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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-13

The house in which the employees of
Messrs. Bliss a. Yerington board, at the
head OF Clear Greek, was burned to the
ground yesterday, together with the
stables and all the hay and grain therein.
The men lost everything they possessed,
and being at work on the fume at the
time, had no opportunity Of extinguish-
ing the fumes. The fire occurred about
8 o'clock a. M Carson Tribune, Sth.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-13

ON June s, at Salem, Oregon, the
Democrats had grand jollifcation, in
view Of their success at the late cleo
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-13

LAST night fire broke out in the res
taurant of the Gravel Brothers, in Lower
Gold Hill. The Fire Department turned
out promptly and squelched the confia-
grafton before any considerable damage
had been caused.-[G. II. News. Sth.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-13

HUGH HAGGERTY, an employe at Rig
by's mill, Lake Tahoe, had his right
thumb torn off by the machinery II Car
son Tribune, Sth.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-13

TIE Business Office of the PIooHE DAILY
RECORD will hereafter be in the Office Of h. Il.
Breakey. at A. Cohn Il Bros cigar store, Main
street, opposite Meadow Valley.
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BY TELEGRAPH!
Eastern DISPATCHES.

SPECIAL TO THE PIocHE DAILY RECORD.
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-04-01
Grange Matters.

It is claimed that ], 900 oranges will
he established in Georgia by Jan. l,
1875
Fourteen hundred and fifty oranges
h We been formed in the state of Indiana
up to this date.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Wiscon-
sin have started newspaper entitled
the Moving Machine.
The number of oranges in Wisconsin
isreported by the secretary of the state
grange to have increased to 306. In Jan
uary last there were 346. When the Or
ganization of those that have applied
for recognition is complete there will be
430 oranges.
The Missouri state grange is discuss
ing the utility of establishing exchange
and discount banks, to assist farmers in
holding their products, as well as man
ufactories of agricultural implements,
and depots and warehouses where grain
can be stor d until the market justltes
a sale.
The state grange of Nebraska is put
ting in machinery at Plymouth for the
manufacture of plows, cultivators, head
ers, harvesters, and other agricultural
implements. The building is a two
story brick, 40 by 140 feet. Thirty
heads of families are employed to
commence with. Steam and blast pow
erse the necessary quantity will be fur
nished.
The grangcrs of California demand
that the salary system for public officers,
both state and county, shall be. extended
over the whole commonwealth. In San
Francisco county, the salary system was
established in 1858, and, although the
wealthiest county in the state, its sher-
if has q smaller income than the sher
ifs of Calaveras and other counties,
who receive from $4,000 to $14, 900 a
wear in fees
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The Girls of New Orleans.

A correspondent who went t. see the
Mardi Gras festivities at New Orleans
saw something else. He writes
"New Orleans bellies, by the way,
would have been fit welcomers of the
ancient Minnesong. have heard much
of their beauty, but never studied it
with occasion until now. It is up to it's
fame. These women of the southern
metropolis are the most superb looking
in America They are brunettes, the
most and best of them, with an eIe-
gance of carriage and figure, contour
of feature and pose of manner that
are matchless. They say that the peas
antry in certain districts of Spain carry
yet in their faces the grandeur of the
faded Castilian nOblcS8e. These New
Orleans beauties, lifted tenderly down
a dozen generations of close blood, are
more queenly than the portraits of their
French mothers, that have hung for
centuries in their parlors. Some of
them are like chiseled peneiled- faPrns
Guido's brush or of Petrach's song in
their faces, and the ripe southern blood
flushing up to their temples, under the
pure surface of their veins. The ex-
quisiteness of their style take your
breath with an exclamation of admira-
tion, and a sigh of relief as yon pass.
Their native and city state are the hori-
zon of society and of the world to these
superb creatures; they are reared un-
der the solemn shadow of Catholicism
they are local in their attachments as
Venitians their culture is narrow, but
they gather in their Ioins the gate of
expresses, and in their eyes that glance
filed with the wisdom, the cunning, the
refinement, the magic of womanhood.
The Boston beauty offends you with her
look of intellectual pertness; New
York puts on the face of her charming
favorite the stamp of their eager ex-
travagance in the west we have not
settled to our features yet, and femi-
nine comeliness is without type. The
New OrlC ans belle stands alone as far
from the placid demeanor of the " Flu
ture City" as from the "lilies and Ian
guors" of the south, and offers the eye
the satisfying compliment of taste
There is but one drawback. Her man
ners impose. You must see her in posi-
ton. The lifting of an eyelid or the
glitter of her teeth may be disen-
chantment."
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"And the COlOred Troops Fought
NObly."

