Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-20
rHELYON COUNTY TIMES
Our San Francisco Correspondent
on her Tfnyels.

UEAR lMEo.- uSCulcHe, uhu
for those that can't get amusement
or pleasureable excitement suffi-
cient to keep them alive, suicide
has been the order of the past few
days.
1T NEVER RAINS BUT 1T POURs
In Frisco, and the array of talent
we have had Of late has been so
poured upon us that deluge has
been the result. The ark of safety
has been the country, to which
people have fled in vain for pleas
ure, for the want of rain, the al
most actual drought, has so robbed
it of its charms that those who do
not get back to the city's entice-
ments will be bound by other ties
than those of desire. 1t is too
bad; what the farmers are going to
do it does not matter so much TO us
selfish people, but what city folks
are going to do, who want board in
the country, with nothing to dwell
upon but the blighted condition of
the crops, nothing to eat but tough
beefsteaks, and the few vegetables
to be obtained without much irri-
CATION, is another question.
The Santa Clara Valley, usually
at this time of year garden, has
the look of E.EE
THE AvENaING HAND OF GOD
Upon it, for in some places even
the old oaks, which have sum-
mered and wintered so many years
of California; fickleness, have the
appearance of having determined
to give out altogether, and few
months more of the present pros
pect of drought must, it seems, put
an end to them altogether. 1t
would not be hard to see what the
prospect of emigration for the
future would be if people were to
be allowed to believe that this kind
of thing was common, and so ev-
erybody says, and
"wHAr EVERYBODY SAYS MUST BE
"a f-FE@ TRUE,
That in this region of country such
q drought has never been known
since the advent of the Americans
into California.
We are losing our old settlers.
One after another they are being
gathered to their fathers, and this
year so many have departed that it
almost seems as if few were to be
left Mr.. Selby's death will be
mourned by many, for as well in
public as in private life he was
much beloved. There are not
many whose record has been as
clear as his in all particulars; could
there be more, California would be
purified. AS it is,
"woE is ME-"
Good men are so few, the more we
miss them.
Stocks are in such poor health at
present they are not the least en-
ticing. Nobody longs for them;
nobody hopes very much for the
present in regard to them. How
strange it is all the world runs
after something which possesses
remarkable virtue so long as every
body keeps on running, but the
moment they stop, people begin to
ask what they were running for,
and to look blankly at each other,
till somebody commences to run
again. 1t is not healthy to run too
long in any direction, and so per-
haps they stop.
A smart shower of rain in the
city on Sunday, but
THE THIRSTY EARTH BEGs IN VAIN
In the country for little moisture,
and takes only the hurrying clouds
which the wind drives before it as
its portion. Well, patience, but
who would farm it
Ristori is still enhancing the
people of San Francisco. 1t is a
pity she cannot go into the interior.
She remains but a week longer,
when she goes to Australia, and
thence to India.
SHE WAS DISGUISED
At being obliged to play at Ma
CURES, as we'll she may be. The
stage is so small it will hardly ac-
commodate at once the number of
persons required in Marie Antoi
nette, and the feeling that the
greatest living actress should be
obliged to play in such small quar-
ters in our fine city is really great.
JANAUsCHEK
Was before her in getting the CAL
ifornia, and though offered by Ris-
tori thousand dollars to give it
up to her, declined to take it. In
another year We could have done
better for her, as we shall then
have a fine theatre; but a year from
now there will be no Ristori on