The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-02-07


three or four days, have attracted much
attention. He has been actively buzz
ing among all classes of Leavcnworth
society, but especially among the re-
igous and sporting fraternities- The
mystery which hangs about the young
mans movements has at last been ex-
PEELED by the discovery that he is Chas.
De Young, Of the San Francisco Cnron-
icle, who tried to immediate Xalloch, in
that city last Fall. He is supposed to
be collecting material for new biogra-
ply of Mr.. Kslloch, and the search for
authentic archives leads him into all
sorts of places-the tabernacle, the
two-forty track, and places too numer-
Gus and too otherwise to mention.
Captain Eads has. arrived in Wash
ington from Europe, where he has been
for several months studying the con-.
struction of the Suez canal and other
engineering feats, with view to per-
-fecting q plan for a ship canal across
the IsollTaus. He has had hearing
before the House Committee on the
Inter-oceanic Canal in behalf Of his
scheme, which is to construct railway
or tramway across, capable OF lifting
ocean shi ps over.
A Washington special says: The bill
introduced in the House, by McLane,
for sinking fund, provides that the
following three railroad companies
shall on the lst day of April and Octo-
Der in each year, pay into the Treasury,
to the credit of the Sinking Fund, the
following amounts, viz: Kansas Pa
citie. $4,000; Sioux City and Pacific,
$50, 600 and the Central Branch Of the
Union Pacific, $50, 600.
A telegram from Fort Collins, Colo
RADIO says: Welche's block, at the corner
of Mountain and College streets, was
burned Tuesday night. Mr.. Hopkins
and Miss Title Irwin were burned TO
death and eight other persons who occu-
pied rooms in the building narrowly es-
capped similar fate. The total loss on
the block is $4,000. It was insured
for $50, 600.
Dispatches received from nearly all
the principal places in California, giving
with leading Republicans re-
garding their preferences for Presiden-
tial candidates, show, with three or four
exceptions, an overwhelming majority
for Blaine. Grant is second, Washburne,
Sherman, ETC., receiving scattering
votes.
A dispatch from Syracuse says that
a meeting Of all the prominent men of
both factions of the Democratic party
was held Tuesday night for the purpose
OF harmonizing differences. VIM. O.
Rugar was made Chairman. 1t was re-
solved to sink personal preiudices and
preferences and unite the party.
The Senate Claims Committee, by
vote of eight to one, have recommended
the passage Of the bill to pay B. Holla
days claim of over 500, 900, for losses
sustained by him while carrying the
overland mail to California by changes
or rorte and Indian depredations.
Adolph Borie,. ex-Secretary of the
Navy, died in Philadelphia Thursday
morning. Mr.. Borie had been in i'll
health for a long time, and his demise
was attributed to a general breaking
down of his system. He was II years
Of age.
4 negro cabin on the plantation of
Captain VIM. Stack, thirteen miles
north of Columbia, South Carolina,
was burned Tuesday night. Two men,
a. woman ami six children persisted in
the flames.
French missionaries in Mossul gave
fearful account Of the rayages Of famine
in Mesopotamia, and Kurdistan, were
Christians, Jews and Mohammedans
all suffer.
The Dallas county (Texas) Court
house was burned on Wednesday,, with
many valuable papers. The building
cost BOO. 900. The loss is about one.