The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-10-13
sTILLwaTER NOTES.
A Political and social Change IN
ia urybfEI CauRty.

F,prToR SILVER STATE: Any one at
all acquainted with the antecedents Oh
Churchill county cannot but marvelat
THE CHANGE WROUGHT
By recent events in her social position
For wears the banner Democratic county
of Nevada our legislative halls
could boast of but one Democ rst2e mem
Der, Churchill contributed that one.
Then peace and prosperity relgned
within her border; the wild fowl dipped
and quacked in the waters OF her IN
land sea, and the fox Ding his hole I'M
scared. No social distinction then
troubled her people. All wore the
same pattern of revolver at the mar
riags festivities Of a neighbor, and all
drank the same Democratic whisky AZ
the common bar. The danes all
dressed in calico of thetsame texture,
and nearly all boosted OF the same pro-
life propensities; but, as time rolled on,
and the bonanza firms of the Comstock
became aware that vote from Church
i'll counted as much as vote from
Storey, they began to pour their Golfers
and their principles in upon the I'M
sophisticated people of the desert, max
ing change in the whole social and
political fabric of the Desert county.
1t is indeed
A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE
That so soon as our county had Re-
publican majority, so soon was there a
diversity OF opinion among the people
socially, politically and religiously.
The. men got to drinking different
grades of whisky, while the women
commenced to don prints of different
stripe, and both men>and women got in
such religious perplexity, that but
few still retain the privilege Of eating
what they like, and Sunday can be
found almost. any time during the.week.
One sect of religious monomaniaes will
not eat meat because they say it Is
cruel to kill animals, but still pessist in
shooting cattle and horses with buck
shot because they walk into a grain
field where there is no fence to stop
their advance; while another will 60 to
church and pray all day Saturday, and
watch his grain field with a shotgun
all day Sunday. There can be no doubt
but the advent of Republicanism was
the cause of the advent to this re-
hgious and peculiar state of affairs; for
without the one we would be scot free
of the. other. They are twin brothers
of precisely the same complexion-but
for all this there is salvation for the
good people. among us who are DESTROYS
of living the life Of the religious, and
following the pathway Of the godlike
and the just. OF late there is
QUITE A MINING EXCITEMENT
apringing up about twenty miles from
Saltwater i'll the old SilverHill District.
This district is one Of the oldest in the
State. Years ago, long before the
White Pine or Reese river excitements,
Silver Hill was being prospected for the
precious metals; but the rush to the
new camps caused this one of minor
Importance to be abandoned. and for
years it has not heard the report of a
blast, or received the probe Of a miners
pick. This Summer, however, some
people frsm Eureka have come back to
the old camp, and bid fair to realize
handsomely from their undertaking.
Severalledges have been relocated, and
some new ones prospected.
Your correspondent visited the camp
last week, and found the miners jubi-
liant over their bright prospects. AT
present between twenty and thirty
men are at work on four or five differ
ent claims. During our visit we
SAW THAT MULE,
Belonging to MIR. Kellogg, which last
Summer ate probably tho most ooStl,,