The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-10-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

toio by Ferdinand Ward, which he al
leges to be full and complete. The &C.
count makes two pages. Reviewing it
editorially the Herald says: OF poor
Gen. Grant, Ward says that he never
looked at the books, but took every
thing to be right with Fish. Ward
said he had made great deal OF money
from mine, and had 500, 600 OF his
own to put into the firm of Grant and
Ward and Fish in July 1850, the other
two partners putting in each an equal
amount. In November of the same
year Gen. Grant was admitted to the
firm, and it seems that thereafter the
firm began to make frequent losses.
The coal mines of Gen. Gordon, the
West Shore bonds of Gen. Horace Por-
ter, and various other losing ventures
were entered upon, Ward says, mostly
upon the suggestion of the Grants, and
it is curious to read that even Jay
Gould acted the benevolent part of ad-
wiser for the perfectly safe financial
operations.
An Atlanta, Ca, special says: Miss
Lille Boss, girl IL years old, was to
marry Jacob Wetherington, aged 66, at
Valdosta. The marriage had been ar
ranged by the girls parents. About an
hour before the ceremony was to take
place Lille fed in her bridal dress, and
at a neighbours house met Jesse Hardee.
aged 22, former sweetheart. Hardee
and Miss Boss drove to the house Of a
Justice of the Peace, where they were
married. They returned to the brides
home in time to meet the wedding
guests who had assembled. Wethering-
ton. who is a widower, took the matter,
coolly. but declined to stay to the feast
The girls parents forgave her.
Specials furnish additional particulars
OF the enforcement of the Canadian
ant. Chinese law against the admission
of Chinese from the United States. It
| is stated that Collector Beecher at Port
Townsend, on being furnished with a
copy of the Act. Immediately wrote for
instructions. While he cannot return
the Chinese who come from British Co.
lumbia, he cannot detain them at his
expense, and there is no fund out of
which to pay their board. Secretary
Manning will send reply in few
days.
A New York Times editorial says: A
private letter from gentleman engaged
| in the wreck OF the Toxic asserts:
''She was put together very badly. and
her plates are Of such bad iron that
they are cracked fore and aft and across;
and that ship could break up so in
so short time would not believe had /
not seen it. hardly think Roach will
build any more ships for the Pacific
Mail Company. He could not build q
yawl boat for me after what I have
seen."
Under the head of the champion
Mean Man." the New York Times has
the following: Drexel, Morgan & Co.
received an envelope from Augusta,
Ca, Thursday, in which was inclosed
one of the circulars issued recently by
the Grant Monument Association and a
$50 Confederate bill.
The customs officers at Chicago seiz.
ed 1000 worth of diamonds, found
among the effects of a member of the
firm of Meyer Brothers, leading Omaha
jewellers, who had just returned from
Europe and was stopping at the Tre'
mont House.
M. Lullier, the defeated candidate fol
the Chamber of Deputies at Marseilles,
has written a letter to the American
Consul at Marseilles, requesting ceT'
tifcate of citizenship of the United
States. He says he is sick of serving
his ungrateful country.
The New York Court of Appeals ha'
decided that the dedication of a sum Of
money to be expended in masses for the
souls OF the dead is recognizable in law
as legal disposition of it.
The Kennebec Journal says: The