Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-10

China John, Mr. Knox, Owen Chess, W Fair,
Mr. Duttenhoffer.
PIPER's OPERA HoUsE-BENYFIr OF
JOHNNY MAcK.-The engagement Of the
talented California Minstrels closes to.
night with the benefit Of Johnny Mack.
During their short season among US
they have been highly successful in
pleasing their audiences, and we regret
that other engagements and influences
induce them to leave so soon. Latterly,
outside attractions and other circum-
stances have prevented their having the
large audiences to which their great
talents and really excellent entertain
meuts fully entitle them ; yet the audi
ences they did have were evidently Sc
leet and appreciativc. The chief points
of their merits which we have particu-
larized have been their vocal and in
strumental music, in which they Ger
tainly excel any minstrel company we
have yet seen this side Of the mountains.
The singing Of Bamford, Norman and
Bree, and the dancing Of Sands and
Ashcroft, have never been equaled here,
and the general character OF their ETH.
opeau acts and delineations has been
very good. Chief among send men" is
Johnny Mack. He is q happy son Of
Momus, and as full Of genial jokery,
witful witticisms, and jovial j~ollities AS
any good egg is full Of contents. He
has made several regiments of friends
since he has been here, and tonight
they are all going to turn out aud
march en- masse to the Opera House,
just merely to give Johnny the gayest
old bumper of q benefit he ever saw.
The bill Of fare programme is already
made up and distributed. Contemplate
the feast and be sure to be present.
NANNY GoAr ASEcporE. Like all
other populous towns we have got some
bad boys running about here at Gold
Hill; boys that SO about doing little
petty thieving, such as nippiug bottles,
chickens, aud in fact anything lying
about loose and capable Of being con-
verified into money. They sometimes
cruise in little squads for the more eff
fective execution of their rascalities,
and sometimes are quite enterprising
and extensive in their ideas. A few
nights since, these boys made u raid
upon the lower part Of Virginia and
captured all the goats they could find
running about loose, or even tied up
drove them to Gold Hill and confined
them in an old building at the upper
end Of town. Next day there was a
great searching after goats on the part
of the proprietors, and they were finally
tracked to their place Of concealment
by Town Marshal Crandall. The boys,
of course, were not to be known or
found, not desiring to make themselves
prominent in the matter about this time.
One old lady said she could call her
goat out from the rest, thus identifying
It. Crandall told her to do so, and she
cried to it, "Nanny, Nanny !" The
animal immediately replied by bleating
and running frantically toward her,
trying to get out of the enclosure, and
when.it was let out, danced and frisked
about her most amusingly all the way
home. 1t was n clear case Of recognized
ownership. That old Nanny-goat
couldn't we'll be fooled. All the other
goats were turned loose and restored to
their owners. Crandall has an eye on
those boys and will bring some Of them
to grief yet.
ROUGH on HIN.-We met our little
stubby friend Sledger, who works in
one Of these Gold Hill mines, yesterday
morning. He was limping terribly,
with one arm in q sling, his head n
daged, face badly scabbed, one eye
closed, left ear slit, three front teeth
gone, and appearing rather dilapidated
generally. We asked him what was
the matter with him now. ooh ! darn it
all, nothin' much" says he. "Some-
thin or nuther is always a h%appenin' to
me. You know / fell over sixty feet
down q shute three or four months ago,
and skinned and bruised mt up all over,
but night sfore last struck it wuss
than that. got catched BY a cayeand
went with it down through three floors,
aud got all stove ter thunder. 'Spect
I'll drap down somewhere and break
my cussed neck one Of these days.
Jest my derned luck, you be-!
DIVIDENDS PAYABLE.-The following
companies have declared dividends pay
able as follows: Kentuck, $50 per
share, payable on the 10th inst; Saw
age, $40, payable on the 18th, and
Crown Point, SIS, payable on the 18th
inst. Our hundred shares in each Of
those companies are not for sale at
present.
KEARsARGE.-Mr. Secretary Wingard
Informs the stockholders of the Kear-
sarge Mining Company, by a notice
under "New To-day" that the Board of
Trustees have levied an assessment Of
two dollars per share OIL the assessable
stock Of the company.
BuLLIox.-There was shipped from
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Gold Hill office
this morning 6 sacks Of bullion,
weighing 500 pounds, and Of the
sssayed value Of Sl5,33S ID.
BuLLIox.-Gold Hill Branch Assay
office of +. Ruhling & Co., received this
morning for melting and assay, 81
329 ounces crude bullion.
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