The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-05-09
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about way that it is cold and only 81
for hash and rehash when it does cone
But i, is our duty to be interested 10 al
the great events and so far as the
newspaper record is concerned it would
be lamentably deficient if We did not
Gull what We can from our daily
receipts of news so here We have it:
That tremendous affair, in which the
sacred reputation of SO many ball
punchers is at stake--tha New York
Billiard Tournament"-iss so delight
fully mixed up, SO incomprehensible to
everybody else but the markers, stake
holders and participants-that We
really, for the life of US, can't tell who
i, on top. We are seriously informed,
BY the last accounts that, Snyder beat
Daniels; and that in the evening,
Foster beat Rudolpbs. Now this is
doubtless very exciting and very cos
Us. Is this good joke on Snyder?'
Or is it a decisive erusher to that vain
glorious pretendsr, Daniels? Il it to the
glory aud renown of the peerless Foster?
or il it merely a proof of the noble, self
sacrificing spirit of the chivalric Ru-
dolphe? For, be it borne in mind, this
il Tournament" Tournament
Why, IS old Prologue says: "Lords and
ladies, in their lives, have sung it for
restoratiyes." We are bewildered, be-
nightad in this misty maze Of balls and
cues. We patiently wait and humbly
pray for enlightenment.
Il would seem that the Government |
is disposed to be systematically blind
to the operations of American, Cuba
bound fliausters. lfa sea captain goes
to the custom house ard clears his ship
for the Bermudas, the Canaries, Peru
3. aay other foreign port bis statement
is to be taken as true, no matter
whether his ship is laden with guns,
powder and the food for powder" or
With. Eastwood hams and red flannel
,ausages. Good There 10 q fair shor
81 honesty in all this; and technical
honesty is all the honesty that counts
- betveen nation and nation. War
like shoe-pegs is simply mer-
:handise. Spain was not stuck after
Uncle Sam in his late unpleasantness.
here is something pleasant, supposiug
/: TO be true: q
NEW YoRx. May s.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says
ispatch is received by the British Minister l
rom the English Consulate at Havana, h
living an occount of another Spanish out
ispatch. a Spanish war vessel hailed an >,
.nglish brig at sea, and the latter, refusing
stop, was Cred into by the Spaniards and 81
INK. This Is the substance of dispatch a
hieh Thornton Immediately sent to his :
government over the cable. As the dispatch n
extremely meager, not stating whether the II
formation respecting the outrage was re
lived originally from Spanish man-of- u
ar or from some survivors of the sunken ii
zig. the authorities here scarcely know
neither to credit it or not. m
1t is to be hoped that this is true.
pain is friend of England and John IN
ull can certainly stand a joke or two 10
ON a friend 1t il an Offset to the ~
,rpoYt Of the following:
In
A special says the Spanish Minister in i'll
rmed the State Department that should
is country recognize the belligerent rights
the Cubans Spain will regard it as = de- F.,
lratiOn of war, and authorize the fitting
{ of privateers, which must do NJ harm. IN
1t wonld be good joke If Spain an
re to attack our commerce with pri- wi
teers. Yankee fishing smacks would CT:
on come iuto active ownership Of
my Spanish vessel of that sort. of
ain on the sea is not very immense, !"
'se days. She had better keep to 40
, south 'ard of Cape Cod. pr,
A bIackguard of an Engli.bman q? nil
med O'Reilly (queer English name, ~'
~ has been arrested in Constantino- ar,
for trying to promote secession or Ra
or some other sw full thing
Turkey. They say he is acting under !
secret eonnivanee and encourage a
At of the British Guvernnent. MAJ
he honest, bleeding, border rufdans ven