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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFOBNIA. The shipments ol bullion from the Consolidated Virginia this fiscal mouth aggregate $1,818,000. Joseph W. Welch, a San Francisco pioneer newspaper carier, died on Saturday last, leaving an e9tatc valued at 100,000. The California legislature will be asked for an appropriation of $25,000 to defray the expenses of transporting articles for exhibition, and making a proper display at Philadelphia. The earthquake Bhock of 8unday evening in San Francisco cracked the plastering on the walls of buildings in some places, me suock was quite general throughout the state. The Marysville Appeal asks for the passage of a law which will make highway robbery a capital oQence, leaving it with the jury to say whether the thief shall be hung or imprisoned. A colored man named James Gale, a native of Montego Bay, Jamacia, now a resident of Sau Francisco, claims to have reached his one hundred hun-dred and sixth year on Thursday last. The price of quicksilver is now 05c a pound, against $1.55 a year ago, which has been brought about by the development of new mines and increased in-creased production of old one in California. The Rothschilds control the mines of Spain, and it is surmised that the presence of one of the members mem-bers in San Francisco at this time has something to do with the trade of this important product. A committee of the San Francisco supervisors report that there are now existing within the three blocks of the city hall eight opium-smoking establishments, estab-lishments, kept by Chinese, ,'or the exclusive use of white men and women; that these places are patronized patron-ized not only by the vicious and depraved, but are nightly resorted to by young men and women of respectable respect-able parentage, and by young men engaged in respectable business avocations avo-cations in the city; that the habitues of these infamous resorts inhale the fumes from the opium pipe) until a state of stupificatiou is produced; that unless this moat dangerous species of dissipation can be stopped in its inception, incep-tion, there is great danger that it will become one of the prevalent vices of the city. An ordinance has been introduced in-troduced filing severe fines ana imprisonment as the penalty for keeping or visiting an opium den. In removing an old saloon wall at Los Angeles, a full skeleton of a human being was found just below it; it is supposed to be the remains of an ancient murder. At Gilroy a boy by the name of Kearnan stabbed a son of H. Gardiner Gardi-ner in the thigh with a penknife, inflicting a serious but not fatal wound. Benjamin Eglison, the "bunko boy" who pleaded guilty to a charge of having swindled a countryman out $10 at "bunko," has been sentenced to pay a fine of $-500, or imprisonment imprison-ment for 250 days. |