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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28

Tolls on the wagon road betweea ,hie
lefty and Bodie are to be reduced to
half rates Station keepers will alse
reduce rates of hay and grain.
1t is no evidence of the dizziness Of =
town when one must look around for q
month to find suitable dwelling to LET,
as is the case in this city az present.
Geo. r. King, Vice President, of the
Nevada & Oregon r. r. Co., was on
the express train yesterday. He stated
that the company has ample capital to
rush the road through.
S. T. Hool is in the city with plan
| for the Insane Asylum. He also con-
templates starting another paper in
Bodie. While on the insane lay he
mi ,ht start another paper here.
The Carson Guard have their weekly
drill tonight. This company intend to
parade on Decoration day, therefore it
VIII DC WGll lOf INC new llStIlDcES "
learn the step as soon as possible.
Miss Duggan, who did not give Car.
son fair sample Of her high kicking,
will kick before the Comstockers in
"Chilperic.' She is arrayed only in 0
a night gown. A special train will leave
for the scene of action at five O'clock.
Among the many bad smelling gut
tiers in town, one of the worst is i'm frOnt
of General II. ID. EdwardS's Office, on
King street. There is enough foulness
in that particular spot to produce ty-
phoid fever for an entire regiment.
The latest social instrument of tor
ture introduced on the Comstock is tho
fan, a fan of pure white
parchment on which the ladies' ask
visitors to scribbe. The fashion Of ask
ing a guest to write something in an
album has gone out of date.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
10 H'SaSGS. -

Travel is increasing on the V. & L.
R. r.
Sheriff Ben Fitch, of Ell1o, is in the
city.
Bodie stocks were decidedly weak
yesterday.
Rev. DR.. J. Bloch, of Sacramento,
was in the city yesterday.
The Ivy social takes place at the
Opera House tomorrow night
Mrs. B. H. Meder and her grand
daughter leave for Oakland, Cal, this
evening.
The Chronicle says that Pete Gamma
vans visit to the Comstock is call on ac-
count of Eliza"
Mr.. W. II. Stevens, Assistant Meter
and Refiner of the Mint, goes to San
Francisco tonight.
Sheriff Fitch took Thomas Parker,
convicted burglar, back to Elko last
night for new trial.
Attention is called to Sheriff SWift's
proclamation, in another column, re-
garding street cleaning.
Teamsters hauling freight from Haw-
thorne to Bodie, pay $40 per ton for
hay, and two dollars per barrel for
water.
Arrangements have been made so
that the public schools will be kept
open until nearly the close of the regu-
lar term.
The ladies of the Episcopal Church
will do all in their power to make the
forthcoming strawberry festival splen-
did success.
The Walker Lake trout which are
now being brought here are pronounced
to be of finer flavor than the Lake |
Bigler fish, by epicures.
Frank B. Kennedy, of the Mint, has
copy of Shakespeare's works printed
in 1923. 1t is genuine print Of that
date and no reproduction. |
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
"A WORKING BEE.


AT O'Clock tomorrow morning a
number parties who have volunteered
to do days work on the race track as
their share of the contribution will be
on the ground ready for business. The
ranchers in the vicinity of Carson have
taken considerable interest in the mat
ter and already some twenty-five horses
and several gangs of men have been
rendered. Mr.. Sweeney will tap the
lively beer key and spread collation.
for the workers. Some Of the volun-
teers say that they will do enough work
tomorrow to enable the track to be got
ready for the fleet footed nags in the
course of week. The saloon keepers
assert that all the old vags and buns
who are in the habit of coming in and
sparring for drinks will be made to go
to the track and wrestle with the shovel
and pick, to help things along.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
E1e WAS the Han.
KNOX.

There had been shooting affray and
the editor was just writing up the de-
tails when couple Of men came in to
get him to draw it mild on the murder
er.
"You see, Bill was the last man to
quarrel. You can bet high that he
never pulled unless in self defense"
"That want wash, boys" said the
editer. "He's a bad egg all through
Wasn't he the dirty -
who shot Johnny Smith two years ago
in Bodie. The most low down coward
ly murder ever heard Of"
"Oh, no; you are quite mistaken"
said one of the pair, Frightening up,
sthat was me-"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
OF TIE ROAD.
A Lct.er Frog,, the wood River Party.
WlNNEMUccA, Humboldt County,

