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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. CALIFORNIA. The Wcsl Coast Furniture company of San Francisco have a contract to nunulaoture all the furniture, beds aud upholstery lor tho Palace hotel, which is all to be placed in the house by the 1st of July. Negotiations are pending between certain citizens of Oregon and the Central Pacific railroad regarding the construction of the Winnetnucca and Oregon railroad. Tbe Humboldt river below the bridge is literally alive with trout, and the Indians wade in and throw them out with their hands. Mr. Pennock backs himself in $1,-000 $1,-000 to put up a ten-pound dumb-bell, from the shoulder to straight arm auove the head, more times than will j be accomplished by any two men i who can be producsd. A man named ! Robinson has already hoisted the ball 1 700 times. NEVADA. The Austin RmitU reverentially . capitalizes hell. ' Careful estimates show that Nevada h produced $2-13,000,000 in bullion since 1SG0. t Indians between lho aes of-4S.aU A.t h.,,1, ,l i , i So, both male and female, are very scarce in this city nt the present time, the majority of them being out in the hills making matches, which will be solemnized by the marriage ceremony at the fandango which is shortly to take plat e. Rertille. F, J. McYTorthy intends to build works at his sulphur bed, near Wiu-nemucca, Wiu-nemucca, for the purpose of reducing it to brimstone. There is plenty of wood in tbe vicinity for that purpose. The sulphur bank is seventy feet hijb, and a cut fifteen feet long has been run ibto it. |