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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. j CALIFORNIA. i Blacklock, Tursglove & Manning, proprifcto uJ tho (Julf of ClifurLiia Oyster und Cuuiug company, a gigantic swiudimy concern, have been held iu large auioutits ol bail for swindling and luryery. The United SuteB courts in Sau Franciico Lave been ordered to g" slow in liie mutter of contracting expenses ex-penses and commencing new business busi-ness for the next two months, oa account of the appropriation for the expenses of tho courts: being nearly oxhauspil. A Chinaman named Tony Wah Sow, died in Sad Francisco lust Monday, Mon-day, and was buried alter the most approved Cliiueae fashion. Sow was the proprietor ofadcu ol iilrepute, and about nix weeks ago was shot by one of a gang of liih-binders, who had sworn vengeance because the women iu bis den had roftised to submit, sub-mit, by his orders, to a tribute levied by this lawlesti class. The wound he received at that lime was the cause of his death. The day after he was wounded he told a police officer that he knew who it was that had Bhot him, but he refused to tell, lor fear wiab ii an airctiu lunoweu mm binders would kill all his relatives, j Although the state election is yet t fivoDJOnthsotl, professional candidates of both parties aro beginning to do- t clare their intentions lo run lor ofiico. ( On Tuesday afternoon Bernard ( lidolknamp. wus found detid ovor one I of tho graves in Calvary cemetery, j with a ballot wound in his head. His wife died last July, and he had ap- j pcard very much depressed in spirits. Governor Woods, ''Webfoot," is one of the counsel for the Btate in the ! Chico arson trials. Tlie theory of the defense in these cusps Sb that the burnings burn-ings are only tho bpginniug of that irreprosaibie conflict between white laborers and Cninamen, that will continue con-tinue until one or the other are driven from the country. On Monday night, George Bernard, an expressman ootmrjonly called "liig George," who for years had worked for the hardware firm of T. H. Solby & Co., on California street, made several very earnest attempts to take nis me. ne urei. bwuuuiyw ounces of laudanum, then cut his throat with a razor, and finally stabbed himself with a knife in the abdomen.. He had recently been drinking to excess, and will probably die. Tho state university has made an appropriation, and authorized the ap pointiueut of an analytical chemist, with a view towards the inauguration of a system of thorough investigation ol the agricultural and industrial resouices of the state, or what might be termed an industrial survey. George Bonner, Sau Francisco, al-tcmpttd al-tcmpttd to commit suicide on Tuesday, Tues-day, by cutting a gash iu his throat witli a ruzor and then stabbing himself him-self in tho heart with a knife. Cause: ; mental aberration superinduced by drink. The Chronicle siTy-s: The expense , of running tho brokerage business in this city has increased about 200 per cent within tho past five years, instead in-stead of two boards, there are four; instead of salaries remaining the same, they have been more than doubled. The Sacramento Bee is of the opinion opin-ion that the yield of grain the coming harvest will not exceed one-third of that of last year; or will give a total of about 7,500,000 centals. A lanre tannery that will employ fifty or sixty men is to be started at Santa Rosa as soon as the necessary buildings can bo erected, and leather of very line quality will be made from goat, sheep, calf and deer skins "by a prOCL'ba otiliroly now. |