The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-08-28
JOHN nORRIsSY'S NERVE.

Among tno SpOItiuS meu Vi HOte WHO
annually visit Saratoga is Whaley, of
Cincinnati, Kentuckian. Whaley used
to keep the leading club houses of New
Orleans and Cincinnati. He is rich,
and known generally to public men, and
plays cards only at the hotel or conviv-
ally. He told me the gambling quality
of Morrissy as follows:
He excels at the games of whist, Bos-
ton and gush. Heis the best gnsh player
/ ever knew, and among the best at Bos-
ton. He also plays poker well. His
power to game is the same as In the prize
ring-confdence, judgment and courage
to bet. He has been playing cards all his
life from boyhood. and knows that volume
of fifty-two pages better than all other
books in the world. He played cele-
brated game with Ben. Wood and Jimmy
O'Brien, which lost him $130, 900, and
never WINGED.
III asked what Boston was. Whaley
said it was an old game, where oil the
cards were dealt and trump turned
from another pack. four persons playing.
Then the players, beginning at the deal
er's left. bid by offers to take SO many
tricks. the person with trump colors in
excess having the priority. If the trump
maker loses. he must pay money accord
ing to his offer to each of the others in
snch a high ratio that the game is desper-
ate, Price McGrath is said to be an un-
eqnalled Boston player. A private citizen
whom know is alleged to make $50, 900
a year at Boston, hunting the society of
rich gamesters. Only few persons
know what he is doing. as all his sur
roundings are respectable, and his ap-
pearance and opinions those of square,
orthodox deacon and banker. Jimmy
O'Brien, ex-Sheriff of New York, told
me yesterday . You have no idea how
society is honeycombed with these re-
spectacle parasites. They are very well
dressed, often highly-bred, highly-mar-
ried loafers. who are entertaining ladies
men, and rather patronize their victims.
They are capable of acts at cards which
a professional gambler would be ashamed
of."'-Corresponience Graphic.
How TILToN SPENDS Hrs TIME Nova
DAYs.-On the very day that Judge Neil
son delivered his charge to the jury.
Theodore Tilton resumed those labors
necessary to the maintenance of himself
ouu 81 iuuCu VI uAS idiuiiy oo INC ldtc teI-
rible ordeal has left him. In proof of
the application, industry and remarkable
fertility of the man, it is only necessary
to state tina. the preparation of new
book, which he began on the day above
mentioned, has so far progressed that he
expects to be able to put it to press By
the middle of next month. The title he
has selected for it is A Legend, and it will
make an octave volume of between $50
and 300 pages. The resumption of lite
rary labor seems to have had happy effect
in partly relieving his mind from the
heavy sense of his domestic misfortunes,
and enabling him to dispense some of
those shadows that have SO long darkened
his life. He rises early, works hard un-
til late in the afternoon, dimes about 5 o.
clock, and then refreshes himself by five
or six mile walk. The only discomfort
OF these pedestrian tours is the attention
which his familiar and striking figure
always attracts. What Swift describes
as one of the pleasures of fame-to be
pointed out in the crowd and over-hear
the remark, That is he; there he goes
--is evidently not pleasure to him. His
prospects for the future are most fatter-
ing. Besides such work with his pen as
he has mapped out for himself. in addition
to tho book now approaching completion,
he is urgently solicited to deliver lectures
in various parts of the country, and finds
the demand utterly beyond his power to
meet il. Brooktyra Argus.
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