Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-16
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE,
SANTA BARBARA, CAL,
Aup 10. 1873. /

light and feeey fog and one which is
quite distantly related to all Scotch
mists, San Francisco sea-drifts and like
danpening and dismal dispensations
It hangs lightly over the town and noun.
tains-so thinly as to admit Of the clea,
view of objects two miles or more away
and as it dissolves by noontide, and re-
freshes the grass and trees and fields and
gardens, it is real blessing and fan
from an unpleasant visitation. We have
had two mornings, only. of this sort.
like it; and the fourishing crops which
are grown in this vicinase aid down at
the Carpinteria, twelve miles toward
Santa Buenaventurn, are owing to these
occasion light fogs which take the place
of heavy dews.
You must know there is long stretch
of sandy beach lying in front of this
little city by the sounding sea. The
regular pulsaiions of the ocean bring an
endless pouring of moaning breakers
upon these sands; and the temperature
of the waters being mild and the breeZes
gentle, most excellent surf bathing is to
be had here-and and my companions
have been treating ourselves to this salt
and sparkling luxury. An Ancient Mar
liner and his guide wife have built them
convenient little shanty Just at the edge
of the sands and fitted it up with bath
er's boxes and furnished the same with
complement of bathing garments for
both sexes and all admissible ages and
sizes of persons; and you may enjoy
these conveniences for the modest sum
of twenty-five cents per capita. These
baths, supplemented to this incompara-
BILE climate are the true health restorers.
Health, not less than green olives and
unrips cucumbers may be preserved in
brine. Refreshing sleeps and eager,
honest, sea-foam appetites are inevitable
after these vigorous housings in the edge
of old Ocean. The only thing wanting |
to make our surroundings perfect is q |
few occasional clumps of sage brush. |
There is homely pungency in our ia
Iniliar shrub which is above despising.
I wish I had brought sprig Of it in my |
satchel!
The time for adventures by the way
side of travel has not gone blythe Tory
ism of the old timers to the contrary,
In the cars, this side |
of Colfax, that romantic young woman |
who was on the Grass Valley stage when
it was robbed; who was travelling by that |
in order to keep an appoint
ment with a miner with whom she had
opened a correspondence on the bound
less subject of matrimony: who pro-
reeded on hst travels after the highway
men had finished their job and who got
married and then got sick of her bar
gain, all at once; she who pleaded emo
ional insanity as a reason why she
should not abide by the terms of the
match thus hurriedly made, she
got on board; and 1 heard her chattering
md never losing her breath, endless and
lmazing of talkatiyeness on the subject
If that foot padding, till I changed cars
md turned a deaf ear to the direction of
ler, at Sacramento. I congratulate that
miner upon her leaving him to the more
profitable murnurings of his hydraulics
md his rifle boxes. This may be chron-
cled as incident number one. We got
Incident number two by coming down
he coast on the good ship Constantine.
Among our fellow passengers was
,rawny man of fifty who had the air of
having left his native Scotland to follow
he uncertain life of mariner; who had
,uffeted the waves and the winds, and
earned the temptations and the sins of
until wearied of these
lard lines, he had settled down to no
ess hard determination to get himself
ven with sailor rum-sellers and sailor
oarding-house keepers by opening a
ap room and mariners roOst of his own
own by the wharves. (This is all guess
it maybe that he was God {
caring carpenter or an honest branch (
he looked the character have ,
wen Eim.) He was sturdy fellow I
nth monstrous nose, q nose Of the
bottle" variety-such a nose as you {
ever connect with the smelling of a I
osegay but, rather, with getting itself, +
into great tumblers of brandy {
nd hot Scotch punch-a nose such as
acob Faithful's father must have had.
ut am afraid that this is heartless
nd misplaced pleasantly; for with the
turn Of our steamer from down the
,ast we learn the shocking news that {
lat poor man is Suddenly gone dead. l
ike the lamented Hambrick, whose fate :
Is been told by the immortal Phoenix, a
, was accidentally shot. He went down I