An exchange tells of colored troop
who did not fight nobly. In fact he
ran away, and was reprimanded by his
lieutenant, who sneeringly asked if he
thought his company would have missed
him much had he have been killed.
The discreet darky replied: Not
much, boss deY don't miss de white
folks, much less a poor niger. But
den would hab miss myself-and dat's
de pint wild mel" This was reasoning
worthy of old Jack FaEstaff himself. It
was some such practical and personal
argument as was used by peace-loVing
Confederate whose story was current at
the close of the war. He belonged to
an artillery company whose guns were
captured by Federal raiders. Smalting
under the disgrace, the commanding
officer called upon his men to recapture
those guns or perish in the attempt. If
any member of the company, the cap
tain added, was not willing to share in
the effort to retrieve their honors and
their loss, he might step ont of the
ranks. A pale, suffering reb stepped
forward, saying, C.c-aptain, if th-the
l-Loss isn't very gr-great, why can't we
t-t-ake up a COLLECTION. and p-pay for
the ID old gans 20
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Elder Jacob Knapp, the RevivaIist

The death is announced of Elder
Jacob Knapp, at Rockford, Illinois, al
the ripe age of seventy four years. Mr..
Knapp was born in Otsego county, in
New York, December 7. 1899. His pa,
rents were members Of the Episcopal
church, but when young Knapp ar
rived at about his twentieth year he
joined the Baptist church, against the
wishes of his father and friends. After
being some time engaged in teaching
school, at Springfield, in his native
county in the spring of 1922 he Joined
the ministry, and in 1926 obtained his
first pastorate in that town. In 1880
he removed to Watertown, New York,
where a revival was then in progress.
During the three years Of his ministra.
tion there he added 200 converts to the
church. Mr. Knapp soon after resigned
his position, determined to start as an
independent itinerant preacher. For
many years his labors were confined to
New York, but subsequently extended
to New England and other Atlantic
states, and 1849 found him in Chicago.
He visited st. Louis in 1858, and in
two years after returned to Boston. He
published curious autobiographical
volume some years ago, in which he
gives some statistics of his labors. Up
to 1867 he held about $50 protracted
meetings, many of them extendingsover
weeks, preached 1880 sermons, and re-
ceived during thirty-six years an aver
age compensation of little less than
5000. More than thirty years ago he
gave up counting the persons con-
verted under his ministration at that
time they amounted to about 100000.
Elder Knapp was a very eccentric per-
son, and was celebrated as revivalist.
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Character of Gen. Lee.


In his late speech delivered at Allan
ia, Gen, 3. T. Hill pays this deserved
tribute to the character of Robert i.
Lee:
"Wben the future historian comes to
survey the character of Lee, he will
find it rising like huge mountain
above the unduIating plain Of humanity,
and he will have to lift his eyes high
towards heaven to catch its summit.
He possessed every virtue of the other
great commanders without their vices.
He was a foe without hate, a friend
without treachery, soldier without
cruelty, and q victim without mnrmur-
ing. He was a public officer without
vices, private citizen without wrong,
christian without hypocrisy, and a
man without guile. He was Caesar
without his ambition, Frederick with
ont his tyranny, Napoleon without bis
selfshness, and Washington without
his reward. He was obedient to author
ity as servant, aud royal in authority
as a tr1e king. He was gentle as a wO-
man in life, modest and pure as vir-
gin in thought, watchful as a Roman
Vestal in duty, submissive to law IS
Socrates, and grand in battle as Achjl-
T-r,
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Immigration Into South Carolina.

