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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. IF CAUFOItNU, I I:iyi! ii:is commenced in someli, L-arta ui Ibe state. I Thomas Lcaby, uf !.oa Angeles, r, had, according to the lUruld oT that j! city, an orange tree upon which is L the Lhinl crop ot'orauged borne tliia 1 0 year. 0 Santa Rosa's preteiH population is c o,lH)0, au increase siuce 1872 ol o.oOU. t In Amador a large orehardist pro- s tects hid fruit trees Irom the froota in a the early spring by keeping firets c burning on the windward "side of the i orchard, the wind carrying the smoke , and heated air over the trees and pre- venting the formation of frost. On t Monday morning we were favored t with a nipping frost, which, we t are infortmd, hm indicted serious ( damage on the fruit. Tiiia man that j morning, had 120 tires burning on hU j garden uf fifty acres, and he reports , his fruit uninjured. The cost ol the , experiment is inconsiderable. It is s rarely necessary lu light up more than three or four times in a Beason, and the cutting from the vines and trees , are about sutlicient fur the purpose. . He calculates that thisimple precautionary precau-tionary measure will save him something some-thing like $1,000. Henry Gravea, a marker for a shootipg party at Bay View range, was accidentally shot on Tuesday. Ho ventured to the target to replace the disc, which had tallen, without displaying the danger signal, and was shot through the tiead. The last legislature enacted a law providing in substance that the doors of all theatre, churches, public halls and other rooms where public audiences audi-ences are convened, shall be so constructed con-structed that they shall oncu outward. The WiTf) I Hin nf tho et ..to will !.--, . bably be as large as last year, but the quality is not so good. A man from Knight's ferry testified in regard to Chinese labor, "that without with-out this class of work-people much of the work would remain undone, be-! cause in tho country white laborers cannot be found. In harvesting the coming crop of wheat and barley every laborer, white and colored in the state will be required. The undeveloped un-developed resources of California-require California-require the labor of every man wo can get here. My theory is that , there is room for all. 1 think the presence of Chinamen gives labor to white men, because cheap labor for foundation work allows us to build and give labor to white carpenters. Tne exclusion ot Chinese labor would close up all the mills of the coast. Girls will not go into tho country an domestics, so ho had to have Chinamen China-men for this work. To the Chinese in San Francisco there is asteed real and personal properto to the value of $600,000, about $.jOO,000 being peisonal property. prop-erty. A British ?ea captain stated that in Australia the colonists are driving out tho Chinese, 300 returning Mongolians Mon-golians having taken pas.agn on his l.iat trip Irom Australia tn China. He dt.scrihea Canton as a filthy city, and . remarked that Chinamen were .strangers .strang-ers to soap and water. Regarding missionary labor in Cnitia, the captain cap-tain testified lhat it had accomplished no good whatever, and was a foolish waste of time. Never knew but one Chintse christian. NEVADA. The Virginia coal company, in sinking their main slut ft, have passed through a formation inter-persed with bits of charcoal and pieces of tree branches, which leads to the hope that a toil vein will soon be struck. The Keno J unta says: "We have snnietinn.' Luttrr tiun tne Biack Hi!i not a thousand miles from Keno. Sui. I.inle, who is working his pbrer cUim this siito of Peavine, is pannir. out Hie pure tiitV at the rate ol $12 a day." The Virginia Enterprise 8 ij's: "Some of the buys who lelt here a few weeks since, for the Black Hills, have been heard from, and tl cy are ready to come home. They have seen all of the Black Hills that they care lo bcu." A hospitable lady, of Co'A Hill, gave her young friends a parly tin-other tin-other night, and when n-und ilancis were pn;pri-rd, she t-trenuntisly objected; ob-jected; "but," she addt-d, "if any o! the boys wish to buy the gir!s, li-t them sit down on the solas and go at il in earnest but no rour.tl dances, mind you." A l;g cave occurred in the header of the Sutro tunnel, last Tuesday evening, by which eevenly-five men and six mules were hnh d up. Tho men were got out in i-afrly, and it wjh ex pecltd that Ihe mules would likewise be extricated uninjuml. Tne Virginia papcis slate that certain cer-tain parties make a business of buying silver at a discount in San Krnncisco and Bhipping it to Virvinia, to lie there worked ofl at its face value. |