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Show PACIFIC COAST XEWS CALIFORNIA. Lillie M!ay, tight years of ago, was arrested by Deloclive Noyes ou Thurs-ilay Thurs-ilay night for having stolen tlireo dollars and a halt from the house of Win. Pratt, No. 21 Perry street, on that afternoon. AflKr being arrested, tho girl asked to be taken to her parents. The detective look her to a place on 'I bird street, when Bhc reached there she said she bad made a mistake, and that alio lived on Sixth street, giving the number of a house on 'that street. When taken to that place she again said that Bhe had mistaken the house, and wanted to be taken to a house on Folsom street. The officer thought she bad fooled him enough and conveyed her lo prison. At daybreak on Thursday morning Special Olticer James Conlin, while crossing a sand lot near the corner of Washington and Gough utreets, noticed a couple of stakes driven into the ground, and Buepocted that they had been placed there to mark a thief's 'plant." He dug in the sand and found two coils ot garden hoee a few inches bolow the surface He then secreted himself, and after awaiting two hours saw aCniuamanl approach the "nlani." and dig it up. The officer placed the Chinaman tindor arrest, and took him to the city prison, together with the hose. The Nevada cityj 'Iransc.ript Bftvs: A largo quantity ol freight for this season ot the year is being brought over the Nevada county narrowgauge railroad for tho merchants of this city and up country. Tho Southern Pacific railroad is now completed and track laid 2o miles beyond Tohachape Summit, nearly one-third of the distance over the Mojave desert, and the company is laying and building its road at the rate of one and a half miles per day. The Grangers have concluded their deliberations on the question of the shipment f the year's wheat crop, having resolved to ship or hold their wheat for a better market, aa circumstances circum-stances dictate Tha convention represented re-presented over $",000,000 capital and some 200,000 tons of wheat, about one-third this year's surplus lor shipment. ship-ment. A Chinaman named Ah Look was iodged in jail ai Sacramento on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, for the murder of Ah Yong, on Brannao Island, ou the 7th m- stant. He confeaSRi to the crime, ' und seems to consider that he ncted properly. Ho heard that the deceased was going lo kill him, and thought it bi-n to take the advantage. First he ttaiibed him with u btileber-knifa at midnight, on the levoe, a few steps I rum Hie Chinese camp on the island; then he threw his own knife into the river. The Chinese tired lo smuggle the body afvay to San Francisco, but citizens at Courtlaud broke open the tK'X, held an inquest, and this led to the arrest of the murderer. A f t w weeks ago W. T. G.frrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, visited San Francisco ow-ten-iiiiiy on pie icure, but it has since tran.-pired that important business was at tho bottom of it, and he is now credited with having made arrange-1 merits with the Ct? ntral und Union l'.ie;tic railroads by wnich he expects' to m ike those roads, in connection j wiiu his own, an important route fur: the transporlAtion of the leas, silks,! elc, of Cinua and Japan to Liver-j mvj!, --hipping the goods by aleamer iroin Baittm- re to that port. It is prcMinit-d that lo actonip!nh this he uas been able to induce the Pacific railruadi to make a vrry Urge con-cei-ioti from their past aud present charg' s or his pteaniships mti;t carry the goods at very low nates. A few days since Tony Pastor accompanied ac-companied by his wife, visited Laurel II if 1 cemetery, San Francisco, audi was shocked to find that the grave ol Johnny Mark, who in hie day was sJ great favorite throughout the United Stales at variety theatre, was utterly! ritglccUd. Mr. Pastor, on reUiruiDR! trum the drive, opened a subscription; list, to which, having put his own1 name, be obtained bvdscriptions from members of his troupe aulhcieul to, pUce an elegant tombetone over the grave. NkVAIU. "Hi ap Eal'eru. Whisky Jack's mn.iw, cince the imprisonment of her ilttsky lord, fairly luiiinLi tho ueigh Uirlnxnl ol lite county jail, spending nearly all Hit tune in gaung at thti brick waIIa of the court hou.ie aud iu subbing and crying. This forenoon wo niilieed her k iking wiatluliy at the barred window ou the eastern sale of tho cuiirl l.umo, and, knowing her relationship to Jack, proceeded to interview her. Ju reply lo our quea lions she faid her name Was Srah; Unit rhe was Jack's "iquaw" and that Jack heap good man; that be no slral, but heandnuk whisky. "How noon Jack go Cnmnn?" she asked. "Maybeno three month"," we replied. Then, while the tears wiiltd up into her eyes, And raiting an anxious look at tho jil, she inquired with a eh. kug Voice that really sounded pitiable: '.! aek heap eal'eru." "Yes," wo replied, "plenty to eat and a good plar-o lo tlofp." Thin Hccmcd to comfort her, and she went over to .hi I W"C Log-in' ollice and sat down .in t'c ri.b iv ilk and commenced lo loi.tbc h.-r pai-. .. Sar.h in a plra-aul la-cl, bright linking Sliu shnr.i- .-qnaw. and ver,- ne.nlv il re-wed or an Indian. She j lh. ii'ioiher ol a pretiy papoo-,e, but in lor of it- liair ami eyes an.l the cut of ila fea turt'H render il a question uf extninie doubt thai her hiittband is in any ?,'ay resionr.ibio fur iln paternity. But nlie says with much po-iu rcnet : "Him Jack's pa pi h we, " Ifrmfle. Hung n, All Wo, ('hang Wo and Sing Vu were expelled fioni Reno, the i ther day, bv an anti Clunesf society, and iu leaving ihe town one Wodid tri ad upon another's heels, so last they followed. lb niocratie rilate tun vculinn August. CSth. The new Pyramid ruining district is mliiatrd in Washoe county, n Ihu t Ihirly livo niilcH norlh of Kmo and I'lnbnices an an a ol at leant, ten mile ol mining countty, A largo number of promising ledges arc located, and thn di itrict contained at tlio hist accounts about SO men. |