Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-26
MORE DAMAGES FROM FLooDs.-The

bridges in Gold Canyon, between Silve
City and Dayton, are washed away, an
the road so badly damaged rs to be i'm
passable for teams. The Dayton stag
failed to connect to-day, the driver com
ing through alone on horse back, wit
the mail. The bridge across Carson
river, at Dayton, was reported to b.
washed away, but such is not the case
We hear of no damage to the mills il
the Canyon, although they have al
stopped, dams, races, head-gateS, etc.
being carried away. The greater par
Of las, evening the Sierra Nevada Hotel
Lower Silver City, had n huge portion
Of the creek running through it, enter
ing the saloon and passing out through
the kitchen. The flood subsidized this
morning, leaving about n foot or so o.
sandy deposit all over the lower floors
Of the hotel.
"a MERRY CHRlsTMAs."-It looked
like anything but n merry Christmas
yesterday. The rain poured down all
day and all night. The streets of Gold
Hill and Virginia were flooded with
water, and especially in Virginia were
almost impossible from mud. The only
consolation there was for the men WAS
to go and get drunk, which many did,
and the women moped at home. Nu-
merous turkey dinners were disposed of,
but there was mighty little ~conviviality
in the matter. In the evening the balls
Of Virginia Athletic Club aud st. VIM
cen, De Paul were very well attended ;
so was Piper's Opera House, and the
Gold Hill Thcater. These were about
the only decisive groupings of emery
Christmas" All out doors was gloomy,
wet and disgustingly sloppy.
HIGHWAY GoBBLERs.-G. B. B~oggiano,
q dealer in turkeys and fowls, who
brought two wagon loads to Gold Hill
and Virginia last week, and when re-
turning towards Carson with his money
and his team, yesterday morning, was
stopped by two highwaymen on the
Carson road, at the head Of Spring VAL
lev, and made to "deliver" between
fvc and six hundred dollars in coin.
The highwaymen gobbled up the spon-
dulicks, told their victim to git, and
they then coolly marched off down the
road toward the old laundry where G.
A. B. Hill was murdered last April.
Thieves around!
ST.. GEORGE HorEL.-The town sewer,
running under the back end Of the st.
George Hotel, just below Crown Point
street, choked up yesterday afternoon
at three o'clock, when n deluge Of wa
ter, mud, gravel and stones burst into
the house, completely flooding the
kitchen, dining and bsr-room, and the
sitting-room-and after the water passed
over the whole Of the lower floor, a
deep layer of mud and slum was left for
the landlord to clean up. The st.
George will be all right in a day or two,
when the landlord will open it for the
reception of boarders.
ALSO FLoopEp.-The old News build
ing, at the corner Of Grown Point and
Main streets, occupied at present as
Pinchower's clothing store, came in for
o full share of the immense torrent Of
water, gravel and sand, which came
down Crown Point canon like an ava
lanche. The floor of the store was
flooded, and the goods had to be raised
on counters and shelves, to prevent be-
ing ruined. Mr.. Pinchower's family
were located in the back part OF the
premises, but were rescued without
serious injury.
PrpER's OPERA HousE.-In cheering
contrast with the outside disagreeable
weather, was the interior Of Piper's
Opera House, last evening. 1t con-
tanned about the merriest and best
pleased audience we have seen for many
u day. There we're fully eight hundred
persons present. The entertainment
was excellent, and could not fail to
please. There was about MS good n
house on the evening previous, and
there will be another tonight. See
programme.
THE SrAeEs.-No California stages
arrived or departed yesterday over the
Bonner Lake route. The incoming
Overland stage last evening had to stop
at n house some few miles down SiA-
Mile Canon, unable to proceed further,
by reason Of the toll-road being so badly
washed away and damaged. He started
to bring the horses to town, but lost
two of them in the dark, and only got
through with four.
SILVER BRICK PRESENTED. neat
little silver bullion brick was thrown on
the stage ut Piper's Opera House, last
evening, to Maggie Brewer, in the walk
around. 1t bore the following inscrip-
ton "Presented to Mrs. A. T. Dustan,
by the members Of Young America En-
CINE Co., No. 2, Virginia, New, Decem-
Der 18th, 1867"
BLACK CRooE.-Don Santiago De Grey
q very talented artistic well known in
Virginia city, made his first appearance
at the Crook last evening. He performed
the double terpsichorean trapeze on a
single string, and was much a~pplauded
by the entire audience.
HIGH MASS Notwithstanding the
very Indictment weather of Christmas
Eve, some five or six hundred people
attended midnight mass at st. Mary's
Church, Virginia city. The services
were very impressive. occupying about
two hours.
MILLS STOPPED. - All the mills on
Gold Canyon have stopped working on
account of the flood, also tho difficulty
of getting u supply of ore from the
mines. The dumps are all full enough,
but the roads are too bad for tcaming.
DRrYr woop.-Sevcral thousand cords
of wood are now floating down the tur-
pid waters of the Carson river. We
learn that fifteen hundred cords went
from Empire City, and n large lot from
Brunswick Flat.
BuLLIoS.-van Wyck & Co., Gold