Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-23
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Belmont Mining Company has
levied an assessment of fifty cfnts per
share.
The new mill OF the Leopard Com
pany. at Cornucopil. Is in full blast and
turning ont large amount Of bniiion.
Anybody knowing the wherf abonts Of
John Delaney will conf-r favor by in.
forming his sister, Mrs. Lena Lattan, oil
Carson. Of tho same.
During the past week sew raj tea trains
have gone Eas, over the Central Pacific
road. These tea trains run as specials"
and have the right of way IN preference
to all but passenger trains.
Some time since Jack SWitzer, who
was then driving stage to Sierra Valley,
left an order at the stage Office for the
Sacramento Union. Judge of his sur
prise when in loading up be found
sack of onions.
The total value Of all taxable property
in Washoe county is S2,969,s 500. The
real estate is put down at 81, 857 $40 and
the personal property ct 81 ll2,2S0. The
total tax OF this is S8S, 352 10, OF which
$26. 728 .38 goes to the State and SOL
623.76 to the county.
The population Of California was IN
creased $1,000 by immigration during
the first nine months OF this year. the
arrivals by land and sen being "a, 100,
and the departures 81, 100. Last month
100 more left for China than came from
that direction.
The editor of the Dubuque Times has
had the privilege of eating slice of meat
"cut from q chunk sixteen years old :"
1t was ierked buffalo, brought from
the plains in 1859. He found it as sweet
and palatable as though dried this Sum
mer.
A member of the Austin Stock Board
says there are mines of almost every con-
ceivable name. but he never heard of
one called the Balloon G.. e s. NJ. Co.
He says if company SO named was to
incorporate he would buy some OF
the stock, because it would be sure to
go up.
The Austin Reveille is informed that a
mild form of epizootc, or horse-infu-
enza, prevails among the stage horses on
the Battle Mountain, the Belmont and
the Eureka stage roads. 1t is not the
| thio h,,k sc Il
lieved to be the effect of atmosphericaI
conditions.
Joseph Williams, of Washington. d
c., President of the Fire Board, is cred
tied with very peculiar speech regard
ing the public welfare, and explanatory
OF how tenderly he had it at heart when
n member of the volunteer department
"When l ran with the machine" sale
Joseph W., I've used to spot those resi-
dences that did mt contribute to our sup
port, and when they caught FIRE let then
burn and be id, saving only tho othel
houses around them"
District Attorney George Merrill, o
Eureka, recently received letter from {
resident of Cortez, propounding the in
quiry whether the poisoning of spring
for the purpose of destroying the rabbits
in that vicinity would be considered
breach of statutory etiquette and in con
flict with the constitution and bylaws o
the Battle born State. Mr.. Merrill
could find nothing in the book
which empowered him to grant gen
eral poisoning license, and so stated il
his answer to the Cortezan's letter.
There must be something, says tho G
II. News, in this country and the habit
of our people sui generis. that every one
who has been here for any length of time
should be so glad to return and remain
What the difference between the people
here and in other States is, would be
hard to tell. but it is almost uniformly
the case that whenever one of our people
has been away any length Of time, be
returns to his old haunts with feelings OF
unmixed joy. Dan DeQuille says that
during his absence he has at times been
so lonesome that he would have greeted
a dog from Virginia as an old friend, and
would have shed tears Of joy at sight OF
one of the crumpled-horned sheep that
make their headquarters at the livery
stables on b and ID streets
During storm some ten miles off the
Ouachita river a pine tree was blown
down on farm in Calhoun county,
which made thirty rails to the cut. and
under the centre of the roots were found
a Spanish bridle-belt and a large copper
bride buckle, of singular workmanship
The bit is OF the curb style, and has a
round ring which falls under the lower
jaw, forming the curb, and surrounding
this ring is pendent. in the shape of a
hali-moon, with number of little chains
attached, to create constant jingling
History informs us that De Soto, in
search of gold, died on this side of the
Mississippi, over 800 years ago, and that
his men wandered as far West as the
prairies of Texas. Hence, we are unable
to account for the bit and buckle, over
which the pine grew. in any other way
than it must have been left on the way
by some of the men who accom- anied
the proud and cruel Spanish warrior