Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-15
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States gold coin at the MINIS has shown
that the loss by abrasion is very great
| BY Law of Congress this loss falls OF
the last holder, whether the loss results
| from his usage Of the coin or is the con
sequence Of dishonesty. The complaints
have been SO great that DIR. Linderman,
the Director of the Mint will, it is said,
recommend to the next Congress that
the Government shall bear Whatever loss
there may be from the honest use OF
coin, and that defaced pieces, where
there is 10 evidence OF fraud, shall be
redeemed by the Government at the face
value.
The editor of the Minnesota Far
n,ers' Union, who has returned from a
tour of inspection through the State,
SAYS the whea. threshing commenced a
week ago to-day, and all machines are
now generally at work. The yield in
most all instances turns out better than
expected. No field thus far threshed
has yielded less than twenty-five bushels
to the acre, while many run far above
that figure. The Oldest inhabitant has
never seen such an uninterruptedly fav-
orable harvest season as We have en-
joyed this year.
The Attorney General has decided
that no spirituous liquors can be intro
dueed into the Indian country without
an order of the War Department, and
the jurisdiction of that Department is
exclusive of all other authorities.
Three Algerian convicts from the
French penal colony of Cayenne, whittier
they had been sentenced to ten years
each-one for robbery, another for muir
der and the third for assaulting French
arrived at Baltimore They
claim that they escaped in company
with one hundred and fifty fellow con-
victs, and after terrible suffering in the
swamps and jungles reached Demarara,
from whence they shipped to America.
The Treasury Department has re-
quested the Department of Justice to in
struct the District Attorney of Baltimore
TO appear as counsel for customs officer
George NJ. Carson, for the shooting of
the party who attempted to land snug
gled liquor from a steamer at that port.
Following the example of their CONT
mental brethren, says the Pail Nal Ga
=ette. the English Roman Catholics are
now arranging g pilgrimage to Paray-le-
Marial, a small village some distance
from Paris, which has acquired its rep
utation as center for pilgrimages from
the fact that according to Catholic be- |
lief, just 300 years ago our Savior APP
peared there to the Blessed Mary Mar |
,aret Alocagua, and intrusted to her a
message to propagate worship of the
Sacred Heart. The English pilgrimage
S being organized under the auspices of
/ very influential committee, at the head
If which are the Duke of Norfolk and
he Earl of Benbigh, the Secretary being
Lord Walter Kerr. The pilgrimage is
advertised to start fom London Tuesday,
September 2. Pilgrims will reach Paray-
e-Marial ON Wednesday, and having
performed their devotions ON Thursday,
nay return to London by Friday night
II Saturday morning.
The Belfort correspondent of the Lon
Ion Times writes letter to that journal
which goes to show that time has soft
ned but little the luminosity of the
French towards the Germans. On the
contrary, their hostility seems to be
more intense than ever.