Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-20
THE EVENING NEWS.
sa.urda, Evenins,.-.~.June ID, 1865.
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ROMANCE AND NUISANCE, MIXED. =
Why is it that women will so e~,ernally
persist in taking crying babies and
noisy youngsters to theaters, lectures
and other public asscmblages, when
they know they are morally certain to
be a grievous annoyance to all present?
The fond mother of the stout-lunged
yearling who won't be paciied by the
most assiduous and laborious trotting
on the knee, little seems to realize how
everybody in the dress circle, parquette,
and even on the stage, ut the theater, is
vexed and exasperated with the contin-
ued yelpings of her darling boy, who,
(bless his little heart thinks more Of
that inch or two Of pin that's sticking
into his person than Of all the pretty
things she tries L show him by way Of
paeiication. If all the crying, babbling
little dears could fully conceive OF how
many hard-hearted wretches there were
among the audience who long to choke
them a little, or are silently cursing
them or wishing them TO the devil, they
would subside forever in abject horror.
Spikins was at the Opera House, the
other evening, to see the Lady OF
Lyons played. By his side, amid n
halo Of blue ribbons, lace, pink Grape
and other cosmetics, with her divine
waterfall elevated like the stern Of a
down-east pinkcy, sat the "founS
Gal from Sonoma." Her witching
eyes beamed softly on Spikins, and
to that ardeut youth the gay dress
circle was the second story OF heaven,
and the stage surroundings q condensed
glimpse Of Fairylaud. But, alas, the
seat close behind him was occupied by
two womeu evidently from the country,
with each a two year old in charge-the
most interesting little girls imaginable,
but terribly uneasy and inclined 10 be
noisy and troublesome, having to be
spoken TO and shifted about every two
minutes. The only thing that would
keep them even partially quiet was can
dy, Of which they destroyed several
pounds apiece during the evening, aud
in their little jaws, which they worked
occasionally within six inches OF Spik-
ms ears, this hard, brittle candy,
cruuched. cracked aud crushed with a
noise similar to u quartz mill, or the
smashing Of croekery. Then, too, their
pretty little feet were never still, but rs
they sat in their mothers lap, they
kicked and drummcd them about in q
most reckless manner, concentrating
their energies generally on Spikins' de-
voted back, giving his best Sunday coat
fits. He tried hard to close his senses
to these minor horrors, and absorb
himself in the loving scenes on the
stage, the endearing words Of Claude
Melnotte, and the sweet replies Of the
fondly h~umbugged, trustful Pauline,
but all to little purpose, for between
what was going on before him and es-
p~ecially behind his back, things got
mixed. This was about the style OF the
Spikins immersion : "Sweot Prince,
tell me again Of thy palace up in
Como;i it is so pleasant to hear-[crunch,
crunch, and kick on back Of seat
may, dearest Pauline; nay, gar-r-r!)
if thou wouldst-Gcruuch, crunch1-to
which, could love [%eleveu kicks be-
tween shoulders1-hand would lead
thee, listen! [howl1 Shu. out By AL
pine hills from-l"N Now stop that, and
don't you slobber no more OF your
candy on the gentleman's coat" And
whispering myr,les; CHASING s~oftest,
G"There now;"-shake-yar-r-r1 cool
est foliage musical with (crunch,
crunch, aud q ,double-action kick up
and down the spinel syllable thy name!
Dad, dad, dad. Arching vines, and
SsYou Betsey! I'm looking at you'll
Youth and lovel 1.-TWO wipes across back
Of coat-dirt and candy mixed.J Wed
have no-Tcrunch, crunch, howl, kick,
scratch, a skirmish, slap and prolonged
squalls.1 And every air was heavy
with Tgreat rustic of paper and fresh
distribution of candy orange groves
and sweet music from Mar-r-r! Kit
tvs a-boo-oo-oo1 And murmurs OF
low Tcrunch, crunch1 that gush forth
in the midst of-[seven more kicks
and a small dialogue.]-Dost thou like
the picture? [Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Upon the honey of-[small COB OF soft
candy dropped down back Of neck.1
eloquent Tyar.r.r1 Who would not
loye-[dad, dad money ON my-lwipe
Of candy across right ear and two KICKS
in baek.l Paulinel That is not love-"
Spikes is philosophic, and stood the
whole thing manfully, rejecting that all
troubles have an end. Fer her sweet
sake he endured all without swearing
so that she could hear-and gave q Jew
clothes-cleaner a Job on that coat next
morning. He thinks of marrying one OF
these days, but will try and see that his
Young ones are never made o nuisance
of to e~xasperate other people Of a de-
votional turn Of mind like himself.
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF. = Night before
last, some malicious creatures Supposed
to belong to the same party who hve or
six weeks ago attempted to drive away
n number Of Chinese woodchoppers on
Carson river, some distance beyond
Van Sickles' ranch,O broke away the
embankment Of the Yellow Jacket Mill
water-ditch, seven miles above Empire
City, so as to let out the water, and
preventing the floating down Of the
cord-wood cut by the Chinamen. This
is a high-handed outrage upon the rights
of the Yellow Jacket Company, as well
as upon Messrs. Haines, Van Gorder;&
Leet, the wood contractors, and calls
for summary punishment upon the vile
wretches who, at the dead hour OF the
night, would sneakingly invade the
premises Of others and damage them
1t is to be hoped the Yellow Jacket
Company will adopt measures to ferret
out these nocturnal depredators, and
bring them to justice.
WEEKLY BuLLIoS.-The following is q
statement of the amount Of bullion
shipped or received for assay during
the past week: From the Office Of Wells,
Fargo & Co., in Gold Hill, there were
shipped 1890 pounds Of assayed bull
lion, valued at S65,624 SO; from their
Office in Virginia, G,759 pounds, valued
at Sl97, 622 Sc. The AMOUNT Of crude
bullion received for melting and assay
is as follows: E. Ruhling & Co., O
Virginia, 1926 ounces; Leopold Kuh.
of Virginia, $3.50 ounces ; W. c. Bous.
field & Co. successors to Theall A