The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-05-18
AN AWFUL SELL.
A Tuscarorn Girl Marries and Finds
She has a Woman for a Husband.

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From the Times Review of the 11th.l
We were never SO deeply impressed
with the force of the adage. tba. truth
! il stranger than felton," as We W re last
evening when listening TO a statement of
a well-known citizen of this town in re-
lation to o marriage, which was con-
summated here last Fall, and which
created considerable comment at the
time from the somewhat peculiar circum-
stances attending it. The bridegroom
was youthful and rather eliminate
looking persona stranger here, and
about whom but little was known, except
represented be had been engaged in bust
| ness. The bride was a young lady only
sixteen years of age. residing with and
under the guardianship of her uncle, who
was bitterly opposed to the marriage
Her love, however, proved stronger than
her obedience, and she left his house one
evening, and stepping across the street
to the Justices Office, was united to the
object of her choice. They resided here
for short time and then removed to an
adjoining district, where they have lived
until few days ago when the girl re-
turned her upcle's house and related
to him the following remarkable story /:
| She said the person to whom she was
married was woman in disguise; that
her female husband, the night of their
marriage, confded to her his, or rather
her secret. She had got into trouble in
Colorado and was obliged to leave there
and assume the disguise of man.
That her object in marrying was to more
effectually conceal her indemnity, and
finally threatened her with death if she
betrayed her secret. Fearful of the ex.
ecution Of the threat she kept silent, al
though badly abused, illtreated at times
and severly braten, continued to main
tain the ostensible relation of wife to her
strange companion. until the latter, a
short time ago, fearful of arrest for COM
picity in crime for which her business
partner was recently arrested, fled the
country, thereby releasing the presumed
wife from her terrible thraldom. The
story was related to us by the uncle
above alluded to at whose house house
the girl is now stopping. He vouches
for its truth, and related other circum-
stances connected with the matter which
we refrain at pressnt from publishing.
1t is a strange story, and we give it as it
was related to US.
In 1876 Alexander Del Mar visited the
Pacific coast an examined its principal
gold and silver mines on behalf OF the
United States Silver Commission. After
having made his report to Congress, he
returned to California, and has since been
engaged in completing his loug oontem-
plated History of Money" This re-
markable work is now ready for publica-
ton. Preparatory to writing it. its author
collected library of 10000 volumes de-
votedto monetary subjects. and expended
great labor in patient research. His
reputation, aside from the intrisio merits
of the work, will attract wide attention
to il. H. begins with the precious
metals in Egypt, 1000 years before Christ,
and traces their production and COM
mercial use up to the present time.
The mines Of China. Spain, Lydia. Greece
Italy, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, California,
Nevada, and Australia are all touched
upon in turn, together with all wars
having for their purpose the seizure OF
gold and silver and the regions that
abounded with them. All monetary sys.
TENS that have yet been devised are also
studiously reviewed and considered.
and their immediate and final effects
contrasted The work is one of broad
scope and will supply place hitherto
untitled in English literature, if not il
the literature of the world.
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AN ENGLISH SILVER MINE.-We have
several times during the last year men
toned the profitable working of thu
Wheal Newton as silver mine. A re
port before US. in our English Mining
exchanges, Us late as April 18th, ex
hibits continued extensive prosecution
of leads and cross-cuttings with ricl
finds of silver ore during the previous
thirty days. in several leads opened
On the 18th of April four cwts, on
quarter and twenty pounds of selecte'
ore we're sent to London from the mine
producing silver at the rate of Oil
ounces to the ton. Other parcels G
best and second-class ore, in all the ton
we're ready for shipment. my. Mimi
Record.
An old lady says:-"when was 90
the women with the prettiest facee
: we're the only ones men looked at moi
, on the street; but now it's the fema
who holds her skirts up the highe,
when she goes across muddy place wh
receives the most attetion."
8urn.
At Royal City, Thursday, May 9th, to the wi
of Joseph Kerr, q son.