The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-06

SINGULAR PHENoNENoN.-In the
brick store of Mason 4 Chamberlin,
on the north side of Capitol Square,
is a l,2OO-pound platform scale, used
in weighing goods Of various kinds.
Yesterday morning the du-flicker on
which the weights are placed COM
menced vibrating like the pendulum
of a clock, marking a line two inches
in length. The vibrations were from
north to south, and there being no APP
parent cause, the platform was turned
to the other right lines of the compass,
and the pendulum was stopped still by
hand. Soon, however, it again COM
menced moving, this time from east to
west, and kept up its motion for an
hour, all the while making a
stroke of one and a half inches.
1t was then turned to a position
northeast and southwest. In this
position it would not start of
its own accord, but when started by
hand it kept up its lick indefinitely.
The whole apparatus was thoroughly
charged with electricity, SO much SO
that that subtitle fluid could be plainly
detected by touching the hand to the
iron. The telegraph wires in the vi
cinity were not in the least affected,
but the motion described was kept up
all day by the scale pendulum, and it
was vibrating at dark last night. The
doors were closed and there was moi a
breath of air stirring in the room.
Mason, Nv NOT this tnl-at, II, 90
ton with the drying up of Steamboat
Springs, portends a fearful earthquake
in these partS-or somewhere else
soon. But Mason evidently don't un-
derstand the situation. This very
phenomenon, which may be termed the
resonance OF bourdonnement of the
soil. is just what relieves the earth of
its surplus electricity and prevents
lightning being formed in the clouds,
by Keeping up a continuous dynamic
action, or an eff1uX of the fluid toward
the clouds by the most salient terreS-
trial conductors, sensibly different
from static tensions and abrupt dis
charges-sO that there is no danger of
a war of the elements, either telluric
or aerial.
Recommendations Flynn, one
of the convicts who escaped from the
state Prison 4 few days since, has
been recaptured and is now in the
Washoe County Jail. Thomas Ryan,
the other escape, was in close quarters
yesterday afternoon, having been
up into the snow near the
Washoe slide, and at laat accounts his
mn rSlarS yara fhn1uht fn no eInSn nm
OH him and to have him nearly sur
rounded. The fugitives broke into a
at Washoe and robbed it of a
lot of jewellery. Flynn, the recaptur-
ed, is a stout, healthy fellow. able to
the State some service, and is Uni
der sentence for seven wears from the
of August last. Ryan is a mere
wreck, and is being slowly but
surely devoured by a loathsome dis
ease. long since past the durable stage.
He was sentenced August =, 1869, for
four Years, and has >sthan two wears
to serve. If he should not be caught
by his present pursuerS nor die from
NpoSure on the mountains. it will be
next TO i'm possible for him to escape,
rs a description of him and his picture
been sent to nearly every railroad
station from Sacramento to Omaha, as
we'll as 10 other points otfthe railroad.
New BoNDs.-All but one of the
sureties of Lieutenant Gov
rnora and eX-officio State Prison War
Frank Denver having withdrawn
rom his official bonds, hat officer filed
yesterday and the Board approved a 9
bond with the following sureties:
). ID. Sweeney. J. ). Beam. Alexander
export and NJ. Rinkel a. Weinshenk
# the Old bond remaining). =
GONE TO ZIoN.-Charles L. Perkins,
tate Printer, left last night for Nor. 6
nondom and elsewhere, and will be
bsent about ten DAYS. 4 p~rodigious
is involved in the Expedition,
nd we shall withhold particulars I'M
il he reaches Wyoming Territory.
MAPLE SUGAR.-Mason & Chamber
N have just received a large supply
f pure maple sugar, direct from the
maple groves of Ohio. !. is the finest
'e have ever seen on this coast.
ARGUED.-The case of the State VS.. Z
eabolt and Noyes, charged by Marion
little with assault, WAS being argued
efore Justice Parkinson and a iurv