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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. : San Francisco is enjoying a severe scarlet fever epidemic. The Pacific Mail Company saves $25,000 per annum by the abolition of ita San Francisco superintendency and other reforms of that city. The hills near Benecia are changing chang-ing color, the grass being two inches high. Farmers are jubilant and cheerful at the prospect of a good season. sea-son. Over 200 deer have been killed this fall in Mendocino county merely for their pelts. At Chico, December 39th, Lodi Broyles attempted to commit suicide by cutting bis throat with a razor. Cause unknown. "The doctors think -he will recover. The boring for artesian water at the Benecia arsenal, which has long been in progress with the aid of the beat machinery and appliances, has now reached a depth of between 500 and 600 feet. Artesian water has been struck that rises to the surface. At Santa Cruz,Dec. ISth, a Frenchman French-man named Gracia waa accidently killed while assisting to roll a cask of liquor into a cellar. The cask slipped and struck him with great force in the face and breast as he stood beneath be-neath it, killing him instantly. Thirty thousand baskets of oysters were shipped from Shoalwater Bay to San Francisco in Xov. John McCul lough has closed his eastern tour in Bufliilo. He will spend a few days in 2ew York, return by overland train, play in Salt Lake two weeks, and arrive in San Francisco in time to prepare his plays for his return re-turn engagement, commencing on the l(3th of February. At Bauta, Dec. 20th,George Burns, a young man about twenty-five years of age, was Btruck, and instantly killed by a falling bucket filled with earth. Thirty Chinamen have been shipped from Trukee to Clipper Gap, where they are to be employed by the railroad rail-road company in clearing away the obstructions on the track, occasioned by the recent slide. On Tuesday morning, Dec. 16 th, C Mrs.Mary Blagg,wifc of Elijah Blagg, who resides near the court house in Mariposa, attempted suicide by cut- ting several gashes in her throat with ' a butcher knife. She went to the insane asylum. In Castro Valley, Alameda county, there is forest of Australian guin ; trees covering over one hundred acres. The trees were planted only three years and a half ago, and Borne have attained a bight of filly feet and a , diameter of twelve inches. NET AD A. Smokey Valley received eighteen ' inches of snow during the last storm in that region. Carhn is mining a superior quality of coal. Cornucopia is to have a ton-stamp mill in fhe spring. "' JaniesSharp,au Elko sheep herder, tried to cut Ins jugular last Sunday but severetl his wind-pipe. He is doing do-ing as woll aa could be expected. Charles Doyle oi Carlin was severely cut in the lace and breast last Thursday Thurs-day by a man whom he refused work. He is in a very critical condition. condi-tion. 1 Xhos. J. Bowling died at Gold Hill on Sunday from injuries received in the Rhode Island mine. 1 A young man at Austin the other day made r serious mistake. He bought a nice dress-pattern lor his sweetheart, and a pair of red flannel drawers for himself. He delivered the wrong bundle to the young lady. Result a broken head and a ruined frying-pan. A hcusu in Upper Austin is said to be 'haunted. Strange and unusual noises are heard about the hour of ' midnight, when grave-yards yawn, etc. The noises procel from tlio room of the hired girl; and, although the family tal: of moving h somp jiousb iVec of spirits', llie girl docs not rtccm to display any trepediticn. The father of tho family says "That gal's got a lieay o' nerve; you bet," OREGON. Wheat in large quantities L sold at l.d per bushel in Albany. ' The Organisation of the Fa Iron of ; Husbandry in Lane county numbers Uii members, nut including Siuslaw Grange. Thirteen vessels arrived in Coos Bay during the week ending Dec. 'J an unusual number; (h'parturf? si... During the same week he eoai shipment ship-ment was 1,Lhj tons; uf huu'Kir -00" feet. Work on the Albany and SanlUm canal is being vigorously forwarded, the contractors arc now at working on the wound branch of the lower and upocr part in town, with a large lun. c oi men. The last numler of tlie Albany lant.crat .ays: "The lire burnt up four columns of rhatr, elegant, forcible, for-cible, logical, conclusive Democratic literature which we had written for this isetic. In summing up the li$sns wc have nM counted this in."' S--; much clear rain f;.r .our rc.vkn-. j bit'ihcr is row n, says an Oregon pa-1 per. The L:wr.7f gets oil the fuliowinq-" fuliowinq-" nlrrvp that our Albany kniieo j a-c ikirrgup ;hr;r liair in sfcicki Vrjo;;t : in K'r.rs higher th;n their hcai?. j A 1h.1v of the fore, in humble inii-. Mtmn ol thm, h.-w tied a pole up her h.-u-k bo it wtlj reach a yard nr two above hrr bead, and has twined a row's uil ip the .'.'ie. Sr.f- i? '"V;-'r.c the of ai: hociiais. ' |