Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-20
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Russell, Sacramento, Cal.," was being
stamped BY Charley Brooks iu the Vir-
sinia Post Office, last evening, just be-
fore the mail closed for California,
when a string of''tape percussion caps"
inside Of the envelope exploded with
the report of a revolver = blasting
through one end Of the envelope, scat
,ering FIRE in every direction, burning
the envelopes OF two other letters, sing
ing Charley Brooks beautiful whiskers,
causing him, the aforesaid Charles, to
wheel round on his stool and make a
break for a retreat, causing the watch
dog to snarl hideously, waking up
Begle's clerk in the adjacent news de-
pot, and creating a general confusion
in the neighborhood which It is impos-
sible to describe. OF course such an
unexpected explosion would overcome
almos, any one, like a Summer thunder
storm. There were many suggestions
made on the spot as 10 the cause of the
blowout, before the real reason was
discovered. Charley exclaimed: Don't
Cinnamon know any better than TO be
putting such New Year calculations in
a letter? Suppose i, had fired of in
the mail bag on the coach. Badly
Green would have thought Jack Harris
WAS struggled under the boot; aud the
whole cargo Of communications would
have been s%corched.' Begle's clerk
halloed over the boxes, that the letter
contained specimens from the Uverman:
he saw Sam. Curtis drop it in the hop
per. The Second Assistant Postmaster
General Of the establishment said it
vas a letter for \ joke on the Indians,
If they ripped the mail bag it was in.
But il warnt going that way, s'id
Brooks. 1T Was going 10 Sacra-
neuto.' ~ thought it sounded like
the bark Of a frog" yawned Don
George; ''confound the thing, II made
me sleepy As if he had no, just been
sprung out of n ccmatose condition. Ad-
ding: II guess the man n wrote that
had the cholera-morbus.' Being con-
vinced that the show WAS all out,
Brooks smothered the fire; sat down
aud wrote TO the Sacramento Postmas-
ter how the outside pair Of epistles
came 10 be blackened; and carefully
packed the gun cotton letter for a re-
turn TO its depositor with the request
TO hereafter send his pyrotechnics by
express; doing up the petition in the
following artistic form: Gus. Will
liams-Sir:-lf you desire hereafter 10
send a few yards Of nisro-glycerine more
or less, 20 Sacramento, allow meto sug-
gest that there will be less danger of
rs going off premature.y, II you would
deposit il in the express office, with a
aotice Of contents legibly written on the
outside Of the envelope.--Allow me,
moreover, TO farther respectfully sug-
sest, that il has been found to be a
more prudent course, TO send the sim
Piles Of the damnsble compound sepa-
~rately, and have them mixed ~ the
spot where they are 20 DE used. / pre-
sumo that you are aware that there is a
United States Statute, (p. 476 of Z. 5.
5. 1861 against the carrying of the ar
ticle on board ships. steamers, railroad
cars, etc. But no prosecution will be
instituted in this case. Your obedient
Servaui. c. BENJAMIN BROOKS.
Deputy P. NJ. Virginia city
SrocKs.-We have time and again
warned poor people from dabbling in
mining stocks; people who have but a
sum Of money-perhaps the hard
earnings and savings of Il few years.
Mining stocks are too mysterious 1 lot
terry for everybody 10 dabble inland
where there are but II few prizes, there
are many blanks, 10 cause - blank
faces when the word "speel is an
nounced. A great many bright twenty
dollar pieces which had been tied up in
sly stockings and hid away as a 'stake"
for future comfort, have gone from the
gaze Of their possessors within the last
three or four months-snd il will take
many d days hard work, and many a
- skimp aud shrift " before those emp
ty stocking purses will again hold their
or sound their welcome jingle.
Il is all very well for some people TO
give advice 70 others 10 buy this or that
kind of stock-advice being the cheap
est article in the world-(except when
you &c, It from II lawyer)-but i, is a
fair estimate to say, that where one big
fish makes money, there are thirty little
fishes without a bait or chauceTo nib
BILE. We know Of u great many cases
RICH, here in Gold Hill where the twen-
" dollar pieces are a great deal scarcer
than they were las, April and i. seems
TO be a great mystery TO some people
how it has happened. 1t seems 10 be
hard TO make them understand that the
- bulls aud bears - have had a ''speel.'
GRIss.-George Smith, OF Red Noun
tain, was displaying his wealth last
night, in front of the International
Hotel, by shaking three half dollars in
his hand, when u comrade snatched one
of EN- aud run. An exciting race took
place-to the Chaplin House, and, with
a successful dodge of Georges clutch,
back AS far as the Melodeon, into which
Georges poacher descended, deposi,ing
the four bits in question with the door
keeper. George gave up the chase,
with the exclamation that ''that fellow
is bound to enjoy himself BY hook or by
Crook" By both, it appeared.
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