Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-05
4" BLITCH.'

Butcher Lafayette MORRISON, better know
az Butcher, a resident of Austin for about
a year past called at our office this afternoon
20 bid US good bye He said he expected to
start about 3 o'clock, and was to 60 on Foot
l. Walkers line and would take the middle
of the road until he reached Battle Mountain,
then he would be obliged to take side track
until he reached Carson. Butcher practlced
Walking with Kate Lorenzo, and feels conf
sient that he can make Carson, provided he
holds out to make the same time that he did
shile on the track With Kate, inside of four
,iays Butcher x to Carson to take hand
q, the manipulate L of things legislative, and
tsels certain thai L. will get into something
:nere this Winter, if it is but the county jail
Lafayette is very likely good man in his way,
but his way is such peculiar one that it takes
forever to find it ont Having to part with
Kim, we turn him over to the tender care of
me Carson APPEAL
We could better be taken of the affection of
worser man We had hoped "Bluch"
would stay in A . tt and be buried there.
We earnestly hope some desperate philan
shropist will Kill him if he attempts to leave
that city. At all events we hope to hear OF
MIS- being run over by the cars and cut up
rto stove lengths before he reaches Carson.
-'Bluch combines within himself the com
t,ined nuisa,icy of ten verlnin bitten tramps
concentrated with the late American Man and
me present existing Glen Berry. In fact,
Buch" is such All extraordinary and as it
we're. prototypcal bore to be fit tho
nasty) subject for all editorial, even i'll the
moral and religious columns Of the MORNING
ArPs.L:
Biuch born (probably) il New
5ersey. We can not conceive it possible for
~ manifest and amazing ID nondescript to have
heeu born anywhere else unless it should be
N Reno-which latter phenomenon were i'm
possible under the circumstances. He is
about seventy-tive years cid, with pain of
snal,ks under him like Scott Harry Cow,
,o.ce like a diseased steam whistle. head
Ike perverted Creole 81 Nuremberg, foot
IKE the Cardiff giant and cheek like sperm
rhale he will not be mistaken for the
~heelbarrow man, as he comes sparring his
gnnnstrous way along the line of the Great
T'ranscontinental Railway,
.'Bluch" dates back, like Lambs "Gentlc
s:lantess, to warm Summer day, 1t was
II SnF SIedlly ali pI JuIb III tIkS GlbN vi
Narysyille, California There mach
nar ring of martial brass, much beguzziiug OF
mint Jniips, much patriotic rhetoric in the
ri. much powder burned, many firecrackers
exploded and a too inviting opportunity for
.Bluch" to make it apparent what abnor-
nAi appalling aud irtoIerahlc nuisance ht
cnuid he. A certain meek and cautions nj,
snr EASILY persuaded mali was bossiHg the job
1t Gr,ns sky-ockets i'll front of the
saeater, Those pyr0technicals were swishing
rat INTO the ELUSIVE Summer air with admir-
able precision and directness the holiday
crowds we're looking on with foryid admira-
Eton duly heated by sherry cobblrIs and cooled
with Ice-cream; the interludes OF Roman
candles and the side-dishes Of spirais, stars,
bulbs and pin-wheels were approvingly sand
~lohed in Between the more aspiring fire
works; q somewhat langud calm had begun
~ settle upon the crowd when ''Biuch' APP
rcared upon tile scene. He made short work |
IT that meek and careful man who was
snuching off the squibs and things ''Here,"
,s~led Butcher" what you doiag7 First
ching you know you'll kill yourself or some
;,pdy else Give that rocket 10 me-" The |
poor man. surprised and scared, gave way.
5Ee was under the spell Of ''Buch 8 tramen |
tous aud alarming impudence. In another
minute ''Biuci" had the biggest skyrocket in
the whole lot in his grasp and ad justed it in
hIs own peculiar way, The wiser and more .
prudent who were within range withdrew to
pa0es and positions of safety. Cnhappily |
the meek man whom ''Bluch" had so rudely
deposed remained TO witness the first per-
formsnce of the brutal usurper of his Office.
in the twinkling of all eye there vas a savage
'"swish" from the maddened rocket, an ex-
Diosion az Of the bursting of magazine,
*Id cry of agony and horror stricken
s,isnce f'Biuch's" rocket had passed through
she bowels Of his meek and lowly predecessor,
exploding as it went and tearing him into
hopeless atoms. Gle was a Missourian, and
hIs name is of no consequence
The effects of this tremendous catastrophe
may DO imagined The crowd surged Ito use
ri ingenious expression of our OWN like a
drunken mar. (rhe fact Of it is, good deal
NJ the crowd was OF that peculiar kind and
tsmperneut) But for tho resolpte action of
Sheriff Gray and his deputies tho aaddened
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