Show i A Miners Lot I A miners lot is not a happy one His is I career full of perplexities At least we should judge so from the following letter published in the Pioche Record of last Saturday BRISTOL September 2 188 FRIEND RECORD Have just arrived from the Howell WarreuLyttle Howel YarrelLytte starva tion outfit at Him without a damned lonely quarter of a dollar in my pocket The whole thing was conceived in fraud and carried out in falsehood The last time that I saw Old Dow he had been living l two weeks en bread and coffee the bread being made with clear cofee with out any yeast powder cear yeat no prospect of it being better The only thing that held his anatomy together was the fish bones from the finli he emmht nnJ ntn ml1 sailing on the Chesapeake bay a century 1 UUt I I ago Met Charlie Roe in Bristol He gave me the first square Bristol for two months Down at Hiko the princi lal thing we were fed on at the mines was wind and we had to furnish that ourselves Have not got recruited yet Extreme weakness from long and up I continued starvation prevents writ my ing at langth I have enough material had I the strength to keep me writing I until break of day Anderson ville prison I pen was nowhere in comparison 1 MERE SHADOW I j |