The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-01-24
OLD TIM ERs GONE.
carson Appeal

1t almost makes ones heart ache to
see how the old boys are thinning out,
who used to make that lobby so lively.
As the years tread on they are gradually
drifting away from US and after few
more sessions all memory of them will be
obliterated.
There was old Zinc Barnes, whose
twinkling eye and ample pouch was such |
a familiar figure in the halls of the law
makers. He is down in California some
where, at health resort, trying to soak
the jollity and hilarity out Of him.
Old Matt. Canavan, who could devise
more sharp turns in minute than all
the law. makers in 60 days, has laid down
the cares of life and the Democrats have
been drifting about without rudder
ever since.
Pete Burk, otherwise known as "Cut
Mouth Pete" by reason of his facial
scars, is in Boston trying to make the
Common Council see what cheap thing
his sewer dusher is at a million. Who
can forget with what dexterity he drew
up the "cinch" bills that fed the "boys"
and with what solemnity he assured the
COW county member that his mission in
life was to help the down.trodden PEG.
pie,
Dickson is not here with his innocent
and bland smile.
Dolf. Shame is not around biting the
end of his cigar.
Cassidy is attending to his Congress
sional duties, and lobbying for bigger
game, and of the old crowd whose faces
were once such fixtures here during the
session, Black Wallace, Cleve and Steve
Gage alone remain.
Gage has gone back to San Francisco
after a few days sojourn here and Cleve
looks as if he was bored for lack Of bust
ness.
The good old times Of clashing sacks,
and redhot Senatorial fights seems to
have been gone forever.
The railroads are too poor to cinch and
the men who want private Legislation
leave their sacks at home and get votes
by trading on their county delegation.
In little while the hands that shaped
the course of many rattling battle,
will no longer make out the persuasive
check and be cold in death, and the
skulls that combined" conflicting inter
ests and threw bombshells of discord into
harmonious camps will be inhabited by
the scorpions and tarantulas and thu
ringing voices of the hired debaters viii
be struggling with new tunes of the an
gelic choir.
The champagne does not now burst il
the caucus chamber or flow along tn
!, ball corridor and the Committee on Way
and Means are beginning to plug tn
. holes in the State safe.
IL We are indeed constrained to concu
J with the psalmist who upon some simils
Z occasion vociferating in the bitterness {
a his spirit, said: "Verily all flesh is grass
. REDUCTION OF MINERS WAGES. :
Some unknown person in San Francisco
) says the Bodie, CAL, Press, keeps sent
/ ing this Office clippings in favor of redu
! ing miners wages to 50 or $3.50 per da.
, The only argument we can see in fave
i. of reduction in this district is in inducir
s close. capitalists of the East to il
q vest. There might be reductio
g among the supernumeraries with justic
T but not among the experienced mine
Q who know their business and take the
!, lives in their hands every time they d
e scend shaft. Four.bits a day TAXI
9 from each miner who regularly puts h
/ all into the stocks, would ultimately
j. detrimental rather than beneficial to 4
g | development Of our particular distri'
Rather let there be an investigation
the secretaries, knock.downs, the ma
,e agement in general and cheap MILL
-, facilities.
,: Belmont Courier: We have be
:. taught to believe the Indian is ste
= destitute of the same feelings possess
q by his higher colored brethren; but J.
10 Monday who saw Bismarck, an old
y dian who had just lost his pappoose, M
" have changed their mind. Bismarck
e. g, not handsomer than the average red n
w but his feelings were expressed by tie
no that were undoubtedly real. To a +
g son who asked him the cause he repli
e. "My little boy dead; my eyes heap sic
w. SHOOTING AT CARSON. - Inc W
lis known livery stable keeper, Doc. Bent
10 shot, and, it is believed, fatally woun,
Timothy Duffy, Of Virginia City, at I
If. son City. It is claimed that Duffy nj
!, an attempt to enter the room of N
q, Benton, when the husband appeared
Ill the scene. and proceeded to beat h
r. and afterwards shot him through
dt lungs. Duffy, at last accounts,
on lying in very precarious condition,
ey Benton was taken to Jail.
Ia. The frenzied prediction by a woman
Missouri railroad train that an av
,et accident was impending might not h
scared anybody had she not immediat
afterward fallen from her seat de
yer Most Of the passengers quit the car
the next station, but nothing happe
we to those who continued their journey
ess
The The average size Of American fam
-, | haa decreased onc-henth aimee 1850,