Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-31

JOHN BIDwELL still remains in ID
mentabls state Of candidacy. He is q
tough old Mexican, 10 John, and used to
getting hurt. The little river steamer
Gem" exploded her boiler just above
she bridge at Sacramento about twenty
years ago and landed poor old John. Who
was enc Of her passengers, in the middle
Of barley field in the center Of folo
county. He had hole STAYED into his
head by boiler bolt as big As a tea cup.
but i. never hurt his physical health the
least bit in the world. His neishbors
said, however. that it made him ''lupy"
FOR good while: and it is possible that
this arrangement of the head is what
makes John rush into the public view
with his loose iointed land record and
his long line of personal eccentr;cities.
Johns genius SIS 4 wine-dealer Is way be-
low Booths. Booth has contriyed to
realize fortune dealing in rum and
molasses, bat poor John, after having
tried his hardest to become wine
maker has had TO give it up as & bad
lob. In 1857, when James Buchanan
was President, john caused two (2)
bottles of ::sore of his wine to be care
fully wrapped mp in tuie-stalks and
brown paper and forwarded with his
compliments TO the Old Public Function
AIRY. Buchanan tasted of the liquid,
and then, remembering his experience
a. the National Hotel in Washington on
his Inauguration day, ordered the White
House butler 10 pOur il all out on the
ground and rinse the bottles. John
KEEP. lis little old bar in the old adob.
1t Chico for some years after this, but
he began to feel the necessity for re
ligion and temperance and SO ne got his
neishbors 10 Join with him in putting
MP cheap chapel, ard then became
serious and contemplating in the raisin
way. In 1861 he wanted the nomination
for Governor at the hands of the Fourth
Of July Convention; but Joe MrCorkle
go: the twenty-three delegates from
Butte and left Door John in the vocative.
Bu: John hung on, and finally did get
one of McCorkle's delegates away from
him-one jim Ward, q bit whisky
saloon keeper of Oroville-and then
getting somebody in the Sacramento
Delegation to place his name IL nomin-
alton, he finally was paraded before the
But he was the victim of
the wiles Of the politicians, and out Of
ESQ delegates ne got complimentary
vote of about seventeen. But he never
lost hope till John CONFESS was nomin-
ated. Then he started for home, and
when he got there called his Indians to-
gether and made them 9 speech de-
the corruption Of political par
ties. But he felt urged by the doctrine
of natural selection and SO became a
candidate for Governor at the Republi-
can Convention of California in 1867
The ways Of the wicked again entrapped
him and thwarted the courses OF virtue
and he was stranded upon the shores Of
the ocean of connubiation. But virtue
is its own reward; and now the purest
and best ticket ever placed by sirless
hands in mortal grasp is headed by this
great and good man whose conscience
finds consolation in raisins and whose
qualities of head are proof against the
explosive powers Of super-heated steam.
How can we wonder then, that when
this good and pious man became known
to Frank Pinley, he fell upon his neck
and took him to his heart: