Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-07


grave yard blowout yesterday.
All the wagons and jerkwaters in tt .
city were mustered into service, and
as many as three distinct process
sions, each headed by band beating
sonorous gongs and janghng Gym
balls, passed through Carson street
on this post mortem collation. busi-
ness. Roast-hog was abundant, but
the Washoss looked on in wistful
SORROW as the cortege filed by, only
too we'll informed that the good old
days when Mister Chinaman left
great stacks of grub upon the graves
of his departed fellow pagan for the
noble red man to fill his aboriginal
stomach withal, have passed away.
John now, more prudent and world
lv grown, no longer leaves these sep
ulchral rstions to the tender mer.
cies of the -poiler, but returns them
to the festive board and gormandizes
them with an unghostly appetite all
his own. As we stood gazing at
those queer professions, thinking of
the queerness of the notions out of
which the custom grew, an old citi-
zen who is q sufferer by one OF the
recent incendiary fires, blushingly
owned up that he once ventursd to
taste Of some of these funeral baked
meats Is they lay, all consecrated to
the dead, ungusrded, but brown and
crisp and grateful to the nose in yon
city of the dead. He confessed that
with a borrowed bowie knife he
carved . burnt Offering Of pig and
made a meal thereof. And we
thought as we watched the fulness Of
his neither lip that his mouth was
watering, even then. for plsteful
Of the baked swine that WAS passing
before him as he spoke.
LIZ FBvRB, the crazy convict 80 long
An inmate OF the Nevada Penitentiary,
Vas last night taken in charge Of two
men to Woodbridge. His term - .
criminal expired quite recently. and he
has emily been held ct the prison for safe
keeping and while swaiting the delays
incident to getting him disposed Of - .
lunatie. His veil known murderous
peopensities being understood the wis
dom of putting him in charge of two
instead Of one attendant 10 obvious. As
. further prscsution he Vas heavily
ironed.
A GEN1LRlaAN Who made An examina.
ton Of the brick range at the Baltimore
restaurant yesterday morning, informs
% that the range il 20 constructed ~
that the wood work near il 10 iable to |
b set on hre. He THINKS that it was |
this defective arrangement, and not any
that made the trouble Of |
Tuesday night.
WILL PROBABLY REcovER.-Ws hadn't
learned till Judge Seawell told as last |
evening that one Of the Wheeler boys
Dick, We belleve-had been shot in Ma |
son Is Valley. He was shot. through the |
body. BY ono Pat Birmingham. Pat
Jumped on his horse and got away. DR..
Heath, who attended Wheeler says he |
will probably recover.
4kEAb8k6 " me IVY SOClAL I'LL Will |
please attend the regular meeting this,
Thursday night, at 9 O'Clock 1t Warren
Engine House. Election of officers will |
AXE plaee-full attendance is requested. |
j. F. FARRELL, President. |
PEnsoSAL.-Hon.w ". II. Seawell, Judge
II tho Third Judicial District, was in the
.ity last night. Hon. Bob Lowery from
he Inner Temple Was also among his
Carson friends yesterday.
TELEoRAN YoR joan JOSE. - Bsamis
Pixley asks % to state that there 10 .
ct the Atlantic and Pacific TEL
graph ofbcs for Juan Jose.
TIE FAvolIy1.-Ths Bank ExehanGe eAloao
,ornsr q King and ornsDy streets. V BECOMING
be favostts resort Of this city. The great
lttractaoa - FredsricAsburg BsaR. while Ahe
~ Of vtnes. Nqaes ~ e4ears azs. alee, seld
4 thsbas: 4 A1st elaas PAes Gen. Nlg Me-
Inase0aat Of gusits, cold lunch = al loosS
nd hsaFoy good cheer fer ID aro ~ FoeoD0ao-
latioas - public favef. =. n. Brown = ~
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