Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-04
Departures.
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ARRIVAL OF GENERAL Ton THUxB n
PARrY.-General Tom Thumb and wife,
and Commodore Mutt and Minnie War
rem arrived at Virginia at lol o'clock
this forenoon precisely, on the regular
stage from Dayton. Whent these famous
little folks dismouutsd at the lnterna-
%tionnl, quito a sensation was created,
and people ran from all directions to see
them, same as they would to a stabbing
ARRAY or a big dog fight. The General
and the Commodore both strobe into
the hotel like two battle-scarred veter-
ans, apparently unconscious Of being
anyways ~diminutive, while the two la
dies, each of them about as big as q
cronk bottle, could not be e1celled in
pretty demeanor or general appearance
by the largest m in the land. We
saw one big mop.headed Piuts warrior
eagerly gazing upon them until they
disappeared within the hotel, and then
away he ran in quite an excited name
to tell his dusky brethren about the
pretty little white squaws he bad seen.
The Piutes never saw any such little
grown folks before. Tom Thumb and
party give their first entertainment at
Piper's Opera House this evening, and
to n crowded house. They met with
immense favor at Washoe, Carson and
Dayton. Tomorrow evening they ap-
pear for the last time, leaving for Reno
the next day.
CalrrcAL.-Albert Springer, whose
skull was fractured with a pistol by
Bob Dedman in an ARRAY at the Grecian
Bend saloon, Virginia, yesterday morn
ing, is now lying 10 a critical condition
at the Collins House. DR.. Green, as
sisted by DR.. Heath, performed the
operation of trcphining his skull this
forenoon, extracting eleven pieces OF
bone. His injuries are worse than at
FIRST supposed, and are likely to terlnin-
ate fatally. As we stated yesterday,
Dedman was re-arrested, and now lies
in the county Jail, bail being refused.
DEAD BODY FoUSp.-The dead body
of q blacksmith formerly employed at
the Birdsall mill, Dayton, was found
night before last in n deserted cabin q
shor. distance below town. The body
had evidently been dead q week. In
the pockets were found Sl29 T5 in coin,
and a passport showing him to be a
native of Stockholm, Sweden. An in
quest will be held to-day.
CLEARING AWAY II WREcK.-The
Cho!lar-Potos Company have a force of
men at work clearing away the ruins of
their hosting works recently destroyed
by FIRE. The top part Of the shaft, which
was badly burned, is to be r%etimbered
and reconstructed, and we understand
the shaft is TO be cleared out with a
view of making il still available in
further prospecting operations.
LILtIpurrAX TURSoUr.-Tom Thumbs
little carriage passed up through Gold
Hill to Virginia yesterday afternoon,
from Dayton. Tho little driver, brother
to Commodore Mutt, was the only occu-
pant. Those two gay little ponies,
scarcely larger than medium.sized dogs,
with the balance Of the neat little turn
out, attracted considerable attention.
BgrrER.-The recent cleanup Of the
Sierra Nevada Company was much
better than was expected, being rather
more than the average. The crude bull
lion was shipped to San Francisco,
therefore the precise figures arc not
known as yet. The mill is actively
pounding away on another half months
run.
NEw INSTITUTION. A largo NEW
wooden building has been erected within
the pas, few days by the Virginia and
Carson railroad company, on o knoll
n short distance east Of the Chollsr-
Po,osi works at Virginia, for a foundry
and repair shop.
ApoIrIoSAL.-Moore L Riordeu, owing
to great increase of business, are al
ready obliged to build IN addition to
their boiler shop on the Divide. The
extension is about as large as the orig
inal location.
Dissolve learn that Emerson Cain,
who was shot by George Hall at the
Chollar-P otosi works, Virginia, a few
days since, died about noon today in
consequence of his wound.