Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-12
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

sword that will cost one thousand dollars. 1t
| has just been finished by the Ames Company,
| OF ChicOpee. Among the ornamental features
| about the handle Is ring of fourteen diamonds,
costing four hundred dollars. On the sword Il
engraved record of twenty seven battles and
sieges in which the modern Ulysses has been
engaged.
drove of mules, numbering about two hun.
dred passed through Sacramento, "Wednesday
| crossing the EOlo and Sacramento bridge. Iney
| came from Santa Barbara and are on the way 10
| Boise river by way Of Red Bluff. They were &C.
companled by q half dozen Spanish vaqueros
The Association for the Benefit of COlored
| Orphans whose property was destroyed by the
| New York mob have been awarded seventy
| three thousand dollars damages. The rayages of
that mob have cost the city and county of New
York enormously.
Natchez that stringent measures are employed 10
control it and prevent its spread. The first regu-
lation of the Medical Director requires every case
TO be reported to him under heavy penalty.
Signorn Angelina Ghioni-PhGbus, what
maine has lately given the San Frnnciscans "a
touch of her quality" in Norma" She is owl
IDENTIFY not Parodi or an Alfoni, Judging from
the newspaper notices of her singing.
A man in Ravenna. Ohio, has caused the tim.
her of II building in Franklin Mills, built by John
Brown, 10 be cut into pieces suitable for canes,
aud deposited them in the Sanitary fair building
Al Cleveland, properly labelled.
TheSt Louis Republican records the discovery
| of amarvcllOus cave on the southeast branch of
the Pacific Railroad. 1t is called Fishers Cave,
and Is said to surpass in beauty the celebrated
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
Eight new boarders arrived at the State Hotel,
San Quentin, on Monday week. We learn from
the Marin journal that, before the first Of July
next, about GU Convicts will have served their
time and be discharged.
The Twentieth Colorcd Volunteers marched
from New York on their way to the war, March
5th. \ stand of colors were presented TO them
on Union Square and there was grand colored
jubilee on the Occasion.
The wine watts and machinery of tho Tazo
vineyard, Santa Barbara county, with 1000 gal.
! Ions Of wine, Were burned recently. The vine
yard was planted over fifty years ago, and IL not
seriously injured.
For the first time in more than forty years five
| meu were simultaneously executed in London on
the sd Of February, all of whom were sentenced
10 death for piracy OH board the British ship
Flowery Land,
Mormons that il was more important TO raise
Saints than TO raise crops No doubt he
thinks it tho moro Agreeable husbandry OF the
two.
There is bill before the United States Senate
! fixing q tine OF $500 upon al persons selling
| liquor to Indians. and contscating their stock.
Indians may he used rs witnesses in the prosecu.
ton.
The remains of eight or ten soldiers, killed by
the Indians on the Overland Mail route, have
| been diSntcrred, and deposited in the Soldiers
| Cemetery al Camp Douglas near Salt Lake City.
| Charles 4. Webb OF Stamford Conn. has pur-
| chased the estate of Secretary JGdah y. Bena.
| min, of the rebel Confederacy OIL the Mississippi
river, near Baton Rouge for Sli0,0O0
The body of Mrs. Fitzgerald, aged thirtySi
| wears who had resided on Telegraph Hill, San
Francisco, was found floating in the bay on Tues
| DAY. Verdict, suicide from drink.
| II is estimated that not less than six thousand
families, thirty thousand persons. from Southern
| and Southwestern States, have taken refuge in
New York city till the war is over.
| Returns have been received from thirty counties
in New York, showing $40 Union Supervisors and
| POI Coppcrheads The returns show gain of
50 towns and loss of six.
In Cincinnati, last week, wealthy Quaker re.
| fused to give any money 10 aid the war, but said
| there was loose 500 note at his Office, which
the comm,te might find.
Gen. Howell Cobb has proposed to sell the rebel
| Government thirty thousand pounds of bacon
| and forty thousand bushels Of corn at any price
it is disposed to pay him.
Ben Butler SAYS that he has found that good
| manr of his chaplainS are less fond Of comforting
his diving officers and soldiers than Of waiting 10
console their widows.
A paper. called the New Regime. has been cs
tGblished at Norfolk, Virginia 1t is uncondit0n.
ally loyal. and will be the official journal Of that
| department.
gentleman hns just arrived in Norwich. Con-
| necticut, from Mobile, by the way Of 4 Mexican
port. Tho trip he says, cost him $4,000 in rebel
| moDey
4 wagon Of 10000 pounds burden has been
| built Mt Carson City. Each tire weighs 275 TBS
| and each axle $50 pounds. Big thing on sage.
| brush.
| In recent burglary in Petersburg, Virginia,
| one Of the articles stolen was a black velvet
cloak "fOr which So 900 were refused the day be.
| fore"
The eldest daughter Of Captain Semmes, CT
| the Alabama was married in Mobile, OH the 18th
ultimo, to Pcndleton Colston, Judge Advocate
C.N.
Miss Anna Dickinson, the Union orator, has
| found u rival in Miss Emma Webb the actress
who talks CoPPerhead.
The Stockton Independent says that copper
ore continues to arrive daily from the mines in
Calaveras county.
The ship Valparaiso, just arrived, brought 5000
kegs of powder.
The wool crop of Tulare county last year was
100000 pounds.