Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-10
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GoLp HILL TnEArER-"RIcHARD THs
THREE TINES. THE two great stars OF
the Pacific theatrical armament, Law
renee Barrett and John Mccullough TO-
gether with c. W. Cooke aud other COM
cdians and comedianesses, have been
doing "Hamlet' and Orchard H. at
the Gold Hill Theater for the last two
nights-"Hamlet" the first night anu
"Ricbard ILL.," the second night. The
rocket has bursted and the stick has
come down in q blaze Of glory. The
armament is eclipsed and the stars
turped into wild, erratic meteors. As
our friend B. r. Soule hath it in Span
ish: "Sar me darius, poonidtcr sarry cara
no." which being interpreted means,
"Arrah Biddy, jewel, saw of me hind
leg if ye Place" They played "Ham-
let" to a crowded house on Saturday
evening, every seat and all the standing
room being occupied, and they did it
we'll and no mistake, but last evening
being Sunday evening, many had OBJ
i~ections to attending theater, or bringing
ladies, therefore the audience was de-
cidedly o small one. IT'S we'll. Old
Shakespeare would have " shook in his
boots" had he been there last evening
and seen his Orchard Ill" done up.
He would have committed suicide in the
first dam of sluugullion tailings he
cauld find in Slippery Gulch. The
great geniuses felt particularly gay over
the idea. of playing to such a little au-
dience or else they had been drinking
orange peel and water to make them
funny; for a much droller old Shakspear-
ian performance never was known Of.
It wasa burlesque from beginning to end,
and no audience ever enjoyed and
laughed more over anything. 1t
was festive, especially when Rich
mond Mccullough came marching
in upon Bosworth field with his army
of one hang.dog looking "supe."
"Straighten up, my solitary COUSIN"
says Mac, "aud blow me il we can't
whale oil England" Then where the
grand sword combat comes in, there
stood Barrett and Mccullough leaning
on their swords, convulsed with laugh
ter for some minutes, until Barrett
said, "Kill me or yourself, Richmond !
| don't want to live any longer"
"Aha! good - replied Mac, waving
his lordly sword, "If Barrett is not fit
TO live, then let Mccullough fall"
The sword combat went on jolly, and
there was any amount Of slashiug done
in it as well as in the piece. II was ter
ribly cut up and cut short. The drama
is lone for at Gold Hill. There will
not be any performance at the Coll Hill
Theater tonight, unless Mike McClus-
key really does carry out his threat to
perform his grand " horseback act on a
single string" assisted BY the Great
American Pie Bitter" with Elder Gibson
to do q "sarm tchune" in the interlude,
while Billy Began and Col. Hays do
the horizontal bar aud trapeze. Brier
also might be induced to exhibit some
of his "big ~feets," while Charley
Booth plays the "Grass Widow Short
ish on tie jewsharp. Barrett and Nc
Cullough would have played here in
Gold Hill tonight and tomorrow night,
were it not for Johnny Mack's benefit,
which takes place at Piper's Opera
House tonight, and the Odd Fellows
benefit, which t%ranspires there to-mor-
row night. Whether they will reopen
the Gold Hill Theater after those two
events have come to pass, deponent
saith not.
INNOCENT AND lNrEREsTISG.-About G
o'clock last evening q large and inter-
ested crowd of spectators were gathered
on the sidewalk at the south part Of the
principal street Of Horhtown, eagerly
watching the proceedings Of q newly
married couple in an upstairs room
opposite, who evidently forgot in the
transports Of welded bliss that there
were front windows to the room. Suf-
fee il to say that some of the fancy
girls dwelling opposite, feeling shocked,
crossed over and notified other people,
who, after knocking at the doc some
time-it being fsstened-contrived after
a while to put u stop to such irregular
proceedings. The moral TO this little
joke suggests itself.
OPP FELLOWS LIBRARY BESEFIr.-To-
morrow evening the grand entertain
meus at Piper's Opera House for the
benefit Of the Odd Fellows Library As
s~ociation, Of Virginia, takes place.
There can be no possible doubt as to its
being we'll attended, as the Daughters
Of Rebekah are the prime movers in the
matter, and are selling tickets at q very
satisfactory rate. Everybody buys
EN-" therefore everybody will be there,
with his wife and family, or sweetheart,
10 view of which fact it will be but
good policy for all DESTROYS of eligible
seats, to secure them at once by apply
ing at the box office Of the Theater.
"HoNE AGArx."-M. E. Bloomfield,
an old settler in Gold Hill, has just re-
turned home again with his family from
New York, where he had gone to live,
about q year and q half ago. He has
bought his old business place again,
and opened with n nice fresh stock OF
various kinds Of goods, such rs confec-
%tioucries, fruits, toys, cigars, pipes,
ETC., and ~solicits II share Of the public
patronage. This excellent family feel
as if they were "Home again. and
will make this their permanent resi-
dence.)
BADLY ScoRcHEp.-So desperately
did the gallant fremen Of Virginia fight
hand to hand with the fire on South c
street last Saturday noon. that more or
less of them got severely seorched'
We noticed especially Jas. n. Cartier,
Foreman of Washoe Engine Company
No. 4, and special policeman in the
Third Ward, who got his face burned
to Il blister, and goes about with it done
up in rags and sweet oil ever since.
The boys are not afraid Of the lire mel
ther of this world nor the other.
County CENTRAL CoNMIrrEE.-The
Union Club Of the Second Ward, Gold
Hill, and the Fourth Ward Union Club,
Virginia, will hold elections on next
Thursday evening, between 8 and .
o'clock, to choose members of the
Union County Central Committee to
represent those Wards, there being two
vacancies on the Committee.
PosrPoSED.-The rattle for the horse,
saddle and bride, which was to have