Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-02-17
LETTER FROM HIKO.

HIKo. Feb. 10, 1876.
Since my last the mild and benefcent
rays of the gospel have dawned on the
heather darkness of our section. We
have preacher. None of your swell
preachers, who tries to play himself for
head shift boss here in the lower work.
ings, and has a penchant for paroxysmal
gush and the eve lambs of the flock, but
good, old-fashioned jurneyman domi-
ME, one OF the kind that roughs around
through the by-ways and hedges of the
vineyard with his theological grubbing
hoe, hitting lick at sin wherever it
raises its ugly bead. Such an one as we
were wont to listen to in chidhood's
happy days, as he would tell us OF the
manifold and atrocious transsressions of
which we had been guilty, and OF the ex-
ceedingly fervid temperature that was in
store for US, until we were glad to crawl
into our little beds, duck our infantile
heads under the blankets and curl up our
juvinal toes, for fear the devil might
snake us out by the heels and cremate us
before morning. He is evidently earnest,
Jealous and sincere and is entitled to all
respect and sympathy, but when he
thinks that he can wrestle with sin in
Hike, the conviction will intrude itself
on the thoughtful mind, that he has
capped up hard game, and shall invest
oil my salary, as correspondent OF your
valuable paper, in two.to.one bets that
sin throws him, best two in three. As
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cerned the prospects cannot be con-
sidered brilliant, though some Of the
most public spirited citizens might, after
an unusually earnest effort in their behalf,
ask him out to drink, or give him reason
able hand at poker. At viii, or even at
mywapwa usagara, the same amount of
we'll directed and earnest effort might
be productive of immense results for
good, or among the Wagoga's or on the
classic shores OF the Nyanza the good seed
might take root and bring forth a thou
sand fold, but at Hike? never! We deny
the soft impeachment and hurl back
; the imputation with scorn. Why the
! main street OF our town is called Perdi-
ton Avenue, and the plaza is known as
.. Fiddler's Green. A preacher and not a
faro bank or hurdy-gurdy within q
days travel! Whittier! oh whittier are
we drifting!
Our old friend Shafee is doing fair
business ct his new stand, though he
evidently signs for those halcyon days,
. now gone alas! forever, when the freight
on needles was exorbitant. and pair OIL
OFFENDER escapement stogies was worth
0 twenty-seven dollars. have Just me-
8 a gentleman from Reveille who informt
9 me that business in that district is at {
2 comparative stand.still, owing to al
Q immense amount of litigation that il
o hanging over the titles Of tho district
+ paralyzing all industrial operations TO
t the present. A complicated suit is OF
v the tapis between Barnes (the orieina
# owner) and MCGEE (the purohaser) o
the ella property, and besides, now tina
Barnes, after staying with the distric
for years, has made the Gila a VALUABLE
% property, a host Of superannuated pros
j. pectors, fossiliferous relics Of the pre-
- historic age, who in the natural order O
I, events SHOULD have been dead years age
=, have resurrected themselves from tn
"A gin shops Of every camp within tw
" hundred miles, and are piling up oil
- titles, some of them dating back pre-
- vious to the discovery OF America b
Columbus. I see in one of your LAT
q issues, a statement made by De Kay
" the wife murderer, previous to b
), execution. In all ordinary cases it seem
= but right when the grave closes over
!. man to draw the veil of charity over a
- his faults, and il we cannot speak we
of him to speak of him not at all; b,
90 this was case Of such peculiar atrocii
r. that Delays memory, like that of Boot
: and Thomasson (the dynamite fient
90 should be held in execrAtion for q
"' time. He was one of those PECULIAR
despicable creatures, domestic tyran
's- and had established and maintained ov
AT his family for years reign Of terror, al
A.. II he was ever kind" to them il was wi
an unremitting kindness. For long tin
be worked in Phoebe for big wages. b
Ell family Giving here) receiving such ,
Oh insignifoantly small percentage that b
for the charity Of the: neighbors (esp