Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-16

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French brandy out of whisky, and all
sorts of brandies and wires out of in
genious connections of all three. The
whisky-that is to say, the most of it
is now composed of about thirty
per cent. of genuine alcohol, and the
rest is made up with water, vitrol, and
of coloring matter. An old and mel
low taste is secured by adding the
raw flesh of wild game, oryoung veal ;.
or lamb, which, after soaking for
three or four weeks, impartS to the
LIQUOR a rich, soft taste. The other
LIQUORS are done up in similar way.
The stuff. if drank to excess, brings
on erysipelas and other diseases Of
the skin and flesh, and will result in
death. There is comparatively little
good liquor in town. Richmond
Enquirer.
Queer things get into the newspa-
pers. Thus it is related that a diff
dent Hartford bachelor went to the
sea shore 10 August to seek refuge
from the loneliness of his celibacy,
and one dark evening, enjoying the
breeze on the piazza of his hotel, hap
peued to take a seat that had just
been vacated by the husband of
loving wife with whom he had been
chatting. In a few moments the lady
returned, and installing the stranger
for her husband, lovingly eneircled
his neck and gave him an affcctionate
kiss, with the remark, "Come, dar-
ling, is it not about time to retire %
lie did not faint, but the shock was
very severe.
The address of the people of South
Carolina, assembled in convention,
December, 1850, to the people of the
slaveholding States of the United
States, justifying secession, common
ces at is now seventy years since
the Union between the United States
was made by the Constitution of the
United States. During this period,
their advance in wealth, prosperity
and power has been with scarcely
parallel in the history of the world"
Such being the case, what was the
occasion for destroying the Union ?
A few days since secessiouist at
Wilkesbarre, Penn. was rode on rail.
He was then conveyed home, but his
mother refused to receive him, as he
was traitor and not worthy to enter
the house. She told the boys to take
him down South and give him to JEFF.
Davis. She has two sons in the SER
vice of the United States, and regard
ed this fellow as disgrace to the
family.
A certain lawyer had his portrait
taken in his favorite attitude-stand-
ing with his hand in his pocket.
His friends and clients went to see it,
and everybody exclaimed. 80, how
Gke-it's the very picture of him :"
An old farmer, however, dissented-
:. Don't you see," said he, he has
got his hand in his own pocket
'Twould be as like again, if he had it
in somebody else's."
A French Bishop, in sermon, re-
Gently, administered a philippe to
crinoline wearers. "Let women be-
ware" said he, " while putting on
their profuse and expensive attire,
how narrow are the gates of Par
adise."
A college student being examined
in Locke, where he speaks of our re-
lations to the Deity, was asked =
"What relations do we most neglect"
when he answered, with much SIM
plicity, " Poor relations, sir"
Mrs. Partington advises all young
people afflicted with preparation of
the heart, to apply the cataract Of
mustard, to draw out the information,
and she says she has never known a
failure where this device was followed.
Jeremiah says, that a man changes
entirely every seven years and there
fore no one should ask him for debt
contracted in lS40-because he is
not the same individual. You may
pass, Jerry.
Albert Smith once wrote an article
in Blackwood signed GA. So
& Tut" said Jerrold on reading the
initials, what pity Smith will only
tell about two thirds of the truth"
Gen. Joe Johnston appeals to his
dissatisfied soldiers to take a rational
view of things. But how, asks, the
Louisville Journal, can they be ration
al without rations ?
Canadians who have passed them
selves off in Vermont, three different
times as substitutes, are riding about
the streets of Montreal with fast hor.
SEES, and cigars in their mouths.