Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-11


\ PErIEcI LIKENESS OF DAE5EL WEI
srkE. In the rooms occupied Ivy Il. NJ
Daege;t AMI family IL tn Crmsby
House can be seen 4 perfect picture OF
Daniel Webster As he appeared At the
age Of seventy. Ii Is i curiosity Of it
self and mas history which is interest
/ ing. The portrait was drawn about
thirty years ago and under peculiar cir
cumstances. Old Bostonians may per-
haps remember that in the time chat
now seems olden, on an old building
that looked more like an adobe than i.
brick that stood at the corner Of Court
and fremont streets appeared tie signs
Of Daniel Webster as an attorney at law
and Of Healey, portrait painter The
latter has long been nearly as famous III
his profession as Webster was in his.
One day Heaey and a friend dined ont
with another friend in whose library
hung portrait Of Daniel Webster
While at the house OF his friend Mr..
Healey refrained from criticising the por-
trait Of Webster But on leaving. late
in the evening. Healey and his companion
=
Heaiey said =. Now | am going to show
you that / can make a better likeness of
Daniel Webster with "a red-hOt poker
than that hanging up IN the library OF
our friend. Accordingly he stuck his !
poker IN the crate OF hot Goals. and |
when it had been there long enough to !
receive white heat he drew It out and !
went to the door and on panel drew !
IL, - I i.
panel was cut oQt By some admirer of
both Webster and the great artist, and
finally fell into the possession of Mr.. |
Daggett. AS high as eight hundred dol
lars has before now been offered for it
and refused. Mrs. Daggett, when the
great fire occurred in Virginia City last
October, says she saw that likeness on
her bureau and grabbed it in her flight
from the conhagration. That was about
all there was saved from the house, but
she says she hung to that with fearful
tcnacity, as she knew how highly it was
priced by her husband.
PERsoSAL.-Honorable James Butler.
chief mate OF the United States Surveyor
GENERALS Office, came and stood within
The sanctum sanctorum Of the APPEAL
office yesterday long enough 20 leave his
ard. We are sorry that We were not
present to receive him. Professor Dag
5ett, the principal coal miner Of the Pa
life States, came IN from Brown Ignite
lily yesterday for supplies. We think I
ne won them ut Il four-handed game of ,
Pedro. He says the great machinery
which the coal company have erected at I
heir mine surpasses any pumping and [
hosting works III the world, and that {
when it is under full Roadway it roars I
ike Nesuvius IL eruption, and makes ,
he earth jar and rumble, heave and toss, /
md surge and hump up like Alameda s
county ill an earthquake. And he still I
possesses the power and the inclination $
md the suppressed lnodesty to stand up ,
md look yoa in the face and talk this t
way without batting an eve or causing a G
blush upon the cheek of the most fsstid- q
oGs. Our readers will readily under v
tand from this that he is doing as well v
IS could be expected under the circum '
tances. Mr.. John II. kinkead was also I
II the city. He still maintains his youth
al appearance and preserves his admir- /
ble serenity of demeanor. He is as I
Welcome as the sunny smiles of balmy
lprll. Also Ben. Leete was in the city.
lie seems not to have been materially r
warfed or bowed down by the weight Of Ii
Ar. Pownip9's crushing comments. In p
Iced, he still straddles this narrow earth 4
ike gigantic and restored Calvin Ed /
Oil, looking lean but vigorous and .
ealthfnl There is good deal of leath- S
nh :,