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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. J CALII-'OILS'IA. i Forty-three persons were cammed t by the si an Francisco couiniidiouere a Ihct mouth, 24 of the number beiis I aent to the icsane asylum. Of the W, 1 only 9 were naiive of tho Umtwl J .States; 11 were fcnulea. Nothing hs. been heard of the Oermun woman Aipf)nig, who miir- ' dcred Curistopher Judi:puaon in San h'ranciico ladt riittiriiny. On the t niiit of hPr dioappearance bhe pur I cilatcd Uudunutn and strychnine. Tim a .n Francisco boaid ol super- 1 vis'TH h;.a recoLtaiJt':i:d and ia- deiinitfly pestponed the rtuulution ' with roipc-ct to Oeueral llancock. It j was elateJ that the general doc3 not I propje vuiting L'ahiorni at prwtut The colleclitin of licence) Eirice I Januarv 14th, lt75f amount to 1 4ul 2o." A le-.v daya since George 3. GateB, a 1 S.:n Francidco curbatone broker, was arrcated upon two charges of having ' obtained money by means of false 1 pretences from N. W. Lane and J. M. Coppae. Alfalfa and gras hay are quoted at $18 antl $20 pur ton; timothy, oU mid $25, The patent dryert) have proved very success ul in frait drying, but in most instances are a pronounced failure for ruiuin?. The fineat raisins: now in our marketa were dried on the bare ground, or on Moors made of concrete. James Gamble, superintendent ef the Western Union Telegraph com-1 com-1 pany at San Francisco, presented each of the bix months' telegraph boys wiin a subscription to tue ot. Nicholas fnr one year, aud each of the others with a handsome book. NEVADA. The anowsheds on the Central Pacific railroad burned on Friday last were about hall a mile west of Summit station. The amount destroyed de-stroyed was 3,500 feet of shedding, 400 feet of wood shed, with much oi the- wood in it, and the railroad ties for probably 4,000 fcot. Afire train from each Bido soon put tho tiro out, and the work of clearing the track and putting it in condition waa at once begun. Nevada wants a school of mines, A fatal shooting aflray took place in the Delta Saloon at Virginia city on Tuesday morning, Dick Paddock and Tom Hughes, proprietors of a cock pit, were singing with a crowd in tho saloon, when officer McDonald entered and commauded the peaco, and threatened the party with arrest. Hughes defied tho officer to arrest, him, and drew a pistol and struck the officer on the head. The latter then drew bis pistol. Paddock Pad-dock ruahod between the men and was struck in the forehead fore-head by out) of the shots inflicting a fatal wound through which brains ouzecl. Hughes was shot, three times, aud fell dead. Tho officer was slightly wounded by a ahot in the head. |