Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-01-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Johnny Sullivan, says the Virginia
Chronicle, has challenged James Ire
william to fair stand-up fight, and Ire
william has accepted.
| Owen Fraser, of Gold Hill says the
Virginia Chronicle of the 10Th. sustained
a dislocation of the left shoulder and
other injuries, yesterday. by the falling
Of his horse upon him. The animal
was frightened by the barking of dog,
and, rearing, fell back on Mr.. Fraser.
At a meeting of Knickerbocker Engine
Compan y No. 5, held last evening, says
the Virginia Chronicle of the 10Th. Jacob
Young, Jr.. of Young America Engine
Company No. 2, was nominated for Chief
Engineer of the Virginia Fire Depart
ment,
While John Burt, says the Salt Lake
Tribune, was engaged in plastering the
st. George temple, on Saturday, plank
on the upper scaffold on which he was
standing broke and precipitated him to
the ground, distance of seventy 1--WE
feet. He sustained severe though not
necessarily fatal injuries.
For the benefit OF those interested in
copper mines, says the Salt Lake Tri.
bune, we will state that the price
of the metal in New York at the
present time, is twenty-three and a
quarter cents per pound. The demand
is active. and copper is coming into more
general use, the consumption last year
being larger than ever before known.
4 gentleman of this city recently re-
ceived lot OF shrimps from San Fran
cisco, says the Reveille, and while he
was engaged in eating them he was OBJ
served by young lady who was
"brung up" on the banks of Reese
river, and who rushed home and told
her ma that she had seen Mr.. - eating
"pickled grasshoppers.
HIP Wiley, says the Carson Tribune,
long time section master of the V. d T..
r. r., and well known in this town, was
run over and instantly killed on an
Eastern railroad on which he was con-
ductor at the time. Mr.. Wiley left Car
son some six months since and went into
his old business on an Eastern road. He
was a good man and quiet gentleman,
and his death will be regretted by many
friends hereabouts.
A young gentleman met the Reveille
reporter on Main street this forenoon,
says that paper of the 10Th, and informed
him that "us boys is powerful glad that
the teachers on the try; cause we got q
holiday The Interpretation of this is
that DR.. Scott, Principal of the public
school, is witness in the johnson case,
and was obliged to adjourn the school
that he might attend the "try."
Yesterday afternoon Levi Sanders, of
Corinne, Utah, says the Virginia Chro-
nicle of the 10Th, presented himself
before Justice Knox and requested to be
united in matrimonial bonds to Miss
Mary Scheuer of Germany. who &C
companied him. The Judge very promp-
thy tied the fatal knot, and the newly
married couple left the Courtroom in
calm, matter-of-fact style, amid the grins
OF all beholders, who apparently saw
something intensely comical in q mar.
riage.
At Gold Hill, says the Enterprise, tn {
School Trustees have elected John Y
Paul as the policeman who is to look GU,
for and snatch baldheaded such young
sters as are found playing hockey y
from school. 1t seems that some of the
children of that town are smart enough
t to eluds the vigilance OF both parents
and teachers for fortnight at a stretch
hence the necessity for employing pc.
liceman to hunt down the derelict ur
chins.
A memorial praying against the re-
; moval of the United States Courts from
Carson to Virginia. says the Reveille, i.
being circulated in town, aud is reeeiv
I ing numerous signatures. Our peopl,
D don't want to play dog in he-manger
and If they cant have the courts at Gift
ton or Jacobsvllle are willing that Carson
shall have them. But we never knew
what a bleak, inhospitable place Virgins
is till wei saw it in that memorial
v The summit Of Mount Hood is a
beautiful and fertile valley compared
to it.
In the county Jail at Beaver, says tn,
Salt Lake Tribune, there has b.en con
y fined for several months five prisoner
= awaiting trial, four OF whom are indicted
K for murder and are considered desperat
IS characters. Deputy Marshal Stokes ba
}. been obliged to watch them to the neplec
d OF other business, and to relieve him O
B. his burden two deputies took Bisbo,
It Dame last Saturday from the peniten
l. tlary here to place him in the custody O
Stokes at Beaver, and bring the prison
1t ers from there to be held here. The,
70 are expected to arrive by train tonight
q For some time past, says the Sal
= Lake Tribune of the 2lst, there has beer
It genera! dissatisfaction in regard t
d the management OF the Lehieh DOS,
4 office. which is in charge of Mormo,
y bishop named Evans. The Office ha,
{ been badly managed. and charges OF i,
g regularetes have been frequent. Las
!, week. Deputy United States Marsht
n Vandercook OF Provo, who was at l.,
g high, had occasion to put letter col
tanning $50 into the postoffice, dirscte
s to Ben Bachman, at Provo. The lette
m 1 lAd 10 zl.