The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-10-06
Miscellaneous News.

cost SS,S23,OOO. The difference in going
from New York to San Francisco, BY the Te
hauhtepec route over the Panama route will
De l'4ii miles, and from New Orleans TO San
Francisco, 2,334 miles, saving six days in one
case and nine in the other.
lHE following statement shows the number
oi miles of railroad III the States given: Penn
sylrania, 4, 400; Illinois, 3,45O: Ohio. 2 400.
New York, 3,4OO; Indiana, 2,GOO; Iowa, / $50
Georgia, !, $50; Massachusetts, l.4jO: Mis-
sourl, hoo; Virginia, ,4S0; Tennessee
l.4iO; Wisconsin, 1850; Michigan, l.2GO:
North Carolina, LOO; South Carolina, 900.
kooPMANscHAP has been consulting the Sec
fetary OF the Treasury about his coole pro-
lect, and has been informed by that official
thht the Department has no intention of in
tertering with the scheme of Chinese em;yrn-
uon, unless the laws are violated.
"HEEE's your money, boy. and ROW tell Inc
why your rGscally master wrote eighteen let
ters about The contemplate sum-" 'I'm sure.
sir, can't; but if you'll excuse me. sir, | sort
o reckon twas because sevetecn wouldn't
fetchit."
man named Drummond, at Turnbridge.
VI, who had fifteen children, married a Wild
ow with fourteen. His wife has lust made
him happy with another, so they now have
thirty diamonds between them to furnish with
hash.
The editor Of the Schenectady Star wants to
lend his velocipcde. The name NAV not
sound familiar to some. 1t is ~ two-whe-led
vehicle that had quite tt run among lunatics
lately.
THE total number Of acres of land sold by
the Union Pacific Railroad Company up to
the 18th of September last amounts to lS9,-
2GS $4,000, valued at 1895, iO7 4G-lOO.
CHrSAMES are working on the great Omaha
bridge across the Missouri at S37 90 per
l,.. l.VtI l.. ~,
Chinese labor.
Az Iowa town advertises for /. 500 New Eng
land girls of thrifty habits. for the dairy bust
ness the town Is to establish. That number
could do right smart of milking.
Ar Lowell, Mass, they have an exhibition
of "A cow with five legs and bull that gives
five quarts of milk day. That Lowell is
queer place.
Miss II. X. CLAPP, formerly principal of the
Female Seminary at Carson City, now resid-
ing III Lansing, Mich, speculated in mining
stocks and made herself competency.
THE Truckee Tribune advocates the formn-
tlun of new county out of all that portion of
Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties which lies
east Of the summit of the Sierra Nevada
mountains.
A soldier in the British Red River country
lately swan fourteen miles down the river
without Il rest.
man can live in Paris pretty we'll on ten
cents day. OF he can eat. drink and be
merry t" the tun" Ola hundred dollars.
\ Western paper talks about tn" cclcbrn,ion
of "IlrlmhoIds birthday. instead of Hum
Ooldt's. lie has evidently been taking buchu
CHETENNE has too many women who are
loUsonrd. The police make periodical raids
OH them, IN imitation of Eastern cities
Tux conchmnn who mnrried the Glen Cove
Young lady offers To- take 1t all back for
10000. Cheap enough.
A Frenchman has purchased 5000 acres Of
swamp in Tennessee, and hc proposes raising
frogs for the Memphis market.
THERE is n honrshing mining village in
Colorado known as ''GOuge-eye Gulch."
false wife in the Sandwich Islands was
lately condemned to have her ears cut off.
The wheat harvest of Minnesota this year
is estimated at %, 900, 900 bushels.
FLoEA TEMILE, the Queen Dowager of the
turf Is thTty-threc years old.
Jony MouEIsSEY made 5000, 900 out of last
weeks convulsiOms in stocks and gold.
WoNAN's rights if she cannot be captain of
n ship she may always command a smack.
CoSsrANTINopLE has twenty eight ncwspa-
pors, printed in eight different languages.
4 piece of land two hundred feet square
will contain AN ncre.