Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-02
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

The marble and stone cutters of Pittsburg pro-
pose to offer handsome monument, which will
cost several thousand dollars, as premium to the
county in Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
or Ohio, which shall make the largest gift in
money or farm produce to the Philadelphia SAM.
tary Fair. The monument il to be erected within
the limits of the successful county, and to be in
scribed with the names of the soldiers from that
region who have been killed in the war.
A new romance by the late G. p r James is
about TO appear under the title of " Bernard
Marsh" The story contains proofs that this
eminent writer possessed unimPaired his wonder.
full fertility Of imagination to the last. Bernard
Marsh" will be regarded with additional interest
as the last production Of this fascinating writer.
Mr. JOHN Y. FOSTER, late of the New York
Erenin1 Post, has accepted the editorial chair of
Harper's Weekly. George W. Curtis. who has
been temporarily in charge ofthe paper, will con-
tinue to conduct his special department of HGr-
per's Monthly Magazine, and will also continue
TO contribate to the pages of the Weekly.
A little drummer. boy. named Orion p Howe.
of the Fifty fifth Illinois Regiment, who was
wounded at Vicksburg while carrying ammuni-
ton, has been adopted by the Board of Trade
of Chicago, and Mr.. Lincoln, recognizing his me.
rits and his bravery, has given him q vacancy at
the Naval School at Newport.
A man named Aaron Bedbug, of Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania, lnrends petitiOnng the
Legislature to change his name. He says that his
sweetheart, whose name is Olivia, is unwilling
that he should be called A. Bedbug, herself o.
Bedbug, and the little ones Little Bedbugs.
1t was thought in London that If the Germans
push matters TO an extremity ag ainst Denmark,
England, France, Young Italy, Garabaldi and the
peoples" will rally around Denmark, England
acting in opposition to the German proclyties"
of Queen Victoria
THE Montreal Witness asks for scientific ex.
PLANTATION Of the fact that this has been the mild.
est winter ever known in Lower Canada, and
the severest, perhaps, ever known in the Western
States, and even as far South as st. Louis and
Washington.
on Saturday night last, in Plumas county,
stage upset by falling off the grade, some three
hundred feet down precipiee killing the four
horses, breaking both legs Of Samuel johnson,
the driver and bruiSng his head in terrible man
ner.
JUDGE GORDON, of Amador, has discovered
that a man cannot be Copperhead and friend
of the Union at the same time; so he has renoun-
ced Copperheadism The Judge is sincere man
but it took him long time to get his eyes open.
At the April term of tine Supreme Court Of
Massachusetts, at Salem, eighteen petitions for
divorce were granted. This il q thermometer
showing the state of domestic felicity" in Eessex
county.
The Paris police reports say that during the
past year over 10000 dead newly-born infants
have been detected at the gratings OF the immense
reservoir into which the sewers empty their con-
tents
A man in Lockport, New York, disgorged
lizard, which had grown TO a large size and then
decayed in his stomach. The man died soon after
the remains of the animal had been expelled from
him.
The King ofDahOmey reads the London Times,
and ordered Gerard, the great lion hunter, out Of
his palace for having written letter to the Times
describing atrocities perpetrated III Dahomey.
OF the Soyereigns of Europe, out of the 43 now
reigning, II belong TO the Lutheran creed, Evan
gelical, Calvinst, Greek rite, Mussulman, l
Episcopal, and IL Catholic.
A stranger from the interior named Williams,
aged about forty years, died suddenly on Satur-
day of disease of the heart, at public house In
San Francisco.
The rebels don't bury their own dead half the
time. If their fellows don't assume the offensive
before death, they certainly do after ii.
James Cusick, of San Francisco Vigilance Com
mttee notoriety, has been shot for desertion from
the Fifteenth New York Volunteers.
Auriferous quartz, said to be worth $1,000 to
the ton, has been found in the Rsttlesnake Lode
near Honcut, in Butte county.
The bow string has been a favorite instrument
ior putting people to death in Turkey. Red tape
Is the American bow-string
hydrostatic engine has been invented by T.
Hansbrow. of Sacramento, and he expects it to
supersede the steam engine
AIteamboat has been sent from Troy to Auburn
by railroad. and is now being got in readiness to
run on the Owasco Lake.
In recent divorce suit in ST. Louis $4,000
alimony was awarded Unfortunate place for
husbands.
Two boulders recently taken from the claim
Of Aurtry & Co., near Grass Valley, CAL, yielded
81 ,93I g.
A man was executed in Memhhis on the 2lst
ult., for attempting to furnish material Of war to
the rebels.
Fme.eut chewing tobacco in tintoil, sold at
auction for % per gross, in San Francisco, on
Friday.
The comet that is expected to annihilate this
sad and wicked world, will come along in 1868
Minnesota took up $500 acres of land under
the Homestead Law, last March.
The English are driving thriving slave trade
on the White Nile.