Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-23
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(Rscelvod by tho Overland Mall, this mornins.l

[Receivcd by tho Overland Mail, this mornins.l
Mrs. Curriers' Lecture.
We give our readers the following ex-
tract, reported by a gentleman who listen
ed to one Of Mrs. Augusta A. Curriers'
lectures in this city:
Westward the star OF empire takes It's flight"
Once it blazed on the red sky of the
Orient-now it glitters in the calmer sky
of the Occident. Beautiful it shines on
the fair brow of Columbia; God grant its
lustre may never pale. A little while ago
it was sadly obscured,
For there appeared "a great wonder in Heaven"
Columbia was in sore trouble; for a
"Great Red Dragon" called SECESSION,
was sent to devour her. This monster
wore q variety of heads, innumerable
horns, and was encouraged, to say the
least, by more than one crown and 80
powerful was he at first, that he actually
drew away more than q third Of the stars
in the Federal constellation; and 80 fierce
was he, and such clouds Of smoke and
sulphurous flame did he blow, that the
pure star of Columbia was hid for a time,
fairly eclipsed, and the traitors and timid
among US began to think the dragon was
about to swallow Columbia and her whole
r~etinue. But happily ut this j~uncture,
"Michnel and his angels" lin the shape of
Ulysses Grant and his Generals,) came to
| the rescue, and fought against the "Drag-
on and his angels" The result was that
| the "Great Red Dragon" called Secession,
that tried so hard to deceive the whole
the old serpent of disunion, worse, far
worse than Satnn's ever was, was least
out" and a good many Of his angels were
cast out with him. Then the clouds and
the darkness disappeared, Columbia's star
shone forth more grand and peerless than
| ever before, and now its beams rest upon
a land chastened, purified and redeemed
from slavery.-St. Louis Democrat, Feb.
lst.
An Economical Wonder.
Ono of the economical marvels of the
age is now on exhibition under the South
ern Hotel, on Walnut street, between II
o'clock A. N. and 3 P. NJ, of each day.
| The wonder is called a Petroleum Stove,
| but is about as unlike the common stove
as can be imagined. Oil is converted into
gas, and then, passing through q pin-holc
aperture, is there ignited and will do an
immense amount of cooking in an incredi-
bly, short time. The thing is a miracle of
science, and the exhibition hall is daily
crowded with visitors and delighted gen.
| tlemen fascinated by the novel show. A
| stupendous revolution in the stove, coal,
wood, (for fuel and lamp markets, is be-
lieved to be impending in the interest of
economy in fuel, in time, in labor, in clean
illness and convenience. The new appa-
ratus bears the same relation to the ordi-
nary stove that the lucifer match bears to
the obsolete finder box. A company is
already organized to manufacture the Pc
troleum burning fixtures for Missouri
Ibid.
A Speedy Marriage.
On the Pacific railroad train coming
East last night, rather an extraordinary
marriage took place on the "double quick"
As Captain Tibbetts, the affable Conduc-
tor, was passing through the train, he dis
covered a party bound on a voyage Of
matrimony, and evidently desiring to get
occupied" right off. Fortunately. there
happened to be a clergyman on the train,
and ut the rate Of twenty miles an hour,
Mr.. Samuel Link and Miss Mary Martin
were linked /" in the holy bonds Of we'd
lock. As the affair was wholly unexpect-
ed, it must have been q novel and extra
ordinary one. We "tender" our con-
CALCULATIONS to the fast couple" hoping
that in their journey through life on the
broad guuge," they may add many
links" in cementing their railroad con-
nection begun so speedily, and will end
altogether practically, with no checks"
or " switching off the track" Of domestic
happiness.-B.
A Little Rough.
The Memphis appeal thus threatens the
Union men of the South:
1.-THE Confederacy is gone. and while
we hold in sacred reverence its glorious
memories, and treasure in our heart of
hearts those few in Sardis who did not
defle their garments those noble breed of
men and women who showed most true
metal, the greater the sacrifices they were
called upon to make, and who to the last
gave an unreserved allegiance to their
co untry, drinking
Love in each lfe-drop that flowed from her breast
we, bitter rebels as we have been, can give
the charity Of silence to
The slave
Whose treason like n deadly blight
Crcpt DER the counscls Of the brave