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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The legitimate California newspaper news-paper publishers want to suppress "patent outsides." It" some ol these editors had "patent insides" tiiey would last longer, considering the amount of crooked whisky they imbibe. im-bibe. The printer of patent oufsides was denominated a "bucaueer and a pirate," California has now three currencies gold, silver, aud greenbacks. Guid is 100 cents to the dollar, silver about 04, and greenbacks SS, aud the editors want congress to do something to abate the silver nuisance. On Mond ay the Cian Francisco letter carriers distributed over 21,U0U le'.ters, mostly valentines. In a saloon quarrel at Ukiab, on Monday, a man named Chambers shot and killed his two brothers-in-law. Gen. Andres Pico, long a g:;Ilant Mexican officer, died at Lots Angeles on Monday. A pig gained admittance to a hcue at Sa'ona, wheee owners were absent at church, and the neighbors surrounded sur-rounded the house to capture a supposed sup-posed robber. A good deal of leather was wasted on poor piggy. The hydraulic machine used by the Eureka lake company at Columbia Hill, Nevada county, under a pressure pres-sure of 150 feet, will throw a stream ol water through an S inch ncwde the distance of 3o0 feet, cutting the bank and rolling over and hoisting large ntumps in the air as a boy would his bounding ball. It discharges from its present position 1,200 inches ol water. Tne great quantity discharged will give the reader an idea of the tremendous power aLid force it has on any object that may come in its way. A writer in tho Bulletin cautions the members of the Jennings family in this country who havo omelimes madeetlorts to secure an English estate, es-tate, tb3t even supposing title can be proved, the English statute of limitation limita-tion is, without a doubt, a bar to anv Droceedinvs for their enforce ment. Leonard L. Treadwell, a San Francisco Fran-cisco pioneer, died on Saturday last. Tne City of X'Jii Fruiwi.ico made her first regular trip from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Sydney in 2i days and 10 hours. Dr. Thomas Logan, an old and widely known citizen of California, recently died at Sacramento. A lobster weighing twelve and a half pounds, the largest ever caught at Santa Monica, has been on exhibition exhibi-tion at Los Angeles. On Friday night a number of ladies at tho Telegraph house, Sacramento, Sac-ramento, having made up their minds that Hie saloon in connection with the establishment could hn dispensed dis-pensed with, made a raid upon it and carried away and concealed everything every-thing it contained in tho way of' liquids and bar furniture. The Grocers' Union of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, retailers, have resolved hereafter here-after to do business on the basis ol a silver currency. In the wiudeuvs of some of the retail store-a is thin placard: "Silver taken at par lor geoiI, and five per cent, premium paid for gold." Theesiimatc of tho San Francisco board of education for the public schools for lb7o' aggregates S77ti,OS-"i, which averages a c;st of ?2-3 each for 22,231 pupils. She lives uL Los Angeles and hor name is Mayers. S'uo ttood at the front door of her house and halted iv virtuous citizen, telling him that his wife had employed her to make nome shirts tor him. He took oil his vest to be measured, when a thundering rap was he-ird at the door. Upon this the woman manifested great dismay, dis-may, and gave various hinLs us to the ugliness and jealousy of her husband, ' who was craving entrance, ail of which so worked upon the feelings of the man in her company that lie hastily lied, leaving bis vest and whatever money it containcel in her possesion. She bus been arrested aud held for robbery. j |
