Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-03-28
THE LYON COUNTY TIMES
San Francl..>co Letter.
Especial Correspondence IT the Times'l

rather YEARLY just at present IN th'
CITY, Stocks not exuberant. fe'
lipsous excitement on the wa Ne
Notwithstanding brother Hammond's
determination to keep up the SEN
sation, by extending it to the stock
market, and spreading it about the
city generally. There's no use' tne
proverbial nine days wonder Is
over, and the call of "come 10
Jesus -, even in California street mas
come to be a matter of course, and
the oilers. whose beat is that favorlte
corner of California. and Montgom-
erv streets. have come to the conclu-
sion that the show of religion is as
effectual as any other show, in tax
ing I'D their time and giving them
amusement, till stocks are rising.
The goodlv number of ladies accom-
panying The Rev. Doctor in his
rounds have evidently forgotten
every thing but the importance
of their mission, otherwise the
stares of the loaters, low remarks,
and general criticisms, would hardly
be tolerated, and the effect OF driving
home these wives and mothers to
look after their families, might be
the consequence.
1t is good thing TO help people
to religion when they need it; but
this endeaver to force it upon them
in public places, is not sufficiently
remunerative, Judging from the tact
that when the procession began to
move in the vicinity on st. Patrick s
Day, the first show was deserted for
the other, and the Rev. Doctor found
himself exhorting alone the curb
stones.
st. Patrick's Day was fine. The
procession, as usual, lengthy, with
than has formerly been the case. 1t
may have been the effect of the Cath
Ollie mission conducted at present in
the city, by some of the leading
clergy of the Catholic Church.
Upon the Irishman, the priest has
certainly the power, somewhat, to
restrain and if this effect is pro-
duced, it is so much gain to the city;
for If in appearance alone city is
respectable, it is something.
there is nothing so much to be
deprecated as the easy way the
newspapers have of throwing off
sensations to any ones cost, who may
be unfortunate enough to fall be-
meath their notice. The telegraph
also is an evil in this respect; for as
soon as misfortune happens to
family in the least likely to produce
a newspaper sensation, no matter
who suffers, the world proclaims it,
while thinking people only shud-
der.
A few days ago the news of the
death of Mrs. Tyler Curtis, formerly
of this city, was scattered over one
half the world in this manner.
1t was horrible. A beautiful young
woman, scarcely passed maiden
hood, thrown upon the world in
New York city, alone and destitute,
finds protection and destruction at
the hands of a man, whose social
position gave him power, and whose
money helped him to license. There
is no doubt the woman was weak,
as all women are who come to the
end this poor woman did. There
is no excuse, however, for the rabid
love of the sensational, in the COM
munity which seeks its food in any
direction, and cares not what living
human hearts are bleeding beneath
its footsteps.
The parents are in this city, re-
spectacle, well-to-do people with
other children. The father, mother,
brothers and sisters, bearing the dis
grace in the silence of privacy, would
have been sufficient, but the news
papers gloating upon this fresh piece
of human depravlty, which is to sell
their newspaper, adorns the story as
much as possible, and brings 1t in
its coarse form before the public.
Miss Mackenzie, born we think in
this city, passing through our public
schools and making her debut as
public singer, was emphatically one
of us. Her voice was her tempta-
ton and her ruin. She married,
was divorced, and came out in opera
as prima donna. To cultivate her
voice to ats fullest extent, was her
ambition; and to marry Tyler Cur
It's, supposed to be wealthy, was the
road she took to do so. Curtis an
tecedents were by no means bril-
liant, but the exact condition of
things were not made known till at
ter her marriage. Taking her to
Europe with more debts than money
was not easy. Finally left in New
York pursuing her studies, (his
daughter with herr singing ina choir,
her only means of support; her hus-
band in California following up a law
suit with no means to send her, she
came to grief. The details of the
trial of the abortionist who caused
her death, will probably be transmit
ted as enjoyable reading over the
telegraph wires in due season, and
the Heard will go on preparing new
sensations for the public by contin
uing just such advertisements as led
Mrs. Curtis to believe she could CON
ceal her sin and her shame, and live
still respected. But as it is. one