Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-08


The FAST MAIL.-Of the cars intended
for this fast mail train three are being
constructed in the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern car-shop in Buffalo,
and will be completed by the 18th of
September. The Courier describes them
as follows; They are fifty feet in length.
and four inches narrower than the ord
mary Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern car. in order that they may pass
through the Hudson River tunnels. At
the end of each of these cars there are
two compartments, one occupied by the
beating apparatus, and the other de-
signed as the Office of the chief clerk
This last will be furnished with desk
and n lounge. Next forward is the dis
tributing room, about fourteen feet long,
and tho width of the car, furnished with
nine hundred and forty six letter-boxes.
The rest of the car forward is for the
newspaper department, and to receive
the mails as they are caught Mt the sta
tons by the simple but perfect contriv-
ance which has been for some time in
use on the principal mail routes. Every
part of the car il heated by hot-water
pipes, and the arrangements for obtain
ing ventilation without the inconveni-
ence of wind are excellent. The plat
forms are to bs inclosed by partitions,
with doors at either side, so that
open communication may be had
with the several cars of the
train without rush of air to inter
| fere with the work Of the distributors.
Each car will have the Miller platforms
and couplers. and Westinghouse brakes.
All the cars of 1.-The Fast Mall" as it is
to be denominated, will be painted pure
white. and highly vanished, both with
out and within, with the exception of
the gold lettering and slightly tinted
frieze and holdings. Along the frieze
will DO the names of the two roads; in
the center of each side "The Fast Mall"
and in the panels between the doors and
the car ends, the coat-of-arms of the
United States. Two cars similar to
those described are building at Cleve.
land, and four more at Adrian, Mich.
gan. There will be six crews con.
nected with the train, and changes will
be made at Syracuse and Cleveland. All
of the clerks will be taken from posta
cars, which will be discontinued, ant
will therefore be experienced. New
schemes have been prepared for the ust
of the clerks of the territory which viii
contribute to this train, and embracing
some eighteen States and Territories
and containing fifteen million people, OF
nearly one-third of the entire popula
ton of the United States. Mail matte
from the New England States will cente,
at New York, while that of the Western
and several of the Southern States will
find depot in Chicago. This is un
donbtedly the greatest postal projec
ever attempted in the world.
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A friend of the editor of the Norris
town Herald has invented shell which
,, should do more to prevent war tina,
,, Julia Ward Howe's finest effort on tn
J platform. 1t is shell filled with small
: shells, aud when it bursts among tel
: thousand soldiers these smaller shell
are scattered in all directions, and, burst
ing IN turn, send out smaller shells
whlch travel around recklessly; and b
the time the miniature shells containe
8 in the third size explode. the army i
nearly wiped out, and the few men re
naming want to go home.
3 There were twenty-five hundred an
3 sixty-three marriage licenses issued i
: San Francisco last year. There were 81
v thousand births, exclusive of still-borr
: There were forty-one hundred and sixty
three deaths last year in San Francisco
, exclusive of Chinese
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As the result of his labors in Washo
q county for our Centennial cabinet. Pro
. Frank Stewart informs the State Journs
! he has collected about seven hundre
pounds Of specimens = some of theI
very fine ones. He was well satisfied.