The silver state., 1880-07-26

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| stood. Americans, 544; English, $50.
| At the gun-fire for lunch the totals at
the 900-yards range stood: English,
$50; American, SIG. The Americans
commenced shooting at $50 o'clock.
Rockwell shot in place of Farrow, who
had dispute about the choice OF
prizes in the tie for the third series Of
extra prizes, and although Hyde offered
to let him have what he wanted, he re-
fused to shoot unless Hyde gave him
guarantee i'll writing that he would
have the choice. The Team, therefore,
unanimously excluded him. The dis
pute between Farrow and Hyde grew
out Of tie in the third series of extra
prizes. When the tie might have been
shes of by Hyde's gun and broken
down. The competitors had arranged
among themselves who should take the
various prizes When the selection
was made Farrow was not in camp. and
Hyde selected for him, hut Farrow
was not satisfied with the selec-
tion. Rockwell made only so at
the 900-yard range. Rockwell
only knew he had to shoot at
the last momcn6. The score at 1000
yards resulted: Americans, SO; Eng
lish, sos. The grand total was as fol-
lows: English, l,G47; Americans, l,5GS.
The total decrease of the annual ins-
terest on the public debt from August
81 1865, to July |, 1877, was S57, Sl5,-
1854, and to July |, 1880, $7l, ,343, 7l6.
The total decrease from August 81,
1855, to July /, 1876, was S6a5, sos. 23a
From June 80, 1868, to March !, 1869,
there was an increase of SO, $40, 49l;
and frana. March !, 1860, to. July l,
1870, there was decrease of S59, 62S,-
OBJ, making the actual decrease for the
year $46,0Sf.5f0. The decrease from
July |, 1876, to January /, 1878, was
So, 400, lS2. from January ], 1873, to
January |, 1879, was Sl4,7lS, ,S39; from
January !, 1879, to January |, 1850,
| IS, 500, 761;. from January |, 1880, to
July |, 1850, S67, 779,so3; making
total reduction Of the debt from August
81, 1865, to July l, 1880, of 1887, l04,:-
S23.
A terrible explosion occurred on. Sat
urday of the engine owned by Moses
May, used as threshing engine, on
the farm of j. v Davis, near Tuolumne
City, California. 1t exploded, blowing
| out both ends of the boler. The fire.
man, j. S. Dooly, was blown 50 yards
from the engine The separator was
blown about 80 feet from its place, and
was considerably broken mp. Dooly
died a. few hours after, Eight other
men were more or less injured, one of
them probably fatally. The field was
set on fire and the stack they were
threshing waa consumed.
Saturday night, on Slate Creek, in
Washington Territory, large tree
fell On the cabin occupied by Andrew
Erckin and son. They were asleep at
the time. A large crosscut saw, that
was hanging from one of the rafters,
fell upon the father, cutting him al
most in two, as he was4 emerging from
his bunk, killing him instantly. Mr.
Erckin was from Rock Islapd, Illinois,
where he leaves wife and family. He
was formerly a prominent miller at
Dubuque, Iowa.
| The New York World says thare was
large increase in the amount of bust
aess done at the New York Mining Ex-
change last Saturday, the sales amount
ing to 6S, $40 shares, against As, 720 on
Friday. The, prices at the opening
were steady, and remained so during
the day fer the most of the list
General &. S. Grant has been elected
President of the San Pedro and Canyon
Delagua Company, that owns 10000
acres of land in New Mexico, including
! copper and gold mines. Eastern capi-
talists are largely interested in the en-