Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-12
LETTER FROM PALIsADE.


TrOsH u Lazy correspondent.
A little slang is pardonable when a
lady sets herself a task, and / open
this letter with the proposition that it
is a little tough' to attempt to write a
letter from a town where nothing hap
pens outside Of the ordinary course of
events. We work, eat and sleep with
unvarying regularity and gossip over
the small talk incidental to all SUBJ
urban villages, with an occasional rip
pie of excitement in the way Of party
or merry making hat keeps us from
stagnating. And then once in a while
there Is some sweet morsel Of scandal
that we roll under u tongues and re-
joice over in the light that wickedness
can exist and thrive in as small a town
as Palisaie; mlt I am not going to re-
gale YOU ears by chronicling any of
II moral escapades, for 1 judge that
you have a few black sheep in Your
own community that need looking at
ter before you attempt to reform your
neighbours wickedness.
We nave the advantage of Eureka in
n respect, and that is the fact that,
situated on the nations highway, we
get a glimpse of celebrities who are
fitting from seaboard 10 seaboard.
Great generals, astute politicians, titled
snobs rom hold H'england, and snobs
without titles from everywhere; learn
ed preachers, lawyers with national
regulations, and common people with
out any regulations to speak of, come
and go, and we gather on the platform
during their brief stay with us, and
sati ate our curiosity and crafty our
vanity all at the same time, for when
ever these peoples names are men,
toned we are able to assume an air of
superiority, and look wise as we claim
an intimate knowledge with their fea-
lures and belongings. OF course these
personages are first-class passengers
to whom, from their mode of travel,
a certain amount of Difference is due;
but we ssum altogether different airs
wheE the emigrant train makes its di-
urnal stoppages. Then you may be
sure that we don't waste any courtesy
on people whose purses or inclinations
lead them to travel third-class. To be
sure they do us more good than the
LII tIaitlSy loI llltN tdNe SOIilc
of the contents of their scanty pocket
books with us in exchange for various
articles of food and merchandise; but
then they have no business to be poor,
if they wish to be respected. so we do
not waste any attention in that quarter.
/ started with the intention OF jotting
down all the news for your readers
benefit, and eve went so far as to in
terview ON of my male friends on
the subject, but l declare that / have
forgotten it.. / remember engineer
Bell telling me that locomotive No. l
was being thoroughly repaired and
would soon be out OIL the road for &C.
tive service, but he mixed it all with
details about that new baby of his that
he is SO absurdly proud of, and l gave
him up as not being a tit subject to in
terview in his present exalted state of
mind. Another gentleman related the
deadly feud that existed between our
rival houses of Capulet and Montague,
or, to drop metaphor, the war of the
hotel keepers, but l have forgotten the
merits of the dispute. Mr.. Lawlor,
our gentlemanly ticket agent, said that
there was some interest in the tran
shipment of flue dust, two or
three cars of which arrive every
morning from Eureka, and are
loaded into box cars to be sent
to Salt Lake, so l walked up to
the side track to see it and it was
nothing but a mess of nasty black
dust, and don't see why they want
to take so much pains and labor with
a lot of dirt; but when / found that
Mr.. Clark, n very pleasant and good
looking gentleman, was superintend-
ing it l altered my ideas as to its non
utility, for l presume he knows more
about its qualities than l do, and he
told me all about the percentage of
gold, silver and lead that it contained,
and it turned out hat there was more
iron in it than SCOT, which may be so.
but it did not look like it. l did
mean to write all about the lovely
moonlight walks on the iron highway
along the banks of the romantic Hum
boldt, and how us girls enjoy them,
for there are really some nice eligible
young men here and n or two good
looking widowers, but l don't want to
harrow your feelings by contrasting
the advantages of Palisade over Eure-
ka in that respect. l do not doubt but
that you make love up there, but il
must be very prosaic, for the dusty
roads and the smell of the fumes rob it
of all sentiment. Out OF charity for
your readers | will desist until such
time as you think proper to have me
infiict some more of my nonsense on
the patrons of the SENTINEL.