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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Tlic gross receipts of the benefit given at the California theatre- on Saturday evening last were 1,450, all of which was sent to the Virginia relief committee. Tho suspended San Francisco gold bank's condition is: Assets, $2,-12S,-281.17; liabilities, $1,215,377.00. The assets are good, and can be realized within ninetv days. Twenty-three San Francisco lunatics luna-tics ware sent to the asylum during the month ol October. Money and goods of all kinds are pouring into Virginia city from various vari-ous parts of California. Two Chinese Sunday schools meet regularly iuVallcjo. Ono is connected , with the Presbyterian church and the other with the Baptist church. It is said that they do not desire religious instruction, but are anxious to get a good knowledge of tho English language. lan-guage. They are very quick in acquiring the pronunciation of English Eng-lish words. Tho wet season in San Francisco was fairly inaugurated on the 1st Ol November, this being the first general rain of the season; The Kern county Courier gives accounts ac-counts of preparations making by single farmers to sow alfalfa on a large scale. In one instance 4,000 acres will be put into this grass. The potato blight has this year made havoc of the potato crop in this 'state., Borao producers have not gathered gath-ered 'then crop -at all, whilo others get only from a third to half of the usual yield. We do not understand tho trouble to arise from the Colorado beetle, but rather from the apparent running out of the seed. A correspondent corres-pondent some days ago calltd attention atten-tion in this paper to the fact that after about twenty years the potato will runout if continuously ulantccl horn the tubers, S. F. JiullJin. . " ! .. - NEVADA. ' Ike Batemau proposes to rebuild the International hotel at Virginia immediately, and to erect a first-class building. W. J. Forbes, just deceased at Battle Mountain, was the founder of four papers in Nevada, before which he had been a newspaper starter in California, and in the meantime created the New Endowment in Salt Lake city. The Belmontmine has encountered a great body of water below tho 430-foot 430-foot level, and will have to purchase new pumping machinery. The Virginia papers are threatening threaten-ing the roughs with vigilance committees. commit-tees. The Enterprise thinks that Austin's subscription to the Virginia sufferers will reach $1,500. A lump of pure brimstone has been sent from Winnemucca to the centennial, weighing one thousand pounds. General Sb eridan has ordered sent to Virginia city fire hundred army overcoats. They will be gladly received re-ceived by the large nnmber who so badly need them. The Virginia schools will bo opened . about the 1st of -December. The teachers without exception were burned out, many of them losing everything. |