Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1884-11-13

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deputy to assist him in running the
constable's office. 4 fine healthy
muchacho took up board and lodg-
ings with himself and wife Tuesday
night, and from the noise he makes
he means to let them know he has
come to stay.
The attention of the road super
visor is called to one particular spot
in the main thorughfare of Lincoln
where the water has left the acequia
ANA is making for itself plain, un-
romantic, .disagreeable American
ditch in the center of the public
highway. The people of this town
have paid their hard dinero to have
all such nuisances abated and they
have a right to be heard. 1t would
not take one hours work to conhne
the water to its proper channel and it
should be attended to at once.
w. b. Brown, foreman Of the
Crouch ranch, was up on business
during the past week, and while
here struck tic tenderfoot young
| man of the ERA with dozen or so
of galvanized yarns that we're reg
ular stem -winders, warranted to run
right along if broke in two any
where. The said young man has
finally recovered his self control sutli-
ciently to write this item, but his
conception of the manner of dishing
up things on the wild, western bor-
der has undergone q sad and de-
pressing change.
1t was rather lively procession
that pulled out of town Monday
morning for Santa Fe, considering
the final destination of some of the
parties composing it. These were
four prisoners, in charge of deputy
Sheriffs Brent, and Wilkerson, and
who were tried and sentenced at the
last term of court for different crimes
charged on the docket. They were
J. Il. Edwards, for stealing cattle,
two years; Jose de la Cruz Tafoya,
for stealing horse, four years; Gre
gorio Jiron, three years; Pedro Pa
dila, horse stealing, two years. The
prisoners all seemed as merry as il
they were going to picnic instead
of term of involuntary servitude
behind prison walls. Sheriff Brent
was about the only one in the outfit
who seemed to take in the gravity OF
the situation, or wore that look of set.
tied melancholy supposed to be in
keeping with the solemn occasion
The procession moAed away about
ten o'clock behind a team of four
high kickers, Johny Hurley in uni
form of buff and gloves holding the
strings.
THERE came to the editors domi.
ell at rather an unseenly hour last
Sunday morning, 4 young lady
whose appearance was decidedly fresh
and whose voice was in no way sub.
dued, and who bids fair, from the
start already made to upset many Of
his domestic arrangements. in fact
her sudden and unexpected appear
ance at once upset the aforesaid ed.
itor's composure to such a degree
that he kicked the favorite cat out
through the kitchen window, put
the dish rag, bar of soap and q
match safe in the stove and poured
a bottle of vinegar over them to start
a fire quick, and then went over and
walked up the printers devil and
ordered him to 90 for a constable
quicke'rn blazes-this in less time
then it takes to lock up one side ei
a form and put it on the press
Kicks, confusion and squalls have
been the order in his house
holdever since, and there is no such
thing as peace and calm serenity tc
be found short of the word shed, to
whose cold, -comfortless vacancy he
is extremely partial of late. The
editors eye is loosing much of its
old time fire, his pulse is unreliable
and he approaches his once happy
home by the back way, like hun
CRY tramp expecting to have a hot
hat-iron and other kitchen bric-a-brac
fired at him from an open easement
His nights bring him no rest in all
their peaceful hours and his day
dreams are haunted by vision O
paregoric, dimity, and little red
face reminding him of no one except
a baked apple. In the meantime
the former partner of his sorrows as
we'll as his hilarious moods SCENT
to have forgotten him entirely, and
is happy as a democratic candidate
over election returns, the livelona
day. When he returns from his din
gy Office, weary and care worn, h'
constantly runs spang up agains
this low, cooing refrain hummet