Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-01
rurcrAr TO THE TINES
SANTA CRUZ, July q,

rprcrAb TO THE rrMEsl
SANTA CRUZ, July 81.
DEAR Trxrs:-The rush to Santa
cruz is not yet over. Bathers dash
into the surf, and combat the waves
70 their hearts content, for hours
together, and feel they are going to
live n hundred years longer for the
effort when they reach terra firma.
cb;ldren roll about in the sand
and all the world, judging from
Tho aspect of things here, seem to
have gone mad on the subject of
sea.bsthing; and yet the tempera-
ture of the water is much less than
that supposed to be necessary for
bathing on the Eastern coast. The
fog rolls in the morning, clears
away and leaves a fine day. The
town is like an Eastern village, and
the whole distance from the city is
not so great as to prevent people OF
moderate means from enjoying it
were it not so hard to be got at in
another way. The ride over the
mountains is perilous, but delight
full to the fearless. BY way of
jacksonville its not SO dangerous,
but disagreeable from dust and
other annoyances. Stages connect
Mt jacksonville, where the railroad
ends, for Santa Cruz, but stage
ride Of twenty miles, through heat
and dust, with probably a few
Cinnamon as travelling companions,
makes the thing Objectionable.
even if q decent number of stages
are provided for passenger.
A narrow gauge railroad is in
running order now from Santa
Cruz to . place called Aptos, Claus
Spreckels new hotel and beautiful
scenery being the attraction; but
this narrow gauge road runs over
chasms fifty feet deep, on such
slight trestle work as to make one
shudder. This road is to be con-
tinued to meet that at Watsonville,
when probably the connecting
stages will be superseded. One
goes, Of course. if they choose, by
steamer from San Francisco to
Santa Cruz, but the penalties of a
sea voyage, the inevitable sea sick
ness, and the discomforts Of ocean
travel generally upon small boats,
makes the wary shudder in antici-
patton, Altogether, the day of
travel for California has not yet
arrived, to make it very desirable
to those who have ever known bet
ter, and the stay-at-home people,
who might 60 if they wished, are
almost as numerous as those who
avail themselves Of their privileges,
notwithstanding the climate of San
Francisco in summer is most truly
wretched.
The Mountain Meadows massacre
here, as we'll as elsewhere, is at
tracing due notice. Eighteen years
have passed, and those who left the
world in all the terrors of that ter
rible massacre seemed almost for.
gotten, when the avenging angel,
who Is seemingly pursuing Brigham
Young from every direction, turned
his pen toward him from this, and
we hope his doom is sealed. There
Is no doubt that the interest OF the
community Is at length aroused in
this particular; why it has slumber-
ed so long is the only mystery.
Politics are doing their best to
muddle and mystify, as usual, in q
campaign which is about to right
the world according to politicians.
Those who have got characters to
lose, among the aspirants, from all
quarters, have begun to examine the
texture Of their moral cuticle, to see
how near it spproximates to that OF
rhinoceros, In order that they
may feel their wounds as little as
possible. To have it proven to
ones face who has supposed himself
Of average responsibility, that he is
the blacklist Of villains, must be
cheerful, but to choke it down,
smile over it, and feel that persecu-
tion for such righteousness sake, as
. desire for public pap and political
emolument, Is sure to entail is in
dicative OF something superhuman
In temperament, as culture, and its
possession shall be rewarded. Let
0la bona that all xvho ara asnirinU
may eventually succeed in their as
piratiohs, otherwise to go down to
the grave with blaekened fame, each
foible brought to light, and highly
oolored, 90 that vice would look
whito Ieside Il, must DO the end Of
these honorable aspirants for the
gifts OF the State, who have pursuad-
cd themselves that their country
calls aud they must obey.
CYNTHIE ANN.