Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-16
BRIEF MENTION.

| city.
.. S. Marshall Ash is in the city attending
the races.
Col. S. T. Curtis is lying very ill in San
Francisco.
There is very little freight being shipped
south now.
81. NJ Yerington has recovered from his
indisposition.
The V. & T. R. R. Co. is charging half fare
to and from the races.
Pools for the races will be sold and paid at
Gibson & Dealys saloon.
A large crowd is expected from Virginia
to-day to attend the races
Officer Duncan is again on duty, having re-
covered from his late illness.
| A large number of ladies were among the
most enthusiastic pool buyers Yesterday.
Assessor Bence, who has been afflicted with
a severe attack of rheumatism, is on the mend.
| R. L. Fulton, of the Reno Gazette, and
Captain Bragg, of Reno, were in the city yes
terday.
Everybody seemed to be at the races yes
terday afternoon, for the streets were nearly
deserted.
Yesterdays weather could not have been
the races II
The southern stage brought in two bars of
bullion from Bodie and four bars from Belle
lie yesterday.
The opening of bids for the care of the
ounty INDECENT and sick has been postponed
until the 25th instant
The late street quotations last evening show
a great decline in the value of Sierra Nevada |
the stock closed at $40 so. What can
the matter be? Have the visiting committee
reported unfavorably
The excitement consequent upon the sudden
rise in Sierra Nevada and Union stock has
not abated, and the more sanguine believe
that the former will sell for 500 before the
close of this week.
The Fall meeting is somewhat revolution
izing the morals of Carson, for last evening
two Virginia women were playing keno in
Clancy saloon Yet they did not employ
the usual term of disgust used by men, when
they lost game.
AS late as yesterday morning some of cur
local Democrats were betting even that
Ewing was elected Governor of Ohio. They
would have done better to have wagered
+bo;r +bo +hox,
have stood chance to win.
We would suggest to the management of
the Opera House, that some arrangements be
made to keep the theater heated to moder-
ate temperature during the Winter, as freez-
ng audience can scarcely become interested |
II any performance, may it be ever So good.
Silser State: Miss Emma Linn, of Carson,
las been engaged to teach school at Guthries.
The young lady has passed very creditable
and received a certificate from
he Board of Examiners. Although her par
,nts now reside in Carson, she is Humboldt
,ir, having resided in Unionville several t
years.
At o'clock last evening fashionably at
ired man and woman attracted considerable E
notice in front of the Sheriff7s office. The
voman was very loud in her conversation,
Iad the man seeing that he was drawing too
much attention upon himself, tried to get
way from his companion. She cried out
oud enough to be heard a whole block, " If G
on don't come along I'll paste you under the
ar" This brought the man to terms, and
ather than create any further scene on the
treet, he followed the woman.
Too OBLIGING. good hearted and polite j
'arsonite, while at Reno, volunteered to help e
young mother who carried lunch basket, !
baby and shawl, while the husband was $
truggling for tickets at the gate, and was a
ermitted to hold the baby. They crowded
trough the gate, when the husband got sep
rated in the jam and the wife started to look
or him, leaving our gallant friend still hold D
1g the baby, labor which he did not mind, Re
My for the fact that while he held that a
lualling youngster, every girl IN Carson y
hem he ever knew, came through that gate
nd spoke to him, and yet there he was COM
elled to stand for whole mortal hour trying
keep that ynunyster quiet, Wille his friends
assed and repassau all, s.l..u,t DIT his embar- ga
Issment. He swUre d so,enm oath never to M
. kind action again ipug as he lived. an
t the end of an hou the wife returned with
or husband and relieved him of his char ,e,
I'd he left the ground without having seen