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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. Diseased pork ia being brought into the market, and there are dealer unscrupulous enough to buy it nntl drtfs it in such a way that they have uo ditliculty in disposing of it to tho unsuspicious purchaser. John E. Ryan, wliOBhot Policeman Brown in San Francisco in 1873 was sentenced by JuJgo Blake to pay ft tine of 1,000. Judge Bltilco remarked that he had been spoken to by several lriends ol the defendant, outside of the court room with referenco to this case. It might not be known to everybody that a person who approaches ap-proaches n judge to influence his ludgmentin passing sentence, except by his sworn evidence in open court is guilty of misdemeanor. Galveston, Texas, bus an ice manufacturing man-ufacturing company, tho principal members of which aro Senator J. P. Jones of Nevada, J. D. Coughlin of California, Lloyd Tevis of San Fran cisco, and J. M. Beath of California, who lui3 ehnrgo ot the Galveston factory. A. society of Irish exiles has been organized in 8an Francisco, by men who, lor participation in what is known as the i'enian movement, have suflered under English law. Colonol JameB H. Klynn is chairman. Nearly all Chinamen arrested for misdemeanor, and sentenced by tho police judge of San Francisco, pay the lines imposed. They are afraid to go , to tho county jail for fear that the order requiring the sherii.1 to cut ofl the hair of prisoners will be enforced, and that they will thereby lose their queues. A man in S.ui Jacinto, while mowing mow-ing recently, cut a snake in two, aud wad astonished ;it nndini; a twenty-ctmt twenty-ctmt piece inside of it. XkVADA. The" Carson mint received on 'AV.l- nesuay 0U.OU0 ounces of bullion Irom the Consolidated Virginia mine, the first installment of ol 0,000 ounces purchased from that mine by the government. It will be used for subsidiary sub-sidiary coinage. The latest returns show that there are 2,02S members, and twenty-seven twenty-seven lodges within the jurisdiction of the Grand lodge of the I. O. O. F. of Nevada. The header of the sutro tunnel is now in the distance of 18,200 feet. A large quantity cf water is being encountered, which retards the work of running the tunnel. The present rate of progress is about sixty feet per week. The circus is coming to Austin and tl-i Indians take delight in viewing the illustrated posters. One Indian addrtssid the HevciHe man, pointing to the elephant, "Him cow come Austin?" On our reporter replying in the allirmat'ivu he askvtl: "How iiiin come?" IWoi-; we could reply an-dht-r son of the tu-eet chipped in Willi the remark: s'pne he came on stage." It is estimated that te Lite cold snap destroyed from 0n to 10,-000 10,-000 worth of fruit in Vashie valley. |