Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-25
TaE RECENT SMOKY ATMOSPHERE

TIE RECENT SMOKY ArNospnsRE-
SCIENTIFIC ExPLASArIoS OF 1.-THE
smoky state of the atmosphere which
has so VIGOROUSLY existed all up and
down both slopes Of the Sierra Nevada,
from Oregon to away south OF Califor-
MIA, within the last forty-eight hours
has departed from this locality and
yamosed toward Reese River, greatly
to the satisfaction Of everybody. Vari-
Gus were the causes assigned for this
discustiugly smoky and obscure state
Of the atmosphere, most Of our contem-
poraries declaring it to be simply smoke
from the burning Of immense tracts Of
heavy pine timber land in Oregon, while
others said il proceeded from fires in Ma
rim County, California. But it seems
thatthey were all wrong-most democrat
izedly astray in their ideas, for on Mon
day, September 2lst, the California
Academy Of Natural Sciences in San
Francisco met and considered the on
dition Of the atmosphere. The result of
its cogitations is rs follows: 1.-The OBJ
scuration Of the sun was not caused by
the Oregon or Marin fires. The sun
when seen through smeke is Of u red
dish color whereas its color was puce.
or pink or violet, according to the dens-
ity of the atmosphere. The condition
was caused by the existence Of saline or
silicious matter floating in the atmos-
phere. The dryness Of the air had
probably absorbed the moisture from
the fog, leaving the saline particles sus-
pended, as particles Of ice frequently
are, by Which the suns rays were acted
upon." Satisfactory as E C?dmpsuS
hath it. A whirlwind, or a " Washos
zephyr" may get after and concentrate
a cloud of these saline particles then
look out for n shower Of salt somewhere
ont in the Great Basin. Upon this
scientific hypothesis ZONE Of those vast
beds Of salt out there might perhaps be
accounted for.
E%LABoRArELY DiREcrED.-At Ross 4
Hays Express Saloon, this morning, we
were shown n letter which came all the
way from Canada and strange rs it
may appear, it really did reach its des-
tination with the following ingenious
direction upon the envelope: ITO Mr.
John Doe, Nevada, Gold Hill, Virginia
City, On the Divide - and then, for
fear the letter should not go straight to
the deliberately described locality, it was
carefully dedicated on one corner, in
p%arenthesis "To the care Of J. b.
Ross, Gold Hill, Virginia City, Nevada"
This last point in the direction wal
really judicious, rs by its means alone
the letter reached-or will reach the
person intended. Postmasters here
have to be pretty well acquainted with
everybody and decidedly ingenious in
guessing or somehow finding out where
a letter of that description is desired to
go.
FIgE ALARN.-About 8 o'clock, last
evening, while the Union mass meeting
was in progress on G street, Virginia,
an alarm of fire was sounded. The
machine, rolled, but no one seemed to
particularly know where the FIRE really
was or if il were not a false alarm crea-
ted for the purpose Of in~terrupting the
meeting. II seems, however, that there
really was occasion for the alarm, as
. FIRE by some mean, or other had start
ed in the basement of the store occupied
BY o. F.. Green, on u street, between
Taylor and Union streets. The prem
Uses arc occupied rs an upholstery and
furniture repairing shop, and the lire
was found to be among a lot Of mat
trasses, straw, ~shavings and other
trash in the cellar. II was eItinguished
by the use Of buckets, without much
damage to the premises. Some OF the
board partitions were badly charred,
and a few minutes later there would
have been q lively FIRE.
FATAL STAGE ACCIDENT ~ lDAno-
Oxx OF WILLS, FARGO & Co.'S EXPRESS
MEssxSGERs KILLID.-W. G. Crandall,
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S stage agent at
Virginia, received the following tele-
gram from Mr.. Kern, more familiarity
known as " Boston :"
END OF LINZ, September "a, lS6S.-W. G..
Crandsll: Idaho stage upset-Lirermore
driyer-near Silver City. Killed Geo. French
instantly. hurt Ward very bad. KERN.
These are all the particulars given.
French and Ward were express mes,en-
gers on Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'S stage line
between the two ends Of the track.
George French was formerly n stage
driver on the Placerville route, between
Sacramento and Virginia, and was q
man Of some thirty-hye years Of age,
we should judge. The full particulars
Of this sad accident will be learned
shortly.
FIX THAT SrASD.-The new speakers
stand, or shed, just erected on c street,
Virginia, and which was used for the
first time last evening, is a very judi
cious arrangement in case Of bad wealth
er, when there would be no audience
fools enough to stand exposed in the
street, listening to auybody's speeches,
but it is poorly constructed rs regards
letting the voices Of the speakers cor
rallied inside Of it be heard by the null
titude supposed be outside list
euing. The roof may be all well
enough, but there ought to be no sides
10 il. The idea Of boxing An orator up,
and then standing outside to hear him
speak 10 simply ridiculous. Let the
thing be fixed better than that Tor
Edeer,on to speak from tomorrow even
ing.
Day or AroSHNENT.-At shutdown
,bi, evening the Day Of Atonement, or
Sabbath Of Sabbaths, the great fast
day of the Jews, commences and will
be observed by u Jewish citizens with
fasting and prayer, until tomorrow
evening at sunset. This observance
will be mighty rough on some OF tnem
Of our acquaintance, but we DOUBT no'
thew can stand it. They have u sym
pathies in the fasting part. A meS,ia4
for prayers and other exercises w,'t os
held this evening at CT o'clock al MA
sonic Hall, Virginia.
GROCERIES AND PRorisioSs.-s. L'
merry + Co., at their brick store Main
street, lower Gold Hill, have a choiee
assortment Of family groceries, ProVi'-
- ,okacrN ciunFl hardware,