| WINNEMUccA, Humboldt County,
April %, 1881.
EDITOR APPEAL: Thus far toward
the Wood River country have we come,
and being accorded the hospitality OF
| the ,SIcer. state sanctum, [ thought it a
favorable opportunity to drop line.
We arrived here shortly after noon to-
day, and consider the worst part Of our
Journey over. 1t has been a long and
tedious drive over arid wastes and alka-
line country to this place, but our stock
is in good condition and we, though
sun-nurned and dusty, none the worse
for the trip. We were detained half a
day at LOvelock's, on the c. p, with a
sick horse. Jimmy Blacks nag was
attacked by an abdomenal pain, super
induced by too free bibulation of
water containing alkaline and acrimon-
Gus substances, and we thought we
should have to leave his bones to bleach
on the arid plains; but by a tree use of
antidotes resusitated his dropping ener-
gies and he is still one among US. We
overlook the Perkins party at Oreana,
and two wagons of the party switched
off and joined our crowd and we are
travelling together. Old man Perkins
lost five head of horses on the desert,
which he had to abandon to their fate
{, death from thirst on the burning
sands. At Oreana, Perkins horse which |
he purchased from Gen. Batterman, be- |,
came disabled and he was compelled to |
ship him by rail to Winnemucca. We |
have been visited several times on the |
rip by rain, hail and snow. l saw to-
lay copy ofthe Bellevue Miner of the |
18th inst, which contains much news of
the Wood River region, and | learn that |
numbers are leaving Eureka and other
owns for that point. a brakeman on
he G. Z. informed us that as many as
hree cars a day were dropped at Ogden
coming from the + asst, loaded with peo-
be anxious to reach the new I'll Dora
10. We pull out tomorrow for the
lorthern country, and after leaving this
,oint we shall make the CALLED steeds
vince, for our witherS are unwrung.
hall perhaps not be able to send you
anything of interest until we reach
Belle yue, when, after look Around that
ection, | will let you know. the news.
\ diet of bacon and beans, with expos
ire to the heat Of the sun, has not inn
roved the personal appea rance of the
members of the party, but has given
> rugged look, and we would not be
by those we've left
ehind. MILLS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28

BY a high falutin cable dispatch in
the Chronicie this morning we observe
that genial John Mccullough is up to
his old tricks of letting the world know
of his "enOrmouS Success" We have
an idea that John him self wrote this
dispatch, that Billy Florence signed it
and that John Mackay paid for it.
What the public are expected to do is
to read and believe it. For ourselves
we refuse to be humbugged in any such
way.-StOch Erck0Rge.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
HEAVY SUIT.


There is now suit in the U. S. Cir
cult Court, brought by All Quong, con-
tractor, and agent for the Sing Hop
Company, against the Steamboat Springs
Ditch Company for $4,000. The ditch
was built by All Quong and reaches from
the Truckee river near Boca, and is
brought through Washoe county, dis
lance of 80 Lies, to point near Steam
boat Springs. The Chinaman who
brings the suit claims to have refused
$4,000 for his claim, and yet is ready
to scrub floors at a dollar a day.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28

His Troubles and Trials in san Fran
cisco.
ground"

The easiest position on San Fran
cisco paper is writing up the shows.
The pay is small, but the fun great. 4
young student o. Berkeley was offered a
place on San Francisco daily and the
proprietor said:
"What department do you want?"
"Tll run the shows, and he was
snatched up Immediately at eight dol
lars a week. Armed with his creden-
tails he called on an actress from New
York whose name was spelled in blue
letters nine feet long. She received
him with great joy and told him all
about her life, her big houses and con-
quests Of the heart. AS he left she said
timidly:
"Take this trif1ing souvenir of our
delightful hour" and handed him
diamond pin the size Of a hazel nut.
Then he crate four columns about the
woman and the city editor damned it
all into the big basket, remarking in Il
etc."
Then the reporter was discharged,
and being hungry, finally determined
to sacrifice his souvenir for $4,000 at
his uncle's. When he gave it to the
man behind the counter who grabbed a
club and shouted:
s'Take yourself Duet nit der Alaska
timons; call de bolice ~
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28

Certain parties are very much wor-
ried over the city election and Mr..
Swift's management of TIE Sheriff.
office. Notwithstanding the worry
ment alluded to, the Sheriff's office will
heretofore and the city election will
come off promptly on May I'd.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
EsGGCAAEEsss AT EskGLsR.
A Case OF Esoar6efs HcpsiIinss 5sSaraicrs
Ca the Governor ssianfora-A Marine
WAX imminent.

