The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-02-15

Mr ID. Do0uttle mas loSt MS vile,
Mrs Fl. Doolittle; and Mrs. H. Doohttle
has lost her husband, Mr.. H. Doolittle. |
Mr.. and Mrs. Doolittle had lived together
as happy as pigs in clover for 30 years.
Last April this couple quit house-keep- |
ing, in Round Valley, when Mrs. D., by |
ber husbands consent. returned to make |
her parents visit in Iowa, where she |
expected to remain year, Sometime |
after this. Mr.. ID. went to Trinity and |
Yuba counties. prospecting and mining. |
Mrs. D., for some cause best known to |
herself, concluded she would not stay a |
whole year with the old folks at home,
but would come back to California Ac-
cordingly, in November she wrote to her
husband, who Immediately informed her
of his whereabouts. Unfortunately, she
took her departure before receiving his
letter. She returned firss to Round Val
ley, the scene of many happy days. Ar
irving here, she was much disappointed,
and at once set out for her husbands
headquarters in the mines. The bus~
band having heard of the wife's return.
set off at full pace for Round Valley.
For more than two months these parties
have been in earnest pursuit of each
otucI. uo uusDduu 10 uUW at Etuk
Judson's. near Bloomfield, disconsolate,
discouraged, busted and almost broken
hearted. The wife is thought to be some
where in the northern part of the State,
in like condition. Petaluma Argus.
A boiling spring has been discovered
between the Palvadero and Los Gatos
Creeks, in Tulare county. An ingenious
individual has applied for the water
right, and has constructed clothes.
wringer to be run by water-wheel at
one side of the spring, where it boils
| over into another of clear cold water, in
which the proprietor has placed o sack
of indigo. The ranchers of the settle
ment resort to the spring to do their
washing. Tbs clothes are thrown into
the water. which has whirling motion,
and are drawn in out of sight. In about
five minutes they come to the surface,
float to the wringer, and are run through
into the other spring, where they are
rinsed by passing through another
wringer. In less than thirty minutes the
washing is done, and the rancher is ON
his way home rejoicing. His happy
wife meets him at the door. hangs the
clothes out to dry, which takes but
short time, and the washing is done. A
scientific gentleman intends visiting the
spring soon, to ascertain concerning re-
ports, and q number of ladies intend to
make their permanent homes there,
where there will be no more sore knuckles
or tired hands.-[Visalia Delta.
The MAN WHO KICKED DICKENs.-Old
Major Throckmorton. keeper of the Gait
House in Louisville, is dead. He was a
good old man, and Kentucky to the
bone. When Dickens came to his house
in 1916 the Major gracefully and hospit-
ably addressed him thus, while the as
sembled crowd looked on and listened
with admiration akin to enthusiasm:
Mr.. Dickens. we are glad to meet you.
We know you and admire you, and will
J reckon 1t privilege to be allowed to ex-
tend to you the inequalities of the me-
tropolis OF Kentucky. As your especial
host beg that you will command me for
any service in my power to render" Mr.
Dickens received this with rigid stare.
, when need you, landlord" he said,
pointing to the door, II will ring" The
! next moment the distinguished author
was half way out OF the window, the
Majors boot under his coat-tail, and
numerous Kentuckians holding tho
Majors coat-tail, for the Major viewed
insults from strictly Kentuckian point
of view, and the only mention of this in
cident in the American notes" is that
Dickens saw o pig roofing in the streets
Of Louisville, which proves that great
novelists are more careful about their
fiction than their facts.-[ Washington
Post.
BLUNT Bur TRUE.-There is said to be
young man in the Missouri Penitentiary
whose parents at their death left him a
fortune of fifty thousand dollars. There is
, where his parents made fatal mistake
If they had taken the precaution to in.
vest that sum in q small dog and SHOOT
him, and then had simply left the young
man a jack-plane, or wood saw, with
8 printed instructions how 10 use it, the
, chances are that, instead OF being in the
= Penitentiary. he would to-day have been
gradually. but surely, working his way
up to a handsome and honorable old age
4 But ever since the day Of Adam and Eve
t parents bave made it point to toll anc
. struggle all their lives in order to rea
lize sufficient sum OF money to pur
J chase, when they are dead and gone
Q their sons each tirst-class through tickle
!. to the devil; and it is not so much to b,
wondered at that their sons, reared il
vice and idleness, as too many Of then
are, have no higher ambition than to in
vest their inheritance in just that sort o
v transportation Footlight.
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DR.. Hale of Chicago, taking as hi
text the case OF woman who was ru,
J. over in the street and killed, because sh
!, drew back after starting to cross ahea,
Of pair of horses, says that he is sur
prised that more women are not hurt il
II the same way. "a woman starts t
n cross the street," he says, land whe
( she gets one-third or half way over Oh
:, sees team approaching; the driver il
70 nearly every instance watches her move
ments, and seeks to drive in behind hel
if she keeps on her way, all is we'll. ]