The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-10
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

wells.
The singular spectacle Of an infant |
baptism in a jail is reported from ATTAIN
to, Ga.
Governor Gray Of Indiana says he
is determined that lynching shall cease
in that State.
Wyoming is to have sl50.000 terri |
torial building at Cheyenne, and s50,.
900 university at Laramie.
The taxable limit at Boston this year
is $40, ,663, ,Ss2, but the City Council asks
for about e., ,OO0.O 900.
A tailor in Albany testi6es that in the
hp.pockets of threc.fifths Of his custom.
ers no finds hard, cold. shooting.irons.
Under decision OF the Supreme
Court of Mississippi. it is doubtful If a
valid insurance policy exists in the
State.
When an esthetic through fresh young
journalist in Connecticut was married
the other day bis paper came out tinted
with rose.
Three tAlkative American maidens at
Monte Carlo are conspicuous because
perched upon the hat Of each is little
live parrot.
In Michigan there is new factory for
new purpose--to make substitute for
whalebone out Of the quills Of geese and
turkey. ....
Sermons to suit "all creeds" are being
manufactured industriously by q Cedar
Rapids man, who offers them for sale to
the profession.
1t is estimated that 800, ,000.0O0 cubic
ieet Of natural gas goes to waste every
twenty-four hours in the fields contribu.
tory to Pittsburg.
The British Government asks the Do
minion not to pass any anti-Chinese laws
likely to disturb the relations between
England and China.
Smashing some $40, 900 worth Of lamps,
the managers Of the elevated railroads in
New York are about to Gt out the cars
with electric burners.
Not only fine set of harness and a
buffalo robe were stolen from Chicago
stable, but with them high.priced bull.
dog that had been left to guard them.
New York City has only forty-sever
dwelling.houses which its Fire Depart
ment considers fire-r-oof; seven are
apartment and twenty.one private
houses.
There ia only one linen mill now il
operation in the United States, and it i
making only the coarsest kinds OF crasl
toweling. 1t has been losing money 70
years.
Saloon.keepers in Bradford, Pa, hav
undertaken boycott against some !, 4O
people who have been active in efforts ;
prevent the granting Of liquor licenses I
that county.
The TACT that the Canadian Govern
ment ia expendmg large sums on il
canals is relied On to push through th
bill making an appropriation of scvor'
millions to improve the Eric Canal.
A coffin made by himself several yeal
ago, and remarkable for the patriot
character Of it's embellishments, was use
this week to bury Joseph Coffin, WI
died near Cincinnati. aged ninety.four.
Teaching the doctrines Of Mormonisn
or pcrsuading any person or persons
espousc it, in Mississippi, has been mat
crime punishable by fine Of $500 ar
imprisonment. by q bill passed th
week.
Nine years ago Patrick Flaherty, thu
prosperous man in Chicago, got into
lawsuit with Cyrus Mccormick. the ]
ventor, and is reported to have becor
penniless by the costs Of the case, viii
is still in the Courts.
The bpef gras, or fatted OK, at t
New Orleans Festival this year, wa'
remarkable animal. He was the PURE
white. over 5000 pounds in wheigl
and appeared ready for sacrifice wi
hoofs and horns 'gildcd and neck a
shoulders garlanded.
Tho oldest Episcopal church in I
country-that in Williamsburg, Va
which contains the font in which Po
hontas was baptized. and which has !
among it, commupicants George .
Martha Washington. is said to be sa'