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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
VIRGINIA, NEV., August 1, 1869.
About Ways and Means.
Those seven wise men from the East composing the Congressional Committee on Ways and Means have been here. And they have gone again. They didn't stay long; at any rate, it didn't take long for them to stay what time they did, and they left precious little, if any, wiser than when they came. They arrived, via Donner Lake, Carson, Warm Springs, Empire and Gold Hill, last Wednesday, consigned to William Sharon, arriving in this city about 4 P. M. They were hilarious when they left... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
VIRGINIA, Nev., August 8, 1869.
The Eclipse.
The great sensation of yesterday was the eclipse of the sun, which we sage-brush barbarians were permitted to look at, same as good Christians in other parts of the country. A big cloud got in the way just as the thing was about to commence, but soon it raised like a big drop-curtain, and all hands had a good view of the new attraction. Smoked glass and similar contrivances were in demand, and the streets were filled with people, all curiously surveying the eclipse. The Chinese style was... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
VIRGINIA, NEV., Aug. 15, 1869.
Still Coming.
In a confidential conversation with Piper, last evening, he told me that George Francis Train was actually coming, notwithstanding all assertions to the contrary; that he would be here on the 20th. Now such may be the case, but I don't believe it. He has been coming for over a month, and very few here believe he is coming at all; in fact, that he is a baggage train—a carpet-bagger—and too easily run off the track, anyhow. Like the proposed grand squirting trial for "big coin" between... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
VIRGINIA, Nev., August 22, 1869.
Little Fiddlers.
Either this has been an extraordinary good season for little fiddlers, or else there has been an unusual exodus of them from all parts of the world, for they certainly have appeared here in marvelous numbers during the last few months. Here they come, little girls and little boys, and the way they do torture that sacred instrument, the fiddle, is a caution to Ole Bull. I never knew till now how small a boy could play the fiddle, but having seen several little exiles from... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
VIRGINIA CITY, September 5, 1869.
Our Railroad.
The railroad between here and Carson, misnamed the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, is in rather a quiescent state at the present time. Before George Francis Train came here, there were 2,500 men of all sorts employed on that road, but now there are scarcely 500. I don't mean by this statement to give the impression that George has slaughtered the road—he is too light a Train to crush down any railroad—but the fact of it is that the grading is nearly completed and they are only... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
VIRGINIA CITY, September 12, 1869
Incendiaries About.
Within less than a month past we have had no less than five fires here in this city, all of them the work of incendiaries. From two to a dozen building were burned each time, and, as you may well suppose, the Fire Department here is getting to be exceedingly well practiced, and ever on the lookout. It is well they are, for just give a fire half a show at the present time, when everything in the shape of lumber and wood is as dry as tinder and equally ready to catch fire on... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD]
VIRGINIA CITY, September 19, 1869
Sutro's Tunnel.
To-morrow evening, Adolph Sutro, the famous projector of the proposed tunnel from near Carson River to the Comstock Ledge, a distance of nearly four miles, and cutting the aforesaid ledge nearly 2,000 feet beneath the croppings thereof, is going to give a free public lecture on the subject at Piper's Opera House in this city. He will do the best he can to convince everybody of the truly vast importance this tunnel is to the mining interests of everybody here, and how impossible... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD]
VIRGINIA (Nev.,) September 26.
Our Base-Ball.
Within the last few weeks or months quite a mania for base-ball has afflicted our young men of Virginia, and the natural consequence was the formation of a base-ball club. They have been assiduously practicing as often as possible and had got so proficient at the game that they fondly imagined themselves as little if any inferior to the famous Red Stockings. They felt a little diffident about going down and beating the California Nine, or even of inviting the Red Stockings over here to... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD]
VIRGINIA CITY, October 8, 1869.
After the Chinese.
Last Wednesday afternoon, a procession of men, numbering 350, composed of members of the Miners' Unions of Virginia and Gold Hill, and outsiders of the working-class marshaled by the respective Presidents of the two Unions and headed by a drum and fife, marched down through Gold Hill and to where the Virginia and Truckee Railroad is being graded, just below Crown Point Ravine, at the lower end of town, with the avowed purpose of driving off the Chinese employed as graders along... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
George Francis Train.
He has been here, and he has gone away again. Like a brilliant comet with a fiery tail he arose on our horizon, culminated in true rocket style, and went down similarly. He came in on the "buckboard" from Reno—23 miles—in an hour and 31 minutes, and retained vitality enough to lecture the same evening. He gave four lectures, commencing with a $217 house, culminating the second night with a $350 house, and ending the fourth night with a $130 house. As he freely stated to his audience, he had half the gross... |
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