Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-04-04
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valedictory, the Governor has refused to
call an extra session, and Mitchell feels
like one who treads alone. Let the Com
monwealth breathe easy. The curtain
has fallen on the hugest burlesque on
representative government ever PLAYED
in any State or Territory in the Union.
No such another Legislature can ever
assemble in this State. The majority of
the members of this one will ere the next
election be either hung, in the peniten.
tiary, or in the chain gang, and their
peers, thank God, can not be found in this
world. Oh for photograph of this last
Assembly But no photograph could do
it justice, for it could not take the stink.
Almost every legislator had his distinct
and peculiar flavor, which was part of his
identity. How poor and inadequate an
idea OF pole-cat is conveyed to one who
has no acquaintance with the animal be-
yond picture of his pretty, spotted and
kitten-like form To do Ferguson Justice.
he made an admirable Speaker. By
strict attention to business, and careful
training, he acquired SO just and dis
terminating nostrial as to be able to
distinguish member by the smell. "Mr-
Speaker !" shouts member through the
pestitential haze of filth and tobacco
smoke. "The gentleman from Story"
promptly responds the Chair, although
the agitation of his feet that he has been
able to recognize him. Once Ferg. made
a mistake, through two members getting
drunk together and swapping boots but
that wasn't Ferg.'s fault. By gentle.
man who lately stood in the lobby and
took look thereat, holding his nose, we
have been furnished with birds eye
view of the Assembly. The House was
full. A bill was up (which had money
into it." to adopt ths expression of
gentleman from the de5ert A member
was earning his money by believing ad-
vocacy of the measure. Another, hav-
ing divested his foot of an India rubber
boot and the fragment of an old yarn
sock, was parting his toe-nails with a
bowie knife. Another, with his head
recumbent on his desk, was giving frag-
rant evidence of the villainous potations
which be had imbibed the night before.
An animated contest with quids of to-
bacco, which bespattered the walls, en-
gagged the ardor of four other members.
The member speaking subsided. Two
others struggled for the floor. One of
them yielded, remarking, "You got the
bulge on me-" Smoking, splitting, belch-
ing, cursing and swearing, were rife
everywhere. The floor swan in tobacco
juice, and the air was thick with nox-
ious vapors. And over this tatterdema-
lion, ragamuffin rout, with eyes compla-
Gently closed but with nose alert, Fergu-
son presided. Good people of Carson,
get quick-lime and disinfectants and
, scatter them profusely through these
} Legislative halls; good people Of this COM
monwealth, remember who it was that
inflicted this disgrace upon you. gag
THE POWER OF A GROWING TREE
Walton Hall had at one time his own
corn mill, and when that inconvenient
necessity no longer existed, the milestone
! was laid by in an orchard and forgotten.
The diameter of this circular stone meas
ured 81 feet, while its depth avaraged 7
; inches throughout; its central hole had a
I, diameter of IL inches By mere acci-
dent, some bird or squirrel had dropped
the fruit of the tilbert tree through this
hole on to the earth, and in 1872 the
Seeding was seen sprung up through
that unwonted channel As its trunk
v gradually grew through this aperture and
f increased, its power to raise the ponder
) Gus mass of stone was speculated upon by
!. many. Would the filbert tree die in the
o attempt? Or would it lift it? In the end
o the little filbert tree lifted the milestone
and in 1863 wore it like crinoline about
its trunk, and Mr.. Waterton used to sit
d upon it under the branching shade.-
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