Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-08
The Butcher Boy of Carson.

whose somnolent endeavors to make
n readable newspaper out of the
Tribune have met with but Tissue
cess. wakes wroth at the TIMES for
giving him little advice, and
comes back cleaver in hand. We
are sorry to have punctured the
tough epidermis of our antediluvian
friend, but as our I" word of advice"
was written in the best of humor,
and solely for the purpose of lead
ing his lettering steps away from
the paths of wickedness, we owe
him no apology. Per contra, his
ill-natured whine has made it our
duty to again administer the scalpel
upon his fossiized anatomy. We
have about given up retaining him
into the fold of Christianized jour
nalism, as the bloodthirsty occupa-
ton of his boyhood, butchering
DAYS has left little of the milk of
human kindness in his now shrivel-
ed and petrified bosom. Ills pitiful,
wondrous pitiful, to behold such
total depravity of soul i'll one whose
hoary, scattered locks, stand out
sentinel-like and grim on the wea-
ther-beaten bastions of his tast-de-
eaying fortress, while the angels of
Justice are weeping tears of pity
over the pre- destined fate of the
arrant old sinner. We have too
great a reverence for his frosted
and fleeing years to speak i'll OF
him, and can but wish that the
Goddess of Morning had seen fit to
transform the aged " Parky" into a
grasshopper, as she did with old
Tlthonus, instead of making his
metamorphosis that of an intract-
able jackass. AS grasshopper he
might have found counterpart, but
now alas! he stands alone and I'M
.rivaled in the world as the biggest
and oldest living simpleton-a
BOBBY in his illy-adapted profession
and buffoon on the outside. We
do not choose to speak harshly or
unkindly of the venerable donkey,
who has turned up his attenuated
proboScis at the oats we had offered
him, but for the information of his
scattered and unappreciative patrons
we must correct the false impression
his article has conveyed. We don't
much mind being called an lass
by the longirostral centenarian, as
we know the old saw misery loves
company" is what prompted the
delicate allusion. The facts are jus
these, as we learn them from wha1
we deem good authority:
The Deaeon's antipathy toward
the International is engendered by {
personal matter, occurring long be
fore his late visit, together with con
tinued lack of appreciation Of its
conductors for the valuable Carson
journal, which, by the way, posi-
lively refuses to further advertise
7 the TINES by editorial mention
This positively gwieves" us. The
clerk of the hotel denies having
depleted the exchequer of the
Deacon to the amount charged, anC
says the charge was $3.50 for supper
for five persons and $500 for The
use of two rooms. The Deacon
stated that he was charged $l.O0 pei
meal. We don't propose to particu
larly champion the cause of the
International, but shall not hesitate
? to set any of our advertisers RICH
before the public when attacked by
a foreign foe. AS to the Tribune.
ridiculous ridicule and belittling thu
business men of Dayton, which thu
Deacon is pleased to call bad
inage"-the people of Dayton dc
not seem to have understood it il
that way. When an editor states
that "there is but two prosperous
business men" in a neighbOrine
city, people generally infer that it is
played out town, or that the editor
has been piqued by want of patron.
age. Persons who are at all &C
quainted with the Daytonites o
course accepted the latter conclu
sion; so the Tr1buDe's attempted
flagellation was harmless. The
"peripatetic editor" feels immeasur
ably wounded at the sarcasms O.
the Deacon, but at the same time
feels obliged for the permission tt
invade the Deacon's town after
''small ADVERTISEMENTS In this
connection, and as method o
mingling business with pleasure
we might suggest to the eindustriou.
and thrifty people of Carson that W,
appreciate their patronage, and shall
feel compelled to accept overtures o
that kind at any time. In conclu
sion, we may say We have tried t.
: avoid saying anything that might b.
construed into a disparagement o
Bro. Parkinson or his paper, ant
tender him our best wishes for
peaceful decline in the evening of
long and eventful life, though "
can give him no hope in that terri