Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-02
Fact. and FiEurs.aFereisn "'d Do

Smestic.S
The traffic receipts of railways in the
United Kingdom, amounted; for the week
ending the 4th Of November, on twelve
thousand two hundred and ninety-nine
miles. to E876.s04, and for the cores
ponding week of last year, on eleven thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-nine miles,
to f635,495, showing an increase Of. four
hundred and ten miles, and Of f4l.309.
The gross receipts on the following four
teen railways amounted, in the aggregate,
onneight thousand eight hundred and
eight miles, to E559, 3l9, and for the cor
responding week Of the year 1854, on
s,439 miles, to f62S, SSl, showing, al in
crease Of three hundred and nineteen miles,
and an increase Of ESQ, 1913. 80. Lodi, the
noted running stallion was :solda At Iuc.
ton o few days since at San Francisco, for
the sum ofS5,700in goldooin. Mr.. Ma.
than Combs q Nspa, was the purchaser:
......More than seventy-eighs thousand
persons were charged befofe magistrates
in Ireland, in the year 1854, with being
drunk, orfdrunk' and disorderly in an,
equal population in England there were
not twentyrseyen thousand persons So
charged. To everytw0persons charged be
fore magistrates for assaults in England,
three were 90 charged, in Irelend..,...
A Jackson (Miss.) paper makes a PROPOSE
ton to raise d fuuHd1 81 half "a million dol
lars, by the ncontrihntions ex Exclusively OF
soldiers who served in the rebel army,tto
purchase JEFF. Davis a residence In some
foreign country-after he is pardoned and
liberated. Each private soldier is to- give
one dollar, and those who were commits
stoned officers will be allowed to contrib
ute at their discretion. ..... German rail-
roads must be considered ".banner roads.
for safety, if the statement.frade be true
that in thirty or forty years only two
passengers have been injured, and neither
of these fatally. People more anxious TO
live than do anything else, should apply
for board in the ,.Teutonic safety cars.
They are evidently good fol-, preserving
human lives and limbs. We notice,
says the Stockton Independent, a large coil
Of telegraph wise cable on the levee yes
terday, consigned to the United States
Telegraph Company 1t is TO be; used in
connecting the line across the San Joa-
quin river, above Shepherds Ferry.
The Portland, Ssco and Portsmouth rail-
road has been in operation nearly twenty
five years, and of all the millions of peo-
pie carried over this road, not'a single
person has lost his life thereon !......The
price Of corr rules so low in ONE parts Of
Illinois that some of it will 60 into the
stove for fuel. Philadelphia is TO have
a bronze statute of President Lincoln,
from a model by Simmons, the Maine
sculptor. .....An Italian princess, of the
late reigning house of Modena, was re-
Gently received into the Marylebone Work.
house, and has died there. Other men,
bers of the family are said to be living in
London in a state Of poverty. The medi-
cal and other officers Of the w~orkhouse
rendered the poor princess every at,en-
ton, but no sooner was she dead than a
valuable chain. which she retained and
greatly priced, wa found TO be missing,
and there is every reason for believing il
was taken by some Of the pauper nurses
by whom she was surrounded. .....G eor-
gia papers speak Of the rapid recovery Of
the State from the effects Of the war. The
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says
Where the emancipated slaves have
abandoned the homestead, the farmer and
his son have ~ploughed the fields. and
have now received a fair harvest. In ey-
cry branch of trade, also, our people have
shown more enterprise and q greater spirit
Of elf-reliance than ever before. Neces-
sity having thrown many upon their own
resources, they are proving by their deed,
that they are fully equal to the task be-
fore them. This spirit is glorious one,
There is no dependency, no repining in
it."......A London reporter says that the
Thames police have remarked, as q char
actcristic circumstance. that nearly every
female who throws herself into the water,
lie careful to divest herself Of her bonnie,
and shawl, which are placed on the ground
in such q manner as not to be in the least
damaged. asaiE4a l.a ..' m