The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-11-01

Emma Mcintyre. Virginia problem,
/ took three grains of strychnine. She may
| recover. Chronicle.
Eureka had blaze last week which de-
stroyed two dwelling houses. The origin Of
the fire is a mystery.
A firm of shoemakers announces in its adj
vertisment: "Our dancing slippers for
young ladies are simply immense.
An '.nch of rain" means gallon of water
spread over surface of nearly two square
feet or a fall of about 100 tons upon an acre
Hon. G. S. Sawyer, c. H. Patchen and
others leave tomorrow morning for De-
Lamar and Panaca to hold grand rally at
each place in behalf of the Peoples Party
As the time draws near for election our
local candidates are becoming unusually
active and do not allow the grass to grow
beneath their feet in visiting their consttu-
| ents.
The hand and iron cars for the Sierra
Valley Railroad have arrived, The
company expects to have the road running
from Chat to Beckwith in another month
Reno Gazette.
SO heavy were the recent rains in Florida
that it is said that the oceans surface,
fifteen miles off the mouth of st. Johns
river, was absolutely fresh water, without
the slightest taste of brine.-Ex.
The Silver Party nominees will address
the citizens of Panaca on Friday the 2nd,
day 9TH. T. J. Osborne, j. A. Denton and
others will speak on the issues of the day
The Virginia Enterprise, whose English is
enough to make Lindlay Murray turn over
in his grave, is now INDUCING by way of
variety in Latin, and speaks of the 'ignatus
fatuus" which somebody, probably Bartine,
is chasing
| The business men of the country are
awaiting the 9th of November with impa-
thence, because they believe on that day the
people will speak out so emphtically against
the free.t trade program that the Democrats
will abandon all ideas of further interfering
with the tariff
Altogether Francis G. Newlands did not
smell powder in the late unpleasantness be-
| tuaap ba Mo- al and Snuth % did his On.
ponent, Mr. Bartne, he has done more
for the old soldiers during his two years SER
vice, in the way of pensions, than Bartne
did during his two terms. All G. A. r.
men should remember this.-Silver State
Henry B. Campbell, a native of Maine,
65 years of age, hung himself recently at
the County hospital with rope which he
had tied to a ladder that set against the
outside of the building. Five months ago
he came here from Nye county for treat
ment of cancer of his right hand. The
cause of the rash act is supposed to have
arisen from dependency, consequent upon
the loss of his hand and the infrmities of
old age.-Eureka Sentinel.
John Il. Jones, the Silver Party nominee
for Governor, like thousands of old timers,
delved in the mines with pick and drill.
Having liberal education he subsequently
engaged in other pursuits and was elected
Surveyor General by large majority. Pre-
fering principles and the welfare of the State
to political preferment, he joined the Silver
Party at the time of its organization and de-
clared for free coinage in the goldbug infest.
ed capital of the State. He is free from
suspicion of dishonesty and corruption, and
fills the Office to which he was elected
creditably and satisfactorily.
An Eastern preacher gives the following
account of test to which he submitted one
of his boys:
said the other day: "Wife that boy
has reached period where we ought to find
out what he is going to be-" So we got up
an original experiment. We put him in
the parlor with bible, an apple and one
dollar and said: 'Wife, we will 20 and
leave him, If when we get back, he is
pouring over that bible he will follow my
profession, and we will make minister of
him. If he is examining that apple and has
! got the dollar in his pocket, we will make a
lawyer or a banker out of him." When we
came back that boy was sitting on the bible,
eating tho apple out of one hand, holding
the dollar tight in the other, and said;
"Wife, that boy is hog; wei make poll,
tician out of him. ;"