Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

An Eastern exchange contains the follow
ing concerning notorious San Francisco wo-
man. Laura Fair, the heroine of two murders,
has invented baby carriage, and sold the pa
tent for $4,000.
A fve-year- girl, lost in Minnesota
woods, had the good sense to hang bits of her
dress on bushes as she wandered, and these
led to her discovery, after she had lived four
days on berries and onions.
Four thousand nine hundred and fifty three
persons were killed last year in the north west
provinces of India and in Dude by wild beasts
and snakes, and of these 3, 81 died from snake
bites No less than 10, 514 head of cattle were
also destroyed, mostly by leopards, in the vast
grazing plains of the Tarai. Rewards to the
extent of IL, 900 rupees were paid by the Gov
eminent for the destruction of 1910 wild
animals
1t is thought that the appointment of Nc
Crazy will not be confirmed this session, owing
to the legal objections.
Twelve hundred people stood up in st.
Sunday evening, and repeated after Father
Turner solemn pledge, thereby obligating
themselves not to drink drop of Intoxicating
liquors for one year.
Ike Rector, negro, ex-city detective of
Galveston, Texas, in gambling house fight
on Monday, shot Nathan Harris through the
heart The murderer has been captured.
A Galveston dispatch of the 10th inst. says:
To-day, at Brackettsville, in fight with Dr.
Charles Rivers, of this place, Lieut.. Rosson,
of the Twentieth Infantry was shot and killed,
the former shooting him five times.
Terrific hailstorms visited several towns in
New York on Monday, destroying fruit and
causing much damage generally.
The New York San of Sunday had an edi-
torial which indicates a willingness on it's part
to accept Tilden again as the Democratic Stan
dard Bearer in 1890
A negro preacher described hell as ice cold,
where the wicked froze to all eternity Asked
why, he said, Cause don't dare to tell dem
people muffin else. Why, if | say hell is
warm, some of dem old rhematic niggers be
wantin' start down der de very fus' fros'.
A Salt Lake Dispatch says that George
Reynolds, convicted of polygamy, has been
to the custody of the United States
Marshal, who will take him to Lincoln, Ne
braska, to serve out his term of two years
He was to have been sent to the Detroit |
House of Correction, but Lincoln was sub
stituted.
Emeline Young Mcintosh, a daughter of
Brigham Young, charges Apostles Darlington,
Cannon and Young with swindling the heirs
of Brigham by undertaking the estate some
81 200, 900, and appropriating that amount.
The court has appointed receivers.
Poisonous ToYs.-Another note of alarm
is sounded by the JOurnac des ConaaisanceS
in Paris concerning the balloons,
-rumpets, toys. etc, vended by thousands by
hawkers on the streets. Many of the most
Virulent diseases of the blood have been found
10 be communicated by this means, as each of
hose toys must pass through the mouths of
5hree or four wOrkmen before they are finished
and each is usually tried by the vender while
ne is making the sale. Skin diseases which
nave lately spread among the children in Paris
md London were prOpagated by these toys.
Mothers should be on their guard to see that
hey are properly cleaned before use. The
drinking cups in cars, railroad stations and
public fountains are to be avoided for the
anne reason.
A NOVEL race took place recently between
he Continental mail express train and a pig
on. The distance was from Dover to Lon
on. The bird was tossed from a carriage
'indow as the train left the Admiralty pier.