county. Wm. Phipps, of orth Yamhill, harvested 420 bushels of wheat off a ten acre field. The Jacksonville "Times" has again changed proprietors. T. B. Kent is now sole owner. The citizens of Link river settlement settle-ment have a fine race course upon which to try the speed of their oay-uses. oay-uses. The potatoo crop in Yamhill promises prom-ises well, and tho price is coming down to twenty-five cents a bushel, so says tho "Courier." , Roseburg aspires to be a oity, and' articles of incorporation have been prepared pre-pared and will be submitted to the legislature leg-islature at the coming session. R. R, Cochran and C. B. Chrismun are urging the Democrats of Jackson county to eat "biled crow." Other- wise.they are making Greeley speeches. J. R. Weil, prosecuting attorney of tho first judicial district, gives notice through the tolumns ol tho Jacksonville Jackson-ville "Sentinel" that he will euforce the Sunday law. An Indian at the Viamox reservation reserva-tion shot and killed bis squaw on August Aug-ust 22d, and through tear of being strung up, fled to Klamath valley, where ho sensibly signed his own death warrant with a gun. The Roseburg "Piaindcakr" urges the institution of a sepcrate supreme oourt in Oregon, and says it is a ahatne that the judges who havoworked unceasingly un-ceasingly for nearly a twelve month, on a salary of $2,0U0 a year, should be oompolled to otc in bank to revise every important oaso decided in the Stale. |