The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-10-27
CAMP MCDERM1r. NV

teroay. with q load OF clothing and
quartermastcr stores, amounting to 8
or 10 thousand rs. 4; he starts for Win.
nemucca in day or two for some
80, 006 to $4,000 bs of cornmissary
stores, fractional part of the freight
yet TO be transported this alone mega
hves the statement of the correspon.
dent of the Hum oldt Register THAT
the Post is aboht to be abandoned even
had it any better foundation than bis
own fertile Imagination,
saw a paragraph in a late issue of
nrs.expressine snrprise that Govern.
ment did moi purchase the bulk of it's
supplies from Paradise. If the people
OF Paradise can sell their grain, -four.
etc.. M oheaply. and furnish as good an
article as the Californian contractors.
there 10 no reason why they can't
possess themselves OF the Government
custom. Once year an advertisement
is inserted in the leading papers of the
coast. inviting bids for contracts, thus
affording to the Eienites the same ia.
cilitiss for obtaining them that have
been offered ty those already successful
IN that line. The contracts are let to
the lowest bidders on approved secu-
rity. but il seems to me that the settlers
In this country have an insane idea that
the Government is Mulch COW TO be
drained dry for their especial benefit,
and chat garrison shoald be kept here
not for their protection, but for their
support, and conscientious Government
officials are very strenuously condemned
as they cannot take this view of the
matter.
notice with regret the decline of en-.
theological research in the Eastern
States, One of the contributors OF
the Welcome Visitor" affirms as a
fact that 90 There are no bed. bugs in
Nevada" Now l willingly concede to
bin superior knowledge on every
other subject, but must classify him as
belonging to the Genus. of which he
seeks to deprive Us ; the author, sir, is
humbug. Bless his poor. unsophis-
ticated, eastern heart. il he only spent
night in one of our adobe or frame build.
Jugs he would leave the State a sadder,
and (if the bugs could speak, a wiser
man. Why there are bugs (some big
bugs too 10 this State. contem por aries
of the wsl-known " Old Tom Moore"
and like him also of no small bum
ming capacities either. What remini-
SCIENCES they could relate of political
eaucuses, wild-cut mining and rail.
road robbery there are bed bugs that
know avery station between here and
New York. and have come across. the
Continent. concealed in every eonceiy-
able way. from the 80 ers who came in
. wagon across the piaius. to the more
recent importation who made his di-
urnal repasts in q Pullman car on
nothing less tender than high.brsd
beauty. and who only escaped death
and extermi nation on accouat of the
absuraj prejudice against scratching,
which would cause one of onr M odern
young ladies to emulate the historical
Spartan boy, substituting only bed.
bug for the fosse. YES. that man would
leave this State, confessing himself as
"a liar. aud one who had no truth in
him"
Politics are the rage here just at
present. I hear SO much of them that
have got mixed mp slightly. aud con-
fnsedly talk of Thurlow Reid aud
Whitelaw Weed. and Samuel Til.
ton ADD Theodore Tilden. One
soldier A. Democrat will call the
Republican party the upas tree of
Americas politics. under whose baneful
shade no ihnocuous vitality can exist.
but which encourages, the growth of
fapgoid otcrescences, which. as they
arrive at maturity, spread their poison
Gus seed stouud Republicans calls
the Democratic party the vampire party.
with ghoul-like .proclivities. feeding on,
the disinterted remains of bygoue