Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-06

MORNING APPEAL.
FRIDAY 6. 1873
On Monday last 200 miners were discharged
from the Sutro tunnel. Only 400 are en-
ployed there now.
For the four months ending May LIST, the
losses by fire in the United States amounted
to over $50, 100000; s11 200, 900 more than
the losses during the same period of 1873 and
1877 respectively.
THE special train containing the 500 Chi
cage Sunday School picnicers, has arrived in
California. They passed over the Sierras dur
ing the day time, and will doubtless get their
moneys worth of sightseeing.
Thu Times RecieW says: We saw at the
Independence Office yesterday, some ulphuret
ore from the 300-foot level of the Indepen-
dence mine, which is hard to beat in any camp
1t is covered with wire silver, and glass is
not required to see it either.
HENRY J. PRATT, of Clover Valley, finds
by experiment that the water from the hot
springs is equal in every respect for irriga
ting purposes to mountain water. His grain,
grass and vegetables doing WELL and the
prospects for good crop are excellent.
Mr. WOODBRIDGE, of Hilsborough, Texas,
went into drug store, drew revolver, COM
PEELED the clerk to give him strichnine; said
that he would shoot anybody who attempted
to prevent his suicide; took the poison, and
died with the cooked weapon in his hand
The COmstOck miners are noted for their
generosity to the families of men killed in
their dangerous yocatiOns. On their last pay
day they made up purse of $3.50 for the
widow of Charles Robinson a miner recently
killed in the North Consolidated Virginia
mine.
Crown POINT ELECTIoN.-The Crown
Point annual meeting was held Monday The
old officers we're reelected, including c. L.
Weller, President; A K. P Harmon, Vice
President; Samuel Jones, Superintendent;
James Newlands, Secretary, and the Bank of
California, Treasurer
ROME correspondent remarks that Carl |
baldis cOuntenance has quite lost the vivac- |
lous expression it used to wear He cannot |
stir without assistance, and suffers frequently |
from intense pain. Garibaldi is now 70 years
old, and it is twenty nine years since he was |
making soap and candles on Staten Island
THE Bessemer gold medal for 1876 has been
awarded by the English Iron Association to
Peter Cooper, ''the father of the American
iron trade. 1t was received by Mr. l. Low
THAN Bell, NJ P, on behalf of Mr. Cooper,
who, he stated, was only prevented by age
from undertaking journey across the Allan
tic to receive it in person.
HE ReseHe contains the following dismal
prediction concerning the hay crop of that
section; " 1t is believed that year from now
hay will be worth $75 per ton in this CITY.
There will be no new crop to amount to any
thing to NOW in this district this year. and
grass Is shorter than it has been for several
years. Much stock will probably starve next I
Fall and Winter. t
On Tuesday night Constable German of
Eureka arrested five opium smokers A bet i
Ter haul than has yet been made in Carson. ?
Attorney Beatty of that town has made the h
'olnt " that the law passed by the last Legis- c
allure was not intended to prevent any one
rom smoking or using opium upon their prem
SEES. Ii this point can be sustained, it would )
eem that the law is in great measure inop- u
rative. II
HE following Bodie mines are listed on the
Jew York Mining Exchange: Bodie, Bulwer.
'echtel and Con. Pacific. The Standard is
sted on the New York Stock Board. Durino y
he week ending May 23d SO shares of Bodie nj
Jock were sold on the New York Mining Ex- Is
lange at prices ranging from $13 to S23 per
lare. Of standard $500 shares were sold of
from $29 to $33. In Con. Pacific 500 ne
lares changed hands at from So so to 81 10 -, -
THE stataman+ 10 ;a,, :; A., O. pa
~ 7i'o'i LA VIC oe"'"tet on tn
e authority of Assemblyman Sharp of White sic
ne, that c. V. Hoyt, editor of the late
berry Greek Independent has " skipped OUT
lett the country According to the same =: 70
thorlty the impression prevails in White o1