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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. CALIFORNIA. Prof. Stcen, a mind reader and magician, was recently arrested in San Francisco as a deserter from Co. I, 23 artillery. On account of the decline in the price of quicksilver, the Caliatoga Free Press lias suspended. Tlie dissatisfied stockholders of the Wood vi lie mine have engaged Thoinai Fitch aB one of their counsel. Sain Smith driver of the Sonora and Milton Btuge, made a pretty speech to three highwaymen who naked him for the treasure box the other day. lie aaid: "I have met gentlemen of your kind before, and I defy any of them to come forward and say that I ever treated them with contempt; on the other hand it haa been my aim to act toward highway , excuse mo, gentlemen, gentle-men, I menn road agents, with that distinguished consideration due their standing in society. Hence you will believe me when I say that I have nothing for you this morning. Sorry, gentlemen, butthu truth of the matter ia, Wells, Fargo &. Co.'b boxes are young poorhouses on this route just now, and you couldn't squeeze a picayune out of them to save your sweet necks Irom the gallows." The Texas & Pacific railway company com-pany pays taxes in tho city of San Diego, on a property valuation of upwards up-wards of eighty thousand dollars. Santa Monica has a newspaper the On l look. Mr. Field, of Cloverdale, wno cow-hided cow-hided a young man that persisted in writing notes and letters to his daughter, though remonstrated with and requested to desist, was fined by the court the sum of $o. Twenty thousand pounds of grapes are about to be shipped from San Francisco to New York in a refrigerating refrigera-ting car, which is provided with a fan blower, driven by one ol the car axles, by means of which the air is driven through ice, which reduces it to a low temperature, and is then distributed among the fruit boxes through a large perforated pipe laid along the bottom of the car. The three hundred and eighty-second eighty-second anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus was celebrated on Sunday by the Italian residents of San Francisco under tho auspices of the Garibaldi guard. NEVADA. At Elko, a man has been arrested and fined $100 for furnishing an Indian In-dian with a bottle of whisky. Gen. Phil. Sheridan was received with all the honors, at Virginia city, on Monday last. G. F. Becker, of the California state university, in a paper read before the Academy of Sciences, on Mouday, demonstrated that the formation of that part of the Comstock loilo which lies in Virginia city at the depth ol 1,500 feet, has run into the syenite, or plutonic rock. Above this average depth the cuttings have been through a porphyry, described as a trachylic green stone or porphyluo, which is a volcanic rock, overflowing the older syenite. Prof. Becker bIiows that for over a mile, the east wall ol the lode, on the lower levels wherever Bt ruck, is syenite; that in tho mines between the Ophir and the Chollar Potoai, where tho east wall has not been reached, good grounds exist fnr infer-ing infer-ing the existence of syenite to the east of the vein; that although the syenite has been pierced in a number of places to a distance of several hundred hun-dred feet, both horizontally and perpendicularly, per-pendicularly, no other formation has been readied, nor any indication that the limits of this have been approached: ap-proached: on the contrary, this eastern east-ern syenite is apparently as solid an Mount Davidson itself. |