At the recent taxpayers convention
of South Carolina, Gen. Gary, chairman
of the committee on immigration, re-
ported that eight hundred immigrants
have been introC uced into South Caro-
lima during the past four months, and
that over two thousand were introduced
during the past year. This has been
done by subscription of lands in quar-
ter-section tracts to each head of fam
lily who will become q permanent settler.
The vast quantity of land lying idle,
and the expectation that the quarter
sections adjoining those of the settlers
will more than double in value, have
induced a liberality on the part of land
owners which we recommend to the
consideration and imitation of the peo-
pie of Louisiana. Agencies have been
established in New York and Germany,
and arrangements have been made with
the lines of steamers for transportation
at a low rate. Gen. Gary has demon
strated that the south can secure emil
grants of the best class with reasonable
exertion. The first step, however, in
all such enterprises is to guarantee to
tie settler farm in fee simple. .-NeV
Orleans EicdYItIle.
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-04-01
A Novel Law Question.

A novel law question has arisen in
lowe. The Mississippi river until re-
Gently has annually frozen over solid
between Prairie du Chen and NJ. Gre
gor. The ice has furnished a winter
highway from one side to the other dur
ing several months in the year, eL~
abling the people to dispense with
bridge and ferries. Recently the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad has built
a pile bridge across the riFer, the effect
of which, it is asserted, has been, by
creating eddies and changing the cur
rent, to wholly prevent the formation
OF ice, so that the stream below the
structure remains permanently open.
The river, it is claimed, is a public
highway at all seasons, as much one
way as another, and the use Of the ICe
bridge is a right of which the public
can not be divested by any authority.
1t is assumed that suits for damages
would lie, and that the railroad bridge
is liable to be indicted and or cred
removed as a nuisance aud obstruction
to trade and intercourse between states,
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General Sheridan is in reonint nf aia.

General Sheridan is in receipt of dis.
patches from Texas. which report that tvelve
OF lltteen Comanches were recently killed ont
OF their reservation while marauding.
SIanaIar- diad o0nafa afaarabi-,tI.y y,l5ort,
The public money never stuck to his fingers.
About all he had we're his books, his pictures,
and dwelling which was given to him.
The Missouri state grange has mem
bership of over 100000. Kansasroports !, 600
! oranges, and North Carolina 1856, with 1000
members. There is great enthusiasm in the
order at present.
Ex-President Millard Fillmore died
at his residence in Buffalo on the night Of the
8th. He was conscious to the last. In reply
to question by his physician, he said, "The
nourishment is palatablo.' These were his
last words. Death was painless.
There is already an active discussion
of the claims of prominent men to succeed
Mr.. Sumner, and tie selection must take place
on the second Tuesday after notice of the va
cancy has been recsiTed. 1t is probable that
the choice will be madeontbe oath.
The secretary efHbhe interior has
hsked thatstfo0pB .beBengto the Ute TeserYa-
ton in Colorado, with instructions to notify
all authorized white persons that no one will
be permitted to go upon the reservation, and
that those who are trespassing must abandon
it immediately or be forcibly removed.
The last acts of Mr.. Sumner in the
senate were to present petition praying for
the appointment Of a commission of inquiry
concerning the alcoholic liquor traffic, re-
monstrance against the extension of patents
and an effort to defeat the centennial -appro-
priation bill. He left his supplemental civil |
rights bill still pending. ."...N
Archbishop Purcell, Of Ohio, osweII I
as Rabbi Wise, of Cincinnati, has taken pub |
lie position againstthe womens temperance |
movement. Like DR.. Wise, the archbishop |
expresses the opinion that the moderate use of |
stimuants is not, in itself, sin or crime, and |
that, at all events, it cannot be prevented. He
declares that he is in favor g of imposing as
heavy a fine, or license, on the venders of
wines and liquors as they can bear, and Of in
exorable closing, by the penalties known to
the law, the vile bar-rooms where bad liquor
is Sold
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WEST

The whisky war has fairly opened at
Omaha.
Gen. Marmaduke is the granger can
iidste for governor of Missouri.
A bill has passed the California legis-
hture advancing women to educational offices.
Dispatches from Northwestern Iowa
report continued suffering among the settlers
ia homosteads in Oscoola, Lyon and other
Counties in the extreme northwest, caused by
The failure of the crop.
All the freight trains on the Central
Padfcrniroad, caught in the snow blockade,
have been abandoned for the present. At
Summit valley the snow is twenty-five feet
deep on the level. Several engines and snow
plows arc Of the track One eastern-bound
passenger at Reno. The othor westward pas
senger trains lie at Loano. Another east
bound lies Of Halleok. At Cisco over six feet
OF snow had fallen during the storm.
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The Indinn Box X-Trirk.

