Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-22
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

one per cent. The slave States increased faster
than New England and making due allowance
for immigration the South gained rs fast rs the
North.
The vestrymrn OF Christ Church. Elizabeth
New jersey, have been engaged in speculation
Finding the cushions stuffed with cotton
they h,d it removed and sold, and the cushions
rrIi.lrd with hair. The proceeds Of the trans
action amounted TO eight hundred and nifty dol
lars
Ii is reported tina, the schooner Potter, dropped
alongside Of schooner lying off Rincon Point,
aud took in 200 kegs OF powder, and put 10 sea
with the intention of landing the powder in North
ern Mexico. Report sayeih more, but as therr is
no certainty that thc report is truh this must do
Since Longstreets retreat from East Tennessee
Uuiun citizens who hal been driven from their
homes are returning by the score Farmers ex.
prct put in their spring crop during the coming
month. The people believe that Longstreet has
given u iiaal farewell 10 East Tennessee.
4 shooting ARRAY occurred at Ycomet, in ANA
dor county. April 9th. in which one r. J. Black
well was killed by Il man named Sturderaut
The difficulty was about u woman. Sturdevant
was arrested. but made his escape. a reward has
been offered for his capture
From y list of ironcads in the British Navy,
inst published. II appears they have ten atoat
three launched and fitting out. six nearly ready
for launching. and five laid down, making in all
~. D. iron navy OF I rance Is made up OF slS
friSatrs atoat and ten building.
James Sl.auk;in, 81 Fl Dorado. appointed Re
c,ivcr OF the Land Office 1t San Francisco vice
Ra!,h = Door, whose term had expired. refuses
to GrAifv because the Office does not yield y suii
cicnt COMPENSATION to induce an honest man to
devote his time 20 it.
The MaAat!an Times is very sanGuinc 10 the
success vf the culture q: cotton in the valley lands
Of the SaIlna. Mexico. II asserts that II" better
soil or cline exists anywhere for the growth of
cotton. and this TACT las at length attracted the
attention Of foreigners.
Joseph Hogan, farmer, living near Live Oaks.
Suffer county. committed suicide April 10th by
cutting his taruRl with 4 razor, lie did 50 from
!ya: ~! receiving bodily INJURY from miner against
whom he had made charge OF murder, He left
vile and child.
Thr Sccord MasSachuse;'s Battery, (SimSJ
has h, en- in action from December 1901 10 !3!h
JIuuNy lS6i, lis times. liz skirlnisheS and .
"S;aul-up fights, with = fetal ut IIU hours mr.
iuE Not q :uiIn of the battery has been killed or
waurdri. hut - horses have been lost by the
rurMy'S FIRE
General Elisha Harmon. Of Wheatlaud Monroe
rcuafv. y Y. who was killed u few months ago
by 4 collision on the Cleveland aud Erie Railroad,
was known as one Of the first farmers in the
country He took the first prize as al agricutu.
ris, ut the Worlds Fair in iS1i
y Young plEI III NtHOe'
ratrly cut several pieces OF flesh out OF her throat,
am. then threw them on the floor. The incision
made was large enough for the hand to enter
She died IN half an hour after the rash act.
Horace Caldwell. 4 returned rebel. was killed
recently in Lagrange (Il! by some Cnion men
WHOM hr had prosecuted. Thinking tha; the
storm had blown over, he went home 10 settle up
his affairs, but got settled himself.
Slaves are cheap in Maryland There were
1. IL
girl eight wears old. for i've dollars: one woman
t,.r fifteen dollars. aud 4 woman and child FIVE
years Old tor twenty-five dollars
AbLal Aziz the present Sultan Of Turkey has
brt;o que wife. whom he loves and he has dispersed
his haTrm and the common people Of CONSTANT
napc believe that lie set h-e TO the palace in or
der 10 get rid of the women.
Nova Scotia grindS;ones are now largely super
cclrI hv those in Ohio. which for ail the different
varieties vi grit either for wet or dry grinding.
are pronounced equal, if not superior, 10 the hes:
English stone
The RED BIuiF I7isP,Rieut says thar persons
inclined 10 work eau ind plenty of il NJ Copper
City. IL addition 70 the labor carried on in the
mines Il number of roads are i'll the course OF con.
stTUc.Iuc
One Of ,h- agents OF 4 Hartford Fire Insurance
Company sending Il small remittance OF twelve
thousand dollars from the West, the other day,
Barns.
