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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. The Mineral Park mill company of . Arizona has gone into bankruptcy. Somo ol tho farmers of Lake county have harvoated a crop of oats grown from seed imported from Germany, the yield being eighty bushels to tho acre. A crop of early fall wheat, tho seed for which was importd from France, has been harvested by an enterprising fanner of Lakeport, the yield being over forty bushels to the aore. An eleven-inch pivot gun, the heaviest piece of ordnance in tho armament of the Titscarora, was dropped overboard on the 19th inst., while being hoisted out of that vessel, by the parting of a chain. The gun weighed about eight tons. The infant son of Dr. S. M. Archer of Monterey, while playing on a chair near his mother a tew days ago, tumbled as he was trying to catch tho scissors his mother had been using, and fell with tho instrument to the floor in such a manner as to have the points pierce his head and penetrate pene-trate tho brain. The child died in a short time. The Downieville Messenger tells of a number of nugget of gold lately taken from Haven's diggings, Gold lake, tho heaviest of which weighs! fifty-eight ounces, and is worth about $000. The Sonora Democrat, August 19th, says a worthless fellow, who keeps a very low, disreputable house in that place, tried a few days ago to kill himself with opium, but did not take enough, and now tho citizens stand ready to give a dose that will serve the purpose. A new Catholic church is to be built in Napa and the present church devoted to a school for girls, under the care of the Sisters of Benecia. The democratic county committee of San Francisco has notified the oity and county officials who "owe their positions to their allegiance to the democratic party," that they will be assessed 10 per cent, of two months salary to provide the sinews of war for tli e coining presidential election. OKLGON. j Solomon Smith, late senator from Clalsop county, Oregon, died a few days ago at his residence. Ho went to Oregon in 1S32, by way ol Cape Horn, with Captain Wythe, from Boston, and had lived there ever since. 1I: waa about 70 years of age. Americus Savage, a;i old and respected re-spected farmer, r. Biding nearSiieid's station, arose yesterday morning, left on his table a letter of farewell and instructions to his family, passed into his orchard, hung hi.i hat and vest on I an applo tree, laid down, spread a blanket over himself, placed a Smith .t Wesson pbtol against his right temple, fired and produced instant death, llo wrote that the dread of consumption prompted tho act. |