Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-10

apNESrvnE IN TIE LATE SrGTM.-Ine
lives of some men are full of adventures.
Whenever they leave home a special III
function on iDonotony seems issued Tor
their sakes. they come back with
tale to unfold nearly every time. Our
excellent Deputy State Controller over
the way is one Of those whose iVes
abound with adventures. He can't SO
out for a sleigh ride on the hills but the
snow ali melts and he, with the rest OF
the party gotten up in eGuipaSe "a
,,agait. is left to founder III slush. He
can't start ont to make calls on New
Years but some vicious eur viii take
snap At calves. Even when he came
down, in the say Old times OF 90, to
Gold Hill, to meet His Excellency, James
Nye, the newly appointed Governor OF
the Territory, it showed on that unusual
dar, the 4th Of Jgy! And-but we in
tend TO write his biography at another
ti:l.. It is ROW of his trip last Sunday
that we have TO speak. He had pro-
ceed.d to Empire through the snow
storm, there dispensed the Word to the
Sabbath school children under his clcr-
zeal supervision, and lad aired the the
oloCv involved in Genesis TO class OF
appyeciative adults, when, all over, he
took the cars, a will train, for Virginia,
hungry and tasting beforehand the royal
fare prepared for him there by a friend
of long standing. But his bad luck
overlook him. There was a hurricane,
the snow whizzed and whirlsd outrage
ously like pebbles with . devil in them
seysrally and vast disorderly devil IN
them ali, the mountains snorted under
the pressure OF Eolus and Piuvius wrest-
ling with combined fury to make
tho regions round about Lideous! The
engine went overheard, and dump
and our Deputy six miles away. The
wheels of the cars were imnovably of
This vas at American Flat. Our hero
SURVEYED the ground. and, accoutred as
he was in an all-comprehensive BLANKET
oyercoat. plunged forward. He wore,
also. pumps-new and thin; his tie was
immaculate. and his coat was OF the an
cient claw hammer dissection. The rest
Of the tale you should hear him tel Tor
himself. It comes next to Poe's e." Black
| Cat" He had reached the Toll House
wearied unto death, but safe, when out
few an outraged mastitf, with green eyes
and a Swapping OF TEEN never equaieo'
With a bound or two he was upon our
tired pedestrian, who rolled over into the
snow a mass. The furious beast had
well nigh chev-d him, or his oyercoat,
| all he wanted to. when Thomas Calvert,
the keeper, went fer the enrased brute
and laid him ont PROSTATE for dead:
Controller Hale, forgetting to say good
morning - thank you" or any such
think, Withdrew as rapidly rs possible
but he had not gone furlong by, when
the great green-eyed black nlastla, re-
covering from the effects of the clubbing,
was upon him and chewing his blanket
again. Hers was fight. A stone. 10y
| lucky chance. being within our Traveller 5
reach. he grabbed it, rase TO his feet,
and-missed the dog with il. But the
animal, having now had a square loos
into his ene,ny's flaming ayes, got scarce
in turn. and contented himself fer the
rest of the five miles with running NJ
aud down the ravines about the tired
Controller, and swapping his teeth a3ou;
his legs ali the way to Gold Hill, where
civilization was reached. About thG
p!eur.sy. the hot punches, the WORKOUT
pumps. the general distrsssfGl conGratu'
iations which followed, we have no Ie'
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