Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-22

SASITARY.-We doubt if n healthier
place than Storey county exists or the
Western coast. Few deaths have occurred
within the last four months, and all ply
sicians agree in the fact that there are
fewer local and chronic cases to be treated
here at the present time, than any place
they have resided in heretofore on the
continent. Some four or five years ago,
when miners lived in holes dug in the
ground or tunnels run in the hill-sides,
sleeping on ground floors in the moist
wintry dampness-contractng all sorts of
diseases-the mortality list run high, but
since we have begun to live IN a more
civilized condition in light airy houses and
in tight cabins, the climate does not exer-
else that deleterious influence formerly
ascribed to 1t, and the list of deaths Is re-
markably small for the number of our
population. The amount of sickness eX-
isting is aptly illustrated by seeing ply
sicians listlessly walking our streets
druggists with little to attend to, and NJ.
DIS, of merit taking down their signs
and moving to more unsettled localities.
We know Of one in the Savage mine,
earning his SO so per day, and two at the
Gould & Curry mill at the same wages,
as also others who seriously contemplate
changing their profession to some CONNER
cial pursuit which will yield them a more
lucrative livelihood. Altogether, we pride
ourselves upon the sanitary condition of
our community, and can boldly assert our
claims to health over any like number Of
people within a thousand miles.
HUMoRs OF THE JURY.-The jury in the
great Moscow VS.. Ophir case are a set of
humorous cusses. They sing, dance,
shoot at q mark-with paper wads-hook
fingers and pull (all for q verdict), play
leap-frog, stand on their heads, do the
game Of "Simon says ~wig-wag," and
many other funny things. They have an
artist among them who portrays the hu-
mors of the jury room. "How n jury
man sleeps" is shown in a spirited sketch
representing a juryman with a stool under
his back and his head and heels upon the
floor. 1.-THE jury released" shows the
long pent-up jury just out upon the
streets. The poor devils are finding it
very hot. Here is an irate stakeholder
after a juryman full tilt with a shotgun;
hard by another stakeholder has a poor
wretch of a juror (who is dying to see his
wife, by the hair, and is punching his mug
in gay style, a la Patsy Foy another mis-
cradle, emaciated creature, is being led of
by the ear, while not far off four or i've
rayenous stockholders have freed q lank
and mos, repentant-looking juryman upon
a lamp-post. Verify, humor prevails ev-
erywhere-cven in a jury-room Enter
prise.
A DISCRIMINATING Cuss.- Yesterday
morning, some guerrilla, who was doubt
less dry, walked into a much frequented
saloon on South C street, Virginia, and
asking the "bar-keep," a handsome but
not thoroughly civilized Frenchman. If he
took gre enbacks, and received an atfirma-
tive answer. Make me q nice champagne
cocktail, then! Bar-keep spread himself
and in a twinkling the frothing nectar
went to guerrilla's stomach. An y bank
note was passed to Frenchy, who only paid
seventy cents for greenbacks, and guerrilla
| received Sc IS in coin, and babe the amia-
| bic body adieu. Some two hours later
the proprietor Of the saloon arose, and
while inspecting the contents Of the money
till, saw a ten dollar bill of the Confeder-
ate money nesting lovingly among Uncle
Sans hard coin. An explanation ensued,
and the handsome bar-keep Of Gallo ORR
gin has been hunting that bogus green
back cuss for ten hours with a double
barreled shotgun.
METHODIST P1cSIc.-The scholars and
teachers of the Methodist Sunday School
as per announcement met yesterday morn
ing at the Church to the number OF $50,
and were soon on their way to the grounds
about a mile north of Virginia, where
the day was spent in pleasant sports and
exercises. to the great delight Of the children
and the pleasure Of their parents and
friends. At noon a collation. was served
I'D which was partaken of with a zest
which only hungry school children at a
picnic can feel. The party returned at
about 4 o'clock, much pleased with their
days enjoyment.
REV. Mr.. HIrcHcocx, from Dayton,
will preach tomorrow at American City,
at "a P NJ, and at the Odd Fellows Hall,
Gold Hill, in the evening, in exchange
with Rev. D. C.. Adams.
RECORDER MBAeHgR, of Virginia, only
sentenced three old drunk and disorder
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