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Show FACITIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. There was 5727,922 16 in the State Treasury on the 1st instant. A lynx weighing eighteen pounds was last Saturday killed near Grass Valley. A California Hon and bear were last week killed in the vicinity of Weaverville. The cotton crop on the Merced River this season is the best ever raised in California. It is estimatai that San Francicoo haa lost by the poll tax forgeries at least one hundred thousand dollars. The college talked of for Nevada City only lacks $o,000 of having stock enough taken to insure its success. Deer are more plenty in the mountains moun-tains of San Mateo county this year than they have been before for many seasons. Laura and Raida Booth, colored girls, received third-grade teachers' certificates at a recent examination held iu Nevada county. Barton Hill, manager of the California Cali-fornia Theatre, has received intelligence intelli-gence of the death of his father, , Charles John Hill, of New Jersey. The current expenses of the late! Mechanic's Institute at San Francisco Fran-cisco were $22,200, and the receipts were 000, leaving a profit of $02,-000, $02,-000, inclusive of rent and interest. . J. P. Newbert, of Honcut, last week killed a four -year-old steer, On opening the stomach, he dis-covered dis-covered one $20 piece of coin; one $3 piece, and two one half dollar pieces of silver. . One of tlie latest novelties in mining min-ing is the discovery ot a silver-bearing ledge 'in CaListoga. As the gold product of the state is on the wane silver is being unearthed to supply the deficiency. Two young California artists have returned from Europe, where they have won distinguished honors : Louis Schmidt, violinist, aged nineteen, nine-teen, and his sister, pianist, aged fiiteeu, graduates of the Loipiic Conservatory. Con-servatory. . . It is believed that the saving of freights on the present harvest transported trans-ported from Salinas City to Monterey, will pay almost the entire cost of of building the narrow-guage railroad rail-road just completed between these cities, a distance oi-twenty miles. . |