The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-13

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Massachusetts, institute of Technol-
,ogy, Boston, who, in company with
fourteen other students and six Pro-
fpsSors Of the Institute, has been out
Oh a Summers investigation of the
practical workings of mines and mills.
The party of II visited and examined
many of the mines, mills ana smelt-
ing works of Missouri, Colorado, wy
oming and Utah, Mi. Parsons and
three other students extending their
tourney to California, where the other
three still remain, while the gentle
mar named has been spending week
among the mines Of Virginia and
Gold Hill, and the mills along Carson
river. The expenses of the students
are paid To these far West mining re-
giOns, that they may study mineral
ogy practically as we'll a> Theoretically,
whicii is 4 practice to he highly COM
niended, and which is destined TO
place the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in the front rank Of Amer
lean mining schools. Mr.. Parsons is
we'll pleased with his visit I" Nevada,
and will leave for Boston to day.
ANKLE DIsLoCATED.-John Ward,
who has a family in Virginia City.
: where he has resided since 1860, had
his right ankle di>located Yesterday
afternoon by jumping from the down
passenger tram at Empire city, While
the cars were in motion. Harry
Shrieve~. the conductor, brought
Ward on to this city and conveyed hnn
to the office of DR.. J. Z. Muukiar, who
promptly relieved The sufferer by set
Ting The limb. The physician Is OF
the opinion thai 10 bones were broken,
hut Ward thinks the outer bone is
fractured, as it was weak from having
been broken by received IN Die
town, Maine, some twenty years ago.
The cars were moving very slowly
when Ward jumped oil, ami he thinks
that the di~IOritiOn WAS the result OF
weakness in the injured JOINT and Of
his high heeled shoe turning as he
struck The ground.
THE Folsom GIFT CoNCERT.-The
d.aving of this now most popular con-
cert has been deferred till the 10Th of
September, on account Of delay in
getting returns from their distant
agencies; but as these agents nave
been ordered to make full returns AT
once there can be no further deiay.
lie tickets are going of Very rapidly,
aud we advise those who contemplate
investing, Il. do so at once. Adolph
jacobs Is agent in this city.
NARCoSIs.-A gentleman of this
citv, being troubled Gust after the
California election) with toothache, is
said to have taken an ounce and a
half OF chloroform and a halt ounce of
ether at ne dose, to prepare for the
painful trial of having the tooth
pulled. He has not been exactly
straight Since-but his wife attributes
his stupor t o ''tlat dreadful, nasty
stuff Iaken for tOothac!Ie."
PLRsoSAL--John Driesbach, late
Democratic nominee for Secretary of
State, a quiet, un~ostentatious gentle
man. one of the ''nobleSt works of
Cod" and an old citizen of Carson, re-
turned from Eureka "a few days since,
SO favorably impressed with the
wealth and prospective prosperity OF
that camp that he proposes to make
Eureka his home.
GERMANIC.-The writer of a letter
dropped in the Carson postoffice yes
terday addressed "Mr. {. II. Nedden.
riery, Sudcampen, Amt FallingbOos-
tel, PROVING Hanover, Germany"
is hereby notified that internal eve
nue. stamps can not be used as postage
with any degree of certainty in the
transmission OF letters.
IMPRovEMENrs.-Messrs. Davis &
ellison have been improving their
store on Sonth Carson street, by the
laying of a new floor and adding new
counters in the front part of the store.
This forms a good contrast with the
outside of their splendid building.
U. S. COURTs.-The United States
Circuit Court for the Ninth Judicial
Circuit, will in this city on
Monday, September 18th, and the
United States District C0urt for this
State will open on the Monday follow
ing, October I'd.
A HEAD.-A Pat-rician of the old
Overland times, who had been holding
communion with disembottled spir-
it's" picked up a mansard roof, night
before last, somewhere out on King
street, and still carries it around under
his hat.
BOLD RoBBERY.-At an early hour
yesterday morning some thief broke
in the window of Adolph Jacobs cigar
store, at the Ormsby House corner,
and stole therefrOm thirty-two pounds
of smoking tobacco and a number of
pipes.
ADOLPH JACOBS,
PRoPRIBro1 OF TRE