The celebrated b0x-and, bag mystery
which has beWildered all London, pu
New York in a fever of excitement, ant
for few days puzzled the knowing one
of San Francisco, has by accident COM
to an untimely end. The cat was let on
Of the bag recently at the California
thCater, in San Francisco The trick i
to overcome m apparent impOssibility
A person securely tied in a sack is tc
pass from that confinement to the in
side of a locked box, additionally Sc
cured by sttongf cords wound around
and the Knots of the cords tied anG
sealed. The~bag is similarly secured
by the mouth being tied with ropes,
and the knot of the rope sealed with
wax. How, then, is it possible to effect
! an exchange from secure bag to O still
more secure box? That is what the
professor does-in the dark-and leaves
for the audience to bring to light if they
can. Some of them did so on Monday
night Those who were seated on the
right-hand side of the parquette, near
the stage, saw the vigorous investiga-
ton made by one of the inspectors-he
wore number mines, double soled, and
investigated W tn his foOt-disturbed it
in such fashion that the behOIders drop
ned ON the litt1n +niolr- How . WIZ, Al
solid piece of wood at the end, securely
nailed and screwed, was bogus as to
size and securing instead of taking up
the whole space at the end, aud appar-
emily held by strong screws, it was in
two parts, with space of an inch be-
tween, and this vacant space hid by the
broad iron bands securing it the screws
are only heads and do not penetrate by
lifting this board it comes out of sock
ct in which it fits snugly, and in which
it is he'd by spring-When lifted, it
swings like gate, pushing to the inside
of the box. Now, with this aperture
discovered, it is only necessary to find
the person who can push aside the ropes,
crawl in, and replace the ropes and push
the wood back into place, making it ap-
pear like the solid end again. The seals
have not been disturbed, nor the rope
cut, nor the knots united nor the locks
picked. Granted. Now, how does the
person escape from the sack, leave the
knots undisturbed, the sack uncut, and
take advantage of even the simple plan
of getting into the solid wooden box?
Not very easily, even by the plan sug
gested in the New York papers, but with
very little difficulty, if the person has
concealed in the Turkish costume du-
plicate bag, with duplicate knots, and
duplicate seal; then it is only necessary
to cut asu1der the confning sack, hide
it in the recesses of the garment from
which the other one is taken, crawl into
the box and await the result. This lat
t0r tIis,r,,-v.y wUts HIuuB HI tne previous
when the bag was returned
from the audience-a careless throw
sent it just to the foot-lights, and before
it could be rescued was slightly scorched
by the gas flames. When the trick was
completed, the bag remaining was not
at ell scorched. And thus is exploded
a mystery that was incomprehensible
until a kick of a number-nine brogan
revealed it.-AttG- Californian.
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FOREIGN.

4alspatch = from Berlin states that the
.. -ai'laa Of the emperor's health causes un-
lle steamship Glasgow has been
.eA0d % Tatfa, Spain. Fourteen per-
~ we're drowned
1aa latest dispatch from the Ashan-
4. sapeaision states that the British loss in
!, ~ vas sixteen killed and S6s wounded.
nis said that Gen. Concha will sue
=, ~ s0velar as captain-general of Cuba. Sew
~ pa0inlhent Csrlists have been expelled
~ hing of the Ashantees has sent
eaa ! INST indemnity instalmsnt Of 1000
IN. 4 n gold, and Gen. .Wolseley il getting
@nparatiYely we'll.
M sslD0e Frederick Charles, of Prussia,
". uAso q tour around the worls next sum
mss a goes eastward through Russia.
-, NJ Japan, lands at San Francisco
ssr1 ihe United States, and returns to
" way Of London
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MOUTH.

