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Show r.H.IFORMA. '. The Kern County Courier says timt i lube-ring men can find plenty of work at BakersBeld. The Petaluma Cheese factory, which started four weeks since, has already 1 shipped five tons of cheese to San , Francisco. A blacksmith by tlic name of . Alex. Sutherland, was arrested at 1 Merced, Monday, for. drunkenness, and died suddenly soon afterward. Mr. Bently, living near Bingham-ton, Bingham-ton, Solano County, is the owner of a very remarkable cow. She is tliir-teen tliir-teen years ot age, and bus become the mother of eighteen calves; six pairs of them twins. She is a valuable valu-able cow yet, and is in good condition. condi-tion. The town of San Juan Capistrano contains about thirty families; a line school house, with an attendance of forty children; a butcher shop, three stores, two saloons, a hotel, and several sev-eral fine residences. The Santa Barbara Wt.c is struggling strug-gling to prove that the bay of Santa Barbara is the most safe, accessible, and commodious on the Pacific Coast, and that Col. Tom Scott must locate his terminus tor the Texas Pacific Kailroad at that place. Los Angeles (. ounty has over o00.- 000 sheep. Thirty flasks of quicksilver were shipped to San Francisco, on Monday last, from the St. John mine Solano County. The Wilmington Enterprise says that the oil wells opened in that vicinity produced twenty-Jive gallons per day. It is believed that in:boring to greater depth, several thousand 1 gallons per day can be obtained. I 1 Michael Knnis, of Suscol, Napa County, has recently been troubled with wild dogs among his sheep. On aunday night he heard a canine in his (old, and rushing out with a double-barrelled gun accidentally shot a man who was walking up tho railroad rail-road track. The unfortunate man was properly cared for and departed well satis tied at his narrow escape. NEVADA.. Red Dog, once a flourishing town ', between Dutch Flat and Nevada City, ' has become extinct. When in the 1 heyday of its prosperity the place supported several experienced physicians. physic-ians. They proved too much for the population. Jied Dog is now the "Deserted Village." A Carson correspondent of the Reno Crewit asserts that J. 1'. Jones will throw his influence for Mr. Sharon for United States Scuate. Tho State Mineralogists office at Carson cout..ins no less than 1,i,.jU ; specimens of minerals. ; Austin had a snow storm on Mon- day. Uwing to the killing of a negro by a Chinaman at Virginia City, the other day, there is constieniblo animosity ani-mosity between the races and list lights are the order of the day. On the 1'Oth a man named Mc-Cormick Mc-Cormick endeavored to commit suicide sui-cide by taking arsenic, at Virginia I City, but wns saved by a stomach pump. Cause, loss ol stocks. OUKiiU.N, 'J ho ladies of Baker City are not engineering a crusade, as h;is benn reported. That the poor Indian U being civilized civil-ized there can bo no doubt. t)uc was caught stealing "boss feed" at S.ilcm lately. Tue farmers of Baker Caunty cum plain that the ducks and geese are destroying their grain, and call upon tho sportsmen for aid. Salem has levied a tax of three mills on the dollar to support the free schools in the district embracing tlie city, the ensuing year. The first saloou'in Portland invadoi by the ladies in their cruside lias closed for want of patronage. Was it owing to tire crusade or other causes? Tho Albany College ia prospering. Over 1(30 pupils have been enrolled this collegiate year. A class of six-two six-two young men and four young ladies are expected to graduate in June. The political campaign was fairly opened at Salem on Monday evening by a discussion between Governor Crover and Hon. J. :. Dolph, of Portland. Several horses are in training at La Grande for the races to come off next month. The crusade has reached Baker City, and the ladies are raiding on the saloons, Ben. Blanton fired a pistol at John Foy, a bar-tender at Salem, last Monday, Mon-day, because Foy would not give him a cocktail. Benjamin is booked for trial, and sobering up in jail preparatory prepara-tory thereto. The Chinese have struck diggings in the channel at the mouth of Connor Con-nor Creek that pay six or eight dollars per day. The diggings are deep, being evidently the old channel ol Snake river. The gold obtained is coarse, soma pieces weighing as much as sixteen dollars. |