Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-07
CARSON CITY,:
Saturday, June z, 1873.


THEAryR-Mrs. Bowers WAS greeted
by one of Carsons best audiences last
night Certainly she is entitled to all
her splendid reputation if for no hing
else than for havin, rescued Il common
place and. so far as brilliant or graceful
language is concerned. poverty stricken
play from the obseurity its real, unvar
nished qualities would. without the
sustaining force of such genius "a her
own long since have consigned it.
''Eliz beth is net at all literary sue
cess; and it is only TO be tolerated
~ a play aud its chief character
accepted as one of the tests of
meritorious performance upon the
modern stage because of the al
most instruction thereto of so much of
histrionic culture and power az this gift
ted lady Possesses. The character is
an extremely difficult one. made all the
more so because. venturing to delineate
the really indescribable character of
Queen Elizabeth, itself is scarcely less
than caricature. But the intense
strength and tragic vigor of such
acting as Mrs Bowers lavishes
upon the more startling situations
Of the third, fourth and fifth acts
make one forget that the play itself is
hardly better than very crude and
common specimen of the latter day
drama, stuff d to initiate the proportions
of II historical play. Mr.. McColloms
Earl of Essex" was We'll enacted. and
his splendid presence and fine delivery
asserted themselves in the throne scene
in the third act. The company in gen.
erai performed their parts with credit
Tonight We are to have Mary Queen
of Scots" AMI it onght to make certain
Of Il crowded house.
SOME PANCAKE CoAL-that is to say.
coal from the somewhat famous Pancake
mine in Eureka county. WAS tested yes
terday ut Torreysons blacksmith shop.
Tump Winston came along and invited
rs to go and have look at the test; and
We found Ellis. Sam King. Judge BIZ
KNAPP. Tom Edwards and a lot more
coal-sharps ready to witness the proposed
experiment. 4 chunk of this coal,
about as big as a brick, was broken mp
and put upon some nearly burnt-out ,
Goals on one Of the FORCES; King pulled |
AWAY ut the bellows, and in few min
utes the Pancake material WAS well on
fire and burning with quite lively
blaze. The blacksmith who volunteered
to conduct the experiment pnt rod of
iron into the midst Of this burning mass.
kept it there few minutes then pulled
it ont. laid its hot end on the anvil, hit
it few strokes with his hammer, socked
it into his cooling tnb. then hauled it
out. poked it mp under Ellis hose and
said it WAS welded. We are not prepared
to SAY whether the experiment is SHE
cess or not We noticed one suspicious
thing about the performance, and that
was that Ellis came i'll last and seemed
to have II very intimate a,quaintsince
with Torr-ysou's hnsshead OF Gambler
Land coal which stands outside, on the
walk. We don't say that Ellis or any
other of the partners whom we have
named wuuld nip chunk or two ont of
q barrel that way and mix it up with
their regular Pancake. not at all: and
We don't pretend to say that that black
smith WAS in" with the arrangement.
not by any means; but we noticed that
that wonld he handy to have in coal
mine didn't taxi any very vivid interest
in the proceedings. but quietly moved
OFF ON his ear. much rs to say, well. If
you can get the APPEAL to putf that stnff,
all right; but not any in mine. The
fact il. we amt interested in coal mines,
much, and never were; never had any
stock in anything of the kind and,
we'll We don't see any use in having an
Opiuion that's all