Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-07-25

fair closes to-day. but the publishers feel
coniden. that its success warrants ia
becoming permanent institution. Last
evening dinner was given to the trade
at the ST. James Hotel; nearly al the
publishers who were in attendance at the
fair, aud large part OF the buvers ". re
present.
George +. Comstock. ct counsel i,r
Tweed in haheas corpus case before Tho
Court Of Appeals, and an ex-Judpe az
that court, have published replv 10 The
attack Of Charles o'Counsr and Judo.
Davis upon the Court of Appeals for civ.
ing = decision favorably to Tweed In
the letter Comstock says, in all arou-
ment of counsel Of opposition to the law.
less sentence pronounce by Jpdos
Davis. that the magistrate was treated
with forbearsnce. but il ought now he
said there were circumstances a:tendip,
the last and final trial, conviction ana
sentence which may justify more than n
doubt whether he Is longer entitled
TO such forbearance. The rial pro.
ceeded as il the purpose was conviction
and punishment for only & single crime
thus the prisoner and his counsel WAS en-.
trapped into tho belief that only one con.
viction and one sentence was intended
No change in tho opinion of the judge
as announced on the first trial was sup-
sested by him until the jury rendered a
general verdict of guilty. Then the
masked battery was discovered; then the
tremendously accumulated sentence fell
upon the deceived and wretchel pris.
oner, charged with neglect Of official
duty, or bad performance OF official
duty. The punishment in the accnmu.
lated severity was more than twice greater
than the law would have tolerated if he
had been guilty OF larceny of forty mil.
lion dollars know Of no prece dent for
such trial since when Jeffries and ScroQps
administered the criminal law Of Eng
land. The egress Of the case, from tho
murky atmosphere Of Judge Davis court,
changed with electric passion, and vault
ing to the Court to appeal was like
translation to another world. or Mr..
O'Connor and his share in the criticism
of the Court of Appeals, Judge Com.
stock-and will take his opinion with
Just and profound respect-after he has
made examination on the light of author
ity of proceedings; until then It would
be becoming to withhold his abuse of
high tribunal which has carefully and
laboriously considered the question and
decided it. # tta
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 24.-Phillip c.
Calhoun and Lewis @. Meyers, of New
York, have instituted case in the Dis.
trict Court Of the United States, for West
tennessee, for the first mortgage bond
holders of tn Philadelphia and Memphis
Railway, for the purpose of foreclosing
a mortgage. The bill alleges there are
about 81, 500, 900 bonds in the hands of
different parties in West Tennessee. and
the mortgage thereon provides that the
in terest thereon, at the rate of seven per
cent. shall be paid semi-annually. and
upon their failure to do so within ninety
days thereafter, the trustees shall take
possession of said road; and further. if
the company fail to pay the bonds, or
six months after same become due, the |
bonds which are for thirty years shall |
mature. They allege the company has
failed to pay interest for twelve months,
and therefore the bondholders have d.
rected them as trustees to foreclose the |
mortgage.
CHICAGO. July "a. --Continued rains,
and news from Lower Missouri and ILL
nois says the rivers again cause serious
apprehensions Of overflow,
WASHINGTON, July a. Yesterday the
northbound passenger train of the vir-
ginia g. Maryland Railroad was thrown
from the track near Bull Run bridge hy
the breaking of fange of the driving
wheel of the engine. The engine was
thrown down an embankment and turned
upside down. The baggage car and
ladies car rolled in, and were piled upon
and around the engine. The baggage.
master is probably fatally injured. Sew
eral passengers received scratches and
cuts. The engineer and fireman we're
taken out from beneath the debris un-
hurt.