Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-12-31

his appointment as Governor of Montana
Such an appointment would be appreciated
by the Judges old Nevada and California
acquaintance.
Two physicians in a Toledo murder trial
were asked whether the wounds, which they
had already described, were the cause Of
death. They refused to answer, on the ground
that such would be expert testimony. for
which they would receive no compensation.
Judge Rouse sustained them.
THERE was rank Csesarism in Gen. Grants
reply to the Baltimore reporter, who asked
him why he was going to Washington: "Be
cause want to-" Julius Caesar expressed the
same independent sentiment, says the Phila-
delphia Record. when importuned by Decius
to give him a reason for not appearing before
the Roman Senate, in saying: 1.-THE cause is
in my will
Iris announced that in preparing the Christ
mas number of the London Graphic the work
of artists, engravers and authors who have
taken part in the production has cost in our
money $4,000, the paper $4,000, and the
printing and electrotyping $4,000. The gross
weight OF the paper used for the number is
upwards of 100 tons, and 400 900 is the number
of copies issued.
A PLAYFUL defense Of lying, published in
the APPEAL, brings forth serious protest
from the virtuous editor of the Stock Report,
who declares that his withers are unwrung,
and that truth pays in the long run. 1t GER
tainly pays much better than midnight inter-
views with Mr.. Raw, ex-Paymaster of the
Sutro Tunnel Company.
The editor of the Marlborough Mass
Times saw Mark Twain, and was much inn
pressed by him. Says the editor: "Below
his necktie Mr.. Twain is as personal and pre-
sentable man as any. The terror is all
about his head. And such a head! A little
way of he has the appearance of having on
the shake Of a Hungarian grenadier, and re-
one of thistle in bloom. Detached
from the rest of him, what window-washer
his head would make!'
The "Father of the House," Judge Kelley,
and Mr. Cox are excellent friends, and the
latter meeting the Judge shortly after the
assembling of Congress, said: "Well, you
are reelected, Judge, and probably will be
for life." 81 told my people," said Judge
Kelley, sin the recent canvass, that 1 was a
candidate for life, barring only paralysis or
lunacy.'' "The exception was too Broad"
said genial Cox; "lunacy is no disqualification
for seat in Congress-"
"A VERY curious point is raised in Col. Blan- |
ton Duncan's suit against Gen. Thomas r.
Sharp. The latter was left in charge of Col. !
Duncan's plantation in 1864, and sold some
negro slaves for $4,000, which amount he has
never paid over. He now refuses to pay on
the ground that all the negroes had been
freed by President Lincoln's Emancipation |
Proclamation, which took effect January lst, |
1868, and that therefore Col. Duncan had no
property right in them.
ANOTHER NEW PAPER.-The APPEAL has |
received a copy OF the Star, paper published |
in San Francisco. 1t is doubtless the smallest |
sheet in America, being but three by five |
inches in area. This need not necessarily |
bother the editor. A good deal may be said |
in the space of fifteen square inches. The |
whole nation might be startled and revolu- |
ton inaugurated by aman with no more space
than that to spread his ideas upon. The
paper is published by f. A.. Brown, boy ten
years of age. With the cold cheek of jour
nalistic veteran, he announces that his paper
is the best advertising medinm in San Fran
cisco.
SOUND TALK FROM THE BENCH.-G. w.
Carlton, editor of the Holster Telegraph, has
been granted new trial by the Supreme
Court. He killed Brumwett, rival editor,
by putting pistol to his temple and blowing
out his brains. On his next trial he will pro-
badly be acquitted. This calls to mind q re.
cent occurrence in the South. Judge Aiken,
Of Virginia, had the courage to deliver the
following remarks to a murderer, who was
sentenced to but eighteen years imprison-
ment by the jury, when he should really have
been hung: ''Scott Thompson. your present
situation, whether you be guilty or innocent
of the murder Of Hawkins, is due to the moral
cowardice of men. Either you are altogether
innocent Of the accusation made against you
by the Commonwealth, or you perpetrated
murder Of the first degree in law, and Of the
foulest and cold FLOODED and unfeeling atroci-
by. If you were believed innocent, mons
trous crime rests upon those who declared
you guilty. II you are guilty, your wicked
life has been saved by the criminal weakness
of jury who had not the moral courage to
act fearlessly and to the full extent of the law
unon evidence the truth of which thew en- |