Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

The damages caused by the last eruption of
Mount Etna have been estimated at about
$200,0 900.
The Martin White Mining Company have
declared dividend of 80 cents per share,
payable "n the oath.
Colonel James Duffy, of Marietta, Penn,
waters his tobacco crop in the absence of rain,
by means of fire engine.
Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, has been
found guilty of murder and sentenced to be
hanged on the Goth of August next
A strike was made at Newcastle, Washing
ton Territory, on the 17Gh, by miners dissat-
listed with the discharge of union men.
The yellow fever is on the increase in Mem
phis 16 cases have occurred since the 9th
inst. People are leaving the city in crowds.
The Argenta Mining Company have de-
clared their first dividend of 90 cents share,
amounting to $4,000, payable on the 25th.
Ex-senator Ramsey of Minnesota has been
offered and has accepted the portfolio of the
War Office. He takes it upon McCrary's re-
tirement.
Jefferson Davis has written letter in which
he states positively that under no condition
will he ever be candidate for the United
States Senate.
John Hope, convicted of the robbery of the
Manhattan Savings Bank of So 900, 900 secur
tiles aud cash, has been sentenced to the State
prison for twenty years.
Superintendent Walker, who is to take the
coming United States census, proposes to Sc
cure $4,000 physicians in collecting vital sta
tistics for his forthcoming tables.
A. J. Short fell from the second story wiz
dow OF the Essex House, Reno, Thursday
night while walking in his sleep. He fell into
a cellar and was injured internally.
John Hodson of Sidney, Neb., shot and
killed John Brown of that place on the 18th.
The murderer escaped. This is his second
murder within the past few months.
George Reynolds, the convicted polygamist,
confined in the Nebraska penitentiary was re
turned to the Utah penitentiary on the 18th,
on an order from the Judiciary department.
A woman named Adelaide Sherman who
lived st Bangor, Me, was found in an unoc-
cupied mill at Upper Saltwater, gagged,
bound and unconscious. 1t is supposed to be
the work of tramps.
Arthur Townsend, a young man residing at |
Psno, Tulare county, was murdered in the |
on Tule river recently by the young |
son of Tule river Indian for his money The |
was lynched by whites.
B5tween noon of Wednesday and Thursday |
noon 249 certificates of death We're received at
the office of the Bureau of vital statistics in
New York This is the largest mortality in
twenty four hours in that city this year.
THE Chronicle of last evening contains the
following:
The Lyon county Times OF this morning de
votes several columns to the Sutro scandal,
md the comments Of the editor, NJ. Plcotte.
,ver his signature are very severe. He char
res that the Sutro independent Owned and
by Adolph Sntrn) i'll its issue of
July IA, published Il special editorial for circu
alton at the East and in Eureka, giving a
grossly IdlS6 account Oh the "lItlF at the Inter
lttional Hotel. This account represented
hat it was simply an attempt to blackmail Mr.,
Sutro, and fAring headline proclaimed, THE
4yon County Times Man Said to be at the
Bottom of it," Mr.. Pcotte charges that, af
er this special edition had been printed, the
rtcle in question was taken out, and then
he regular edition for circulation hereabOut
vas printed without any reference to the scan
al If Mr.. Pcotte's charges are true-and
ertainly they are backed by strong circum
tantial evidence--he has ample cause for his
Indignation.
WESTON THE WALKIsT.-T simple fact
hat Edward Payson Weston, who has just
,on a great notorety as wakist, in Lon
on, is Rhode Islander by birth, has al t
eady been published The reader may
esire to know something more of him.
lie was born in the city of Providence.
lis father was map of restless brain, full of
,topian schemes, and finally died insane
lis mother was an intellectual woman, and
fter her husbands death she wrote num-
err of creditable books for children. After
lese were printed she sent her son Ed ward,
ne present walkist, out into the world to n
I'll the product other brain. He travelled
OF only over Providence, but also all over
node Island, and parts of Massachusetts,
nd Connecticut. He thus early acquired
he habit of long continued Walking
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