Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-16

located lot for his private use, accompanying
the offer with som remarks on the uncer-
tainty Of life, etc., etc. The Emperor almost
exploded with passion, seeing in the offer at
once an attempted swindle and a plot against
his life, and was on the point Of ordering the
immediate beheading Of all the descendants
Of Israel in the land. LAS thou lowest me,
Hail." don't make any more such sug-
gestions. I may lose my place as
Secretary Of the Emperor and with
all chance Of future preferment through such
fooling. By the by, the projected alliance Of
the Emperor with a Japanese Princess has
fsllen through, and he is now inclined to
think that it would tend more to consolidate
his Empire should he marry a native Amerl-
caness. Do you happen to know an Aborigi:.
nal Princess, Of the blood royal, who would
like to ascend the throne. His majesty Is
really on the marry, and may have to apply
to Queen Vic. for q better half il he cannot
do better here. Who speaks first?
HAPPY mi CONTENT.
Singularly enough, all parties seem to be
perfectly contented with the result Of the last
election. The Shorts say it suits them be-
cause it shows that the Longs or Peoples
Party are played out, and no longer able to
poll a majority Of the votes. The Longs
say it suits them because they elected half
their ticket (Which was more than they ex;
pected), and the primary system which had
grown rotten to the core, is played out;
the Democrats say that they have shown that
they hold the balance Of power, and are there
fore content. 1t is a singular state OF affairs,
and will probably tend to a new deal oil
around before another election.
II SPECIFIC CONTRACT ACT.
The result Of the late State election has
been such as to placethe repeal Of the Spe-
cifc Contract Act at the next session of the
Legislature out Of the question. In this
city all parties, Union, Peoples Union, and
Democratic were directly or indirectly COM
mitted against the repeal, and a majority Of
the members elected throughout the State are
believed to be opposed to the movement.
FOUR CANDIDATES FOR THE oALLows.
We have now in the County Jail four men
under conviction for murder in the first de-
gree, viz: Barney Olwill, who murdered
James Irwin, a hog ranch proprietor, because
he was not ready to pay him a debt Of $50 or
$50; Antonio Sassanovitch, who murdered
Edward Walter in his store on Pacific street !;
Thomas Byrnes, whose revolving cold.blooded
murder of I companion for the purpose Of
getting possession of a trifing paste pin
which he supposed to be a diamond worth
$500; and u Chinaman, who stabbed his ex-
mistress in an alley, out Of revenge for her
desertion Of him. Not one Of them has an
extenuating circumstance to plead in his
favor, and all will probably be hanged.
TEE coLFAX DIPTHERIA.
On the day following the great Farewell
Reception and Ball Of the Colfax party, a
sudden change in the weather occurred, and
| cholera morbus and diptheria became ex-
tremely prevalent, almost epidemic, I might
say, in San Francisco. Singularly enough,
nine-tenths Of the guests at the Colfax party
were attacked with these diseases combined,
and some Of them have not yet recovered.
The disease is now known Us the "Colfax
| Diptheria," and is all the fashion. l know a
number of men who were certainly not at the
party, who have been attacked, and seemed
rather proud Of it, gaining thereby the repu-
tation Of having sacrificed $25 out Of COM
pliment to the distinguished departed risi.
tors. "Been laid up ever since the party,
says Jenkins, as he crawls out on the street,
and his friends take it for granted that he
caught his malady then. That is one way OF
getting credit for moving in the upper-ten
| circles. VIre Ia Hum and
AdiOs, AMIGO.