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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS ' ALB FORMA. The curly leaf has broken out on peach trceB in Marysville. Potatoes bring four cents per pound at Susanvillc, Lassen County. Many grain fields in the vicinity of Xicolans, .Sutter County, have been drowned out. An orange orchard is being planted near San Jose. Santa Clara County boasts of a Geld of oala five feet high. Most of the grain haa attained an altitude of three feet. The coal mines recently discovered near Montcray have been pronounced worthless. The Bank of Dixon has commenced operations, with a capital of about $150,000. El Dorado county promises a prodigious pro-digious fruit crop. There are five sa.lt factories in the county of Alameda. Tbo Placervillo public schools received half the proceeds of Josh Billings' lecture in that city. It will take six months to complete the Normal Sclfbol building at San Jose. Vallejo wants to organize a joint stock boot and shoe factory. Lus Angeles wants a plough factory, a basket factory, a paper mill and a half dozen other industries. A man who cut his throat at Los Angeles the other day, is deemed insane, in-sane, because money and certificates of deposit amounting to $1,100 were found on his person. A sufficient number of donations have been received to render the law library ot'San Jose a success. ORHGOX. Mrs. Bridgewater of Albany had her connubial shackles knocked oil by Judge Bonham last week. A number of men will leave Oregon for tliti Cassiar mines iu a short time. There are more old men in Brownsville, Browns-ville, in proportion to the population, than in any other town on tho coast. A youngster of Albany is happy because he understands the price of gingerbread is to be reduced to five cents a hunk. The town of McMinnvillc now contains con-tains five temperance organizations, and each has its own secret work, and each has a good number of members. Mrs. J. A. Duniway edits and is the proprietor of the A'cip Xortuccsf, a weekly newspaper published at Portland, Port-land, Oregon. She earned the money, on a sewing machine, with which to purchase tbo material for the p:iper, and she raised the boys who do the work of the office. She is at present lecturing on the subject of temperance, temper-ance, and Bhe shows herself to be a woman of good strong sense, pleasing all who hear her. A petition, with 1,888 signatures, was presented to the Portland Common Com-mon Council on Wednesday evening, asking that such ordinances shall be enacted as shall tend to suppress the sale of intoxicating liquors in that city. Onp..sixJ.h of the Oregon Grangers reside in Linn County, . Seven Indians were drowned in one of the lakes in the Modoc country on the loth of last month, and their red brethren aie st'll howling in honor of tin ir memory. Tiie Umatilla River is reported as rapidly rising, and has already reached reach-ed a high stage, too high to admit of the stages crossing at the usual fords. |