Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1889-02-08
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

Ministerial Correspondence In company with A. H. Morehead and Colonel Twomey, we went to Kingston recently to install the officers of a new lodge of Masons, and also dedicate their new hall. We all took tea with Judge Holt, and like a great many in this country he did not think proper to have bread on the table, but there was plenty of pie and cake and (?).

ingston recently to install the officers of a new lodge of Masons, and also dedicate their new hall. We all took tea with Judge Holt, and like a great many in this country he did not think proper to have bread on the table, but there was plenty of pie and cake and (?). After the services at the hall, we all re- paired to the Mountain Pride hotel, where the table was groaning under the weight of good things that would have been good enough to set before a king, let alone three of a kind from Silver City. The affair was replete with lots of merry-making and I trust was the means of knitting our hearts together for all time. The lodge was good, the supper was good, the hall was good, and the waiters good. But to cap it all, as we were waiting for the train at Lake Valley a number of showmen got aboard, and a young man stepped up to me and asked me where I was going to show and I told him I desired to show up at home. He says: “Don’t you belong to this troupe?” I said no. He then asked me when I quit, and when I met the lady star of the profession she said I was the dandiest looking preacher she ever saw ; and I have come to the conclusion that if I get out of this country with any character at all, I must quit preaching with Morehead and traveling with his troup. In all we will always have pleasant recollections of our first visit to Kingston, and will hail with delight when we are privileged to go again. W. H. Williams.

out of this country with any character at all, I must quit preaching with Morehead and traveling with his troup. In all we will always have pleasant recollections of our first visit to Kingston, and will hail with delight when we are privileged to go again. W. H. Williams. The upper crust of the demi-mondaines entertained their gentlemen friends at a masked ball on Saturday evening last. It was a recherche affair, and according to all accounts they must have had a cat and monkey time of it. Last Monday night the Mongolian portion of our population, forgetting the cares of the restaurant, laundry, junk shop, and fan tan, de- voted their time and energies, in the attempt to solve the problem whether the next deal at faro would be single or, double out, or three one. The game ran smoothly for a time and each of the pig tails was betting his favorite system, until one who had no fear of a hereafter, pur- loined a bet belonging to another. A dispute arose and it was finally decided by arbitration. The would be thief objected and indulged in an opprobious epithet, and for his temerity receiv- ed a sever thwack on the eye by a Chinaman be- longing to one of the six companies and the only representative of his company in town. Then the row began in earnest, and twenty or thirty Chinamen of other companies endeavored to ( 4 )

s epithet, and for his temerity receiv- ed a sever thwack on the eye by a Chinaman be- longing to one of the six companies and the only representative of his company in town. Then the row began in earnest, and twenty or thirty Chinamen of other companies endeavored to ( 4 ) make a foot ball of Hop Sing Lee, who gallant- ly beat them back with an iron toothed garden rake, who but for the timely interference of several bystanders would have overpowered and have killed him. At the police court, the innocent was permitted to go free and the guilty assessed a fine of $50 and costs. Burros should not be allowed to run at large.