Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-01-06
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

During the past week, says the Salt
Lake Tribune, Wells. Fargo & Co. have
received and shipped bullion as follows:
From Phoebe, forty-five bars, 4,912
pounds, 75.O23. 08; from the Ontario,
sixteen bars. 1918 pounds, s30.2l4.93.
Total, s105. 23s.01.
An unusually smart boy has turned up
In winnebago county. Illinois. He is
thirteen and half years old and is said
to be the father of baby. The woman
In the case" is handsome German girl
OF eighteen Summers, who brought suit
against the lad for the support Of the
child. The jury pronounced him guilty,
but nearly score of doctors declared it
an impossibility for one so young to be-
come father.
Says the White Pine News of January
LIST; Yesterday morning Geosge Allen.
while passing the residence of Colonel
Kerr, near the Six-mile House. CHANGED
to call in to see the old gentleman, and
upon opening the door found him sitting
in chair with his hands folded and
dead. At this writing these are all the
particulars we can gather. Coroner
Meyers has been sent for and an exam.
ination will be held. Colonel Kerr
was an old man, and a pioneer OF White
Pine.
J. ]. Smith, says the Virginia Chron-
icle OF the 3lst ultimo, teamster, during
several years in the employment of the
Bank OF California, died yesterday OF
pneumonia OF the Ashland House, on the
Divide. His friends in San Francisco
have telegraphed their desire to have his
remains forwarded to that city. and this
evening at Z O'Clock, the Montgomery
Guard and Knights of the Red Branch
will meet at the Armory of the National
Guard. under the Postoffce, to escort
them to the depot.
An Eastern exchange says: Zone hun
dred and twenty-five to one hundred
and thirty thousand, are the figures the
President OF Camp No. II, Patriotic Sons
Of America, the anti. Catholic and third
term order, gives as representing the
membership in the States Of New York
aud Pennsylvania alone. He says the
order has enough members in all the
States to elect Grant for q third term If
be wishes. The anti. Catho movement
seems to have been adroitly planned.
Grant gave the vatchword at Des
Moines and enforced il in his third term
message. Gil Haven undertook the duty
Of enlisting the Methodists. Mosby has
charge of the South. The allied dark
lantern orders conduct the underground
campaign. All step to the third term
music"
Some three or four additional notices
were served BY the vigilantes yesterday
morning, says the Eureka Sentinel of
the LIST. that is to say, they were deliv-
cred from the express Office yesterday
morning. where they had been deposited
the night before. As in former cases.
and for the reasons then assigned, we
suppress the names OF those served,
Now, We submit. in all candor, that this
thing has gone quite far enough. The
weather is bitterly cold, and those or
dered to leave. as a rule. are without
means to get away on. Had the com.
mittee ceased operations with the send
ing away of The first batch It Is highly
probable that the rest Of Eureka's non
producers would have remained on their
good behavior for months to come.
There is such thing as going too far,
and II is our opinion that vigilantes of
Eureka are in a fair way of falling into
just such an error. II the work goes on,
somebody will refuse to obey the warn.
ing and, in that case, the committee, in
simple self-deiense, as was dons in Viz
ginia and Carson. will feel called upon
to do q little hanging. and most probably
where It is not at all justified OF deserved.
II. as we have heard Il stated lately, the
object Of the crusade Is to get rid OF some
bad characters and, at the same time.
deter roughs coming here from the west.
ern part OF the State, we think enough
has already been accomplished to secure
that result. The examples to date are
more than ample. aud it Is now high
time that these arbitrary proceedings
were brought to . close. The parties
notified yesterday departed by this morn.
ing's train.