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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFOCNU. A blind weiphit one and one-Lai one-Lai t pouiuJo wiit utcn yL'Stertiay morning in the buy. XIhh iB tho second one captomi recently, and proven that tho Pacific coaat wiiters are perfectly adapted" to the tiali. The time will come, through tho laborn of the Suite Fish Commissioners, Commission-ers, when shad will be found aa abundantly in our markets as in those of the eastern cities. Call. The Central Pacific railroad company com-pany expect within three months to 'have their now road from Oakland to ;S icraror nto in running operation. 1 Tlie saving in time by this route will be at leiiit two hours between Ban 1 Francisco and oacrameuto. A Chinaman committed suicide in Tulare county last week. His fellow countrymen, in uarribing the cause of the rash act, put it thusly: "Ho eatee too muchee, lie talkee too mtichen." The Lick mills near Santa Clara are making excellent while paper from the lihre of tho 'itctu ifro-ointt.1, ifro-ointt.1, sometimes called the desert palm-tree. The Mohave desert is thickly studded with oiteusivo groves ol this titubcr. It is estimuttd umt the trees in lorests and clumpH extend over an area of 4-1,000 square miles. Mr. Pacheco has, so far, the interpretation inter-pretation ol the law On hid side in tilt contest with Mr. W Sainton for con urean; but he ha not yet obtained the oflice. Secretary o stale Beckdelayi to issue his commission, beiieviug probably, that the supreme cotir slopped sliort of so instructing in its late decision atlcting the disputed honor, and further proceedings are ti bo instituted. At San Francitco on Friday nigh John McDonald undertook to thrasl Thomas Joell for Bpeaking ill of tin pope, and was shot dead. Tho general superintendent of tli Southern Pacific railroad has official!; announced that owing to the duplies Lions of the name for other localities the station called Indian Wells wil he known after March 8lh as Indie itaLion No. 745. It is distant GOO. miles from San Francisco, lie ale gives notice of the following new j stations on the Southern Pacific rail- j road, Yuma division: Walters, j Station No. 749; distance from Indian Wells, IS. 2 miles; distance from San Francisco, 631.4 miles. He adds that Dos Paluias will be opened March 8th as a regular agency station, and becomes the terminal or connecting statiou for staye and team freight lines to the following principal points in Arizona: To JEhreuberg, Colorado river, 85 miles; Wickeuberg, 215 ' miles; Prescott, 300 miles; Phceuix, '2,75 miles; Florence, 325 miies; 1 Tucson, 40S miles. During the mouth of March 5S1 i Chinese passengers arrivtd at San Francisco. Between May 19, 1S7G, and March 29, 1877, there were 4G2 deaths from small pox in Ban Francisco, and from July to the 2Sth of March last there were 711 deaths from dipiheria. In San Francisco during the month of March 1,782 persons were received at the city prison and 702 of these we-rs arrested for drunkooness. In Ihe San Francisco criminal court Attorney Tyler and Judge Fermi had some words about a oaae on trial, when the lawyer called the judge the king of the hoodlums in San Francisco. The judge retorted that the lawyer was a liar, aud the attorney pummeled tho judge, without doing him much injury. NEVADA. Sage brush, which has hitherto been regarded as valueless, ia being Gathered and sold for fuel by the cord iu Nevada. Another branch railroad is contemplated con-templated in Eureka district, from the Hamburg mine, on Peel S:ick hill, to the Atlaa turnaces. Virginia city lias eleven regular policemen, and it costs Slo.GUO to keen the force busy. Iu addition to thin, the officers receive a premium of $5 for evffrv arreat. It will cost $4,000 per month to run the Virginia schools during the coming com-ing fiscal year, and $2,000 pf;r month to run the Gold Hill schools. Samuel J. Xilden is the owner of considerable mining property at Silver Peak, and his ayent recent) passed through this city en route to that point lor the purpose ot making examinations, with a view to ascertain ascer-tain the advisability of an early re- t ADii |