Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-12-14
BRIEF MENTION.

A water-plpe IS being put In the
Silver City Hose House.
The State Legislature will convene
on the 9th Of January next.
The District Court Of this Judicial
District will be in session at Day ton
next Monday, the 10th instant.
A letter addressed to James
Pearce, Silver City, New, is held for
postage in the Virginia City post
office.
A power of attorney forom Gerard
Debney, Of San Francisco, to Charles
H. Aitken, Jr., of Silver, has been
filed for record.
Yesterday was the coolest day of
the season, so far, the thermometer
indicating temperature Of only IF.
teen degrees above zero.
A few copies Of the TINES OF the
7th instant, containing the official
returns of this county, remain in
this Office. They are for sale.
The Body Clack need not be
changed oftener than once a year
and this often only when it IL used
under very unfavorable conditions.
Constable Hill upset his buggy,
while coming back from Swasey's.
in Mas Valley. night befnre last,
and cut his left arm near the elbow
joint.
Banner Brothers, the clothiers OF
New York, San Francisco and Viz
ginia City, have secured patent for
their trademarks on men and boys
clothing.
Young & Sirlott's mill was stopped
yesterday, owing to the accumulation
of ice on the water wheel. 1t worked
we'll up to yesterday, when the cold
proved too much for 1t.
II. f. Swasey's four horse team
wagon, and wagon sheet have been
attached by Constable Hill, to sat-
isfy judgment for $117 70, and
costs, in favor of d. Z. Harkin, of
this city.
County Treasurer Sims has paid
into the State Treasury the States
portion of the taxes collected in this
county since the preceding semi
annual settlement in June last. The
sum so paid was $10,5O0.
J. G. Mathsr, a surveyor OF peri
ence. has formed partnership with
Goth. HAST, the weIl-known civil
engineer and surveyor. Their Office
is in Piper's building. northwest
corner Of B and Union streets, Vir-
GINA.
The preparations for the Christmas
Reception of the Cosmopolitan Club
of this city are completed, the tickets
are selling rapidly, and the indica-
tons point to one Of the most mum.
erously-attended and successful az
fairs which have ever taken place in
Silver.
II. Dunbar, q resident Of Austin,
challenges the owners Of 6ne stock,
through the columns of the ReveilIe,
to beat the weight of his mare and
colt, which weigh, together, 1850
pounds. Separately, the mares
weight Is 800, and the seven months
old colt $50 pounds.
Samples of Christmas and New
Years visiting cards have been re-
ceived at this office. They are I'M
usually neat and RECHERCHE. Per-
sons who may wieh to have some
printed should hand in their orders
at once, as the supply of choice pat
terms is very limited.
The Derby mining claim, near the
Kossuth, has been relocated by Bart
Derham of this city, who says that
holding work has not been done up
on it for over year past. There is
shaft about 100 feet in depth on
the claim, which has cost the compa-
ny $4,000 or $4,000 to sink.
The pupils of the public school
practice every evening, under the
direction of their teachers, for the en-.
tertainment which will be given In
the Miners Union Hall next Friday
evening, to procure funds to defray
the cost Of getting up a Christmas
tree for the children of this city.
John Yule, Superintendent Of the
Atlantic Consolidated, who was
caved upon and seriously injured
about the head and shoulders while
at work In that mine, last Saturday
afternoon, has sufficiently recovered