Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-02

! nave NOT muCl W HIlle dOVuI ~ W wy
present time this week, butAin these days
of uncertain railroad communication and
high water, I know that it is best to be
punctual, and so I start in on time, let the
result be what it may. By-the-by, talk
ing of
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l am not dead certain that the advantages
and disadvantages of being prompt on
time, are about evenly balanced, after all.
Had I been ten minutes later on a certain
occasion, Mrs. Amigo Firz Clarence Smith
would have borne another name at this
time, or goneidown the hill Of life in sim
gle blessedness. On the. other hand, had
mot got asleep atta given time on the
Rock Island Railroad, and forgotto change
cars at Joliet on another occasion, I
should have been knocked into smither-
Gems by a collision which occurred on the
other train few minutes later, together
with fifty or sixty others, and Mrs. A. Fitz
C. S. would have been q widow. About
even, SO far. Well, last Monday, l had
another lesson in the same line. I saw a
fine bay horse for sale. for the small sum
of $50, and agreed to call at the stable at
2 P. NJ. to close the trade for him. I was
just two minutes behind time. and arrived
just in time to see the coveted animal go
into the stable opposite, he having been
kept for me until that moment, and then
sold to another man. Whew ! there is a
lesson on punctuality for you. Yes; but,
my boy, it will be a lesson for him also.
The accused brute has got the CHAMBERS,
and neither Of us were aware of the fact.
The purchaser was greatly pleased at his
promptness and my lack of p~unctuality,
and, on the whole, so am I. l find that if
a man trusts in Providence, and don't 60
too much on acknowledging mining
stocks, good and bad luck will run about
even with him, and he can as well be q lit
tie behind as, good deal ahead, if the
trains and the stages connect, and If they
don't, what is the difference, anyhow?
..... r...r W DEFEATS. .
Two defeats have been chronicled by
the locals Of San Francisco within the past
week, viz: that of Daniel E. Bandmann,
by the irate Louis Aldrich, at Maguire's
Opera House, on Wednesday afternoon
last ; and that of the Union party by the
Copperheads, on Saturday last. g, The first
came from an over: confidence on the part
of D. E. b., the tragedian aforesaid, where
by the contemptuous turn up Of his nose
became fixed and chronic, through a well
directed blow from the fist of Aldrich-
and the public does say that it served him
right and the second from a like over
confidence on the part Of the Union men,
who have, I trust, learned q lesson on the
subject Of over estimating their strength,
and despising their enemies. There was
no real issue before the public, both par
ties being committed against the repeal Of
the Specific Contract Act, and no other
question of State or local politics was in
volved in the contest. The Democracy"
rallied around the name alone, and the
Union men did not rally at all. The re-
suit is q little transitory glory to the Cop
perheads, and a corresponding amount Of
disgrace to the Unionists, who divided
their strength and lost the day.
WHEN GREEK MEETS oREEx.
The Jacksons, Mr.. and Mrs., who have
been playing we'll, but to miserable houses,
gave way on Monday evening to Band
mann as the "Old Corporal" on which
occasion there was a fine house. On the
other hand, Wheatleigh brought out Vest
vail as Cameo. and had quite as full, per-
haps q fuller house. The war will go on
during the week it is about an even
thing, and from appearances both manag-
ers will at least make expenses.
WEBB, ALIAS JOHN PAUL,
Had a fine benefit on Monday night, and
his burlesquc Arrah-na-Poke may be set
down as a decided literary and financial
success. ...
DIFFERENT sTYLR OF LITERATURE.
San Francisco IS q very poor place for
dealers in obscene literature, pictures, etc.,
ETC., in spite Of the prevailing tone of NOR
ais and manners. It is not that the taste
for such things does not exist, perhaps, so
much as that San Francisco is really the
only city in which they can operate and
fix their headquarters, and it is not large
enough to hide in. Every time n of
these beasts has commenced business here
he has come to grief early in the day.
One after another, some dozen Of such OPP
orators have been caught and their stocks
in trade confscated and destroyed, but
the cry is, "Still they come" The last
case was that Of two young men, Hender-
son and Collins, who arrived here a few
days since with an immense stock Of the
most Internally obscene pictures which the
rotten mind of fallen humanity ever con-
ceived and the filthy hands Of a Partisan
artist ever executed. They fell into the
hands of the police on the third day after
their commencement in business and their
stock goes, not exactly "up the lume,"
but up the chimney this very afternoon.
As for the parties themselves, Judge Lamb
held them both for sentence, tomorrow
and won't they catch II, ~thoughs He is
down on that sort of thing. An evil of
somewhat less magnitude which threatens
US next is
THE AslkTfc CHOLERA,
Which promises to visit US from abroad at
distant day, if indeed the a%bominable
6lthiness which prevails in San Francisco
does not originate an epidemic ot1our own
before the foreign article gets here. We
have now and then a severe case Of chol-
era morbus here, as they do, in fact, in
every town in the United States, that dis
ease being endemic, not epidemic, in char
acter the country over, and the sensation
mongers Of the town are just now engaged
in getting up an excitement over the re-
port that the three or four deaths which
have recently occurred from this cause,
were the result Of the breaking out of the
cholera. I don't think the thing can be
done, but there is no telling what may
not be accomplished with such a promis-
ing stock Of fools to commence operations
/ have heard Of bigger business being
done ohiassmaller capital" U5El o.
HUNGRY SOLDIERS.
About a year since, there was a great
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