Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-07
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The present theatrical season is n OF the
best our managers have ever enjoyed, and
the wonder is, where the audience come
from. We have two theaters filled night
ly, paradise Lost" crowds the Eureka as
well, and the grand Fair and Festival at
Platt's Hall, in aid of Grace Church, is
drawing crowds. and yet we have no
strangers in town worth speaking Of. I
confess I cannot understand it, but the
solid cash in the managers safes speaks to
the point in terms which cannot be gain
sayed. 1t looks as if our citizens, tired of
waiting for "good times " to come, were
bent on having a good time and enjoying
themselves on "their own hook" regard
less Of expense.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
The late developments concerning the
Gottschalk- Legacy raid among the school
girls at Oakland, has caused all manner Of
s~candalous reports to arise in regard to
other schools of a similar character, as a
matter of course. Old stories are raked
up, and talked over, and new ones brought
out, and the result is that the public mind
is brought to the point OF considering the
relative merits of the Public and Private
School systems, and the result is rather
favorable to the latter. The idea that girls
are more safe from corrupting influences
when herded together in a boarding-school
with only hired assistants to watch over
them, than when attending our really ex-
cellent public schools, and living under
the parental root, is an absurdity which
has long been manifest to those who looked
carefully into the matter, and out Of the
evil suffered by the few in this caae it is
possible that good may come to the many.
LAYBD OUT.
The new Board Of Health" ordered
by the Board Of Supervisors, turns out to
be but a healthy Board. 1t was to relieve
US of the presence Of the small pox, and
prevent the spread Of the cholera in case
the dread scourge Of Asia, now creeping
across the countries Of Europe, reaches US
in its march but it has thus far done no.
thing, and the old advice, Physician,
heal myself" may well be addressed to
its members. It is composed Of five prac.
ticing physicians, and they had a single
meeting, at which nothing was done,
since which time it has been impossible to
get any W Of them together, SO the
whole thing has "gone by the board
and we must have a new deal all round.
THR GREAT r PAIR,
Great is humbug, my boy! A horse
race is something which respectable fe.
males, the lights of the Church, and orna-
ments of good society and business circles
can not attend with impunity; but a
horse fair" is quite another thing, my
boy a horse Of a different color" 30 to
speak. Last year the races at the Bay
View Park were practically q failure, for
the want Of spectators at 81 per head, but
this year the programme was changed,
and the property went into the possession
| Of a joint stock association, who, instead
| Of advertising the usual "Fall Races
advertised a "Grand Horse Fair" with
"premiums" instead of "purses." Be.
hold the difference. Families crowd
daily to witness the "contests for pre-
miums," and the thing is popular with all
classes. I have never seen betting run
higher, or "pool selling" more active
| than at this I" fair )" but it is all right now
| that |" races " are done away with. On
Saturday the contest for premiums for fe-
male equestrianism, Of which there are a
large number, will take place, and quite a
number of ladies will participate. The
attendance on that day will be immense,
and taking the whole "iair" through, 1t
may be set down as a decided success.
c%oLuMBIANIsM N PBNIANIsM.
The "Sons of Columbia" is the desig-
nation of the new society organized in
this city for the purpose Of enforcing the
Monroe Doctrine. 1t seems to be an es-
tablished fact that the Americans, whether
of Anglo Saxon, Teutonic, Celtic, or
Spanish ancestry, are opposed almost to a
man TO the interference Of European Gov
ernments with the affairs of America, and
sooner or later the conflict between the
opposing elements must come to be de-
| cided BY bayonets and bullets. This 30
ciety is one Of the strHws that show un-
mistakably which way the wind blows,
and although it may effect little in the
way of immediate practical results in itself,
it will aid in bringing the sentiment of our
people before the world, and preparing
| the public minds for events which are in
evitable, and are now regarded by the
| thinking men of the land as only ques-
| tons of time. I understand that circles Of
this order are soon to be established in
Nevada.
The Fenian movement is, of course,
making any amount of talk here, but I
think that the general impression i n the
community Is that too many "profes-
slonal patriots " are engaged in it, and
too few really practical men for its ulti-
mate success. In other words, there is
"too much talk and too little cider in
the movement. However, time will tell.
For myself, 1 am in favor of proclaiming
Fourth Of July all over the world, and ex-
polling the foreigners from Mexico, Ire
land and Jerusalem, all at once, but then
there is the expense, my boy, the expense.
1t is easy enough for a man who has not
got four bits in the world to say "d-n
the expense |" but that don't pay the bills
after all, and those who have the taxes to
pay are sometimes inclined to take a diff
ferent view of the matter.
1t has long been an open question as to
what view the Pope was inclined to take
Of the Fenian movement. Allow me to
congratulate you and the world at large
on the fact that no such doubt exists in
regard to the position Of His Most Ora
cious Majesty, the Emperor Norton l., D.
g., etc., as will be seen BY the following
Proclamation
SHOW OUR ooLoRS.
WHEREAS, we, Norton l., by the Grace
of God and the National Will, Emperor
of the U. S. of A.. and Protector Of Mex
leo, issued our Decree diSsolving secret
political societies, excepting only the an
Gent and honorable order Of Free Masons;
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