Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-31
BRIEF MENTION.

BRIEF MENTION.
The Mint employees receive their pay to-
day. --..e.sr -- .eresa
Hon. C. S. Varian was in the city yester-
day. ......- s.t s-#t
Glen Berry was out last night with his hot
| corn. -.5'- .,--.s...f .r. , ress ~.a
Sheriff Hill returned from San Francisco
yesterday morning. r. ....-~
Capt. Taylor, of the Yellow jacket mine
was on the train last evening
The thermometer reached 49, in the Mint
Superintendent office yesterday.
Superintendent Crawford, Of the Mint, re.
turned from the Lake last evening.
Seven bars of bullion from the Northern
Belle Mine, arrived in the city last night.
Mr.. H. B. Loomis, of the Guild Hill Mas,
attended the Masonic banquet here on Thurs
day night.
DR.. D. Banks Mckenzie was in the city last
evening, and reports Mrs. Mckenzie as being
very ill.
Lieutenant Governor Adams left for the
eastern part of the State last evening to lock
after his cattle.
Theodore F. Tracy, enc of the most eff
cient agents in the postal service, left for San
Francisco last night.
to Hope Valley in day or two, to camp out
and catch fish for while.
Another acquisition to the Democratic party
is the sable "Whistling Dick of this city.
The Democracy is jubilant.
juryman informs an APPEAL reporter
that at one time there were six Jurors in IA
vor of Pritchard's acquittal.
The Caledonian picnic which is to take
place at Treadway's park week from to day,
promises to be the largest one of the season.
What's up with the Quinn mine The
stock has dropped from so to "a. Has
the stock been pretty well doled out to the
credulous publlcl
D. 0. Mills and his brother in law, H. NJ.
Bishop, an Cuban planter, with his family,
arrived from the Lake last evening, and went
East in Mr. Mills's private Car.
Parties from the Lake report that fishing is
not as good this summer as in former years.
This may be attributed to the temporary
sojourn there of the editor of the APPEAL.
Oliver Roberts, of the Ormsby, is an appli-
can't for the position of policeman, which is
to be made vacant to-day by the resignation
of Mr. Hawthorn. There is no reason why
Mr.. Roberts would not make good officer
A YOUTHFUL TKAvELER.-During the hot
hours of yesterday afternoon an APPEAL re-
porter was accosted on the street by a bright
lad of about 10 years of age, with fat car
petbag slung over his shoulder, and asked as to
what would be the most pleasant and nearest
route to Aurora, afsot.
"You certainly do not purpose undertaking
that journey! asked the reporter.
81 must" replied the lad, with an air of
determination, and then he related his motive
for the trip. His name was Henry F. How
ard, and his mother recently died in San
Francisco, leaving three children younger
than he, who are now in an orphans
asylum in the city. The father has been
TeSlOlUP 1t anu aDcuG Aurora 1Or Inc past
year, and yeung Howard thinks that he has
been doing we'll. When the mother died
the father was written thrice to but failed |
to reply. Henry then sold what little |
jewelry his mother had left, cut of which |
he realized just enough to bring him here;
and now the little fellow is on the road |
searching for his father in the hope that |
be may be able to induce the unnatural
man to care for the younger children, and
take them out of the asylum Henry said
81 can take care of myself, bat dc not
want my two little sisters and brother
brought up in an orphans asylum" He Is
\ plucky little lad, and will surely make
better man than the father who so cruelty
neglected his offspring
Isn't THERE A MISTAKE ?-The Stage denies
The statement in yesterdays APPEAL that the