On Friday, during the absence O
| Capt. Avery from the lake, and while
a young boy, Nick Davies, was in Gus
tody Of his steamer Stanford, party OF
men under L. A. Hawthorne, took for
chile possession of it. The Captain,
hearing Of this outrage, at once returned
to the lake and demanded the restitu-
ton of his property, which was refused.
On Tuesday he came to this city and
selected half dozen sturdy and fear
less Carsonites; who accompanied him
to the lake that evening, with view
to regaining possession of the craft All
attempts at negotiations Of peaceable
| character on the part Of Captain Avery's
party were rejected, and at O'Clock
yesterday morning Captain Avery's
men boarded the steamer, where they
were repulsed with shot guns and re-
volvers. One of the boarders, named
Stirling, was severely hurt by being
struck over the head with a club. As
Captain Avery's men did not have
more than one or two revolvers, the
Hawthorne party easily succeeded in
driving them back on shore. After the
conclusion of the fight Captain Avery
asked his own men and those of the
Hawthorne crowd to take a drink, and
the two factions adjourned to Green
woods saloon, where they washed
down their ire with the usual stilnu-
lants. At last accounts the Hawthorne
party are still in possession of the
steamer Captain Avery, who returned
to this city yesterday afternoon, re-
lated the following additional facts in |
with this affair: In May, |
1880, he purchased the steamer in
question from Captain Lapham, for a |
stipulated sum in cash, and the balance ,
to be paid off at the rate of $500 per
month. After the purchase had been
Avery heard that an at
of $500 had been lie We'd against |
the vessel on the California side of the
Lake. He at once saw Lapham about
the matter, and the latter denied point
blank that such was the case. Assum-
ne that Lapham would not act in bad
aith, the new purchaser paid his S2O0
nstaiiment for May and June At the
,nd of the latter menth Capt. Avery
received punishment from the Sheriff
# Nevada county ordering him to re-
lis Che Sheriff's) order. Understanding
he purport of a garnishment, he has UP
o the present time complied with the
he laws behest. Lapham, however,
laims that Avery, by this course of
onduct, has not lived up to the sti pu-
ated agreements Of the bill of sale, and
ence has forfeited his right of owner
hip, and by reason of that fact feels
justified in placing the vessel into the
ustody Of his men. Capt Avery re-
narked; in conclusion, 81 am sure that
.apham knows better than that; he
nows what punishment means as
yell as l. But the cause of all this :
rouble arises from the question whether
ray can prevent me from selling
7hisiy on board my boat, when he is {
lowing it to be sold on his own ]
round"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
How He Knew Him.

A man walked up to the ticket Office
at Kansas City and said: 81 want a
ticket for J. H. Briggs, my son." The
ticket man heard the remark and with
out a moments hesitation made out the
ticket in the name Of Senator James G.
Fair.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.

4 McALLISTER'S NO. 402 PATENT STEROPTlCON
Outfit for sale-haf price. Large collection OF
choice pictures, descriptive lecture book. etc Burer
gratuitousy taught operate Can be made to clear
Sl25 per month by wiling to travel In fine working
order Enquire at this office, by lteI box l5s Reno,
Nevada. - cs3 x2 Ip221w
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28

r5NHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
Z of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company II
be held at the office of the Comp in the city Of vir
gna Nevada Thursday the tenth day Of May, 1881,
at Il O'Clock NJ W.. NJ THORNTON, Secretary
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-28
STOCKS

go Ophirn-7
$50 Mexica-9f
$50 Gould and Curry
270 Best and Belcher-l2t
l4o California; 20
1915 Savage-4 50
170 Con. Nirginia-2 60
$50 Chollar-3 80
1880 Potos;-i Is
600 Hale and Horcross-5z
800 Crown Point-2 go
273 yellow Jacket
$50 Becher-2 -
100 Confidence 20
1870 Imperial-2o
40 Kentuck-2
220 Alpha
645 Sierra Nevada-11s
125 Utah-9
785 Bullion-1 90
$50 Exchequer-1s
50 Overman-2
20 Union Con.-10
785 Alta-3 so
$50 Julia 4Oc
40 Silver Hiil-50c
$50 Occidental SIS
1850 B. Y. Con-2Oc
49, Andes-2 %
$50 Justice-1l0
l6O Scorpinn--2
80 Sec. Be!cher-S
20 Caiedonia-55c
90 Lady Washington-20c
EVENING EoARD.
As Eureka Con-36
20 Northern Bel'e--17
1870 Manhattan-1 so
$50 Grand Priz.--9o
40 Navajo-80
$50 Argenta-45c
ESQ Day-65c
1895 Albion-3 90
900 h1ono-2
G1O Oro--1 90
100 s Kinq-224
$50 Mnnnt Diahlo-6
100 Bodia-6
so Svndicate-3Oc
$50 Mt Potosi-10c
2l5 Nn"ndav-2 20
400 North Noonday-1 80
400 Waies-l 40
$50 Goodshaw-60c
30 C"ncordia-17 IS
1000 Addeuda-25c
$50 Snmmt-55c
1855 Tuscarora-lOc
$50 Jnpi'er-35c
1O5 Bnlaer-3
loo Tioga--65 ,
200 Book-r-i5c
20 B-chtel-7Cc
QSn Dl.oi-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24
Ga, Thursday Morning. Nov.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY.

