Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-01-26

prosecuted individual.
Young Man Ito editor What do you
think / ought to get for tho poem,
sir2 5.rt $3.50 -.--...-.. .-...-........
Editor ought to get $40.
Young Man (overjoyed) oh, that is
fully as much as I expected. ...
Editor--Yes, $40 or thirty days.
That was more than he expected.
Virginia Report:-Ben Butler has
promised not 10 run for the Presidency
this year. If he keeps it the contest
will be a rather tame affair. Butler al
ways makes things lively, and we are
sorry that advancing years have COM
PEELED him to retire from the conspicu-
GUS place he has always occupied in
American politics.
The Belmont Courier is informed
that half grown Indian girl prone
mailed the streets of Genoa, Douglas
county. bnre footed the fore part Of the
week, when tue thermometer was from
l to below z 70. Oar informant SAWS
she turuei up her toes li,tls to keep
them out of the SNOW, but otherwise
seemed TO get along first rute.
The Cursor Appeal says from all that
can be learned of the Case the general
opinion il that Grosnan is entirely in
nocent of the charge of criminal assault
Oh the Gray child. The case was Set
for to-day ut III o'clock, and it il be-
lieved that the evidence will show a
conspiracy to injnre Grosman who is q
merchant of Carson City.
Tom Short aud james Myers passed
through last evening with nine cars of
Leef cattle for the San Francisco mar
ket; one car for Col. Moore, three curs
belonging 10 Mr.. Myers and FIVE cars,
100 heaG. belonging to MIR. Short. He
is the same whoIesouIel. jolly T m as
of yore, claims to be u lively corpse, aud
proposes to postpone his obituary to an
'indefiuiIe period.
American" the Elko correspondent
of the Reno Gazette, would have the
readers of that paper believe that Elst-
ern Nevada will be entirely drpopulat d
of cattle with the exc ption of the few
that are being fed, whereas the truth il
TINT. 30 far AS can BE- learned, the, losses
VIII be no greater than usually occur
during the average Winter. There is
abSol 1t, ly no cause for III Irm.
What is probably the most venerable
piece Of furniture in exist nee has just
been deposited ia the British Museum.
1t is the throne of Q Teen II .tasu, who
reigned in the Nile Valley some 1900
years before Christ aud 80 years before
Moses. This now diIapiduted Object
seems to be OF liguum vite. the cOrviuSs
Of the legs being il Ind with goll, aud
those of the back with silver.
A B fillmore dispatch of the Gath in
slant says: At meeting OF Methodist
preachers to-, day u resolution. offered at
previous meeting censuriug President
Cleveland for sending o copy of the
Constitution Of the United States 10 the
Pope, cume up. There, WAS much dis
cussiou but the resolution was finally
adopted by vote Of 10 to 10. In the
language Of Shakespeare we might we'll
exclaim, "what fools these DlortaIs be. -
In IA r. cent interview with O newspa-
per reporter in Paris Cnuut de Lesseps,
the great canal man, suid: What do
think about the occupation of Egypt
by the Enslish2 Well, this-that the
English vii never be able TO remain
there. Egypt must he for the Egyp.
tians, and for the simple physical reas-
on that no intermarriage between
Egyptiaus and foreigners is possible
Such marriages are always childless.