Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-04-02
EASTERN DISPATCHES.

New YORK, April Bank statement:
Loans increase, 81, 200; specie decrease,
1872, 900, legal tenders decrease, $685.
400; deposits decrease, 2,620, 500; cir
culation increase. 1874, 800; reverse do
crease, 1881
BOSTON, April 1.-The bill for tax
alton on church property. was rejected
in the House by large majority.
MEMPHIS, April AT Somerville.
Tenn, on Thursday last o crowd Of
masked men, raided two Poles named
Hirschlochants out Of town. The gang
Is in number forced themselves into the
store before daylight, fell upon and beat
the storekeepers. took nearly $4,000 in
cash, led the merchants forth with ropes
about their necks to the fair grounds and
were about to hang them, but by beg
ging and promising to leave the place
the masked rascals let the victims off
with their lives. The outrage has
created much excitement in the vicinity.
A public meeting was held and COM
mittee appointed to ferret out the perpe-
traitors. A number OF prominent at
tornsys volunteered to prosecute the
Williams without fee if they are caught.
There is no cause assigned for violence
except that the merchants have been
accused of weighing cotton falsely for
some of their customers.
COLUMBUS, o., April LIN the Senate
to-day, bill was introduced directing
the Commissioners of Insurance to
revoke certificate of those life insurance
Companies doing business in Ohio, which
assess taxes on their policy holders.
| WASHINGTON, April /. - The Com
mittee on War Expenditures to-day
heard D. P. Dyer. District Attorney at
St. Louis, in reference to the testimony
OF Q. f. Bell, who, testified yesterday
The witness first met Bell in st. Louis
in the Fall of rs. He came to the Dis
trict Attorneys Office one day and
showed an envelope, with a note on the
back signed "Avery," and he witness,
understood it to be written to Fitzroy to
deliver any papers in his possession t.
Bell. He understood Bell was seeking
evidence for the Government. Bell wal
to see Joyce and if possible get the cor
respondence that passed between Joyce
Avery and Babcock. He wrote q not,
to the warden of the Jail and asked hin
to deliver the papers to Bell, the bearer
Bell subsequently came to st. Louis
During the time of the Babcock tria
witness met him at the house of on,
Eaton, a special counsel for the Govern
ment.
) The safe burglary mystery is to b.
cleared up. Yesterday J. Proctor Knot
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
, called upon Attorney General Pierrepon
0 and was in secret conference at the de
partment for long time, and after tn
Cabinet had been called again RENAME,
o for more than an hour. 1t is believe,
8 that the Judiciary Committee have re
: quested the Attorney General to Civ
immunity to Colonel Whitley if he test
. fies fully and fairly before the Commit
tee. 1t is not doubted that an immunit
:, by the Attorney General has been put i
. the hands of the Judiciary Committee t
be used by them as they think fit.
: The House proceeded to the consider
y alton Of the special order the bill II
o ported by Regan, Of Texas, from th
Committee on Commerce, TO amend th
e. laws concerning commerce and navig'
10 ton and the regulation of steam vessel