The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-21
RULLrONvmLE AND pANAcA Dors

Monday morning for Orangevale, Utah.
Anthony Mcmahon has been pretty
sick during the week, but is all right
again.
The Conference party returned Monday
evening, well pleased with their visit to
Utah's metropolis.
Since the advent OF a handsome young
Piocher in our midst the girls of tender
years will not speak to their rural SWANS.
Jim Collins. a sporting man of consid.
cradle notoriety, arrived in Bullionville
during the week, and is guest of An.
thony Mcmahon.
Transfers report the roads between
here and Milford in wretched condition,
it having taken them Is days to make
the round trip.
Mr.. Sparks has replaced the picket
fence fronting his dwelling with hand.
some board one, which is quite an i'm.
provement to his place.
The Bullionville people make merry
each evening, rolling each other in the
dust, kicking each others shins, while
the innocent foot ball remains unmolested.
Mrs. John Wedge looks ten years
younger than she did previous to her
Salt Lake trip. Truly the medicinal
qualities of the Great Salt Lake must be
wonderful.
We learn that our school trustees in.
tend securing the services of Miss Mary
Findlay, as teacher of a primary class,
to commence on the LIST of May. The
choice is good one.
Billy Getting is at present devoting his
attention to agricultural pursuits, and
expects to raise enough vegetables this
season from his farm in Bullionville to
supply both the town restaurants.
Our village girls intend giving Calico
ball at Social Hall some time in May.
This is as it should be, for if any one
thing gives us pleasure more than an
other it is to see girl dressed becom-
ingly.
The brethren gave one OF their popular
fandangoes in the church Friday evening,
during which the patience of Bishop Lee
was sorely taxed in endeavoring to elude
too warm embrace of some of the young
ladies present, Notwithstanding his for
mer teachings to the contrary.
The RECORD says that ..the Panaca
girls are as green and tender as the
newly grown bunch-grass on the hill
side" Naughty fellow; but if they were
Mr.. RECORD, We would still prefer them
to the too too utterly cultured darlings OF
the metropolis.
That politicians are thankless class
must be quite apparent by this time to
one of our village bellies, if she has seen a
paragraph in late Sentinel in regard to
the engagement of young Howell to a
young lady of Oakland. CAL, for it is a
well known fact that it was through this
young Miss's influence that Eugene
Howell poiled so handsome majority
last November.
Los Atchison lately discovered two
claims, one on the east side of Highland
mountains, and one some four miles from
Phoebe. The ore from the Highland
claim assayed ITO ounces is silver and 60
per cent. lead, and if the ledge is as large
as claimed (which is six feet) it will
prove valuable property, as the ore is
of character denoting permanency. The
ore form the claim near Phoebe is copper
colored, being literally sprinkled with
horn silver, and has not as yet been as.
sayed.
We have read and heard great deal
Of trash lately about the unproductive.
ness of our mines, the sterility Of our
soil, etc., but after looking at the woe.
BECOME countenances of the hundreds
who flock here from Utah (the land Of
milk and honey to haul our bullion to
the railroad, making the round trip OF
200 miles for $50, one ton being all that
the average team can haul, we bless our
stars that we are still in the land of sage.
brush, even if the times are not as lively
as they used to be.
An old.timer, after looking awhile al
the football kicking Sunday evening in
Bullionville, addressed mixologist Of
one Of our popular saloons thus: "Say,
barkeep, if you'll give me nerve bracer
I'll 90 out and show them fellows how to
kick football" The "nerve bracer y
was given, and the kickest made his way
to the hottest Of the fray, and seeing the
ball coming down with the velocity Of 9
cannon ball, he struck out with both
feet and simultaneously there was dull
thud, that sent cold chill through the
crowd. and on raising the PROSTATE form
it was found that he was dead--drunk.
The school term in our village having
expired on Friday, the examination o
the pupils took place Thursday afternoon
during which the little ones acquitted
themselves remarkably well in the differ
emit branches Of a common school educa
ton, Christina Hansen, Vergie Yoachau