Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-03

CARSON CITY
GoeooAy August .. 105S
PRRsoxs OF DOUBTFUL REPrrArIoN and
questionable practices are undergoing .
very trying scrutiny, just now, in San
francisco. Notably are Marriott OF the
!Ne,cs Letter and Pickering Of the Call
thus scrutinized. Nothing very asrocious
is charged against Marriott. although his
method Of business is exposed in man
ner which cannot be but embarrassing
to him. Laying claim to sort OF
bonanza whose assay value is measur-
able BY the returns which como from the
Ne,cs Letters exposing Of quacks and
.,usckeries, Marriott got certain docu-
uentary evidence against DR.. Paul
Brennan-the Adonis Of pills and
plaisters, not altogether unknown in
these parts Thinking to use these lot
tiers in . manner calculated to do the
most good. Marriott informs Brennan
by letter Of being possessed Of the same.
Brennan visits the office OF the Nens
Letter, has IN interview with the veteran
lampoonist, and after being permitted to
peruse the said letters, quietly pockets
the same and with mocking smile upon
his Appollonian lips bows himself out
from the presence OF the astouished and
baffied editor. Hence . charge of larceny
against DR.. Brennan, and the dragging
Of the same into . court OF law. VI
course this will prove very unfortunate
to the Doctor. for instead Of appearing
in the Nees Letter, merely, the damag-
ing epistles will now be read in court
and copied by the reporters Of the
dailies. Now while all this rather
triHing matter is progressing toward the
qualification Of the San Franciscan
appetite for tho hot spice Of scandal. the
ear Of the public is shocked with the ex-
posures which are being made anent that
other septuagenarian journalist, Loring
Pickering, Of tho San Francisco Morning
Cal. His course has not been that of .
man whose heart distils tho grateful
devs Of charity; but. on the contrary, he
has been o merriless and unjust censor
of other men; and SO it comes that his
record il brought to the searching light
Of MONDAY . glare. This record makes
him out an absquatulator, . svindler,
rogue. . fugitive and . would-be ASA
sin, and they produce the damaging
proofs of his rascality. The story. in
short, is that Mr.. Pickering once was
partner in the publication Of . news
paper in st. Louis; that gentleman Of
that city endorsed for the concern; that
it Was sold out surreptitiously and that
Mr.. Pickering Gecamped. clandestinely.
with the moneys which should have been
applied to the payment Of his honest
.aebts,-that he was pursued upon the
Plains while on his way to California
and compelled to a partial settlement;
that he promised. afterwards, to make
more satisfactory liquidation of his
debts: and that he subsequently lied his
way out Of his promises. All this comes
regularly attessed in letters from st.
Louis, as also, the other fact that he
once tried to assassinate the late General
Frank p. Blair BY shooting at him, four
times, from behind . pillar Of the st.
Louis Court House, whence he was dis
lodged BY tho valiant General and made
to scamper for his life. All of this Mr..
Pickering would fain have the public &C.
cspt In . Pickwickian sense. merely.
Meantime Mr.. Fitch, the Bulletin man.
comes in for his share of the onslaught.
He, it is stated, once tried to murder the
late Vincent E. Geiger and would have
done SO but for tho failure of . percus-
sion cap to explode. And so they 60.
The most painful part of all these dis
closures is the fact that Messrs. Marriott.
Pickering and Fitch are nothing if not
professional accusers of crime and i'm
propriety in others and. in the case Of
the two latter, Reformers Of the most
conspicuous character. Not the least