The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-29
NH CAUSE OF IT.

The Virginia City correspondent
of the Nevada State Journal seems
to think that married women started
the last great fire in that lawless city
for the purpose of destroying the
rendezvouses of their vigalante hus-
bands. The fact that parties we're
ordered to leave by "6O1" for no
other apparent than that they
were more popular with certain soiled
doves than were certain prominent
vigilantes who thus sought to super
sede them, lends plausibility to the
rumor. Says the correspondent
At the tlme the fire broke out quiet
reigned supreme in that part of the
city. In truth it may be said that ''not
a leaf stirred The soiled doves had
folded their wings and silently stolen
away to the kind arms of Morpheus,
''Or any other man. And herein,
according to rumor, lies the cause of
the terrible conflagration. Man is
frail" and has always been so, in every
age of the worlds history, since the
moment mother vetackledt that ...sour
apple tree He is Il weak institution
the world over and the jewellers along
the altitudinous nights of the Conn
stock furnish no exception to the gen.
e al rule. On the contrary, faithle S
Benedicts are as numerous here as
mosquitoes on the San Joaquin river.
Especially is this so of the so-called
upper crust. Contiding spouses are
left ''to weep and to mourn through
all the Silly night, while their accom-
rlished five pointers make "Rome
howl" on the lower levels. But fol
bearance sometimes ceases to be a vir-
tue, and if ruIner be correct this cul-
minating point in affairs cropped out
i'll certain households last SUNDAY
morning. Two respectable married
ladies had pinned in loneliness, with
no N to caress,' night after night, for
Il week or ore. while cruel, neglect
full husbands were Squandering their
money and lavishing their favo-s on
the "fair but frail' of d street. The
doctors all agree that desperate cases
require desperate remedies. So
thought the injured better-halves to
whom | have alluded; and hence the
great fire. Of our | cannot vOtIch
for the correctness of this rumOr but
it. at least, bears the color of truth,
inasmuch as the same Identical
block of buildings has been
laid in ashes three times in as many
months. But the funny part is yet To
be told. The buildings We're all of wood
and being dry as finder the flames
leaped from house to house in such
rapid succession that the inmates, in
n,,,,X ~ instances ia ,aly- nUn,rnl ,r,rh |
their lives. The general stampede for
the street was the most ludicrous scene
any mar overlooked upon. And what
a gIand exposition of Nirai ia society
as i is! Merchants. and bankers,
lawyers and thieves, brokers and
gamblers. miners and bosses, married
and single, high and low, white,
BACKED and mixed, all grades. colorS
and conditions, rushed frantically into
the street, the most pitiful and God
forsaken set of devils that ever breathed
the brerth of life. Here comeS a prom
inent disciple of Blackstone with a
- thing-amy.jig' in II arm and his
in an unconscious condition, in
he other there goes a banker or a
merchant with a straw mattraSS or a
cooking stove on his head. and over
yonder, scrambling for lear life is a
broker, gambler, or thief. Juggling
away at a dusky "~weenus'' who
avoirdupoises not less than two hun
dred and Tiff V, and who has been sud
seized with a sense of gone-in-
itiveness. The Georgia Major costume,
the spurs, was the prevailing
and all in all the scene was
the most overwhelmingly ludicrous
ever witnessed during my whole pill
grimage through this vale of tears.
Several divorce suits are mOoted in the
higher circles in consequence of the
developments of that fatal night, but
whether any will be applied for depon-
ent sayeth not.