Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

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We are pleased to notice that accordant
with our repeated suggestion. many very
fine cabinets are being collected in vir.
ginia and Gold Hill. Grim's and Asa
waugaman's are filling up rapidly and
elegantly (; and the other banking and
almost all the more frequented drinking
saloons are being ornamented with this
character of substantial representation Of
mineral resources and prospects. Md
chay's saloon, corner Of B and Union
streets. has a neat little cabinet, placed in
receiving order a few days ago, and now
more than half full of ore samples.
1t wa a wonderful thing: how the
boys put that fire out, in Virginia, on
Sunday night. Right in a nest Of wood
en- structures; doused it in fifteen min
utes /; and tomorrow there will hardly be
q scar to mark the scene of c~onlagration.
The Fire Department is ne plus ultra, and
perhaps more SO. Speaking of this-there
will be q "gineral trainin' meetin'" on
next Sunday afternoon, in Virginia, to
take into consideration the financial con-
dision of the Fire Department, etc. Let
all good citizens, and especially building
owners, attend.
By virtue of the operation of q Deposit
Security Law passed by the Legislature
last winter, the Pacific Insurance Com
pany has the clean bill for premium gath
ering in this State. That company must
have made, at least, $4,000 out of the
sole trade Of fire risks which they now
enjoy in Nevada. We know that this all
absorbing Nevada patronage has had the
effect to run up the price of the company's
stock twenty-five per cent. They could
afford to com down with a handsome
sum in aid Of the Fire Department of both
Gold Hill and Virginia. viii this hint
be acted on-by both parties to the con-
tingent donation:
Just as we are writing this, a detach-
ment of four men and one corporal are
slowly moving up Gold Hill, past our
door-view, on their way to Excelsior. We
saw two old pioneer witnesses last night,
just in from "them diggings," who pro-
tested that there was nothing of no ac-
count out there" We turned up our
coat collar, buttoned our vest over our
clean shirt, and otherwise disguised our
self as much as possible, so as to look
like a lawyer, and proceeded to cross
question these reprobates. We soon dis
covered that they had not succeeded in
securing a particle of interest in the
premises, and are here on half-pay wait
ing for the Burning Moscow and Ophir
case to turn up again. As we are a dis
interested party-owning only few hun
dred feet in them diggings"-we do not
hesitate to impartially declare that these
depreciators are billiks of the primordial
water.
We find that ONE people amongst us
labor under the idea that we Nevadans
are much given to drinking Lager Beer.
You are mistaken, sir. The article we
have dealt out to US so bountifully in this
region is not Lager Bert is cream
beer. Were you ever at the Lager Beer
mines of Philadelphia: No: Then
your American Dutch education has
been essentially neglected. There's where
you get the genuine stuff. Four times as
strong as the beverage we here dignity by
the title Lager" A man who gets
tight on the Philadelphia Mine-beer stays
so, though waking and sleeping, for sew
eral days. When a man is hauled up for
inebriation, the Mayor or Recorder spots
him at once as a victim of whisky or lager.
The whisky Pat. is bright the next morn
ing the lager Hans looks as if he was
trying to raise himself from the dead and
didn't expect TO succeed. You've never
been to the lager beer mines Of Philadel-
phia! Where have you been inhabiting
all the improbable days Of your life:
There's where they have the beer cellars
four thousand feet below the top Of the
Alleghanies. There is where four Dutch
men wander, of a desecrated Sunday, and
call for a four-gallon keg-and demolish
two of such before the orb of day vamoses
the very much mixed armament. Yes,
sir, there's where you get your Limberger
cheese-the real stuf-that you can smell
a half a mile with unerring nausea.
1t is proposed to move the new Savage
building. with the appended foundation
and shaft, down Six-mile Canon. 1t is
suspected that they might strike some
warm springs with the shaft, and then
open a water-cure in the superstructure.
The idea is certainly a brilliant one and
worthy of the author-whoever he is.
Something has got to be done with that
building. Sam. Curtis is growing gray
with ~sleepless nights on the subject. If
it stands in its present position much
longer, we shall advocate the calling of an
extra session of the Legislature right on
the ground.
Now that slavery is dead, now that the
sword has cut the gordian knot, let US