Doe of the perpetual stumbling
blocks in the way of happiness is
that recurring question "What will
people say - We would wear our
old clothes aud be comfortable, live
on half our income and put aside for
a time of need, do without great
many things which are unnecessary
but fashionable, and choose for our
~cquaintances and lends the PEG.
pie we like best, but "what will peoc
pie say 7" as if people, which does
not mean the few for whom we real
ly care, but tho great abstract world,
have anything to do with III Do
people pay our bills when we buy
what we do not want to please themG
Do they think any more of US when
we have climbed by infinite pains
and Inconvenience to their stan>
dard 7 Much more likely they see
through our foolish tissue of worldli>
ness aud toadying, and despise us
tor every effort we make. There is
nothing so futile and heeting as pops
ular favor. The people who, from
a sudden fancy or caprice may take
to US to day, will drop as to morrow
the man or woman who wor ks with
this end in view will be disappointed
and deserves to be, for working for
popular praise, or from fear of what
people say, can never be productive
of good. Shakespeare has said, "Be
thou as pure as ice and chaste as
snow, thou shall not escape calum
ny 7" and the censure of the world is
a light thing 50 it be undeserved
There are swee! and gentle natures
which shrink from its adverse critiN
cism. They believe in people"
They think the world kind of alma
mater, instead of censorious judge,
until too late, they find that they
have expended all their strength and
courage in trying to please-and
failed, and they never rally from
the shock.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24
A aaurrEAu srALWARr.o

The confirmation of the man II.
NJ. Kutchin by the Senate was ac-
complished by the vote of Malone.
Kutchin will take the Collectors Off
ce in the Third Wisconsin, District.
Last year Hayes tried to get Hutch
10 in his office, but the Senate de-
clined to confirm him for very good
reasons, namely, his entire unfitness
and his desperately incendiary char
acter. Kutchin is editor of the Fond
du Lac Commonwealth, and in the
issue of October 20, 1879, he said
"Work in every town in Wiscon
sin for men not afraid of firearms,
blood or dead bodies, to preserve
peace and quiet, avoid conflict of
parties and prevent the administta'
ton of public affairs from falling into
the hands of such obnoxious men as
James G. jenkins Every Repub'
lican in Wisconsin should go ar ned
to the polls on next election day
The grain stacks, houses and barns
of all active Democrats should be
burned; their children burned and
their wives outraged, that they may
understand that the Republican par
ty is the one which is bound to rule,
and the one which they should vote
for, or keep their vile carcasses
away from the polls. If they still
persist in going to the polls, and per
sist in voting for jenkins, meet them
on the road, in the bush, on the bill,
or anywhere, night or day, and shoot
every one Of the base towards, and
aeitators. If they are too strong in
any locality, and succeed in putting
their opposition votes in the ballot
box, break open the box and tear
in shreds their discord- breeding bali
lots and burr them"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24
HALF HUMAN AND HALF ALI
GATOR.

About fourteen miles from Live
Oak, Florida, there lives woman
with strange family. One day she
was walking out and had occasion to
cross creek on a log, and while
thus crossing a huge alligator at
tackled and pursued her for some dis
tance Tightening her very much.
Subsequently she gave birth to twins,
both males. They were perfect
children down to their waists, and
there the human ended, and they
are complete alligators on downward,
tail and all. Thers are short, webb
ed feet aud legs at the lower portion
of the abdomen like slligators. They
crawl with their hands, dragging
themselves about just as alligators
do. They make squoaling inartic-
ulate noise. The mother has had a
large trough filled with water, in
which she keeps them, and they
live Pr city nearly oil the time in 1t.
They feed and eat regularly, aud
seem to be doing we'll, and seeming
ly happy. They are now about fit
teen years old. Comparatively few
outside of the immediate neighbor
hood know of it. The mother has
refused large offers of money for
their exhibition.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24

