The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-04
3UL.IoAVILLE AND PANACA DOTS

The peach and apple trees and currant
bushes are in bloom hut the chances are
Jack Frost will nip them in the bud.
The Smelling Company at Bullionville
shut down on Tuesday for 45 hours, in
order to make cleanup, as they wish
to know how they stand for the month OF
April.
Messrs. Yoachan. Duff, Philips and
Oleson departed on Wednesday for Salt
Lake City. 0leson intends to bring his
family to Bullionville, having rented the
house formerly occupied By Bob McLane
and family.
Love Davis and family are back from
that mystical land Of milk and honey
Utah. Davis says that milk and carrots
are plentiful enough across the line, but
that fellow raised in Nevada misses the
jingle of Uncle Samuel's coin.
Brother John Wedge says that garden.
ing will not pay in our village, as the
Mormons across the line raise produce
and sell it here cheaper than we can
raise it. Brother Wedge will only plant
sufficient for his own use this season.
The Clover Valley school exhibition,
which will take place on Friday, under
the auspices of Mr.. Findlay, is going to
be an elaborate affair. Several visitors
are expected from Shoal Creek, and quite
a number Of our young folks are going to
be there. A grand hop will wind up the
occasion.
The Phoebe nightingale that used to
charm the frequenters of Charley STEMS
concert hall with "Old Savannah Home"
Good by Liza Jane, ETC., can be heard
of evenings from the turreted heights of
court house rock. Charley had better
call home his bird or some of our girls
will cut his claws off, put him in a gilded
cage, and make pet of him.
Pete Gerety and Ed. Hart, two miners
that have been chloriding on Mr.. Duff's
mine down at Chief District for the past
three months, say they have 81, 900 worth
Of ore on the dumps. The boys, though
old-time Piochers, have been mining up
north for several years, but are convinced
that this county, with its beautiful
climate and rich mineral deposits, is the
peer of any one section of mining country
that they have visited during their
travels.
Why it is that old maids are invariably
jealous of young girls, and do all in their
power to keep us from having beaus, is a
question that cannot understand. We
have one in this village---a veritable
Mary Walker--that makes it business
to 60 around and poison the minds of our
sex against every young fellow who hap
pens to talk to to them. Ii this Amazon
in petticoats persists in this underhand
work much longer, because her cheeks
have lost the glow of health and her eye
that sparkle of youthfulness which at.
tracts the male heart--as the flame of a
candle attracts the moth--we shall give
history Of her loves and disappoiut.
ments, which will be anything but un.
interesting reading matter.
I think it was Whittier who struck a
responsive chord in the lives of a good
many people when he wrote: "Of all
sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest
are these; 1t might have BEEN !" Yes,
dear RECORD, it might have been deli
cious with more than one OF our young
men, who were at one time on the eve OF
matrimony, but, alas! they We're too friv
olous; but that is not strange, as incon
stancy is one Of the attributes OF the
lords of creation where we poor girls are
concerned. Still, methinks, they woulC
have done better There is j. E., fol
instance; talented musician and a goot
mechanic, growing into hoary old bach
elor, while the sweetest girl in all christ
endom would at one time have been hi
for the asking. Then again there is D
R., an honorable young man, and an EN-
bryo cattle king; he, too, could b,
welded to an estimable young lady, by
some considered the belle of the village
but he lacked nerve when it came tt
popping the question, and is now vic
tim to remorse and strong drink. Anc
last, but not least, is your former quic
nunc, j. c. X He, poor fellow, wa
head and ears in love with coquettisf
young ''school marm," and the gossip
said they might make match, in which
case the RECORD would be without cor
respondent--a fortunate thing at the
time for us girls-but alas! the fate'
were against him, and he is now WRECK
and a confirmed misogynist. We coule
continue the list ad lib. if we had space
In the last issue OF the RECORD ap
peared communication from one H. d
Williams, who has sub.coutract Of car
rying the mail between Bullionvile AM
St. Thomas, wherein he terms the Fed
eral officials of Utah wiley carpetbaggers
roughs. galvanized Mormons, etc. AS
| Orafacp 70 the latter Williams saws tina