Nevada County picayune., 1890-06-04
THE GAzhTTE'S GUSH OVER
 THE DEATH OF A GAMBLER.

We quote the following extracts from the account of the death of J II. Hornlbrook, published in the Ar kansas Gazette, Sunday, the 25th ultimo:
 Death re-unites the firm of Horni- brook and Townsend Six months ago the two men dissolved co-part- nership in a business in which they had both beer associated together for twenty-two years. Less than a month ago the senior member of the firm departed this life, and to-day his partner joins him on the shores of eternity. The death of either man was 9 loss to the community the death of both is calamity. 7" He spent the greater part of the evening in entertaining his friends, Hanlan and Plaistcd, the well-known oarSman. About 3 o'clock in the morning he bade his guests good night, exacting promise from each that he would be present at the boat house, on the same evening, where he intended giving reception to the oarsmen.
 If the death of either of those men was loss to the community, and the death of both calamity, we wonder that the Gazette did not robe itself in mourning and in that manner, as well as by cXtravagant utterances, make public manifestation of the grief which it seems that paper would have it's readers believe the people of Lit tie Rock feel at the death of the pro- prietors of the leading and most notorious gambling house in the cap ital city of the State, and perhaps in the whole State.
 In what business have those two benefactors of Little Rock, as the Gazette, it seems, would have Us be- lieve they were, "both been associ- ated together" for twenty-five years? As partners in the ownership of the leading barroom and gambling house in Little Rock. Mention of the name of either of thsoe men any where in the State of Arkansas sug- gests whisky, debauchery, pool, poker, keno, faro, and all other vices. What was Bencfactor Hornbrook doing at o'clock in the morning? At home with his family, where a good citizen should have been? No. Then where? Entertaining Hanlan and Plaisted. Where? At his bar room and gambling house. Who are Hanlan and Plaisted? The noted oarsmcn, as the Gazette says. What was their business in Little Rock! :! To run boat race on the Arkansas River on Sunday afternoon, in de-  tiance and contempt of law and order, in defiance and contempt of the sacred scriptural command to re- member the Sabbath and keep it holy, in defiance and contempt of good morals, in defiance and con tempt of the sense of decency and propriety, not only of the best peo- pie of Little Rock, but of the whole State.
 Now, if the Gazette, the leading paper of the State, regards the death of the proprietors of the leading bar room and gambling house of the State as a calamity, how would that journal regard the death of the Gov ernor, the Chief Justice of the Stu preme Court, the Mayor of the City of Little Rock, of Judge Rose, Capt. John G. Fletcher, Mir. D. G. Zones, or any other worthy and useful citi- zen of Little Rock, whose uniform rule of action through life has been to elevate and ameliorate the condi- tion of mankind, and not to demoral- alize and debauch, and then propiti- ate society by specific deeds of char ity or public enterprise!