Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-06-09
DOBSON'S DREAM.
VISION OF DEATH AND DEsOLAT1oN-THE
CoMsTOCK BECOMES A GOLGoTHA or Glib
BERING SKELETONS.


BERING SKELETONS.
A few nights ago, Dobsen had a most re-
markable dream regarding the Comstock. Il
was worse than Byron's vision of Darkness
and Judgment combined. He was in Virginia
City standing on street. The town was no.
thing but a mass of tumble down buildings,
the signs which hung before deserted stores
and brokers offices, were creaking in the wind
and every fresh spasm of the tempest brought
some rotten building crashing to the ground.
The saloons were empty, and the corpses OF
the bar-keepers lay in among the empty bar
rels, filling the air with foul stencil which
kept anyone from essaying the task of bury
ing them or taking nip of the liquors Within
Reach The skeletons of dealers bent over
the faro tables where they had died just as
the last turn had been reached. The remains
of the players lay strewn about on the floor as
bones of contention for famished dogs, while
the "sleepers" in the shape of bit chips still
remained on the lay out covered with mildew.
| In the midst of this scene of desslation and
despair, few gaunt Inhabitants threaded
| their way about the streets, but each day
more and more dropped Of until there was
not living soul but the dreamer to ami
mate the pulseless city. As the man walked
along the street he suddenly became aware Of
| a stir among the corpses. Here and there
skeleton would hoist a window and look out
while he waved his feshless hands to others
lying about ON the balconies across the way
and soon the windows were filled with more
| skeletons and the air resounded with the
strange gibberish of the dead. They thronged
out on the balcony of the International Hotel
and danced quadrille there to the music of
Cara's honey band They poured out of the
saloons, nothing but bones, and soon the
streets were crowded with the Gathering in
habitants of the other world.
THE CITY REvIvEs.
Then came a series of most appalling Incl
dents. There seemed to be strike in the
2, 500 level of the Sierra Nevada and the
skeleton of John Mackey came rushing up
the street with a sample of ore. Everybody
was resurrected Immediately, the brokers
Offices were thrO"n open and troops of bones
crowded in to give their orders, paying for
the same in fiat money and dealing in thou
sands of shares. John Kelly with troop of
specters went down, sailed the Lady Bryan
ndreported strike. Miles Finlan went about
gathering up his dsintegrated bones "a vari |
Gus wards and hunting for Dave Crosby. The |
experts came to the fore at once, Hotlich, |
Sheridan, Canavan, Hank Smith and Grant
Israel went Gathering down the mine and |
coming up reported big find. Dan De
guile got himself together and fishing up his
skull frsm the stump of the North Bonanza,
wrote an exhaustive article on the situation.
Dennis Mccarthy shouldering a pick and
shovel, went out to the cemetery and digging
up Arthur McEwen set him to work ON Til
den editorials, and Wells Drury, who had been
embalmed in a limberger cheese barrel in
Gumbert & Webber's, was unsealed and
started in on the locals of the Chronicle. The
politicians got out the voters frem the vari-
Gus gravey ards and held q convention, both
parties nominating their tickets, and Tritle
and Lewis and Woodburn and Whitman BE-
gan to work the primaries for the Senatorial
election. Moses and Brown reepened their
Justice Courts and heshless policemen began
20 bring in the druBks As usual Men
yambled, caroused, fought, shot and stabbed
zach other Just as they did in the halcyen
lays of rs and SO.
THE AWFUL END. (
Then came break in stocks, the bottom
ell out of tho ledge, the north-end was a
allure and the skeletons began to dee tho
linking town. They took possession of the
rain, claiming the indisputable privileges of
Ieadheads, and it was a case of every man for
limselt and the devil for the hindmost, fore g
most and intermediate fugitives. The tswn
'as given to the incendiaries' torch in twelve a
laces and when night closed Down over the C
Gene the heavens were pail Of rec, rejecting t
he lurid fires Of the burning city. Then the 6
Vashoe gale came up in its fury and swept t
hrong h the stricken city with roar that sound
like the expiring groan of the universe In
he midst of all this the dreamer staggered d
n until he met the widow Cooper, who Cast t
aratoga trunk on his shoulder and babe him C
ave it, meeting his representations with the a
rokes of club. As he bent baneath the v
urden the vast throng with q common i'm p
ulse began to hurl their household effects up h