The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1878-03-24
BREvITIES.

Wall street at little above par.
The Manhattan Company shipped
l6 bars OF bullion Saturday valued at
$40, 239 "A.
The President it is said will. in o
message to Congress. advise the pay
ment Of the Fishery award, without
protest.
Adams the 6nger-billiardist was
beaten in game in New York. by Sex
ton. The best runs made we've, Adams,
2i2; Sexton, 1i9.
a WASHINGTON special says the
Presidents veto OF the Timber bill set
ties it; the House Judiciary committee
not having even considered it.
Notwithstanding the supplication OF
the murders mother. Governor Irwin
has refused to interfere in the case of
Runk, sentenced to death.
In the case of the city Of Chicago Va.
ex.city. Treasurer, David A. Gage. for
defalcation in 1874. tho jury brought n
yirdict for the amount of the deficiency
SjO7 .703, and 81. 100000 penalty.
A panic regarding the Savings Banks
has broken out in .Jston; those ;::s.i-
tutions being surrounded by crowds of
people clamorous for their depo ,iis.
The Banks respond promptly to the
call, however. ...r.
The Philadelphia Press has dis
charged all it's Union printers, and
makes their unemployment contingent
upon their withdrawal from that or
ganIzation. .a'''..r -..
The Detroit Nss, publishes tho fol-
lowing. "Erratum.-In the case of the
signature to the communication on
Senator Conkling, on our inside page
to-day. for a Quiet ASS read
'.EQuitas :
Chief OF Police Breen. of Virginia
CITY, and l.. T. Cowie. the legal iumin-
airy charged with assisting the afore-
said official on the deal in "Mongol-
iIm" have been indicted with bail fixed
at : 800 ench.
CoMMoDoEE JoHS II. GRAHAM of the
United States Navy, died ut his resi-
Gcnco i'll Newburg, New York. of apo
plexy. on Friday. aged. eighty-four
years. IIo was one Of the twelve Off.
Gers in the midnight expedition agains.
the British stronghold opposite Black
Rock. nine Of which We're killed or bad
ly wounded. Graham oeceived u
wound III the ankle which subsequently,
resulted in the loss Of the limb.
The Senate subcommittee in charge
of the various bills concerning trans
continental railway communication
near tho 32d parallel reported favorably
on the Texas Pacific project and sub.
United To the full committee copy Of
the bill agreed upon 10y the House Pa.
citic railroad committee. The full COM
nittee begun discussion OF the measure
and adjourned until Tuesday next,
when final action is expected.
AT q meeting called by prominent
citizens OF San francisco, Saturday to
protest against the passage of tho. bill
10 purchase the Spring Valley water
works, Kearney and his followers took
control aud refused to lot Senator Nu-
nan. who called the meeting, speak,
which had the effect OF producing n
general row, during which the great
agitator wns flung from the stand by
somo ambitious orator whom he was
attempting to suppress. Spring Valley
is still triumphant.
The Enterprise of the l7th--Yesterday
afternoon about 2:3O O'Clock James
Hughes n miner working in the Hale
and Norcross mine. was pretty severely
injured by being struck by piece Of
pump rod that broke loose aud slid
down tho incline to where tho new
plungcr pump is set up, below the 1000
level. The piece OF timber Is fifty feet
long, seven inches thick md fourteen
inches wide. Had the end struck the
man squarely IL would have cut him in
two but as il merely whipped ngainst
him in passing, knocking him down and
breaking ono Of his ribs.
The New York Graphic, with that
intuitivo knowledge not born OF expert.
encc, sagely observes that when stocks
are transferred to tho New York boards,
investors will DO much safer, rs the
market will be sleader, whoroupon
the Stock Exchange. which has nm idea
that its acquaintance with this class
OF securities Is quito as intimate rs that
Of the Eastern journal. loosely re.
remaks. "wo should like TO SEQ Ophir,
for instance, steady itself in the New
York market, when three or four cross.
cuts were abont 10 tap M ore body.
We should have liked to have seen II
there OH Tuesday at Gi. and on Thurs.
day at -. Wouldn't Wall street have
turned itsoli inside out2 How our old
friend jim Kecno would delight in
showing Wall street how TO "stoady"
ophir. when u cross cut is going
through $500 orol"
Tho nltptnut of m niutny 10 sloady