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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Dr- Dio LerTis, finding tho climate agreeable, ie fitting up a residence in ban Francisco. Salmon in great numbers aro running run-ning up tho San Lorenzo river, Santa Cruz county, from tbe ocean. A highway robber, who had just "gone through" Mr. Blake, a San Francisco stationer, on Saturday night, waa arrested by an officer with the proof of his guilt upon hia perEon. : A gentleman luw just returned trom a visit to Mexico, wither be went on mining business, reports that while at the city of San Luis Potosi, in the contral portion of Mexico, he saw H. C. Bennet, who absconded lrora San Francisco some two and a half years ago, under circumstances which afterwards demonstrated that he was a defaulter to the United States government. gov-ernment. Bennett informed the gentleman that he was managing some very rich mines in Durango (or a company ot San Francisco capitalists, capital-ists, and that he was doing exceedingly exceed-ingly well. S. F. Bulletin. Up to Monday night less than one inch of rain hud fallen during the season in San Francisco. San Francisco at present contains a legion of daring young rascals, who are maturing into criminals of the most decided type, and unless cut qfl nr siinnreased in their ways of vil lainy tbe number will prove a sufficiency, suffi-ciency, when fully practiced, to overrun over-run tbe United States. These hoodlums hood-lums are now making a business of ransacking and robbing bouses that are temporarily vacant. The total claims thus far allowed against the estate of the late Thomas H. Selby amount to 1,308,451.21, of which $36,078.35 is payable in currency. The San Francisco Bulletin in noting not-ing a highway robbery, says the city is under a ban of terror at present, from the great influx of a desperate class of criminals, supposed to havej come from the eastern cities. San Francisco ia making arrangements arrange-ments for a general system ot sewerage. sewer-age. It will cost $10,000 to make the Dlans. The room in the house on Ashbur-ton Ashbur-ton place in which Mrs. Catherine Emi was cruelly murdered by her Bon about two years ago, has been fitted up as an opium den by Chinese, and and is extensively patronized by white men and women. Bev. A. M. Hough, the well-known Methodist minister, of Loa Angeles, has started on a trip to New York, thence to London, Paris, Rome, Greece, around the Mediterranean coast, then to Alexandria, Jerusalem, and to all chief points in the Holy Land; and back by way of Northern and Central Europo, attor a visit to the Ottoman domains generally. NEVADA. The furnaces of the Hamilton smelting company, at Austin, will bo shut down for tho winter, in a few days. The lack of custom ores ia tae cause of tbe suspension. Owing to the recent rain and anow storms, thero is now sufficient water in the Carson river to run all the mills. The Eureka mill, where but twenty stamp mills have heretofore been in operation, has let down twenty more, making forty in all. The mill is run on Belcher ore. The mills along the river are starting all their stamps. A Virginia paper gives a list of some thirty-five new buildings already al-ready commenced, including those of public institutions, mercantile houses, saloons, oflices and private dwellings. Several of tbe new structures will be three and four stories high, of bricks; but the greater number will be but one story in bight. Miss Alice Carter, who was supposed sup-posed to have lost her life in the fire, has merely lost her name. She is now Mrs. Eobert R. Boy n ton, of Cold Hill. The Gold Hill News editorially declares de-clares that tbe sum of $21,000, received re-ceived by Virginia Irom San Francisco, Fran-cisco, is mean and contemptible compared with the wealth of the city. A lady passed down Main street, this morning, tied back so tightly that she could only step about three inches at a step. A man of horsey meio and air, who was standing on the. side walk, eyed her intently for a few momenta, mo-menta, and thon turned to a by- , standor and asked if "that crittor" was "hobbled." Austin Ha-icllc. During October $18,789.05 in coin, and f 4,051.10 in currency, waa shipped from Winnemucca to different differ-ent parts of the country by express. During the week ending on the 30th ultimo only 200 tons of oro was raised from tho Consolidated Virginia. Just previous to tho fire tho weekly production was (ully 4,000 tons, Last Saturday tho section house bo-tween bo-tween Winnemucca and Palisade was robbed of a gold chain and $125 in money. A cook and Chinaman wcro left alone in tho house, tho latter protending pro-tending to bo sick. At night tho chain, money and cook were missing, the Chinaman pretending ignorance of the cook's whereabouts; but on Sunday Sun-day the remains of tho cook were found about a quarter of a mile from the house. The bend had been cut with an ax, nnd tho appearauce of tho remains indicated that tho cook had been murdered. Tho Chinaman issusnected. It ia proposed to attach telegraph wire lo the concave Bide of the rails on tbe lines of road, and thus avoid tho over occurring enormous expense of poles, Tho wires aro to bo quotod with gutta pcrcba, so as to bo perfectly per-fectly insulated. |