The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-08-19
BULLIoNvLLE AND PANAcA DOTS

i"shhS ouSiuess uuring the races.
Occasional showers and cloudy weather
has kept the mercury down to 90 in the
shade.
The good people Of Panaca have had to
keep their weather eye open lately while
making hay while the sun shone, for rain
fell at any all times.
A little daisy from Bristol has taken
up her residence among the ungodly Of
Bullionville and at last accounts was
MASKING hearts and employing pockets in
all directions.
A faro game was opened on the race
track last Saturday, but the parties who
prepared the "Tiger" for the business
failed to clean out his claws, so that for
once the boys got the best of him and his
hackers to the tune Of several hundred
dollars.
In consequence of the large amount of
silicious matter in the iron ore Mr.. Short
found considerable difficulty in working
the furnace last week. He is now, how
ever, turning out the usual amount OF
bullion, and promises to keep on so for
an indefinite period
Now that the races are over the man
who never bet a cent in his life even on
dead thing-will slap you OH the back,
exclaiming, Didn't tell you sou Yes,
we are all wise now, and if some of us
had a chance to bet our money over again
the troublesome mosquito would not seem
such bore those warm nights.
There were several foot races in Pana.
ca Sunday evening, and as is frequently
the case, the fastest man did not win all
the time. The dirt was shown so plainly,
in one instance, that we felt like calling
the turn, but as the stakes were small,
and the parties who won them broke, we
refrained from doing so.
The dance that took place at Social
Hall, Panaca, on the night of the 10th
gave general satisfaction to all those who
participated in the pleasures of the even
ing. The gathering was composed of the
elite of Lincoln county, and would be a
credit to any ball room in the land.
1.-THE belle of the ball" was young miss
of sixteen from Phoebe and carried herself
with the dignity and grace, BETTING a
queen Of the hills.
1t must be nice to be "gambolier" and
have the boys at the Bullionville fur.
mace earning money for you, so that you
may be enabled thereby to make oil
kinds of nice presents to the girls of Pa
naca, who in return will call you ducky
darling of a boy and other pet appela
tions until your money is all gone; but
enough, we will not spoil this picture by
going behind the returns.
| Heretofore we have labored under tn,
impression that the Bullion boys were in
vincible with the fairer sex, but our mis-
take was palpably made apparent on tn
night of the big hop in Panaca, for tn
Phoebe boys monopolized the attention o
the reigning bellies, to the exclusion o
the Bullion youths, during the create
portion of the evening; and to cap tn
climax their chief carried with him t.
| HIS Hill-UOuuu III loSuC, lhc lultCo
! rose in our village.
After the horse races Saturday evenin
! young man who had been imbibin
pretty freely during the day, and VIII
was laboring under the defeat of hi
2 fathers pet race horse, went whoopin
, through the streets of Panaca, swingin
a shotgun, and otherwise disporting him
self like Piute Indian on holiday e,
cursion. The young man for whom b
, was hunting, was on the run also an
e coming up behind and delivering bio
4 that sent him and the shotgun sprawlint
He escaped with good humping.
e Two matched races have been made
4 Bullionville, to be run on the Nyswong'
r track two miles below Panaca, on the d
of September. One of them is betwee
Dan Nyswonger's "Deseret Colt" ar
u Lew Carpenters bay horse "Selkirk
), The race is for 81, 900; distance, qua
~ ter of mile. The other race is betwee
:, Jimmy Ryan's Clover Valley pom
!, "Topsy," and the Matthews boys pom
, II "Burt." "The race is for the san
= amount as the other, the distance beil
- the same. From the interest taken
:. both of these races they promise to
y the most exciting ones that have ev
, :" taken place in the county.
e, That Bristol youth Of massive brai
the ex.editor of the N. Y. Times, begi
es to weaken, and says he considers o
Of accusations Of him are too absurd to
h. contradicted. Of course he thinks |
re for both he and the public of Brist
n know that We stated nothing but t
of truth, and that his action in Bristol,
On though he represents himself to be
n wealthy New Yorker, denotes him to
lis a professional street beggar. This intel
gent and wealthy young man had bett
J.. take another poem from an exchanl
~ alter word or two in it, publish it in
les own influential paper that he has t.
ir, would "carry the county for the Repr
nd licans," and then bring US down his pal
I'm and read the poem to us Ignorant M
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