Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-14
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

ing United States lines with those to be extended
from Russia across Behring's Straits, concession
for the latter portion of this world -girdle tele
graph having previously been given by the Rus
sian Government to Mr.. Collins an American citi
zen. By the completion of these lines, communi
cation between Europe and America will be es
iablished without encountering the risks of q sub
marine cable across the Atlantic.
Chy Lung Sing, Chinese political refugee o.
rank, who has been living in San Francisco fol
two years past, Committed suicide a few days
since. The frequent humiliations to which his
poverty subjected him, had become intolerable
and calling together his creditors, he upbraideC
them for ther Insults. and challenging them &c
himself til two ,ae en- AMI sbsTp knife His funS
raj ceremonies We're performed in a style Of un
usual msgniacence.
We have now entered upon the fourth year o.
the Secession war. According to the common
reckoning the rebellion began with the firing O.
the first gun on Fort Sumter, ut O'Clock, AN.
on Friday, April l2, 1861. But the firing upor
the Star Of the West, sent with supplies to For
Sumter was as much an act Of war as the fring
on the fort itself Yet the country regarded the
one act with sublime indifference, while 1t wen'
into a genuine burst Of indignation over the other
Eastern papers say that, If there was as much
struggling to get into the army as there TO gel
offices under the recent orders for CONSUMPTION
there would be no occasion for a draft Govern
ment is embarrassed by the urgency with whlen
members of Congress demand positions Tor family
connexions and partisan friends. Paymasterships
Provost. Marshalshps, and every grade of clerk
ships are in great request.
Live toads form regular article Of commerce
in the London market. They are generally i'm
ported from France, and sell for from 81 cents to
81 80 per dozen, according to size and activity
They are purchased by market gardeners in the
vicinity of the city. to protect their choice veGeta
bles from slugs and insects, which they do very
effectually.
An Esmerslda foundryman says that he car
melt iron in Aurora in less time and with ten pei
cent less coal than in any other place he even
worked This is probably owing to the rareness
of the atmosphere, as for the same reason, watei
can be boiled at that altitude with several degree.
less heat than is necessary at ocean level
The first bell in Haverhill (Nlass) was purchased
in 1871; before that time there was a singular sub
stitute, rs appear by n vote passed In l7SO Fnat
Abraham Tyler blow his horn an hour before
meeting time on Lords day and on lecture days
and receive one pound of pork annually for MS
services, from each family"
A development was made in Cincinnati lately
concerning Catawba brandy. Responsible vint
ners declared that the pure article would cost
from IS TO So gallon, adding that there was nc
genuine article of the kind in the market; the
quality generally sold consisted Of pomace, whis
ky and fusal oil.
Gold. solid and worthy as ii IL, fluctuates like
the tlimsiest and most worthless OF fancy stocks
yet its value is unchanged Like the sun, Of
whose RAYS the old alchemsts believed il to have
been made its position is the same. and it i:
only because all other things move that Is ever
said to move.
A. d. Mayo, Il Copperhead member of the Ohio
Legislature, in q recent speech Claimed that " all
persons and papers had right to speak treason
write treason and act treason" This fellow,
morals would be improved by stretching hi.
neck, say an inch and half; or two inches, per
hapS
Tom Thumb retires on a quarter Of million
says the London Court Journal, and adds: "Thi:
is but fair illustration of the strange freaks o.
fortune of those topsy-turyy times 1t scent
much easier TO make a fortune by ittleness thar
by greatness
4 writer in that Constitutional paper, the So
mona county Democrat. endeavors to convince hi
readers that II is not only legal but proper fol
rebels TO Slay all negro soldiers they may cap
ture. Why don't he take the stump in favor o.
his proposition?
The report of the rebel Director of Hospitals
in the department OF Virginia, states that 293, l6i
rebel sick aadwounded soldiers were received into
the rebel hospital in that department during the
fifteen months between September, 1862 and De
cember, 1868.
The bookmakers. who have been rather in the
background for a couple of years have come out
in force The New York publishers have al
their presses at work. and u great variety o.
literature good, bad and Indifferent, will be tn,
product
In San Francisco, some time since, a telegraph
operator was dismissed from his situation because
he speculated and successfully operated upon in
70 rmaton contained in private dispatch that
passed through his hands
The wheat crop of Georgia promises to be 4 fine
one which is an additional reason for pressing thu
enemy 80 that they shall not be able to gather i
now that il is grown. They have had seed time
let ours be the harvest.
The English Government recently stopped" q
shp-of1var that was building In the tight little
island" for Denmark. This rather quicker
work than they made in the matter Of the Alaba
ma and the rams
PLAYING OTHELLo.-Gerrit Smith, the veneer
able philanthropist, played Othello at an amateur
theatrical performance in Peterboro, recently. fol
the benefit of the Sanitary Fair. He brought
down the house.
The story is told of the soldiers of the army o.
the Gulf that after using their coffee they spread
the grounds on rubber blankets to dry, and then
sell It to Secesh citizens at one dollar per pound
The Girard estate gave an income in 1863 o.
eli, $50 of which sa3, $50 was spent for the main
tenance of the College for Orphans, and all but
Sc of the balance for "unspeci6ed Sundres"
There are counties in Arkansas, says the Little
Rock Democrat, where jeff Davis could not FIND
a single conscript; they have furnished whole
companies of volunteers for the Federal army.
The Government of Nicaragua has concludcdyf
contract with Capt Bedford C. r. PIN, r n. on
behalf of u company TO be formed, to build an in
teroceanic railroad across that isthmua
Gov Yates, of Illinois, lately telegraphed tc
Washington calling for 10000 stands of arms, a.
he had secret intelligence that a rebel raid was il
preparation in Kentucky for Illinois.
Forty-eight thousand Copperhcads, in New
York, voted against allowing soldiers the privilege
of voting The CopperheadS think it is honol
enough for them to do the fighting.
A correspondent of the 0regonian, writing from
Canyon City, says that the Indians are still com
hitting murders and thefts on the road to thai
mining district from the Dalles.
A cOtemporary may be patriotic, but he is un
gallant when he says Gen. Meade had better send
the women North, if be means 10 do anything
within the next three months
Cincinnati has gone for the Union at her mu
nicipal election this year, by 400 majority
They have stopped killing hogs there, and takeI
TO the slaughter of CopperheadS.
me Unlteu StateB steamer NaIraRanHett nav lnt
been thoroughly overhauled and repaired at tn,
Navy Yard, Mare Island, dropped down to tn,
bay last Saturday afternoon.
Cornelius Vanderbilt began life by transport
ing garden sauce from Staten Island to New Yorh
City in q small sail-boat. Now he is reputed tc
be worth about $50 900.
Paper is now made in New Zealand from in
digenous hax-the phormium tenax. 1t is pre-
dcted that paper making will be the staple manu-
facture of those islands.
The Gold Run Company has struck gold quartz
in the ravine near the Nevada Touring mills
which yields Sc 10 the pan. They. are about put
ing up machinery on the spot. .. r
The Legislature of New York appropriated
$4,000 to carry into effect the soldier voting act
How extravagant the people are getting, say th'
Copperheads.
In Philadelphia, the length of the pipes which
supply the 76,549 water tenants with water, i
357 miles, and the net income of the water work
1856, 479. .....
The salary of Henry Ward Beecher is sl2,5O
per annum This is paid by his church. How
much he receives for editing and lecturing Is no
stated. nd. ....
The municipal election passed off at Oregon
City on Monday, the cd inst, very quietly. TIT
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