Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-12-29
H EVENING NEWS.
wcans.sa, Ev.,ins.-.-..Dee. 90, 1859

GOING EAsr.-Three poor little Or
phan boys from Gold Hill and Vir-
ginia City will leave here tomorrow
for Reno, where they will take the Pa
citic Railroad for the East on a visit to
their friends. Their anne r John
Farnham, whose relations have not
seen him for twenty years. He was
quite young when he left his relatives,
who will hardly know him when he
gets back-as he has become very bald
headed on the Pacific coast. His
health is rather delicate, his weight
being only 30 pounds-and he has an
idea that. if he remains in Washoe
much longer his relations won't own
him at all. John is a bully good boy,
and will be missed when he is gone.
Another one OF this trio of orphans is
little William Cross (Parson Gibson's
partner), who goes to York State to
see his father and mother, brothers
and sisters, who have not seen him
but once for the last fifteen years.
Gross is one of the few lucky boys in
Washoe, as he takes home with him a
clear $1,000 in gold. He has been
dealing pretty extensively in the Uoyle
Gold and Silver Mine for n year past,
his dividends netting him the sum
stated. He is a fat little youth of 2l5
pounds. The last one of these orphans
is little Billy Sheppard of Virginia
City-a spriShtly youth of 22O pounds,
good looking in proportion to weight
can run like 4 deer, dOwn-hill-and
is highly esteemed by all who know
him. He Is a 49-er-and has not been
home but once in 20 years. lie goes
to see his old father, who is SIS years of
age. These three orphans are all COM
ing back-double or single, as luck
strikes them. Hosts Of friends will
see them of tomorrow about noon, as
they are going from Virginia to Reno
in a private carriage. Remember
the poor orphan is a scriptural in
junction-and we expect they will be
remembered, especially when they
start tomorrow. Good luck so with
them: and q hearty welcome back on
their return. six hundred and fifty
pounds of orphan leaving ut IL time
is 4 sud bereavement.)
Loss or CoNEIpENcE.-Nobody need
be ashamed to own up to being consid-
erably frightened during the recent
heavy earthquake shocks. Everybody
has a right to be scared on such occa-
sions. and it is against nature not to
be. The weather is always considered
variable, and not to be depended upon
49, ,-ol- - aHAthAr aud fhn
wind always chooses its own quarter
to blow from. Nobody ever depends
implicitly OH the wind, weather,
clouds. sunshine, seasons, or other ire
oular conditions and elements but old
mother earth is looked upon as the
groundwork of society-our very
foundation. When that becomes
shaky. whittier shall we turn for true
stability? When IL bottom drops
out what have we to stand on? When
such unexpected connections, and I'M
natural, uncalculated on ~diSarrange-
ments and commissions occur, no Won
der that our confidence in the eternal
stability of the world becomes also
shaky. Blockheads, idiots and old
whisky bloatS only, may consistently
say they amt afraid of earthquakes.
HELD THREE AcEs.-We heard IL
of the wicked old chaps up at Virginia,
yesterday. telling his earthquake eN-
perience of Sunday evening. Says he:
"When that ar cussed old shake come
on. me and old Bill Snifter was a sittin
and a playin poker-four bits ante.
And we was q playin it mighty rec6-
less, too, cause both of us had our bel
lies full of hot Tom and Jerry, and
didn't care q dam. | straddled the
blind, and so did old Bill. He Clipped,
and | Clipped, and we kept on 4 strad-
dim and a chippin' till we had more'n
q hundred dollars in the pot. Then he
called me and | called him, and we
was both just a goin' ter call for more
hot stuff, for | held three aces, and old
Bill thought he had me blufed. when
that cussed big shake come On. rough.
Old Bill he gina howl and bolted, and
| follercd suit out into the street, but |
didn't let 90 of them three aces, you
bet rot me: but Bill he lost all his
keerds, so the thing vas mixed. When
the shake cleared of we went back
and dividedthe coin, and then got jolly
drunk over it, but darn me II | don't
think my three ices called for that
pot"
PipER's OrERA UoUsE.-rhe Johnny
Thompson minstrels offer a very pleas
ing bill of entertainment for this even
ING. The Pixley Sisters, who appear
with the company, will give some of
their sweetest ballads, songs and
dances. Stuart will do up his inimit-
. able champion clog, Childs and Lind
say will appear in new and more
lai,ohable ~comicalities than ever, and
Johnny Thompson himself will intro
duce his famous sketches" and do
lots of other wonders, and the whole
will conclude with the burlesQue trag-
edy of '.Hamlet," the entire company
appearing.
GoULp& CURRY EIEcIIoN:-At the
annual meeting of the Gould & Curry
Mining Company, held at san Fran
cisco on Monday last, an animated
election was held, resulting in 3.67S
votes being cast for the Trustees
elected, as follows, Messrs. Stein
heart and Wormser i'm place of Messrs.
Fry and Sunderland /: Alpheus Bull,
VI. Morgenthall, A. II. Z. Harmon, |.
Steinhart, A. Hayward, Thomas Bell
and Isidor Wormser. The officers are
as follows: Alpheus Bull. President ;
Isaac L. Requa, superintendent; VIM.
G.. Ralston. Treasurer. and Alfred h.
Durbrow, Secretary.
No TNmENUx.-In our notice yes
terday of the Christmas Festival at st.
Johns Church, Gold Hill. we inten-
tionally included the word ~"tableauN'
among the exercises of the occasion.
Not being present we made the no
tice thereof on IL own nook,
and it seems hit it all right with the
exception that they didn't have any
tableaux, as is usual with all similar
exhibitions. High authority in the
matter, however, informs us that:
Neither tableauX, oil other theatrical
performances. ever have been or will
be allowed in this church edifice."