Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-05-06
THE RACE TRACK.

hold annual ricnics, talk Of ignoring
Carson in their excursions. Each one
of their picnics is matter OF several
thousand dollars in the pockets of the
business men Of this city. If a race
race track is built at Treadway's Park,
this additional attraction will bring the
picnics here, yet when the movers in
the enterprise call for aid, those whose
pockets would be benefited by the races
at the picnics hold back. 1t is import
ant that this city should have good
track, and our business men should aid
in the building @! it.
Every trade has its trichs. The
printers triatie has many. inele is Il
fair prof: on the business, however.
without resorting to anynf these lodges.
We are sorry to see that Mr.. Robinson
has introduced several new ones not
recognized among honorable printers.
To call some of these transactions
'.tricks' is using Il very charitable term.
His only explanation Of the allegations
regarding his unsuccessful attempt to
get more money out of the county than
was Justly due him, is nat the charge is
false. We refer the public to Messrs.
Cheney, Crawford and Jones, the
County Commissioners, for corrobor;'-
tion of our statements
While the editor of the ''new Repub-
lican' paper is bowling for a cutting
down of expenses in the city govern
ment, his partner is trying to ring in
extra bills on the county. The Index
breaches retrenchment editorially
but when the business portion of
the paper is concerned, the proprietor
fails to practice the theories SO strenu-
ous,y advocated by the editor. Ii the
editors writing fail to influence man
working at his elbow, how can he eX-
pect to convince the great mass OF peo-
pie who never read his paper?
The Stock Exchange, thus pays its
compliments to the guests Of the Palace
Hotel:
Now it appears that one Of the strong
est preiudiees against Cadet Whitaker,
at West Point, arose from the fact that
he ate with his knife. This intelligence
will be read in the Palace Hotel with
surprise and iEcreduility. If such
feeling existed among our people, and
produced such result, it is safe to say
that ten out Of dozen of the regular
bOarder5 at that naughty caravansary
would go around with their ears stitched
up.
Bookkeeper Reese, of the National
Bank of Virginia, on being rallied by
the President recently about big patch
on his trusers, remarked that he could
dress better il his salary was larger.
This would have led to an increase had
it not been discovered that the fellow
was an cmbezzler to the amont of S20,-
600.
Harris to lead the Republican party, re-
minds one of the bullfrog who applied
for the position Of leader in an orchestra
of nightingaIcs. The birds said they
didn't know anything about his voice
or musical education: but coppered his
general appearance.
A case OF bribery was tried in Virginia
yesterday. Judge Henderson was
charged with buying Democratic votes
at the last election. Not wishing to
take froai cnc Bourbons the only means
of winning elections, the Court dismissed
the case.
The Enttrpgtso prints al article origI-
nally appearing in the APPEAL, and
credits it to the Grass Valley Free Lance.
The APPEAL will always deem it COM
pliment when any Of its articles are con-
sidered good enough to have emanated
from the Free I-t1;ce
Since the esta blshmens OF the Insane
Asylum in Pennsylvania $3.50 eases
have been cared for, and in the lot were
only seven newspaper men. -Four of
them went mad trying to comprehend
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