Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-04
Our San Franoisco Correspondence.

day matters Of life and the moral world,
and holds good there, Heaven help San
Francisco! We are on the eve of such a
tempest as has never before been known
by the oldest inhabitant. q ought here
to state that I am uncertain as to whether
Sam Brannan, Michael Reese, or Old
Chris" the lime pedler, is the oldest in
habitant, but I use the remark as I sup
pose other eminent writers do, because
somebody else used it years ago and it is
so common that it ought to mean some.
thing-if it don't 1t is the fault of the orig
inator, not mine.) The town is dizziness
personified and boiled down, so to speak.
Cheese is reported lively butter tolerably
strong. and candles stiff, by the CONNER
cial reporters. I am also informed that
there is occasionally a movement in live
stock, but l am uncertain as to whether
the information is reliable or otherwise.
AS I came down town this morning l saw
a dog scratching himself as if he felt a e n
sation of some kind, and this was the only
sign of life I noticed. Earthquakes, are
played out, and-probably because they
cant help it-waterfall are
GOING ! GOING!
Waterfalls have had O short run; it is
not to be expected that they would never
fall, but that they should fall so soon is a
matter for surprise.
"Leaves have their time to fall,
And so have waterfalls.
I saw one of EN- fall on-or of-its own
hook the other day on Montgomery street.
" What-a-fall was there my countrymen,"
and how the countenance Of the high toned
female, fell when she saw a Chinese rag
picker hook it and whisk it into his capa-
cious basket among other refuse. Fashion
has decreed it, and almost before the style
become the rage among our bellies, it was
pronounced behind the age-sometimes it
would be blanchard to tell what age the
waterfall was behind. What, with paint,
false teeth, hair dye and cotton, the best
Judge of the article couldn't tell whether
l8 or 60 was walking before to corkscrew
attachment to the female head known as
the waterfall. Well I am glad it is going;
shall be even more glad to write that it il
gone. 1t is all very well to cay lord I
an fearfully and wonderfully made !" but
it is the milliner, not the Lord who knows
what a modern belle is made Of after all.
If every individual article which has been
adopted by her and worked into the
structure which she ~designates as herself,
and really forms an integral part Of the
wonderful work of art-built upon the
slightest possible substratum Of nature
bore an Internal Revenue stamp, it would
be entirely unnecessary for her to wear
any other clothing, the most fastidious
could find nothing to complain Of on the
score Of indecent exposure; it is more
probable that the belle would herself CON-
plain of being over dressed, and conse-
quently uncomfortably warm. With
these few brief and appropriate remarks /
drop the subject Of waterfalls and things.
PooUH
Is running yet, and more is the wonder,
to paying houses. l p~rophesied at the
start that it would run we'll for a week,
and pay fairly for another week it has
been running well for nearly six weeks,
and Heaven knows when it will stop pay
ing. / have done prophesying on the
subject. It threatens to become one OF
the q fixed facts" which we read about,
and never let up.
RONIFAcR
Still lives and shakes his RS. As l have
not been to hear him of late, l also still
live. Ditto the Generous American
Republic"
Is doing a fairish business at the Acade-
my Of Music. MERELY that and moth
ing more"
Calls for his pound of aesh, and dcnounces
his uncle the usurper, and oil that sort Of
thing, on alternate nights at Maguire's.
The novelty of his performances has worn
off, and he does not draw very largely,
although the number of his admirers is
by no means small in San Francisco. He
played Don Cesar de Bazen last Mon
day evening, and made very nearly q dead
failure. Comedy is evidently not his
forte.
vEsTvALI, THE NAGNIP,
Is played out as an actress, but now ap-
pears before the public in a new role. The
other day she charged Thomas Mcguire
with making threats against her life and
person, and had him arrested. Is it not a
shame that the frail creature who sur
vived all the ~indignities and outrages per-
petrated upon her by a band Of Mexican
bandits, who captured her party a few
years since and robbed her of everything
she had of value, including her money
and jewelry, should be compelled to call
for the protection Of the Courts from the
diabolical Vaccinations of Thomas Ma
guire, who might be her grandson for the
matter of size? Judge Shepheard yes
terday heard the case, and on Maguire's
promising not to whip or in any
annoy or disturb the gentle Felicitc (oh,
inappropriate name }, the charge was dis
missed. But. did the dove-like Vest
vail tho Magnif" stop therea Never a
bit of it. She sued him in the Fifteenth
District Court for 100000 damages, for
alleged bseach of contract. She claims
that he engaged her for 100 nights, agree
ing to pay her passage out from New
York and back, allow her eight to twelve
half or full benefits, as might be agreed on
after the second week Of her engagement
had expired (the contract don't specify
who shall do the work Of getting the
Judges, Members Of Congress, leading
bankers, etc., etc., to sign the calls tender
ing her the " Grand Complimentary Ben
Gifts as a slight testimonial Of our re-
gard for your character as q lady, and APP
probation of your talents as IN artistic y,
and pay her one-half the net proceeds of
each entertainment, after deducting $3.50
for expenses each night before her leaving
the house. If l had been Mcguire I think
that I should have engaged the Emperor
Max. l., Of Mexico, and all his suit, at
half the money, and made moro out of it;
that is his kettle of fish-not mine. She
says, furthermore, that he was to furnish
her such stock assistance as Chas. Wheat
leigh, and charge the same rates for ad-
mission as were charged when the Keans
were playing at Maguire's. She further
says that she was led to believe that Ma
tilda Heron made fifty or sixty thousand
dollars out Of her engagement here, and
that she lett $3.50 per night in New York
to come here, under the impression that
she could make at least as much. She
was to lose nothing If unable to appear
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