AN EYE TURNED TO STONE.-Dr.
Houghman, the we'll known oculist,
recently exhibited to a Sentinel re
porter an ossi6ed chorold of the hu'
man eye, quite as large as a silver
quarter and a couple of times as
thick. 1t was developed by re-
cent operation succe ,sfully performed
by the doctor. l.. NJ. Richards, of
Jefferson county, came to him some
time ago and told him that twenty
five years ago, while chopping in the
woods, he injured one Of his eyes.
1t became inAamed, but after years
time it healed, leaving the eye to-
tally blind. lie was not bothered
with it any more until about year
or more ago. when again it became
very painful aud felt as though there
was strong pressure behind it
The other eye, in sympathy with thu
injured member, began to fell also
DR.. Houghman removed the eye, an'
was astonished to 6nd that ossifica
lion had set 10 and the choroid hat
turned to stone. There are only iw'
cases of the kind on record.-Nd
aodukee Sentinel.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24
1EH SAND BLAST.
journal of Science.

Among tho wonderful and useful
inventions OF the times il the com
mon blast. Suppose you desire a
piece of marble for a gravestone,
you cover the stone with sheet of
wax no thicker than a wafer then
you Gu. 10 the wax the name, date,
etc leaving the marble exposed.
Now pass it under the blast and the
sand will cut il away. Remove the
wax and you have the cut letters.
Take a piece al French plate glass,
say two by six feet, cover it with
tiue lace and pass it under the blast,
and not a thread Of tho lace will be
injured, but the sand will cut deep
into the glass wherever it is not COW
cred by the lace. Now remove the
lace and you have delicate and
beautiful figure raised on the glass.
In this way beautiful figures of all
kinds are cut in glass and at small
expense. The workmen can hold
their hands under the blast without
harm, even when it is rapidly cut
ting glass, iron or stone, but they
must look out for finger nails, for
they will be Whitfield off right hasti
ly. Ii they put on steel thimbles to
protect the nails, it will do but little
good, for the sand will wbittle them
right away bat if they wrap n
piece of soft cotton around them
they are safe. You will at once see
the philosophy of it. The sand
whites away and destroys any hard
substsnce-even glass--butldoes not
affect substances that are soft and
yielding, like wax, cotton, fine lace,
or even the human hand.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24

SCHOLASTIC MErHoDs.-There is
food for thought in the following -
"Lor, missus," said the old darkey,
"wbat mex you pay money for to
send the chile to school9 / got one
smart boy. Jonas, out larns him
myself" "But, Aunt Charlotte" re
Piled the lady, chow can you teach
the child when you don't know one
letter from another ~ elbow | teach
him | jis mex him tex de book
an' set down on the ho,' and den |
say, Jonas, you tex ye eye from
that book, much less leggo him, an
| skins you alive"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24
A HORRIBLE STORY.

A horrible story is told by corr
respondent of tho Eureka Leader of
what he saw st Ogden, a railroad
town 10 Utah, where number OF
Swe dish immigrants were Whiting to
take the train to Brigham. 81 was
looking with great curiosity, when
| discovered tow headed, buxom
girl weeping bitterly. Two or three
old women were scolding ut her, and
withcred up old Mormon stood
with his arm around her. He finally
coaxed her off to his wagon, she
screaming aud cryiog that she would
not marry him, and he never letting
go of her until he sat down upon the
wagon tongue. A girl was following
them. halted her to know what
was the trouble. She said that this
girl was pledged to the old mau, and
that be had paid her passage out,
and now she did not want to marry
him because he already had a wife
ADD seven children. asked if she
would be forced to do SO. The girl
replied course she will. They have
pledged her to him Poor thing
the last that | saw of her she
was struggling to get away from him,
and the witherad old fellow was bold
ing on with both arms around her.
Qt was sickening to think of such
doiugs in q civilized land Dark as
that girls mind was, she had soma
grains of virtue and some delicate
instincts. The despair pictured on
her face showed that
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-24

A great deal of our most useful
knowledge must be bufeted into us,
and that is the chief good you will
reap from mixing with society. A
great fault in young men is to trust
too implicitly to the opinion of others
quite the reverse of what people
generally suppose, Trust your own
judgment where you have reason to
think you possess any, and a man
need never be at any loss in settling
this poiot. mean exactly what |
say. You may ask another for in
formation, because another may be
better informed upon given matter
than you; but to ask advice is to
imply that you have no judgment Of
your own to rely upon; and if you
lack the judgment requisite for an
undertaking, do not attempt it.