Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-31

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'ook it as a personal affront, andbootet
them both down stairs
They tried to bum another drink
without success, but at Simpson & Ker
rims famous skating I" rink" Virgins
they did very we'll for awhile, getting
several drinks, and an occasional quar-
ter for holding cloaks and coats for TIL
numerous iladies and gentlemen VIII
were enjoying the fine and elegant exer
else Of skating. Feeling pretty gay ant
festive, they visited the dancing schools
of Mr.. and Mrs. Rea, and John Caran'
augh, in Gold Hill, and it being now
evening, they went to Piper's Opera
House, where Hay,on, the doorkeeper,
let Spikins in free, as n natural a
head" and the " Man in the Moon Tor
only half.price, as having only one eye,
he could see only half as much MS any
body else. They spent what little
change they had left for lager, n came
away fiat broke.
They were now reduced to q desperate
condition, having neither money nor
credit, and even talked about going out
on the Bonner Lake route and stopping
one Of Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s coaches, in
order to make another raise, when they
could get off out of the country, and go
East, taking advantage Of the North
American Steamship Company's new
opposition line, via Panama. Spikins,
however, objected. He was afraid the
stage passengers or the drivers might
show fight, although they were not in
the habit Of doing so, and unless the
steamer was provided with boilers made
by Taylor, Of the Nevada Boiler Works,
Silver City, and those superior cut-off
engines, sold by Goddard & Co., of the
Pacific Iron Works, San Francisco, he
feared q blow up. None of those steam
ers ever had blown up, but still he felt
safer, anyhow, on land, and if steam
travelling was to be the style, he would
prefer a few trips up and down the
Placervile and Sacramento Valley Kali
road, just by way Of variety.
They were now taken suddenly ill
from exposure to the night air and the
enormous quantities Of food and mixed
beverages of which they had partaken
during the day. Drs. CASTOR and Ellis,
Of Gold Hill, and DR.. Hitler, Of Virginia,
together with Drs Mex Munro, Stephen
son and Jones, being consulted, copious
doses of Hammers collar gall ointment,
Neweli's pulmonary syrup, Redington y
Co.'s essence of jamaica ginger, Graf
enberg Uterine C~atholicon, Martha
Washington Hair Restorcr, Writings
cholic medicine, Mexican mustang lini-
ment, and the far famed Iron Mixture
aud Camphorated Injection, were at
once unanimously prescribed. Soon
after ~partakiug OF these simple tonics,
which were procured from the well
known druggists and apothecaries, J.
Jones, jr., Geo. P. Morrill, and H.. C..
Kirk 4 Co., they began to feel no better
very fast indeed, although they feared
not death, their lives and all their prop
erty being insured BY the Pacific lnsur-
ance Company.
DESTROYS of being prepared for any
emergency, however, they called s.
W. Chubbuck, Notary Public, aud Judge
". n. Hall, Justice Of the Peace, in,
and both made their wills. Their en-
tire property, consisting solely Of crude
bullion, which was all deposited for
melting and assaying at the assay offices
of C. Wiegand Il Co. and Van Wyck x
Co., Gold Hill, Leopold Kuh, of Vir-
giuia, and H. Harris, of Silver City,
they bequeathcd to various charitable
institutions, and then, being at peace
with all mankind, they would have died,
but on searching the columns Of the
News for an undertaken to bury them,
they failed to find one, all having
evidently gone out Of business, from
their taking their advertisements out.
A proposition was now entertained to
them down the new Imperial
shaft. The blood-curdling idea
of being dropped into the nameless hor-
rors of those underlined and so long un-
explored regions, gave Spikins such a
shock that he came tumbling out
of bed, waking up on his back, in the
middle Of the floor, highly delighted in
deed to find that the whole story origi-
mated in his own d~istempered imagina-
ton, and his wonderful dream was only
a big New Years newspaper puff.