Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-07-03
Telegraphic Dispatches.
SPECIAL TO THE rrocHr DAr1r RECORD,
Eastern Dispatches.

o clock this evening. The President
although expected on special train. ha
not arrived at the time of his death
which had been hourly expected for sew
eral days. IiT
] .r-ft. CINCINNATI, June /.
There was a very large attendance a
the funeral OF Jesse r. .Grant at tn
Union Methodist Church, Covington
kentucky, to-day, and large number o
mourners accompanied the body to tn,
/ grave at Spring Grove Cemetery. Rev
j. ;. Chadwick preached the funeral ser
mon. Orville Grant and Mrs. Kromel
were the only children of the deceased
present.
There were seven deaths from cholers
to-day
General L. L. York, of this city, diet
suddenly at the st. Nicholas this morn
ing.
WASHINGTON, July /.
The Law aboiishing the ranking priv
lege having gone into effect to-day, sew
eral departments have detailed mel
to attach stamps to official documents
all OF which have previously to b,
weighed, balances for the purposes being
supplied to all bureaus and divisions
Five clerks are now required to aft,
stamps to dead letter mail each day, and
one clerk for ranking at the city post
odice. They complain of the additional
labor imposed by weighing public docu.
ments before mailing, to ascertain whether
the stamps are sufficient to cover post
age. Na
The debt statement shows the total
debt S2,234, 49,, 1893. Total interest
$40, 3jG,G52. Cash in Treasury, coin,
Ss7, 5o7, i02; currency, S9,7s3, 529.
Special deposits held for redemption,
certificates OF deposit, as provided by
law, S3l, 10000. Total in the Treasury,
Sl2O, 020, 932. The debt, less cash in the
Treasury, -, 247, s1s,7l3. Decrease dur
ing the month, 81, las, l59.
BALTIMORE, July l..
David Blackjack, aged 40, and his
sister, who lived near the city, were
found dead in the same room the other
morning, The former poisoned the lat
ter, and was found hanging to the bed
post. It is supposed he committed sui
eide.
DOVER, n. H., July /.
The loss by the burning of Virgins &
Stevens sandpaper factory is $4,000.
Insured for S35, 600.
ALBANY, n. Y, July l.
The Governor has signed the Brooklyn
Charter.
CINCINNATI, O., July 2.
The Chronicles dispatch from Ma.
rietta, Ohio, says: Hon. Jos. G. Wilson,
Member OF Congress from Oregon, died
of paralysis at that place this morning.
TOLEDO, O., july
o. d. Benjamin of this city, who was
supposed to have been lost with sail
boat near Cleveland, on Sunday last, has
been heard from at Buffalo, having been
picked up and taken to that port.
1851 NEW YORK, July 9.
Frank Gillem pleaded guilty to murder
in the second degree for killing his wife
few weeks ago, and was sentenced to
imprisonment for life with hard labor.
At the Walworth trial to-day, large
crowd was present. District Attorney
Phillips, in bis argument for the prose
cution, controverted the claim of the
defense, that the prisoner was affected by
either epilepsy or insanity.
Thomas Feeney was arrested for fatally
beating his mother in Brooklyn last
night
New ORLEANS, July 2.
The immediate cause of the duel
fought yesterday beteen Colonel R. r.
Rhett and Judge W. H. Cooley, was a
published card of the latter, in which he
gave the correspondence between himself
and Rhett with reference to the express
sions used by the Judge in his argument
In the MISUNDERSTANDING libel case,
which card concludes as follows: 1.-THE
public will perceive from the above cor
respondenee, that made fair, honest
and manly offer to Colonel Rhett, viz:
to publicly acknowledge that l was
wrong, if he could show from his own
files, that from December -, 1872, until
February %. 1873, the Pcayune had
used toward any member of the Lynch
returning board, except Judge Hawkins,
the terms perfdy, perjury and bribery;
provided, that he agreed to admit he
had spoken incorrectly in the
article of yesterday morning, if
he could not prove what 1
denied. The valiant and truthful Colonel
lodges the issue in his letter to me,
and very complacently refers me to the
lilies of his paper from December 10,
1872, to February 23, 1878. l had al
ready examined those files, and knew
that Colonel Rhett could not prove by
them that l mistated the Picayune, and
presume that Colonel Rhett employed
the twenty-fonr hours of delay he claimed
and was allowed to answer my note to
him, in examining those files himself,
and after satisfying himself therefrom
that he was fairly caught, he refused the
| made. to him. Colonel