The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-19
A RELIC OF BARBARIsM.-A relic of

A RELIC OF BARBARIsM.-A relic of
the barbarous ages of Nevada was
found in the ground enclosed by the
Carson Race Course, day before yes
terdav. 1t was a double barrel shot
gun, of the studded kind the barrels
being about 20 inches in lengthy once
so popular with the stage robbers and
other highwaymen who infested this
region in the palny days of WashOe.
Each barrel was loaded with ten buck
shot-evidence that its last keeper
meant business. The wadding used
on top of the shot appears to have been
pieces of a newspaper published in
Carson in the year 1868, as some OF the
advertisements Il that date. The
stock had been broken e a the breech,
and repaired by riveting an o plate
on each side. The gun was found,
muzZle downward, near the surface OF
the earth. in appears to nave
been an old we'll filled in. 1t was
probably buried by some highway
man after a robbery had been COM
United or attempted.
AT CoRNELIAN Hot SPRINGs.-The
following named persons registered at
the Comedian Hot Springs Hotel CIV.
b.. Campbell, proprietor), on the
northern shore of Lake Bigler on the
10Th; f. +. Gerald. Winnetn'fct:a;
G.. II. Rice, Carlin; A. l.. Rhodes, j..
fl. Rhodes, san Jose; W. +. Eastman.
Eureka Mills, Cal; y. Bennett and
wife, Michigan; Hon. S. :. Cox and
,,;+. >nu- \-,rl- T,ty. w Ril p,a1l
James Hill, Jose>ph Graves John
Lyon. Truckee. J. r. Williams, War
saw. Ind; i. Il. Enburgh, Gibsonviiie,
Cal; y. Shaline, Jamison City; j.
Mart Reese, ID. Able, Il. 5. Eldredge,
Carson City; Geo. Welhelm. Hoboken,
y. j.; d. II. Lentz. Philadelphia.
AT GLESBRooK. The following
named persons registered at the Glen
brook Hotel a. II. Saxton, proprie-
tori eastern shore of Lake Bigler
Yesterday: Geo. LOOMS and wife.
san Francisco; c.. y. Harris, WaShoe;
j. +. Lewis, John c. James, FL. c.
Street. c. l.. Perkins, Z. $. EIdredge,
Carson City; G. a. V. Putnam, Nir-
ginia City: c. II. Relknap, Belmont,
New; A. Burnett aud wife. Michigan;
l. 1 V~Ntl III L
State Prison.
DEDICATIoS.-The Right Rev. Bishop
O'Connell will solemnlv dedicate the
new Catholic Church in Carson. and
administer the sacrament of cOnfirma-
ton Sunday next. July 23d. at II
o'clock a. IN. A choir from Virginia
by Mrs. Storer will be i'll
As is customary on such
occasions a voluntary collection Will
be made to procure church furniture
and help toward l~iquidating the debt.
SroRMY.-Upper and Lower Carson
Valley vas visited by a pretty heavy
thunder shower yesterday afternoon,
but this portion of the valley escaped
with a Slight wind storm and a heavy
shower of dust, until o'clock, when a
fine shower fell the east, at the n
time. being spanned by a beautiful
and the whole western heaV-
ems lit up by IA gorgeous sunset, thai
the mind could not conceive a
more inde>cribably grand spectacle.
.SUNsET.t-Hon.S. S. Cox and wife,
New York. arrived at Lake Bigler
Sunday last. en- rOUte to California.
Brick Pomeroy is said to have accom-
Sunset, but we have moi been
able to find his name among the list OF
passengers by the same train.
WOODEN CIRCUS.-A dray loaded
with swinging apparatus and wooden
horses was driven through Carson
street. Yesterday afternoon, creating
little cOnmOtion alGOngthe~ smaller
and a great deal of nIerriment
among the larger ones
PRosPECrING.--Judge B. c. Whitman
the Supreme Bench and James ID.
Minor, Secretary of State, left last
evening for Unionville, to look after
mining interests in Humboldt
county.