Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-04
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

Professor Newmager, on 4 three years scientific
visit from Bavaria, tells us that in 1865 comet
SHALL come 80 c.Ose Us ~ endangsr this earth :;
and should it not attach itself las one globue of
quicksilver 10 another) nor anuhate Us, the sight
will be most beautiful 10 behold During three
nights we shall have no darkness. but be ba;hei
III the brilliant lish; Of the blazing train.
The Pacific Railroad has been completed to
point some seven or eight =. les bcy"ri the juno
;ioa with the California CcLtral. ard will reach
Newcastle Gap, three miles from Auburn, about
The .Nth of May, after which time the lines Of
stages for Nevada City are expected 10 connect
with the ROAD at Newcastle.
NJ ZarhMiah c. Pearson, thrice MAJ" r an
once Sheriff OF Hull. who has failed TO the amount
Of G2939O2 chiefly in consequence of blockade
running sprculations, commenced life 4 sailor
boy. An English Errmaker named YeOmans has
been smashed up b. blockade speculaiions il
guns.
THE Boston people nrc grooming over the ad-
vance in the price Of groceries. for the dealers
Swtu''lc n extensively there rs everywhere else.
Teas have advanced fifty cents pound. coffee
which sold las; year for thirty.nine cents. is now
forty seven and flour is twelve dollars n barrel.
y soldier girl named Elizabeth Price was before
The ProvOS; Marshal Of Louisville lately. She is
!wenty-une wears oil, came from Cincinnati has
served two years in the field in MI Ohio regiment,
following her lover, and has now enough Of
wa- and wants TO 20 homo.
PROFESSOR TiGRI. Of Sienna, Italy. has ad-
dressed paper 10 the Academy of Sciences of
Paris wherein he declares that he has again found
on the bodies Ofpcrsons who had died of typhoid
fever infUs0ria OF the genus Bactcrium.
\ splendid ball was given at the legation Of the
United States, in St. Petersburg, by General Clay,
on ;he anniversary of the birthday of Washing
ton. \ crowd Of Princes, Dukes, Counts, dipIo-
matis;S. and other Irandees attended.
Is Scotland there are in the population ls2320
more narriaSeable women than men Even, there
fore, though every man above fifteen years ofage
were TO marry. lI-2 per cent. Of all the marriag.
able women must remain unmarried.
The O'Connell National Monument Committee
have for two years been appealing for subscriP.
tions they now say. up TO the present time the
funds Ut their disposal are miserably insufficient"
The Weekly Bulletin is the name OF 4 new paper
published every Saturday AZ silver Mountain, BY
Daniel 5. Lane. 1t has a sooily amount OF local
intelligence, and is sound on the Union.
At the fair in New York the married ladies will
be distinguished by black aprons, the unmarried
by white. California and other widows BY aprons
hcmmcd with yellow.
Sheep husbandry during the past ten years
mas fallen of about onefi!th in the State of Ohio
and nearly 5OO.0OO in New England AL on &C
count ofdOEs
About 5000 sheep passed through Stockton
two or three days since. their way to Sacra.
mento county. They came from Gilroy. Santa
Clara county
The School Fund OF New Jersey amounts to
s62g. 26J. To this one hundred and hfty-nine
shares Of the Trenton Banking Company con.
tribute 5000.
GOVERNOR EDWARDS, Of the Choctaw Ma.
ton. has issued a proclamation urging the Indians
of that tribe 10 return TO their allegiance 10 the
Government
General Sigel has ordered an enlargement of
the military prison AZ Wheeling, Virginia This
will be suggestive item TO the rebels in that
region.
THE crop Of maple sugar at the North for the
present year will reach $4,000 900 pounds, worth,
q, the low estimate of fifteen cents der pound, 49,,
10000.
General McCallum has made arrangements for
the delivery Government Of 200 frst-class loco
motives from different points within thirty days.
The number of illegitima,e children born in the
English workhouses for three years il as fol.
lows 1850, 7.077 1861, 5000; 1862, eIl5.
THE Prince Of Wales received s46, 900 from the
Duchy Of Cornwall during 1853 and the property
is rapidly improvingin value.
A considerable quantity Of land in Accomac
county, Va. is advertised 20 be sold under the
United States direct tax law.
A CRAZY man has been proposing marriage 10
the English Princess Helena He is gunner in
| the Royal Artillery.
4 mail steamer from the West Indies brought
TO England recently ssO7, 1877 in gold and s229,-
500 in silver.
The late King Of Bavaria was only sick four
days \ scratch on the breast from pin caused
the lockjaw.
Heeuan writes home that he believes he was
dosed before the fight, and That he is now very
unwelL
There has been a decline Of moro than $50, 900,
0CO in four years, in the annual productions of
ireland.
A National Bank, with 100000 capital, is
about TO be started at Wilmington, Del.
Rebel two-cent postage stamps are selling in
London at two shillings each.