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Show IMCIFIC COAST NEWS. j CiUfOKXIA. ': Tiic r ctipts uf lho United State! su I '-treasury at S.in Kraneisco during March were J.Ui'o.l.. The delen-o ol S. M. Harrington, , who is on triul at San Francisco fur, an assault on a broker's clerk iu the l'alace hotel, witli attempt u murder, j is insanity. Ex-Governor Woods of Utah, testified hat the defendant was' introducul to him liy acquaint-ance, acquaint-ance, at Salt Lake city, and that the witness t;ave the defendant a letter to Leland Stanford, at the request of the acquaintance. The Uctfiidant afterward after-ward calkd on him agiiin, with in-ii.rmaiion in-ii.rmaiion that lie. had seen Governor Stui. ford, without sucoe. He was seckini; em ploy men t. Governor 'oo.ls stated that the aubsequent interview he had wiUi defendant left the impression that Harrington wan a scoundrel or a lunatic. James C. Zabriskie, in the AHu states that the sentiments- uttered at the la to anti-Chiiuse meeting do not ' touch the evil cumplninu'I uf. He pro ' poses that all the citizens refuse to ; employ the Chinese and substitute white labor therefore, and tliat the municipal authorities shall rin'idly enforce the laws in regard to vice and crime, .as well as ths sanitary laws. Placards, announcing that trtule dollars will be taken at GO cents only, or "at their market value," aro now to he seen posted conspicuously in many of the San Francisco houses. The following havo been spoken ol in connection with the anti-Chinese delegation at Washington Ex-Governor Ex-Governor Low, ex-Seuatur Caseerly, Frank Pixlcy, Judge Hager, Senator Phillip A. Roach, M. M. Ealee, and Fred. Elliot. Einstein Bros., boot and shoe manufacturers, man-ufacturers, who employ 220 Chinese now advertise for white labours and say they will fcive them the preference, prefer-ence, even if it costs 3 per day, com-1 pared with the average ot $1 or 1.2-3 now paid per day to the Cninese. Much of the work is performed by machinery. On a bet of .oO Jim Grahim mrried a barrel containing uO gallons of whisky a distance of two blocks in j San Francisco. The silver difficulty 1ms been solved in San Francisco, by nearly all business busi-ness men conducting Imsincvs on a gold basis, hut a good many employers employ-ers still force silver upon their workmen work-men iu payment of wages, and tl.cre is a good deal of grumbling at the lact that houses who will not receive silver at par pay their workmen in the dcpreciate.i coin. Mrs. Reynolds, of San Jose, hns a lien, cat and kittens, all .of which have struck a friendly compact, and hve together in the greatest harmony in a barrel, the hen carefully luo Hangover Hang-over tiie kittens when Hie cat is oui lurnging, which she takes it upon herself her-self to do fur the whole family. In the whole route uf the Southern Pacific railway to the de-vert, though it crosses an altitude of fuur or five thousand feet, there is nut a rut six feet deep nur an enhanknient eight feel high. Notwithstanding the fact that the agent of Mrs. James A. Gates had rwned si coutntct with J. W. Allison to appear in Australia next winter, nlifi has broken iier engagement and refuses to budge one &t'p, having maile an engagement Willi Thomas M-iguiru for the season. The Aua trull, hi manager proposes lo try legal rum-dies to recover damages Iron, inej little flirt. The pliiT of a liones who died at Montgomery tiecn's circu recently, is taken by it French pot-die, which mii'scs tlie two bun cubs with great --ucee??. One t hull-and four hundred and forty-three h'.U were intr -duce;! into tiie late legislature, of which 091 were pa-srd. Tnu governor approved oS-" ol the number, vetoed nU.iut a hah duzeii, anil p.n-ketei llie balancr. A whale, 70 f-et long, washed a.-hore at the mouth of Ventura riv- r, the oilier day, bearing in its side three large harpoons. The Santa Barbara Press stah s thai a gentleman recently brought into that otlice a bunch of five eats, joined together afur the fashion of the Sia mese twins. They lived tor severa' days niter birth, and appeared lo h doing well. No great activity is expected in San Francisco real estate tins sp-ing. The receipts of treasure at San Francisco fur the quarter end i in; March :ilt, ihrough Wells, Fargo A Cu's. exprosH, which is the principal agency for that bunncs-", age regale nearly $10,000,000, an increase of .".0 per cent over the deliveries Mr the same time last year. NEVADA. The Match receipts of the Com oli-dated oli-dated Virginia mining company aro reported at $:i,(:i5,000, tho largest monthly outturn of any mine in the world. H is estimated that the ore taken from tho mine will average 40 per cent in gold. The quartz of tho Consolidated Virginia bonanza is so very hard that it wears out in ten davs a set of iron dies and shoes tempered at a white heat, and four and ft quarter inches in thickness. Tho California mill crushed during the mouth of March 8,902 tons and S00 pounds of ore, which melted nearly $1.5110,000, being nn average of about $oU,0(X) per day. Virginia city has given birth to n mule colt which resembles a mule in every refpect, but is much mnaller and morf! delicate. It in the property of J. S. Hardwiek, who has been oflcred $300 for it. |