Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-03-06

F. W. CAHwRIGHr.-This unfortunate
victim to overweight religious excite
ment as q devout member of the Metho-
dist church, Virginia, was still in the
County Jail this morning, securely
chained and confined. He is even more
violent in his rawlings than ever. Yes
terday one of the prisoners confined in
the Jail, under the impression that he
could by the power Of his eye mesmeri-
cally quiet him, was allowed to go into
his cell and try it On. His mesmeric
| power, however, proved to be Ct all in
his eve" for the lunatic sprang upon
him like q tiger, threw his manacled
hands over his head, drew tho mesmer-
list to him and bit him severely in the
face. He might have been much worse
deyoured had not the Jailer rushed in
to the rescue. The maniac will be
duly passed upon by tho doctors
to-day, and shipped to Stockton.
From personal acquaintance with Cam
wright, We can say that a qaieter, more
orderly aud moral a we never knew.
He is nearly 10 years OF age, aud from
frequent conversations with him we
fousd him to be Of a very well informed,
studious and conscientiously religious
turn of mind, always talking and argu-
ing on religion, and advocating his W
church views relative thereto whenever
he could find a willing listener. He
most certainly was a Jealous Christian,
and Il strong opponent Of S~piritaalism.
He considered the phenomena Of Spirit.
ualism as the workings Of the devil"
and personally Informed us on one or
two occasions that more persons were
made insane through Sp~iritualism than
from any other cause. During his in
sane rawlings he imogines himself at
times to be God, fully empowered to
" strike people dead" as he expresses
il. Then he earnestly exhorts every
one he sees to kneel and pray; at other
times he INDUCES in the most vulgar,
| b~lasphemous aud obscene language,
varia,iug it occasionally with terrific
howlings like q wild beast. When re-
moved to Stockton, away from further
religious excitement and surrounding
influences, VIC doubt not that we shall
soon have the pleasure of recording his
return 10 reason and the full exercise oil
his natural good, sound sense. At pres
ent ne is q sad commentary on the prac-
teal effects of too much religion.
TuE COMING FEsrIvAL.-Next Mon
dny evening the ladies' festival at
Theatre Hall, Gold Hill, in aid Of the
Methods, Episcopal Church of this
town, commences and will be continued
| for three evenings. The Objects to raise
, sufficient amount of coin to get the
church property insured, and from pres
| emit indications there will no difficulty
at all in doing this, for n very large
number of tickets are already sold at
fifty cents each. The person selling the
largest number Of tickets will receive
as a prize reward therefor a large and
valuable Bible, which can be seen at
Frankenheimer's dry goods store ..on
Main street, and the person selling next
10 the largest number will receive a
| diamond ring. AS is usual at all m
lar fairs, q large amount OF fancy, valu-
! able, useful and desirable articles Will
be exposed for sale at reasonable rntes,
besides refreshments, etc. There will
also be plenty of amusement and gen.
eral fun, good society, pretty girls and
other pleasing features. Miss Howe,
one of the teachers in the Gold Hill
public schools, will be present with q
| class of her best singers, and the ladies
are fully determined that nothing shall
be in the rattle ticket dunning line,
persistent begging or any obnoxious
line which shall induce gentlemen to
STAY away, but On the contrary, they
intend so to manage this fair that all
who come the first evening will be well
pleased and DESTROYS of being present
on both the succeeding evenings. Dur
ing the progress Of the fair, n hno band
of music will be in attendance, and each
evening after the close of the fair al!
who choose to remain and indulge in
the innocent amusement Of q social
dance will be accorded the privilege OF
doing so. Let everybody buy tickets
for the fair and go every evening. We
predict that it will be as sociable n
agreeable Il fair a. has been yet held IN
Storey County.
Is Towx.-Col. j J. Hayes, well and
f,vorAbly known in Gold Hill as the for
mer proprietor Of the St. Charles Mar
ket, and Mayor" Of our town, arrived
last night from San Francisco. The
Colonel is the small and delicate mem
Der of the firm of Gle, Hayes Il Co.,
wholesale liquor and wine dealers on
From, street, San Francisco, and he has
Just come up here for q few days to see
to the business of his house. He is
rather thin and in poor health just now,
but he is welcome, Notwithstanding.
SERVICE IN ST.. JoHS's CuuRcH.-Thc
Rev. Geo. B. Allen, Of Carson, will hold
divine service in St. Johns Church to-
morrow evening at half-past o'clock.
All persons are heartily invited to
attend.
DIEp OF SMALL-PoX.-John Winkel-
man, opposite the Rhode Island mill,
Lower Gold Hill, died of smallpox last
evening. There are but two or three
cases Of the disease remaining in this
town.
Demonstration this valuable
mine there was shipped to mill during
the month of February an average OF
40 tons of ore per day. The bullion
shipment for the month amounted to
500, $50.