Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-07


featuring town in Massachusetts, left his
wife and little daughter in their comfort
able home and came to this country to try
his fortune. Twice or thrice he wrote
home, but his letters by some means mis-
carried, going to the dead letter ONCE pc
fore reaching the wife, and ne Valniy
waited mouth after month for an answer.
Meantime man bearing the same name
died here, and the death was publlsheo In
the New York Tribune, by which means
it fell under the eyes of the wife ana
mother, who from this time incurred MIN
as one numbered with the dead. Fortune
prospered him, however, and he deter.
mined that on the close of the season OF
1851 he would return home with his newly
found wealth to enjoy it with his family
leaving them in blissful ignorance mean
time OF the happiness in store for them
But "there is many slip" and long De,
fore the time he had fixed arrived, he haa
lost every dime by a fire, which wiped
out, or nearly so, an up-country mining
town in which he had settled, and as ne
had not communicated the news OF his
good fortune, he abstained from writing
of the i'll, trusting to make good his losses
at no distant day. A second time he got
"ahead of the hounds" and fixed the time
for his departure, but the fates were
against him, and before the time arrived
he received the stunning intelligence from
a newly arrived friend that his wife, haV-
ing duly mourned his loss, had yielded at
last to the solicitations of an old and mu.
tual friend, and supposihg herself wild
ow, had married again. There was moth
ing more to be done; the little property
he had left at home for the support of his
wife and child he abandoned without a
word; his wife was blameless in every
point of view, and what could not be
remedied he finally came to quietly en-
dure. In course of time he remarked
and settled his wife in the luxurious home
he had provided, while husband No. 2,
less fortunate. lost everything in the great
panic, and after struggling along for few
years without success in Massachusetts,,
finally came to California with his family,
consisting of his wife, step daughter, son
and two daughters, and settled in San
Francisco. By some means husband No.
l learned of the whereabouts Of his former
wife and husband No. 2, and last week
came down to the city to see the former
partner of his bosom and their mutual of
spring. On New Years he sat down
with them at the table of husband No. 2
to enjoy generous dinner, and was in
troduced to the husband, that is to be, OF
his daughter. What all parties thought, l
do not propose to say, but what they said
was simply what other people say when
they meet as old acquaintance after
separation of years. SIGH is life in Cali
fornia land the adjacent Territories !"
FAILED.
As I anticipated last week, the debut of
"Miss Ada Clare" otherwise Mrs. Bah
cock, at Maguire's on Thursday last, was
a complete failure in every respect, and she
did not appear the second time. She pro-
poses however, 1 understand, to appear at
the Academy of Music-at which Com
pany of very moderate ability is playing
light farces and extravaganzas with Miss
Fanny Brown as leading star-as Lady
Teazle-and make one more effort to win
favor and fortune. She can do neither in
that line.
BACK AGAIN.
The Keans, and Coffin the Australian
Comedian, have returned from the North,
and will play short engagement on al
ternate nights at Maguire's before going
away for good. l think their success this
time will be but moderate at best. We
had pretty fair sample Of their ability
while they were playing their first en-
gagemcnt, and public curiosity was toler-
ably well satisfied.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
The stage fever is prevailing to an
alarming extent here now, and all sorts of
people are stricken down with it, with or
without moments warning. We are now
threatened with the appearance of another
de5Mante in the person of Mrs. GRAVITY,
who recently gave dramatic readings in
Virginia city. OF her fitness for the stage
you can judge as well as anybody if you
heard her.
.... A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE.
The tremendous change which has taken
place in the fortunes of the stock specu-
lators and brokers within year, is strik
ingly illustrated in the subscriptions of
the Stock and Exchange Board to local
charities this year and last. January l,
1864, the Board appropriated $1,000 from
its funds to be divided equally between
the Protestant and Catholic Orphan Asy-
lums, and the members then made up a
private collection of $500 for the orphans
in the Protestant Asylum. This year, the
sum of $500, only, was appropriated to
be equally divided, and even this amount
was more liberal than last years subscrip-
ton, when we take into consideration the
altered condition of the members.
THE LATEST SENSATION.
1 wrote last week the facts in regard to
the arrest of Michael Hayes, at Hayes
Park, on the charge of treason, and so far
as the alleged plot itself is concerned, have
nothing more to tell. Hayes has been
undergoing an examination in secret
with what result the public is not yet in
formed. On Sunday night last an attempt
was made-if one-sided statements are to
be believed-to assassinate w. R. Robert
son, the young man who attempted to as
sist in the arrest of Hayes, but through
his excitement, contributed largely to the
miscarriage of the matter. He was pass
ing along Market street, about midnight,
and when opposite the end Of Kearney
street, he was attacked, as he states, by
party Of Irishmen-oIe of whom attempt
ed to stab him, and did cut him slightly
in the hand, and another of whom fred
at him twice with revolver. He fired
his own revolver five times, and then
rushing into saloon, informed the by
ISLANDERS that he had killed three men |;
that he was Robertson, who caused the
arrest of Hayes, and that they wanted to
kill him, etc., etc. The assassins, dead or
alive. were not found, and spite of the
glowing statements in the daily papers, I
am suspicious that the whole affair was