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Show ; PACIFIC COAST NEWS. ' . :, ! , . CiXlFOBSIU.. . . ' Colonel 'E. B. 'BurTandeu of Son Francisco shot himielf"through the head, on Tuesday evening, while rvaJking home .with hia wife. Despondency De-spondency on account of business Uiliires was the trouble. . Arthur McQuaid, a drunken black-imith black-imith of Sati Francisco, beat and abused his wife on Tuesday . until to dave htiratjlf ahe got. an axe and cut hiui twice - severely. ' Served bim right. Within the past month: the San lfraQoidCO benevolent society has rendered ren-dered aid to over 1,100 persons, and (till the demand for charity increases. On-Saturday night a married woman wo-man residing on M. street Sacramento, Irjft, her home saying she was going to the laundry for her dress. Instead of returning, she eloped with a young, man, leaving her husband to care for i tour children, the youngest about I eighteen months old. Tbe total shipment of gold and silver sil-ver fr im San Francieco during the first nine mouths of 1877 amounted 10 $45,121,400, of which $t.2G9,600 wb fiar; gold; $8,484,600, fine silver; 3,074.90(, silver coin; $7,837,100, trade dollars; $2,317,100, Mexican dollars; $22,826,200, uold coin, and 11,900, gold dust. Ofth total export; ex-port; $15,741,900 went to China, and $2S,oG4,400 to New York. : David Mitchell, a Sau, . Franciscd accountant, committed, suicide oo Tuesday last by lakiug laudanum. c Nl.VADA. ' The committee appointed by the mine superintendents of the Comstock lode to consider the.queition of ,th Sutro tunnel in its', elation to, the mining iiitenst will probably1 require two or ihrt?e weeks to make their examination and complete their report. re-port. J 1 '- -; -'Howard has 'at last, got Joseph's rear. Let him Jend it to the Smithsonian Smith-sonian inititute-rAayaill,-. Nevada ores wijbo, exhibited at the Paris Exposition. vBut,of',courserthey will be claimecL by ICalj'prpia.nXhe visitor will flpa a,cUunk. of silver ore, pr a pjle.of silver,hr;ickfc labeled something some-thing ljke thib: I'from .the Great Cnmitock lode', city' of Sah Francisco, Califorrjia. United States of Atherica." Austin. Reveille. ;: .. knizosk.'y . . Secretary Schuiz has requested the governor of Arizona uot lo praotice Jaw,; and the ( Preacott Enterprise "terms the order illegal and urges Gov. Hoy t 16 disobey it. '. The Navajo, Mohavt, Yuma and Chemehuuvii Indians of Arizona are ucquwinted with theartof agriculture, and raise corn, beam, pumpkins, melotrs, and some other' vegetables, sometimes by irrigation, but generally gen-erally on the river bottoms after an overflow. The Navajo, and most of the Pueblo IndUns, have sheep, but they only kill them when ' they ;wunt '' the 'v-oul ' for' blankets. Some of them hv'co:rVs and me the milk. Corn is parched,, round in a metate,. and sometimes baked . into tortillas, but generally mixed "with water and eaten. 'Other ArEzaba" Indians liveonTnesquite beans, pinon pine nuts, the va Americana;. mBCal, tunas, and whatever fruits they -can find' growing wijd These, they collect and preserve in consider able quantities. The roving Apaches obtaia most of their food by plunder, ,or bjUnLiug.T They eat less vegetable diet and more meat than any other of the Arizma Indians. They are very 'fond of' horSra, mule or jackaiB Utah, and olten kill deer and antelope They are also very fond of rats, lizards. snakes and other reptiles. Those on Ihc rivers gut tijh, aud even sell them often to t hoses in the interior. Whether it be -horse or deer, antelope or mule, every portion is eaten except tho bones; the entrials are considered a special delicacy; generally everything every-thing is eaten half raw. When food is plenty they eat quantities, when scarce, they faat' long. Generally they detest bear moat and pork. A Navajo or Huatapai will starve before he will eat pork. |