Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

The people Of Virginia city will do
well to "begin a thought" Of the mu-
nicipal election which is to take place
in that city on the l4th of next month.
Candidates announced, and quietly in
tending, are undoubtedly pulling ropes
for a nomination; yet we don't hear
much ever oftheir maneuvers. Evident
ly-or so far as indiested-it is going
to DO An exceedingly quiet v
Two Of the present officers have duly
announced their candidacy for r~e-elec-
ton, Recorder Meagher, and Chief Of
Police, Edwards. Who are to be the
candidates for Mayor, we are not as
vet authorized 10 state. We presume,
however, that the principal competitors
will be the opponents of last year-Pi-
per and Jones. No one can deny that
the city administration Of the past year
has been in general characterized by
economy, and faithfalness to the laws
and in their execution. There are
many causes which contribute to max
ing Virginia q difficult place to govern,
under police vigilance. We have been
repeatedly told by policemen and BY
citizens generally, that they believed
that there are as many expert rogues in
Virginia as in any place of its size in
the world. But in no place in the world
do they have q more thorough watch
over their pleasant plans and doings,
than in our adjoining community.
Either it is . mistake to say that there
are a largo number Of "grabbers" in
Virginia, or they must be very 'hard
up" for the returns show that they do
not pull much plumber. We hope the
city government of Virginia will always
remain as efficient as now.
But, speaking Of reported number Of
thieves in Virginia, we are lead to no
tice Q remark which was made in n
presence, yesterday, with loud emphs-
sis, and apparent approval by q crowd
of listeners-an individual Of not very
certain calling himself, exclaimed:
"There are Eve hundred men in Storey
county who, if they knew where there
was . hundred dollars, and that between
them and their possession Of it there
stood only q human life, would not hest
tate to Ego after it and get it."
We think this is not so; and We know
that the number Of idlers in this county
is not half so large as commonly re-
ported. The habit Of seizing upon
every item of committed crime, to make
a sensation libel upon a community is a
business in which newspapers in Nevada
should not engage. We have seen the
evil effects of such a course on the part
of public journals in California. In
that State, for years, all the bloody
deeds and rumors Of deeds more bloody
than anything ever committed, were
hashed in a "steamer" paper, and sent
East. And, actually, California had a
prime reputation, for years, rs being a
place where "a man for breakfast was
the common s.imulant to the morning
meal in every mining camp; while In
every city, crime was supposed to have
almost unchecked license. What effect
this had on immigration was imagined
TO be considerable in detriment, for a
long time; the establishment Of an immi-
grafton agency demonstrated that it was
immense. Almost every person in these
communities to-day is knownfo his occu-
patton or his lack oft; andpeople are just
as safe in Gold Hill or Virginia city as in
any American city We everlivedi in or have
been acquainted with. 1t would 90 a
great wrong and injury to cast abroad
the suspicion or idea that human HE
and that property of all kinds Except
fusl) ia not as secure in Storey county
a. in San Francisco. Because q fellow
being is murdered in Spring Valley,
there is no occasion for creating the i'm
preston tina. there are hundreds of muir
dsrers in this county. We do not be-
Lave in this mean and detestable style
of "fouling our own nest" For COM
muni.ies composed almost entirely oil
Woodworking citizens, commend u.s. on
tho score of their honest industry and
o.,.rous hesrtedness alone, to the town
Of Gold Hill and the metropolis O
Virginia.
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