Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-06
THE EVENING NEWS.
Incl Tar on the war-rnth.

TO take the afternoon stage FOR Califor-
MIA, in order to ship and get on salt
water once more as soon as possible.
He said he had been u bloody land
lubber for the last six months ana hau
go enough of it," He worked on q
ranch, out in Long Valley, awhile last
winter. Being very fond Of milk, cheese,
butter, and "soft tack generally, he
got along well enough untIl one norn-
ING while milking, the bloody old COW
got bedeyilled and kicked him over on
his beam ends and capsized all the
milk" He couldn't stand any more
such " humbugsin'," and tho massacre
of the Pierson family occurring about
tina, time, he thought he would 80 out
with the settlers and try his hand at
killing a few Indians. A party started
ont mounted and armed, and Jack fol-
lowed soon after on an old Plug OF a
mule. thinking he could overtake them,
hut somehow he contrived to take the
wrong trail and never found them at
all. Sailor like, he had neglected to
provide himself with any provisions or
supplies beyond an extra plug OF to-
bacco. and even his stock OF am
muui,ion for the old shotgun he
carried was rather limited. When
evening came-to use his W express
sion-he found himself entirely ''out Of
his latitude he had lost his reckon
ing"and saw no show 10 "make u harbor
for the night" He "turned the bloody
old mule adrift to cruise on his own
hook after grub among the bloody sage
brush, with Il long painter on his neck
to catch him by, but that was tue last
he ever heard of the bloody rascal
For ;hree days Jack wandered over the
toughest country any man ever dreamed
of and never me, an Indian ; in fact, he
swears he sdon't believe any Indian
would be such a bloody fool AS 10 i've
in such a bloody country lie
been on short allowance ut sea, but
never before knew what 1t was to be
on, of grub ea,ircly and have to forage
rs he went along. He saw plenty OF
deer, but they kept out Of range, and us
for the harcs and rabbits they dumped
and bobbed about toe much to allow OF
A fair sho, at them. The oaly game
he had 10 subsiSt on was n species OF
brown sparrow, or something OF that
sort. These seemed plenty enough,
bu. he could only shoot one at a tune,
and then only in case they held stall
long enough, and the picking, cooking,
and eating of these "tloody little chip
pin birds" took him his entire time.
lie never was caught in quite such u
scrape before in his life, except one
time when he got shipwrecked on a lit
tie island oil the coast OF Africa.
He WAS the only one OF IAN entire boats
crew that got ashore alive, and he did 1t
by some mighty tall climbing over the
rocks. The island was almost q barren
rock, and the oaly vegetation worth
mentioning was u low scrub bush which
grew everywhere alike, and bore \ little
t~hree-cornered nut about half the size
of a pea, the kernel of which he found
to be very nutritious, but hard to get
enough Of 10 support life, owing to the
trouble Of Smelling. At low tide he
found a small species Of shrimp, quite
plentiful among the rocks, which, how
ever, like the nuts, he had to eat raw,
rs he had no fire TO cook with. The nuts
were very loosening, while the shrimps
had the opposite effect, so thai the wv
combined formed q very good staple ar
ticle OF diet, although rather tiresome
to live on all the time. He subsisted
thus for six weeks before a passing ship
came TO his relief, and Jack swears that
for that period he had the hardest kind
of q job TO &c, a living. He would have
built Il raft on, of the fragments OF the
wreck, but he had to put in all his spare
time when not asleep, Smelling nuts or
pulling shrimps. Dam me bloody
eyes" SAYS Jack, if the bloody things
didn't almost starve me to death, ana
these bloody chippin' birds was nearly
as bad. | cruiscd about till found
myself down among the white settle
ments on the Truckee. Some OF the
bloody land lubbers there told me
looked as e the bloody Injins had been
a chasin' me, but you just let tue bloody
thieves be without their grog, and on a
shor. allowance Of chippin' birds for
three or four days, and they'd look jist
as bloody pale and weakly as did
SArIsrAcroRY.-Iu this progressive
age Of the world, when everybody is
~anxiously seeking for "new light and
true light on all subjects, it is pleas
ing to observe that the many yariously
misunderstood portions Of the Bible are
being very freely brought forward
for public discussion, with u view to
final settlement. In this connection we
would state that the knotty question A:
"Docs the Bible teach that sinners can
be saved from sin here and be saved in
Heaven without baptism by Immersion"
will be discussed tomorrow Sunday
at . o'clock +. NJ, ut the Court House,
Carson City-Rev. J. Fitzpatrick, affirm
alive Rev. Mr.. Brand, negative. The
discussion will doubtless be n of great
interest. Rev. Mr.. Fitzpatrick says :
"The proposition is u very important
one, for if none can be saved but such
n, are immersed, then the priests can
send whomsoever they please to He'll
and the Lord can't help himself, if they
see fit to withhold baptism and every
priest would be q necessary medi-
ator ; whereas Paul says there is but
one m~ediator-the man Christ Jesus
A FORTUNE FOR FIVE DoLLARs-Who-
ever holds the winning ticket in the
rattle for the St. George Hotel, which
takes place on Friday evening, July
10th, at Theater Hall, Gold Hill, will
most certainly win Il fortune for FIVE
dollars. This fine hotel is nearly new,
situated in a very eligible locality on
Main street, in the immediate vicinity
Of several Of the most prominent mines,
and is worth $4,000. The title to the
property is guaranteed, and immediate
possession given to the fortunate win.
ner. "Risk nothing, have nothing,
is q time honored motto, and the god
dess Fortune only bestows her smiles
and favors on those who WOO her in q
proper shape.
WEEKLY BuLLioS.-The followingis
statement of the amount OF bullion
shipped or received for assay during
the past week From the office OF Wells,
Fargo L Co., in Gold Hill, there were
shipped 1893 pounds Of assayed bull
lion, valued ut S77,3s9 81; from their
Office in Virginia, 6,979 pounds, valued
1911