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Newspaper
Pioche Tri Weekly Record
Location
Pioche, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1876
Page
2
A Washington dispatch notes Tilden preparing for possible electoral contingencies and ready to accept the presidency with Hayes counsel against fraud. Nevada items recount official presidential electors and local office moves, prize fight fallout, and political shifts including the Kentuck mine changes.
The report surveys jurors discharging Edwards versus Keating after a partial verdict. It notes bankruptcy transfers from Virginia City to Carson, tax collections, and delinquent amounts. It mentions local industry like George Emmett's Gold Hill Foundry addition, mining deals, and a dramatic theater accident recovery tale. It also covers earthquakes, stagecoach advances, and various regional notices from Eureka to Carson and Sacramento.
Nov 26 dispatch from the Executive Mansion reports D H Chamberlain as Governor of South Carolina, with President Grant directing military aid to uphold the Republican government until a new governor is legally inaugurated, advising Governor Chamberlain and the Secretary of War on troop disposition. New Orleans coverage notes Returning Board delays and public uncertainty over the presidential result and fairness of the board's decision.
The excerpt explains how a bull dose of punishment cements loyalty or forces exile, noting that the term bull doze arose from such acts. It links a cool bandred well Isidon to the practice and traces the verb’s emergence from the ritual, illustrating how coercive oaths shaped language.
Reports claim a quartz bed in the southern city may yield rich returns with daily proceeds near 400. Claims include $956 from a discovery above White Wood, over $900 by Bill Gay, over 40 percent silver at Bare Buttes and Castle Creek ledge, plus a solid gold meteorite-like specimen found on a mountain near Hidden Treasure. Information requested on George W. Bayless, last seen in Cadiz Ohio.
The Chicago Tribune cites the New Orleans Republican as noting the term bull-dozing arose about 80 years ago in Louisiana. The slang described the Stop society giving three warning calls to compel oath takers, with noncompliers facing harsh consequences for refusing to join.
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