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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFOItNIA. Tho St. UtOeiia (Nnpa valley) ViuiculUiml club have Ukon stepa to' procure Chinese laborers in San . Frauciuco to pick tbeir grape crop, tbis year. They instruct their com-1 mittee not to contract for audi Inbnr . at rates exccctling eevenly live cents a day. j In Napa vulUy there uro froiui 4,000 to '1.500 tons oi grapt-s to pick, ' and the VinicuUnral club propocsefl to contract lor Chinese Ubor ill not ovsr 75 ccnls a day. A Ban Francisco paper suggests that hoys bo employed for this purpose itt $15 to $20 u mouth. They wuu!d do as much work as Chinamen, do it as well and bo more companionable. In Sacramento, un Friday lust, a gang ol young scoundrels set upon an imufleudmL: celestial, and in tha nelee which followed the latter do-kr.ded do-kr.ded himself with a pocket-knife, nflicling a severe but not dangerous wound u(on one of his assailants. .The. .police, of Sun Fraucisco last year made 20,1015 arreata. Tha largest number, 7,ii42 comprised tho ordinary drunks; assault and battery 2,347, carrying concealed weapons S20, soliciting for houses of ill-fame 2y5; obscene language 1,148; murder 36; attempted murder 9S; vagrancy 1G5. The present number of police ia 150. The police having ordered the arrest of Ning Yung and Yung Wo, presidents presi-dents of the Chineao companies for violation of the hospital ordinance, these potentates dispatched two of their servants to answer the summons which triek the court discovered after two hours examination of the substitutes when the dummies wero discharged ind their leaders ordered to appear before the insulted majesty 1 of the law. William Burnard of Ban Francisco , whili in bed asleep, last TuAtday i night, with his window open, and bis i face towards the moou, became suddenly sud-denly paralysed and dumb. He has since recovered the use of his limbs, put up to Thursday morning was unable to speak. i Sureral 8a n Francisco supervisors nave announced their intention ol refusing to pay the political assessment assess-ment of lilty dollars per head levied by the democratic central committee. A manufactory for the extraction of sugar from watermelons is about to be started on Andros island, situated in tho delta lying between the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. By the first of January the Southern South-ern Pacific railway will be completed to Yuma, a length ol some scfen hundred anil sixty miles. About one hundred anil fifty miles of the work still remain to be finish! before the Colorado river is reached. A Los Angeles jeweler, h. W. Thatcher, 1ms prepared the last spike to be driven on the Southern Pacific railroad between Han Francisco Fran-cisco and Loa Angeles. It is made of J180 worth of gold, and is to driveu it Lane's station by a silrer hammer weighing two pounds, with an orange wood handle. After ihe ceremony the hammer and spike are to be placed tu the archives of the company. Dr. Stockton of Kern county is making aa excellent quality of syrup from the juice of watermelons, which1 is said to bo coarse in grain, but rich and of a fruity ilavor, very pleasant lo the taste. June gallons ul juice will make ono of syrup. Tern Filch is stumping the state for Hayes and Wheeler, which shows tiiat the campaign committee is not positively bankrupt. The San Francisco Call aays: No nernou now purchamn or iciia & particular par-ticular mining bt.ck became a portion por-tion of Iho j trees con ciMC Is tiivm to that eflect, because they know the advice is worthltis. During August the Sin Francisco mint cuined ;,4"o,iJtJ pieces, valuod at $1,0 t ,(. ). Tho proportion ol the metals were 171, ika) pieces of gold, valued at :i,4S0,lKJ and .V2l,-UHJ .V2l,-UHJ silver pieca, wortli Jl.IlO.uuO. This it tne larg-t month's coinage at the mint. Two humlrul and seventy S.n Francisco real estate sales wrp made in AuRust amounting Lo $1,221,21"). Lelaiul Stanford ban purchased the CJorduu property nt M.ulifU, San Mateo county, ui.d 11, o tract adpin-mn adpin-mn it a!ao, paying lnr tho tw.j $170,-0lO, $170,-0lO, It is uitdfra'tMil that Hie i;ov. r-nor r-nor means to hu:M nrnrly ui Chip a country n-idiiM r mi th:i l.tml hs bt-recently bt-recently cnclid in S.m FrJinxo. Money is plenty at nearly ail the San Francisco savings bankg. Ten per cent is itill cbarg d by all of ttiunt but the tMd FuUuwa". Two vessels from San Francisco have landtd anus for the ruvolntion-ists ruvolntion-ists at a point hctwuun ManzAiiillo and Acapuho. TIiq rovolutiuuiaL aro alto reMrtid to bavu ugiMiti in 3a n Francisco fur the purpose of shipping munitions of w.tr to the in Burj;ciLi. Angus Martin of the Iit-rnatioual hotel at Hacratncntij committed nicide on Inn 1st by trychuine. Financial troubles are suppled to be tho cause At Santa Cruz a mining company ezplndvd 2 1,01)0 pounds ol Kiwtler by electricity on tho Hi insl., throwing up n lari;ft aniotiut of rich gravel. The highest tempcraluro note bed i in Han Frant inco tliti piuL moiith wan 78 degrees and tho lowest 51. The San Francisco health officer gnt rid of fourteen (Ihiuesu leiiers who wero for suveral yfiirs aupport' d by the city, at thn w id u J I pox hotijiiul. V i thrm L apprising tho Chinese companies com-panies of Ins drsif-ii, hn hurried Ihv Chinamen on board of tho (itent -jntltic just iih slia wan leaving. The secrecy was designed to ovade troublcNiinio writs oi habeas corpun. Tho prico ol tho piusugo was $iiht, besides which each leper was given five trade djllars as spending monoy. NKVADA. The niuely productive mines in Slorry county jicMrd L"5,701 tons of oro during tho (jnarter vndiugJiily ;11hI. Tho gross bullion product ol this oru was JIO.llUK.OOll. Job n A. 1 owe.ll, a riidi-nt of I'iochn, Nevada, Hint bin ib-alli August Au-gust 2tt(h, by un accidental fall down llio shaft of thu Mcuilha nunc, a iIih lance ot sixty w i, it killed mm instantly. in-stantly. While the circus wan in Virginia tho manager got in n dispuln nloiit a bill with an cuiplnyr, claiming that it wan $20 less than the man wanted. The nianagiir was firm, whereupon the man levied an atUuhincnl On the big elephant lor thn amount. Tho conslablo was leading thu monster down tint strut t, when ho was called back and the claim paid. Silver cily hna liyld a citi.on's nutpting for thn purpono of laying a system of lire waler-works and procuring pro-curing tk-u line eHury Iiuhc. 'llio chU-mated chU-mated rost was Jl.iOO, und $100 jkt month for ron(. from (bo water coin-pany. coin-pany. IDAllu, Apples of a very good ciurtlily nll In lloiHH valley nlonucnnt prr pound, Al Idaho oily they retail at from eight lo twelve and a ball ccnls per pound, Win. iJlvuno run from J'laeervillc to Canlrnvillo, eiKht inilen, in ono hour, right and a half minutm, llio road haing vory hilly. Many fruit growers in lloia valley rn drying apples and ponclios, and will place thoni in umrkvl, |