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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. . ! CALIrOi.NIA. Pitt C.uncy shot aud mortally woundaj Manual iilvii enrly cu Sunday Sun-day morning at HaywarJd. Clancy had Weu tnrowin stonta agiuet Bilva'B iiouse and Silva went iuio tho street after the person. Wot aee'mg any one he went around hack of the Methodist cuurch aud saw Clancy eUudiDg in a water-clcistt. Silva had a club, and as he advanced towards Clancy, the latter shot when he waa about aiz fett of). The total rewards offered fer the arrest and conviction of the Chico incendiaries and murderers atnouut in the aggregate to 5,050. Ihe spoils are now in dUpute, says the , Chico Enterprise, and befure tlie k'uouuts cun be paid there ia likely to he a large-sized Uweuit. A disease oi an alarming character is said to he prevalent among the 1 horsea of Eden townati'p, Alumetla county, hut no cades arc reported yet aa having terminated fatally. It ia described as a severe tluoat alldction, attended with a slight cough aud 1 swellings of the glands in lumps m hard as bono. A number of valuable horaea at San Lorenzo and Saa Lean-dro Lean-dro are sullering with the uew disease. Notwithstanding the suspension of the Nevada stock exchange there are three of these institutions left, whereas there ia not legtimute business e .ough for one. Nollie E. Chapman of Virginia city ia to deliver the poem at the second annual reunion of the reaidwntn aud ex-reeidenta of Nevada county, California, Cali-fornia, which will take place at Badger's park, Oakland, Saturday, Juiv 9th. The total footings of the personal property assessed in San Francisco this year amount to $17,07ti,o65. The personal roll of 187G-7 amounted ; to $5-1,616.893 nhowing a decrease of $7,740,528 the financial and business busi-ness depression of the past year having caused a deeruaae in the values of personal properly of about thirteen per cent. While Denuis Daly, an elderly man, was wending his way homeward Saturday he was assaulted by three email boys at tue corner oi Jackson and Dnpont streets, San Francisco, who attempted to rob him. One ol tho youngsters climbed on the back ol Mr. Daly, who. was badly uuder the influence ol corn juice, aud held him around the throat, while the othar two industriously searched his pockets. While engaged in this ploaiing performance per-formance one of the Chinamen who were on the opposite; corner witnessing witness-ing tho afUir, gave forth a cry of approbation, at the sound of which the boys decamped, dropping a handful hand-ful of coin in their flight. The Chinese crew of the wrecked steamer San Francisco devoted themselves them-selves exclusively to saving themaelveB and behaved like a parcel of brutes, disregarding all control. After reaching reach-ing the shore they refused to lend thu slighteBt assistance to rescuing men, women and children fiom the surf, although earnest appeals were made to them as cowards and unfit to have anything to do with a ship. They oven refused to assist in getting provisions ashore, but they did not fail to clamor for a ahar? in the rations. The railroad briJge ovor the Colo-i rado river at Yuua will -he completed by tho last of July. NEVADA. The Carson Tribune ia a beautiful , specimen of journalism. It says: "We trust for tbe honor of the country coun-try and in accordance with the expressed ex-pressed wish of the president, that before be-fore the snow of next winter Bhall fall Brigham Young will have been hanged aa high as Human and hie associates either slaughtered or driven from American soil." The number ot children between the ages of six and eighteen in Story county is 2.200, a gain of 200 over labt year. The Virginia Enterprise is justly indignant in-dignant at the aotion of the Bupreme court iu granting a new trial to Harrington, Har-rington, tho murderer. What influences influ-ences there can be to aid thiB creature in making the stubborn resistance to the law which has marked his caae, is a mystery to ail who know the man and his career. He is one of the lowest low-est types of humanity, a wretch with whom murder ia a proleasion. In Pioche ha shot men to Bee them kick, or for hire. Hia murder of Sullivan in Virginia was peculiarly adocious and brutal. It ia reported that Senator Sharo has purchased the JuBtice mine. The White Pine murderers have been sentenced as lollowa: Roach for life, Leonard ton ysars, and Crawford aeven years. |