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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEM3. CALIFORNIA. The down stage for Gait was robbed Monday morning, six miles beyond lone city, nenr Dry Creek, by two masked men They robbed Wells, Fsirgoifc C).'s treasure box of about $400. There were five passengers on bo.nd, every one of whom was robbed. The prismoidal, or one rail railway is to be tried at Los Angeles. Thouins J. Henley dud at the ge of OS years, on his farm in Mendocino, Mendo-cino, on Saturday last, of softening of the brain, after an illness of six mouths. Mr. Henley was a native of Indiana, aud once a prominent democrat de-mocrat of that state. The proposition for the mechanics of San Francisco to unite in the celebration of ihe Fourth of July is meeting with encouragement. The expense for street lamp in San Francisco is $220,000 lor about 4,410 lamps, or $50 each annually. In New York city, bids were opened lately for lighting street lamps, and the prices were at the rates of $21, $25, $2S and $44 per year (or each lamp. NEVADA. The democrats of Virgiuin city have fleeted J. C. Currie by a majority ma-jority Ol S20. The rep;i'iic ns elected elect-ed the aldermen At the Virginia city pr ze fight be tween Chatham and Vilhams. the tormer was declared the victor after 53 rounds. Time, one hour aud twelve minutes. i There are still hundreds of idle men in Virginia city. There will be racing ovir the Agricultural Agri-cultural society's track, R-juo, on the 2d, 3d and 5th of July. Scarcoly a week elapses that one or more of the demi-moLde in Virginia city does not make an attempt to commit suicide. A gold quartz specimen wo.-tn $5,-120, $5,-120, from the Amador mine, Ca i-fornia, i-fornia, is on exhibition in Virginia. It will be sent to the Centennial exhibition. ex-hibition. The Enterprise says one of the lately late-ly arrived immigrants from Chicago says that that city is placarded from end to end with notices, stating that workmen are wanted at $4 per day to help to develop the big bonaza. A man in Reno, who has been named for the legislature, is now practicing for that position. He can already drink two quarts of whisky per day, accept a $500 bribe without wincing, and hurl an ink-stand at a hat on a desk and knock it off nine times out of ten. |