The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-08
FLASHES.

struck yesterday. .....
Georgia, Virginia and Texas each
hung a murderer Friday. . -.
A. NJ. Webb, shot by horse thief
recently, ut Fort Wayne, is dead.
In some parts OF Dakota the grass
hopPers nre eating mp everything.
DR.. Pierre Adolphe Piorry, Of Paris,
an eminent medical writer, is dead.
A gas well which burns with steady
blaze illuminatcs Pontiac, III farm.
Within three months more English
officers have been killed than were lost
at Balaklava or Inkermnn.
Mayor CavnGnari will accompany the
Ameer Of Afghanis;au to CaLul, es
cortcd by a detachment Of guides.
Chicago used 80. 800, 900 gallons of
wuter daily last year. The cost of
pumping WAS sc ii per million gallons.
Subscriptions to the per cent re.
funding certificates, since Thursdays
report is S5.I2s. 800. Total to date.
s3a. .s7i,9 $40.
Massachusetts has 5.73O schools. with
$40. 900 pupils and $500 teachers; on
these schools she spends every year
5000. 600.
Russia is about TO add IA number Of
swift cruisers to her fleet. Every conn
try III the world seems able to Lulld
ships except the United States.
On the 29th one Hicks, OF Spanish
Fork. Utah. shot and killed c. +. John.
son, of Sand Hole. Idaho, in drunken
quarrel. There is much feeling against
Hicks, and some little talk Of lyrchiug
him.
Some ~ the members Of Congress
have engaged passage to Europe. The
regret Of the country is that they failcd Il
to do it last Fall. However, farewell.
boys. May you have n quick passage
and n long visit.
4 HAIErIS Is n very useful article to n
woman. 1t serves the purpose of tooth
pick, button hook and hair fastener,
but all this is no excuse for having one
in your vest pocket, when your wife
! doesn't know where il came from.
Bismarck's note in inviting the cities
Hamburg and Bremen 10 surrender
their privileges ns free ports and to as
sociate themselvcs with the imperial
fiscal system; is coucErd in such terms
Ms To leave no choice between subm,s.
sion and certainty Of commission.
The London N,ys correspondent at
Madrid announces that according To- 'hc
new treaty, Cinnamon in the Spanish
colouies will enjoy treatment tho samo
ms Tint OF citizens Of the most favored
nations, md tho commercial relations
Of Spain nnd Chinn will he placed on q
similar footing.
David Davis is n solid man in many
ways. Here is toast by him: The
restored Union: May each recurring an.
niversnry OF this day teach us md those
who come after us. that the Union is
the Inst hope for the perpotuity Of free
institutions, nnl that whoc vnr raises his
baud ngninst Il is not only nn cnemy to
liberty. but is foe to civilization" :"
"Whcre was this assault made upon
yon?" asked nh attorney OF n stupid
witness. who was prosecuting n neigh.
Dor for assault md battery. "IIey?''
asked the witness. "At what place was
the assault made?" repeated the nttor-
ncy, Right here" replied the wit.
ness, laying finger tcndcrly upon his
injured eye.
TuE eleven States that seeded owed
nt the time $4,000. .O0r ns their share Of
the direct tax imposed upon the States
and Territories in 1861, and now sec Q.
tnry Sherman nsks Congress TO point
out the way in which the collection of
That amount shall proceed. This Joke
Of SherInan's is almost as bad M n veto.
WM. l.. MonnELL. OF Forty.fourtii st.
South Brooklyn. qunrrcled with Wm.
II. Albright, of No. 2S Governor 81.
New York, ia nm open car Of the Brook.
lyu City Rilroad. MoTrell was knoc kcd
off the cnr, nnd. falling on the rails,
was nannglod horribly by the wheels Of
the motor. lie was taken to bis resi-.
d"ncc in dying condition. Albright,
and the conductor and engineer were
arrested. '--. '.. Fr"
Governor Fremont furnished Miuis.
tor Hnmhcona for transmission 10 The
Mexican government q full memoran
dun concerning bis project for turning
tho waters Of tho Cult OF Mexico into
tho Colorado desert. Scnor Zamacona
is much impressed with the importance
OF this project, and assured tho Gov.
ernor tbh. he will earnestly recommend
tho necessary consent and co operation
on the part Of Mexico. uH III.
Kearnoy has fought the good fight
and won II. and now that thore IL moth.
ing more for him TO do, he might trot
over TO Russia, and help the Czar out
Of his troubles, with tho wAtchword,
the Nibilists must go.'' But The En-.
poror oi the Russias shonid havo a care
thnt this agpitinu Hanncl.nouib don,