Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-14
LETTER FROM JOHANNES DRRI.
CHEM.


VIRGINIA CRY, May ID, 1867.
MEIsrER LYNCH: As told you I would
send you some accounts of my near two
years trip away to Faderland and other
countries, | do it. Mine boy, Johannes
Jr., is writing is out for me-what I
tolds him. | said, johannes, put it
down as | say it." He said, "Fader,
III spell it English" "Now, johann
nes," said l, "you put him down as I
say him, for Meistsr Lynch understands
me first rate. He speaks German, too"
Mine boy smiled. He's a goot boy. He
smiled. He said he'd fix it some, as it
would not do to send you a letter for
publications that Wal broke up too
much with oder languages. Und do
boy smiles. He's a good boy. He's
been to American College, all the while
these near two years l am gone away.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED.
Meister Lynch, you remembers when
l wen, away. 1t was just one year ago
last January. mime boy smiles. He
says that is not near two years. It is
some time. All dis time | been in Eu-
rope, und in the Holy Land und in
Egypt. l tells you all about mine trav.
els by and by. Well, | comes back,
und | find tings mighty changed, yet |
expect they be changed some. finds
mine Gold Hill mining stock is all very
goo,, uud | draw just as good dividends
from them now a. | did when | goes
away. But | find out great many peo-
Piles gone that was here. finds Phil.
Stoner is gone, and great many's. l
finds Max Walters place burned up,
uud q big FIRE across C und B streets,
which makes q great change in some
tings that used to be different. Peo-
Piles says it is tam dull times, but | was
four days getting a house to rent for
mine wife und three children. Most
peoples all seems 20 be busy, und agoot
house is not easy to get. finds there
is three papers published here yet. One
of them has changed his name, und the
Enterprise seems to ant to be consid-
cred a Union paper now, which you
never could tell sometimes before pri-
mary elections where the devil it WAS.
finds the Gold Hill News the same e1-
celleut paper it was all the time I know
it, from the time it begin.
It's a big change in tings since |
first comes here in 1859, with one suit
Of cloes in the world, and no Goa to
that. But as | am luky in my invest
ments don't complain Of no change in
,ings since Use been gone. But was
as glad to see you, Mr.. Lynch, as if |
never knew you.
JOHANNES TRAVELS.
Well, as | was telling you; Use been
oil over since Use been gone. But most
Of all to Faderland. Dear old Fader-
land. am glad I come away from old
Faderlsnd. am proud Of it. l am
prouder Of it than If | was born any,
where else than in America. o, Meister
Lynch, | have drank more wine in Ger
many, since Use been gone away, than
you could tink. Mine mudder made
thirteen kind Of sausages for me when
comes home. But l tells you moro
about that BY und by. gives you full
descriptions BY und by. wants to tell
you some tings particular now went
to where the Mayor comes from.
comes there just by accident, to stop q
day. had just heard that he was
elected Mayor. finds out BY accident
that I was at his home in Fa~derland,
und den commences to tells the folks
at the place, as | drinks wild them, II
knows a man what went away from here
a boy, dat i, now burgomaster Of Vir-
ginia city, one Of the highest toned cities
in the United States" Mine Got, | get
some of his folks crazy. They makes a
great celebration over it. | have thir-
teen kinds Of sausages cooked for me
there, too. The more made ar American
lion of our Mayor, the more they makes
n lion of me. l gets drunk. | gets very
drunk. Yet | knows what's | about,
too. remembers everytings distinct
as possible. tells them | had n great
hand in electing Piper-when I WASH,
here at all. That is cause | Was drunk,
Mine boy smiles. | said he was elected
by ten thousand majority over a man
which Was the most richest of any mar
in the city. | remembers | was sitting
on top of a table, telling this. They
all hurrah. That makes me excited. ]
tells them we elected the Mayor, who
vas once a poor boy among them, by
such a majority that the rich man as
run against him committed suicide.
Mine boy smiles. He is a goot boy
They don't hurrah at this, because they
don't like anybody to die, in Germany,
before they repent. tells them that
our Mayor himself spends q great deal
Of money for the poor, and so he gets
elected. They hurrah. I tells them
that he now presides in one great Hall
bigger than their town Hall, and that he
has one hundred members Of a chamber
to do as be says. Mine Got, how they
hurrsh. | tells them that be sells the
best wine and lager for cheapest price
Of anybody in Virginia, und then they
make dreadful hurrah. Und then | for.
gets what comes on, until next morning,
More soon,