Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-02-05
THE EVENING NEWS
Friday EvenIus--.-...February S, 1869


seugor Tor lrRihlh "uu o"N
the Pacific Union Express Company, we
are permitted to mako the following ex-
tracts from a letter dated january 7th'
recently received by him from IL. h.
Tompkin,, formerly of Washoe, bnt now
sheriff of Carter County, Wyoming Ter
ritory, residing ut South Pass City.
rho numerous friends of Lem. Goliath
bsreabouts will be pleased 10 learn OF
his present whereabouts and brilliant flu
turo prospects
elem. Goliath aud myself are min
ing partners, aud we have as good MIN
ing interests rs any in the Sweetwater
mines. Lem. is ut present superintend-
ing the building Of the Miners Delight
mill, which will be completed in one
week. This is the best quartz country
| ever Jaw. There is All abundance OF
quartz and the majority of it is very
rich in fact, | am exceedingly we'll
pleased with the country and its pros
poets, and expect TO make II good raise
i'm it mex, hummer We are now sink
ing in one Of our mines, aud are down
twenty fest. We hav one hundred tons
of the finest looking rock out you ever
saw, and it prospects big. The voin IS
four feet wide, and still widening out "s
we 90 down. The Miners Delight
Company are down sixty feet, and tax
ing out rock that will work several
thousands of dollars por ton 1t is liter
ally filed with fine gold | never saw
its equal. Several mining sales have re-
--- .ur,.t.l 10 Eaefarn comma
nies, and in the spring II number oil mills
will DO erected, which are much needed.
Some three hundred honest miners
will winter here ; they all have ON
Portable houses, plenty OF provisions
aud wood for the winter, and those that
are sinking on their lodss have good
houses built over their shafts. We had
fine weather here up TO New ! ear
Day since then We have had II slight
sprinkle Of snow aud considerable wind.
There is three or four inches OF snow on
the ground At present and the weather
tolerably cold. None OF us calculate TO
do much work this winter, but will lay
of on our oars and get fat for spring, as
we have plenty of good grab aud are
comfortably quartcred and healthy
PIrER's OrgRA HOUSE, Blow for
Blow, or the Twin Sisters, proved n
good attraction ut the Oper" House last
evening, there being n fall audience
present. The play is a very interesting
comedy, replete with dramatic merit
and amusing delineation, especially in
the character of Charley Sprays, very
ably aud cxcellently rendered by Mr..
Hsrne. Miss Western sustained the
lual i~mpersonation of Mildred Craddock
and her twin sister Alice very effective
ly. Miss Hinckley was u capital repre-
sentative Of the .s%prigh,ly and gay Nifty
Nobbler, and Mrs. KOach's PRESERVATION
of the sportive Lady Linden was very
excellent indeed. The same may be
said of Ha%rrison's Lieutenant Linden,
and B%eatty's John Drummond. The
niece ia one well calculated TO attract
and have q good run, but it will be set
aside ut present for tho great sensation
which, after long and elaborate rehear-
sal aud preparation, is Just now ready
and will be put upon the Opera House
stage for the first time tonight. This
grand attraction is, "After Dark,
something after the style Of "Under the
Gasliyht," and is sure TO draw
houses for at lcast n week. Secure
reserved seats ut the box Office, without
extra charge, or else be on hand early
and avoid the rush;
PuoILIsrIc VrsIr.-Wc were favored,
Yesterday afternoon, Mt our o,hcc, with
n visit from Joe COburn and Con.
Mooney, both famed in the puSil'st'c
circles of the world, who have Just ar
rived in the land OF sNGe-hrush and
silver bricks, DESTROYS OF bcholding for
themselves what there is to be seen.
Piloted by the beautiful and accom-
plished Mike McCluskcy, they inspected
the various objects of interest IN n
about Gold Hill to their sntisfaction-
viewing the Notifications of Fort Home
stead from n distancc-and Endorsed the
whisky Of the place rs good. Coburn
has rather of an easy, jolly look, like
John Woodland, and few would accuse
him Of being q pugilist. Mooney Inns
also n quiet, respectable, Good Templar
sort of m appearances, and neither nc
nor Joe look half so desperately wicked
and o~bstreperous us Mike McClnSkey
and Tom Moore, who rode with them in
the buggy. Coburn proposes giving q
sparring exhibition, next Sunday nj
tsrnoon, at Piper's Opera House; and
both he and Mooney will go to White
Pine shortly.
NypsRIN TO ms DGArH.-Daniel
Dun, tho smallpox patient who, IN n
Of insanity induced by the
fearful disease, made his escape from
tho pest-houss near the County HoSpi-
tai, day before yesterday, IN his shirt,
drawers and socks, had not been heard
from this morning, although parties have
boon out in search of him. He had
been traced last evening by his bloody
footprints in the snow and on the rough
ground to q point in the foothills about
four miles northwest of the Lady Bryan
mine. and his corpse will doubtless be
found to-day, for his being still alive
would be m instance of human cndu-
rance, indeed, savoring of the marvel
lOuS. unless cnreIuII 'hd So"St'"t'l
watched, at the p~sst-house, such pa
ticn,s ought to be confined where they
could neither jump out Of the window
and break their necks, rs in one case u
short time ago, nor run away from the
institution rs in the present instance
Smallpox patients seem to become de-
moralizsd by being in the pest-house,
or else they are not so carefully looked
after a. those treated ut home. DR..
Downcr has been very successful IN ms
treatment of patients afflicted with thai
fearful disease under ordinary circum'
stances, but it is rather of q sad arsn-
ment against the ~pcst-hou'e, that two
smallpox patients at least have already
died either while being removed th'ther
or in consequence Of such removal, and
two others may be said TO have com-
mitted suicide after getting there.
GRAND MArrYEs.-A grand matinee,
for the specia! accommodation Of ladies,
children, families, and others who Il
get no other opportunity of attend
ing the theater, will he given on Satnr-
day Tomorrow afternoon, ut Plpcr's
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