The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-08
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY.
VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA,
April Z, ISL.
MI QUIET.

PAiA ACsA
ALL QUIET.
All is quiet along the Comstock.
After midnight even C street is now
quite deserted, except by watchmen
or the police. Times are dull with
these guardians of the peace of the
city and with the Police Judges-not
a single case in either court to-day. A
few of your chicken thieves would be
a God-send to Judges Hill and Living
sion and to Our policemen.
THE o LOCK TRIAL.
The trial of DR.. Hop Lock for the
murder of Lee King is still dragging
its slow length along in the District
Court. At > O'Clock this afternoon but
three of the witnesses for the defense
had been examined. The court room
is constantly crowded with Chinese.
They take great interest in the pro-
ceedings. The questions and answers
being in the Chinese language, they
probably understand the "situation'
better thar the whites who are
obliged TO receive the TRANSACTIONS of
iGC IllAN4 S-tI- bltNNl fiSANI nv
i'll attendance. one on the side of the
defense and the other on thai of the
prosecution. This afternoon one of
the Witnesses for the defence declared
that he could no understand the Ian
guagc used by the interpreter tor the
prosecution, though he perfectly un-
der>toOd the Interpreter on the other
side and the W interpreters perfectly
understood each other. S~uSpectlug a
trick the witness was about to De sent
away, but after hearing the interpre-
tiers put the same question, each in
his " w2y. 1t appeared that there
was some difference in the sound of
the words and he vas allowed to go
on. The evidence of the witnesses tor
the defence went 10 show that Chung
Chow, 4 Chinaman who was with Hop
Lock at the time of the murder. was
the person who stabbed Lee King.
one OF the Witnesses caught the inter
prefer on the side of the defense.
threw him upon the floor and giving
him Il few rapid lunges with his fist
thus practically illustrated tie man
ner in which the stabbInC was done.
Some of the whites present smiled al
dibly a this, but nos = celestial i'll the
court cracked a smile. \ dozen or 50
Of witnesses yet remain to be y
amined. The cas- Will not be CON
cluded this week.
SUNSHINE AND SNOW.
Our Apri! showers are showers of
snow. We have had several snow
squalls to-day with s:realS of bright
sunshine sandwiched between. Al
together. however, moi enough snow
has fallen to Written the ground or
even lay the dustin fact during the
heaviest sGUall this afternoon the dust
seemed to have the best of it and COM
pletely obscured the falling flakes as
the wind swept through the streets.
MI-CEELANE3Us.
The Virginia Consolidated Mining
Company have just Sc; upanew boiler
in their hosting works, the old one
being in a Ieaky state.
The Sierra Nevada and Sacramento
& Meredith mines and mills are still
shut down by the injunction obtained
by the keEo>ha company. The case
will probably come up for Il hearing
III the District Court meXt week.
The new inferred floor in Miners
Union Hall, Is street. is about com
pIetcd. Il Is OF Oregon pine ana was
put down i'll order th&s the hall ma
he used - a skating rink. TIE new
floor viii stand any mou of bump
inw. Little Mary" must be careful
how she ClIdes over the e floor, GS
the boards are p:tchy and very hard.
An auction sale OF flowers and or
nanIent2l shrubs came OF to day on
South c street. 1t looked somewhat
odd IN IEA r. - tR 49, - AVA hlANsRTN4r
rose bushes and plants in fuil flower
about own with coats buttoncd to
their chins and the falling nov driy-.
ing intheir faces. Dan DE GUILE.
Z. S.-3:l5 p. m.-Another snow
squat. The ground is white and still
showing.