Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-25
THE EVENING NEWS.

sleighing yesterday afternoon up in Vir-
ginia city, and a great many persons
awaited themselves of the fine sport.
Everything in the shape of a sleigh or a
cutter was out; some with one horse,
others with two, and some with four
horses. Bennett, the active agent OF
Wells, Fargo & Co., came down to Gold
Hill in a two-horse cutter for some bull
lion, and having s~eyeralfne bearskins fos
comfort, he invited US to a seat, which
we Of course accepted-and away we
few, up the hill, oyer the Divide, and
down C street "like forty" Oh, but it
was jolly-very jolly! After a little
while, this was at 4 o'clock P. N.Y.
Mayor Piper hearing that we were in
town, hunted us up-having his cele-
brated stallion Bucephalus harnessed
up in a fine steel-shod sleigh with more
bearskins, and extending the hospitali-
ties Of the city to US in a speech Of an
hours length, in front Of the Interna-
tional Hotel, which was listened to by q
large and attentive audience, he invited
US to q seat among his bearskins in the
sleigh. OF course we accepted that's
what we wanted exactly what W. were
looking for. Huddling up with the
Mayor-as close as a bug in a rug-(it
took Col. Herman and four a~ble-bodied
men to hold Bucephalus while this was
going on)-the word ego" was given,
and away we sped at q tremendous rate
on North C street toward Cedar Hill
the accelerating speed Of the team, that
is to say, Bucephalus, causing a tre-
mendous drift of snow in our rear, a
very mountain of it lodging all along
the thoroughfare. Onward we went at
a rate equalled only by the time o be-
ing made by the cars Of the Pacific Rail-
road between Cisco and Alta-until we
reached Sutton Avenue, when Mayor
Piper concluded to change his base by
turning up towards B street-there be-
ing a fine, long, stretch of excellent
s~leighing between the two thorough
fares. But somehow, the turn at the
corner of c street was rather sideling,
and the robes being top-heavy, like one
of Ferguson's waves in his Inaugural
address on the subject Of ga life on the
ocean wave" the sleigh reversed its up
right position, turned violently on its
side-and Bucephalus and we found
the Mayor and his furs in a snow-bank!
But we righted the establishment, and
picking the Mayor up bodily-he was
insensible at the time, and on coming
to, he made a remark about level
ing and grading streets under a new
set of ordinances-concluding b yasking
US to take an iced lemonade, which we
refused. After this slight mishap, we
Hoated on the sea Of prosperity-(con-
found that Ferguson's Inaugural, it
sticks in our head!)-no, we glided
along smoothly until we reached, in
grand style, the corner Of Union and B
street. Here another mishap occurred.
We ran over a wild Irishman. with a
tall yellow beaver hat, like Larry Muir
rays. He labored under the hallucina-
ton that Bucephalus was running
away-vhich he was, at the rate of two
ssknots an hour" Ferguson the horse
and sleigh passed over the lrishman and
his beaver-both being knocked into q
cooked hat, without compass or anchor
-CsFerg." )-and when he was picked
up, the beaver was found very much de-
moralized, like the Democratic party
after the last election. The man was
evidently dead, but after being rolled
on a barrel by Coroner Gartrell: and
carried on a shutter, coming to himself,
he said he wanted to be taken home
that he vas an orphan-he didn't ex-
pect to live long; and asked the Coroner
to give him q snip" that he belonged
to one Of the "6rst families Of Ireland
and that if be lived he'd have satisfac-
ton out Of Mayor Piper; that he was a
Democrat, that he voted for Nye last
week, ETC., etc. We, individually; had
taken a stand-of position to this heart
rendering scene, patiently awaiting the
effect of the barrel and shutter msnipu-
lations of the Coroner, and on seeing the
patient revived, we approached, and
seeing the poor, injured, and delicate
looking stranger, we ventured to inquire
his name, when he gently answered that
il was Pat Lanndn! We left the scene
of our FIRST sleigh ride this winter.
CHURCH FEsrIvAL.-It will be seen by
an advertisement, under New To-Day
that the ladies of Virginia design giving
a festival for the benefit of st. Johns
Church (Episcopal), a series of enter.
tainments on the 18th, l4th and 18th OF
February. The object of the festival is
to raise some ready cash to pay the pas
sage of a minister to this coast, as the
church is at this time without a pas
tor. Due notice given in our local
columns where il will be as held and all
the particulars regarding the whole
affair. This will undoubtedly prove one
of those pleasant times that once IN q
great while come along to break the
monotony of a life in the land Of sage
brush. Let every n make the neces-
sary preparations to be on hand wnen
the time arrives.
DEER CLuB.-Jim Gray and Charley
White, of the International Hotel sa-
loon, corner of Union and G streets,
Virginia, have organized a 'Deer Club"
like the "Sardine Club" Of Carson City,
of which Jim was President and sutler.
Tbey went out to the Truckee, and yes
terday brought in a fine, large, fat doe;
and after q scientific dissection thereof,
they magnanimously presented US with
a whole slather Of 6ne yenison steaks
for broiling. Fresh, fat, luscious,
Juicy, venison steak, isn't hard to take
this cold weather. Thanks, gentlemen!
may White and Gray always live in
harmony, surrounded by all the deer
things to make them happy, until their
locks are 40 longer gray or t'h'fe.
LAssAS's FIRST WoRK.-About the
first Official work of Pat. Lannan was to
close up a restaurant on B street, Vir-
vipia, where a poor, unfortunate e1,
1udpe. for the first time in his life, had
Maid a weeks board in advance, and
thereby was chiselled out Of it: Oh, mol
Pat. never would be guilty OF doing any
thing wrong while in office. We don't
a that Pat. was in with the man who
kept the house, but why did he not wait
until the Judge had got evenf we kne"
how it would be.
MoRxoS CHURcH.-We were INFORMED
v.s,orJov NV Mr. Lockwood, OF virginia