Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-07
LETTER FROM ATLANTA
ATLANTA. 7. T. Anr;l 81 10


morn till night by the loafers here
and has no doubt become to them !
Joy forever" Think a orndoctor,
might do handsome business here
now IN the way of treating corns bun.
ions and Stamped toes" We are
having genuine April weather. show
ers, and sunshine alternately. Snow
has about AL disappeared, save only
on the surrounding mountains.
NICK johnson arrived here two DAYS
ago from Boise valley with his pack
tram. the second packer we have had
IN here this season. We were glad to
meet him since his long sojourn away
from Atlanta, for he is undoubtedly an
honest packer and a good man-Iet
people say what they may about call
packers being thieves" | knoN better
Mr. Chas. Furey returned a few
days ago from the East, where he has
been spending the winter with friends
and relatives. We are truly clad to
welcome Mr. +. back, for heis a clever,
GENIAL, whole-souled gentleman, and
quite a favorite with all who know
HIM. Suppose he has ordered a large,
fine stock of goods which will bo here
very soon. He is doing q splendid
business. considering the dullness Of
the camp. Mr. Furey informs me that
his brother, who was seriously injured
in the Monarch mine last summer, has
entirely lost his eye-sight. Hehas the
sympathy of all who know him.
Messrs. T. J. Sutton and J. Rice left
here two days ago for Yankee Fork.
We fear they will have a rough trip
Of it during this Indictment weather.
though each took China packer with
him and enough provisions to last
until July, perhaps. May our friends
Sutton and Rice "strike it rich"
There is a deal of sickness here,
mostly influenza; but few have been
ortunate enough to escape it.
Atlanta resembles paradise in one
aspect and that is we have mo mar
'iages or giving in marriages The |
'lacc affords no belle-save only tho
,ow-bell-and perhaps this accounts
or It's resemblance to heaven. said,
n the beginning Of this. that there
vas very little business being done;
Urgot; there is one of the livelicst,
most promising clubs here that one
eldom sees anywhere. 1t is STYLED
The Street Lying Club" and is com.
'osed of the most expert of both sexes.
he beauty Of the thing is, all the
yarns" spun by this club are taken
Or what they are-lies.
This is not very fashionable place;
re hare The fashion-plates that Madam
'oah left whca the flood subsidized.
his. perhaps. is one cause of the great
uccess Of the club here; there being ,
0 new fashions to discuss they con-
equentl follow gossip and backbit-
~. But still, as I've said, their
yarns" pass for what they really are
nd can, therefore, do no harm.
There have been three great snow
ides on the Atlanta mining hills this
bring, and few days ago | had the
leasure of beholding them. They f
re grand, sublime and imposing. Will |
oubtless be there in huge bodies [
hen the next snow falls. These s
ides are just above Mr.. JAS. Davis. C
y-the.way, there is not nicer family c
Alturas county, nor anywhere else. 9
ian Mr.. Davis. Mrs. d. is a jewel of a
e first water. She is one Of those q
re beings that seldom cross the dull v
lthway Of earth-in civilization n
Id ii is remarkably strange to find r,