Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-26

trouble in finding somebody to answer credi-
tably for our great original fruit-speculator
Adam, and that thousands of people who
could hardly be induced to step inside of a
theater on a week day evening, let alone
breaking the Sabbath by going to see play,
will be ready enough to patronize "sacred
concert" and will be able to look ut the legs
without blushing. Such things must be eX-
hibited or the oratorio would rot be nut on
the stage complete. You know how the
straight-laced old fogies who never would
enter a theater any more than they would
have taken poison, used to come into New
York from the interior and sit all the evening
and laugh until the tears ran down their
faces over the "Serious Family" as played
at Barnum's Museum, never dreaming that
they were witnessing play, and it is posi-
BILE that we may yet see members Of evan
gelical churches enjoying their "sacred con-
certs" at Maguires, as much as our country
cousins did the fun at the Museum. What
next?
GOING HOME.
Mrs. Leighton, the rollicking comediene
who has made so many heart light with her
inimitable acting, when her own was so de-
spondingly heavy, after working for two years
to honorably pay oft the debts contracted
during the life of her late husband, has re-
ceiyed an offer from an Eastern manager,
and leaves on the steamer of the 18th of
January for New York. She will receive
complimentary benefit before she leaves, and
l earnestly hope it may prove a real enc.
She certainly deserves it.
A VAUDEVILLE THEATRE.
Our tastes are becoming cosmopolitan, and
to some extent, may say, democratic; and
there is u constant tendency towards free
and easy style of amusements. The old
fashioned theatre no longer draws paying
houses, and the manager, to win the ORC,
must cater to the new demands of the public
taste. The Opera House gives US as much
of burlesque and minstrelsy as of "the legit-
innate drama" of late, and the manager finds
his profit in so doing. The old American
Theatre, on SAMSON street, after running a
number of companies who tried the "legiti-
mate" is now, believe, for the first time in
years, paying on the vaudeville plan; and a
new establishment of the same character
opened with crowded house in the place
formerly occupied by Gilbert's Melodeon, on
the corner of Kearney and Clay streets. The
proprietor of the new establishment is Mr..
Worrell, father of the "Worrell Sisters"
TRIPLES.
have not much to mention this week in
the startlingly horrible line, everybody, even
thieves and murdererS, being engaged in pre-
pairing for the holidays. A train ran off the
track on the San Jose railroad last Saturday
and killed the Conductor, Mr.. Hudson, in
stantly, and wounded 4 dozen or so more !;
but this at the East would be called "rather
slow for a railroad accident, and l won't
dwell on it. On Monday, one Conrad Beck
err, poor fellow, out of work, out of money,
and, OF course, out of friends, cut his throat
from ear to ear with razor in the presence
Of his little children, who were lying in bed
at the time, and after throwing them out on
the floor, laid down and died. Such is life
and death in San Francisco. The thieves
who;opened Mr.. Truelson's jewelry store in
broad daylight the other morning, and car
ried off his whole stock, have, contrary To all
expectation, been caught, and one Of them,
an old English convict, known as James
Corbett, or "Brumagim jim" will go over
the bay for ten years or so to pay for it, but
poor Truelson has got back but tritiing part
Of his stock after all.
NICE LITTLE TEA PARTY.
The publisher of black mail sheet, in
this city, recently pitched into a well-known
and most exemplary citizen, matchmaker and
ieweler by trade, on the subject Of all init
macy with a lady some ten years at the East,
with view, of course, of making him come
down to hush up the matter, as he has n
family, who, whether the charge was true
or not, would feel annoyed about the no.
toriety occasioned by such an affair. The
next day the publisher received call from
the friend of the matchmaker, who proceed
ed at once to business: "Sir, you have ac-
cused Mr.. - of breaking off an engage
ment of marriage with Mrs. =! Now,
sir, do you wish to know 'chy he did so |?
Well, sir, it was because he found out, to his
entire satisfaction, that she had been the in
mate of house Of ill-fame!" There was n
pause for moment, and lady entered the
door when the publisher, half-choking with
some emotion, which I do not care to inquire
into, rose and said: "Mrs. -, let me
make you acquainted with Mr.. :. Sir,
this is the woman you speak of, and she is
now my ,cJe!" Fancy his feelings, and
MS'n, and her'n. am done. AMIGO.