Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-07-20
BRIEF MENTION.

SACRAMENTO SalOOn, corner Vi Culou
and d streets, Virginia, cannot be
equaled in the State.
The champagne, claret and "Boys'
Own" punches of the Sacramento sal
Don, corner of Union and D streets,
Virginia, can't be beat.
The three-mile- and-repeat race, at
Carson to-day, between Mollic H.
and Bill Hazel, for $500 a side, was
won by Mollie II. Time-5 :4S, and
Cos.
Only two of the prominent citi-
zens of Virginia City have thus tar
refused to subscribe for The TIMES.
One of these is Alderman J. w.
Orndorff.
A fine five-stop organ arrived in
town Thursday for the Catholic
church in this place., 1t will be used
for the first time during the services
tomorrow.
Rumors of compromise between
the Alta and Justice mining compa-
MES are again in circulation, but
well informed parties state that
no definite understanding looking to
such step has yet been reached.
Anybody that says that Tom
Heffron doesn't keep the best roast
beef that can be found in the world,
does not know what good roast beef
is. He does his own cooking, too,
and will have no Chinese in his.
There are between 400 and 500
members on the roll of the Silver
City Miners Union, but less than 200
of them are in good standing, many
having left the Comstock without
settling up their dues and taking out
their card.
The Virginia Chronicle is Dragging
of the climate Of that city. If the
editor of that paper spent week in
Silver, once in while, he would
never go to Independence lake to
rest his weary bones. He would
come here instead.
Sherman, Hyde, & Co., have sent
us "When the Twilight Soft is Fall
ing" song and chorus. A perfect
musical gem, and rare combination
of sentiment, music and art, with
illumined title page and beautiful
print. Price, 35 cents.
Mr.. Partridge, the well-known
tailings mill-man, was married a few
days ago to Mrs. Seaman, the lady
who formerly kept the boarding
house at the ATLANTA mill, about half
way between this place and Dayton.
They have taken up their residence
at Washoe City.
A special car will be at the Bacon
and Trench dump, this morning, to
accommodate those who wish to at
tend the Pioneers picnic from this
place, Dayton and Sutro. An extra
locomotive will pull the car to the
Mound House, where it will be at
tached to the Virginia train.
Colonel Fairs present residence
being too small to admit Toby Rosen-
that's famed picture "The Seminary
Alarmed" it is kept boxed up at the
Con. Virginia Office, in Virginia City.
Colonel Fair will hang it up in his
new residence on Mob Hill, San
Francisco when he builds it.
Day before yesterday, in F. A..
Trite & Co.'S Office, in Virginia City,
Captain John Kelly offered to bet
$1,000 to 800, that crosscut No. 2,
on the 2oO0-level of the Ophir,
would develop thirty feet of ore that
will mill at least 800 per ton. His
coin was not covered, although sew
eral stock sharps heard him.
At the Justice mine the prospect
ing work is being pushed with all
possible speed, the prospects being
very flattering on both the 1850 and
1900 levels, and giving unmistaka-
BILE promise of making a good mine
in depth. The ore is assuming the
character of a silver bearing sui.
phuret, carrying high percentage
of gold.
II. W. Graveley, a shoemaker living
in a cabin near the Justice mine.
about a mile from this office, COM