Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-29

source Of danger to the community. We
have had rowdyism and rufianism enough
already through this source, and our best cit
liens are determined to abolish the old sys-
tom at once. "An' II 'twere done, it were
well done it were done quickly. / think the
agony is nearly over, and that we shall soon
hear tho last Of fremen's riots, street brawls
and rowdy demonstrations.
MORE OF EN-.
The Lord have mercy upon US! A second
volume Of 0utcroppings," edited by a sec
ond Bohemian-suppoied to be Webb, for
merly local Of the Buletin-is advertised to
DO issued next week. Well, We have had the
cholera in years gone past, small pox, floods,
fires and, lastly, earthquakes, pretty bad at
times, and l suppose we can stand this last
and greatest infection; but 1t is rough, DID
rough l might say and I don't wonder that
a large number Of our people are leaving the
State. The fall in mining stocks was a sad
blow to our prosperity, but that could not be
helped; the infection OF q second vol
ume Of "purp stuff" is wholly uncalled for,
unjust, inexcusable, and must be the work OF
a creature of totally abandoned heart, AMI:
mated and moved by sheer cussednesl and
the ~instigations Of the devil. I wouldn't
mind it SO much, if the public were let alone
in the matter, for then nobody would ever
hear ofthe horrible doggerel slush ; but to be
compelled to stand BY the hour, with a leaky
umbrella, on a street corner in 4 driving rain,
to hear one Of these would.be poets read his
internal limp-legged rhymes. is too much,
and il a third volume is issued Amigo will be
among the next steamers passengers for
Honolulu.
II TENPIsT IN II TEAPOT.
The great libel case Of the DeYoungs, OF
the Dramatic Chronicle, against Sheriden
Corbyn, Manager of tho Willows, came up
for hearing in the Police Court yesterday,
and dragged through the whole afternoon,
until night, when it was continued over until
Tuesday next, at II ". The trial Of Warren
Hastings was not \ circumstance to this great
case, and the two will probably cut equal
figures in history for hundreds Of years to
come. Half the newspaper men in town have
been summoned as witnesses, and the other
half are boiling over with spite Mt the slight
thus put upon them.
THEATRICAL.
There is nothing very lively in the amuse.
ment line this week. The old American
Theatre was r~e-opened, az advertised, on
Thursday last, with 4 capital company
"Neighbor Lakewood" being the sensation
for the occasion. The attendance was very
small, and the company changed base and
opened at the Metropolitan Saturday night,
Last night Wheatleigh commenced his fare.
well engagement with the "Whito Boys
Bride" for the trump card, but the weather
scented q beggarly show Of empty benches,
despite the excellence Of the performance,
At Maguire's Opera House, Dan Setchcll
took another farewell benefit last week, and
repeated his farewell speech, word for word,
as he has done 4 half dozen times before. He
will take another in the course Of a few days,
II is Bandman's turn now, and that wonder
full long haired individual, who cultiyates his
soap-locks with assiduity and pork juice, is
strutting out his farewell engagement, and
butchcring Shakespeare and the Kings Eng,
fish, together, this week. Brambilla's fare.
well opera season commences tonight at the
Academy Of Music, with "Trayiata."
" MORE VICTIM.
Last evening the Sp~iritualists held a large
meeting-a new MEDIUM" having arrived
to astonish Anticipated idiots into wide
mouthed and protruding mouthed admiration
with her stale tricks Of reading names writ.
ten on slips Of chemically prepared paper,
and other nonsense. This morning one OF
the audience, Geo. F. Layton, was taken to
the calaboose, raying mad, and this after.
noon he goes to Stockton. He got down on
his knees in the rear Of the Mayors Office in
the City Hall, as he was being taken into the
calnboose, and tried to buck his brains out
against the lump Of native iron from Tucson,
Arizona, which was sent here as an erolite,
and on which Professor Whitney," our
State Geological Surveyor, spent some hun.
dreds Of dollars in assays and tests, and then
rendered a report which carefully avoided
any positive assertion as to whether il was an
nrolite or not. ! know where there are mil
lions Of tons Of just such "nrolites" in
A~rizona-but that 10 not to the point. The
man is raving mad through S~piritualism, and
what good has the world gained to offset the
loss OF his intellect to it? Why somebody
has been told that the spirit Of his sainted
grandmother, who died Of the smallpox in
1882, has sent him word that evil commu-
nications corrupt good manners" or that ii
is better to be born lucky than rich" or abe
virtuous, and you will be happy and conten,
as 'Swimley's boarders,' or any other man."
Beloved OF my heart, my old ancestors have
received n great deal Of abuse for their Salem
witch burnings, but between you and me, !
am half inclined to think that n little Of that
sort Of thing would pay in San Francisco il
it was not for the high price Of fuel.
Adios, AMIGO.