Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1888-02-05
From Mondays Daily.l
IRAL1A0UNDI.
There is . case Of genuine ieuss,
at M~arysvillc, California.

John Il Bradley left hy this morn.
ing's train for wnnemsec..
John F. Weeks. Of Wells. passed
through this mouiug on his return
from a trip to California.
Joseph Scott. Of the Halleck Cattle
Company. passed shrough tiis morning
en- route to San Francisco.
Have you tried AIurray's Specific for
nervous d~iseases2 1t is highly recon-
mended. and you will find it at F. F.
Mulksr;4.
We regret to learn that Miss May
Van Dreilen is quite i'll, suffering with
a somewhat severe attack Of heart
disease to which sne ID ut times sub
iat.
Several articles OF ladies apparel,
such as oyershoes, wells, etc. were left
at the Depot Hotel on the night OF the
ball. The wne viii pleuse call and
getthem.
The Austin Reveille says he scalp
bounty act istoo heavy a drain upsn
the Lander county treasury. md advises
tha Board OF County Commissioners to
repudiate tho claims FOR bounty.
Tho Virginia City Enterprise ans the
Carson Tribune Of last Friday both say:
''There will be a total eclipse OF the sun
next Sunday" There vas no eclipse
OF any Kind on Sunday, but there was u
total eclipse of the loo Saturday.
New England and the British prov
inces are now enveloped in the cold
wave. The heaviest snow s.o:m for
years prevailed Wednesday, night aud
Thursday, and railroads are blockade6
in Maine. New Hampshire and YER
mont. Boston htrttor has been frozen
over for several days.
The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
says that the most remark nble nilroad
run on record hns just been made be-
tweca that city and Chicago. The Gu
tire distance. $50 miles. was made at an
average speed including stops. OF II mile
in one minute and twenty seconds.
The fastest runs were 10 miles IL 42L
minutes aud 30 miles in 81 minutes.
Reno Ga1.he:-Judgo Bigelow To-
day sentenced , Ohm Mellon, convicted
OF petit larceny, to ninety days in the
county Jail. In eEssing sentence the
Judge regretted that he could not g:Tc
him at least ore year. hn 81 the case
WAS lot n State Prison ofrense, lac
thought that ninety days would be as
much "a the county could stand for
board and lodging.
Sag Harbor C~onector:-It is n pretty
hard strata on tho average VT r.in-is
editor to print an editorial on ono side
Of tho page showing how a prueo,i:e
tariff produces uufse.sai Prosperity
among the voskingmc =, while tie otter
side of the page presents { r: port of Che
strike OF che Reading railroad elm
ployes. But 10 has TO do il, all the
same.
A correspondent OF the Chicago
Times. wiring from thu South, think
that the negro race there il not only de.
generating in character but actually .y-
ing out. ''There is every reason to be-
he s<yS. that the census OF
1890 will convince the world that
the negro race is rapidly dying out,
and unqn,siionnbly under that law
which ordains the survival OF the fit
The school Board OF st. Louis has
determined TO suspend those schools in
which German IL taught exclusively,
thereby saving about S70,000 annually
10 the school fund. Those teachers OF
German who are competent to teach
English also will be retained, so that
both languages will still he taught in
The public schools, and only the cIeIS-
siSoiy German schools will he discou-
tiAGsi.
All the mines in Silver City are shin,
down yet, except the Oest. Some little
work Is being done on this niue. The
Haywood started up tie 6rt Of TO
week. but the rnin storm maGo the
roads impnssabic, and urk ocrsed. !"
che mines aro looking we'll. aud IL IT,
Spring li-e,. times may 10 lookci ~,
AZ tho Haywood. 0est mud rrown Ind
Lacrouts Dines will Sn 10 turning out
good rock. -[LyoE Thmos.
Reno Ga.attS:- V The Govern
nent reduced lct.er posssr 81 tom Gaze
TO Two cents Il loft tho rate or drop
letters the same ms ! ofore, nud, lGmCD,s
tho San Francisco Bulletin, Il costs e.
much to send a letter from Nontgomc:,
TO Kcsrney street as from San Francisco
to Boston This comes within ar ne,
Of violating the "long-and. shorl.hsul'
clause, and should DO corrected by re-
ducing "drop" lctter postage to one
cent.
The National Democratic Committee
will meet in VA shinGton on Washing
toms birthday 10 fix n timc and placs
for holding tho National Democratic
Convention. Now York, Boston, Gin.
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