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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The owner of a Popo valley dog kept alitiip aud the dog bcrd;d them. Finally the sheep wore sold to a Berryessa man, (an adjacent valley, some ten miles away). The owner and the dog delivered the sheep aud re-turned home. Soon after the man missed his dog and searched for him in vain. He was a valuablo dog, and bis loss was duly mourned for a couple of days, when, behold, up bo came from Berryeasa way, with the whole baud of sheep, which he bad brought safely homo again. California encourages the planting of trees in the highways by permitting the board of supervisors to pay $1 each for every tree eo planted at the age of four years. A Los Angeles paper Bays that limes arc so abundant there that they tall to the grouud and are Buffered to decay under the trees, tho prices for limes being too low to pay for tho labor of picking them. At Santa Rosa Mr. Mcintosh, a native of Scotland, committed suscido on Monday by taking strychnine. He had carried the poison about his person for a year and a half, Baying that he would make use of it as soon as he felt tired of life. Tho following letter was found: "February. I am tired of lifa. I bid tb world good-bye. I hope the Great BoiDg will forgive this last act of mine. I have studied all day about this and I havo nothing to lose." A Bociety termed tho order of Caucasians has been formed in San Francisco, the main objects of which are a union of labor against capital, and an undying hatred against the Chinese. With one of a party of young hoodlums hood-lums arrested in San Francisco recently, re-cently, an officer held the following colloquy: "What is your father's given name?" I don't know," answered an-swered tho boy. "Don't know," repeated re-peated the officer; a of your age ought to know. Now, what does your mother call your father?" "She calls him old man, that's all," was tho reply. "Well, what's your mother's first name?" the interrogator then asked. "Don't know." "What does your father call her?" "Old woman, that's all he calls her. Wan to know any more?" and with that the youngster young-ster walked awy toward his- companion. com-panion. A girl about Bix years of age was obtained from a heartless father in Alameda county by an employ6 in Montgomery Queen's circus to be traiued and brought up as a circus reder. As soou as the attention of Mr. Queen was called to the case of this child, he immediately notified Quaglicni to discontinue using or training her, and that such business would no longer be permitted in hia circus. The child has beon returned to its parents. The name of the greenback party in California has been changed to the national currency party. One day last week, A. Douet, of the Secrcta ranch, near Butte, Amador Ama-dor county, shipped to Virginia city 3,000 gallons of wine. Tnis ranks among tho largest shipments aver made from Amador county. Judge Morrison ot Ban Francisco has decided that the wife of Michael Casey, who was badly injured in saving her three year old child from being run over by a Btreet-car, has a right, to claim damages from the company. com-pany. ARIZONA. Tom Dowuey has found Borne float rock enormously rich in gold, south of the Gila road and near Mohawk, and is out prospecting for the ledge. Four mills are now at work in tbe Globe district and two smelting furnaces, besides one furnace engaged en-gaged in reduction of copper ore?. Tbe county is ono of the most beautiful beauti-ful in Arizona; though elevated and rolling, it is not broken. A gold ledge, called the Yuma, has been located by Judge Porter and John Hovey. It assays $116 in gold. It is in Pima county, eixeeen miles northwest of Tucson. A rich silver mine has been located by Sam. Hughes Sr. and the Pacheco family, thirteen mileB to the southwest south-west of Tueeou. Assays by W. A. Langloy of two samples give respectively respec-tively $l,G3G,So and $WS,42 per ton. The ledge is fifteen yards wide. From every mining district throughout tho territory cornea the most cheering reports; the influx of miners from the upper country is already very great, and the tide of immigration from tho east promises to exceed that oi last year. NEVADA. The Virginia Chronicle overs that gambling cannot be suppressed in that city, and that tbe only way to restrict it ia to put the gatuesup-stairs. At Ellsworth the indefatigable William H. Raymond, formerly of unc ipuunucu iv)iujuu ix. Hjy mine, ia bard at work developing tbe mines in that vicinity, with tbe most satisfactory satis-factory results. He is running ten stamps at present, and is shipping about twenty thousand dollars worth of bulhsu per month, some of which passes through this city. Dame fortune for-tune is again smiling upon this fine old gentleman, whose industry and energy are far Buporior to those of many young men, and after passing through many vicissittudes he is in a j fair way ot again being numbered among tbe powers who rule the financial finan-cial world. Reveille. The Carson city Tribune consoles disappointed politicians in this manner: man-ner: "The news from tho presidential commission is sadly disappointing some ofour anxious, eet-ou-the-fence-office-promised citizens. One prominent pro-minent democrat was to be auperin-tcudent auperin-tcudent of the Carson mint, another was to be coiner, another melter and refiner in case Uncle Samuel Tilden was declared to be president and i now those useless members of society : are in mourning, 'Sic transit,' which I means never count your chickens ! until they are hatched." |