The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-08-25
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fuses to take its feed regularly.
The Smelling Company received eight
tons of Dry Valley concentrations during
the week.
We learn that Angus McDougal and
family are temporarily sojourning in San
Bernardino county, California.
A watermelon picnic, and general
roundup of the clans, will take place
down the Wash some time next month.
Charles says that sledging at the fur.
mace, with the mercury up in the nine.
ties, is making him old and bald headed.
Nick Miller is rusticating down the
valley, where, it is said he intends start.
ing distillery for the benefit of the
Washites.
Brother Gentry has sent to the Y. NJ.
c. NJ. l. A., of Beaver, for some Mormon
bibles, and other Latter-day literature.
for those of the BullionvilEans who are
not entirely beyond the pale of reforma.
| tion.
Bishop Woods, OF Glover Valley, hay.
ing become so expert at tying the matri-
monial knot, without the aid of license
papers, some of our young people are
considering the advisability Of heading
that way.
One OF our school trustees is Glamour
ing for the connnbial felicity of the
polygamous state, and avows his inten.
ton OF setting the State laws at defiance
by the addition to his household of two
young English girls from st. George.
A couple of Bullionville "soit 'uns
nightly serenade their dulcinas on the
veranda OF the Valley House, during
which they fling them motto candy,
bearing the words, Come to my arms,
dear, 50 Is the old man asleep yet, etc.
A few nights since, as the last rays OF
luna were disappearing behind the hills
skirting our village, a young couple OF
tender years were heard singing. on
the road to Bullionville, the well known
lines OF that Bacchanaiian song, I'VE
won't go home till morning, etc. VIVA,
next, children,
A Bullionville young sport, while re.
lating his experiences Sunday evening,
as picnicker down the Wash, said tina,
"every corn stalk and grape vine con.
tanned a RATHER, and that during the
still hours of night he could hear them
lashing their tails around the wagon
wheels in an attempt to get to where he
was sleeping" There is nothing strange
/ in the above, for we have heard of EN-
trying to climb red-hot stove, to get a,
some people where that young man came
| from.
For premeditated, willful and maliciou:
lying, the newsmongers Of this section
are unequaled, and it is safe bet to cop
per, that they are never happy, miles,
when engaged in that delectabIe pastims
OF plucking each others regulations
| While your former scribe was writing
dots for the RECORD, there was none
that had the hardihood to tackle him in
debate; but now, that they find lone
girl filling that capacity. they are all
anxious to overwhelm her with their
epistolary erudition. Manly, amt it.
The newsmongers have been busy dur.
ing the week, canvassing the approach
ing marriage OF young couple Of oul
village. Some said that the Panaca
Judge-who is a conscientious old gen
tleman-refused to marry the couple, be
cause the paterfamilias of the bride re-
fused to sanction the nuptials, while
others had it that the Bullionville rakisf
emblem of the law would have willingl,
performed the ceremony, but that Mr..
Short, the Smelling Company's foreman
would not grant him leave of absenc,
long enough to do so.
1t seems TO us that the Bullionvill,
Justice ought to be able to detect VIII,
the parties are in his precinct that ar,
selling whisky to the Indians. A dis
graceful row occurred in that villag
Sunday evening, in consequence of thi
Wholesale disposal of the fiery fluid, tn,
bucks pulling their squaws hair out b,
the handful, while the latter retaliatet
on their lords and masters by peltin,
them with rocks. During the fraca,
Archy Yoacham knocked an aggressiv
Indian senseless with boulder.
We learn from the mail-rider that an
other unfortunate German persisted Q
thirst few weeks since on the fifty-mil
desert that commences at the crossing Q
the Colorado river at Bonneli's Ferry
and terminates at Mountain Springs, il
Arizona. When found, the poor fello,
was within three miles Of the Springs
but not knowing the fact, we suppose h
lost heart, and laid down and died-a
several Of his countrymen have done be
fore him, on the same stretch Of road
1t seems strange that fully three.fourth
of all those who have persisted from thirs
on our deserts, are Germans. The grea
California Sahara in San Bernardin
county, the Death Valley section, an
the many parched tracts in Arizona an
this State are dotted with the graves {
this nationality.