Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-12-17
IN BRIEF.

University has levied an assessment
of ten cents per share.
jack Marshall has gone to Oregon tt
take look at the country.
Some rock has been recently fount
in Flowery district which assays S3,5ot
per ten.
There is another pigeon match
talked Of to come Off Oh the day after
Christmas.
Quite a number of Carsonites will
spend the holidays at San Francisco and
other points in California.
w. lily. .Doane, who has been sue
cessfully Manning's jewel
ry stock: in Virginia, is in the city.
1t is said that some Of the best rifle
shots Of Virginia will be here to-mor-
row to participate in the turkey shoot
ing at SWifts.
Lloyd Hawthorne, late purser Of the
steamer Governor Stanford, is in the
city, but returns to Glenbrook, where
he will winter, in a few days.
The Intelligence Of the average
Washoe Indian is not to be questioned.
Members of the tribe are coming in
from all parts of the country, in antici-
patton of finding richly filled swill bar
rel5 during the holidays.
The 10Th of January has been set for
an official inspection of the Carson
Guard, by Colonel F. C. Lord. 1t is to
be hoped that on that occasion our
militia company will make more cred
liable showing than did the troops Of
Storey county few days since.
Mike Tovey says that II. c. Ward,
formerly Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'S messer-
ger between this city and Bodie, has
struck it rich in the mines near Boise
City, Idaho. He is going to get mar
ried after 65 years of bachelorhood, and
is the owner of a substantial brick resi-
dence there.
A few nights ago game of cribbage
for $1,000 side was played at Virginia,
so says the Enterprise, boastingly.
That's nothing, for scarcely a week
passes that one or the other of the
Carson journalists does not
win from $4,000 to $4,000 at a
sociable game of poker.
The operate selections given last
night at the Library entertain ment by
Messrs. Laughton and Owens, ON violin
and piano, were potpouris from b.
,accio" and "The Pirates of Penzance'
The selections were adj
mirably rendered and they formed
splendid features of An excellent pro-
yramme.
San Francisco papers charge all the
way from $50 to $3.50 for "toney" mar
rage notices; the higher the social po-
Sition of the contracting parties, the
greater the figure. Carson papers gen.
orally receive hunk of stale cake,
which has in many cases done service
1t the grandmother's wedding, and a
bottle of very cheap wine, for similar
publications.
Through private letter from Wood
River, recently received in Eureka, we
earn of the death of Pres. Ward, which
at the former place. Pres.
Ward was a brother Of Hon. Tho mas
\. Ward, of San Francisco, and was an
Early resident of Aurora and for many
years was in business in Phoebe.
J. M. Benton has built a new and
substantial ice house below the Mexican
lam, which he has filed with this years
'rop of ice, amounting to over 700 tons.
Mr.. Benton states that, in the twelve
7ears he has been in the business, he
never was able to gather much ice after
he first freeze. This fact is probably !
Known to very few hereabouts.
Joe Shannon, type of the Comsteck,
vas in town yesterday on official bust
less. He is a strong Democrat, and |
links his party will carry the day
,ext time-DrOyided thew nut m the |