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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Juan Salazsr ia to be hinged 00 the 31st iust. at San Rafael. Tbe Emmet guard paid a visit to 3an Josq on Sunday. San Jose wn? filled with fights, profanity ami drunkenness by the hoodlums, male and female, and on the return trip the name crowd occasioned the delaj referred to by settinc the brakes every few moments and bringing the train to a halt. The follcwing nre the latest bullion shipment: Northern Belle, M-ty 17th $1-2,340 U9; Consolidated Virginia, l'Jtu, $2b'4, 933.66 (first shipment foi May account); Culiioruia, 19th $322, S41.7S total to date $714,39 46; Lpopard, 18th, 3.800; Crand Prize, 16th, $S,300. The coast line stage from Aniheini to San Diego was atonped on Saturday Dight at the S.in Joaquin ranch b three highwaymen. Ihe express box was taken down and broken open, bui none of the passer1 gers were molested. Tbe custom in rogue among the arLtocratic heathen iu Cnica of compressing com-pressing and distorting the feet ot female children and rendering them cripples, has been introduced m the colony in th:s city to some eient, and several distressing specimens ot tbir brbaroua practice are occasionly seer abroad. Oueiittle girl, about 10 yearn of age, the daughter of a merchant on Washington street, ia so deformed I that her pedal extremities reiemb'e tho hoof of a young kid, and she is unable to walk except with atwielance. 'Ihe matter has been referred to tbe aocifiy for the prevention of cruelly to children. Dr. Harkneea, at tho last meeting of the academy ot sciences, exhibited a specimen of the b!ai-k knot fuuguf. Sohaeria Morbo?o, found iu the Vo-Beinile Vo-Beinile va!ley. This tnny.ia is peculiar lo North Amend, and ha.- heretofore been dia :nhed an only occuring east of the Rocky uiminuiiis. It attacks the cherry tree, and in some aistricts of t'ne east has almost rendered the cultivation of the cherry impossible. XEViDA. E'ght hundred and seventy-eight pui)iln attend tbe public schools of Gold Hill. The delinquent Hot of the Julia mine makes nine columns in the Cold Hill News. Tbe Tuscarora, Nov., TimeB, says that a man was found tied to the sagebrush near that town recently, ( where he bad been picketed out all , night by a number of squaws for ! making some un'riendly propositions . to one ol them. I This morning, at an auction sale 'ou C street, a lot of worn out household house-hold furniture was under the hammer, ham-mer, when a Chinaman, who bad been carefully watching operations for some tim, put in a bid ol "two bittee" for an old dilapidated wash-Btaud. wash-Btaud. "Two hits do Iihear the three?" shouted the auctioneer. There was a long pause, broken at last by the Chinaman bidding ngain. "'Tree bittee.' ' The crowd Taughed at tho Celestial for raising his own bid, and the auctioneer auc-tioneer taking in the situation, sang out: "Three bittee do I bear the four?" and looked over at John. There was another long pause, but at laat "Fo1 bittee" came from the Chinaman and a roar t.f laughter went up, in which even a number of old women joiuecf so heartily as to almost shake their false teeth out. Slill the auctioneer held on to the waslistantl, and the Chinaman, determined deter-mined to secure it, bid five, six, seven, eicht "bittee" successively, and it was finally paeed over to him lor a dollar. He received it with a , Bmile ot awtul dimensions, marking, ( "Me ketchee washatand, you bettee r heap cbeapee." Virginia Chronicle. |