An unprecedented influx of northern
ers is reported from Florida.
The steamer Edgar Stuart has been
seized upon libel for seamen's wages.
Hon. A. Fl. Stephens is still confined
10 bis bed, and is in very feeble condition.
On the morning of the 14th, the hang.
Ing Of Sid Wallace, at ClakkeBvilIe, Arkansas,
passed Of quietly, except that Sid gaze few
unceremonious kicks.
Archie Dauson, a we'll. dwarf
Of Page county, Va, is dead. His weight
would not exceed twenty-five pounds at the
time Of his death.
A New Orleans telegram says the
'hip Aisa, with cargo OF 5000 bales of cot
lon has partly been burned. The loss is
about 800, 900 on cargo and IS, 900 on the YES
'el insured in foreign offices.
Alalge portion of the finest cotton
lands below Memphis are under water, and,
owing % heavy rains, breaks are constantly
occurring III the levees, especially between
Memphis and Helena, on both sides Of the
river.
Inc union passenger depot at Deni-
'oh Texas, the Adams and Texas express Of
A'os adjoining, thirty freight cars laden with
merchandise and lnmber, aud a number of
taTaable sample trunks, we're consumed by
ne chi tie l4th. Loss $40, 900.
dehcit Of at least S57s 900 has been
iopna in the account Of Adolph Hammers,
A'e lax receiver of Louisville, Ky. Hammers
nAa considerable property besides an insur-
M'o Of $4,000 on his life, which viii proba-
dy be contested.
parlng ariot in South Wheeling, Va,
aan named Blattner received two pistol
~ through the lungs. He is still living,
NJ Ro hopes Of recovery. Two other persons
wv severely injured. The disturbance arose
'On evidence giyed in court.
oreyasse Is reported In a leyee on
,l0 .alsslssippi side Of the river at sunhower
alaag forty miles below Friars Point. Capt.
'e@ The steamer Phil Allen, says the over
M not % bad as reported between Mem
~ aao Helena, and thinks the damage will
y comparatively y Light.
mspateh from Brownsville, Texas,
M band Of twelve Mexicans, we'll armed,
NV, NV snrough a thickly populated rancho,
Al - 1gohead of cattle on the night of the
NJ. expectations Of this sort, since Oortina's
r,.. ~ Y Aatamoras, are becoming more fre
NM. 'as 'lAn before. The United States troops
~, \. ~ rev in number TO protect persons and
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PAS, LOUISIANA, APRIL l, 1874.

desk, preferring not to deposit it in {
bank, as the times were ratber par
lcky," and the tighter and scarcer'' money
was the more the Squire thrivad
was cautious, safe man-this SO
Clinch-and yet a bold and successful
one, too. His wealth increased year by
year, for he was ever on the lookout to
turn the misfortunes of others to his
gain. Still the money lay in his desk,
waiing for the accomplishment of its
selfish purpose, while it ought to have
been IN circulation, and a portion of it,
at least, paying honest debts.
But few there are who are without an
hour of disaster at some time in their
careers, and 'Sqnire Clinch was no ex-
ception to the general rule. There was
a burglary one night. The 'squire's
house was entered noiselessly, and
while all the inmates slept, his desk
was silently and quickly opened. In
the morning he found the lock on the
floor, the lid tipped back and the green
backs gone A great alarm was raised
and detectives set to work, but no clue
to the money or robbers could be found.
His money that had lain so secluded
and, as he imagined, so safe, was gone
beyond recovery. And with it went the
ten-doiI4F 6reeHbae1z which We have
mentioned. Instead of accomplishing
the good it might have done, it was now
serving bad purposes in thieves hands.
What fate
Which greenback was the more to be
enyied-tbat of Luke Preston, whose
career carried it over so many checkered
scenes, and whose passage in it's multi
form divisions from hand to hand was
IN every case a message of gIadness,
token of honesty, and a promoter of
or that of Squire Clinch,
whose only change from the dull mo-
notony of its useless, selfish life was
such a disastrous one?
Let those in whose care the destiny
of greenbacks may be placed take warn
ing from these two cases, and so act on
the lesson taught as to make the world |
their neighbors glad, and
themselves richer in the return sure to
follow