Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-31
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looked, people will begin to appreciate Reel
Mcclellan as they also will value his portraits
But for Gilbert Stuart and Col. Trumbul
not any American would have any sort o
notion how Washington and Green and JOIN
Hancock and Sam Adams and Hamilton
and the rest of the Revolutioners looked
and by and by when the Forty miners anc
other fossil remains are all gathered to thei1
fathers, here and there portrait of Mac!
will be about all there is left save some Da
querreotypes, tin-types, nelainotypes and
types of defunct and restoreless epoch tc
let the futqg relia-hunter know what was the
color of their hair, the complexion of their
noses, the tint of their eyes and the dye of
their beard and eyebrows. Mac has just
been completing portrait of our late friend
Billy Patterson. 1t is surprisingly life-like
and perfect-one of Mr. McClellan's very
best, in fact Such picture of such man
SO well and widely known and respected,
will become invaluable with time 1t was
was painted for sister of the deceased. ....
Mr. r. F. Yorkston, agent of the Campbell
Printing Press and manufacturing Company,
80 Beeknan St, New York, dropped into the
MORNING APPEAL Office yesterday. He as
tonished US with the statement that the Com
pany that he represents, manufactures a
press which has a capacity of $4,000 copies
OF IL newspaper per hour! This is about four
times the capacity of the Walter press and
more than FIVE times that of the Bullock
In order to do al this but two mems
work is required -. The publishers of the
St Louis Christian Advocate have sent us
short biography of the Rev. D. r. McAnally
D. D. of the Methodist Church South; also
4 copperplate portrait of that divine. The
biography informs Us that the Doctor was
born in Tennessee and fetched up in Union
guard house for his secession principles during
the war. These facts endear the Doctor to
our affections and sympathies, and we
have sent for thirty three thousand
(33,00O) copies of his picture. We
want to stick him up everywhere ......
Beam Pixley has returned from Santa Cruz.
lie found his cruise pleasant one, and much
to the surprise of his friends did not come
back bare headed But his plug hat is safe.
He tells most prepostrous yarn by the
stood that when Hutch and Jake Tobriner
and Bob stole his plug hat they did him a
great favor--pretending that his hat box was
stolen-leaytng the inference that if the hat
had been in the box it, too, would have
been lost. My son Beam, (anybody can
aee that that means sunbeam), only son"
says uncle Tired 'your apology is very well |.
planned, but it is most too thin to wash. "
But the Assessor looks contented and bears /
no malice. Glad to get him back. Senator |
Lockwood and party of bold hunters, with
rations enough for six months campaign,
started for the mountains yesterday They
will fish and hunt and camp out ad libitum
and with a perfect looseness. Went to
Empire expecting to attend divine service
on Sunday. Parson Kelly came, horse
back, all the way from Yank's to preach to
the ungodly there, bnt they fell down on him
and he folded his saddle blankets like
Saul Of Tarsus and silently stole away. So
we fetched up at Tom Beers. Tom, by the
way, has a mighty snug little grocery and
meat market; and he is hospitable man, is
Tom; and he makes speciality OF superior
.eas and cotiee-which is a godsend to the
Empirics and other people not stranded there
Mark Gaige and his family returned on
Saturday from their trip to Hope Valley, /
Silver Lake, The Big Trees, Placerville &c.
They returned by the Johnson's Pass Route.
Mark describes that road to be in excellent
order but mOnstrous thick with toll gates
As many as ten or a dozen, we should say {
here were; but he fetched through all right;
md he and his are good bit better for
heir trip. .Sage-hens will be in season
1ext month, according to law, and the bold
portsman have made up their minds and
olled their guns accordin'. Secretary Miner ,
nd party came in from Yosemite yesterday. !
III as fine as fiddle and greatly delighted q
With their trip. Never before such junket- 6
ne among our people as this year and never L
,efore so wide a range TO their explorations y
I'll DO EN- good n
GONE LAKEwARDs.-Mr. Mighels, the d