Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-17
OUR CARSON LETTER.
Odds and Ends of Life aud DOings
at II Capital.

hb the s"Pst"h
CARSON, Nov. IA, 1882.
Ed. SENTINEL: All the fateful ballots
being. now in Carson becomes a burg Of
more than usual interest. Hence these
lines:
AFTER ELECTION REFLECTIONS.
The campaign is over. But the thread.
bare arguments, the %gigantean fabrica'
tions, the mangled rhetoric, the ear-tor-
turing and brazen notes of the badly
organized campaign band, not forgetting
that sable procession, headed by Albert OF
the Ormsby House and "Sport" Johnson,
with Uncle Bailey hobbling in the rear-all
these are memories Of the campaign.
There was a goodly show of dirty linen
washed between the early days Of Septem-
Der last and the 7th instant, but it is to be
hoped that both parties have retired from
the laundry business for two years at
least. 1t is not of the slightest conse-
quence now whether Brown, the defeated,
wrangled with the barkeeper about change,
or whether Smith, the successful, intends
making his official headquarters a sort of
dissecting room where the guileless may
be cut to pieces through the keen-edged
instrument of poker. The story Of the
disputes with the whisky-dispenser and
the other one on the said subject were both
probably campaign lies, and as such your
veracious correspondent drops them.
Truly, the ways Of the politician are not
always straight or clean ones.
FREAKS OF THE B~ALLoT-Box.
The late election was certainly q queer
one as to results. To illustrate: In this
county Tufly has a majority of 1877 over
Sadler, while Powning leads Cassidy but
five votes. In the ease of Gen. L. d. Ed
wards, for District Judge, the people
thought before election that he would have
a walk-over, SO to speak. Yet the result
between General Edwards and his Demo-
cratic competitor, James II. Judge, was in
doubt for several days after tho election,
and it now appears that the District (em-
bracing Ormsby and Douglas Counties)
gave Edwards only 81 majority. Beam
DEM and Hatch (Rep.) are a tie for
County Clerk. But ballot-box eccentrici-
ties are the rule and not the exception, and
we will no more of them.
FISH FOR THE CARSON NET.
Yesterday was an usually lively one in
Carson. The meeting of the United States
District Court brought lawyers and liti-
giants from all parts of the State to the
Capital, and the meeting Of the Board of
Pardons helped to swell the throng. The
leading hotels (Ormsby and Arlington)
were crowded last night with people from
abroad, and one was reminded of the
earlier stages of the biennial Legislative
gatherings. However, it is simple justice
to those now with US to say that they pre-
scented a better average appearance and
made a better impression han the crowds
We have here in the late December Of the
even years.
DULL NOW, BUT FULL OF RoMIs
Nothing booked was the answer your
correspondent received to-day from the
manager of the Carson Opera House.
However, Billy Emerson. the Elite Come
dy Company and Bert & Palmer's Com
pany, the latter now doing Oregon, are
expected to come Nevadaward next month,
and Carson will catch them, and there
will be no dearth of amusements for the
coming legislative days, be assured. Well
have bal masque amateur entertainments.
disputes, benefit balls, and last,
but by no means of least importance to
the generous and ever sympathizing Ne
vada solon, we'll have the church festival
at which latter the wheel of fortune will
be turned, the seductive grab-bag will be
into, lemonade (guiltless of lines
and lemons, but full of the pucker of tar
tartic acid) will be slipped, and the oleag-
chicken salad (three parts veal,
one part chicken) will be slipped down the
esophagus; and then there will
be voting for the handsomest State Sen !!
ator, and a lady told me to-day, but said
would call me "a mean, hateful old
thing" if l let the secret out, that she had
selected Senators Foley and Den
mis- for the contestants.
CANDIDATES aALoRE.
Now that there is no longer a question
about our Legislature being Republican on
Joint ballot--twelve, I believe, is the latest
majority figure candidates for Prison
and other positions in the con
troll Of the Legislature are SIS thick as dead
on the back streets of Carson.
Of Washoe and Wells OF Esmeralda
are strongly talked of for Speaker of the
Assembly. The candidates for Sergeant |
alarms, and for the various clerkships,
are almost without number. For Warden
the State Prison Storey County alone
offers ex-senator Gibson, ex-Assemblymen
Lyons and Coulter, while Washoe presents
I. V. Julien. It will be close work pro-
for the hungry of both parties
through the medium of legislative pap,
and it may require another miracle after
the manner of the S%criptural loaves and
believe on that occasion five
loayes and two small fishes formed the
,nenu-to satisfy the demands Of the |
hungry multitude. "a friend at my elbow !
offers an odds wager that when the Repub-
and Democratic caucuses are through
their respective banquets there will be no
seven baskets of cold political grub left.
of this (~parenthesis includedl is fun
for us outsiders, but, as q matter Of fact,
won't it be o death OF hope to those who
are to be left in the race for position?
c OF THE TOLLS.
liberty B. H. Carrick, M. Marks and
John L. Crawford. Carrick, with whose
case all the SENTINEL readers are doubtless
familiar, had served two years of his five
years' term. Marks, sent from Lander
for an assault with intent to kill, had a
petition for his pardon signed by the
Judge and jury before whom he was tried,
as we'll as by the District Attorney who
prosecuted the case. Carrick and Marks
were met by their wives on their release
from the State Prison. Crawford was sent
from White Pine for some %irregularity
growing out of a cattle transaction, a
thing not uncommon, I'm told, in Eastern
Nevada.
II cHARTz CASE.
At this writing the case OF Alfred Chartz,
SO we'll known to all Eurehans, is being
argued by Gen. r. NJ. CLARK for the petit
toner.
LArEH-Tbe pardon is granted. Gov
ernor Kinkead and Judges Leonard and