The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-12-20
nral INTELLIGENCE.

NARROW EsCAPE.-Monday night |
,.st while being hoisted ont Of the shaft
,,ortb of the Murphy Cut, in the Sunrise
mine. says the White Pine Reflex of the
Iqtb John Wbeatley relaxed his grasp
a, the rope and fell to the bottom. dis.
.,rca Of 40 feet. Three blasts were ready
a. On, which went off after he had
coached the bottom, and strange as it
any appear. he escaped without injury
f"'m any of them. The only injury he
,,.t,ined wa from the fall, which con
S;st of nothing more than severe bruises
,nl a terrible shaking up. When found
,,k was unconscious and covered up
with rock and dirt. all except his face,
wbich was not even scratched. There
,,,are several feet of loose dirt in the bot
tom Of the shaft, which is supposed to
have broken his fall. The sho,s that
were fired were all Of ten feet from the
bo,tom and it is thought they spent
their force against the sides of the shaft
Wheatley was being hoi,ted with his
fo,t in a loop in the rope, and. it is sup
nosed, his foot slipped out. Within a
mark: # can't hold on any longer" and
immediately relaxed his grasp. Jack
will soon be him ,elf again.
How To MAKE MUsTACHE Crow
The District Attorney elect, like all
youn5 men, is exceedingly desirious of
raising hair-covering for his upper lip,
feat he has failed in accomplishing
notwithstanding his persistent efforts
toward this end for the past two years.
Oar devil, wno has had vast experience
in the cultivation of a nustache, and who
has experimental with every known
remedy that has ever been tested for the
purpose of pursuading hair to appear On
the upper lip of a young man, from the
smearing on OF cream up to the taking up
of black cat and tickling the lip with its
tail, having been Consulted by the young
sprlg Of the law upon this most import
ant matter, aud after taking 1t under all
visemeut, the devil informed the voun .
lawyer, that after many experiments, he
succeeded only in making the hair ap-
pear on his lip after singing the fuzz. ,
The young attorney, having no fuzz on his
LIP to SINCE, did the next best thing, and
singel his upper lip. Oar devil. who ha,
been anxiously awaiting results, says the
hair made its appearance the fourth day
after the singing of the lip, and if you
entertain any doubts as to his varaclty ii
regard to this statement. so and look a
the young lawyers lip, and see for your
self.
COOP BRICK. -There are excellent
brick now being made at Bullionville
The brick is Of cream color, four inches
broad aud eight and quarter inches il
length, two and half in thickness, an,
weig five pounds. they look like tn
Milwaukee brick. These brick are mad
from the water clay, by VIM. NJ. Rob
ert., of Provo City, Utah, who use
Sword & Sons steam power press. Tn
brick are not burned, but are set gu
and dried by the sun, or in the heating
rom. They are solid and have clea
ring when you tap them. They are tn
best aud most durable brick that We hav
seen made in this country. Tho>e VIII
have seen the machine work at Bullion
vile say that it sulpasses any brick max
Ing machine that they have ever seen.
The Southern Utah Times" warn
miners in search of work to steer clear {
Frisco. 1t says: while the Horn 81
yer mine is the largest silver-lead pro
Queer Of which there is any record, ther
are now i'll Frisco more than enough I
work it. There are idle men here nov
900 MINER, to whom the term tramp Ca
not be applied. Our climate is mid, an
many miners from Northern Utah natu
ally drift south at this season for worl
We have too many here now, and agal
warn miners to go slow"
FoR the last week Miss Courtne
teacher of the Grammar school, has be-
putting the scholars through a most rig
examination. Since Miss Courtney h
taken charge OF this school the schola
have made much Roadway in learnin
She appears to thoroughly understal
the method Of i,nparting information
the scholars so that they readily appr
bend the rules of learning. The Oh
dren Of Phoebe are fortunate in securi
such an able teacher.
CHRISTMAS EVE BALL.-There will
grand ball given on Christmas Eve
Washington Hail. A luncheon will
given, we suppose, by one of the resta'
ant Tickets will be sold for 81, and
the money above the actual expenses
the ball will be turned into the Pioc
school fund. Every body go and have
jolly time. The Grand March will CO
mence at half past o'clock, sharp.
The prospectors are putting in tn
summer supply of water. They are pill
the snow up high on the mountains a
covering it with brush. They devo
most Of the past week to gathering sn'
and a number think they have sutf
ent quantity to last until June or Ju
and they can afford to take bath ev
other month.
Snow has fallen to the depth Of
feet at st. George, Utah. 1t is