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


less but still animated Old Stiff sho bet
his watch that Tom Savers would lick
that big Irish duffer. John Keenan,
which We were glad it was a draw, and
soaked the turnipl
| Well. we got the news of that fight
"a also we did of the bust-up in the
Charleston ccnvention-by Pony EX-
press. The news came from Southamp-
ton by steamer. telegraph and pony
rider. in nineteen days. That was in
the Spring of go. Now mark the pro-
| gress of Progress.
| The war came with its world of weary
graves. Then. right in the middle of it
came coal-oil merchant and dry goods
| dealer-one New Yorker and the other
venturesome Sunderland. with IA
marvellous courage. began the coEstruc-
| ton of " hats known in past history as
the Dutch Fiat Swindle. (We once lied
about these brave gentlemen when a
local interest demanded the Johnson's
Pass Road-and We are sorry for it and
take it back
In 1865 our pioneer friends, Wells.
Fargo l. Co. were obliged to charge Is
(fifteen) cents a pound for parcels ard
packages brung by their express. iBut
they managed to survive it,
In those days John Nusser was a rich
man. He owned all that part of Eagle
Valley where Cap'n Meders house is.
John WAS Democrat and opposed. sab,
to the taking of one mans property to
enrich another
His property was sold for taxes.
Frank Proctor was another old pioneer
who thought. with much emphasis. that
representation AMI taxation. sab, went
hand in hand. Franks addition is no
longer his'n; and
city lots are staked for sale
Above old Indian graves -
and the stranger owns the same.
All this time it was unconstitutional,
sab, to build railroads Mules. mail
contracts. culverts made of Congress
ional Globes and Patent Office reports
We're the only things that would stand
FIRE. Old Jous Price wouldn believe
telegram from Vince Geiger because. to-
be-sure he know wasn't his hand
write
Aud then came the blessings of the
Age Of Iron. If Mussers heirs and
Proctor purse bad been able to sustain
the small taxes that were levied against
the property indicated, they would, to-
day b- bloated bondholders. Why:
Because of Lime Point? No. Because
of the unconsiitutionali.y of internal
II. r!.'vr::.ertsE No.
= TT ne inevita' =. :, : i.:.- .
Me ~it..>s - american IT, H., ,
Why vol.iL.e the disgu.-i;."l.: w. (,
diIute all obvious fact into wearIsomness? |
But Hail, all Hail, to Progress, We see
Al III tuc to"cI VI yum SSuooi-ieuSt, we [
hear it as the children chaunt their Sun
day Anthems: We recognize it with
bowed and respectful head as it streams
BY us of a Sabbath morn to and fro the |
church habilitated i'll the garments Of |
careless. happy orphanage: We see it in
the realms otto Us-an inscrutable |
science which tells US that Galilleo saw
aud Newton told the first stepping stones
of the Great Beyond And sitting. as a
poet or philosopher might, hard against
pillar of the great dome of the Capitol |
at Washington. we see the Genius Of |
Progress as it goes forth, ~idening, e1-
pandins and rendering the earth more
and more possible OF utilization and oc-
cupancy. We see her Plumin. herself |
upon the bleak hills OF New England
We watch her with soliciIous eye as she
spreads her wings and skins the shores
of turbulous Hatteras and glides past the
malarious Everglades of Florida, We see
her dip her radiant feathers in the Gulf
and moult a mournful feather on the
Texan border; We see her shudder as
she sails, with mournful swoop, over the
long fences and U0rds of California we
see her. sffrighted, rise into mid ether