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Show PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. CALIFORNIA, Tho celebrated trotting horse "Judge Fnllerton" recently left Sacramento Sacra-mento for the east. The Amador Ledger relates the following fol-lowing incident of hard fortune in the caso of John Travis, a miner of that country. He is an Austrian, who settled there four years since, and had, by workinc for wages, accumulated accumu-lated 1.S00. With this he started to return to the home of his youth, carrying car-rying most of his gold in a belt around his person. The journey across the continent and across the ocean w 8 ms.de in safety, Hamburg readied, and a plant laid for the passengers to pass from the steamer to the wharf. The plank was at ence crowded with those eager to press the soil of the Fatherland. It broke, and twenty or thirty poor wretches were precipitated into the water. Travis was one of these, and though a good swimmer, felt that the weight of gold in his belt was dragging him to the bottom. He loosened and dropped it, and was one of the rescued, five being drowned. Then came the search lor the lost treasure, but it could not be found. Travis then counted the means he had left it was enough to take him on home, or bring him back to California. Cali-fornia. And back he came, and iB now again a miner in Amador. The latest proposition to supply San Francisco with water makes Tulare lake the source of supplies, in conjunction con-junction with an irrigating canal. It is thought that the cost of this project will be much less than either of those schemes which look to lake Tahoe, Clear lake and Blue lakes. The storm which has presided in California for the last two weeks was severe and destructive. High winds in some localities, deep snows in others, and drenching rains in most parts of the state, have worked great injury to property. Stinging frosts have injured the grass, cut down all kinds of sensitive vegetation and delayed growth in the gardona. A boy, thirteen years oldt at the Lincoln primary school, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, being threatened with punishment, punish-ment, said he would shoot his teacher, if he was whipped, but in loading his' pistol he shot himself in the leg. NEVADA. Pickett, an old man. has been sentenced sen-tenced to bard labor for fourteen years in Austin for an intent to commit rape. An enterprising Gold Hill Chinaman China-man recently mounted the following sign, handsomely painted, on his newly-established wash-house: "Ah Charlie; washing done dam cheap." Virtuous public opinion soon obliged him to take down the Bign and put up one with lessscripture in it. The recent spelling matches at Gold Hill have been distorted into great evils. Spelling for the drinks is now the popular amusement, and the saloons are full all day of disgraced orthographists "setting 'em up." |