Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

An artesian we'll was put in 9 beet
sugar factory in California that flows SOC, 900
gallons in "a hours.
"A lecture committee of Stockton, CAL,
has received note from H. NJ. Stanley that he
will speak one night for 81. 200 guaranteed.
"A well-known Chinese of Virginia City
says the census enumerators refused to take
their names unless they were paid IS cents to 81
for each name.
"A rich deposit of gold has been struck
on Logging creek. Mont. about 25 miles south
east of Great Falls. One portion OF a ledge
six feet wide averages as high as S3,1OO to the
ton,
For some years B. D. Merchant, of st.
Helena. has picked blackberries from large
bush in his yard. This year the crop Of ber-
ries was large, but the berries are all white in
color.
Samuel Hinekley, of Weston, is SO years
old, He was married in 1882, and two children
have risen up to bless him and bother their
heads as to whether they shall call him papa or
grandfather
"A "fossil forest has been discovered in
Scotland. Thirty or forty fossil trunks have
already been laid bare. most of which are gray
freestone. one of the trunks Is at least TWO
feet in diameter.
The people OF Sisson say they can see
nothing wrong with the peaks of Mount Shasta
The general belief is that II any change has
taken place 1t is owing TO the sliding OF mass
OF accumulated ice and snow.
Two preachers, named Pershall and
CutchfieId have been tried in Sprague, WASH.
for settling a dispute about land by cunning.
The latter was severely wounded, when ne
pulled knife and attacked Pershall, who TOOK
to his heels.
Among the seven prisoners recently re-
ceived at the Walla Walla Penitentiary was
McCoul the robber of the Seattle relief fund.
He was so fat that the tailor was put TO WORK
at once to rig him in a suit of bed-Tick1ng cloth.
He is in for seven years.
On recent trip North party of men
stopped over night a ranch at Elko. Col,
and when the lady Of the house showed one OF
them to a room she remarked by way OF apol-
ogy: you will find the bed KIND OF hard
We took the hay out of the mattress last win
ter to feed the starving CATTLE
"A wonderful poplar tree was recently
cut in Logan county Virginia. The log meas
ures 81 feet long. is 50 inches in diameter cubes
1U9O feet, or q. l25 feet board measure 1t will
be run out on the first water that viii carry
log of such dimensions 1t Is probably Lhe Dig
gest log ever cut and sent to a saw mill In one
piece.
While two men were hunting cows near
Fort Myers Fla, their dogs treed a large black
bear They determined to secure the animal,
but had no weapons except pocket knives.
These they tied TO long poles, and climbing the
tree after the bear. thrust their KNIVES INTO
its neck until they cut an artery, when It Dled
to death.
Last Wednesday Mr.. Murray, of the
Pittsburg mine, near Grass Valley, split open
large log. He found muzzle-lOading shotgun
that appeared to be all right. but when he tried
to pull it from the hole the stock crumblsd 70
pieces The barrels are of fine make and the
gun was evidently stolen and hid many years
ago.
There is no person upon whom con-
tinued wet spell has more depressing in1u-
ence than the retail cigar dealer. One of them
said last week that a succession of rainy days
made him blue, because his sales fall OF SO.
~ You don't care to go along the streets smok-
ing" said he, when one hand IS holding your
umbrella, and when every wind makes your
cigar sputter."
"A railroad man, who is an agent for an
Eastern road doing business with all the West
ern, Southwestern and Northwestern trunk
lines, says that 10 per cent Of the emigrant
travel goes to the Northwest. About month
from now the bulk of this business will have
been done for the calendar year. From that
time until next spring the travel VIII be chic ny
for business or pleasure
Among the distinguished visitors to
Maine this season are to be Governor William
Guy and his wife, of the Indian Territory. who
erly Miss Lindsey. of Alabama) is full blood
Caucasian and has been one of the bellies at
Montgomery, Ala. She is very beautiful and
highly accomplished, and the Governor Is a
well-known leader Of the ChickasaW parry.
"A marriage license was issued ~ -eT--
erette Eldred and Anna Smith. Of Grand
Rapids Mich, on December IL 1887. but the
same night the couple quarreled over some
trivial matter and no marriage took place.
Tuesday the couple returned to the County
Clerks office and had the license renewed, as
their love had been revived and they wanted
to join fortunes. They are now happily mar
ried.
1t is said that on Cross Island, of Ma
chias. It is daily sight to see five to Is deer
feeding on the border of the forest; these are
conceded not to be wild deer" as no one is
allowed to shoot or fire at them any month in
the year. Any one who does so Is an outlaw.
It is 1udged by men who live most Of the time
at the life saving station that there are l5O deer,
NAV be 200 on Cross Island which is one of the
bes. natural deer parks on the continent
jacob Peavy, of Waterville, is one Of
the oldest merchants in active business in the
State of Maine. He was born in German Prus-
sra in 1919 and his career is interesting one
as showing how poverty may overcome the
of affiuence. Mr.. Peavy came to Watervtlle IN
1854 On his passage to America he was ship
wrecked off the New Jersey coast. and barely
escaped with his life, losing all his personal ef-
feets and having on his body only a part OF a
suit of clothes. But he not discouraged
and as result of industry and shrewd business
habits, is to-day rich man.