Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-25
SHALL WE HAVE A TOWN
GOVERNMENT:


needs local government rs much As
Carson does. Oar streets want the
benefit of sidewalk ordinances: ON
nuisances need thinning here and ahat
ing there; We are greatly III need of ::
pound law we want some more policemen
need a more rigid enforcement of the
Vaerant Act and ought to have the limit,
Of the town itself defined and expanded
All these things can he had for the ask
inc. So soon as three tifths of the tax
payers of the place sign petition, duly
verified and file the same with the 'onn-
~ Clerk. the duties Of town officers de-
volve upon oar county officials; the
Commissioners become s-A-otficio Alder
men: the Sheriff is likewise town mar
shall: our Justice Of the Peace becomes
municipal magistrate. and 80 on. Now
for the sake of cleanliness and good
order; in the name Of ali that is CON-
Portable and advancing: and for the rep
utation of the Capital City OF this pros
porous State, let our citizens take steps
to make this venture. We can procure
a disincorporation two years hence, If
the experiment should prove an unprotit-
able one Men whose Judgment III such
matters is worth having say that it won t
increase our taxes more than or at
the outside !. Of one per cent. to avail
ourselves of the law ii question. We
are very tired of fighting, year after year
our neighbors cows and pigs and mules
whose running 1T large Is SO constant
and annoying threat upon all green
and growing things inside and outside Of
enclosures; We long since were con-
vineed of the folly of not eyactins Ii
esnse from the bawdy houses whose ele-
giant proportions attest the profits which
accrue &c their J1roprietors. and whose
habiiutes So conSpicuousiy throng our
ihoroughfares and infest our saloons and
eating houses; We have again and again
urged the necessity for more perfect
system of side and cross walks along our
principal streets; times without number
have We preached against the too preva-
lent practice of making storage places of
our sidewalks; eloquently have we in
Weighed against the rampant mules and
lnarauding goats and maliclously mis-
chievous cows and promiscuously roofing
hogs that make life almost burden
here; and with tears in our eyes have
we implored the gift to our authorities
of the power that would enable them to
right these glaring wrongs, mitigate
these nuisances and vouchsafe these
benefits. In An Act to provide for the
better Government of Towns and Cities
we see the way out Of these narrowing
annoyances. The contemplated govern
ment involves no Mayor with his ezpen-
sive and worthless dignities; no elabor-
ate town hall to build and maintain
Though such structure wouldn't be
bad to have in the family;l no machinery
except that which is right at hand and
which we can set in motion forthwith.
Considerations OF health; of the self
respect of the place; Of mutual prntec-
ton; of cleanliness; Of better order and
larger comforts all weigh in the side OF
incorporation - and against all these
there is a small, very small matter of en-
larged taxation. Our people have been
liberal in their views heretofore-as in
the matter of the ". & T. r. R.: and
their liberality has proven paying In
vestment, as witness the wonderfully en-
HANGED prosperity of the town; and now
we are placed within reach of an oppor
tunity to sweep up the litter which has
accumulated around Us year by year as
the town has grown. and let US not, out
omy deny ourselves the undoubted bene-
fits which are promised by the self-ap-
plication to our own local government of
this excellent and inexpensive enactment.
4 PEACOCK IN CARsoS.-Oir tonsonial
friend, Jake Muller, has imported pea
cock from Virginia City and turned him
loose in the yard which surrounds his
residence. This is splendid bird, fully
developed and very perfect in all respects
especially as regards tail, which member
(if We may be allowed the use OF the
phrasel is very large, wide spreading
and gorgeous. We were informed by s.r
enthusiastic and intelligent fellow-citizen
(of the postmaster species. that Mr.. NJ.
had SAINT below for a female TO bear com
pany to this beautiful but now lonesome
fowl. Magnifce at in appearance rs this
bird is, it gives the lie direct to the old
adace of handsome is as handsome
does" for Of ali the pnsarthly cater
wauling ever perpetrated in the ears of
an outraged sensibility, the screeching of
q peacock is the worst. Doc. Sharp's !
world-renowned Chinese geese weren't |
deuces to it.
P. S-Mr. Muller came into our Of !
fee yesterday afternoon to say that this !,
noble bird was missins-either strayed
or stolen VIII find out the probabilities |
and report.
Nprn S1DcuJNc; ON Saturday Geo !