Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-18
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
SAY FR.NcIsco. Jan. Il, 1874.

sonlngs, suicides, etc, pecViit ~ iIt-
auent as TO cease to strike the public
mind as either highly immoral or horri-
bic, San Francisco would be in a state of
horror and agitation.
As leading sensation, may be set
down that furnished by the exit Of Mr..
Harris,
LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF lHE INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL,
who, when starting out for new pastures
in South America, forgot to take his wife
along with him, but distinctly remem-
bered another female. named Miss Fitz-
gerald He started for Chill, sailing in
the Arizona on her trip to Panama, and,
most likely, the places and the people by
whom he was known while at the head
of the Industrial School, will know him
no more, forever.
Strange tales are told of his carry
ings-on, and the press have been pretty
Thoroughly airing some of his loft in
firmities." But he is gone, and, 1t is to
be presumed, cares very little either for
the deserted wife who is well rid of him,
or for the numerous scandals which have
covered his name with ignominy.
Then comes a case of
CARELESS POISONING,
in which little boy who had swallowed
a tin whistle was given, for his relief,
powder procured for the purpose, at a
druggists, and showed such alarming
symptoms Immediately thereafter, that
a physician was called in, and be pro-
nounced it case of poisoning. On in
quiry at the store where the deadly drug
was purchased, it was found to be opium.
The child died early the next morning
after taking the dose. Severe censure
has been visited upon the clerk for his
fatal mistake, and more especially has
this been the case since the meeting of
the jury in the Coroner room to inquire
into the causes of the child death, and
the reception by them of the statement
of his sister, who testified that she went,
by direction Of her mother, to the store
in question, and asked for a remedy
needing her explanation Of the circum-
stances. The law says emphatically,
that no poison shall be sold without the
seller asking the purchaser if he or she
is aware of the nature of the drug, and
satisfying himself as to the use to which
it is to be put.
THE STOCK MARKET
Has been going through some of the
most astonishing fluctuations. Ophir
exhibited the most buoyancy, rising from
$40 per share to only 1922 so, and de-
clining to $l45, and is again up to $3.50
with rising tendency. The whole
Comstock list felt the excitement, and
Joined in the rise, but none succeeded in
accomplishing the same degree of high
and lofty tumbling" as the one above
named and the decline still leaves the
most reliable of those stocks at good
prices,
BELCHER AND CROWN POINT
Advanced with the rest, but were left far
behind by some of those not burdened
with dividends. Consolidated Virginia
has declared first dividend; and was
quoted Saturday at $94.
Whether these prices will hold, wheth-
err the bulls will give them another toss
before the bears get control of them, OIL
whether those last are about to get then
under their feet, are among those doubt
| full things, concerning which it is said
"a fellow cant most always tell.
Among the mines which have created
some considerable furry the
BELMONT
Holds an exalted rank. 1t went as high
as $34; but afterward dropped to $50
then to $40; but is again ascending.
RAYMOND AND ELY
Showed more than its usual energy, go
ing up a few points, and, although it fel
back again, there is great expectation o
an advance which shall please its hold
ers.
On the whole, there is every reason tC
expect that the strong upward tendenc,
which nearly all stocks are showing will
continue The causes, in some cases
being such that they can hardly fail tC
do so.
THE DUKE OF GENOA,
Who has been giving US the honor o
lionizing him for a week or two, and viii
soon take his departure in II. l. NJ
ship, Garribaldi, devoted last Sunday t
q round Of sightseeing, which lasted al
day. He is said to have gaZed on $2t
pieces, in the mint, with the same ad
miration with which common people
are wont to behold them; and, although
not perceptibly impressed with the dis
play at the art gallery, expressed grea
admiration for the Chronicle building
and the very perfect system manifest,
characterizing its every department.
On Saturday your correspondent
made
FLYING VISIT TO SACRAMENTO,
and found that town lively with two o
three kinds of excitement. A Senatorial
reporter had
COME TO GRIEF
by giving currency to a report which h
claimed was extant concerning certain
Senators, and when Intercepted there
upon, refusing to give his authority, bu
referring them to the Courts for redres
if they felt aggrieved. The consequence
was, the dignitied members boiled over
and, while in that amiable mood, cause
the summary expulsion OF that reporte
from the Senate chamber-a proceedin
which, the telegraph tells us, has to-da,
been reconsidered; it being doubtful
anybody should be punished for ssyin
"there is report" when there is one
and the people know it.
The other excitement is frst-clas
SCHOOL ROW,
In which the Board of Education an
the City Superintendent are engaged o
opposite sides. with the Principal of tn
Grammar school, the exceedingly popr
lar Mcdonald, between them, bein
first suspended by the Superintendent
and then reinstated by the Board.
looks like game of see-saw, with whic
the teacher may be excused if he is nc
pleased; and the cause of this ''little III
pleasantness" is found in two youthfr
and
CUBLY-HEADED DARKIEs.
Who, the Board say shall go to til
Grammar school, and the newly-elscte
"Supe." says he shall do nothing of tn
sort. 1t seems, therefore. that we al