Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-08-13
GLEANINGS FROM EXCHANGES.

A BosToN capitalist, taxed for half a
million, remarked the other day that the
perusal of the late John II. Eastburn's
will had led him to make and sign one,
and as he had no wife, children, or
near relatives, he had devised the bulk of
his property to charitable institutions,
adding: Il have selected the names of
two hundred needy and deserving men
and women, to whom / have given 800
apiece, amounting to $40, 900, to gladden.
their sad hearts after have passed away;
and possibly may not let them wait for
that event
HUSBANDS will need to be particularly
circumspect in the future. A lady in
Aurora, Illinois, has sued her husband
for divorce based upon the revelations
of the spirits. The latter have informed
her that her husband is. not what he
ought to be, and on their testimony she
has gone to law about it. Whether these
witnesses will be deemed competent to
testify in an earthly Court of Justice,
will doubtless depend largely on the re-
ligious views of the jury and the Judge.
In the meantime the husband has cited
his wife to appear in Court and answer
to the charge OF insanity.
The San Francisco Alta is urging the
construction Of a wagon road from Lake
Tahoe to Yosemite, through the Sierra
Nevada Mountains. The route urged is
through Hope Valley, Bear Valley, the
Calaveras Big Trees, and thence along
the timber belt to the Yosemite. 1t
would be about 40 miles in length, and
would pass through some of the grandest
scenery Of the range, along lakes and
running streams of cool water Astounding
with trout, and hills filled with game.
The New York Sun of the Sth says
that if the Ohio Democracy are success
full in the coming contest Senator Thur
man will stand at the head of the opposi-
ton for President in 1876. If, on the
other hand, they fail, that will be an end
of the Democratic party, and Thurman
will be less formidable than his friends
wish to have him. The main defect in
the Ohio resolutions is that they fail to
call the back-pay swindlers to account.
The New York Herald, concerning the
Democracy, says that neither political
platitudes nor a revival of dead issues
will do, nor will such respectable candi-
dates as Allen for Governor of Ohio and
Kemper for Governor of Virginia, with
out live questions upon which to appeal
to the people. Mere denunciation of the
Administration or the Republican party
will not answer the Democratic party.
1t needs live and strong issues, and
where can it find th9m?
AN action involving the liability of a
telegraph company in transmitting mes
sages came up in the County Court in
San Francisco, August 9th, on an appeal
from the Justices Court. On Saturday,
the I'd day of March, 1872, S. D. Jones
delivered an important message at the
Office of the Western Union Telegraph
Company in that city, addressed to S. s.
Lake, Centerville, Alameda county. 1t
is alleged by Jones that the message was
not transmitted in its regular order, or,
in other words, that it was postponed,
and not sent at all; therefore he asks for
800 damages. After the matter was dis
cussed by counsel, Judge Stanly held
that the statute, being penal one, must
be strictly construed-that the section
under which plaintiff claimed to recover
was evidently intended by the Legislature
to impose penalty upon telegraph
company for sending a message out of
the order of its delivery; but there is