Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-11-11
NH EVENING NEWS.
Thursday Evenins..-....Nov. II. 1869
A wnshOe Bachelor.

little one-story dwelling is near the cor
ner of B street aud Sutton avenue, and
contains two rooms. He occupies it by
himself, and although he may have been
married to some extent in years past,
he certainly lives now n genuine bach
elor's life, and we cite him as a speei-
men of the true domestic Washoe arti.
Gle. His house contains two rooms, but
he principally occupies one Of them,
where be cooks, eats, sleeps, etc. the
other room is not for rent. But what,
TO us, was of far more interest than
Hay,on himself, was his menagerie Of
small beasts, kept in the little back
yard adjoining. His family Of fifteen
white rats, especially, attracted our at
t~ention. They are about the size and
shape Of ordinary rats, but they are Of
n pure white, with beautiful pink
eyes and very tame, freely allowing
themselves to be handled and
played with, and susceptible Of
being laugh. almost anything, exhibit
ing a remarkable degree of intelligence.
llaytoa received two of these pretty
little pets from Chicago some FIVE
months since, and these have increased
TO the present fifteen. They live in u
series of little boxes connected with
each other BY means Of holes, burrow-
ins among hay, and feeding upon crack
ers, meat, etc. They appear very happy
and content, and even when the door Of
their little home is left open they do not
apparently care to get out. When they
cat, they sit up like squirrels, and nurse
their young by holding them up in their
arms Just like humans. Stalking about
the yard was q couple Of fine blooded
game chickens, looking more yoracious
than ferocious. Then there was Hay
tons dog " Ball" a smar brindle pup,
in strict training for q circus dog, al
ready exhibiting wonderful talent i'll the
a Of jumping over Il series of chairs,
climbing ladders, standing on his head,
and all that sort of thing. a huge
Washoe squirrel, in a revolving cage
heal at hand, does all the barking when
the dog is in training. Just outside the
high board fence at the back of the
yard, is tho principal Pluto club room
of the city. There these initiative and
docilc children Of the sage brush con-
grsgats 10 n great huddle daily, and play
poker equal TO the beat white gamblers,
and stand winning or losing pretty
much after the same style. We must
not close this article without making
particular mention of the old flag Hay
ton showed US. 1t is only four or five
feet long, and is the first American flag
that was ever hoisted in Virginia. Hay
ton used to have it flying from the haS-
staff on top of his carpenter shop, which
was At the corner of Taylor and L
streets, in the early times, aud under
that flag all the traitors arrested about
the time Of L~ineoln's assassination had
to pass on their way to the Provost
Guard station, or Fort Churchill. This
old dilapidated flag formerly bore the
names of Lincoln aud Hamlin, and sub
s~eouen,ly Lincoln and Johnson, but
when Andy turned traitor, Hayton
took his name off the flag, leaving hat
Of Lincoln alone. That old flag is treas
ured as a precious relic by Mr.. Hayton.
AFTER THE yioLAroRs.-Chiet Dow
ncy, of Virginia, is apparently bent on
doing the fair, impartial thing, i n the
matter of arrss,ing the prostitutes and
renters Of houses OF prostitution, on
South C street, as we suggested in our
item OF yesterday. Last evening be
made other arrests Of y%iolators, to which
we shall be liable 10 refer III due time.
The irst trial in the matter was that OF
Martha Camp, arrested evening before
last. The case was tried by Jury before
Justice Ellis, and resulted in the acquit-
tai Of defendant, she establishing the
point that she kept = bar, and got her
living in that way, therefore could not
lie arrested for prostitution. The Court
room was crowded all day with inter.
ested spectators. Other trials take place
to-day. Dswney has taken this job III
hand, and is going to do his duty m
nsr,ially, not allowing even y city Al
dermon to violate the well known city
ordinances in that respect any more
than anybody else. Any city official
c,uch. in tho willful violation OF this or
any other city ordinance, should be got
after a little rougher than anybody else,
as they are supposed to be the trusty
guardians Of the city's interests and re-
s~psctsbility, and not to in any way
coun,enauce, aid or abst any violation
of city ordinances passed by the Board
of Aldermen for the public interest II
we'll being.
PANORAMA CoMISG.-The fine pano-
ramic painting entitled the Iron Cir
cle," being au artistic delineation on
canvas Of n trip around the world,
painted by J. Skilding, at Reno, was
COMPLETED a few days since, and has
been exhibited twice in that town TO
good audiences. 1t is spoken OF very
highly rs a most excellent and artistic
work. and Ss understand that it will be
produced, at Piper's Opera House
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings of next week. The canvas is
some $50 yards i, length, and the whole
weighs nearly Il ION. Among the pic
lures arc represented all the towns and
cities Of any note along or near the line
Of the continental railroad, including
Virginia, Salt Lake City and Omaha
also New York, London, Paris, the
Susz Canal, Mount Gems Tunnel, San
Francisco, and n vast number of other
points Of interest. II the painting is as
good as i. is said to be, there will be
yery large and appreciatire audiences
ut the Opera House every evening 10
see it.
OPERA House MELoDEoS.-There was
the usual jolly attendance at the Opera
House last evening, and everything
passed off excelleutly. A very good en-
ter,ainment was given, but a stiii oet'et
one will be given tonight, the occasion
being the benefit of Lew Rather. lie"
i, an old and highly talented favor''e IN
tho melodeou line, and has a small army
of friends in this section large dc
,ocbmont Of whom will crowd the Opera
House tonight. In addition to the rich
programme of songs, dances, Ballads
character acts, and general deiineatiohs
Lew is going to Introduce n novel iea'
ture, for this evening only, being :
se,.to, with boxing gloves, between =
couple of female admirers oil III,
mmsply art" The whole will be eioseC
with the "Flying Spud," n Particular!
lively and pleasing arrangement III Tue
.,,a,;onai line. being q burlesque on