Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-26
EVENING NEWS.
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Thursday Evening--..---August xo tcoS
DsArH OF Ds. SnAaxEY.-We copy
from the San Francisco Herald Of Tues
day the following obituary item relative
to the death of Doctor Sharkey, former
" so well known to the residents Of this
section: At Hamilton, Nevada, on the
ED instant, died suddenly Of congestion,
John P. Sharkey, n native Of Roscom-
mon, Ireland, aged 4s years. DR..
Sharkey was one of the early pioneers
of California, arriving in this city in
ls49, on board the ship Argonaut, from
Boston. A few months after his arrival
he located at Sacramento, where he kept
u drug store on J street for many years,
until the excitement of the Comstock
lode, 10 Nevada, when he migrated with
other pioneers and located in Virginia
City. Nearly two years since he was
protfered o position in the United
States Army, which he accepted,
as Acting Assistant Surgeon, and filled
Imposition until his time expired, a
few months since. Tho "little Doctor"
as be was commonly known by that
sobriquet, possessed a heart much lar
ger than himself; generous to every one
in need Of his service or his purse ; a
cosmopolitan in every sense true,
faithful and a%ffectionate to all. II ad-
versity is one OF those jewels which
0nipoteucs orders in the paths Of those
He loves, yet chastises, like II retort
eliminating end purifying the spiritual
nature Of man, few were ever buffeted
so much by adversely as our deceased
friend ; even tho elements, flood, fire
and hurricane, seemed leagued against
the progress Of his short and fse,ing
journey. At the fires and floods of Sac
ramento he lost nearly bis all, but
pheuix.like, he rose again from the
ashes. In the early settlements OF Vir-
GINA City, his store or frame building,
while in process, Of raising another
story, Was peremptorily d~islodged by a
hurricane destroying valuable and well
assorted stock Of drugs and chemicals,
leaving him almost destitute. Yet,
with patience and Christian resignation
he pleasantly acquiesced and submitted
10 the divine will. II he had any faults
they were light-iujuries to himself
alone. His good qualities as q citizen,
Christian, humanitarian and prs-emi-
nently a good honest man, will, We
trust, outweigh any minor offences in
the scale Of Gods divine mercy. May
he restiu peace.
PIPER's OPERA HorsE.-George Fran
els Trains lecture of last evening was
much better attended than that of the
evening before, the theater being well
crowded throughout. Train was also
much more coherent and sane in his re-
marks, and even occasionally talked
good sense, although his ~insiuuation
that he himself writes all the good puff,
we give him in the NEws was q little
ungrateful and rough on Us. The idea
of q lecturer writing hi, W puts was
PLAYED out 10 this section some time
ago. It is astonishing to see how peo-
pie crowd to hear this audacious man
pitch in and abuse them to their faces.
He has got more cheek and oratorical
power than Brier, and freely desires all
those whom he is going to scold to-
night to eome and experience the thing
handsomely for themselves. Seriously
~speaking, however, Train Is no ~lunatic,
but contains the crude materials Of a
very smart man, although, like Pete
O'Reilly, be apparently is o great be-
lever in predestination. In another
column read his advertised programme
for tonight.
UNDER THE GAsLIaHT.-An original
v~ersiou-nos Augustine Daly's-of the
above popular sensational play i, being
enacted nightly at Piper's Opera House,
Virginia, to extensive and admiring
audiences. The rendition is excellent
and interesting throughout, interpreted
with startling denouements aud stage
effects. The railroad scene " is in
troduced oftener and more Of it than in
the other version, the Train rushing
across the stage in all directions the
greater part of the time, and With mach
more steam, fire, high pressure snort
ing, and a total disregard Of all tracks.
Tonight the Emperor Norton will APP
pear as the old I" station man. Susan
b. Anthony as Laura CORTLAND, aid a
grand tableau will be given, represent
ing Uncle Freddy Coombs in his favorite
character Of Washington, welcoming
the arrival Of the Presidential Train to
the White House in 1872. See pro-
gramme advertised in another column,
under head Of "New To-day"
PIcyIc.-The Sabbath school children
connected with the Episcopal churches
of Gold Hill and Virginia had a very
ENJOYABLE picnic yesterday in the large
building at the mouth Of the Gould q
Curry tunnel. There was an abundance
of eatables, pleasurable amusement and
other good things, and their parents anu
friends present also appeared to ENJOY
the pleasures Of the occasion as well AS
the children themselves did. Three full
Inns load, won't from Gold Hill, and
their radiant, happy eountenanees, rs
tbey returned home, passing down
through town, all singing gaily as they
ro5e along, were expressive OF unalloyed
dsj;obt. II costs but little to make
children supremely happy.
DEATH FnoM DRues.-Francis Cardiff,
lately a miner in the Hale Il NorcrOs'
mine. having for the past week or so
suffered from biliousness, went to DR..
Gefsyre', drug store, on South G street,
VIRGINIA, near where he boarded, and
,o, some medicine, said 10 be black
d~rops." which he was directed TO take,
s;Sb, drops at a dose. 1t appears, how
ever. he took n great deal more thar
that or else it was u mistake IN tho
medicine, for some time during the
nicb, he was found to be in a critical
condition, as though poisoned; Drs.
Green, Kibbe, Gates and Heath were
snmmoned, and did all they could for
him. bu, he died abo ut 2 P. N. to-day
Sewers MINING ACCIDENTAL an
early hour yesterday morning. Henry
George, a miner 10 the Crown Point
mine, by the giving away OF a platform
nn which he was working, fell seven
fat" through one set Of tim6er', cut
inc his head very badly just above the
,;sSt ear, and also receiving several
Ilkbs an hally.