Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-16
our Sam Francisco COrrespOndenOe.

Our San FRANCISCO correspondence,
SAN Francisco, December Is, 1856.
Ed. GOLD HILL News : Dear Sir
The weather continues cold and clear, times
dull and slow, and
II SUICIDE MANIA
Continues undated. Within the past week
we have had half a dozen attemps at suicide,
all fatal, however. On Thanksgiving
morning a respectable middle-aged lady, who
has lived in private families in San Francisco
for years, and had accumulated a considera-
BILE sum Of money, which is invested in good
securities for her benefit by one of our Dis
trict Judges, swallowed poison and, had not
prompt assistance been rendered, would
have died. Her life was saved with great
difficulty, and she is still confined to her bed.
No possible reason can be OWNED for such
an act on her part. On Sunday morning a
horrible tragedy occurred in the Thunderbolt
Saloon good name for a deadfalI), on Kcar-
ney street-Davis G.. Vinson shooting Mary
Holman in the neck-many a poor devil has
been shot in the neck by the liquor that has
been dealt out to him in that same deadfall-
and then shot himself, by way Of making a
clean job of it. As usual in such cases, the
woman vas not killed, and the man was.
The same old story he had become enam-
ored Of her, spent thousands Of dollars on
her, and when his money was all gone, then
she shook" him; the sponge was wrung
dry; the last drop Of juice was squeezed
from the orange what moro natural than
that she should fling the dry husk away. He
had recently arrived from the Colorado, and
was to have returned there by Saturdays
steamer, but something happened to delay
him until Monday, and before Monday mr.
rived he was in his coffin, a sight too fearful
to look at. The heartless woman went to the
hospital, and will live to blk hundreds Of
other unsophisticated g%reenhorns in years to
come. That same night a girl Of the town,
living on Washington street, attempted to
commit suicide BY taking poison, and on the
following night another, residing on Pike
street, made a similar attempt both were
saved. Saved, did l say As IL it were pos
sible that a life long since worse than lost,
could be saved! I should have said, the ago
mics Of a living death in both cases were pro-
longed by the arrival Of a physician. "To
be continued in our next"
SENATORIAL.
The struggle for the senatorship still goes
on with undated energy, and assumes new
phases almost hourly. The enemies Of Gov
ernor Low now claim that they have strength
enough, when concentrated, to beat him, and
hint that "a new man is to be brought
forward for the place, and will surely win the
fight. The friends of Sargent, Of Nevada,
claim that he is the " coming man." and
they, too, claim that " the slate" is broken
beyond possibility Of repairing. No princi-
pie seems to be involved in the matter, and
money is the only argument / have heard re-
ferred to on any side, the general impression
appearing to be that the longest purse will
win, "the best man being interpreted now
a-days to mean the man who has the most
twenty-dollar pieces to distribute among the
incorruptible members Of the Legislature and
the lobby.
THE TELEGRAPH WAR,
As l predicted, turns out lively enough as
between the newspapers themselves, but the
public at large seems to take very little inte-
rest in the matter. The dispatches" have
no longer the absorbing interest which at
tachcd to them in war times, and the demand
for extra copies of the papers containing
them is so limited that hardly anything can
be realized from that source. How long the
New York Associated Press and the Western
Associated Press can fight each other through
the columns Of the California press remains
to be seen. The latter have got three papers
to pay for their dispatches, and the former
only one. So that the weight Of solid argu-
ments is thus far on their side.
THEATRICAL.
Wheatleigh is on his last week at the Me-
tropoli.an, playing to very moderate houses
about making expenses-in Boucicault's line
Of sensation plays, treating the public to a
different piece each night. Next week he
leaves for the interior, with his superb COM
pany, and will, l hope, do well. Mrs. Sedley
Brown, who is really n most charming &C.
tress, and n capital soubrstte, goes with the
company. She is steadily winning favor
with the theatre going public, and appears in
4 variety Of light comedy characters to far
better advantage than she did in "Arrah-Na-
Pogue." The Acadamy Of Music is given up
to Madam Anna Bishops company, who are
giving n short Opera Season. The company
is small, but effective, and the public patron
age liberal. At the Opera House it is about
as it is at the Metropolitan-good company
and good bills, but slight patronage. The
Legitimate " has lost all its attractions for
San Franciscans-they want sensations"
not dramatic talent and real artistic merit.
ST. ANDREWS.
l forgot to tell you last week about what I
saw and did at the St. Andrews Society
Dinner and Ball. The omission was unin-
territorial, but l don't know as it could make
much difference after all. You see the fact
is that l undertook to spar my way in as a
correspondent for ga daily paper in Nevada"
and got bluffed they said that was played
out ; they had got one Nevada newspaper
correspondent in the dressing-room under n
bench, with n brick (Which had dropped out
of his hat under his head, already. I wasn't
going to stand there and dispute about the
matter, so I went away. How the other fell
low got home, l don't know. This accounts
for my no account Of the dinner and
dance"
oU~TCRoPPISGS.
Bret Harte, of this city, has published n
neat little volume of nursery rhymes, by
California poetasters and poetesscs, with
the above title. 1t is an elegant present for
children, for the approaching holidays. The
contents are of course suited to the capacity
Of children only, but the typography and
binders work cannot be excelled anywhere.
California literature" is looking up, not
withstanding "Twain's" lamentable failures.
HARD TINES!
This is always the popular cry, but l am
inclined to think that the present times are
hard upon a large proportion Of our pOpula-
ton. The tremendous fall in stocks, the
suspension Of operations upon hundreds of
promising mines for want Of capital to carry
on the work to a paying point, the depart
ure Of large numbers Of our producing
population by every steamer, eastward, and
other causes combined. affect disastrously
many. and indeed / might say nearly all the
interests Of society. Trade 10 unusually dull
for the season. I am told that the dealers in