Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-09-01
A BRITISH NEWSPAPER.

great quarto sheet, about the size of a
horse blanket, and evidently
las an immense advertising patronage;
It also contains reading matter enough
10 last a week, and all for two pence q
copy. AS wo glance through it we feel
, natural sort of reverence for such n
full. grown substantial old B%ritisher,
which has travelled so many thousand
miles across the broad salt water and
the vast continent in so short a time to
visit US; and when we read about the
meeting of the Common Council,
with the fright worshipful the Mayor"
presiding over the Aldermen, we feel
humbly impressed with the intense i'm
portance of SO heavily titled o function
Reading also about the Court OF
Chancery, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
C~lonbrook, Prince Arthur and other
a~ristocratic features, gives tho paper
somewhat Of u foreign and nnrcpublican
appearance; yet there are many other
points which our eagle eye and assimi-
lative mind embraces with a real frater-
nal regard.
The more we read it the more natural
aud home.like it seems. With eager
apprecis,iveness We scan those choice
items about ga Brutal Murder" "a
Gamekeeper Drowned" Suicide from
a Steamer" Shocking S;eno at a
Graveyard" Fatal Accident" Muir.
der by q Soldier" "Tho Convict
Fanny Oliver" "Outragc in Upper
ary," and VIC are reminded of our OWL
local items. Then we read about n
woman who murdered her child and
then cut her own throat and how she
had completely severed the ~windpipe so
that q silver tube bad to be inserted in
her throat in order to enable her to
breathe, but Inflammation of the lungs
set in, and she died. The next item is
about how at the summer assizes Mt
Croydon, on Wednesday, the man Sim
mons was indicted for feloniously kill
ing his wife, at Redhill, by pushing her
down stairs, by which means she frac-
tured her skull, and death resulted.
Tho jury found a verdict Of man.
slaughter, coupled with n strong recon-
m~endation to mercy. From this the
Judge dissented, and took time to con-
slider his sentence. Ultimately tho
prisoner was sentenced to FIVE years
penal serritude. Let of cheap enough
we should say.
In another place we read a commune
cation from GA Regular Subscriber"
who anxiously inquiries of tho editor
how the alarming increase of juvenile
suicides is to be put a stop to, citing nu.
merous instances where little boys and
girls just 60 recklessly to work and
hang themselves, simply because they
get angry or troubled about something
and don't care about living any longer.
Among tho most recent instances he
mentions o youth named Tresser,
about IA years old, who had quarrel0d
with his father, and then hung himself
next morning out of pure a~ggravation
Also a boy of Is named Tanner, who
hung himself in tho House Of correc.
ton, where he had been sent for six
months for stealing a pair Of boots. lie
very sensibly remarks by way Of wind
up What an awful state of things
mere boys under such circumstances
taking away their lives"
His last proposition is IN eminently
sound Que. Boys don't cut up any such
nonsense as that here in Washoo. They
might quarrel with father, mother and
all their relatives, or pack of a whole
shoe shop and then thrash the proprio'
tor if he growled too much about it, but
they would never 20 TO the trouble and
expense of q suicide on it. Judging
from this side of the paper, We begin to
think the Britishers aro no better in
their wickcducss or morals than us
WashoeiteS, and if they are simply try.
ing to initiate us they can give us three
to one in tho game and then beat us
bad. What a glorious field for local
reporters
We gladly turn to the spicy column,
headed " Miscellaneous" from which
we clip the following extracts;
A months imprisonment in gaol wa,
thought BY an Irishman a triaing sentence,
because, as il was in tho depth Of winter, the
days were so short.
A little boy, on coming homo from church,
where he had seen a person work the bel.
lows Of the organ, said to his mother 20,
mamma, | wish you had been to church to-
day; such fun A man pumped music out Of
an old cupboard"
THE yELocpEpE MANIA.-Jarscy to Jehu
lat sight Of n BICYCLE: "Vy, il ere isn't a
cove as as been condemned to transportation
on a itinerary treadmill." Jchu-"No, my
old honcycombe; it's only the latest fashion
in donkey-carts. and the donkey us run away
with itself, that's ALL
An exhibitor of a crocodile somewhere in
California telegraphed to its owner for 100
cuts. The message stated it as cats. Where
upon the owner remarked, "Wcll, I can't at
tend to it to-day; telegraph back that they
must feed the beast on something else, and
VIC will send the cats on Monday"
A poor Tilted fellow says
"Woman's love is like Scotch snuff,
You get one pinch, and that's enough"
whereupon n Niger Of more sense, as well
as soul, responds =
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