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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. j CALIFORNIA. A Sacramento planter will make thirty tons ot cabhrtpe io sour krout this 8en.on, also 400 cuns of preservrtl truit, 3,000 gallons of catxup, 100,-000 100,-000 pounds of assorted pickles, five tons of pickled onions, and 1,000 pounds of horse radish-this reason. . R. M. Chiinberltiiu hwt week found some Bpei-imene of quicksilver ir on his ranch about two miles north ot St Helena, and expects to find a rich ltdge. Tho Truck ce Republican has open sold to Mr. D. K. T. Preston, of Nevada Ne-vada city for $3,000. J. H. Htmiar, clerk for Goodtill, Nelson & Perkins, San Franc wro, who recently absconded with $4,000 belonging to the, firm, has been ar-re-sled in the east and brought back. Large quantities of paving blocks are being shipped from the vicinity of Simta Kosa to San Francisco. A life-size oil aintinc of John Mc-Cullough Mc-Cullough ie on exhibition in Sn Francisco; the painting is the work of a Cnicneo artist, John Phillips. It represents Mr. McCullough as Richelieu, when he, in protecting his neice from Barada and tho loidiers sent by the kin? to arrest her, exclaims: ex-claims: "Si't but a foot within that holy ground, And on thy head yes, though it were a crown 1 launch the cure ot ttomo." No trace of Leo, the Foreetville, , (Sonoma county) wife-murderer, has been discovered since the day on which the deed was committed. George Wallace, a gambler, known as "Sleepy George," was fatally 1 stabbed at Winnemucca by another gambler named Peter Riggs. The deed was unprovoked, Rigga being intoxicated. An Indian named Lonie committed an outrage on a little girl of five years, at. Hill's ferry, last week, and had to be taken to 11 desto by the oflicers or he would have been lynched by the citizens. Benton county raised 500,000 bushels of wheat this year. NEVADA. There is no doubt but that Silver city will soon be supplied with water from the works of the Virginia and Gold Hill water company. For a house of three rooms in Virginia Vir-ginia city a rental ot $50 per mon'h was recently demanded. There are exactly one thousand children on the rolls of the Virginia public Bchools. H. 8. Phillips, a gentleman who formerly owntd about a third ot the land on which Carson now stands, but who has since had many reverses of fortune, is now canvassing that city for the sale of a book. A correspondent of the Winnemucca Winne-mucca Silver State d scribes a cave near Star city which ho explored (or a distance of a mile. Ihere are several large chambers, one as high as sixty feet, but nothing of much interest was found. It u proposed to Temove the county neat of Nye county from Belmont to Tybo, if not further east. The people ol Eastern Nve now have to travel 200 miles to their county seat. OREGON, The State Agricultural College, at Corvallis, has just closed the first ter'ii of the aeholrtStic year, which has been the mot prosperous in the history of the institution. There were 111 prisoners in the Orpcon penitentiary December 1st. 1 Hon. W. VV. Brietnw, ot Eugene city, a menihpr of the Otegoa senate, died on the Sth inst. Sevenil ciwcs of frozen feet occurred near Baker city, auring the recent cold epell. The Oregon Statesman says there ur mure mamgeaDie women iLiu men in Salem. |