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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFOUXU. Tbrwe powder companies ol San Francisco pay monthly dividends of J 1 and lj per cent, respectively. The JSutUtin says: It took the San Francisco public several weeks to Grid out what was the recent disturbing cause in our monetary system, which resulted in depreciating silver S to 10 per cent, be.low par. As soon aa trade dollars were demonetized, by general couueut to accept them for only 'JOc, the evil vaniabed, and silver was raided to U7w'JSo on the dollar. There is nothing lo lear from the introduction in-troduction of silver coin in the Atlantic states in place of the fractional frac-tional currency. It is fair to presume that the latter ras needed as change, or else it would not have been in circulation. cir-culation. The emission of silver simply til's the void created by its withdrawal. There is no expansion or contraction of the volume of currency cur-rency by the operaliou. There may be some hoarding at first, which will temporarily derange the finances of ihe country. Hut if congress will adhere to sound philosophy it will not emit any more silver coin than is necessary for the purjioso of making change. bixly-two Chinamen, members of a dramatic company, were rtceutly arrested for violating the cubic air ordinance. In the basement of the K')jal Chmesu theatre, Jackson street, in a room containing lo.O'JS cubic leet they captured sixty-two Chiua men being 250 cubic feet to each man. It is the intention of tho Central Pacific railruiid company lo rwpair urin ijf an ui iui:ii lunn iiilii- nuinoeii Emigrant Uap and Truckce, this spring. A number of new ones will also bo erected. NEVADA. In tho United States circuit court, a verdict has been rendered for $20,-000 $20,-000 in the caso of Mary Jane Williams, Wil-liams, against the Newark Silver mining company, a corporation doing business iu Nevada. This c lion was brought by Mrs. Williams to recover damages for the killing ol her husband in ttic Newark mine iu July, 1874. |