Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-01-29
BRIEF MENTION.

All tildl JuIOlS VI thC AhiN u WI
cial District Court have been excused
for the term.
The grocery store of c. F. Black
mer, at Silver City, was sold at con
stables sale last Wednesday.
John Daniels, of Greenfield, Mason
Valley, and Mrs. Dyer, Of Virginia
CITY, were married few days ago.
The Virginia Chronicle now reach
es Dayton shortly after 7 o'clock.
This is nearly an hour earlier than
heretofore.
]. J. Cooper is in Dayton with
sample copies of McCarthy's Stats
tician for 1881. The book contains
much new matter, and has 624 pages.
Price, 81.
Hon.J. j. Corbett has introduced
in the Assembly bill t. prevent
gaming. 1t was ordered printed and
referred to the Committee on Public
Morals.
The Sheriff Of Storey county has
executed a deed of the Baltimore
Consolidated mine, on the Comstock,
to E. Strother, for $4,000. Judge
STROLLER is spending the winter in
,Cresco, Howard county, Iowa.
The new arrastra of the Lothrop
brothers, at the Rock Point mill,
was started up last Wednesday, and
has since worked satisfactorily. Mr..
Stiles, OF Dayton, is captain of the
rig, and feels as proud of it as if it
were man -o'war.
Senator " esterfieli has introduced
d bill increasing the maximum Of the
annual tax which may be levied for
school purposes from fifty cents to 81
on the hundred dollars. In case the
Commissioners neglect to levy said
tax the County Superintendent of
! Pubtc Schools u authorized to make
1.-THE levy.
An article winch appeared in the
iEsmeralda Herald few days ago re-
fleets very severely upon the new
teacher at Greenfield, and calls for
some action on the part of the school
erustcos Of that district. II the article
IS true .thc teacher should lie re-
moved; if the oontrary is the case,
= the teacher should be Endorsed and
rthe writer If the article exposed as a
vile slanderer.
A Delegation &c teachers from
SStorry xnd Lyun counties will appear
tbrf1re the Senate Committee on
Education, in Carson, to-day, to dis
-cuss the various bills now in the
hands of that committee, and parli
-cularly to urge the passage ef the
bill receRtly discussed at the Teach
ers' Institate in Virginia City, pro-
viding for the issuance of State Ger.
tificates to teachers.
The Third Judicial District Coust
has been occupied, during the past
two days, in considering the oppose
ton of Sam. Longabaugh, of Empire,
to the final discharge in insolvency
of George Elder. when the jury
went to supper, last night, two of the
members were observed slowing two
decks Of cards and a quart of beans
in their pockets. We therefore con-
cluded not to wait for the verdict
Ed
Horatio Angel, of Silver City, who
carried the TIMES to subscribers In
Silver, Gold flll and Virginia during
the pas. two years, has severed his
connection with this office. From
the day that he entered upon the
discharge of his duties Horatio never
missed day, no matter what the
weather, his accounts were always
correct, and all his work was
promptly attended to. We consider
him most desirable assistant, and
regret to part with him. Harry
Mayne, Of Silver, will deliver An
CELLS route from this time on, and
will endeavor to do as well as his
immediate PREDECESSOR.