The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-12-01


latter part of this week. Senator Stan.
ford will not arrive until after the holi.
days. Some doubts are expressed as to
the ability of Senator Miller to make
the long and exhausting journey to
Washington until Spring, although the
latest reports of his health indicate con-
siderable improvement.
Berlin has sensation Of the first
order in the trial aud conviction Of the
Marchesa Rita Candios, daughter Of
Marc, the tenor, and Gris. The Mar
chesa has been prosecuted under four
teen charges of having swindled jewel
ers, otel-keepers and modistes of large
sums under various false pretences. She
has been convicted of all the charges
and sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment, with an allowance of six
months for the detension she has already
undergone under previous sentence
less justly inflicted.
The stock exchange firm of W. 4.
Connor & Co., in which Jay Gould is a
special partner, with capital Of ST.
600, 600, and George ]. Gould general
partner, will be dissolved at the end OF
the year. The partnership expires De.
cember 3lst, and il will not be renewed.
Both of the Messrs. Gould will formally
sever their relations with Wall street,
and will hereafter devote their time and
energies principally to the management
of the corporations in which Jay Gould
is most largely interested.
The great falling off in the price of
copper is probably owing to the depre-
citation in silver. The immense quaint.
ties mined in Arizona, Montana and
California have glutted the market to a
great extent and reduced the price
largely. Yet, although copper fell SO
much in price, still within year and a
half or so it was selling at about EGO a
ton in London. and it is only within the
last three or four months that it has
gone down as low as f39, and now ZAP
Oddly enough the stock of copper in
America is exceedingly small.
An Atlanta, Georgia, dispatch says:
"While the funeral of John Harvey was
in progress it was noticed that the coffin
was very light. This induced the open.
ing of the lid, when it was discovered
that the coffin was full of sand. Harvey
died in the hospital, and the doctors had
evidently used his body for the dissect-
ing table"
DIR. Thompson, who attended Hen.
bricks, makes formal denial that the
Vice President was subjected to bleed
ing. This is in answer to the published
charge that Hendricks had only one
acute pain in the stomach and was bled
to death through the stupidity OF his
physician.
The New York Times, in a review of
the Chinese question. based ON a two
column article by Portland correspon.
dent, declares. Enthusiastically, that
while the Pacific Coast people dislike
the Chinese and regard them as a nui.
sance, they are not prepared to do with.
out them.
The Town Hall was crowded at q
meeting at Helena, Montana, held to
devise means for ridding the town of
Chinese. The leading citizens are re-
solved to go at the Chinese evil in law.
full aud legitimate way.
An armistice between Servia aud Bull
garia has been concluded. The cessa-
tion of hostilities was brought about by
the efforts of the Austrian Minister at
Belgrade.
The British expeditionary force has
captured Mangyan, after a sharp fight
with the Burmese.