Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-21

their deafening revolvers over the backs OF
their toilirg mules up the steep streets OF
Gold Hill. 1t was of this region the poet
sung:
The mule-driver'S blaSphemous yell
These valleys and rocks never heara,
Never sighed at the mention OF Hell;
Nor groaned at an immoral word.
Alas that moral spell has been rudely
broken. About noon to-day, the sober dwell
ers nnon Main street, as well as two stage
loads of passengers from California, were
shocked bv an uproar of eXpletiveS-profane,
obsceneand miscellaneous, hurled by an mate
teamster at the lead, and down the throat of
another member of that profession, who had
either Intentionally or otherwise run into him
of the first part. The SmaSher of Spokes was
A non-combatant, and declined all invitations
to fight with either fists or whip-Stoc&S. He,
however declared himself jeff Davis
man." and aEnrunced his readiness to set
tie according to the code. He preferred game
leg like Tom Fitch to smashed mug. Out
siders interfered and stopped the muSs, the
chivalrous NJ. d. rode of in triumph, shout
ing for jeff Davis. We prophesy a spoiled
potato-trap for that youth before he is many
hours older. He deserves 1t.
WATER Notwithstanding to the Their
mometer water freezes at32 deg. According
to actual experience in Virginia, water
freezes at - deg. Will any one explain this
slight inconsistency: Yesterday morning
we rushed furiouSly into drug store on c
street expecting from our chilled condition
to find the thermometer down to 20 degrees.
Judge our surprise at finding it at Fl degrees.
Idea struck us; took it outside; but 1t per-
SiStently refused to 60 below II degrees. This
morning at 6 o'clock, 1t stood 1T IS degrees.
lit cost IT'S a very severe trial to get that last
point,) and we could not persuade it to 60
any lower. Everybody knows that water
bOilS at much lower temperature at the
summit of high mountains than at the level
of the sea-cauSed by the diminished pres
sure of the atmoSphere-and that this fact
has often been taken advantage of to obtain
the approximate altitude of various places;
but whether the same law, or another, gov
ems in the matter of water freezing is a
point we leave TO some one else to explain.
HORSES CON THE SMoXE."-Yesterday
afternoon pair of mustangs got the better of
their driver on C street, Virginia, and start
ed towards Gold Hill, at furious pace-but
when they arrived opposite Bloomfield 4
Cos. cigar store, they wheeled square Oft the
right and went into the front of that inSti-
tuition, promi$cuouSly-probably with the in
tent dire OF obtaining Transfers regalia be-
fore proceeding further. Now, Jack Perry
always SpoilS our itemS-he spoiled this one
BY backing said team back into the street
where they belonged, and not allowing it to
smash anything. In fact there was not one
particle of damage done, neither to the show
cases, between which the team was brought
up-to the horses at the wagon. Much to
our chagrin and the disappointment of our
readers. We shall be around this afternoon
with petition to the Common Council pray
ing that Jack Perry be abolished. We can't
endure him any longer.
\ MUpDLE.-While we were endeavoring
this morning to wade through, comprehend
and compile the late war news from the East,
an angry discussion arose in the composing
room as to the relative merits of the several
STYLES of printing. In vain we yelled dry
up" They wouldn't dry. Armies, flank
movements, platens, rebels, friSketS, artil-
lcry, posters, and things got mixed up in hor-
rible confusion. We gradually became in
sane, and arrived at the conclusion that Hoe
X Go. had attacked one of General Lees
cylinder presses, and turned TAYLOR & Co.'S
left flank and took 1000 impressions per hour,
or something or other Of that nature. People
have got to quit getting married and bring
ing Champagne to this Office, or there will be
blood. blood! blood!
DIRTY DELUGE.-ThiS morning, the sewer
which runs along the east side of Main street,
became clogyed and burst, discharging its
odoriferous contents into the street. The
horrible torrent rolled luggiShly, but irresti-
bly, downward until it reached the front door
of orr moon-eyed friend and fellow-citizen,
Ak-kee, directly opposite this office. This
door it burst in, and in an instant that de-
pot OF soiled and regenerated under-garments
was Il hideoUS slough Of ASiatic despond.
We made a brief visit of condolence, but our
outraged olfactories forced us speedily from
the scene of horror and desolation.
JUDGE LEcoNEY'S COURT THIS MORNING.
Peter Simpson, drunk and disorderly: fined
$50 and costs. Callahan, drunk: fined $40
and costs committed. Henry Kahoe,
drunk: fined $40 and costs; committed. Gar
rihilla, Mexican, malicious mischief: fined
$50 and costs; committed. Henry Jones,
:" uiA' AilSU Civ anu COStS COHlLlIlteu.
BorGHr OUr-Messers. Crandall & Co..
OF the Pionner line of Omnibuses have
bought out the Peoples line, and are now
the sole proprietors of the line from Silver
CITY to Virginia. We are under many obi
cations to their gentlemanly drivers for daily
faTors to our Virginia reporter.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Mrs. A. Wagner,
who resides in North c street, Virginia, at
tempted to commit suicide on Saturday night
last by taking morphine. DIR. Sharkey was
called in, who gave her an emetic which
caused her to throw up the poison. She
said she was tired of life and of her husband,
and wished to rid herself of both at once. She
is all right again.
l. n. HoAG, Esq, Secretary of the Cali
fornia Agricultural Society, is now on visit
to the various mines of the Territory for the
purpose of collecting specimens of ores for
the Society's Cabinet. We commend him to
the courtesy of our mining companies, and
trust that he will be furnished with collec-
ton that shall be ereditable to this district.
The HURDIEs.-The Virginia hurdy -gurdy
case will go to the Supreme Court, where the
legality of the ordinance compelling this
kind of nuisance to take out a license and
pay handsomely for it will be tested.
BEEF AND MUTToN.-After a residence of
thirteen years in Californi, We do n OF recol-
lect of ever seeing, at this season of the year,
fatter and more delicious looking beef and
mutton, than can now be bought in the mar
kets of Gold Hill.