Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-05
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

A narrow.gauPe railroad has been pro-
jected to Black Hills.
The navigation OF the Yellowstone has
been abandoned for this year, owing to
the Indian war.
The Mission Wooden Mills at San Fran
cisco have been awarded the first pre-
MUM on woolens at the Centennial Elk.
hibltion.
A Chicago paper reports that there is
lady, the wife of Pacific Coast million
aire, residing at one of the leading Chi
cago Hotels, whose extras each week
amount to over 500. And yet people
think the times hard.
The Spanish Belle Mining Company
has been incorporated in San Francisco
with capital OF S7,0000O0. to mine in
Barcelona District, Nye County. Fol.
lowing are the Directors: II. II. Pear
son, b. Flint, Q. b. Land, j. NJ. Mitchell
and j. l.. Sanford.
The United States Treasury in New
York has just come upon new coinage
fraud. Double eagles have been discov-
cred bored from edge TO edge, through
their diameter. and the holes thus made
have been filled with wire OF sufficient
specific gravity to retain the coin at its
proper weight and by this means, it is
asserted, four dollars in gold have been
distracted from every twenty dollar piece
and replaced by worthless iron.
General Albert Pike, of Washington,
who is the Grand Commander of all the
Mason of the Scottish Rite in the United
States, and who is at present on visit
to this coast, has conferred the Thirty.
third degree. which is the highest de-
gree known in Masonry, upon Dr. John
NJ. Browne, the Grand Master of this
State, VIM. 7. Reynolds, Chas F. Brown
and Geo. j. Hobe. the Grand Body hav-
ing at its council session held in Wash
ington in May last elected those gentle.
men to receive this high honor
He was an overland traveller. and had
got the names OF things slightly mixed;
the precipitous mountains he had heard
called "paisadcs, " and the infantile
Indians had been designated by some
thing like that word ia construction and
sound; therefore he easily stumbled when
be attempted to put on show of much
knowledge in pointing out the curosi-
ties: /" Oh, dear me! Look ere, Missus
B; 'ere's an Injun woman with II
palisade on 'er back, ye know"
A boy aged sixtesn and girl fourteen
eloped last week from their parents
ranches in Nye County. The boy pro-
cured marriage license at Belmont by
exhibiting written authority from his
parent to apply for the license, and
) wearing that the girl was Of age. They
we're married by Justice OF the Peace
IN Ellsworth precinct, and man in the
employ of the girls father, who was sent
IN pursuit of her. arrived at the Justices
office few minutes after the ceremony
was performed. As he entered the cabin
he boy laughingly said, You're three
minutes too latee," but the girl went out.
side and cried bitterly. The Austin
from whom this information is
derived, learns that the neighbors are
very hostile toward the boy, and talked
of prosecuting him for perjury.
A Panama dispatch of the 25th ult.,
says: The contract for the construction
Of an Inter Oceanic Canal across the
Isthmus OF Darien. between the Govern.
ment Of Columbia and Anthony Degona-
ras, was definitely signed at Bogota, on
the 2Slh of Of May. 1876. The privilege