Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-08-02

HE old dollar, which has now become
obsolete, contained 4l21a grains silver.
OF the standard tineness, 800 thousandths
represented the unit of value, one dollar
as compared with the dollar in gold.
The new trade dollar contains ~ Grains
more of silver, of the same fineuoss. and
is therefore worth two and thirtv-two
hundredths per cent. more than the old
dollar-or OF 32,l0O in gold. A mer-
chant wishing 10 ship silver coin 10
China, instead OF buying Mexican dollars
at SIX to eight per cent. premium, makes
deposit of silver i'll the L. S. Mint, aud
gets, for a premium of two cents and
thlrty-:wo one-hundredths, including the
coinage charge Of one-half Of one per
cent, trade dollars worth two mills
more than the average Mexican dollar,
which varies both in tineness and weight.
ALABAMA must be nice State to travel
In in hot weather. Railroad law seems
to be good down there, but the Mobile
trains are little too mobile for comfort.
Heie is recent decision of general in-
terest: In an action against a railroad
company, for injuries to the person, it ia
competent to prove, that about two
weeks before the accident complained of
the cars had run off the track twice dur
ing one trip" When, in such an action,
the absence of bell rope from the pas
senger car was alleged as contributing to
the Injury, evidence that very soon after
the accident the rope was permitted to be
covered up with meal sacks is admissible
TO prove carelessness, and also to verify
the statement of the witness, that it was
too short, by showing his attention was
particularly called to his condition.
The New York Times dwells ON the
evils of irregular " marriages, which.
1t says, made or helped to make Rate
Stoddard murderess. The most in,-.
pressive lesson to be drawn from his.
tory like hers is the necessity of educ.t.
ing public sentiment to a stricter obsery
ance OF the sacredness and OBLIGATIONS
OF the marriage tie. The validity Of
marriage as social institution, We are
reminded, rests wholly in the two ele-
ments OF publicity and consent. A GER
tam degree OF solemnity, or, at least, of
tormalty, is helpful, if not essential TO
the fulhliment of its main usefulness to
society. Make it known that there is
but one right way of marriage, and that
public one, after some established form
IL 1t consists only of license and a
mutual Acknowledgement before Wit |
nesses-and, says the editor, 1--WE shall
no longer have irregular wives MUIR
dering irregular husbands, and senti.
mental newspapers debauching public !
opinion in the attempt to prove it right"
GERIITT SMITH, in letter to two State
Temperance Conventions, while admit
ting that intemperance is gigantic evil,
expresses grave doubts whether legisla-
ton is the way to abate it. The province
OF government, he has at last discovered, |
Is the protection of person and property.
other evils must be dealt with by moral .
influence, instead of coercion. Sum-
ming up, he says: :" | confess that | am
Jealous OF government, and dread its
tendency to invade family and individual
rights. l will also confess that I have
great confidence in the people, and be-
lieve 1t to be derogatory to their dignity
TO be held i'll the leading-strings of gov
eminent, and destructive to their man
mood to hamper them with sumptuary
laws or follow them with any dog-at-the-
heel laws. The people can do their own
WORK. All that they require at the hand
OF government is to be projected while
they are doing it,"
The Freeman's Or. c. Journal thinks
that the destructive storms, confagra-
tons, etc., that have been visiting
various parts of the country of late are
judgments from heaven. 1t says: God
is visiting the earth with plaques, be-
cause all the moral foundations OF the
earth are out of joint. Bishop Elder. of
Natchez, pointed out to his people the
advantage of ringing concentrated bells,
where people have them, as an estoppaqe