The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-08-27
GENERAL NEWS.

The story that comes from ot. Joseph,
Mo-, about three nonth-old baby with
a beard Is inches long is not exactly
bare faced lie but it would be il it were
shaved.
The trouble at the Omaha smelter is
ended. Tho men agreed to return to
work at the same terms as before, and
the officers of the smelter decided to
start up at once.
The export of specie from New York
for last week aggregated Sl34, 75l, of
which 81, 300 was gold. The imports of
specie for the same time aggregated
$40. 547, of which S3S, 96S was gold.
The Omaha man who says he has
fortune of more than a hundred thous.
and dollars which he proposes spending
in order to get bill through Congress
pensioning the ex-slaves, deserves to be
placed at the head of the class Of rain
chasers.
John Conway, a steamship fireman,
convictel of murder of a boy whose body
was found floating in sailors bag in
the river was hanged on the Goth at
Liverpool, Eng. The hanging was a ter.
rible affair, the mans head being almost
torn from his body by the heavy fall.
The Russian Government has just is
sued ukase ordering that all sardine
boxes are to be opened at the custom
houses on the frontiers. 1t appears that
shoals of Nihiists tracts and proclama-
tions have been recently imported into
Russia from France in apparently genu-
inc sardine boxes.
A dispatch from the Province of Ter
afshan, Asiatic Russia, states that Cap.
tain Barchewsky, the explorer, has ar
rived there from an expedition into
Eastern Bokhara. The Captain reports
that he there found large deposits of
gold, lead, iron and petroleum.
Ex.Reprepresentative Kelly, of Kan
sas, who is charged with having left the
Republican party to become a member of
tae Peoples party for the purpose of get.
ting the seat now sa ably filled by Pres,
ton b. Plumb, will not only have to wait
long while, but he will have to do lots
of growing before he can fill that chair.
II. w. Patton, editor of the Banning
Herald, who went to explore the salton
Sea in the Yuma desert, is in San Di.
ego. He believes that the lake, or sea,
il OF permanent existence, and that the
climate of the region will be so moder.
ated and adjacent banks fortified that
it will be a small sized reproduction OF
the Garden of Eden.
There are 1000, 000,O0 cigars made
annually in the United States, and twice
as many cigarettes. These are exclu.
sive of the imported oaes. making many
millions more. II to the statistics given
We add the quantity of tobacco used OF
pipe smoking, chewing and shutting we
get an idea what kind ola tobacco using
people we are.
series. of experiments by Thomas
Harrington, of Pittsburg, in the proper.
ties and uses of nickel, steel and man.
ganese bronze have resulted in the dis.
covery of new metal. The chief char.
ia ms very high tensile strength and is
indestructible by corrossion, being i'm.
pervious to acids and that it can be
wrought into spikes, nails, ETC., while
either hot or cold.
Aeronauts have been having a hard
time lately. One fell 1000 feet at Ia.
coma; an aerial bridal party at Denver
took a tumble to itself of 5000, "king
of the air, -" was drowned by falling into
a lake at Syracuse, and female para
chute leaper fell 500 feet to an instant
death. Such occurrences are liable to
seriously effect the price of air ship
stock.
The Emperor William is having a
!
hard time defending the reputation of
his health against the charge of a host
of maladies in the Berlin press, as Mr..
Blaine has hal all Summer in meeting
the charges of the press of this country.
/ The superhuman activity of the young
monarch in skipping around the capitals
of Europe ought to be an ample certif.
cate Of health, without any piecing out
by semi official de lsrstions on the sub.
ject.
Advices from Carthsgens, United
! e. - - G-.l.::.l:: 49, th.t . d;an.+oh
has been received there from Curacao