The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-19
Elko laDEPEnDEGT.
News Noeen

AC0n OOsEo
d. o. Mills and family left New York
for Ban Franciseo on January nth.
The r.c'-R.ris- says there is nearly
foot Of snow in T~uscarora.
General Frisbis OF California is
ahout to establish . bank in the city Of
Mexico.
More strikes Of factory employees
are reported in dill, rent part OF Eng
land.
During the year 1873 there were L.
1880 gallons OF Califoruia vine
shipped to New York.
They have had an earthquake in
Florida, said to be the irst they ever
had there.
Anderson. the Sacramento murderer
Of A. n. Tnllis, hns been convicted OF
murder in the Ant degree and will be
hanged.
The Brazilian Government proposes
10 extinguish all of the monasiic orders
ard apply their property e tue pay
ment Of the national debt.
Merremon hns Withdrawn from the
contest for the United States Senate in
North Carolina. which gives Governor
Vance his election.
Subscriptions to the four per cent
bonds continue constantly at the rate of
about two aud q half millions OF dol.
lara per day.
The present population OF Cheyenne,
- shown by tho late census is under.
stood TO reach the neighborhood Of
5000.
The Sacramento river il at q very
low stage for this season OF the year,
the guage ut Sacramento showing only
Ave feet nine inches above low water
mark.
An idiot by the name OF Geryon at
tempted to out.walk q horse in Chicago.
At the end Of 90 hours the horse had
walked POI miles and the man 149 when
the man gave ii up.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
made another call for SIC, zoo. 900 Of
600 bonds of '65 which are to be ro-
deemed by the proceeds OF the sale Of
four per cents.
A Washington dispatch Of Jan. 9th
akafaa that n hoo haon da1ar~fool A.
summon James +. Anderson AZ n wit
ness before the investigating commit
tee. and that he wall have to pay his
way from Nevada.
A few days ago, carly Ia the evening.
q meteor fell between the house and
q barn Of Mr.. ChumbeauI, in Douglas
County, Oregon. striking a haystack.
Tho meteor exploded as it fell, and the
hay igniting, was destroyed.
TeIaa has 100 convlcts, Of whom
some 500 are kept in prison, and the
rest are hired out TO work on railroads
aud farms. One, undergoing q life
sentence. is hired by his wife. and lives
comfortably at home.
A dispatch from Austin. Lander
County, noun the suicide Of Mat
Furth while Temporarily insane. De-
ceased was so years OF age, one OF the
Oldest settlers Of Lander. and we'll
known to many Of our readers.
A London newspaper adverlises:
"wanted, 2 apprentices who will be
treated MS l of the family" When it
was ascertained that the advertiser was
In the habit Of coming home n beat.
ing his wife. the number Of persons
who wanted to be treated as al Of the
family" was very small.
Senator Beck does some very plain
talking TO Secretary Sherman in q re-
cent speech in which he informs that
gentleman that in a short time the
finance committee of the Senate will
DO controlled by new mon, and then il
will be seen whether he can continue
to violate the law ms he pleases by
withholding the silver coinage from
circulation.
The House committee on education
and labor, to which was referred the
bill for tho restriction OF Chinese i'm.
migration. has agreed upon an entirely
now report containing a strong recon-
inendation in favor Of its passage aud
an argument by which it is shown con-
clusiSoly that Congress has a right 10
pass laws in contrayeniion Of n treaty.
Tho Enterprise says the great corn
belt Of the Mississippi Valley which
has the Missouri river for its center can
produce enough to furnish every man
woman md child in the United States
with pork and corn dodgers three times
day throughout the yenr. and have
enough left 10 make sufficient whisky
to send every ono to bed drunk every
night. That being the case, We ask
whero thon Is the necessity for anybody
going to bed sober2