Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-04
GENERAL NEWS.

A horrible murder was committed
at a house OF ill-fame on an island
in the Mississippi river near Fulton H.
inois, on the night of September 2Sth,
Joseph O'Neill stabbing Hiram Baxford
repeatedly with a dirk and finally chop
ping his head off with an ak. The
murderer was arrested.
The mounds on the prairie between
Monticello and Olympia, Oregon, and
which have caused so much speculation
as to their origin, have been examined
by one of the Northern Pacific Railroad
engineers and found to contain pottery
and other curious relics.
Berlin letter says that during the
late imperial party eight persons were
suffocated or trampled to death on one
night, and fifteen more mortally wound
ed. The mounted policemen charged
the masses ut one time with drawn
sabers.
The Portuguese Government has re-
ceived unsatisfactory advices from the
new colonies on the African coast. Many
OF the colonies are discontented, and
threaten to return. Efforts to estab-
lish trade with the interior had not been
successful.
The International Peace Congress has
been in session at Lugiano, Switzerland.
The French newspapers publish a letter
from General Garbaldi to the President
of the Congress, in which President
Theirs and his policy towards Italy are
denounced in terms of just severity.
Attorney General Barlow says no com.
promise has been made with either
Sweeney or Connolly whereby the suits
against them are to be discontinued.
Connolly will be tried in October if he
can be found, but Barlow thinks be
never will turn up.
The price asked for wood at the present
time in Carson City, says the Register,
is higher than poor people can afford to
pay. and therefore that article will, until
further notice, come under the head of
luxuries.''
The National Colored Liberal Conven-
ton, at Louisville Sept 26, adopted
long preamble and resolutions endorsing
the Cincinnati platform aud candidates,
and declaring in favor of peace and rec
oncilliation.
A rich lead Of champagne has been
struck in the hull of the Mantle which
has recently been exhumed at the corner
OF Clay and Sansome streets, San Fran
cisco.
The San Francisco Stock Board had
during the past week sales exceeding
$4,000 In ten years the Board
has transacted business to the amount
Of 100000, 900
The proprietor of Woodwards s Gardens
at San Francisco, is constructing mon
ster salt water aquarium for the exhibi-
ton of the denizens of the briny deep.
The Arizona rubies exposed in the
window OF prominent jeweler, in San
Francisco are by a competent Judge de-
clared to be simple and humble garnets.
The ship on the Arizona desert proves
to be a ferry boat mired there while the
owner was endeavoring to transport it to
the Colorado.
Rev. Peter Cartwright, the celebrated
M ethodist pioneer preacher, died at his
home IN Pleasant Plains, ILL.,, Sept. 25,
aged 81 years.
The carpenters strike inaugurated
in Chicago on Monday is about to end.
The places OF the strikers were filled by
men at the old wages.
Professor Agassiz delivered . lecture
on the study of the natural sciences
before large and brilliant audience at
San Francisco recently.
SAM. Powers, living at Murray Creek.
was recently burned to death in his
cabin. '-''
The population of Metz is reduced nv
immigration since the occupation of that
city by the German troops one-third.
>, Stanley has written letter to the
Herald declaring as false the stories rel.
atlve to him by Noe.
His announced that Prussia has de-
1ermlned upon constr ucting an artificial
outlet from the Baltic to the North Sea.