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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. I CaUFOBMA. j Tho surveying; party on the Yuma route of tho Texas Pacific railroad n recently reported that they will he i able to find a route cam by which;-previous which;-previous estimates will bo reduced 1 fromjthirty to fifty per sent. The Southern Pacific railroad com- ' pany has commenced the construction 1 of forty-five mileaofroad fromOoshen, 1 westward, to Cintos, pnasing north of Tulare lake, nearly crossing the whole width of theSan Joaquin valley. in Bennett valley, Sonoma couutv, September 30th, an eale swooped down upon a lad of 9 years and stuck Us talons in his cap, which it bore away for dome distance. Tho boy was very glad to escape with nothing worse than tho fright he got. Of the Hon. Tom Fitch, republican stumper, a coast paper says: Ho ib tho foremost orator of this coast, and on tho fingers of one hand can be counted all tho mon in tho Union who have a right to bo named as his peers. California formers 6ay that all the signs thoy have noted favor tho belief that a wet winter is at hand. At the Johnston brandy and wino manufacturing company's works, Sacramento, between thirty and forty tons of ErflpPs are being crushed daily. A prominent lawyer of San Francisco Fran-cisco expresses the opinion that tho' lute Mr. Lick's trust dead will not stand the test of law. Newton Booth will remain in Indiana until after the state election, and then start for California lo cuter tho canvass thoro. E. P.iyson Knapp, for years connected con-nected iu the business department of several newspapers of Pan Francisco, committed suicide on Wednesday night, by shooting himselt in the head with a deringer, in his room. He left a noto to the cornor stating pecuniary embarrastnent as tho cause of his act. In the police court of San Frrmcisco J. K. Robinson, the confidence operator, lound guilty of having swindled a atrangor out of $'J0 at the strap game, was sentenced to pay a liue ol f 1,000 or sutler imprisonment for one hundred and eighty days. The receipts of treasuro at San Francisco, through Wells, Fargo it Co. 'a express, for the quarter ending September 30:1), were $17,021, 10J against $12,9lO,ltK in the corresponding correspond-ing period in 187j. For tho nine months thero wero $-10,-103,300, an increase of over forty per cent over the sa mo lime lust year. A Mexican woman who lives near Loa Angeles, tho wife ol Juan Valen-cnla, Valen-cnla, has been married twenty years, and has twenty children. Tho lady is not vet oo vears old. It is thought that California will nut h.tvo over H.UuO.iJOO centals of wheat for export, and possibly not over ll'.OOO Ot0 centals this season, A young man naimd Ver Mebr, eoniikIrnu.il und trusted clirk of Par rot A- Co., Sin Francisco, last wek .ulid fur Mexico, taking from i'-'-l,-i h h) to $),wO in C'jin belonging lo ins employers. During the past year he ha been leading a lal life, though no eU'picion attached to him as to hi-accuuirs. hi-accuuirs. He was out at all hours ut the nights, frequented high-toned gambling places and lived with a micros?. Tncra are suspicions that nearly 1,'XO names have bven falsely reg.i ti.-r-d as vute-rs in Han Francisco. W illiam H. Daly, the chauipinn awimni'T, throws down the g.iutiilet in li:e i'a-'ii- I.Hf. lo a.l rivals. He will s'.i'U Mr. E-t-llo even ''") yards fiT a c di-; tnfwini ilr. Maben vrn Imni 1' "0 1 1 ) yards; to swim Mr. MAliirr-?en 1 tAl yarvls fur ft i a e.dt ; and any ot:nr gentle man m Ciilornia, iu! over a mile, In lrnm tliVi (,j.-svi. I In ?an Franri-'co on Friday night i woman nanied Jennie .f-ill, wa.- phot and dangerously wi.-unihd in a I. i..;-c i" iil repute. Too n hooting w.u d iite by Tin niiii D. Nc, fi.rmer V : i::1,'. W.e!"::iiim'at ll;" I n:!'-! I iin:.t. I'vi-'- jia!.iu-y. SEVAPA. T:,ei;;iy r o( V i ri II : c i I )' it 1 -gun to in.'. a r. i) 1 1 io framlA in tiie iiiunu ij.ai dt ( trlii ' nt, ail Ini-lt nn.ii mi m.':i who l.ao h " ii drawing di.'ihle H.ti.if ;n for t : i w p i I t'. at II. I nil w. In Virginia eily, 1,11 I'n ."-Hi, K.inr.y Kane, a unman i.J !, lnvii, I-ritd a cik-Ti '.le ji i. l dr 'pi d ti.' in aleii nn i .'.m --. 11. r (I jthft .mo w nihU ai. 1 w...-t b.n.ly burm-i. .s:.e ln-i;' r d in ni' K ,. ny a it a l;u-;r;t und dad. |