Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-23
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

y aurSc costs two thousand dollars in Rich.
moui. \ Confederate soldiers pay is, we believe.
fifteen dollars per month. Confederate money
- u soldier would have 10 serve only between
eleven and twelve years 10 get money enough
20 bug horse
A child abou, eleven months old WAS recently
taken b. relative from 4 c"lorcd woman, Mrs
Howard; ~ Grass Valley, to whom it had been
sold by another colorcd woman, Mrs. Hamilton
who bought it from third party, also a woman
Eli Thayer. the emigr.mt aid man, has opened
an Office in New York to promote organized immi.
grafton from Europe. The special object is TO
populate the recovered States OF the South
Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas.
The Bishop OF AlsirrS has published a pastoral
letter against spirtuulism, which, that prclate
saws finds more believers in it, doctrines and pTac
tees among ultra Catholics than among those Of
liberal opinions in religious matters.
4 carefully prepared return. published in tho
Melbourne Age, gives the total yield of gold for
the year 1868 at l.57S.u7g ouncr<--L decrease OF
l9i}5l oounccs rs compared with the yield of
ls62
The sum of Ss;'. 80 in prize money WAS awarded
in New York TO the officers and crew of the United
States eupboat Santiago tie Cuba the proceeds
OF the prize steamer Ella Marley ard cargo.
Tie OnondaGa Salt Springs produced last year
q total OF 7gi2.3S3 bushels Of salt The salt du.
ties amounted 10 SG9i2J 90 The total product
since 1896 has been I5i.g33. sOT bushels.
The number OF horsrraccs in Great Britain last
year was one thousand ,,N hundred and s&ty-"ght
and the number Of hcrscs entered one thousand
eight hundred and shirIy seyca.
The census of Upper aud Lower Canada, which
has inst been taken. gives the following result
Upper Canada, l.396, I69; Lower Canada, l,ll0.-
566. Total, 2.506,735.
In New York the piasterers have struck for
So % and the blue stonecu:ters and taggers for
s. 20 per day. and the plumbers for an increase
of 50 cents day.
General Grant has given notice that no woman
shall hereafter come within his lines. Perhaps
his military secrets will be better kept than they
have been.
Colonel ~ :. Johnston, Il cousin of the rebel
Joe Johnston is now in command at Natchez.
He s one Of the best soldiers Illinois has sent into
the field.
The Portuguese residing in New York have
held meeting 10 aid the people Of the Cape lie
Verde Islands, who are said to be differing from
famine
Collaborating ores, yielding from 500 to Sll2
per ton, have been discovered in Madison county,
NO. and company Is 10 be formed 10 work
them.
At recent scientific lecture. the experiment Of
extinguishing petroleum lamps b" single note
sounded on brass trumpet, was tried success.
fully.
Inc HuWbDldt HcgtSter says tlhL people VINO
have the Boise fever will lind when they get up
there that the diggngs have ;hc spotted fever"
The total vote cast At the primaries a: Austin
at the election for delegates TO the City Conven-
ton was 1857 Pretty good for new town.
The Wisconsin Legislature is seeking some con-
stitutional mode Of Furnishing those who have
skedaddled to Canada 10 escape the draft.
A sea otter was recently killed near Humboldt;
Bay This animal is highly valued for his skin,
which is covered with fine clogs fur.
The Grand Lodge Of Odd. Fellows meet in Sacra,
mento on the first Monday in May. The sub.
ordinate lodges are clecting delegates.
The New York papers report the son Of Score.
tary Wellas on lark in that city and in the sta.
tion-house over night in consequence.
Forests OF standug trees have been discovered
in England, many feet below the surface of the
earth, completely embedded i'll stone.
Quite number Of the old residents Of Los An.
gees and San Bernardino have lately crossed the
Mexican lines, bound 10 DiXies land
There running at large at least 10000 desert
ers. The whole number who have deserted since
the war began is stated to be l2T,l57.
The Stradivarus VIOLIN which once belonged to
q member OF the Mc,iic family, has been sold by
auction at Paris for about Sll50.
An American named Slater has taken contract
to demolish the walls of the burned church in
Santiago, for the sum Of $500.
Nova Scotia is going wild over the discovery Of
gold within her borders, and thinks she will rival
California and Australia
VIM. Coppinger, of Philadelphia has been ap.
pointed Secretary of the American Colonization
Society at Washington.
The census records. among other trades etc,
one hundred and ten thousand four hundred and
siXty-ninc spectators.
John Graham, aged fifteen years was accident
allv killed By the discharge Of shot gun at Column
bia on Tuesday last.
There are eighteen persons confined in Castle
Thunder, charged with attempting to assassnate
JEFF. Davis.
Hartford will give piano forte, made from
pieces of the Charter Oak, for the New York SAM
| tary Fair.
The Sacramento Bee learns that there has been
two or three cases OF spotted fever in that city.
The tons of sugar pluns thrown about Naples
during the carnival cost ten thousand dollars.
Spurgeon, the sensation preacher at London, is
coming to this country in May.
There are thirty thousand troops stationed in
| various parts of Indiana
The colored population of Kansas numbers
| over seven thousand.
Mrs. President Lincoln. It Is stated, has aban.
dOned crinohne.