The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-04-07
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be mere pretence to gain time until
the harvest is gathered. Only uncon-
ditional surrender will be accepted.
The army appropriation bill has.
passed the House-yeas I4S; nays l22.
The Greenback vote was 10 yeas and
2 nays. The passage was applauded ON
the Democratic side. Indebate, several
Southern members made damaging adj
missions in speeches on the bill.
On the day after the battle between
the Egyptians and the Arabs, five
thousand deserters came over to the
Egyptian camp. The Egyptians followed
the retiring enemy, killed ten chiefs
and two thousand men more, and were
still in pursuit at last advices. The
capture of all the slave depots is con-
w. H. Vanderbilt says, as reason
for purchasing steel rails in England:
''The quality of English steel rails
which receive. and the quantity, COM
pared with the bargains of American
manufacturers, make it better for me
to buy abroad. The prices paid for
the last lot Of English rails, and the
quantity offered by foreign manu-
facturers, are purely private matters"
Shortly After twelve o'clock Satur-
day night Harry Watt, cigar maker
in Davenport, Iowa, and his wife's Sis
ter, Louise Fletcher, took prussic acid,
and died within few moments of each
other. Watt is a young man, COM
paratively, but has been married
several years and has children, and his
domestic life always seemed perfectly
pleasant. Miss Fletcher was twenty
one years old, and has lived with the
family for several years past.
The Worlds Washington correspond
emit criticises'Speaker Randall's conduct,
saying: When Kerr was elected Speak
er, he sent Morrison to Randall to ask
him Of what committee he would pre-
fer the craftsmanship. Randall chose
and received that of the Appropriation
Committee. How Randall behaved
toward his competitors in the race for
the Speakership of the Forty-sixth Con-
gress is well remembered. Instead of
asking his last competitor what COM
mittee he preferred, he sent him an
offer of the Craftsmanship of that on
Banking and Currency, which Black
burn has declined
The New York World quotes recent
remark of General Patterson, of Phila-
delphia, that nineteen-twentieths of the
whole army would be highly gratified
if the President would dismiss Generals
Pope and Mcdowell, and take as a war
rant for SO doing the report of the Ad-
visory Board in the Porter case. The
World says: There is no doubt that
General Patterson accurately expresses
the feeling in the army, and when the
question comes before Congress, as it
must come sooner or later, that body
may perhaps prefer Patterson's sug-
gestion to the opinion recently delivered
by the Troy Times.
The parlors of the Bullion Club, New
York City, were crowded Saturday
evening. Professor Blake lectnred on
"What Constitutes the Value of a
Mine" At it's close, Coll Deane, ex-
President of the San Francisco Mining
Exchange, spoke concerning the Com
stock mines. He charged general de-
ception towards stockholders by the
managers of the Comstock lode. He
stated that three new "bonanzas"
had been discovered on the Comstock
lode. The managers kept these dis
coveries to themselves, and stockhold-
ers were not made participants in the
profits. These things he had spoken
of, he said, because he wore no mans
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