Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-05-28
NEVADA NEWS.

be fitlinsly cele brated.
Weber, the man shot by John Abel
near Elko. is dead.
The Odd Fellows Of wssbos City last
week gave splendid ball.
The Carson Public Library was to be
opened on the Gath.
The County Commissioners OF Nye
county have received the new Court
house from the contractor, Jas. Ward.
E. N. Baum is about to erect build
ing ct Palisade to be used as O hotel. Il
Ia to he arranged and kept in first-class
style.
DR.. Joseph Il. N. Owen, of Hamilton,
has had patent granted to him for o
new invention of breach. loading ordin-
ance.
At Virginia City. Il. d. Soper, q
Waterman employed at the Consolidated
Virginia Company's old mill, was
severely wounded by some unknown
marauders.
The toll-road betwesn the Roslin fur
mace and Ox-bow Springs. on tho Ham
ilton road. has been completed and the
teamsters find the new thoroughfare far
better than the old road.
The Chinese OF Eureka are stated BY
the Sentinel, to be little alarmed by
the meetings held to denounce the
Asiatic plague. II they are sufficiently
will to walk off. it will be good thing
Two hundred emigrants passed Win
nemucca on the 23d. Every day from
one to six hundred pass that town for
the west. The people are wondering
what will become Of them. "
Two walking. beams and shaft for a
Government vessel at Vallejo passed
through Winnemucca. The beams are
each forty feet long and weighed At 900
pounds, and the shaft, which was of
polished steel, weighed ten tons.
James Ham, coal.burner, who was
coming over the divide, between Gold
Hill and Virginia, with load OF char
coal. was quite severely injured by the
upsetting Of his wagon. It seems that
he was thrown to the ground when q
number Of sacks Of coal fell upon him,
badly braising him about the breast.
A few nights since the conductor Of q
freight train discovered, on arriving at
Truckee, that there were two chickens
a hen and a rooster-roosting upon one
OF the trucks Of a box-car and resting as
quietly as though they were thoroughly
accustomed to railroad travel. It was
thought they boarded tho train at Au-
burn.
The Gold Hill News says: We were
shown literary curiosity in the shape
OF polyglot advertisement. Mr.. Leon
Cosby is the gentleman who has this
rare specimen OF the printing art. The
words are printed in sixty-four different
languages, each clearly and strongly
setting forth the excsllsncies OF the ar.
ticlss mentioned in the adve rtisement.
The Eureka Sentinel says: We under.
stand that dray load of trade dollars
was received bv the Richmond Com.
pany. Stove-lid currency is very con-
venient in poker game, and the stud
ents OF Schenck are under many obliga-
tions to the above named corporation
for furnishing them material which
"sizes up" 30 prettily.
Referring to mining matters, the Eu-
reka Sentinel of the 25th says: Three
furnaces are now in operation at the
Richmond Smelling Works and the re.
naming two will DO fred up in a few
days. Operations were resumed ct the
refinery department last night and the
shipment of refined silver will soon be
renewed.
The Reno Journal says: We notice
that several men and boys are in the
habit of killing the fish which wander
in the bitches and fumes running from
the Truckee. by throwing rocks at them.
We noticed several with twenty or thirty
which they had captured this way.
There should be a way to stop such
wholesale murder as this.
By a gentleman from Jett District, the
Eureka Sentinel is informed that the
district organization has been perfected
the present week. and that the Jett and
Davenport mine continues to show fine
ly. as progress is made in the shaft.
Quite an accession has been made to the
district during the week in the way of
prospectors.
The Nevada and Northern Telegraph
Company has been adjudicated a bank
rupt before Register Gitchell. The prin-
cipal creditors are Platte Burr, Portland,
O.. $2S, 500; Tillotson & Co., New York,
80. 600; G. p. R. Co., $1,000. Total liza
bilities, $4,000. Assets consist of q
line from Winnemucca to Port
land, o., via Idaho, which has cost about
500, 600 and is now estimated to be
worth sos. 600 to S75, 900.
A rich strike Of gold bearing quartz
has just been made in the old Peytona
mine on Cedar Hill, short distance
north OF virginia City. The place where
The strike has been made is near the
lone rock that stands on the eastern
face Of the hill. The quartz found is
literally spangled with gold. and would
assay two or three thousand dollars il it
were thought worth while to assay il.
The drift has followed the rich streak
about twenty five feet and in one place it
is four and half feet in width. The
pocket" will probably turn out hand
some pile Of money.
Father McNulty. for the past six
months in charge Of the Catholic con-
gregation ct Eureka, has been assigned
10 Humboldt Bay, California. The SEN
incl, in announcing the change, says:
The reverend Father has resided in Eu.
rska for the last six months, long enough
70 win the esteem Of the people of this
who will regret bis depart
ira from amon0 than E,skhe,,I -. ~.