The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-01-21
THE ELKO INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY. JANUAR. ~. is.i.
New. Summary

NSo 20 tlEcS OaNs ago, the afflicted
husband came into this Office to have the
guilty pair advertised. lie offered SlOO re-
ward for the apprehension of his wife and
paid US for the advertisement. Yesterday he
again same in and informed Us that his un-
falthful spouse had voluntarily returned TO his
griet stricken bosom, and we needn't advertise
Aer-and the rat-eating idol-worshlper felt so
good over 1t that he wouldn't take back the
money he had given Us, for the reason, we
suppose, that II was not offered him. Good
man, John. Hope his wife will leave him
again.-IdGho Democrat
THERE is said TO be now living in the noun
tains of North Carolina. 40 miles from Green
vile, South Carolina, a man who has reached
the extraordinary age of li3 years. At the
time of BraddOck's defeat he was 20 Years
old, and had wife and three children. 4
gentleman AZ Greenville states that this man
who has come down from former generation
has always been IN moderate circumstances:
living upon coarse vegetable diet: that he
has never drank any liquid but spring water.
and bids fair TO live many years longer. He
enjoys perfect health, possesses all Of man
hoods attributes, and wishes TO marry He
has survived seven wives, and having lost his
last one about 90 years ago Le now begins to
feel quite lonely.
JAMES FISK, JR., explains in the following
manner what he means by Gone wherr the
woOdbIne twineth:" You see 1 was before
that learned and diguifed body, the Commit
tee ON Banking and Currency, and when Gar
field asked me where the money got by COrbin
went TO, l could not make vulgar -eply and
say up spout. but observing Will bedding
through New England that every spout Of IA
house OF cottage had a woOdbine twiuiIg about
II, said, natural enough, where the wOOibine
twineth. That is all. II seems the Congress
sional cheese wakes did not understand nv
delicacy nor my delicate allusion."
FoETT-oSE State Prison convicts employed
IN the Goa! mines at Battle Creek, near Jasper.
Tenn, marched out of the stUckade as usual
to commence work, on the ID inst, provided
with picks, and guarded by six well armed
men. After entering the mine they suddenly
turned upon the guards, knocked them over
with their picks, and rushed ont. One was
shot dead, and forty He'd in body to the Ala
bama line. But one has as yet been recap
tured.
LAST year %, lO2 people (of whom over TO-
500 were Chlnese) arrived in California, and
81, SO lot whom less that 1000 were Chinese
departed. Net gain OF population little over
lo,OOO, OF whom over 5000 were Chinese.
comfortable showing this! The Chinese in
creasing almost twice as fast as the white pop
ulauon, and the Union crying for more.-Sac-
TdHieIttO Reporter.
4 Los Angeles paper says the orange crop
OF this season Is said TO be much inferior to
that Of last season, and to be hardly an aver
age crop. They aEeriPening slowly, and only
about go boxes have been shipped TO san
Francisco, where sales have taken place at
from SIS to $50 per 1000.
The navigable portion Of the Missouri river
amounts III all TO $3.50 miles The channel
varies from 300 to 800 yards, except at low
water when It Is from COO to 700 feet
The river and tributaries drain jlS, 900 square
miles.
The fly wheel of a large engine in Hartford.
when in motion, develops sufficient electricity
TO ignite gas light six feet from the belt.
by presenting the knuckles Of one hand to
the belt and the point of the finger to the
burner, the gas will be instantly lighted.
The wife of Sam. Brannan. of California.
has obtained a divorce, on the ground Of ha-
bitual intemperance, and Mrs. Brannan has
been awarded real and personal property to
the value OF nearly 100000.
catamount was recently captured and
Killed at Fish Springs, Mono county, Cal, by
three Germans. 1t weighed 80 pounds, and
measured three and half feet from the tip of
the nose to the end Of the tail.
The official census returns from all the
States and Territories, with the exception Of
four States-the returns Of which are csti-
total population of 3S PSI ,3OI.
being an increase Of 7,ll7, 239 in the last ten
years.
The prosperity of the Southern States is
evidenced 10y the fact that during the eight
months preceding September lst of the year
past the value of the cotton exported was over
$4,000, 900.
ARCTIC EXPLoEEH HALL is going for tho
poles again next Summer, starting in May; and
says he will never cease his cndeavor until he
has placed his foot on the Goth parallel of north
facetious young gentleman from Cincin-
natl received the charge Of n shot gun in re-
turn for his courtesy III calling an Indiana
farmer up in the night to advise him to take !
in his chimney as it was freezing weather.
SUMNER says of Grant: There was no
nor standard of weights and meas |
ures, and no yard stick capable of measuring
the imbecility of President Grant"
LAST year tho Sacramento Gas Company de
alared dividends to the amount of $4,000; |
and the San Francisco Gas Company To the |
amount of Sji0,OOO.
The Democrats of New Hampshire have
for Governor James A. Western
OF Manchester, andfor Railroad Commissioner |
David Gilchrist.
BY raising cotton the Florida planters got |
$40 for an acres yield; 10y raising sugar cane. |
sS93, with no more work or responsibility.
A man in the lower part of Placer Cal, has |
= flock of turkeys, numbering $1,000, and has |
Two mon employed in hcrding them.
THERE il "A French velvet rnrtory tLo o,i,.