The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-12-04

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dance was progressing, Bud Wood
asked Miss Grace, Stan6eld to dance,
which she declined. Wood became
angry and demanded the dance to
cease. Wood then followed Will. Cur
RE into a back room, provoked a. fight,
and Currie knocked him down with a
pair of tongs. They then met outside
OF the house and had a. duel with pis-
tolls. in which dozen shots were ex-
changed. Currie was wounded in the
hand, by-stander in the leg, and
George Wood shot in the thigh. Bud
Wood then went where Miss Stanficld
was talking with. Albert Coch, and
made two attempts to shoot her, then
remarking to Coch, "You are friend
of Currie, shot Coch dead aud escaped.
The Louisiana election passed off
quietly. Avery light vote was polled-
probably hess than o-thirds,vote.
The Ring ticket in New Orleans was
generally elected. Special dispatches
to the New Orleans Democrat from all
the relegraphic stations in the State
show heavy Democratic gains. These
reports, giving the estimated maierities
in. eleven Parishes; claim Democratic
gains of 1900, compared with the
Democratic count of 1876. The same
parishes gave Hayes LOGO ma
j. ity.. All the dispatches say the
election passed off quietly, and. most
of them. report the negroes voting the
Democratic ticket and for the adoption
OF the New Constitution.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
has received dispatch from. Collector
Clark, of Atlanta, Geo., stating that an
assault by band Of Illicit distillers had
been made upon his deputies in Towns
County. The Collector says that three
of his Deputies, after Selling several dis
tilleries in Rabun County. wers fired
upon and all wounded. one Of them FIVE
times. The deputies retained the fra,
and being armed with United States
breech- loading rifles, were enabled to
drive the illicit distilleFs Off Collector
Clark expresses the opinion that there is
a preconcefted plan ON the part of illicit
distillers throughout the entire mount
ain section to resist the revenue officers.
The Commissioner has directed the COL
lector to employ a sufficient force of
armed men to assert and maintain tie
supremacy of the Revenne.laws.
John Scott, leadingeelored man from
North Carolina, left. for Indiana last
night in charge of a company of l25
colored emiTants.. He reports that 400.
will be ready to leave when he reports
to them iasregard to the location. He
says at least 2, 00o.will leave. the section
of North Carolina where he resides
before Spring The railroads, at the
suggestion of the planters, attempted to
aid in keeping these people IN the state
by raising the fare to Washington from
IS to $40.
Queen, Victoria is. repeated seriously
i'll. Her Majesty's physicians,are said
to regard her case as requiring most
careful and skilfull attention, and have
issued orders to perrnit no one except
her nurses and family to be admitted to
her presence at present..
The Chemnitz, (Saxony) Tageblatt
states that an explosion Of fire damp
occurred ina mine in that district on
Tuesday evening, and it is feared that
from seventy to eighty persens per-
ished. Recovery of the corpses is ac-
lively proceeding.
A fire broke out in the toy and sta
tionary store of Henry Wagner at
M@ysville, California, yesterday and.
burned two buildings. Loss about
$1,000.
At the New Haven, Connecticut.
election, the Democrats. elected their
ticket by majorities ranging from 500
to 500. The Common Council is Dem
ocratic for the first time in three years.
Rnmors are chsrent that an attempt
was made upon the life of the Car
while on his way 10 Moscow, but no
authentic details of the affair have been
received.