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Show CALUOBM.l. A Prcsliytcrian society has Kpl-ii or-1 gnnizetl ut Ukiali, boginning villi ii niembernliip of sixteen persona. I Lnst week was pnx.uotivo of liail storms ftt many points throughout tho j northern and central portions of tho State. 1 J. Shafter, of Oleum, has been elected President of the State Woman Suffrage Society. Very fine halibut can he caught in abundance off Point St. Ireorgo, Del Norte County, and the Crescent City Courier thinks a fishery ought lo he established there. All the liquor dealors of Crescent City are going to apply for a yearly hcenso in order to circumvent tho Local Optionists. An election is to be held in Siskiyou County on the 10th instant, on the auestion of receiving a norlionof the ismantled County of Klamath. Vallejo has 911 children attending school. A $3,000 glove factor' will soon bo established at Healdsburg. Kipe cherries aro wo:th per pound in Sacramento. The value of the bean crop in San Diego County this year is estimated at , $15,000. I Twenty thousand dollars' worth of ! potatoes will be exported from S.m biego this season. The business men of Ukiah have subscribed $o00 toward bringing the telegraph, to that place, and have agrreed to double the amount. j A project is on foot to construct a ' railroad from Caniptonvillo via Ne- vada City to MaryBvillc. The route is a feasible one, ami such a road could he built, it is estimated, at leas than $5,000 per mile. The distance will be about filly miles. California mocking birds sell in San Diego at figures ranging from 13 to ij50 In Lake County the people work two days on the roads, or pay a poll tax of $4. NEVADA. Ihos. O. Dunn, an old pioneer, died at Sctby Flat on tho Sth, Ai; incendiaiy tiro occurred at Decker's Huy Ranch, Smoky Valley, on the oth, destroying property to the amount of $1,200. It .b estimated that the cost of tho stone for the ney tite urjsoq will bo about $10,000. Mary Battlefield w.is declared insane, at Virginia, on the ifth. The parties sent out by the Masons of Elko to search for The body of J. J. Ellis have found no traces of him. The survey of the new road from Loyal ton to Kcno has been completed, 'fhe estimated cost of ho road in 3,00U, qf which amount Reno subscribes sub-scribes nearly $,0X) and Loyal ton the b ilanco. Kolert Kot-a' residence, at Long Valley, burned recently. Loss, $5,-000, $5,-000, A Chinaman and two Indiana got into an altercation at John's liauch, , Jack's Vl'ey, cm the llih, and tliu former was killed. A man named McCluer was shot by Jno. Murphy, at Carson, on the llilh. New potatoes sell in Eureka at 20 cents pcr pound. The recent frosts have damaged tho fruit prospecls in some localities in Polk County William Watson, at Keedsville, is collecting "samples" of Oregon wool to send to Austria and Scotland. A boy name 1 David Uleck, living in Clakamaa County, near the Cascade Cas-cade Mountains, killed two Oregon lions while out hunting the other ilay. Five hundred and sixteen is the number of lioaki in t-ho Odd Fellows' Library at Salem, exclusive uf Congressional Con-gressional Globes, Patent Ollicc Keports, and public documents oi all kinds. While cleaning a derringer a few days since at Grant's Pass, Jackson County, it was accidently discharged, and the ball lodged in the arm of George CrefTs. A man named Bait, at Gervais, attempted to commit suicide while tempoiarily insane about financial matters. He lirjt tried to cut his throat and then shot himself in the head, but was still alive at last ac-couta, ac-couta, A pifeachei', while engaged in a Httlo yame of chess at Salem, the other evening, moved a little in his chair, and the hammer of a pistol in his pocket caught in some way and the weapon was discharged, frightening frighten-ing the divines opponent in tlo game very badly. He wants to know what preachers carry pistols for.' The Jacksonville Sentinel of last Saturday Bays: "A storm of rain set in with uu on Wednesday evening, continuing all of Wednesday night and during the greater part of Thursday Thurs-day at short intervals Tho crops and wild ranges arc much benefited by it, and every out-door attraction i much enhanced thereby." j - |