Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-10-09
Advice from High Authority.

connected with the editorial corps OF a
local contemporary, in its issue of We'd
nesday last had the assurance to in
dulge in II few grouty remarks, evident
ly referring to our item of II week z
on smallpox and vaccination, and
quotes an article on hat subject from
the PdciGc Medical and Surgical journal,
which he says is as good authority in
such matters as there is on the Pacific
Coast. We will agree with Bunsby on
this last proposition, for arguments
sake, and say that it is as good, and no
better. 1t is edited by one or two excel
lent physicians of tho old style of prac-
tice, who Of course really believe it their
duty by the profession to indorse and
sustain all generally established ideas
and time honored theories aad practices
of their school of the medical profes.
sion. Hence their Endorsement of vac
cination as an effective preventive
against smallpox. Yet fully as good
authorities, not only on the Pacific
Coast but in the East and Europe, as
well as public experience in San Fran
cisco and elsewhere, say that yaccina-
tion is not an effsctual preventive. In
our item We did not object to yaccinu-
ton nor give any opinion in the matter,
simply stating that the highest medical
authorities disagreed upon the subject,
and that doctors were more competent to
Judge regarding it than %ourself, we SIM
ply look upon it with the privileged eye
of the public. We certainly did, in view
of the wholesale vaccination Of the pub
lie school children so arbitrarily and
recklessly ordered by the Board OF Edu-
cation, advise people to consider well
before they got badly frightened and did
anything rash in the vaccination line,
as it was very possible that scrotulouS
and other diseases rs bad or worse than
the smallpox might thus be contracted,
from the great difficulty in obtaining
good vaccine matter. In support of our
position we quote the following from
one Of our San Francisco exchanges Of
last Saturday:
yAccISArIoS.-we have seen a case Of a
person who was vaccinated about six weeks
ago, which, were it to be seen BY those seek
ing protection from the smallpox, would
cause them to ponder well the chances Of be-
ing stricken down by the terrible scourge and
compare them with those Of incubation with
impure virus. In the case VIC refer to, is and
has been for over four weeks a massive sore,
from three inches above the elbow to about
the SAINT distance below that joint. We have
il from what we consider the very best au-
thority, that there are many more cases fully
as bad as the one Just cited, and that there
is one instance where a woman has had to
suffer amputation. of the vaccinated arm to
snpn har life Thara has ayi1anflv nnf heen
as much care in selecting virus to be used as
safety would warrant. The virtues Of vacci-
ton as the preventive Of smallpox are I'M
doubted, but it is very difficult to obtain pure
virus.
Now il Buusby was DESTROYS of doing
the really fair thing by his readers, why
did he not follow our example and show
both sides Of the question? Why did
he not publish the above item? We ad-
wise Bunsby to let all such things alone
hereafter, and not meddle with subjects
beyond the capacity of his Ignorant
pen" Strange as il may appear, there
are many even in the journalistic profess
sion so absolutely dogmatical rs tn
seem utterly incapable of conceiving q
new idea on any question of public in
terest unless i, BIO vaccinated into them.
sect thee to n nunnery," Bunsby.
IMPERIAL MrYE.-The west drift at tho
90O-foot level has penetrated about
400 feet from the new shaft, and the
face is now Immediately beneath the
good body of pay ore found at the ZOO
foot level. Unless that body dips con-
siderably to the west, it should soon DO
tapped BY this drift. No very encour-
aging signs of it are met with, however,
as yet. \ drift from the new winze be-
tween the two levels mentioned will be
opened in II few days, to intersect and
develop this body of ore, as the winze
preserving its established angle OF in-
~cliuatiou ran out of the vein less than
thirty feet below the IO0-foot level. In
cxcavating this WINE, which is ECO feet
in length, the sinking from above and
the raise from below were so correctly
surveyed and computed, that when the
connection was made, the variation was
ONLY some four or five feet. When this
little difference is approximately
slaughtered out, the winze will be
made available in drifting and develop.
ing the body of ore before mentioned,
as well as answering the purposes OF
ventilation.
GOLD HILL PoLIcE FoRcE.-At the
meeting of the Board of Town Trustees
last evening, II. II. Hamlin was appoint
ed regular policemen for the First Ward,
Gold Hill. kirkpatrick having resigned.
Mr.. Hamlin was formerly II member OF
our police force and vas a very efficient
officer. As au appreciative mark OF
their personal esteem of him rs an OH
Ger and q gentleman, n number OF his
personal friends among the public OF
Gold Hill presented Mr.. Hamlin with II
handsome zane this afternoon. The
presentation took place at the Express
saloon. Mr.. Hamlin, in the First Ward,
and J. Best, Esq, in the Second Ward.
constitute the police force Of Gold Hill.
ORPHANS FAiR.-Notwithstandiug the
great attractions of the circus this week,
the Fair now being held at Armory
Hall, Virginia, for the benefit Of the
Nevada Orphans Asylum has bsen well
attended, and everything goes of SPLEEN
did. 1t is gay. is this Fair. 'Tis jolly.
Everybody says so that goes there, and
everybody of course tells the truth. It
is supposed to close this week, therefore
all who do not attend will be sorry nf-
terward. No one is so poor that he
cannot afford to pay the palsry sum OF
four bits admission, especially when he
knows that 1t goes for the benefit OF the
poororphan.
PoLlricAL DucuSsioy.-The political
issues Of the day will be argued to the
fullest extent, aud submitted to the SEN
sible, reasoning people of this part of
he country, this evening, at Piper's
Opera House, Virginia, by Judge a. W.
. Baldwin and General Thomas II. Will
liams, in accordance with their appoint.
ments. II the meeting is only half as
lively and interesting MS it was at Gold
Hill last evening on the same occasion,
it will be good enough. We hope to
see as many Democrats as possible
present.