The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-13

GOWNS nave 10 ttptllb on Sdu RAN
cisco and the telegraph for the tru'
time, Carson has it furnished at home
Iv the care, skill, accurate instrument:
and the magnificent regulator o
Charles W. Friend, one of the fines
on the coast and a resident
ieweler and practical watch and Opt
cal instrument maker. Friend gets
the time by the sun and gets it eXac
to the smallest Imaginable fraction OF
"A second. We watched the process
Yesterday, and found 1t to be intricate,
curious and interesting. First, he
stations his assistant Ill the door to
watch the hour, minute, second and
fractional hands OF his great regulator;
then he sets an iron pan filled with
quicksilver out in the street to face
the sun; then he arms himself with a
dismouuted theodolite. ordouhle back
action >eNtant of I'VE SUPPOSE about
1900 horse power, and with this he
stands OF a few steps and shoots his
eye at the pan; directly he calls
Time same as lnthe prize ring, and
then mumblts OVer something like
Is. %. 40. Holt G0.31.l0. ll.6.29, $50,
20, ll.S..0, l5.2 land one or his mob,
and his assistant puts downthe figures.
Next he takes a large slate and two
big books filled with rule n figure
work and cipher> for halt an hour,
running up and down. croSSWise, Oh
IiquelV and round mNrladS of broad
columns of figures, and then we know
exactly What time il i. Like Mark
Gage. we'd rather guess at the time
of day than go to 50 much trouble-Out
Friend U care.
MU>T BE Two OF THEM.-Judge II.
L. Barber, formerly of Virginia City,
and another negro stool pigeon of a
faro bank i'll san Francisco, testified
on Friday last, in tie case OF h State
vs.. Scott a burroughs, that they had
seen Governor Bradley in the gam
bling he'll where they had been I'm
ploved. We will do the negro (JOhn
r.. Black the justice To say that lie
only testified to seeing the man called
Governor bradley i'll he rooins; but
as to Barber, he swOre that be had
seen Governor Bradley of Nevada
visiting the pIdce-auu IN dong 80 he
testified to Il ~tal>ehOOd. We called the
Governors attention 10 the statement.
when he informed us that he had
never been in a gambling house in
San Francisco hut once in his life, and
that was about twelve years ago, on
which occasion he, in company with
another gentleman, stepped IN for a
few moments to look for a friend
whom they had reason to believe was
in there at the time. We may state
So. L - l..E. AA,-y lnnktlaI.rn TINT
Governor Bradley does not know II
plaving card from another-that he
does not know faro from rondo, nor
draw poker from keno-and III con>e-
quence of this ignorance ne never
PLAYED a card i'll his life.
IL FOR Ir.-Sheriff Tom Atchison, of
Storey county, and Chief of Police
Downey, of Virginia, brought down
afternoon to the State Prison
the man who recently committed rape
on a little girl IN Gold Hill. When first
arrested the man gave his am as
Baxter, and said he was over forty
wears of age. He now says that his
real name is William Williams, and
that he is only IS years old. He is a
blacksmith by trade, has been on this
coast nineteen years, and caine to this
State a little over a year ago. Last
Winter or Spring he worked for a
for our fellow townsman W. ID.
then went up to Lake Big
Ter and spent a few months and sub>e-
quently Went to Gold Hill. He
that he was in liquor at the
of committing the crime, and
that otherwise he would not have
thought of such a thing. He pleaded
guilty and was sentenced yesterday
morning, and we learn that Judge
Rising, in a few preliminary remarks,
the convict he regretted exceed
ingly that the limits of the law for
him passing sentence for punish
commensurate with the enOr-
nifty OF the crime. So he only sem
him to hard labor in the State
for life.
r. r. ACCIDENT.-The bullion truck
of the United States Branch Mint was
standing on the track of the V. and T.
Railroad. yesterday, when a locomo-
live commenced backing and ran into
The concern. The truck and bullion
about pretty lively for a time,
but the railroad was not injured.
PERsoNAL.-We were glad - meet
Mr.. James Parker of the Inyo indie +
pendent, who visited Carson on Sun
lay, fresh from the green fields of the
He goes to California via Vir- s