Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-08
THE EVENING NEWS.

SHOOTINO LAST ten ulIu-
utes past Z o'clock the rapid discharge Of
fire arms on South C street, Virginia, in
front of Jones' building, attracted a dense
crowd in a short time. The shooting
proved to be between Capt. Nv. B. Perry,
of the police, and Pat. Derry, foreman of
the Savage mine, and occurred, as near as
we can learn, from extended inquiries, as
follows: In the afternoon Capt. Perry
had occasion to arrest Derry, who was
somewhat intoxicated and creating a dis
turbance. He was accordingly lodged in
the station-bouse, but early in the evening
was bailed out by some of his friends, and
came to where the shooting took place,
using vile language relative to Perry. at
the same time fiourishing a cooked revolver
which he held in his hand. Chief Birdsall
and other officers tried to quiet him with
out making an arrest, but all to no pur-
pose. At this juncture Capt. Perry came
out Of Woods saloon, when Derry again
commenced abusing HIM, and leveling his
pistol, fired. The exchange of shots from
that to O moment later was most rapid,
and it is impossible to state how many
were fred, but we believe that there were
six shots fred by Perry and his antago-
mist, while some person across the street
must have fred two or three times. I'm
mediately after the shooting, Perry, who
was shot in the thigh, rel into the drug
store Of Kirk & Co., where his wound was
dressed. After which, Derry was taken
into the same store, and his wounds also
dressed. Our morning contemporaries
~exaegerate as to the number ofhis wounds;
there being but three. Three bullets only
entered his body.one through the abdomen,
one grazed. his head and the last, and
most dangerous of all, entered over the
right hip and has not yet been extracted.
He was conveyed to the Office of the Saw
age Company where the best medical and
surgical attention was summoned, and we
learn this morning, from good authority,
that the attendant surgeon pronounces his
case as not at all hopeless, though the
wounds are dangerous and severe. Mr..
John B. Gunther was shot accidentally in
the neck, but the wound is Of no conse-
quence. The windows Of Kirk s. Cos.
store are riddled with bullets and marks
Of others are to be seen on the sidewalk.
Shortly after the shooting the crowd be-
came so dense that a passage down c
street was almos, a matter of impossibility,
and at one time il was feared q general
fight would ensue, but it was happily
avoided. It was also stated by parties
who desired to prejudice public opinion
for the hour, that the shooting was done
by Birdsall and Edwards in conjunction
with Perry, but we are authorized to state
that neither Chief Birdsall or officer Ed
wards hred a shot at all. and the shoot
ing was done by the principals with some
aid from an unknown party. We are
glad to learn that it is probable that Derry
may recover, for we learn that he is a very
worthy man. and we are glad that Capt.
Perry is generally believed to have acted
IN self defense alone. The matter will DO
iudicially investigated.
A SERIOUS AccIDESr.-This morning,
about half-past two o'clock. at miner en-
ployed in the Crown Point mine, named
Joseph Lambright, met with a serious
and perhaps fatal accident. He was de-
scending the shaft alone on a bucket, when
from some unexplained cause the latter
caught on the side Of the shaft about
ninety feet from the bottom and the I'M
fortunate man lost his hold and fell that
distance. The brakeman in attendance at
the time the accident occurred heard the
noise of the bucket striking the sides of
the shaft and stopped lowering. Nothing
was heard of Lambright. He must have
lost his hold and fallen before he could
have appreciated his danger and uttered a
cry. When found he lay on the platform
ut the bottom of the shaft beside the car,
his face badly bruised, one Of his legs
broken and himself insensible. He was
taken out and DR.. CASTOR was immedi-
ately called to attend his case. The doc
tor pronounces him badly injured intern
ally, and thinks there are but slight hopes
of his recovery. 1t is almost wonderful
that he was not killed outright. The only
thing that saved him from being so, I'M
doubleday, was that he struck on the side
of the car and squeezed down into the
narrow space between the car and side OF
the shaft. The bucket was also found
unlocked from the rope and perhaps may
have fallen at the same time with the man.
Mr.. Lambright is a young man OF about
twenty-five years. He is now in the care
of his friends, who are giving him every
attention. At Don to-day he had not
been restored to consciousness.
MAGNIFICENT PREsESr.-The boys at
Crown Point, yesterday, presented to their
late Foreman, James Pascoc, a magnificent
gold watch and chain as a token Of their
appreciation and esteem of him as a fore
man and fellow wor kman. The splendid
present was purchased by them at Charles
Young's establishment Virginia, and had
engraven on il, Presented 70 James
Pascoe, by the employees Of the Crown
Poin, Company, November It'll, 1860.
The presentation was made by Mr.. A.
Booth, one Of the Crown Point miners,
who delivered an original poem appropri-
ate to the occasion. The gift was received
and the presentation speech responded to
by Mr.. Pascoe IN a very happy manner,
and the whole affair was one Of those
pleasant reunions which makes friendship
stronger and participants happier.
VERY FAST TINB.-In addition to our
item Of yesterday morning stating that the
Overland Mail Stage made the distance
between Salt Lake and Austin 600 miles)
in a hours and 20 minutes. we would
state that the Overland Company are pre-
pared to make the time between Atchison,
on the Missouri river. through to this city
in seven DAYS. If Government would
give them the carrying Of the mails at
$4,000, 900 per year, they would agree TO
make the schedule time between those
points. or course they would have TO
double stock over the road, and carry no
passengers. They could, however. do it
in ten days and carry passengers. This
would not be exactly railroad time. but
next door to it.-Enterpriss.
PopuLAR.-Asa waugaman, Of the FL
Dorado Saloon, C street, Virginia, has