Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-02-09

which has a couple of private poker
rooms in which there is no bells. When
the players want to call the bar-keeper
they fire of q six-sh ooter. One sho.
means more cards." and two reports
signifies whisky straight"
The Eureka Sentinel thus describr s
practical joke and its results: A bean
poker sharp yesterday, in saloon on
the lower level politely treated a stslwort
coalburner to loaded cigar. The B. P.
s. says he had no idea the charge was
heavy enough to throw a mans arm out
with such velocity, and he swears il his
front teeth ever grow out again that be
will never fool with explosive Havanas
any more.
Speaking OF the establishment OF q
mining stock exchange in New York, the
Virginia Enterprise Of the 81 says: II
the Eastern capitalists simply propose
to gamble with the stocks as they are
quoted daily. they will do no person nor
interest on this side OF the continent any
good and their attempt will be a failure.
But il they mean to treat mining as o
legitimate business, and, when the op-
portunity is offered, to open and develop
legitimate mines. then their plan will re-
dound to their advantage and ours.
A correspondent Of the Humboldt Reg
lister narrates curious occurrence that
,ately occurred at Golconda: One OF our
citizens last Summer in some way got
corresponding with lady in Salt Lake;
as letter after passed between them SO
last the lady received cordial invitation
TO come and spend the Winter at his
house, and he would do all in his power
to make her comfortable. She came;
but alas the course Of true love never did
run smooth-as they met and gazed upon
each others seven by nine countenance,
nary drop Of liquid love could they see
in each others eye. As time sped by the
fair maiden's heart did not soften towards
her friend and lover. The lady seemed
to think she had pleasant quarters to
| spend the Winter in and was perfectly
contented; il was not 80 with our bene-
factor, he was anxious for her to go west.
He at last told her what he knew about
farming, and also, il she did not quietly
leave he would show her the way to the
railroad track. She replied that if be
would do anything of the kind she would
prosecute him. So for several days there
was war up country as well as down
town. The lady thought it wise to change
her residence, as she soon left
The men working in the Virginia mills
are being attacked by a new and strange
disease which is thus described and its
supposed cause by the Virginia Enter
prise OF the 3rd inst. In all the mills in
which ore from the Consolidated Vir-
ginia is being worked the men in the
amalgamating departments are more or
less affected by new and peculiar i'll
ness. They shake as though afflicted
with palsy. Their hands shake 30 badly
that they can hardly raise o cup of coffee
to their mouths. The sickness does not
seem to intiict any permanent injury, as
when those affected cease to work for q
few days they recover their usual health.
No less than ten men who have been
working at the new California mill are
now lying off on account OF this "shaky
sickness" 1t is not known whether the
sickness is owing to some mineral enter.
ing in the composition of the ore, or
whether it is caused by the chemicals.
In working the ores of the bonanza
bluestone (sulphate Of copper and all
the other chemicals, as cynanide of pot
ash and the like, are used in much
larger doses than when poorer ores are
being treated, and by some it is supposed
that here lies the source of the trouble
and the cause Of the new sickness. The
pans are closely covered during the time
a charge is being worked, then when the
covers are finally raised great column
of steam impregnated with chemicals
and volatilized quicksilver rushes up,
portions of which the men undoubtedly
inhale. When the matter shall be pro-
perly investigated it will probably be
found that the sickness among the men
is caused by breathing the exhalations OF
chemicals from the pans and not by any
deleterious mineral in the ore.