The Phoenix herald., 1880-12-24
Plenty of houses to rent in Bodie.


 Quincy, California.
 In twenty years the ComstOck ha
 produced s325, 100000 in gold ant
 silver.
 For the first time in many years
 there is net solitary miner at worl
 on Treasure Hill, White Pine.
 A violent storm has been raging
 all along the Pacific coast, from
 Vancouver Island to Southern Cal
 ifornia, for some days past.
 The Pope has conferred upon D. J
 Murphy, a wealthy merchant of San
 Francisco, the hereditary title ot
 Marquis, in recognition of his great services to religion in America and Europe.
 Subscriptions for s40O, 900 in stock and $4,OOO,OOO of bonds of the Den- yer and Rio Grande railway, which were opened last week. closed yester- day. Nearly three times the amount offered was subscribed. Gov. Murray, of Utah, having fin ished the count of votes for Dele gate, the Gentile candidate, Camp bell, protests against giving the cer- tificate to Cannon, who, he claims, is a British subject, with four wives.
 A rumor current for some weeks of the transfer of the Czar's authority to council, under the presidency of the Czarowich is renewed, with the addition that the marriage of Princess Dalgoranki with the Czar be declared legal, she receiving the title of Duchess of Holstein Gotten pard. Her children will be Princes and Princesses of that title. The Czar and family will retire to Livi- dia, in Crimea, he remaining En-. peror in name though the actual au- thority however is residing in the Czarowitch.
 Scarcely day passes but what we read of the careless handling of fire arms. Two of the latest cases are the following: In Oakland, John Scotchler accidentally shot and acci- dentally killed his affianced, Miss Lizzie Tyler. Chas. Smith, of Staf- ford, N. Y, while cleaning his re- volver, it was accidentally dis charged, the ball hitting his mother l in the head. She exclaimed, My | God, Charlie, J ou have shot me-" and | instantly expired.
 A special to the Cincinnati Com mercial says a negro fend, James entered the back door of l Joe Mlller's house at o'clock this at Pine Bluff, Ark, where Miller's wife and two children were in bed, and after nearly choking her to death, succeeded in ravishing her. He was caught and hung to a tele- graph pole.
 On the same day Jay Gould's con- at Irvington, was burned. Loss S150,OO0. His greenhouse was the finest in the country. There was 10 insurance on the property.
 Madame Thiers, widow of the late President Thiers of France, is dead.
 Wells, Fargo & Co. have secured he right 10 carry express and estab- ish agencies on the line of the Atch- son, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. The following will be of interest 0 our miners Senator Teller, on he 18th inst, introduced a bill pro- iding that any person owning six or ny less number of mineral lodes,- sdges or ss sblanket,'-clafms adjacent ) each other, or not more than halt mile apart, on which the assess lent labor for the first year has been erformed, may thereafter perform pon any one claim of the combined timber the entire assessment labor ue upon the whole number of the I Iaims. If pay mineral is reached n the claims worked, it shall then sase to be counted as one of the and another shall be elected on which to work the assess lent of the remainder, and so on ntil the pay mineral is reached, or Il of the ground abandoned The ill also provides that the mining aims located since the 10th of May, '72, whether located by one or more ersons, shall not exceed 1900 f5et in ngth along the line of the vein on le lode, and that no claim shall ex- nd mere than 300 feet on each side the middle of the lode or location l the surface.
 Nine-tenths of the business DOT on of the town of Pensacola, Flor Ia, was destroyed by fire on the 11th oss about S50O,OOO.
 During Mile. Bernhardt's first four d ecks stay in New York, ,the receipts f ere S9S,942, an average of over ' ), ,957 per night.