The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1882-12-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Connecticut now has but one active
gin dIstillery.
Cotton seed is bringing 10 cents per
bushel in Georgia.
The twentieth child has been born
to Mrs. Charles Hawkins of Nevada
county, Cal.
Des Moines has a pretty milliner
who has been the cause of four di-
vorces.
Michigan claims 10 have gained so,
600 new settlers in her northern coun-
ties this year.
Statistics show that from 1874 10
1881 there was decrease of 20 per
cent. in crime in New York City.
Joe Coburn was pardoned out OF
Sing Sing Prison, X. Y, on Thursday
last. lie is said 10 be looking finely,
physically.
When an obituary notice ends,
"No further seek his frailties to dis
CLOSE" it means, Whisky killed
him."
The Virginia Enterprise says excel
lent ore ~ now being extracted by the
Yellow Jacket Company al the Win
ters shalt.
Hunting is 4 profitable sport in
Montana. Two hun ers of G4endiNe
shot 81 40 worth of meat last month.
A man in Corvallis, Oregon, cleared
between $4,000 aud $4,000 IN the past
Two months specializing In hogs.
AtSmartsyille, California, last week,
a three year old child OF +. Ryan fell
into ditch aud was drowned.
On Saturday evening near Mayrle-
wood, La, john Morgan twhite) Kill
ed two colored inen in quarrel.
Morgan fled aud posse Is in pursuit.
The School Directors Of Nevada
City, Cal, recently refused 10 admit
four Chinese pupils to the public
school, and now the lawyers oil that
city are preparing to make test case
OF ii.
A woman of Morristown, Mimi,
went to a saloon where her erring
husband procured his whisky, and
with an axe demolished the entire
contents of the place. A revolver in
the hands of the proprietor did not
deter her In the least.
In the fifty years from 1880 to 1850
the amount of money invested IN cot
ton manufactures in the United States
increased from S40,000,000 10 S225,-
900, 900, and the bales consumed from
194 800 to 100000.
Two Mexicans stopped stage coach
near Clifton, Arizona, the other night,
took possession OF the mail and ex-
press, robbed two Chinese passengers,
then coolly butchered them and made
off with their booty.
Which is the better man of the two,
the believer in Christ who treats his
children with more severity than he
does his animals, or the inndel VINO
treats his family as his equals and en-
titled to all the pleasures and privi-
lAges which he enjoys?
A Memphis magistrate lately fined
IA young man so who get drunk at a
ball while personating George Wash
ington. The Justice said that II he
had not disgraced himself while per-
.sonating that august character the hne
would only have been 50.
In January next there will between
ty-five Democratic Governors, the
greatest number ever known. The
next highest number was in 1878,
when there were twenty-four.
At Leadville, Colorado, such profi-
cheney in smelling has been attained
that ores are now reduced for IS per
ton. Some smelling firms are said to
be taking contracts at figures still
lower.
A convict at the Nevada peniten-
tiary says he was sent to prison for
being dishonest, and yet he is com
pslled every day to cut out pieces OF
pasteboard, which are put between
the soles of the cheap shoes made
there, and palmed oil on the innocent
public as leather.