Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-14
PINNEY VS.. PINNEY.

Ous piopo1tlOl4s, III pIeScItS
Gus magnitude of the dreadful or the outrag-
eous or the depravities to seem indescriba-
bic in terms the MORNING APPEAL generally
avoids it. This Sinking habit of ours has
probably been noticed by our constant read
ers. There are some predicaments which
leave one with but two courses between which
to make choice-either to be silent or open
ones voice in a sudden up-gush of vigor
Gus swearing. Silence only gives satisfaction
in negative way 1t is like starving out
threatened attack of fever. The application
of dose of oaths is like blister plaster, or
string tied round a fractions horses lip
1t gives the patient something to think of
besides his aches and ailments. But it is
held better to suffer in silence than to be
guilty of the INDIGENOUS practice of profanity.
But the pure in heart don't know what a re-
left it is to the oercharged unregenerate
mind to explode into brief broadside of
we'll rounded explosives. What we instinct
lively avoid in our silence upon the class of
subjects alluded to, is indifference, anger,
disgust, loathing These sensations rarely find
which we have avoided We dislike to deal
with such unpleasant things. He has had
hearing by the public ear only too thoroughly
and too long. But he has been made an OBJ
ject and subject of consequence because of
the reason that he has had widely-read
newspaper press to give his sayings publicity
and advocate his cause. So he comes to be
treated as a quasi legitimate subject of news
paper comment. He has made himself and
been made almost as prominent matter of
comment as the hog cholera or the potato-bug.
Lately his divorced wife, nee Flora Bray, has
been emptying her budget of woes against
him. A little while ago she made complaint
in Court that she was the victim of conspir-
acy by Pinney, Burr and others to defraud
her out of her homestead Now she makes a
sworn statement of the personal abuses-the |
fsticuffs, the eye blackings, the kicks, the
hair pullings, ETC.. with which he treated her |
from time to time and place to place, during |
their married life 1t presents strange pic
ture of what the Master styles Domestic
discord and fierce civil strife. George, &C
cording to Flora's testimony thumped her
with great regularity and violence almost
daily for several years. One would think she
would have got so used to it as to expect and
rather like it; but it seems she got tired of
the amusement, at last. She went to Notary
Yoell, at San Jose, on the 9Th of this month
and told her story, making complaint of the
same, in legal form; and upon filing it in the
she prays for the intervention of the strong
arm of the law to prevent this violent man
from persuing and beating and Fostering
her. in the future. We have intimated that
we find it difficult to do this subject justice. ;;
We are glad to have another and more COM
petent commentator deal with it. We sub ,
NIT the following from the Record Union of S
Wednesday: ''Mrs Flora Pinney', says that I
paper, "has again attracted public attention =
by filing an affidavit praying that her late |
husband may be enjoined from following or a
interfering with her. In this affidavit she ]
gives recital, the allegations of which more q
than confirm all the previous statements as y
to Pinneys brutality. According to Mrs. v
Pinney he was in the habit of beating and b
abusing her throughout her married life, hav-
ing commenced this practice within ten days u
of their marriage. A long lisS of specific as "
saults is given, varying from slaps on the face
to kicks which threw her down, and inter
ludes agreeably diversified by dragging her
about the house by the hair She alleges P
that the valiant Pinney once kicked her tt
senseless when she was enceirate, and that he n
beat her shockingly because she refused to q q
give up her homestead to him. The affida- "
Wit altogether is very remarkable reading, and 4
in turning to Pinney's organ, the Chronicle, W
we of course find it engaged in the congenial O.
task of defending its pet wifebeater and vii h
ain in ordinary. 1t apparently had not seen OF
the affidavit, but it coolly declares, with its b
nose in the air, that the Chronicle fully re- at
Piled to Mrs. Pinney's first complaint at the 50
Tine it was made, and showed conclusively T.
BY whom it was inspired and for what purpose, B
md it only remains now for the appearance Nv
IF this second recital of imaginary griefs to Il, II.
how how degraded ring sheet can become
n the service of its masters Well, that is
partly true The Chronicle's defense of Pin nc
ley, the wife-beater, does tend to show how LII
degraded ring sheet can become in the SER