Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-06-12


never lack of mourners to join tn
train what creeps to the grave to do tn
sad occasion reverence The solemn
ritual of the church, melancholy hymns
threaded to soul subduing music, ant
monuments and chisled eulogies, al
combine to enbalm the recollectiOns O
the departed. It matters not whether
these tributes are deserved or not, they
are paid all the same.
When, however, newspaper become:
pulseless, there are no mourners, eX
cept perhaps, a melancholy train O
creditors to pay reverence to the occa
sion. Yet nothing can be more sad
1t tells of nights and days wasted in the
unappreciative service of the public, Of
lost endeavor and blighted aspirations,
of weary struggles against the breaking
pillows of debt, Of some earnest mans
pride washed upon the shores of false
hope, faro banks, and bars of credited
Whiskey.
NEVADA's PAPER CEMETERY.
Nevada, like every other new State,
has it's grave yard. The winds which
sweep from the past, from the days of
'63 and a sway the grasses above a
score of mounds where the dead rot and
ripen without single hope of future
immortality. They are principally laid
away in Washoe, Ormsby and Storey
counties Hard Times is ever sharp
ening his spade ready to make another
hole in the ground; the type founders
with their iron clad and copper riveted
mortgages, hover above the living like
an angel of death, shadowing the COM
positors with the black wing of replevin
and execution and ready to crush the
first intellectual endeaver with the
heartless wheel of promissory note
gathering interest at per cent.
THE TYPOGRAPHICAL TONES.
The Washoe Times appears, covered
oy brown and moss covered slab. 1t !
vas little weekly, published bye. w.
Oerickson. After fitful existence it |
lied and the remains were placed in
.harge of Gen. Allen, who resuscitated |
t under the name of the Old Pah- Utah.
Allen died March 8, '63, and the paper
anne out next day in mourning. The
,aper soon gathered to its fathers and
-ovejoy & Co. purchased the material.
This they took to Virginia City and
published the Daily Old Piute, changing
he spelling of the name. The Old
'iute for a couple of years camped on
he trail of the Daily Union, trying to
ury its tomahawk in the others brain,
he exchange of lively invective which
assed between the two sheets make
cry curious reading. The old aborig-
nal warrior went to the happy hunting
rounds at last and E. B. Wilson ran
be skeleton under the name of the
Neekly Star. The Star dropped from
ne constellation of the Comstock and
with the vernal equinox of s
Is. Its place was filled with the
EASTERN Slope, which succeeded in pub
shing one volume and then turned its
zee to the wall.
COMsTOCK MORTALITY. II
The high altitude of the Comstock
18th ITS isolated situation, lack of pure .
alter, etc., had depressing effect
pom the health of Comstock newspapers.
he Daily Union, published in '63 by
Iessner, Laird and Church, was a
aunch Northern paper. 1t was full of
ar news and was edited with vim. 1t a.
ent to its grave covered with honors b
ID attachments.
The Evening Bulletin, published in b
SO by E. A. James and G. A. Parker, u
ssed to the silent majority with the =,
ual ceremonies. Isf
A LITERARY CORPSE. tt
The Washoe Herald was started in '64 l.
Tom Fitch "the silver tongued" and
nan named Bennett. A continued
'ry by Mrs Fitch, Tom Fitch, Joe g
odman, Dan de guile and Mark 81
vain was announced as one of its at ~
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