The Richmond papers say those who have
heretofore been beautifully supplied with the
n-crsSaries OF life now from sheer necessity,
forced 10 content themselves with bare Sufici-
ency."
Sav.s.tv- cah,coIn-e sish kiak and several Of bis
companions. with equally cheerful names, all be
longing 20 the Chippewa tribe OF Indians. passed
through Chicago. March 18th, bound TO Washing.
tOG.
The late 10: weather has been severe on the
crops, pirchinE up the ground very tight. In
many places the grain is heading out five or sin
inches from the ground So say the valley pa
prTs.
The Raleigh q. c. Progress of February 25th,
advcr,i>es reward OF twenty-five dollars for the
recovery Of IruGtto negro woman, Tiney.
thirty years OF ase, with her right breast cut
OF
The rich, liberal, anu eccentric Zadock Pratt. Of
PrartSviiie, y, Y. pcrpctuated the memory Of his
brave sOa. Col George Pratt, by having his bust
carved ont OF huge rock near the public highway.
As the Rev Nj McKrlvcy and family were IN
route from NsHlia 10 Inns Valley. ON the eth Of
April, u child Eel! from the wagon and the wheel
passed over its head causing instant death
The Paris Presss computes the population OF the
world nj QUE thousand millions speaking three
thousand and S!Xty-four languages and having
eleven hundred different forms of religion.
The wind has beca taken ont Of Miss Emma
wehb's sails. She Can longer claim TO be an
antagonist Of Miss Dickinson when Copperheads
write her pieces and She only speaks them.
Reports from the Persian Gulf state that $50
mites Of new cable 10 India. have been success
fully laid. and thar the paying ou OF the line. to-
ward Europe WAS about To commence.
4 lot Of big guns, now lyinG on Front street,
near Broadway, are 10 be taken in q few days 10
Black Point. and there mounted in the earth
WORKS II that plu"e for its tnrtfca,ion.
Tweniy-ciCht thousand men, i; is now stated.
are needed in New York TO make up the deticen'
cie5 under the $4,000 call aud TO provide for the
proportion Of the $4,000 just demanded
4 company has stored in Lake valley about
two Thousand tons Of ice which was obtained
from Lake Tahoe The price for it ranges from
halfa cent per pound up 10 eight cents.
The Hamburg Freishu,z says that during las,
year % i75 emErants left that part for England
and the United States, au increase Of 4,595 over
the emigration Of the previous year.
Samue! W. Robertson is under arrest in Chat.
tauooga for giving information of military move
mems 70 the rebels. lie is wealthy, and dis.
tiuguiShed man among the rebels.
The amount expended in England on railways.
10 the present time, mas been upwards Of three
hundred and eighty five millions sterling near
ly half the.T national debt
A party OF Canadian roughs latciy crossed from
Toronto to Rochester. EN- ,Ird, 60; the bounty
and lrS+rrsl and all but one got safely back TO
Canada with his booty.
The Young Frenci. Imperial Prince has been
promoted to the Quar'ermastership Of Spahis and
at the same time received three suits Of uniform
made az Corstantinope.
General Scott has nearly completed his auto.
biography, tracing his personal history downward
from the earliest period TO the latest public acts Of
his em;ncntly useful life.
The widow OF ex President Polk asserts posi-
lively that despite what has been said as 10 her
being secessionist, she is heartily ald thorough
~ loyal 20 the Union.
The Newburyport Herald wishes unspeakable
bliss 10 the deaf and dumb couple married there
the other day. They viii undoubtedly be glad
when they hear it.
We are informed that the Bulletin. to be pub
lished at Silver Mountain, Alpine county, will be
a Union paper, and not Comprehend concern al
reported
A soldier named Mansfield, Company g. Orc.
gon cavalry, fell overheard from steamer on
the 5th inst. near the Cascades, Oregon, and was
drowned
On Friday. on the deep cut of the Pacific Rail-
road near Auburn, two men were very severely
Al.