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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. ( CALn-VRNIA. 1 At Sacramento on Monday the thermometer reached ninety-three 1 degrees ui the shade. In Milking a well at Santa Clara a large red wood log was struck at a depth of 2oo feet. A late inmfite of the insane asylum -at Stock tou borrowed a piatol at a city gun store and blew his brains out. He leit a letter elating hid intention , to ktil biuisHf. Xh receipts from Ihe exhibition of "Elaine,"for aeveu days in Sua Fntu-ciaeu, Fntu-ciaeu, netted ti!,olo, which C.Ii. Johnaon, the owner donated to charitable char-itable societies of different denominations. denomina-tions. The Mexican robbers have been operating near Goshen. Langley'B) new 8in Francisco directory di-rectory slios an increase of names over the 1S74 edition of about 20 per , cem,, and at the ratio or about three inhabitant for each name the popu-lution popu-lution of tho city is estimated at 231,-7tS. 231,-7tS. The buildings erecttd during the year numbered seventy one brick and 1,318 wood, worth $9,344,800. Petaluma has suflered from incendiaries incen-diaries for four years paat and at last two young men have been arrested, and the crime brought so oictely home to thtiu that tuey have con leased to being the culprits in most of tho cases. They sny their motive was a mania for Ores, owing to intoxication, intoxica-tion, but the people believe plunder to have been the reason. Tuey are both under 20 years of age. Senator Sargent has demanded of the secretary oi the interior, in behalf of (he public, the restoration of the lands withdrawn from the public domain do-main in the state ol California for the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, on tho ground thttt no congressional grant was ever made to the road through the state ol California. The act provides pro-vides that such land shall be granted lor the purpose of aiding in the construction con-struction oi said railroad "to the Pacific Pa-cific coHst." Such a grant Sargent contends cannot be extended to iun hundreds of miles parallel with the coast to San Francisco. The Southern Pacific railroad is authorized by the same act to connect with the Atlantic and Pacifio road at such point near the boundary line of the state as they shall deem most suitable for a rail-1 rail-1 road to San Francisco.and shall have 1 similar grants of land, etc. Sargent 1 contends that c jngress did not intend to provide lor parallel lines of road i over the same route, with duplicate i land grants, adding: The grant to i the Atlantic and Pacifio railroad is a ' grant, of land only to the Pacific 1 coast, and there it is to connect with ) Southern Pacific near the boundary j line of the state ot California, and it is i the Southern Pacific and jot the Atlantic At-lantic and Pacific, which has the grant of land from the boundary line , of California through the state to San Francisco. Five men oftho British man-of-wai Reindeer, iu the harbor at Valleio, stole tho captain's gig on Monday and dtacrted. There have been nine deaths, so far, from the giaut powder explosion in San Fraucisco, all on account of a careless workman, who wuuld smoke a pipe while hitting on a keg of powder. pow-der. - Thirty-seven diseased horses and three mules were shot at the Benecia barracks on Saturday, The new directory estimates the number of Chinese of both sexes in San Francisco at 19,000, and of colored color-ed people at 1.S00. The floating population, pop-ulation, including soldiers, aailois, jail birds, etc., is given at 5,000. The San Bernardino Guardian of a recent date considers the fact demon-1 strated tliat the region of country between be-tween the Man Bernardino range of mountains and the Colorado rivur .is a vast treasure bed. Langley'a directory estimates that it coeu to run the municipal government govern-ment of San Francisco $3,500,000 per annum about $16.64 for each man, woman and child in the city. The Call criticises Senator Sargent's Sar-gent's eulogy of President Grant at the Crook banquet as a breach ol etiquette. Tue puff should have been reserved for the political campaign. cam-paign. "Billy Mayo." once a noted pacer, is now used as a buggy horse at brass valley. The Los AnireU-H 1'rrald i mnnlinv the chances oi that t ity becoming the second city in California. The Poil says that nearly all of the . bricks manufactured in the state are made by Chinese labor. Between 60,000 and 70.000 pounds ' of giant powder areproduced a month at the works ol the company near the Golden Gate Park. A little girl at a Vallejo revival meeting whose - father was named ' Saul, hit it about right. Hammond preached from the text, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me 1" and alter he had repeated the question several times the little one, who thought that the text had a personal , application, looked up into the face of hpr parent and said, "Father, don'l mind him; he's brunk." The leading democrats of San Francisco have held a meeting and partially arranged the difficulties which threatened to divide the party. The democratic papdr up in Amador Ama-dor makes this graceful reference to the editor of the opposition sheet : "Now we will inform the sweet scented evader of truth and honesty who runs the little nigger nose-rag across the street that hu cannot ram any ofhis ink-riml lies down our throat, for we know him too well to believe anything he says, even under oath." NEVADA. Sands W. Fornian is the new editor of the Virginia Evening Chronicle and wisely conclude that abuse and viluprlion are not cmtial features ofa public journal. . A car-Juaii of potatoes of Washoe county growCn were recent y shipped i from Keno to Sacramento. The spelling fever hn attacked the country towns of Xtv ida. It There are but thirty-five miners at present employed m the Belmont dis- trict. to The WaUon mill, at Mineral Hill ' was completely destroyed by tire on Z Monday morning. Coal from the Pancake mine is being used by H. Cowell, of Eureka, for blackBmithitig purposes, and he pronounces it equal, for his business, I to the Pennsylvania article. The company have a solid vein thirty inches in width at a depth of ISO feet, : upon which they are sinking, takiog out about two and a half tons per day. In a Lower Gold Hill barber shop a young lady lathers and shares ail -who'll risk it. A vein of coa of great promise has C been discovered to the eastward of the Lower Sink of the Carson. The coal, -i even on the surface, is as good as J that broug it hern from Wyoming. |