The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-05-17
BRISTOL ITEMS.

For drop of the 'crater" or a fragrant
Havana call aud see Johnny Quinn.
Miss Lena Clinton, charming young
miss from the Rabbit, was over visiting
on Saturday.
We have had beef famine in town
during the week, but the market is now
well supplied.
Supt. A. X. Grim intends leaving on
Sunday or Monday for San Francisco via
Salt Lake. He will be absent only for
short time.
Miss Maggie Leahigh will depart in a
few days for Oakland, Cal, where she
intends to spend the summer months
with an aunt.
The Day Company have leased the
building formerly used as an express
Office by Johnny Blair. 1t will be used
as an assay Office.
We do not wonder at Prince Bismarck's
aversion to the hog, if what arrives in
his ports are anything like the cadaver-
Gus scavengers that run wild in Bristol.
The hills surrounding camp are covered
with quite variety Of wild flowers, and
as a fragrant bouquet is the most grace
full offering that young man can make
to his ladylove, our youths should profit
by the opportunity.
At the Democratic primaries held here
on the 10th for the purpose Of electing
delegates to the County Convention,
the following persons were elected:
Thomas Gillian, John O'Brien, John
O'Neil, R. A. Riepe and A. c. House.
A bevy of pretty girls with gentlemen
escorts visited the furnace Saturday
evening for the purpose of seeing the
molten Stag as it sparkled and Kissed its
way into the large Stag pots; but they
were disappointed, for foreman Walsh
very ungracefully shut the furnace down
on their arrival. Ungallant fellow.
There are few but what would like tt
see the Chinese banished from the Coast
and still some Of our citizens thought
lessly patronize them in the laundry bus
mess when there are couple of hard
working industrious white women il
camp that deserve their patronage; es
pecially as they do the work as neatl,
and cheaply as the copper.colored hea
thens.
Once in while there drops into on
den a sweet little tulip, whose cheek
rival the coloring of the May roses AM
whose childish prattle acts as panace
to worldly experiences, which, by tn
way, makes fellow feel as sentimental
as the poet when he exclaimed:
Backward turn backward, O time 10 thy aisht
Make me 9 child again just for tonight;
Toll without recompense, tears all in vain
Take them, and give me my childhood again.
Since Mrs. Saunders has taken charg
of the postofice everything moves alon
.. smoothly in that establishment. Prev
, GUS to the lady's arrival person in ques
Of letter had to hunt up one of the ha
dozen individuals who were acting posi-
! master pro tem., and when found it yer
| frequently occurred that he did not hav
, the keys, in which case you were referre
3 to the next person, as most likely to hav
them, and SO until you had Intervene
? one half of the town.
The arrival in town Of Bishop {
Sparks of Panaca, is the signal for
poker game, and, by the way, it is wol
, derful what science his reverence brin,
y to bear on that national game. Dro
ping into the Coop store of Panaca, nj
: long since, brother R., who HI
!. charge of the establishment Of the al
e seeing eye" in that village, reminded h
reverence of the amount of his indebte
n ness to that concern, whereupon Il
,e bishop presented 500 check, b
). brother R. having only $25 in Il
'0 drawer, was unable to change it. tn
4 was dilemma, but the bishop was equ
:, to the occasion, and proposed; as sol
;. ton to the difficulty, that they sit dov
\. and play ''freeze out" for $25; statil
that if he, the bishop, lost, brother R
4. could take his 500 check in return
- S25, and vice versa. Brother R,
~ ing strictly moral person, at first Q
or jected to the proposition, but the wi
cd bishop eventually succeeded in TAXI
rs him into the stone house in the rear
We the Coop, where drygoods box "
made to answer the purpose Of tab
40 At the expiration of half an hour, d,
:, ing which brother R. had tours beat
AL twice, the game came to close with I
'se bishops check unbroken, and his stt
IN account balanced to nicity.
mt E. CHKFFIE left on Thursday for c
We cago ON some very important busine
sv He had been in Phoebe for about MOI
ms making up his mind to take the tt
Chatfie, during his long residence in p
ed ranagat Valley, devoted most of his ii
;" in missionary work and did his level.b
Us, to reform the settlers. For fifteen years
Inc was President Of the Pahranagst Val
Temperance Society.
'ne CHRIS SCHROEDER, who has been tra'
uss ing around out in Utah for the past
eral months, reports all the camps WI