Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-02-17
nrR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IA.

DEAR TIMEs:-The weather de-
1;obtful, weather stormy. q high
Ind. lovely moonlight, pelting
ra;n storms, has made up week
80 sucb miserable weather as has
never been seen by the Oldest In
habitants. There has never been
sucb a week. A clear sunset and
a steady north wind, usually prog
nosticates in San Francisco, a clear
dav following, but in this instance,
no People have gone to bed, their
hearts content, and their plans laid
for the morrow, to find the streets
wet. the sky cloudy, and have given
M the idea of ever laying aside UNI
brellas, in fact wise people never go
without them no longer, believing
it is not going to storm simply be-
cause the sun shines.
Sharon had a dinner ! Who paid
for it; deponent saith not. Sharon
is saint nowadays; a veritsble
savior. He has saved his country
from ruin; proved his loyalty to the
memory of his beloved friend Rails
ton, by sacrificing himself, his con-
pressional duties, and everything
connected with it, that the financial
crisis should pass with little less
of terror His magnamImity is
being chronicled IN our newspapers;
he is veritable god, who has
mounted Olympus. and though
inodestly declining to blow his
own trumpet, is having it blown
for him, in a way the world shall
make the most Of it Now Sharon
had a dinner. Lucky thought 4! the
Comstoek lode was represented,
and to make the most of it, that it
shall be handed down to posterity,
tie bills Of fare were on solid silver.
Now everybody knows that silver
represents wealth, and because it
does so. Wm. Sharon is known to
be wealthy, otherwise how could
these bills have come into existence.
But who paid for that dinner ? Will
somebody tell us? Was it an ex-
piring effort on the part of Mr..
Sharon to prove the extent of his
resources, or was it a banquet ten
dAred to Mr.. Sharon, as proof OF
the esteem in which he is held by
those whose property he is en-
deavoring to save by the sacrifice
of his own. In either instance it
seems to have been agreeable and to
have cost plenty of money and as
Mr.. Sharon does not object to osten-
tation, the little bills of fare at forty
dollars q piece were nothing re-
markable. Nevada people will
probably feel their interests safe in
the hands Of man who has proved
his loyalty to the State in which
he lives, and will no doubt be as
we'll satisfied with his months work
for them in Congress as they would
il he gave more time to looking
after their interests. At all events
in q month he expects to be home
again. and on his way will very
likely stop while in Nevada just
to let his constituents know he has
been to represent them.
The affairs of the Industrial School
are under discussion. Judge Wheel
er has decided that it is unconstitu
tional to incaroerate children without
trial by jury, and if the Supreme
Court indorses the decision we shall
probably have some hundred and
thirty children turned loose into the
street who have been considered
criminals in society, and who may
DE pests again in the community.
what is to be done about it seems
to be question. OF course, in many
respects the children are better taken
care or than most of them would be
In their own homes. They are being
educated, and were it not for the
brand upon them they would be bet
Ter of altogether; but the communi-
ty looks upon them as criminals, and
TO commence with children not more
than six or seven years of age and
leave the social mark upon them in
that way is something terrible.
The silver cornet band connected
with the school played last week for
the benefit of the Larkin street church.
1t numbers about twenty, none Of the
boys apparently more than fourteen
and some not over seven. They
played selections from opera and in
every way did themselves credit; but
1t seems surprising that such little
fellows should be such terror to
our excessively respectable society
as their incarceration would seem to
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