Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-04-08
TRE-puBIIsHED BY SPECIAL RSauSsr.l
MEDE A.

l Knit Matilda 6elOu SbpSPSA
Mat;lds, fat and fair and forty? ,
| W. bsys "been there :" we have seen her
Saw her act the fierce MEDEA;
| Saw her act the outraged woman;
! Sow her act the wife discarded
deserted and heart-broken mother.
| Saw her frenzied, fierce and maddeneu'
! Wreak her fierce and awful vengeance
On her young and beauteous rival
Stay her babes and perish with them.
'Tis sad and mournful story,
Is this story of Medea.
The scene is laid in ancient Corintn'
In the dark and misty ages
Of the ancient Greeian poems;
In the days Of gods and heroes
DAYS of goddesses and women
DAYS when deities and morals,
MIXED in such conglomeration
Tit Won can't tell which from tother,
or those DAYS and of such people
Is the story Of Medea.
Consequently, If the audience
Amt well posted in their classics,
They fail in due appreciation.
In short 10 use a coarse expression,
Medea is huckleberry
Above the popular persimmon'
But the story of Medea
Is tale of human passion;
And the hearts Of men and women
Are made of much the same material
Now as in the misty ages
Here in WaShoe as in Corlnth-
And the woes of wronged Medea
Are a story too familiar
On the shores Of the Pacific
If we lay the scene in Washoe,
We eau tell Medea's story
To the better comprehension
OF the masses Of the people.
In the silver land of WashOe
Lived hunky boy, named Jason
A mighty hero was this Jason,
And his doughty deeds of valor
Rang from Tahoe to Reese River
From Oregon to Arizona.
He had been with Captain Wallace
On the Walker expedition.
He it was who planned the movement
Which surrounded the campoody;
He it was, who in the pinewoods,
Watching, waiting, lay till morning,
LAYING plans, dark and strategic,
With The Indian Chief Josephus."
He was with the Internationally
Under Wells, out on the Truckee;
They who slew the veteran legions-
Slew the nine and-twenty Piutes-
Slew the squaws Of Winnemucca:
Waded TO the very arm pits,
Through seas Of CUTS, and gore, and garbage
All alone had mighty Jason,
Slain with single-barreled shotgun,
The fossil Elephant of Truckee.
First he slew him, then he ate him
Stripped his bones and left him lying,
A skeleton, all bare and ghastly.
Took he, then, the mighty entrails,
Made a hundred miles Of sausage
Stuffed with Piutes and papooses;
Ate the sausage as he journeyed homewards.
Such a mighty man was Jason
Was it strange that all the women
In the silver-land Of Washoe
Cast their brightest, sweetest glanceG
On the doughty warrior Jason!
Was it strange that fair Creusa,
Child Of old Creon the Wealthy,
Lord of all the Ledge Of Comstock,
Should succumb to the advances
OF the mighty warrior Jason:
On one fair and lovely evening,
When the gentle Washoe zephyr
Waited playfully the stove-pipes,
Signs, and boards, and dust and dornicks,
Through the streets and through the alleys,
Creusa made her preparations
For her wedding on the morrow.
Jason proudly stalked through street,
To buy a ring and hire preacher;
Met, in front Of Doyle & Goodman's,
Orpheus, his friend and pitcher.
And the tale that Orpheus told him
Made bold Jason rather weaken:
Orpheus told him that Medea
His other pifs from Philadelphia
Had come out across the Isthmus,
On the Nicaragua steamer.
Had come out, and brought the children,
For to see their daddy Jason,
Hero of the land Of Washoe.
Jason was a man of action
Hesitated not nor pondered;
HE'D him straight for cable counsel"
And before the blissful morning,
Was divorced from poor Medea-
Free to marry fair Creusa.
And by Judge Burbank's decision
Both the children, too, were given
To Jason and not to Medea.
Medea then took the Mysteries,
Shrieked and yelled, and kicked and shouted;
Sat down in the empty courtroom,
Got her wind, and planned her vengeance.
Then she took half dollar,
HE'D straightway to drugstore,
Bought half an ounce Of essence
OF the deadly Screw-ten-oo-ten.
Went then straightway to the chamber
or the lovely bride Creusa.
On the bridal veil she poured it,
Poured the deadly screw-ten-oo-ten.
Went then to the house Of Jason,
Went and asked to see the children
Just TO see them and to kiss them.
Jason and the fair Creusa
Scarce were bound in holy wedlock,
By the Reverend Mr.. Rising,
When a piercing shrek resounded
Through the church, and fair Creusa
Succumbed to the screw-ten-oo-ten.
Horror-struck, the wretched Jason
Homeward rushed, and found his children
Stretched upon the parlor-carpet,
Dead from ghastly wounds inflicted
By the dagger Of Medea.
And the mother, standing DER them,
Howled curse so fierce and dreadful,
That the wretched Jason shuddered;
Then she raised the bloody dagger
In her broken heart she thrust it,
And fell and died upon the bloody
Bodies Of her slaughtered children.
That 8 the. story Of Medea,
Adapted to the times and climate
or the Silver Land Of Washoe.
II you II 60 and search the records
OF the Courts Of California;
II you II overhaul the papers
In this First Judicial District
or the new State Of Nevada,
You will find the same old story,
The wretched story Of Medea,
Told so often, that you II wonder
That the man who wrote that drama
Had to overhaul his classics,
Aud grope amid the misty ages,
To find his Jason and Medea.
SALUTEs.-General Mcdowell ordered
salutes of 100 guns to be fred at noon on
Thursday. at the various military stations
of the Department of the Pacific, in honor
of the fall of Richmond. The volunteers
were also ordered to parade.
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