The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-07-10
NUMBER I
News Items.

INEQUALITIES OF THE OCEAN LEvEL.-A
work lately published at Cambridge. England,
on the figure of the earth, gives, well
established fact, that the water of the sea at
the mouths of the Indus is elevated as much
as ESQ feet above that a. Cape Comorin, the
southern extremity of Hindoostan. The
author, Rev. George Pratt, Archdeacon of
Calcutta, ascribes this difference os height to
the attractive influence of the Himalaya
mountains.
GENERAL HANCOCK is talked of as the
Democratic candidate for Governor of PenL-
sylvania. The New York Sun says that
Hancock is one of the handsomest men in
the country, though of late he has inclined
rather too much to obesity" " and advises him
to practice the velocipede-a forty-three inch
mhchine, two hours a dgy in loose gravel--
which will reduce his superiuous flesh.
| AT meeting of the trustees of the Peabody
educational fund, held on Thursday, the 2ith
inst, George Peabody added one million dol
lars, in railroad and other bonds-mostly
Southern, to the Peabody educational fund,
and three hundred and eighty-four thousand
dollars, in Florida six per cent. bonds and
overdue coupons.
| yellow envelope paper, after being lighted
and the flame blown out, will continue to burn
until entirely consumed. White papers do
not possess this property. Chemists allege
that 1t is the coloring matter which renders
this kind of paper more combustible than
other qualities.
| GEORGE Francis TRAM is lecturing in Port
/ land, Oregon, to full houses. His subjects
! are in part ''Let us make Vancouver n Fenian
Republic and issue letters of marque" also,
THE Bank of California and the fall of San
Francisco" He intends returning overland,
lecturing in the towns on the route.
The cotton crop. from all accounts, will
reach or closely approach three million bales.
/ The anticipations of injury to the crop have
not been realized and no trouble is now
| feared from lack of laborers, as the negroes
have got their fill of politics, and are now
ready to go to work.
| n. B. Larcom, while boring for an artesian
we'll in Santa Clara, at the depth of two hun
| dred and lightweight feet struck a redwood
! log about two feet in diameter. The wood is
! perfectly sound. This log was found ut
depth of over two hundred feet below the sea
level.
| A QuERY.-EDIToRs Alta One traiu
! leaves Sacramento for Omaha every twenty
four hours but traveller going west, and
therefore following the sun, meets two trains
| going east every twenty-four hours. How is
this Will some of your readers answer ?
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PoTATosBUGs are so troubling Wisconsin
farmers that a sermon ON their yiciousness
and worthlessHess is inserted in one of the
papers of the State. The writer censures
Noah for having preserved pair of potato
bugs and pair of heas in the ark, and thinks
it was mighty small piece Of business"
CALIFoRSIA fruits have been received in
eight days in New York and in excellent con-
ditbn. Twelve dollars and fifty cents per
hundred in currency--or 22Il cents per pound
or between nine and ten cents per pound in
coin is the present price for carrying fruit by
rail between Sacramento and New York.
IT has been proposed to consolidate all the
principal insurance companies of the West and
Southwest, with o central Office at ST. Louis,
and branch Offices and botrds Of directors at
various central points in the Mississippi val
ley.
; The Sacramento Reporter Of the 9th says
"On Saturday last, leading Touring mill
firm of that city purchased the first lot of
barley of the new crop, offered this season
; The lot consisted of two hundred tons, and
the price paid was 81 OF per GENITAL.
THERE are now living in Chattanoogn
county, Tennessee, Mr.. p. T. Carroll, aged
+ fifty-two. and his wife % years of age, who
have had twenty-fouT children-twenty sons
and four dnughtcrs-in twenty-four years
all single births. They continue married yet
IT's PROPER NAME.-A traveller in Pennsyl-
yana asked the landlord if they had any
J cases of sun-stroke in that town. mo sir, .
said the landlord "if man gets drunk here
we say he is drunk, and never call it by any
other name"
4 John 4. Ridson, sole survivor Of Major
Powell's Colorado exploring expedition, arrived
! in Chicago July I'd, and confirmed the repor
l of the loss of the expedition by the swampinS
: Of boat in the Colorado rapids.
A MAN in Connecticut has invented an ''im
/ proved head-rest for attachment to churcl
I news, formed by the combination of the stuff
/ IN, covering plate, band base plato and
( springs with each other"
:, WM. B. STOKES, the candidate of the ultrs
u Radicals for Governoro Of Tennessee, is charged
; by Gov. Senter, rs the man who ''sold tn,
y last negro that was ever sold in Tennessee
: in 1861
Il Amatch for tho championship Of boot-black
n in Chicago, broke mp in row, caused by
q foul on the part of one of the contestants
O who spit on the boots instead of in the black
n ing-box.
- THE London papers contain obituary notice
y of the late Henry j. Raymond. of the Ne'
= York Times, in which his loss is pronounce
r. gap which cannot be filed.
TX THI fastest time on record was made owe
the Buckeye course. Cincinnati, recently, in
contest between Micky Free and Hezog, wo
by the latter-~mile heats. Time, la3H
o. A SCHOOL girl. under examination in psalmt
ls on being asked, "What is the postilenco tina