The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-21
TELECRAPnIC ITEMS.

| against Flood and Coleman, executors
OF the OBrien estate, and tie Con- Vir-
ginia Mining Company, to recover
/ SIG, 900, 000 the value of tailings and
| working the same. The answer is
sworn to by A. w. Ravens, Secretary
OF the Con. Virginia Mining Company,
and admits that the company had the
means to build the mills to reduce its
ores; that the tailings are worth only
500, 900; and no collision or fraud has,
been practiced against the company,
nor any concealment. but that the COM
pany has been managed for the best
interests of its stockholders Consid
cradle space is devoted to the pending
misjoinder and the non joinder of the
parties defendant, and the causes of
action, as well as the various sections
| of the code relating to the statute OF
limitations, while another action pend
ing is pleaded at the bar. Mackey and
Fair having petitions for a rehearing in
the United States Circuit Court of the
motion to transfer the case of Burke VS..
the Pacific Wood, Lumber and Flume
Company ct al. from tae State to the
| Federal Court, Judge. Sawyer, in San
Francisco, on Monday took the same
under advisement.
An Augusta special says, The Flu
sionists will take no step to get possess
ion of the State House. They will
hold sessions in Union Hall for the
present. Their committee celebrating
on the course to be pursued is now in
session. The Eusionists have some of
their best lawyers engaged, but there is
notable absence OF the conservative
element. Ellis, of the Fusion Senate,
declared that member of Blaine's Leg
islatnre had made a proposition to
unite upon the basis of dividing the
State Offices. He did not give che
name of the party making the PROPOSE
ton. There is no such feeling on the
part of the Republicans. Machinists
worked all night on the safe in the
Secretary OF States office, and finally
opened it. There were no valuable
papers in it-nor the seal of the State
nor official election returns.
A conference OF Tammany Democrats
from all parts. of New York will be held
in Albany to-day. 1t is expected that
about hundred prominent men will be
present. john Kelly will be there. The
object OF the meeting is to make prelim-.
mary arrangements for the Presidential
convention. The results OF the confer
ence Will be to arrange for calling con-
vention of Democrats opposed toTilden,
which shall take such steps as may seem
best to defeat any movement now or
hereafter to- be made to secure Tilden's
nomination.
Acting on legal advice, Davitt, Bcen-
nan and Killen do not intend to. take
further steps to answer the writ sum-
moning them to appear before she
Queens Bench in Dublin. They take
the ground that they have fulfilled the
legal obligations by presenting them
selves in the Grown Office on Friday
last, when the. necessary proceedings
for entering their appearance was
asked.
A dispatch from Rome to the Pail
Mali Gazette says: The Pope is sur
prised and indignant at Cardinal Nc
Closky's reception .of Parnell in New
York, and has ordered Cardinal Nina,
the Papal Secretary of State; to tele-
graph Cardinal McClosky for informa-
ton on the. subject. The Pope is indis-
posed
Margaret and Lizzie Anderson, sis
ters, and both women Of bad reputa-
ton, quarreled in the street in Boston,
when Margaret drew q pocket-knife
and stabbed Lizzie to the heart, killing
her instantly.
jules Favre, the eminent French
statesman and Republican, member OF
the Senate for the Department of Rhone,
and a member of the French Academy,
oh