Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-26
wAsHoEIrrs AT THE BAY.-From our

received u SuOrt ietsSI
make the following little extract, refer
ring to individuals who also have HOUR
ished in this section, but have recently
appeared at the Bay city; Have you
felt any earthquake shocks or other I'M
pleasant things up your way latelyr
NV reason for asking is, because there
is IL mighty shaky appearance in the
looks Of several gentlemen here, who
have lately come from the land Of sage
brush. I saw W. -, from Virginia,
on the street the other day, but did not
speak to him. He looked very shaky.
| also saw S. -, and be appeared to
have the delirium tremens, and If had
not known him to be u strictly temper
ance man | would have sworn that he
was drunk when FIRST met him, but a
few moments suficed to convince me to
the contrary, for it was sorrow, moth
ing but sorrow, that made him look so
shaky. He was crying, absolutely cry
ing, and when | asked what the mat
ter was, he could not contain himself
any longer, but his grief burst forth in
the agonizing word 'Juilir!" He then
made a grab for my hand and exclaimed
in a voice of unutterable woe, and full
OF pathos, Reuben, | am gong to COM
nit suicide ; how much laudanum does
il take to kill q man? tried TO COM
fort him, aud induce him TO turn aside
from the awful thought of sslf.destrue-
ton, and finally succeeded, but not uu-
Ill had exhausted every argument
against suicide that | could possibly
think of. implored him not to take q
desperate leap into the other world and
lose his immortal soul. He said that he
didn't give u damn for the other world,
and further informed me that he was a
rebel, by Cd, SIR II rip snortin' rebel
e bulky Now | couldn't see what
that had to do with his soul, and failed
also to see, from the fact Of his being a
rebel, why he should commit suicide,
and I told him so; but my words had
no effect, and so | had to use another
argument, which was the grief that he
would be likely to cause his friends by
killing himself His answer to this
was, TO hell with my friends. Where
can | get poison? Poison, poison,
want poison 7 By the way he called
for poison when | mentioned his friends,
| concluded he wanted to meet them in
hell as 1901 as possible, and had a Sc
rious notion Of calling in II policeman
or two to restrain him from his fell
purpose, but at this juncture a
happy thought occurred to me, and
I used it with the most graft
fyiug result. I told him that
the election Of Seymour and Blair,
and the overthrow Of the despotie
Radicals depended upon his vote
alone, and implored him to save his un-
happy country from anarchy and ruin
before he departed from among US. He
could not resist the influence that these
words had on him, and consented, With
the look Of a martyr, to live until alter
the election, but declared that AS soon
as he pollcd his vote no would surely
take poison and die. Do you know,
sir, that such devotion to country dis
PLAYED BY this man filled my soul with
admiration, aud | felt like going down
on nv knees TO worship him. Just
think, not the sorrow of his devoted
friends, nor aver the fear Of the loss OF
his W soul, would deter him from ex-
%tinguishing the vital spark, but when he
was convinced that the salvation OF his
native land was at stake, he turned
graudly away from death. o, God-like
S! Thy countrymen should raise n
monument to thy memory. There is an
other prominent citizen Of Virginia in
town at present, the Rev. don't
think he has seen so large a city as San
Francisco for a long time, for he gazes
into tho shop windows and admires the
beautiful things displayed there for the
benefit Of 'greenies,' and as he gazes he
from time to time counts his change u
s,ar,s to 60 into the shop, AS though he
would invest, but as often turns away
with a sigh, which plainly says, 4 cant
afford it-wife will have to wait until
am more "hush."' feel sorry for
him, and came hear asking him in to
take a drink two or three times this
morning, but when | counted my
change, | found, like him, that !
couldn't afford il, and | therefore took
a drink alone. Now you will hardly
believe that | took a Kentucky drink
but | most assuredly did, and do so
very often, too. I have got to be
mighty mean in that respect since /
came here. never spend more tina q
bit at one time for n drink, aud make
up for that by eating at least two bits
worth Of lunch. went into a saloon
to-day, took a drink aad paid my bit
like q man, after which | proceeded a'
usual to the lunch table, and staid there
till had made way with all that was
on it. The barkeeper, seeing that the
table was bare, told me "a was going
out that il I would wait he would 80
around to the market and order me a
turkey, some ham and eggs and II dozen
quails. thanked him and told him
that | would call IN again after awhile,
and he promised il | would that he
would throw in a bottle Of wine. Very
kind, wasn't he p
HORSE RAILRoAD.-The horse railroad
built conjointly by the Yellow Jacket,
Grown Point and Kentuck companies,
for the purpose of transporting the
waste rock from those mines around the
hill to a more convenient and roomy
dumping place in the vicinity OF the
Overman, is now in full operation. The
small cars from the shaft Of each mine
run out { the main track by means OF
branch railroads, where they dump into
the horse cars, which hold seven or
eight small car loads, or between three
and four tons. II is q very good ar
rangement and works we'll.
CRIrIcAL.-The physicians state that
Frank Farington is in n very critical
condition, his disease proving to be oil
an apoplectic instead Of u psralytie ma
ture. His mind wandsrs, and he - un-
able to converse intrlligibly. DR.. Bron-
son SAYS he is afflicted with hemorrhage
of the brain. Notwithstanding his Sc
we're prostration there are thought to be
many chances in favor Of his recovery.
UNCLE SAN SuArr.-The Overman
Company have started the Uncle Sam
works, and are freeing that shaft OF
the water in order to make it available
in the extraction of ore. They will also
connect the workings below, so as to
allow A free circulation of air through
his and the Overman shaft.
DAY OF AroSEaENr.-The majority of