The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-02-16
BULLIoNvILLE AND PANACA DOTS

Us Panacans INDUCED in a st. Naien-
tines ball on Thursday evening.
Items are scarce in cur neighborhood,
but there is much naughty gossip going
on.
John Hearty is flying around the vii
lage. He now considers himself bigger
man than old Grant.
The snow. in such large doses, is a
bother. 1t has made many of our peo-
pie do considerable shoveling.
Billy Gedling, the one-arm hunter, on
last Sabbath morning shouldered his gun
and went over to the slough and killed
sixteen ducks in two shots. II Billy only
had two arms, there is no telling how
many ducks he would have killed in those
two shots.
Bishop Thomas Taylor, who is looking
after the removal of the railroad to Iron
City has been in Panaca He is jolly
sort of man, a big improvement on our
long-faced Bishop Lee, who has an idea
that the welfare of the whole of the Nor
mon Church depends solely upon him and
his family.
There has been several of the grass.
widows in our village who have hereto
fore evaded paying taxes, claiming the
benefit of the exemption law. OF course
these poor women were not widows in
fact, and had no right to be exempt from
paying taxes. These widows, who left
their husbands, owing to their taking
plural wives unto their bosoms, recently
incurred the displeasure of his august
majesty, Bishop Lee, and he went and
informed the county officials that they
ought to be made pay taxes. This would
have been all proper, if the Bishop had of
done so with the motive of coed citizen;
but he did not He did so merely to
satisfy some petty spite. Why is it that
our good Bishop, his brothers, cousins
and aunts, permitted their taxes to go
delinquent this year? They surely had
the money to pay them. Next Fall the
election takes place. The poor widows
have no votes to sell, or they would pay
their taxes too, or candidates would pay
| their taxes for them
Early in the week we had the pleasure
of attending a quilting party in our vii
lage, held by the old ladies. Owing to
our youth the old girls at first disputed
our right to crowd into the gathering
and learning the secrets of the village,
but the Lord softened their hard hearts,
and, through pity, they permitted Inc to
join the circle, provided l kept my
mouth shut, thing l have always been
! in the habit of doing The way the old
| girls pitched into all those who We're not
present was caution. They tore poor
dear sister w. into shreds. They said
she wore false teeth, stuffed all the old
rags into her bosom, and wasn't fit to
mingle in their society, while sister L.
was handled most shamefully, and with.
out gloves, and sister H. picked to pieces.
After saying everything mean they could
imagine about the old people Of the vii.
lage, they then turned their attention
to the young girls. My! but what a
scoring they did get They took each
one of the girls separately, and everything
contemplate that could be thought oil
was placed at their door, Most horrible
things that they knew themselves were
not SO. There is no telling when this
awful gossip would have ceased, if it had
not of been for old sister A. She had
been sitting quietly in the corner sewing
and was very nervous, when she suddenly
exclaimed, II declare, can't stand this
any longer. I'm SO nervous l don't know
what to do. think it's shame that
the church will not permit us to drink
tea. | can not do without it," Aftel
this remark all the other old hens com
menced cackling, and said they thought
so, too. After discussing the tea cues
ton for some little time, without the aiC
of Mr.. Pro or Mr.. Con, either, it wa
decided that all present should drink
cup of tea, and that Bishop Lee could g
out into the corral and eat dried grass,
In noticing the recent death Of Mr.
James S. Henderson, the father of Hon
w. II. Henderson and Joseph Hender
son of Phoebe, the Missouri Republican
speaks of the deceased gentleman mos
highly 1t says: Galloway county ha
lost one of its most estimable citizens il
the person Of Judge James s. Henderson
who died at Fulton last Saturday. H
was born in Augusta county, Va, Sep
TENDER 2, 1907, and was therefore in hi
seventy-seventh year at the time of hi
death. He came to this State with hi
father in 1923, sixty years ago. In 1874
he was appointed by Gov. Boggs one Q
: the Galloway county court judges, an
/ afterwards served as county treasurer TO
fifteen years. He was treasurer OF tn
board of trustees of the State lunati
, asylum at Fulton for thirty years, an
o treasurer also of Westminster college 70
$ several years. He was held in the high
. est esteem in the community where h
;. lived, and is gratefully remembered fo
his many charities and his sterling vii
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a CHOICE GOODS. Fresh Malaga raisins
e fresh California raisins, new currant