Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-27
THE EVENING NEWS.

old case came off this morning III thu
court. \ portion of the testimony wa
decidedly rich, and to " ears polite" would
hardly do for our columns. TO scar
deaf it is just the thing In the uppe,
end of Gold Hill. there seems TO be kinC
Of "Tppcrary nrighborhood." wher
tongues wag a little more than they
should-and the wagging whereof seems
not to DC altogether considered in the hight
of tcGggiShneSS-but rather tending 10 Sc
rious reflections upon the moral character
Of some folks. In the neighborhood re-
fcred to above. there reside TWO ladies,
evidently Italians, who have recently Spo-
ken diSrespectfuIly of another lady resi-
dent close by them, whose name Is Shee-
han, whose place of nativity IS county
Tippcrary, IN the ancient province OF Ire
land. The ucighbotS Of Mrs. Sheehan,
two ladies who arr respectively named
O'Couneu, on last Saturday. took occasion
to remark TO q gentleman whose ca6esG
had no wool where the wool ought to
crow" that the aforesaid Nl>threSS Shee-
han was not a "b:t bcther nor she ought
10 be. and hadn't been from her infancy
up" This delicate hint WIS interlarded
with sr,ndry was Of the tongue, which
sometimes cause difficult suits for SANDER,
etc. Nisthrcss Shechan, rs any other viz
tuous woman from Tipperary, could not
stand under such >lauderous whispers,
and she accordingly repaired 10 the prem
iscS of the aforesaid O'Connen family to
demand q retractiOn; but the O'ConncllS
would not rctract. On the contrary, they
repeated the language, and added that the
OConncllS never took It back" This
caused Mrs. Sheehan 20 way her tongue
a lirtle-and also to let fly from the
right Il huge boulder, the size of 4 piece
Of chalk. which came mighty near batter
;ns down the door OF The domIcil of the
innocent O'Conuru family. Another
stone was hurled by the Infatuated
MISTRESS Shcehan. which unfortunately
struck the corner Of the do".icil and
bounded back. (Stoncs-tho hat was
the matter.) The O'ConUsi y had
MisthrcsS Sheehan arre,r, this
morning at 10 o'clock, the wI,OiS matter
was tried before Judge Robinson. the
trial being by jury, and III the presence
of 4 large and tun-ScckinS audience.
The evidence in the case was rather yolu-
miuous. quite spirited, and at times al
most required the presence Of an inter-
prefer. rs it certainly did the whole police
force 10 keep order in court The
case was prosecuted BY ). \. Kellogg,
and defended bv W. W. Bishop. The
charge against Mrs. Shcehan was disturb
ing the peace. in throwing stones. etc, :;
and the verdict Of the jury was-that the
prosecuting witnesses were Is guilty as
the defendant, and recommended that
each of them be fined alike by the court.
Sentence viii be passed At 10 o'clock TO-
morrow.
MARY QUEEN OF ScoTS Co. This
company's claim was located in March Of
the present year. and contains l,4oO feet.
lis situated IN Crown Point Ravine, I
short distance above Bowers Mil, and is
worked BY 4 tunnel, which IS run into the
hill on the north side of the Virginia and
American Flat road. This tunnel is now
about seveatv-fvc feet long, It having
been run that distance since the claim was
located last March. II was commenced
about tive OF ten rods up the ravine from
where It is crossed by the road above
mentioned, and runs in northwest direc-
non into the hill. 1; has been run in an
alluvial formation for about sixty feet.
but the remainder Of the way has been in
Z kind of granite which Is broken up, and
has seams through it, 30 that the miners
can work il out very well without blast
ing. The tunnel Is a short one compared
with most of those which have been run
in different claims in our district; but II
has nevertheless struck considerable water
already, and there i now 4 constant
stream running out of the tunnel all the
time. The tunnel Is being run for blind
ledge in the hill which Is supposed from
external evidences to be no great distance
from where the face of the tunnel now Is.
CIVIL WAR.-Last night, at about IL
O'Clock. the yirtuous citizens Of Chinatown
were very much agitated upon the subject
Of secession, by a part Of their population,
who claim confederacy Of their own. The
two different China companies, for some
tine past. have been at war in feelings,
and last night was the approaching climax
of the trouble, and each section got armed
with pistols, knives and shot-guns. bound
10 fight any way; but under the decree OF
their god. their constitutional saint, Dow
new, happened along in the very nick of
time, when both sections were drawn up
in battle array, and impatient for each
Others blood, but by the use Of his supe-
rior powers of persuasion (tor he speaks
the language like narive) he succeeded
in producing q stay of hoStilltles until
another day. Had it not been for Dow
nev, most serious fight would undoubt-
edly have reSultcd.-Piute.
Our OF Place. We noticed a new
moving machine standing in front Of the
American City Store. at American City,
Yesterday. At first we could hardly be-
iieve our eyes. what on earth could be the
use for It here, where there was not an
acre Of grass growing within ten miles.
much more meadow to NOW. We
thought, perhaps, we were mistaken, but
closer examination proved that we were
not. 1t was a veritable moving machine,
such as are used in the East to NOW the
thousands of acres Of meadow land. On
inquiry we found that the man who owns
it is 4 Iancher, and designs to take 1t over
TO Washue Valley to use in having.
RuxAwAY.-Yesterday, about 5 o'clock
I'M, a span of carriage horses, belonging,
we are told. to Mr.. Davis, of the Ophir,
while standing attached to a carriage in
front of the International Hotel, took
fright and dashed down G street among
the heavy teams, demolishing the carriage
and adding to their fright. II re continued
their wild race with the forward
wheels, all that remained @. arriage,
over the Divide and dow. -...Ough this
place, and were finally stopped by Mr..
Jocelyn, at the Union scales, who took
them to his stables, where they were kept
until called for by their owner.
The MARY ANN CoNPASY.-The stock
holders of this company will no doubt be