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I llg .i 111heralii11 u -anhillt is eti*I • 1 ' *II diith.ICS«*t i iniiv-ei-■ to hidlogerrsue lulu mi own way oi doing imngn.Nkvaoa.- TIiij Wnslioo Tuna is fascinated bylln* name selected 4 especially for this occasion,' ami Hi me k upon the* proposed new State across the mountains. It’s like the case of the boy, vs hohc parents were too poor to give him a name, ho lie had to pick up the first one he found—and it was a horrible name for a Rood name is no^ left around jumpable. The Times says :Nkvada.—Our constitutional convention lias adopted the mime of Nevada for our embryo Stale. We like it for its originality. The conception is mij iiciilly and poetically grand possessing all the majesty of our lofty sage brush—and things. To he nure a Nevada friend of ours from Nevada county, Bays that he was working in a Nevada tunnel, with other Nevadians, in Nevada township, on Nevada creek, near Nevada city, in Nevada county, which lveth in the Nevada mountains, which he crossed on the Nevada road into Nevada Territory, which is soon to he the State of Nevada, where ho found so many hotels, r*s taurants, groceries, saloons, blacksmith shops, tunnels, etc., of the same name, that it produced so ravishing a sensation upon him as caused him to almost learn the name. As sweet and as dear is the name of Nevada—as the new-born babe is to its mammy und daddy. Nevada I Whew !Down on Com*kuiikad*.—John K. Lovejoy hash«*lt;‘n Hui tut n ik tin* i-ilitori.il tor tin* W •
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Weaverville Weekly Trinity Journal

Weaverville, California, US

Sat, Dec 12, 1863

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