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Show CALIFORNIA. The tempcranco crusado has reached San Bernardino. JSevada City is elated over tho possession pos-session of a white quail, Intoxicating liquors alone cost Grnsa Valley 132,000 anmially. The iron for. the Santa Cruz railway rail-way is arriving. Wool ia falling off tho sheep in Mendocino Couqty. A rich strike ol fire-clay is said to have been struck, near Santa Cruz. A mine near Grass Valley was offered of-fered one year ago lor $30,000, nnd now could not be purchased for $130,-000. $130,-000. A slight shock of earthquake was felt iu Sacramento on Sunday. An Odd Fellow's paper, entitled The Aquarium, has been started in Vallcjo. There appears to bo no limit to the quantity of crude petroleum that can be obtained in Ventura County, St. Vincent's Seminary, which was recently destroyed by fire at Santa Barbara, will be immediately rebuilt. re-built. ; Colusa is about to expend $10,000 I in securing additional school accommodations. The temperance crusaders at Colusa propose establishing a public reading-room, reading-room, as an inducement for young men to avoid drinking saloons. The property ,of the Little York Gold Washing and Mining Company of -Nevada County, comprising all ditches, water rights and Jgravel i claims, lias been sold to an English company for $220,000. i There is a rooster on exhibition at Sacramento, which has four feet and four wings. Tivc additional feet arc well formed and branch out from the i legs just above the regularly formed t feet, while the additional wings are dimunitive.'and start from the second joint of the serviceable wings. The gas and gwater companies ol' Vullejo are at loggerheads. Itis claimed claim-ed by one that in a certain locality the escaping water rots the gas pipes, and by tho other that the escaping gas rots the water. Iiafael Vasquez, Tsecond cousin of the renowned bandit, Tiburcio Vasquez, Vas-quez, was arrested in Gilroy March 22d, by Deputy Sheriff Bellman, for grand larceny. The high water in Sau Lorenzo Creek has washed away considerable j farming land of value. Tho delinquent tax list for the past fiscal year for Tehama county will toot up less than $1,000., Tho Tehama lntUynJent says that I'.sh arc running quito freely in the river at present, and a great many are being caught, some of which aro unusually un-usually large. NEVADA. Governor Bradley is confined to his Iioueo with rheumatism. A first clasa hotel is to be creeled at Carson City. The snow is rapidly disappearing from Humboldt valley. Reports from the copper mines near Deep Wells are quite favorable. All proceedings had by the Board of County Commissioners for the purpose pur-pose of organizing a town government govern-ment have been annulled. Heno is infested with an excess of the hoodlum element, ana it is daily becoming more and more apparent that the citizens will bo forced to adopt strong measures to repress it. OREGON. It is rumore L that Bcvcral Democratic Demo-cratic papers in thisStatc have seceded from the nominees of the Albany Convention, and have come out lor the Independents. Union temperance meetings continue con-tinue to be held in Portland, but no demonstrations have been made against the saloons. The wool clip in Multnomah county (or 187-t, will, it is estimated amount to 800,000 pounds, which will be an average of about four pounds per head one pound less than was sheared shear-ed last year. It is estimated that 10 per cent, of the cattle in Umatilla county havo died during the winter. Nearly all the business men of Salem, including saloon keepers, have agreed to close up on the Sabbath Sab-bath day. Flour, saleratus and paper collars are scarce in Pendleton. |