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Show CALIFORNIA NEWS. Thirty-two deaths from diphlh.ria in San Francisco last wi k,aud thirty now cases 0! small pox. The rumor is denied that John Mc-Cullough Mc-Cullough in in negotiations for tho purchase of the Grand opera houae of San Francisco. It is Buid that tho actual cash paid to Mr. Charles Robinson by cx-Gov-ernor Stanford for the famous horae "Benton" was $25,000. The Sacramento Jockey club have announced a race, heats of four miles, for a purse of $5,000, to bo run on the 10th of May nit; entries to close the 21at of February. Madame Camilla Oreo has had a grand complimentary benefit tendered ten-dered her by tho ladies of San Francisco; Fran-cisco; which will come ofl'on the 13th instant at Baldwin's academy. The lowest Sin Fraucisco temper attire- recorded for January, by the federal signal service observer was -123 Fahrenheit, or ten degrees above frost, and the mean of the month was 54. On Saturday morning a woman of tho town, known as "M'lle Rachel," attempted suicide in a house on Dupont street, using laudanum (or the purpose. She, however, failed, througu the interference of a physician. physi-cian. ! Budd Dohlo has brought suit against the Southern Ohio iair association asso-ciation for the amount of a purse oflered for an exhibition of Bpeed to be mado by Goldsmith Maid at the meeting in 1875. The time mado was eo slow 2.2ii, 2.24 and 2.40r that the association refused to pay the premium. Mr. Robert J. Creighlon, resident ngiut for New Zealand, rocently shipped from San Francisco a box of whitetuh eggs, containing 180,000, on account of that colony. Hugh Craig, agent of tho N"ew Zealand insurance in-surance company, forwards, on ao-1 count of the Auckland Acclimatization Acclimatiza-tion society, two California deer and twenty-seven short-tailed grouse from I Utah territory. Some time ago a drayman, who did business principally with Chinese, I found it necesjary to employ a man j to assist, but instead of engaging one i of his own race, he hired "a Ooina-man. Ooina-man. In course of time he instructed the Chinee how lo drive, manage and feed the horse, and bow to deliver) goods and uke receipts for the same, j When tha Cliiuamao became thor-1 oughly versed in the business, he quit ! his employer, started, in the draying ! business for himself, and inahorLj time acquired nearly all of his former , employer's patronao. Tnis Chinaman, China-man, the pioneer CiiinesQ teamster in this city, for a consideration imparts to a number of his couutrymen information in-formation in the matter of teaming j and the care of horses, and in a very few months a dozr-n or more Chinese teamsters were working for their countrymen. From that time to the present, Chinese teamsters have been on the increase, and now there are nearly one hundred engaged in the bueiueaa. 3. F. Call. |