The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-04-26

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recently at Dubuque.
There are seventeen candidates for
sheriff in Union county, Oregon.
In the roomof kleptomaniac in Lon.
don were found 900 umbrellas.
An Ottawa prophet predicts three
weeks of steady rain for April.
Robert Bonner of the New York Led
ger is sixty-two, and worth 81, 900, 900.
Cocoanuts to the number of million
and half are stored in New York City.
Three COWS in Nantucket have this
spring given birth to calves without eyes.
A twice convicted felon has been chosen
Speaker of the Queensland Parliament.
A minstrel company has been formed
from the more intellectual students OF
Dartmouth.
Chicago butchers have killed l, lS2, ,9O5
cattle and 3,9ll, 1872 hogs since March l,
1883.
Barnes, the mountain evangelist, claims
to have converted "a 900 persons in seven
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Two entirely white opossums, with
dark eyes, were recently found at Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
A firm of Tullahoma, Tenn, is said to
ship 1000 eggs per week to Northern
markets.
A Connecticut minister has denounced
kissing games at church social gatherings.
He is ninety five years old.
Adolph Stein, seventeen years old, of
New York, dressed himself in his
mothers clothes and hanged himself.
Near Grenada, Colorado, on Sunday
and Monday, over 1000 mules were
killed by an attack Of buffalo gnats.
The New York district messenger boys
have been ordered to wear clean shoes,
standing collars, and short hair.
All portly street car conductors in
Philadelphia must 60, to give place to
small men weighing less than 100 pounds.
A Southern paper estimates that $685.
600, 900 was invested in the South during
the first two months Of this year.
Boston caterers during the present dull
season busy themselves putting up sand.
wiches for the summer picnics.
A newspaper at Cherokee, Iowa, is
owned, managed and edited by man
who is totally blind He is assisted by
his wife.
Mr.. Harrison ssked the Wyoming, Pa,
conference for holy orders last week and
was refused, because a short time ago he
had taken part in the strike at Wilks.
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The Postofice Department uses every
year $50, ZOO worth Of wrapping twine
and $ll, 200 worth of ink for stamping
and cancelling letters.
A New London whaler has killed the
largest whale ever caught. It yielded
1853 barrels Of oil and 1900 pounds of
whalebone. 1t was killed in Cumber-
land Inlet. IA E
1t will require fully s25O,oo0 more to
complete the work of erecting the
Bartholdi statue in New York harbor,
and there seems little probability of the
money being raised. ed} r.{tv-
An apple tree in Mercer county, Ken
lucky, has borne fruit for sixty seasons
without failing. Five feet from the
ground its trunk is ten feet and nine
inches in circumference.
Deacon Mayberry of Windham, Me-,
recently sold quantity of hay that had
been cut twenty-five years. He has
been holding it all that time for 500 a
ton, and finally got his price.
Neat cattle to the value Of 5000, ,000,-
600 are said to subsist entirely on natu.
raj grasses along the slope of the Rocky
Mountains from the British, possessions
down to the Gulf of Mexico. 4V
It costs S6O.S5 to go from New York
to Ell Paso, and $59,25 from Ell Paso to
the City of Mexico by rail. The present
running time between New York City
and the City Of Mexico is seven and a
quarter days.
The outer walls of Westminster Abbey
are so much ont Of repair that an imme-
diate expenditure of between $500, 900
and $4OO, 900 will be necessary to prevent
the grand edi6ce from becoming grand
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There is a movement in England for
the abolition Of the action for breach Of
promise. Such suits are alleged to have
become 80 numerous that their influence
is demoralizing, and the justice obtained
has become insignificant in comparison
with the injustice done.
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