The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-01-10
A GRAVE OVERSIGHT.
No Provision in the New Fee System
For Issuing Marriage Licenses.

The Elko Independent has discovered
that there is no provision in the new law
relating to county officers and their
duties, which went into effect on the LIST
of January, for the issuing of marriage
licenses. 1t says: with the present
year expires the law king.county Off
ces salaried positions, they being then re-
turned to the old fee system for support.
In addition to the abrogation Of the sal
airy law, the last legislature enacted a
law establishing a new schedule of fees,
and in the list adopted for the govern
ment of County Clerks, no provision was
made for the issuance of marriage H.
censes. Now, inasmuch as law of this
State makes the commission of matrimohy
without a legal instrument from the
County Clerk authorizing the perpetra-
ton of such proceeding, penal offense,
the omission referred to, on the part of
the Nevada Solons, is one of exceeding
gravity, and will inevitably result in
great perplexity. The stolid indifference
manifested by the assembled wisdom of
the State touching this most important
matter, can only be accounted for on the
hypothesis that the last Legislature was
made up exclusively of cranky old bach
elors, who never expect to marry, and
hen-pecked husbands, sorry that they
ever did"
A CLOCK IN A BUsTLE.--An amusing
story reaches us from Paris. On Friday
last lady, having paid her hotel bill,
sent away her boxes on cab and sailed
forth on foot. No sooner had she de-
parted than the landlord discovered that
the clock had disappeared from the man.
telpiece of the room which his late ledger
had been occupying, though he remem-
bered to have seen it there subsequent to
her trunks being dispatched. Convinced
that she must be the thief he rushed out
in hot pursuit, and, oyertaking her, he
charged her with the robbery and gave
her into custody, the lady meanwhile
protesting loudly against the indignity
offered her, and vowing vengeance against
the traducer. She was, however, taken
before the Judge dInstruction, to whom
she resumed her torrent of indignant de-
NAL with the extraordinary volubility
peculiar to the daughters of Gaul. Her
indignation was at its height when 10 .
II o'clock rang forth iIclear tones from
the region of Madame's dress improver.
The expression of CONSERVATION depicted
on the fair pilferers count enance, together
with the appositeness of the quaint phe-
nomenon were too much for the gravity
of the officials, who burst into fit of un-
comfortable laughter. Five minutes later
a female warder returned the telltale
timepiece to its owner. Will Mr.. Oscar
Wilde still insist upon "the utter useless.
ness of that hideous monstrosity-the
hustle !"-[Pall Mall Gazette.
A JOKE THAT KIcKEp.-"I played
good joke on my wife last night" said
Tweezers, who isn't kept out of Jail on
account Of his brightness. "What is it,"
81 had our colored coachman stand in the
dark hall and kiss her so she'd think it
was me-" "What did she do?" Moth
ing; she only came into the parlor where
] was sitting and said: why, Tweezers,
/ didn't know know you had got home. )"
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A Gloucester, Mass, man, who is a
candidate for the mayoralty Of that city,
publishes an address to his fellow citi-
zens, in which he complains that he has
been looked down upon by some "be-
caus did not swell out more.a But he
prom rises: eff l should be elected l will
not disgrace the city, but brace up to it
like man."
Tie gravel claims in Placer county, Cal.
are immense in extent and richness. In
one claim over 500, 900 clear pr oft was
real ized during the past year. aud there
wer many claims where the gri vel paid
81 a nd upward per load.
o., information furnished by anony.
mouis letter, the sanitary autho rites Of
New York discovered huge / caps o.