The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
The Carson papers say 500, 900 of money,


which has been lying idle in the treasury,
has been invested in United States four per
cent bonds
The ouly living ek.President of the
United States is Benjamin Harrison. But
cheer up! There will be another ex-Presi
dent pretty soou.-Chicago Times.
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depsw, who is now in
st. Louis, announces himself candidate for
the Presidency of the United States. Who
seconds this nomination?
II some Democrat in Congress would move
for the appointment OF a committee to in
quire, what has become of the late Chicago
would bring down the house. e.-Inter Ocean.
General Jubal A. Early's services to the
Louisiana lottery earned him over four
thousand dollars. Much of this he spent
on relatives and in extending help to ex.
confederates.
eff President Cleveland had invented the
alphabet he would never have begun it with
A." said a citizen recently after reading
one of Cleveland's messages. ''Why so!"
said his friend. ''Because he would have
commenced it with l" he replied.
The question "Where do all the flies come
froms" has been solved by a correspondent
| & h. hn
1.-THE cyclone makes the house Ay the black.
smith makes the fire fly, the carpenter
makes the saw fly, the driver makes the
horse fly, the grocer makes the sand fly,
and the boarder makes the butter fly.
Congress has no intention of expelling
Breckenridge. AS one member aptly puts
it. if they expell Breckenridge for his beastly
actions they will have to expell two.thirds
of the members for the same cause. This
shows a lamentabe state of affairs among
the bright lights of America.
The London Financial Times of late issue
has an abls article on the moentary question
in which it points out the absolute necessity
of the free coinage of both silver and gold tc
save the agricultural and manufacturing
interests of the world. There is strone
pressure being brought to bear upon hel
maiesty's government in favor of bimetall
ism.
Colonel Breckenridge should preach be
fore the Society OF Christian Endeavor from
the text found in proverbs XXX, Is:
There are three things which are too
not The way of an eagle in the air; thu
way of a serpent upon rock; the way OF
ship in the midst of q sea; aud the way o
mau with maid. -Ex.
Sandow the strong man, who is now in Sa
Francisco, is twenty-seven years of age
His measurements are these; Height fee
Sssnohes, weight POT pounds, biceps l9
inches, forearm l6 inches with fraction
chest natural At inches, chest expanded G
inches, weigt q inches, thigh q inches
= calf l7a inches. He has a small hand
Y comparison with other measurements, wea
, ing an 81 glove.
g After the finding on Monday of Alfre
s Vaughn guilty OF murder in the first degre
for killing Willie Lister last December, tt
!. news soon spread over Austin and the gen
h raj sentiment was that the jury had foul
- proper verdict. The crime for which t
defendant was convicted was the killing
% Willie Lister ths l6year old son of Wi
lam Lister. by shooting him with Wi
. chester rifle on Listers ranch in Boo
b. Canyon, Lander county on the 2Sth of L
IS cember, 1893, at which time the defenda
- also killed John Litster, the l9.year-t
:. brother of Willie, for which an indictme
of still stands against the defendant. Afr
go Vaughn was 81 years old some months ai
-. and was born in Austin.--Austin Reviel