Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-04-27
San Francisco Letter.
Especial Correspondence of the Times.
SAN FRANCISCO, April "a. 1879


Elysian climate of San Francisco
are having their fill of some of its
beauties. Wind, dust and fog, one
and all combined, in the daily
Circuit, have filled the hearts and
minds of our citizens with anxious
iforebodings of what is to come in
the future. Our worst summer
month, Of August, being rivalled
in its severity by the usually milder
one of April. All the dust in the
city has done its best to develop the
antagonistic qualities of the human
species, who fight their way up the
hills, with the wind battling them
back, as well as it is able, and the
mighty fog which has rolled in to
cover up the city, has hardly been
equalled by the general gloom
which has seemed to force itself in
spite Of the opposition of most of
our inhabitants. Nobody seems
particularly festive during these
seasons of atmospheric contentious,
and the fact that the revivals have
ended, or that their chief light has
faded, in the departure of Ham
mond, does not greatly help us, for
as yet no excitement is taking it's
place. The reverend brethren bad
love feast at the Lick House, given
to Brother Hammond, where the
feast Of reason and flow of soul,
mingling with the sentiments of
Hark, from the tomb doleful
sound" could not have been to
other than themselves particularly
jolly. However, il they were salts
fed, it is nobody's business, and
with the hope that the rev. gentle
man has enjoyed himself among us,
he is hidden farewell.
Professor Lavender, self-right-
eous, self f-conceited sort of an ap-
pearing individual, endeavored to
make some capital for the free
thinkers, by bringing himself into
conspicuous opposition to the Rev.
Hammond; bat his efforts availed
him nothing, for the bulls and bears
of California street, despite their
hardness of heart in some particu-
lars, determined to hear what good
they could for themselves in the
way of salvation, vice versa hell
and damnation, would not hear
word from the man who promised
to save them, through their own
way of very free thinking, and the
air odorous with the breath of Law
ender, became unchanged shortly
after, with very different sort of
perfume, for the market being at
hand and rotten eggs abundant,
Lavender beat a retreat with his
wagon, and the good people went
on with business.
Elaine" has retired to privacy,
and the amount of money collected
by its exhibition having been fairly
distributed in various charities, was
very considerable. Launcelot must
have been somewhat disguised at
being followed to the castle by the
dead body of his love rejected, and
it would be only fair now to the
queen to make the reception the
subject of a painting, and some of
our native artists may possibly be
induced to try their hand at a pic
ture of this novel way of righting
ones self after death, in a COM
panion piece, bearing the queen in
the fore ground, Launcelot beside
her, and the corpse appearing.
Tennyson may then again be inn
mortalized in painting as we'll as in
poetry, and the sister arts find them
selves still more in harmony.
We are going to have nothing,
that is known at present, to make it
worth while for the people of Neva-
da to make visit to San Francisco;
nevertheless, we shall be happy to
see them, in view of the bonanzas
we hope are to be discovered by
some of your prospectors. II none
are handy, few manufactured ones
might answer the purpose, after a
little, to get up an excitement.
Something has got to be done, for
things look lamentably dull, and
when Sharon returns to his +" mout-
ons," otherwise his mines, his pock-
cts will be so empty from Washing
ton expenditure, he at least will
doubtless make an effort; but II the
mountains labor and bring forth
only a mouse from time to time,
woe to the spectators, for their
stars must set, and Sharon and
Jones and Flood and O'BrIen will
have to retrench-live within small
means, and take out lite in very
small way, in some humble man
sion, with very poor accommoda-
tions for twenty persons instead of
fifty; their horses be condemned to
the use of silver harness instead of
golden, and four and twenty dollars
serve for their daily dinner expen-
diture instead of hundred. This
must never be; we must keep them
up to the mark they must find
bonanzas, if nobody else does, and
our people must be glad to see the
show which all this wealth is giving
to San Francisco. 1t will never do
to fall back from our palatial friends
in this way; they must be kept up;
and when the. news of fresh boz
nanza in one mine makes its appear
ance, everybody must buy into
others which mau have bOnanzaS,