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Show I PACIFIC COAST 1TEM3. CALIFORNIA. The San Francisco ordinance prohibiting pro-hibiting boys from congregating on fho street alter 8 o'clock at night has been passed by tho city council. Tho city council of Los Angeles has adopted an ordinance requiring saloon sa-loon keepers to give a bond in $2,000 that the proprietor will pay all dues and licer.ics and keep a quiet and orderly hnuBe. It is reported that 300 acres of wheat belonging to Bart. Guthrie, liviug near Tremont, Solano county, hns been so completely covered up with Bediment washed in by the last freshet as .to destroy all chances of a crop. Of the increaso of the Bhares of tha California and Consolidated Virginia mines to over one million, the Bulletin says such a watering process was never known before in the history of Block operations on this coast. NEVADA. The legislature has passed the Battle Mountain and AuBtin railroad bill with a Bubsidy. Tho vote in the senate was 16 to o; in the house, 33 to 12. tt is charged that the Central Pacific will get the subsidy and build tho road. The stock of the California and Consolidated Virginia mines was yesterdays increased to 1,080,000 shares. The Buckeye Gold and , Silver Mining company have filed their certificate for an increase os capital stock from $1,600,000 to $4,800,000. At Virginia city Nicola Papovich Ceglorgi has been arrested on a charge of stealing nine shares of Utah miu-ing miu-ing stock. titock men, who were a little alarmed a week ago for the safety of their herds, have had their fears .uieted on that score by the change in the weather. Tho Sunday bill in the legislature excepts miners and manufacturers from its operations. Col. Cparles W. Tozer, a gentleman gentle-man identified with the earlier interests in-terests of Nevada and once speaker of the house, is on a visit to Virginia city. A bill has passed tho Assembly requiring re-quiring the Central Pacific to fence their joad the entire length of the state. The Eureka Sentinel has discouraging discour-aging advices from Panamint. It says: "On the 6th instant Jones and Stewart discharged all the men employed em-ployed by them, and no work is to- be done until Spring. Everybody is sick of the camp. It is generally understood under-stood that the company is endeavoring tosell out to English capitalists. The prospects of the camp are far from encouraging. The Jieveille is discussing the relative rela-tive weight of the jamo bulk of rich and poor ore, and gives tho following illustration: Eleven pounds of water was raised to a certain cer-tain height in a bucket with poor ore, and the whole was found to weigh 39 lbs. Tho same quantity of water was again raised to the same height with rich rock and the whole found toweiyh 48 lbs. A difference, as will fie seen of nine lbs. in favor of the rich rock. |