Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-06-29
GLEANINGS FROM EXCHANGES.

WORK has been progressing steadily on
the new County Jail since the building
of it was begun, and it now begins to
show the form and proportions of an ed
ifce The vault for the county records
is ready to receive the arched roof, and
when completed will be as nearly fire.
proof as a construction of the kind can
well be made. The door for the vault
was obtained from Hamilton, and was
formerly in use by banking house at
that place. The floor of the cells in the
Jail is made of two-by-six scantlng
spiked together sidewise, and laid on the
edge, making, with the thickness of
timber and the number of spikes, an
almost impenetrable mass of wood and
iron. The County Jail will be rather
diminutive in size, but will be unsur-
passed in point of Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel.
A JOURNALISTIC scandal has arisen in
England over the discovery that certain
letters printed by the Daily Telegraph
from Its Special Correspondent with
the Khiva Expedition were taken
almost bodily from articles which ap-
, peared some time since in All the Year
Round and Chambers journal. The
; description of the country between Sebas-
. topol and Balaklava was made to apply
, to the Steps of Taatary, and also
a description of Jiddah which APP
peared in Chambers Magazine turns up
in the Telegraph as a sketch Of Titlis.
i The imposture will be regarded with in
q terest in this country, also, as the letter
which caused the scandal in the Tele
- graph of April 80 also appeared in the
: New York Herald of May 10 as a contri
g button from its special correspondent
It The other New York papers are now re
questing the Herald to rise and explain
Chicago Tribune.
>, A CABLE telegram from London an
nounces the formation of a company o
"A wealthy Englishmen for the promotion
- of trade with and investment Of capita
IL in Western and Southern States of tn
n United States. The organization i
It. styled the Mississippi Valley Society.
English capital has been flowing south
ward and westward in this country fo
some time, but more frequently throug
az individuals than company enterprise, cor
lie sisting of investments in farming an
in mineral lands. This organization vii
probably endeavor to operate on an e,
stensive scale, and besides taking
hand large landed properties will doub
less have railroad or two and probabl
canal to help it along.-[ Baltimol
M Sun.
-. THERE are in the United States
al were in 1870 according to the FEEDER
- census-exclusive of the West Point Mi
~ itary Academy and of the Naval Academ
~ at Annapolis, 141 1929 schools of a
So classes, containing 1909, 93S pupils, wi
n were taught by 22l ,042 teachers. OF Il
,er pupils 1891 1896 are set down as male
70, and 1856, 942 as females. Male teache
'"' in the country, SO, 1896; female teacher
ng 1918.
~ In suit in the Supreme Court at Be
0y ton, to recover 5000, rent and take
brought by the executors of G. NJ. Rul
~ against H. Schoendorf, who used t
~ premises for liquor saloon, the ju
on found for the defendant, the Judges r,
led ing that no rent could be recovered
~ premises leased with the Landlord
-, knowledge of the tenants intention
'iio devote the same to the selling Of liqu
cen in violation of law.
'ns STEPHEN P. WEBB, who was Mayor
sn' San Francisco in the years 1856 and Isl
subsequently returned to his native C
D. of Salem, Mass, of which place he h
hrst the position of Mayor for four years.
nile was then elected City Clerk, in which
rtb. sition he continued for eight years, be-
compelled to withdraw recently in con
'iee quence of disease which attacked
the eyes and threatens to render him tota
of blind.
fin New ENGLAND and the Middle Sta
are fearing severe drouth. There
,. been but little rain in New England 81
ing the first part of May, less than sixth
,hot last years quantity having fallen dur
tho the month of June. Crops are bel
W ming to suffer, although not yet serior
Fary damaged, and all parts Of the cour
this give predictions of short yields.
'ne The Corinne Reporter says about
line inches of snow fell on the range nortl
He that place on the 22d. A singular oc,
he renee for June.