OCR Text |
Show : PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. CALD'ORNIA. The orange trees of San Diego were uearly all planted within the last four or five years, and they are now approaching the age of productive, nesa. One tree is already full oi ereen fruit, which will bein to put on the golden hue in December. A confidence oporator named Darby Tawhay has jnst come to grief in San Francisco. He easily escaped detection in picking pockets and robbing rob-bing trunks, but when he dared to make love to a Sacramento German married woman; eloping with her, accompanied by $500 and other booty, he came to grief and was placed in prison. , . The bones of one thousand dead Chinamen have been collected at Sicramento from all parte of the Btate to be forwarded to China. Tbo Catholic cathedral at Los Angeles will neat 3,000 people, and will cost $150,000. . The Stockton Independent is in formed that the increase in the number num-ber of insane committed from San Francisco the present year is 25 per cent, over the corrasponding period lust year. During the year 1874 the number committed was 195; while for the nine montDB of 1875, ending September Sep-tember 30tb, the number reached 2 L0. Immigration, from the eastern states shows no signs of abatement. The arrivals this month promise to be nearly equal to those of August and September combined. , Over 1,200 pupils are enrolled on the books of the evening school of San Francisco, and the average attendance ia as high as 900i Their ages vary from nine to fifty, two-thirds of the number boing over eighteen. The latest bullion - shipments reported at San Francisco embrace $105,400 from the Consolidated Virginia Vir-ginia mine, making a total of $1,115,-300 $1,115,-300 since laet dividend, $4,350 from the Imperial mine on the 23d, $12,-700 $12,-700 from' the Leopard mine, and $38,100 from the Ophir mine. The Chollar-Potosi mine turned out 300 tons of ore last week, assaying $31.50 per ton. The eastern horses which intend to participate in the $30,U00 running race next month, will, be trained on the Sacramento course. It lakes tbe Chinese about one year to play an ordinary tragedy, and they naturally resent the intrusion of the San Francisco cops who look in at 1 o'clock in tbe morning and cry "time !" They had got nearly to the climax of the 1,969th act of a grand domestic drama the other night, and paid no attention to the ordinance, for violating which sixteen of thtm were fined $10 each. Ex-Senator Wm. M. Gwin left Sari FrAncisco on Tuesday morning, in the directors' special car, overland, tor Bichmond, Charleston and the principal centres of the south, and afterward Washington. ; NEVADA. At Reno the fire on Monday afternoon after-noon destroyed the dwellings of J. Shafler, W. X. Frank, Dr. Bishop, J. C. Hagerman and Postmaster Jeruer-son, Jeruer-son, all of which were beautiful and costly dwellings. i The alarming prevalence of typhoid fever in Virginia city recently was largely due to the filthy condition ol ; the city owing to the lack of sewerage. In the first three weeks of the month there were forty deaths, moro than two-thirdsj of which were typhoid cases. |