Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-09
CORRESPONDENCE.
ELKO. InlY 9Th. 1879.

another farce III the trial of one Godfrey for
| murder committedat Tuscarora last December.
We listened to most of the evidence and how
any jury could reduce such an openly com
| United murder to mansaughter, is past our
comprehension. However, our people in Ne
vada have queer ideas of crime, and can put
| the broadcast construction upon the law of
self defense of any people we have ever met.
Bob Lindsay of Virginia conducted the de-
Tense and did it manfuly, and made a telling
appeal in summing up: and Mr.. Wines of
EIko fought hard for the State but to no pur-
pose, add afterithe verdict was read on Satur-
day morning, we We're reioiced that Judge
Flack had kept that jury locked up from
Thursday till Saturday, though they had
agreed in couple of hours after retiring We
have good many outrages committed by
men clothed in little brief authority" but
We have rarely seen one so inexcusable as
that of refusing to receive the verdict of this
Jury because it would have necessitated the
getting of the Judge from one room to
another, perhaps spoiled game of Pedro.
1t was case of the most wanton disregard of
what is due from man to his fellow men,
we have ever met with. These jurors were
nearly all, indeed all, drawn from distance,
and were mostly anxious to spend the Fourth
at least out of doors; but while Judge Flack
amused himself around saloons and i'll card
playing, till he was barely able to get out of
bed on Saturday morning, the jury spent their
| i
some prayers beginning at the wrong end, on
the head of their jaior. If the Democracy Of
Eiko like their Judge, we do not that we
have any right to complain, but it gives one
poor opinion of our voting element. The ma
tional holiday has come and gone, and we had
no celebration; not even a square drunk
There was an encampment at White Sui
phur Springs, which being only mile and
a half from town the people went
there and enjoyed a dance at night.
The small boy was impecunious and there were
no firecrackers on the street, and the day ap-
peared like a quiet Sabbath. But we had
zephyrs of the Washoe breed. The wind winded
and the dust busted, and empty tin cans rat
lying around in spots, drew their feet up
closer and tucked their skirts tighter as the
sitting clouds enveloped them, while now and
them an empty store box, torn from its moor
ings, startled the passers it ratified among
the awning posts or whirled into the street,
and the way that flag futtered and cracked
and the telegraph wires became sort of
Aeolian harp out of time, almost gave one the
idea that THE dell had business on his han.
And now the one hundred and third anniver-
sary has passed while the nation still lives and
moves, though the Democratic con-
vention of rebel baigadiers at Wash
ington, have tried to strangle it by re-
fusing support to an important arm of the law.
Do they and their Northern hackers suppose
that the men who came forward and saved our
nation life will permit one of the functions
of the government to become of no effect for
matter Of 100000! Verify. they estimate
the patriotism of the land at low rate. We
had Robert Morris during the revolution,
and we believe that if the regularly appointed
officers of the government had no legal claim
for their services, still we have many Morrises
left who will not consent to see the laws be-
come null and void for the paltry sum required
to support and enforce their administration,
so long as they have confidence in the execu
tive department ; and Sam Randall, the whip
and the best team he can hitch, will find that
they have rough road to travel before the
end is reached
We fear this is fault-fnding letter, and
not " in the vein :" but somehow these things |
have soured the milk of human kindness in |
our breast and we can't avoid feeling little
crooked, SO we will pull up till something
pleasant has put US in good humor.