The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-11-30
SUMMARY OF THIS MORNINGS
DISPATCHES.

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Legal tenders quiet. 81 buying, and
87H selling.
The Leopard mine made . shipment
of "a. 400 on the 24th inst.
The imports of treasure from Mexico
Sunday embraced $l4. 900, mostly coin.
The Howard Hill Mining Company
have levied an assessment of fifty cents
per share, delinquent June 5th.
The bark Florence from Point Dis
covery with lumber toeSan Francisco
was lost in a gale November 10th, and
all on board but one were drowned.
there being seven psrsonse Az
In Cranton, Rhode Island, Sator-
dag night. 10 q fanay: quarrel, A. Man
ming fatally shot his snofhef. mistaking
her Tor an officer. who bad been called
to qusll The disturbance.
The naval preparations still continue
with great dispatch. The Nantucket,
last Of the iron clads, has just been
ordered into commission.
The President in his annual message
will report to Congress the expedieney
of building . ship canal conaecting the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The com.
missioners appointed by the Secretary
of the Navy to explore and investigate
the several routes.' have selected the
Nicaragua route ~ the most feasible
one, and highly recommend it. The
advantages set fourth to the mercantile
world. are claimed to be immense; and
it is urged that if the United States
do not accomplish the enterprise. that
Great Britain or France will.
In Chicago yesterday Frank Will
liams and Charles Smith were each ar
rested and fined $1,000, and sem
fenced to one years imprisonment in
the County Jail, for voting more than
once.
Isaac WEIGH, Treasurer of Ohio, died
at his home in st. Clairsville, Ohio.
He was a man of decided ability.
It was stated in New York by prom
inent officers Of the Centennial COM
mission, that one and half million,
dollars was necessary to open the Cen
tennial in May next.
Fernando Wood, of New York, de-
clines to have his name used any more
for speaker of the United States House
of Representatives. He is not can
didate, and will not be party to the
contest pow going on.
The funeral of the Vice President took
place at Boston yesterday. There was
an immense collection, and the hall of
the House of Representatives. where
services were held, was crowded to
overfowing. The exercises and pro-
csedings generally were of an imposing
character. Many men of note were
present. The remains were finally
conveyed to Natick, Massachusetts,.
A letter from Wilkesbarre, Pa. says
the most extensive and serions mining
casualty ever known in Wyoming Val
ley occurred at the Chauncey and
Grand Tunnel mines. between Ply
mouth and Manticoake, about two and
half miles south of the former place.
Two weeks ago Roberts, one of
the proprietors of the Chauncey
mine, noticed that the roof of an
opening was working in in an ex-
traordinary manner. and was convinced
that the mine was doomed to q certain
calamity. About IL o'clock on the
morning of the 10th inst. he gave
orders for the men to leave the mine
soon as possible and remove as much
of the company's property as could be
taken out on spur of tho moment. The
miners, to the number of 125, left at
IL O'Clock, taking with them impls-
ments of their calling. and two hours
later the mine caved in with terrific
effect, huge boulders were thrown out
ofthe mouth of the tnnnel in the air,
as if they were pebbled, and the shock