Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-07-13
FROM THE NORTH END.
The "Big Bore Connection-A
Council Of War and the Re.
snlt-A Murder for $40.
VIRGINIA, July 8. 1873.

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DEAR MEs:-Behold / keep m,
promise, and begin what l hope MAY
DO an interesting series of weekly
letters: Well, that sounds pretty wei
for q beginning; but what shall
write next 1t won't do for me t.
follow the example Of life in oul
city, for everything here is "dull
stale and Improbable" And stocks 7
well, they are, as this letter is getting,
way off" All have it; how can
l bore you better than by noticing
our "Big Bore ~ For several days
past the philosophers on our papers,
both morning and evening, have been
treating US to learned dissertations
on the effects of the current of air
when the connection shall have been
made-all the foul air was suddenly
to rush forward, miners were to be
smothered, etc. = the consequence
was, when it was rumored that the
connection was to be made last night,
everybody was on the "qui vive."
One half of the denizens of our
quiet burg were ready to resuscitate
the other half who were to be
asphyxiated, and everybody stayed
up for fear that something might
happen while they were asleep,
Well, at last, after having gathered
several mining superintendent and
all the ''humorists" of the Comstock
on the lower levels of the Savage
probably because they most deserved
smothering), after the passage of
numberless dispatches between the
"Great Tunneler" and the "Grand
Pasha" of the Savage, at 1O:45 P. NJ.
the blast was exploded in the Savage
which knocked a hole through into
the tunnel and the connection was
made. The draft instantly set in
from the tunnel and must have been
powerful indeed, for it brought
through the "Great Tunneler"
and his two sons. On their arrival
there was hand shaking, beer drink
ing, etc., and all were happy in the
lower levels; not so our citizens, who
were hugely Disguised when they
discovered by our morning and even
ing papers that not a single humorist
had been smothered.
Last evening we of Virginia were
disguised by noting in the papers
that Mrs. Leonard of Gold Hill had
given birth to 16-pound boy. But
do you think for one moment that
we proposed to let "Slippery Gulch"
beat US in little matter of that
kind 2 Not a bit of it. We imme-
diately called council of war, and
the result was, to-day at 2:30P. NJ,
Mrs. Murphy gave birth to a boy
weighing sixteen pounds and four
ounces. "Toot" out your big babies.
Again the crack of the pistol is
heard in the land. This morning,
at about II o'clock, Peter Daily and
John W. Fletcher renewed an old
quarrel about piece of land (whose
maximum value is ten dollars), when
John went for Pete with an axe and
Pete responded with self-cocking
revolver. Result-Pete's head was
laid open and John had three bullets
in his head and body, which are liza
BILE to cut short this stay on this "mun-
dane sphere" FLETCHER died on We'd
nesday afternoon.-ED. TINES What
sad commentary on common sense
Laying aside their physical injuries,
as financial problem 1t stands thus
For parcel of land worth ten dol
lars, Pete and John incur doctors
bills of from three to five hundred
dollars and lawyers fees of from
eight hundred to a thousand dollars
If l were in a mathematical mood
would figure it out; as it is ] leave
it to you. Yours, "NUMsKULL.'
MIR. SHAWHAN'S VISIT TO THF
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