Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-23

afternoon Mclaughlin the jeweler went t.
Virginia City to see some Storey count,
members regarding the introduction of
) bill to reduce the freight on clocks owe
4 the G. P. r. r. In his absence he left
young man to look after the store. Nc
Laughlin did not return on the evening
train-having encountered some opposition
to his billiard in the meantime his CLERK
conceived fendish plot to ruin him. He
fell to work on the clocks--14S of them
and set the alarms in such way that they
would begin to agitate the atmosphere
about midnight and maintain desultory
fire until about 3 o'clock in the morning
These clocks are made by an ingenius
Yankee in Merida. Connecticut, and are
warranted to raise aneighborhood and keep
up the noise seven minutes. In the day
time the reaching power of an alarm clock
is 265 yards, but in the solemn stiffness Of
| the nj ght its inner harmonies will rescund
through ward whose superficial area is
four square miles. At midnight officer
Stern, who was passing the place, sprang
high in air under the suddenly acquired
] impression that the building was falling
1 down. In a few minutes crowd from
Gilhooly's reached the spot and paused to
| listen to the alarm so of. Just, however,
as clock No. l was weakening on its well
| sustained efforts, the brazen snort of clock
No. blended so nicely with it that the
transition of sound was not detected by the
audience.
shes a stayer," said the officer.
Inside of half an hour about hundred
persons had gathered, while the clocks
wheeled into line with such precision that
no one doubted that the same old clock was
keeping up its lick, with an occ, siona!
change Of key. at the end of the first hour
the working force was augmented by two
clocks being in the same shift.
''Gettin' its second wind" said the
thoughtful peeler.
Occasionally six or seven clocks would
break loose at once and for the last half
hour a chorus of clocks woke sleepers from
their beds and reused the town for blocks
around. When the crashing faaLe came the
street was deserted and the associate press
reporter telegraphed a long account of
haunted clock factory to the Atlantic sea-
board Mclaughlin is still looking for the |
boy who tempered with the machinery, but |
for some unexplained reason the precocious |
youngster has so far escaped the scrutiny
of the police.
MAzEoPA.--Miss buckingham opens at
the Opera House on Tuesday She viii I
appear two nights in Mezopna fl a.
Thursday the play will bo pr''..-# g.. ,
farce at the matinee. o. tn.e ,r.t... u
actress the Ente.pri"e says, .,i,4,, -. AIng-
hams former engagement II .- ~.ty was
so successful and left SO many T. easant re-
behind that he reap. aarance at
the Opera House was looked tora ard to by
our people with sincere pleasure, and if
house--an. audience composed of
our best people--stands as a test OF popu-
arity, the lady should rest well satisfied
with the Appreciation almost an ovation
she received last night. She played the
part magnifcently. She is doubtless the
pest and physically the most superb Mazep-
"a on the American stage. Years OF, ezper-
ence have taught her the exact conception =
If the character, the sortor }are Of its sur (
oundings, and possessing natural histrionic
alent she stands, toiay, unrivaled in that
peculiar line of d, ANA. '