The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1886-08-26

that there are forty-nine liquor clubs
IN that city, having an alleged member.
ship of 7 ,230 organized for the pur-
pose of eyading the License law.
The managers Of the American Ban
tist Publication Society at Philadelphia
have agreed to make up out of their
personal funds the loss to the society
caused by Persons defalcation.
The water is SO poor in a certain
district of New York that large
brewer has threatened that il the
quality of water in the public service
pipes is not improved he will stop
brewing beer.
Poof. John Dickinson, brother of
Miss Anna Dickinson, has accepted
the Chair of Geology and Minerale gy,
and Curator of the museum in tho
University of Southern California at
Los Angeles. Boston Traveller
Steamers from the Southern ports
bring GO, 900 to 20 600 big watermelons
per trip to New York and other
northorn ports. The freightage is )
cents melon. Last season one com
pauy received S2s, 600 for watermelon
freight.
A Ninsted, Conn, man left several
thousand dollars to be used for some
one public improvement, and ten
mile boulevard around Long Lake.
which, it is said, will be the finest in
New England, will be built with the
money.
|. A Geblesville, n. Y, farmer recently
sold his crop of hops at 0 cents a
pound. They were selling in the
markets at 40 cents per pound, but he
was one of those characters who never
see paper, and consequently was
was easily cheated.
The date of the unyeiling of the
Bartholdi Statue is appointed for
October goth. Many distinguished
frenchmen are planning to be present
at the ceremonies. The Government
appropriation of $50, 800 will, it is be-
lieved, put the statue in position.
Placing a beard upon the chimney
top is the novel snethod of eviction
adopted by Cleveland landlord. HIS
tenant, a widow. owed him Fifty cents
for rent, and he adapted the smoking.
out process as the cheapest means oi
inducing the woman to leave.
The wife of prominent merchant
at Rec Heights, ID. T., after cross-ex-
animation by attorneys as witness in
a suit, became hopeless insane, and has
been taken to the asylum. Her hns-
band thinks OF bring suit agains. the
lawyers for damages. st. Paul Globe.
a citizen Of Peterborough, Can. !,
anxious that his children shall learn
to swim, has made box thirty feet
leng, nine feet wide, and four feet
deep. aad sunk it in the river near the
shore. 1t is so arranged that the
bathers can raise or lower it to suit
their convenience.
A large portion of the rice crop at
Georgetown, $. c., has been destroyed
by floods, and hundreds Of small
farmers have lost their whole crsps.
There is consequently much destitu-
tion, and there Is talk of an extra
session of the Legislature to provide
relief for the sufferers.
Willie Sells. boy who killed his
relatives near Usage Mission, Kan.
demands another trial on ground
almost os remarkable as his crime.
He claims that the District Attorney
mesmerized him during the trial, thus
making him give any kind Of testimony
the prosecuting officer wished.
Literary Life, the magazine edited
by Miss Rose Cleveland, was levied
on Monday week, among other prop
erty owned by A. p. Elder Of the
Elder Publishing Company, to meet a
judgement OF $4,000 in favor of
James j. West OF the West Publish
ing Company. Elder says the publi-
cation of the magazine will not be
affected in any way.
There was finished and exhibited in
Mayance recently richly carved wine
cask, capable of containing upward Of
tO0 litara cp+iral, ,,o1a f,..,, a.,