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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CAL1F0USIA. ! General Sliernuin said in reply lo a serenado at Lm Angeles the other Jay: Ho liad visited their city twenty-sevcu twenty-sevcu years nco. He said city, because be-cause Los Angeles was now entitled to rank amount cities. Then it was was n villtige, with a few dirty 'dobio houses hero and there. Tho Spanish language was chiefly spoken. Where these hcusce tlun stood there were now stately buildings, which would ilo credit to New York, Washington or Paris. This section of country is not all a paradise. A good deal of it is hot, dusty and disagreeable. Ho said that there was a reyion of southern south-ern California, three hundred milts long by thirty or forty broad, comprising com-prising Los Angeles, Santa Hiirbara, San Bernardino and Sun Diego counties, coun-ties, which, he had no doubt, would shortly bo made one of the most beautiful on the continent. It was almost tropic in its proJuctiveness. On Saturday last the coiner of the San Francisco mint delivered to the superintendent the largest amount ol coin ever made in one day, amounting amount-ing to $1,120,000 in gold and $12O,00C in silver. Tho total amount coined at the mint during the last quartei was $13,400,000, an increase of nearly $-1,000,000 over the corresponding period of hint year. An Englishman named J. Wilkes, aged about 55 years, a tea trader, killed himself on Sunday by opening the veins of his left wrist, and allow ing himself to bleed to death. ! A blacksmith was seriously burnt in tho arm with a pieco of red hoi I iron, on Saturday, in a shnn m Duuont street, San Francisco. The mclal ate deep into the Ih-sh, and it was only when the man was taken into a neighboring doctor's office that it was finally removed. His esrtpe from death was providential. A gentleman was u lopped at the corner of Sutter and Kearny streets on Sunday evening, at 11 o'clock, by a footpad, who demanded of him hid money. He responded by raising his cane and severely beating the would-be would-be highwayman over the upper portions por-tions of his body. Having given the rullian a well-merited and severe lew son, hesufKred him to depart. The first cider mill ol California tn go by horse power lias been started near Pe;aluiua. It lias a capacity ol 1,000 gallons a day, and p.iys 40 cents per hundred pounds Jor apples delivered, deliv-ered, -r S.iturday tho chk-f uf police of S.m Francisco sent a demand to the Cni-neto Cni-neto companies lor the person of Foot Yee, the Chinaman who shut special oflicer Hamlin in the Cninese theatre on Friday night. Within an hour Fook Yce w.ia bandul over to tlie chief and was charged with u-aault u-aault to murder. On Sunday evening, at alujiit half-patt half-patt 7 u'eiitek, Cnirmmnn named ! Ah (.'hoy was shot from behind by some unknuwn a- t-in on the conn r n( Dupont and Washington btrcels. The shot is prnb ibly a fatal one. When Mr. Lick was fut taken sick, in 1873, he fancied tuat blood-drinking blood-drinking would help him. A c.!J was pructmd and taken alive lo th bathroom in his fcuite. Too animal was p'.actd in the tub and its liiroat cut. As the hot Ucud escaped from the wound il was caught in vessel-! arid convejfd to the tick man, who drank a considi rablo (j'.i.iulity of it, and mude, m ihc attt ntian'. exj'rcseti it, a terrible mes ail ovlT l ho room." Mr. Lick w.ih one of the nit-st ki:ld . mechanics in the ce.un'.ry, and there are many things in the Lit k huMs- Wldeli were ci m-t met d by hi:ii. In1 tlie dining rejurn the orment-i! wnrk j at ll.e ha-t3 of the pieturi'S and nr.r-r'")r nr.r-r'")r was ad ciislrut'tetl by him, with tho ft; 1 ol a machine winch lie invented, in-vented, but which ho never had patented. In one. corner of U.r t'iiftiiiU-r n-c-.iitly ocenphd by l.im there stand the chr-t ol ti-i!i uB-l by hini, and which he brought fr u. C:i;li. |