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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. Humor pays in this country. It Hometirueti enabled a mau to marry a rich girl. M.irk Twain pays taxea iu Harttord ou $00,6.30, and this ia but a tithe of hid wealth. Twelve years aju ho was edilini; tho Daily Dramatic Review in this city, a theater pro' gramme, at a salary of ?20 per week. S. F. Argonaut. Some parliea having undertaken U sell excursion tickets on hnmigraut trains at reduced rates, under tne ro-presentation ro-presentation that extra accommodations accommoda-tions would bii furnifshfd, tho cfllL-ers of the Cuijtral IJiLcilic have felt called upon lo i8:uii a circular, staling that uo ono had or .no ono could make arrangements with, them tor estrn accommodations cn immiraut trains, and requesting all persons who desire to travel to purchase tickets ut tho railroad offices, and then they would be certain ol gottiug the right kind ot tickets. The business at the Sah Francisco stock board (or the first quarter of the current year was not over GO per cent, of the average for tho eaine period in tho previous throe years. During all this time there have been two boards in active operation in this city, while since July, 1875, there have been three boards, and since January, 1877, (our boards havo divided the business. In February and March lust tlio sales at the San Frnncis-.'O board full to poiu's nearly aa low as uieioweii mummy imuuut ever reached einco 1870. Ihe boitrd was eetub ished in 18(52, and its heaviest business was iu 1874, when Ibo total was $'2l50,471,5UO. Tho drought in California has caused the price of hay in Sun Francisco Fran-cisco to advance to $26(527 per ton. Arrangements have botn concluded for the groat races lo bo porticipated in by "liodino," "Occident," "Goldsmith "Gold-smith Maid" and "liarus," on tho 27th and 2Sth instant, at Los Angeles. On Tuursday of last week, Frauk Jordan, an old man and a pionoer iu Tulare county,, was taken with a fit white herding -hoga in Tulare lake, and fell into the cump:fire, where he aeemB to have lain for a apaco of some two hours. The Jleah of his thighs was burned to a crisp. The unfortunate unfortu-nate man was brought lo Visulia, where he died on Friday. Taken as a permanent investment, only two bonanzas on the Uomstock havo been profitable properties tho Beloher Grown Tomt and the California-Consolidated Virginia bonanzas and they were profitable only to ; those who bought early and before the inflation took place. Those who bought Belcher at $30 per share in 1874, while tho stock was. paying dividends of $3 per' share 6 per cent por month have lost money. It is jue of the. worst fealurta of the present evsteiu that it enables tho "insiders'" to inflate tho stock immediately im-mediately upon making a valuable Jiscovery so high that thoy can afford lo sell and lose the dividends; and it may be taken as an axiom that when they can aflbrd to sell, an ouUider cannot nflord to buy. Chronicle. Notwithstanding the Comslock has procuced $2-10,000,000 and paid more-than more-than $S0,0Q0.000 in dividends, the great majority of thoso who have invested in these mines are no better ofl than if there had been no mines at all. It is reasonably certain that the fruit crop this season will ba abundant in quantity and excellent in quality. A San Francisco lady baa obtained a judgment of $1,500 against a person per-son who had piled lumber on a sidewalk, side-walk, which fell over and killed her child. . At Oakland on Friday evening, last tho Hon. John B, Felton wb severely attacked by a stroke of I paralysis, which palsied his entire ' Bide from head to toot. It is thought he may recover. Of the 108 deaths in San Francisco luat week 48 were of children under five years of age, of which 14 died of diptheria. Father Taylor is holding children's revival meetings in San Francisco nnd claims to have converted several infants of five and six years ol Rge. j About May 1st Colonel Humnerwill take his regiment, First Cavalry, U, S. A., into the country for exorcise. Ho will probably go by the way of San Ilafasl, and strike out over the mountains, following along the coast to Point Arenas, whenca he will move inland to Lako county to givo the men a chance to fish for a week along the borders of Clear Lake. HEVADA. A few day ago, the daughter of S. Sachs, a wealthy Israelite of San Francisco, eloped with the son of Tom Shannon, collector of the port of San Francisco, a gentile. The couple went to Virginia city, and on Wed nesday night, some of the loading Jewish citizens of that place serenaded tlmm fit the International hotel. where they were stopping. A few dayd ago Conductor Clinch of the Truckec division of the Central railroad had his hands full in ejecting thirteen tramps who bad boarded bio 1 train, determined lo ride conductor or no conductor. Clinch didn't like that kind of business, and soon showed them the character of the man they had tackled. They didn't ride. 1 The Nevada papers complain of I the wholesale destruction of fidh in the public streams by ncU, spears and giant powder. - , Thirty men have been discharged from the employ of the Sutro tunnel company within the past two or three days. This reduction will nocedsitate the stoppage of two machine drills, aud will greatly diminish the average daily progress mado in the tunnel. George Bailey, an absconding Eureka Eu-reka butcher, who departed a week ago, left behind bim unpaid bills amounting to several hundred dollars. At Kelton, on Iho railroad, ho was taken in by monto sharps for scvon hundred dollars. MONTANA. The Montana papers warmly espouse the cause of Governor Potts, and declare ibat tho charges filed against bim at Washington and in stigated by personal motives and that Potts is tho best governor Montana has ever had. j When General Sheridan requested the $200,000 appropriation for the two new posts, he agreed to abandon six of the old ones which ones nre not, so far as wo know, yet decided upon. From a distance table published pub-lished last year (a copy of which is on file at Fort Elis), it appears that the Tongue river post will be 130 miles from Lbaton the Big Horn, taking it for rntecl the latter will be located at the mouth of tho Little Big Horn. The Tongue river pOBt is about 2'X) miles, ami the Big Horn post (if located as stated' will be 3'j'J miles from the mouth of the Yellowstone. "Biiebin city" has been located at Baker's Battle Ground, and Miiesburg two miles below the Tongue river cantonment. We are advised that Mr. Daly, in chirgc of the Walker Bro.'s bonanza mine at 3utte has now perfected all his arrangements and is sinking tho miin shaft rapidly. It was 130 fct Jeep when cro,-s-cutting and explorations explora-tions were commenced on the 11.-0 foot level. Now work is concentrated' on the shaft, three shifts working, and he expects to rech a depth of 230 in three weeks. That ia tho kind c( development that le'!g. Deer Lodgo New Northwest, A Slight Mistake. The present urchbUlmp of Dublin,- the giited au- : thoroftl.e work, eo widely known ( on tho "Study of of Words is not in very robust health, and has been for many vears apprehensive of paralysis. par-alysis. At a recent dinner m Dublin, given by tho lord-lieutenant of Ireland, Ire-land, his grace sat on the right cf his hostess, tho duchces of Abercorn. In the midst of the dinner the company was startled by seeing the archbishop rise from his seat, and otill more slurtled to hear hint exclaim, in a Uis mal and sepulchral tone, It conn-! it has come!" "What Ins comi, your graref eagerly cried half a dozen voices trcm ditlerent parts of the table. "Whit I havo been expecting tor twenty years," solemnly answered the archbishop "a stroks of p iraly-sis. iraly-sis. I have been pinching myseU for the last twenty minutes, aud find myself my-self eutirelv without sensation.' "Pardon me, my dear archbishop, said the duchess, looking up tojiim with a somewhat quizzical smne "pardon me for contradicting you, but it is I that you have beenpiwhing. Harper's Magazine. |