Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-11


of the amended "Act to regulate pro.
ceedings IN criminal cases." and reads IS
follows: when such examina-
tion is concluded. the State and the de-
PENDANT shall challenge peremptorily one
juror alternately till each has taken
twelve peremptory challenges, and the
remaining twelve Jurors shall be sworn
to try the case. II the defendant shall
refuse to take bis peremptory challenge
in his turn. the Court shall take it for
him." This. we believe is what has
been ruled against.
A new theater is about to bless the Vir.
ginians and give the Comstockians gen.
orally an opportunity Of investing their
loose change. The Enterprise says:
Should the present good weather continue
work will be commenced by John Piper
in about two weeks on bis new theatre.
He is already making arrangements for
lumber and other material to be used in
its construction. 1t will be located be-
tween A and b streets. just north OF
Union, and the front entrance will be on
B street.
The Virginia Enterprise of the 5tb,
jubilantly remarks: City Treasurer
George Hatch two or three days since
had the pleasure of doing what no City
Treasurer has before done since the es-
Enlistment OF the city government,
| namely, to pay off the last cent of the
city Indebtedness. He wiped out every.
thing-that is everything but the bills
for present running expenses. All the
bonds and such like indebtedness were
redeemed. We can now once again take
an even start with the world.
The Carson Appeal observes: By ref
erence to the books Of the Recorder Of
Ormsby county it is discovered that on
the 10th Of February last past, John
Hoye and wife, for the consideration of
| $40, 900, sold and conveyed to the Sis
ters of Charity Of st. Joseph's House,
Emmittsburg, Maryland, their right and
title in and to the body of land with
buildings thereon. known as the Carson
Race Course. We believe that the bust.
ness was transacted on the part of
the said Sisterhood by one OF the
leading members of the order OF Sisters
Of Charity in Virginia City. OF course
it ia not the intention of these devout
women to have this property used in
future as race course; and We infer
that their ultimate intention is to erect
on these grounds convent or school.
Mining prospects at Virginia are thus
described by the Enterprise Of the fifth:
The outlook along tn line of the Com
stock is more than ordinarily encourag-
ing. Improvements that promise to be
OF great and permanent value are an
nounced at both the north and south
ends of the lode. In most instances
these improvements do not consist in
the finding of that which promises to
lead to ore, but of the development Of
the ore itself. 1t is true that the deposits
OF ore found have not yet been followed
and explored TO any great distance, but
they exhibit the characteristics distin-
gushing bodies Of more than ordinary
Dimensions; and the peculiar features OF
the surroundings show that what has
been found are not mere punches or
pockets. The indications are that we
are now about entering upon more
productive era than has ever yet been
seen in the history Of the Comstock. II
seems likely that at no distant date a
greater number of mines will at the same
time be producing ore than ever before.
Already mills are in brisk demand and
the immediate erection of several new
ones has become necessity.
The Virginia Chronicle states that the
Methodist Society in that city will soor
commence the re-erection of its church
building, destroyed in the October fire
The work will be begun about the end Of
this month. The Methodist Sociecy has
been very unfortunate. Its first build
ing, which cost $50, 900, fell down about
five years ago. A few months after the
ruins were burned. A church was then
built at tbs cost of $40, 000 and a zephyr
soon played such havoc with it that sew
eral thousand dollars had to be expended
in repairs. Then the October fire came
and swept 1t away. In the same fire
parsonage. organ. carpets, communion
service. Sunday-school library, and
| everything else appertaining to the
church. was lost. and there was only al
|, insurance of $4,000 on the property
Within the past five years the Society's
losses have amounted to nearly SS5 900
Respecting put and call offices the Car
son Tribune thus admonisheth: 1t vii
T be well for the newspaper men to require
from the "puts and calls" offices tina
advertise with them the payment of sucl
ads. in advance. The firm OF Larue
Co., doing business in San Francisco
, sent an advertisement to this Office, which
We published for month in good faith
changing the ad. weekly, according t
} instructions sent to that effect. Th,
firm has burst up owing the Tribun,
$50, and the chances are that the sale
amount Is lost. In the Enterprise W,
find that Burke, of the firm Of kellogg
Co., in Virginia, has come up missing
, or rather that he has departed for th,
Bay City, to raise coin for the necessi
ties OF the establishment, and we don
, feel very well concerning another put
, and calls" firm in Virginia and Sa,
| Francisco. Take it in advance gentle
men.
Yesterday. says the Virginia Enter
prise OF the 9th, much "gnashing o
teeth" and probably some inwar,
weeping and wailing " about the ofic
> of Kellogg & Co.. brokers in "stocl
, privileges "-dealers on the put" an
{ "call plan-wheu it was discovered
| that Mr.. Burke, the representative of tn
firm in this city. was absent. 1t was ex
| planned that be had merely gone to Rem
. to see q family Of o friend of to Cali
fornia. This would not do his customers
who at once declared that he was gon
where the woodbine twineth;" the
felt II in their bones. A large crowd be
f.: sieged his Office, and the clerk, VIII
knew nothing more OF the movements O
, Mr.. Burke than did the outsiders, an
swered questions and paid out money a