Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-24
LETTER fROMTHE NORTH END
NUMSKULL on HENRY WARD
BEECHER.

:
! pearance - His Enc0mium on
"The City.Hanging-on-a-MOunt
aino-His Lecfures-A Sublime
thought Few Words to a
Moral Leper.
| VOW VIRGINIA, Aug. 90.
DRAR TINES: OF all petty pilfer-
ing literary theft is the meanest, for
it requires nothing but q little
"credit' to pay for It. I have often
been reminded of this by seeing your
articles copied in other papers with
out proper remuneration. = $50
OUR COL SUBJECT.
| The individual alluded to by me
! in nv last letter as fit subject for
| the attention of the COL grew quite
| indignant (on reading the article at
the interference with his business,
and declared that If he could find out
the writer he would ego after the
id son of a gun with club"
Should he discover me and attempt
to carry out his threat to do bodily
violence to my sacred person, he may
discover that "The pen is mightier
than thesword - ( have but this to
say to this degraded, putrid, ami
mated mass Of flesh, bearing tine SEM
blance of man: That unless he desists
from communicating the pure atmos-
phere of our mountain town with his
baneful presence no consideration of
family or friends (Which has thus far
shielded him) will prevent me from
giving publicity to his name, and
himself to that execration he so
richly deserves. GC2 i1FEJ6f
THE GREAT NEsT-HIDER."
From the announcement that
Henry Ward Beecher was to lecture
here our people looked anxiously
forward to the day Of the arrival of
the divine who of all others has cast
more reproach and made Christian
ity the subject of more slurs than any
other minister Of the Gospel living.
On the day OF his arrival q crowd
awaited him at the depot, while an
other gathered around the entrance
to the hotel where it was supposed he
would stop. When he finally put in
his appearance upon our streets
crowds followed him, and if he
chanced to enter store they would
gather round the door and gaze at
him in q manner truly American.
The exciting cause of all this Curl
osity could readily be gathered from
the following selections which I
made from their comments: 'sHe's a
purity looking duffer to get q woman
stuck alter him" or, elizabeth
hadn't very good taste ino getting
stuck after that FORM" "Ah, but"
rejoined third, alook at that eye;
that's enough to set any one crazy"
/ his PERSONNEL.
| Mr.. Beecher is a man about feet
9 inches in hight. He has rather an
"aldermanic corporosity," and a face
whose color would betoken a high
liver. We're one to- meet and not
know him he might easily be mis-
taken for some retired seafaring
man, his face being very red-al-
most liyid-his fat but fiabby cheeks
showing that, we'll as he may think
Of the pleasures of the world to
come, he has not neglected the good
! things of this, as represented by
food and drink. Nor do his thick
sensual lips help to remove this i'm
preston. He has a prominent nose
approaching the Roman, and pro
fusion of gray hair which stands al
most erect--showing an unusual
smount of "magnetism" or electric
ity. In fact, he bears a striking re-
semblance to the prints we have
been accustomed to see Of him fol
many years past, except that he ap
pears older and lacks the rotundity
Of cheeks there represented. HI
delivered two lectures which I hsd
the pleasure OF listening to. In ON
of them he remarked that "Mar
has two beings-a's spiritual and al
+, animal. In some the animal, II
others the spiritual predominates.'
have finished the animal Beecher
for that expansive forehead, be
r speaking . massive brain; that bril-
8 liant eye-a living and intelligen
i. thing--belong not to the animal. 81
and watch that eye during lecture
/. and YOU can readily understand tn,