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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The old cross on a hill at San Buenaventura, Bue-naventura, originally erected in 1782 by the old padras as a beacon for marinciB, was blown down in a gale1 of wind last week. 1 Father (.-ionzolez died at the Miesion at Santa Barbara last week, after having hav-ing been engaged in religious duty there since 18-13. Mrs. Caroline K. Berry man has been appointed postmibtress tor Napa Junction. Tbe price of beef cattle is lower in San Francisco than it has been for years. The'Sau Bernardino Times says: An engineer parly under charge ot Capt, Smith is about making a reconnois-sance reconnois-sance of a railroad route from a point on the Mojave near Camp Cady, through Arizona, via tho "Needles." The party is sent out by the Southern Pacilic railroad, and its operations foreohadow a direct line from Tehat-chepi Tehat-chepi across the desert. This ia certainly cer-tainly another move on the railroad checker-hoard, having for its object the defeat of Scott and competition with the Utah Southern. On Monday monrng last a lady visited tbe Merchant's .Exchange, at San Francisco, and anxiously inquired if the I'acijic would arrive on that day. When inlormed by Mr. Cool-idge, Cool-idge, the secretary, that she was due during the day, she cpress'd her fear that something had happened to tbe vessel, as she drempt, during the previous night, that she was wrecked, and that an intimate friend on board had been drowned. Attention is being drawn to the frequency of executive pardons. The case is related of John Haueen, of Santa Clara, who killed and cut up his wife in 1870 and was sentenced for twenty-five years. He was recently re-cently paidoued out, on the grouud of piety and good behavior. NEVADA. The sale of tho bad and doubtful debts of the Final National bank ol Nevada took place at Austin on tbe i 10th. Tbe total amount offered was $250,000, and tbe total amount realised real-ised was $100. Toivabe Lodue. No 8. Knitrhts ot rhvlbioa, liaa just been instituted m Austin. Not an Indian applied to the lelief committee ol Virginia for aid. Tiie board of aldermen ot Virginia city have como to a conclusion to widen some of the streets there. A woman named Nellie Itoss, well known in Virginia city, committed suicide there on Sunday lact by taking tak-ing laudanum. A Virginia paper says : Among the few who have reason to be thankful thank-ful for the fire is a lady whoso house was on North C street. She had been bedridden for months, having lost tho use of her limbi. Whon tho fire approached ap-proached her dwelling bIio was carried out on a blanket, and was as feehlo as an infant. Within half an hour, to the amazement of herself and family, she discovered that the use of her limbs had returned, and from that moment sho has been a well j woman, ller treat friyht had worked j a cure. |
