Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-11-12

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stills, and the affair promises to be novel and
interesting.
A CHINAAAH GoNK.-Ysstsrday afternoon
was in a measure enlivened by a Chinese
funeral, Celebrated with the usual sclat. This
affair WAS conducted with sure enough,
hearss and the march to the tomb was EN-
bellished with music of tom toms and gongs,
tegether with squally Chinese fiddle the
melodies of which make the listeners lie awake
all night to envy the corpse. On one of the
| hacks sat a Chlnaman who cast innumerabls
bits of paper to the winds These scraps were
covered with hieroglyphics which are supposed
to be communications to the dead. Those
| who made close examination of them were
| led to the conclusion that they were daph-
| Gates of the celebrated cypher dispatches of
Sam Tilden. After the deceased was planted
the subsidized mourners fell vigorously to
work pouring forth S2S worth of lam ntation
for the departed. After a rasping burst of
agony, lasting an hour, they started home,
but friend OF the deceased, deeming the
again gathered around the grave to bawl out
the balance of the money. After discovering
that the greenback they had just received was
counterfeit, their sorrow assumed more
natural bent, and a consignment OF profanity,
not included in the original contract, was
turned loose over the grave. A number of
roast fowls and baked pig, vanished for
preservatory reasons, were then laid on the |
grave for the substantial repast OF the dead !
number of Wasaoe Indians, who sampled |
the funeral baked meats half An hour later,
pronounced the chicken trfs overdone, but
eulogized the culinary exercises which had
been bestowed upon the pig. The deceased
had been q man of exemplary habits, never
dark of the moon, and always settling his
honest debts, as soon as the Sheriff attached
ais property. After lifss ftful fever in
Chinese wash house he fits to the land here
The white robes Of the inhabitants need
cleansing no more for ever
BAD Mat. morning a man
called at the APPEAL Office with some msa.
which he said he had bought of a certain
butcher in the city From the appearance
# the meat and the odor he felt assured
hat it WAS bad. The man who purchased
he meat rancher who lived on
he road to Bodis The APPEAL reporter
allied at the meat market later in the day and
ound that the propretors of the place had
lready discovered that the meat was bad and :.
Isre looking for the rancher, who, fortunate G
Y enough. was the only person who had
ought any. The meat men felt quite
ositive that the animal calf, from which
ne meat was cut, had died anatural death \
he rancher was furnished with an extra
lpply of good meat and went away content. o
While the propriety of selling bad meat to n
snchers, or anybody else, is not endorsed by al
hysicians or the municipal ordinances, such
xcellent authority, as Deuteronomy XIV,
|, holds 1t to be the correct thing. 1t says:
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of -
self; thou shall give it unite the stranger q
lat is in thy gates, that he may eat it, or b
lou mayest sell it to an alien" This p'
ethod of working Off stock of deceased
eat on strangers and aliens, which was
acticed in scriptural days. is still looked upon OF
it'll favor by butchers of modern times.
FRoU FRoU-The demand for reserved
ats for next Saturdays entertainment is very tn
rye. The affair promises to be well worth be
tending. At the present writing all the Oh