Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-02

choose, unvirtuous people have quite as
many rights before the law as the very
| purest and hes. OF US. Under the law,
gambling il hcenced business rs much
as brewing beer or the selling of grocer
les or keeping tavern or bar; and every
body WHO has inherited or acquired
rights is very tenacious of them. Men .
consciences too often lie in their wallets;
and the Ill-Fame Act threatens to check
the flow Of more ready money than any
other one thing ever done here. We do
not say but that it is right to wage war
of determination upon all prostitutes
God knows the air is already too
heavy with sin and degradation and pol
luton, aud We thank Heaven we are not
as other men are bat is it wise to so a
questionable way at work TO 90 so: 4
petition signed by numerous taxpayers
Of standing as also by the sports and
others has been prepared, asking
the Town Board to resign. We shall
not sign it. We shall oppose its sign
ing. We hope the Board will stand firm
and not resign. We believe the move
ment against the present Board is half
Democratic and half from tie cause IT.
dictated. But We hope the Board will
stand frm-stand firm by their tenure of
Office: But we would advise them ts
relieve their position of what We regard
as an Hntensble point and repeal the
Prostitute Ordinance. It is not ques-
ton upon which an election for Trustees
ough. to turn: but that it will tnrn upon
that question, ard perhaps disastrously,
even TO the extent of eleciing 8 new
Board which would virtually uullify The
Incorporation Act by repeats and non
actions, we greatly fear. An opposition
once set on foot seldom stops with the
attainment of cvea reasonable ends
There are those VINO are fighting the
Board and the Act who are opposed to /.
Town Government altogether. These
we may be sure. would nos BE- withou,
influence il an opposition Board. We
had better save wh&! We can and hold it
peaceably: for the old axiom that Halt
loaf is better than no bread. still holds
good.
BEATING SEWING MACHISE AGFST.-
They tell of g widow of Leesport, Pa.
who got the beethoven bless hsr,-of
a sewing machine agent. Her husband
some time previous to his death, had
purchased machine, promising to pay
for it in monthly installments. He had
paid nearly the entire sum VIXEN he
died, and tho widow was unable to
make up the balance. The agent called
for the machine. and the widow demand
ed portion of the money that had been
paid. This was refused in a surly wav.
Then the widow locked the doors OF the
house, putting the key in her pocket,
and told the agent he could have the
machine when he returned the money.
and not before. "She took hold of
him, saying the account, and a severe
and prolonged tussle ensued, while the
children screamed and cried. Tie
widow threw the agent over the kitchen
stove, and finally succeeded in setting
him down on the top fit, and held
him, while he begged piteously for
For Gods sake let me 90. and
I'll pay you back every cent your
husband paid me- Being satisfied that
he was severely scorched, she pulled
him off the stove. but held on to him
until he had paid back every one of
the installments, and then she gave him
two minuits' time to take the machine
and clear ont with it. - Rochester
Democrat and Cir0sicle