The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-05-11

whole property-msins, hydrants, etc
and decision was rendered in the Dis
trict Court OF this county to the effect
that the county owned half of that prop
erty and that the water company was
liable only for half of the taxes on the
same. This decision being rendered by
the Court is supposed to be correct, and
is correct until reversed, SO that the |
County Commissioners will have to de,
eide on some steps in regard to bills for
| repairs to hydrants, mains, etc., and |
| they might as well decide at once. We
say nothing in regard to the amount
charged for repairs, that the Commits
sioners will have to attend to, but in re-
gard to one half of the just expenses of
such repairs the county will have to set
tie, without the decision of the Court
should be reversed. The county has no
object in trying to break the contract
with the water company, neither do the
peaple desire it, for if the plugs were re-
moved, in case of fire, the damage
caused would be thousands of times as
much as the repairs of the same are now
costing.
DELERIuM TREMENs.-A man who had
been drinking heavily was taken with
delerium tremens on Sunday morning
and attempted to cut his throat. Since
then he has been placed under restraint
in the County Jail.
READ Joe Cooks advertisement. You
will find it interesting.
The following remarks from the Los
, Angeles Republican are very compli-
mentary to John p. Jones, the writer
says: There is no man who occupies
prouder position in the Senate of the
, United States at the present time than
the honored Senator from Nevada. The
whole Nation is now reaping the benefit
, of his craftsmanship in championing
the reconciliation OF silver. He was the
I first in Congress to advocate this great
measure, which has already effected
! specie resumption. and will ere long,
Q greatly aid in relieving the financial
q stripgency which now Expresses the
3 whole country The American people
/ are under obligations to Senator Jones
s for accomplishing such great and bene-
. fetal result, but the silver-producing
9 state which he represents should be
o especially grateful and return him to the
G Senate for q second term. Gould the
= people of Southern California have q
= voice in the matter, Senator Jones could
i unite all our snffrages in his behalf, for
k his generous pubic spirit in building
d the Santa Monica Railroad and defying
8 the great Central Pacific monopoly, has
n endeared him to our whole people. Il
% is not his fault that We were for 30 long
d time almost at the mercy Of Crockei
% and Huntington; and we have no doubt
that when the time comes for action ht
will again be found doing valiant service
y in our behalf, by iavoring the Texas ant
B. Pacific Railroad, which, by stimulating
Q, immigration, will be the means of devel
~ oping the whole of Southern California
:. and restoring it once more to pros
% perity."
ID The money value of human life is
a subject that has often to be considere'
<. by the Courts and juries in cases o
\. deaths or injuries produced by what ar
40 known as controllable accidents. Tn
Al estimates are as wild as the Judgment
n. and verdicts are divergent. FroI
nt hundreds to hundreds OF thousand
"a OF dollars are the varying estimate
at values of particular human lives. In n
to instance has there been an effort mad
in to reduce the subject to an estimate O
to scientific principles. Lately. however
at DR.. Farr has been making some estimate
iii upon the money value of human life
Id based upon the agricultural classes G
&c Norfolk, England. He figures that a
~ infant at birth is worth $12 80 in il
as prospective labor. Five years later, hi
I'd value as productive agent is $3.50, an
ne five years later is more than doubled
he At the age of twenty-five he attsins tn
TO maximum value, $3.50 year. At fifty
is reduced down to $345, and so on dow
to seventy, when the value ia only $25
lrt a year. Should he live to eighty, b
ed value would be $102 less than nothing
ar To proceed on some such basis as tn
"a. would doubtless enable juries to rend'
v: much more rational verdicts than the
m have been in the habit of doing.
in Thoughtful suggestion: When low
I'd leaves the house OF his adored ono at
an late hour in the evening, and walks mu
ingly homeward beneath the twinklir
stars. his fond fancy pictures her, clothe
~ :" Asso ccsAhAsos AOosAb6 o"CotAy NPe- 80
.es pillow, with her unbound hair tosst
Of about her sleeping face, and angels ben
w ing over her couch, whispering heaven
ar. dreams. Perhaps at that very momen
a. though. she is in the pantry, gnawi1
ICE hupgrily upon ham bone.
An Illinois small-boy discloses ho
ire some red hair came to be found on tv
,lv staid gentlemen's coats. The ha
3. created a tremendous domestic tempes
~ He says: III just picked up that the
-, hair, and put some of it on old Smith
'I and old Brown coats; KEEP a putin
" it on every day, ana you just bet tn
ketched it from their old women VIII
as they went home. Smith, he is solem
law sanowl, and old Brown looks as If
~, was goin to be hung"