Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-29
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A Ia CALIFORNIA.

r, Bancroft & Co., San Francisco,
the book entitled "A la California.
containing sketches Of life in the Col
den State, by Col. Albert 5. Evans, au-
thor of "Our Sister Republic" This
work is one which should be dear to the
heart of every old Californian. In the
STYLE of the writer, there is something
which attracts the reader Of good taste,
despite some errors which now and then
creep into the productions of the best
authors. He, Immediately on beginning
his first "pasear, takes the reader into
his confidence, and then leads him from
Mace to place, reminding him of all the
beauties of each place that he visits. To
those who live in our own dry desert
State, and have been long accustomed to
look only upon those sterner beauties OF
nature which surround US, "a 10 Califor-
mia is, indeed. almost equal to visit to
California. Those who have ridden over
the redwood-crowned Sierra Moreno and
soiourned in the pleasant valleys by the
sea. NAV with the author revisit those
scenes of happy Summer jaunts. They
may walk again on the smooth beach,
and listen to the sea, and watch its Sob
hing swels come up and die in little rip
Ming wavelets at their feet. Memo
RES of travel in Arizona are also
brought up incidentally, and stories
of wild life told with SIM
plicity fitting their subjects scattered
here and there through the book Now
and then the reader comes upon a rare
bit of humor, and once in a while, line |
OF sarcasm. In one place, speaking of |
an obseuuious Chinaman, who was tell |
ing him many pretty lies, by way of en-
tertainment, he remarks, 81 did not
blame him. In China-blessed |
country there are no professional poll
ticians and the lying is more evenly dis
tributed among the people than with US"
The work shows. or appears to show,
that he did not intend to 60 to press
until be had read it over again. There
are in it several of those blemishes which,
with almost any writer, occur in the first
COPY. From these we are led to believe
that he never could have read over the
work, as a whole, after he had written it.
OF the illustrations we cannot say as
much as of the literary matter. Some of
them would, perhaps, have been better
omitted.
On the whole, we would recommend
every one who has taste for anything
better than "love, blood and thunder
Ito read IA la California.
ROME MORE UNFORTUNATE. In yes
terday's issue We stated that Minnie
Sommers cyprian, had attempted sui
eide, but the attempted having been
discovered it was frustrated, and that
she was recovering. Such was the fact.
She was then recovering from the effects
of the poison, though it was necessary to
treat her with artificial respiration.
Though she had come to deaths door,
she did not then pass the threshold. She
had taken an ounce of laudanum on Sun
day evening. After many hours of I'M
consciousness she was finally brought to
her senses, and it was hoped, and indeed
believed, that she would recover. When
her senses returned, she sincerely re-
pented of her action, and wished to live.
Iu her exhausted condition, however,
the reaction was too great, and, yester-
day morning, thirty-eight hours after the
drug had been taken, she died suddenly
and unexpectedly of syncope. Her rela.
tives reside in the city of Philadelphia.
whence she came to California in 1871
She had lived in Phoebe about a year
and half. Her funeral was attended
by large number of women Of her own
class in carriages. At the grave, some
appropriate and very affecting remarks
were made by Rev. Henry L. Badger,
who conducted the funeral services.
The STRAP GAME.-This is one of the
games which We believe is not licensed
by the laws of this State. The principal
indeed, We believe the only, implement
used is string. The player at the game
is expected to put his finger, or knife,
pencil or stick so as to have it caught in
the strap. The game has every appear.
ance of fairness, and the greenhorn is
easily roped into it, and always al
his cost. Adopts at the game are in
the habit of plying their vocation upor
the innocent Mormons who come this
way with vegetables and garden products
for sale. We hope the officers will exer
themselves to arrest and punish thes
swindlers, whose whole lives have beer
devoted to obtaining money by thei
wits. A few weeks in chain gam
would bring these chaps to a realizin
sense of their conduct.
THIEVES is at present infeste
by petty thieves. Blankets, clothing
provisions, and cooking utensils, as we
as small sums of money. are stolen a
most nightly. Most of the depreciation
are committed in miners cabins. l
some instances, however, the thieves b,
come holder, not combining their exploit
to unguarded houses, but coming int
the middle of town. If these member
of the light-hngered fraternity have n
fear of the law, they should remembt
thatlittle operations like theirs sometime
result in death. 1t is the sincere hope
every man that these thieves may
caught; and whenever one of them
caught may he be severely punished.
THROWN Our.-Yesterday evening
woman Of the town put the whip to
pair of horses which she was drivin
and, as she came around short curv
she was thrown out of the buggy, fallir
on the ground. Her forehead was c.
above the left eye. but no serious damai
was done either to her or the vehicl
The horses trotted on through the street
to their livery stable, where they I'VE
stopped. Some gentlemen who we
passing lifted the woman up and put h
into a carriage, in which she was co
veyed to her place OF residence.
RAYMOND & Ely VS.. KENTUCKY.
suppose that, finally, the great mini
case about which Phoebe is on tip-tt
will be taken mp this morning, as this
the day set for its trial.