Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-08-23
CARSON LETrER.
A Brief Revis w of oings at the
Hub this Week.
CARSON, August FL, 1884.


A sheet published here styled the
Ha<E, lat week, consistent with its
Sa,us for misrepresenling the truth and
befouling clean things, accused ex-
Cong essman woodburn Of having open.
Iy avowed his dissatisfaction with the
nomination OF James G. Blaine. This
statement is bare faced libel, for
have myself heard MIR. Woodburn
warmly eulogize The power and states.
manship Of the nominee; and while Mr..
Blaine may not have been his first
choice, am personally assured that
since Mr.. Blaine became the prolege Of
The Republican party there is none in
Nevada who will support him more
earnestly than MIR. Woodburn, the gen.
lleman who will probably occupy MIR.
Cassidy's seat IN Congress on the 4th Of
next March. have seen letter writ
ten by Mr.. Woodburn TO a f,iend in
Carson, in which he stamps the charge
Of the lex as "a lic," and lrow the
/6rr editor will have that compliment
thrown in his teeth at his first meeting
with our next Congressman.
10 vary the social monotony Of Car.
son bit The report Is handed around
that the wife Of prominent Carson
man has "skipped." Whether she
skipped with another "frllcr" or to
avoid the opportunities of relentless
creditors is not said; but she has "lit
oul." Now there are so many wives OF
beautiful Summer hours away al Tahoe,
the Bay, Monterey, Santa Cruz and
elsewhere, that one can't tell who the
really skipped" one is until the roll
is called for The Winter entertainments.
judge so because the sex who make
existence SO bearable on this planet
never "give each other away"
The slanderous Carson correspondent
10 whom alluded last week, has taken
a new tack by unsucccssfully trying 10
be,mirch III: good names of our lady
teachers, who are collectively and in
dividually above r,proach from every
standpoint. The inuendoes Of this vile
character, who hardly ever has kind
word for any one, and the least for
those " no have most befriended him
ial very shor, from their desired end.
lie Is execIated by every fair minded
man in Carson, and morcso now since
h. has begun hinging mud at bevy OF
pure minded and respectable teachers.
Circumstances are sure TO arise soon
which will compel the editor Of the
Winnemucca paper TO reveal the name
Of his correspondent. Only the most
corrupt lshmaelite would write as he
does.
imagine that there is not an interior
town in Nevada, California or Oregon
that is so elaborately show billed as
Carson. Judging from the posters one
would think that all the paraphernalia
Of a Partisan Opera house and the per.
formers were to to be transported to
his elevated region; and TO hear the
manager Of our theatre praise each show
before its arrival il could scarcely leave
a glimmer CT a doubt IN your credulous
mind but what the coming show is to
be the par excellence Of Ihespian at.
iairs. But in all cases the real critic is
disappointed. This has been going on
for several years. A company adver-
Uses here in grand style, making from.
ises Of a fabulous nature, while the
leading members skip oil to the East
leaving us nothing but few miserable
sticks who murder an opera or drama.
In former years when managers and
companies played no deception on the
really critical people Of Carson, it was
no matter Of difficulty to fill house
two or three consecutive nights; but
now it is a hard thing TO get a good
first night house. Who is to blame?
Surely not the people.
Governor and Mrs. Kinkead left here
for Alaska last evening, a large crowd
gathering at the depot TO bid them
good bye. Governor knows that he is
greatly beloved here and tears glistened
in his eyes as he shook hands with his