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Show PACIFIC CUASTJtfEWS. GAUFOIiNlA. There was n exhibition in a store in Djpont fctrt-ut. Sm Francisco, ofa mainmotli buDCh nf grtipeB from the reat grupe vinu uf S.uita Barbara (a cutlin from thn monster sent to the Oenteuuinl). TuU cluster weighs 15 pomida, ia six leet in-circumierence and three' tt-nt long. Tim vine from which this wiu cut in sixteen year old, and producc-B nnnually 10,000 to 12,00(1 -jrjunuV uf giapea.. 'This i probably., tbe Jarytst bunch of grupea tver (jrowQ. Paajeiigurri by the overland ra lroad are nncreaaing in numbers. Four sleepers were required lor persons wbu arrivtd at San Francisco on Saturday Sat-urday evening. A bench dog show in San Francisco ia to open on Hie 29th ipst. The Gail pronounces the Chronicle sfiiiBation story of a haunted bouse on Howard street an without foundation. Andrea'! Mateo, the Indian who tilled a uiau near St. Helena iu June iast is- to be hanged on the 30th of November. Twelve hundred workmgmen ncui an out door meeting in Han Franciaco Monday night, when incendiary Bpeecbes were . made in reference to the unemployed working people. One SyOttK.er HUVlbtHl KIlCIl U. ilia iiciv.io buy a gun and plenty of ammunition, and...aaid within a few days every block in tbe city will have a printed petition- on tbu wall, demanding ot the board of supervisors assistance for the starving poor. One of these peti tious will-be nailed to tbe doorpost ol every corner grocery in the city, and will' be eipned by fifty thousand citi zens; and when, we become 6 fly tbonsttud Btrong, then we will have tbe poor, provided for." The1 -board of Buperv'iBora of Sao Franciaco areconeideriug the petition of the unemployed workiugmen for employment. A meeting of iufluen tial oitizenato devise ways and means for tbe accomplishment of thiB object , is proposed. : ' -. Some of tbe leading business men have eent a protest to tbo board oi supervisors. .ft.gtT.nat the purchase of tbe -"Iittie Lakes water Bcheme," on tbe ground that tbe proposed contract is for works that havts now jjo existence, exist-ence, and which are to be built entirely en-tirely by tbe aid of tbe muny or the credit of the city. , Tbe Spring VaMey Water company lias made another final proposition to tbe wattr commissioners, nflermj! their property for $12,500,000, a re duction from Iheir last ofier of $750,-000. uq jjriaay last, accoruing in iue Nevada Transcript, some villain went to the Gold Run trestle work and laid a complete trap to throw tbe train oft the track, and if it had been successful, success-ful, undoubtedly all on tbe train would have been killed, besides destroying a large amount of property. Fortunately, Fortu-nately, however, the section men went over tho road and discovered it, and it waomoved before tbe regular pas seuger train came up. NEVADA. -' Louis Ash, aged 24 years, was shot and killed at Virginia city on the 8th inat. in n bouse of ill fame. He had an altercation with Bpecial Officer William Davis, tbe man who had the glove fight with Jem Mace. Davis fired five shots; four of them took effect." Davis is in tbe county jail. Davis .claims that A6b fired two shots at bim first. In his dying deposition Ash' swore that he was unarmed aud that,, it was a cold blooded murder. The woman of the place states that both men weredrunk. . , The net earnings of tbe United States mint at Carson for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, figure up MONTANA. ! Tbe Fair which closed at Helena has been the mostsucceesful yet held, i The receipts were: Oale money,1 $1,232; percentage on pools, $1,417; bar. fruit and restaurant privilegfs, $1,314; entry fees on races, $1,5S0; citizens' purses, $1,100; total est-mated est-mated receipts, $9,643. Flour 18 selling at $5 per hundred in Virginia city and $4 in Bozeman. About 100 Nez Perce warriorB are said to be etill on the other fide of tbe Missouri river taking in all tbe horses they can find. Miss Emma Leora Fryatt was Warded the first premium, $50, as uing the handsomest girl baby at the eighth annual fair, and Miss Katy Power the second premium, $25. - COLORADO. A great number of capitalists are on the way to San Juan from Salt Lake city, Southern Utah and eastern Ntjvuda, and will arrive here about tbe 10th inst. They are coming in carriages, and on horse back, from balina on the road usually traveled irom Utah to this place. Ouray Sentinel. Sen-tinel. ..A lartffi mpetinp was recently held at Mineral Point, eoutbern Colorado, at which resoultions were adopted endorsing a scheme for the division of the state of Colorado ard the formation forma-tion of tbe new territory of San Juan, the east and weat dividing line to be at some point between tbe 3Stb and oOlh degrees of north latitude, and that such portion ol norihern New Mexico b.) attached to said territory as may be agreeable to tbe inhabitants inhabi-tants thereof. We learu that a suit baa just been brought in tbe United States court here to recover $100,000 from Prof. Biil. for wood used iu Bmelting ore in Gilpin county. It is alleged that this wood waacut on tbe public domain, and tbe government now Beekg to recover re-cover the value of his wood to the men who cut it. Thin suit is simply a production of the Alleman business in a pew form, and ifcarried through to a successful termination willdoubt-less willdoubt-less clo?e up the smelting works located in the mining regions, and force ttie people to abandon the country. If Prof. Hill can be sued j for iuying timber cut on the public domaiu, then erery man who buys a load of wood ia Clear crest and Gilpin counties to cook hia beefsteak or warm his children will be exposed ti judical process, Denver News. ! |