Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-04-24
EDITORIAL MANIFESTATIONS.
MASON DE SANTE,
SAN F8ANcISCo, April 10, 1873. !

nrnor Irwin ought to have kept his hands
away from the scales of Justice and allowed
he law to have its course with John Runk.
Not that believe that John Runk, dangling
st the lower end of fathOm or two OF stout
sordage, would be any better off on his own
hard account, or a more salutary object pro
bono publico, than he would be shut up
securely within the walls of a hopeless cell;
flor am a stout disbeliever in the efficacy of
the hangman's noose); but because l think
chat there is a refinement of cruelty in the
nretext upon which His Excellency reprieved
chat unfortunate hoodlum. The Governor
let's John off for week because to-day is
Good Friday. Il is not good Friday for
John if the reprieve only gives him another
week of suspense, to be hanged at the end of
that impairment breathing space. On the
contrary, it is a bad Friday. 1t looks to the
uncharitablo Black Republican mind as If
Governor Irwin wero dallying with the sub
oct-inaking capital with 'the religious COM
munity," by showing convenient qualmish-
ness about Good Friday, and then restoring
Tho equilibrium of his official standing with
he public by letting Runk go to the gallows
one week from that day SO sacred to the faith
ful and the devout. If l were going to be
hung (which | AM not), Id rather have it
lone and over with than to wait a week in
agony Of mind and then be worked off, as
Dennis, the Hangman, expresses it. But
shy blast and blackon Friday by making it
iIangmans Day. We, 0he independent
,oyeroigns of the sage -brusb), hanged Rover
on a Tuesday And it strikes mo that it is
out fair treatment to the week that its days
should be made to bear this odium Of judicial
murder, share and share aud share alike.
Look at this business: The paper that in
forms Tue of Runks reprievr tells me of Il
oolJ,blooded assassination IN Kern county,
Two men, each accompanied by lady, sho:
20 death by ambassadors as they rode peace
tully aiorg the comnon highway. And over
"a Oakland, under the shadow of Runk's
,.Jbet, beast of {. father cuts his wifc's
rhroat and then hangs her in presence Of his
torror-strickcu children. Yet We are told
hat the death penalty /. needed Tor c>-
.nrplo's sake ! don't believe It. believe
It to be the moot har,.aIous relic left rs in the
1t.G,cics of v5d hrutalism
Ny NEWS Blr,sr.
suspect that the critical rcadtr discovers
,u undcltone in these luculIntons Of mine
$ of an ambitious cadaver who fixes to be
thought still holding his own among the
lhings of life and movement and active in
rorgst Perhaps ! exhibit ali unnatural and
clf-bctraying vchomeuce; and it is not I'M
likely that | am something (mcrc or Itss) of a
bore. Tho hedridden are like to bc SO. But
have 4 news budget OF my own; and if was
,ot too conscicatiousiy lazy Id keep diary.
know better than any Carsonite or Empire
man or wood tiumcr OF Comstock miner can
possibly know, Just what my old friend, the
Helpless paralytlc, means when he lets his
tears aud sobs follow quickly after his very |
horsey laughter, 1t is all along of too much |
trouble in this Frenchy world. Also get
news from parties round about me, recent in |
yalds hopelessly sick and even now On their |
death-beds; returns from the cured who re
joico in their new found health; morning bul- |
ictins from the poor folk who come here to be |
operated upon with the implements of sur
rery: glimpScs INTO world where lint and |
bandages are, and where is that blessodcst |
discovery of any age, the volatile anesthctics, |
by whose judicious applications capital oper
.tions, lasting for hours, can be, aye, and
iaily are, performed by the steady, we'll
neryed hands Of men skilled in the surgeons
precious art And | may look ont of window
and see clouds you cannot see; attend mine
ar and hear the twitter of birds that are not
heard of the Carson auriculars; and do | not
sharpen my nose to smells which | hope not
20 smell when once again the topped
Sierra lies atwixt me and these well -ceansed
nut yet nonc-thcless hospitalic walls! As to
the weather, there is further reach to the
md and circumference thereof in these parts
than in any mountain town. The rain caAe
against my sou-wcst window last night as if
here were L thunder shower abroad. And
set the sun shines out clear and, warm to-day
As to the stock market, if it wOuld only do
the candid thing and go to led and be doc
.ored as 1t ought to be, | should have more
raticnce with it. AS it is, it is spleeny,
grumpy, peevish and feeble
tiattor myself that ! ann doing well as COM
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