Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-15
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We clip the following pleasant item from
rho 4bn oflast Saturday.

We clip the following pleasant item from
the Alta of last Saturday:
FAME, My Boy -Byron's definition Of
fame will apply with full force in the case OF
the celebrated Sanitary Flour Sack, which is
alluded to in the New York Tribune Of Feb
ruary llth as "the famous Sanitary sack
Of -four, belonging to Mr.. Gridley, which was
sold and re-sold at Nevada, Cal, till IT real
lied Sl65, 900 for the benefit of the Sanitary
Commission" Nevada California, Ell!
Wonder how the citizens of the new State
of Nevada "a State Of the very existence
of which the editors OF our most pretentious
Eastern dailies seem TO be as yet in utter -
norance-will relish the idea of seeing their
noble charities credited in lump to single
thriving mining town in the interior 0i
sister State:
Fame" quoth he. It's glorious
It's bully, At the time the naming Of
the new State was under discussion in
the first Constitutional Convention. there
were a few members who had common
sense enough to contend for Washoe,
as being the name by which the country
was known throughout the civilized
world, and which was, at least, distinc-
tive. There were few senseless blather-
sixties, however, who got the big-head on
the subject of /" euphony ;" and the harsh
name Of "Washoe" grated on their deli
cate ears like the helliSh screech of the
"canary" Of that ill. Soft, sweet, dull
Get sounds alone were suited to the deli
cate tympani of these delegates, rendered
sensitive by the soft pattering of quartz
mills, and the rough word Washoe" was
torture TO. their velvet tongues, toned
down to "euphony" by long maceratIon
in humanizing rot-gut "Euphony was
q big thing in the estimation CT the half
dozen who knew what it meant. The
majority never heard of the word before
in their lives. They thought " euphony Z"
meant franchise, or something TO drink,
and they went in for it strong. Seva-
da' was euphonious," and they went
in for Nevada for the name of the State.
Nevada it was, Nevada it is now, and ever
shall be, world without end. The Presi-
dent, proceeding upon the absurd hypoth-
esis that the Convention had some sense,
put the name in his proclamation. and.
like boy christened "Peleg," We had to
take that name or go without any.
At the time this euphonious John Doe"
was saddled on us. the name Of Nevada
was familiar TO every man, woman and
child in Europe and America who had 4
relative west of the Rocky Mountains, or
had read a California newspaper. The
name was thoroughly identified with a
county and town in California, a dozen
years old; and it will take n half-a-cen-
fury TO disconnect the State from the
mining town. We should be sorry to be-
lieve that any of the contributors to the
Sanitary Fund were actuated by desire
for notoriety: but that the citizens of this
State should receive due credit for their
noble generosity in that behalf is but JUS
tice. If our brave veterans receive the
benefit of our silver bars, it matters little
to them or to US who paid for them.
Fame is fame. however, and the same kind
If fame which the euphonious pudding
heads Of the first Constitutional Conven-
ion conferred upon this State. should
their memory. When they, IN
he providence of God, shall be removed
rom this, the scene of their earthly use
eSsness, their odoriferous remains should
be sent by slow freight to Nevada City,
Nevada county, for burial; and on each
of the head-stones of their several graves
should be inscribed the. by no means dis
tinctive, but highly euphonious name of
e." JOHN SMITH"