Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-10-10
NEWS BY MAIL.

New YORK, Oct. 3.-The Evening Post
publishes the following: Mr.. Beecher
was before the Grand Jury about an
hour to-day, answering questions from
members of that body in reference to
the published articles attacking his char
acter. The indictment against Theodore
Tilton for libelling Mr.. Beecher was then
specified and read to the latter. who said
it was correct. The document sets forth
that Theodore Tilton wickedly and ma
licoiusly, with intent to injure and scan
dalize Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his
good name, fame and character, subject
ing him to contempt and disgrace, and
to provoke him and his friends to COM
NIT breach Of the peace, published, on
or about September 10, or caused to be
published in the Daily Graphic. and cir.
culated in Brooklyn and elsewhere, q
statement defaming the said Beecher.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, Oct. 3.-The
State Executive Democratic Conserva-
tive Committee. in an address issued to-
day, deny the truth of the charges of
violence in this State, and produce proofs
to show their untruth. They say the
charges are a pretext for sending more
United States troops here, and otherwise
influencing elections in the North and
West. They also say the rations for the
sufferers by the overflow in that State
are being used as corruption fund by
the Republican party to control elections.
FALL RIVER, Oct. 3.-The Coroner q
verdict in the Granite Mill disaster was
rendered this afternoon. The jury say
it is apparent that due precaution was
not used in giving the alarm to the PEG.
pie at work in the sixth story. Had
such alarm been given and care taken
the lives of all the persons in that story
might have been saved, notwithstanding
there was but one escape from the lowel
stairs. 1t is remarkable that the fire
being discovered in the mule room IL
the fourth storey, that among all the
men employed there, as we'll as those II
the fifth story. to whom there can be nj
doubt the alarm was general and ample
none had presence of mind enough tt
warn their fellow operators in the sixth
story to flee from their fiery fate; ant
had even the men operators in the sixth
story not become panic-stricken at thu
first alarm of fire that reached them, the.
might have led oil the women ant
children in theiI charge to the lower stair
in safety. The evidence fully show
that all the appliances for extinguishinl
.ires in all the stories, such as tanks
pumps and pipes and horizontal pipe
- hose in tho va.ie~s .ov..e, "ere II
1 inc -" apparently ready for use o.
Q the morning OF the fire, but apparent,
, water was wanting la them. and the hos
and pipes were useless. The Jurors be
lieve it to have been the aim OF the cor
poration to furnish every facility tina
= money could purchase.
| New York, Oct. s. The Heral,
pledges itself to pay one-fourth of tn
entire cost of the Polar expedition.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 3.-In reply to tn
statement that the only reduction in th
State debt under the present administra
} ton has been at the cost of the Ian,
holders, Governor Kellogg has ADDRESSED
a statement to the Picayune, in which h
I adduces figures to prove that the reduc
q ton for the last year has been create
than for the two previous years, and tina
the expenses have been much less, m,
, that prospects are most favorable TO
: an increased reduction duringthe com
J ing year.
Fl. LARAMIE, Oct. "a vast deposi
OF fossils was discovered ten miles nortl
OF Red Cloud and scattered over spac
, about six miles square. Remains of tn
two-horned rhinoceros and many othe
animals and reptiles covered the ground