The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-12-17
TELEoRAPHIC NEWS.

4ELEo II Afa1C NEWS.
The discussion on the rules OF the
House promises to run several days
Randall is determined to exhaust every
effort to defeat the plan to distribute
the appropriations, and will have the
active support of some of the strongest
men on the Democratic side. In con-
versation Randall said that the d.. bate
would continue for FIVE or six days, and
that while he recognized that the senti.
ment of the House seemed favorable to
the distribution, he had hopes that the
discussion would produce a change of
feeling. The division on this question
is not marked by party lines, and the
contest promises to be interesting.
The New York Times, commenting
on the fact of eighteen petitions havin g
been sent to the House against the
stoppage of silver coinage, declares it is
the concerted, organized efforts of the
sllver.mine owners of Nevada and
Colorado. In most cases they ask for
unlimited coinage Of silver and gold.
They wish to be able to take $50, 600, {.
600 in silver direct to the Mints and re-.
ceive $45, 900, 600 in standard dollars,
made legal tender by the law. Prob
ably theythink by demanding go much
more than they have they can compro.
mise by keeping what they have got.
Recently the provision dealers in
Patterson, N. j., have had many com.
plants about eggs. One dealer had an
alleged farmer arrested and fined for
selling ancient sleggsi that had been
treated insome way so as to look like
fresh eggs. Another dealer tried some
eggs and found that the shells were
made of plaster of paris, and the in.
terror OF chemical mixture. Several
provision dealers say there is a factory
l..
in New York for manufacturing artificial
eggs, but others say the eggs are
''limed."
A bill has been prepared by Repre-
sentative Weaver of Iowa to create a
Department of Labor, with Secretary
and Assistant Secretary. A similar
bill was introduced in the last Congress,
but it failed of passage. Mr.. Weaver
proposes that this department shall &C.
quire and diffuse among the people USE
full information on subjects connected
with labor, and ascertain the causes of
discomfort between employer and en-
ploye, where such exist, and recommend
proper methods for adjusting these
differences.
General DeCourcey, commander OF the
French forces in Tonquin, telegraphed
the French War Office yesterday that
General de'Negrier has cleared the Mar.
BILE Mountains, north of Maiduong, of
Black Flags and pirates, and captured a
number of fortified caverns and large
quantity of arms and ammunition. One
cavern was desperately defended and
fully 100 pirates were killed before it
could be taken. Numerous war.iunks
were sunk between the Rapids and
bamboo canals. The country has been
pacified.
b. j. Shay, who was shot by j. C.
Brown in the Nevada restaurant, San
Francisco, ON the Odd of October last,
while taking dinner with Brown e wife,
died Tuesday. A charge of murder
was placed against Brown on the prison
register. Brown has been in prison
since the shooting. Shay left depo-
sition in which be relates the circum.
stan ces of the crime. stating that the
cause was known only to the clergyman
who attended him in his last moments.
Next Monday, under the call Of
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