The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-06-30
NUMBER 4
News Items

way are set as far Thirtieth street, three
miles up town, and it is expected that in about
ten weeks the road for that distance will be
opened. The rails are tD ne of Steel and the
car-wheels of wrought iron with fanges an
inch and a half deep, to lessen the danger of
running off the track.
SoSrSANBuIIsM-Prof. Pellozari. of Flor
ence, says that he has cured eighteen cases Of
somnambulism thus: He winds once or twice
aroutM the patients leg q fine copper wire
and let's the loose end be in contact with the
| floor. His theory is thai the wire gives cleo
trio conduction to some principle whose in
carceration causes the tendency to sleep-walk-
| ing.
I AZ the Boston Woman's Suffrage Conyen-
ton, last week, the Rev Gilbert Haven
! claimed Eve qnote from n newspaper report)
that woman was man in true, serene
sense" Mrs. Livermore said that if the right
to vote depended on the ability to fight, then
| large number of the women should receive
| the ballot
NJ. BELMAULET, a red hot Imperialist can
dldate for the Corps Legislatif recently OBJ
tanned permission from the prefect of his de-
! partment for his constituents to shoot larks
| one week after the game law went into oper-
uon-and was elected by an overwhelming
majority.
! A TOTAL eclipse of the sun will occur on
the 9Th Of August. 1t will be visible es q
partial eclipse throughout the whole of North
America No total eclipse of the sun has
been visible i'll any considerable portion of
this country since 1884 and none will be
visible after this year during the present
century.
| The United States District Attorney has
received instructions from Washington to
commence suit in every case in which it can
be proved that persons cut timber on gov
| ernment lands-all lumber made from such
timber to be seized whenever it can be found.
The Union Pacific Railroad bridge across
| the Missouri river at Omaha will be largest
| one yet projected over the Missouri river
Will consist OF eleven spans of two hundred
| and fifty feet each, and is estimated to cost,
when completed, nearly two millions of dol
! lars.
a MAN in Holyoke, Mass, armed two OF
| his neighbors with mallet and a club to hunt
a burglar the other night They went around
| the house In opposite directions, and meeting
| i'll the darkness behind it, proceeded TO pound
and whack each other in fashion that was
terribly effective.
| A GREEK, at Stamboul, recently had dream
that q vast treasure could be found in a GER
| tain hill, If Ciild were sacrificed to the
| demon. He TOOK his little daughter to the
place the next da. beat out her brains, and
dug for the gold il high spirits until he was
| arrested.
The Napa Register, in speeuIatiug upon tho
probable price of grapes for distilling purposes
the coming Fall, expresses the belief that dis
ullers can afford 70 pay from $50 to $50 per
ton, but believes they will bring less than
they did in 1868, which was S22 80 per ton.
Mrs. CADY STANTON puts it thus. .eWben
the highest offices in the Governments are
bought in Wall street it is mere chance who
Will be our rulers. Whitker is o nation tend
ing when brains count for less than bullion,
and clowns make laws for queens?"
The vigilance committee of Byran, wyom-
ing Territory, called upon desperate charac-
ter a short time since, and gave him fifteen
minutes to leave town. He mounted his mule,
and said: Gentlemen, if this mule don't
balk, l don't want but fve."
The ladies have indicated their fituess 10
t run with the machine" At the burning OF
I barn, recently, attached to the Holyoke Pe-
2 male Seminary, in Massachusetts, the young
ladies turned out and rendered very efficient
) help in extinguishing the conhagration.
New WoRp.-The name of the new art
of boring Washington officials is the most
! recent coinage When one Of them goes
through this ordeal of annoyance he is said
to have been interviewed"
e A VISITOR, who, for the first time enioyet
!. the luxury of Turkish bath, remarked to {
! friend upon leaving: This sort of thint
takes the cOnceit out of fellow. It make,
g him believe that he never was really clear
j before"
THE 18th of next August will complete ,
hundred years since the birth of the Firs
r Napoleon. The Emperor proposes to bestov
r on that day yearly pension Of $50 on ever,
!, surviving soldier of his uncle's armies.
The Western Pacific railroad, from SaI
Jose to Stockton, is being put through Liver
e more Pass by tunnel l,lG2 feet in length
Y 10 feet high, and 10 feet wide, besides q Gu
|. 400 feet long and AZ feet deep.
= A WESTERN editor in response to sub
scriber who grumbes that his paper was in
!, tolerably damp, says, That is because ther
u :, is so much due on it."
{. A LONDON mechanic has invented regis
b tered ballot-box, which, it is claimed, will s
p fectually prevent stufting or tampering wit
rs the ballots.
Az order has been received at Newport I
!, L., from Paris, for furnace to warm churc
r in Japan.
4 VICTOR EMANUEL, on arriving recently
'y Naples, was received with grand chorus
e. misses and groans.
"v THREE hundred skilled English and Wels
In artisans. of different trades, landed in Ne
v York lately.
TnE influx of Norwegian emiRants Is enorr
ous 1t is said that 200, 900 viii arrive with
g. the next eighteen months.
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