Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-26
THE EVENING NEWS
Tue.d., Eve.lns.-.--.Januarv as, 1859
Tho scotch Festival.


The festival given at San Francisco
Hall and Restaurant, Gold Hill, last
evening, in commemoration of the birth
day of Robert Burns, by u Scottish
fcllow-citizens, was a decided success,
pleasing and satisfactory to all who par
ticipatsd. The evening and night being
stormy and disagreeable, there were not
quite so many present from Virginia as
was anticipated, yet the company was
sufficiently large.
T~ERPsIcHoREAS.
Dancing being first on the programme,
the assemblags was called to order in
the fine hall over the restaurant, by
Alex Mckenzie, President Of the even
ing, who introduced Alexander Dunn,
the chosen orator OF the evening. Mr..
Dunn made n short and appropriate
opening address, after which Mr.. Will
liam McDougal was introduced and
danced the " Highland Fling" in excel
lent style, elieiting an abundance OF
well-merited applause. The festival
being now duly inaugurated, the COM
pany formed into quadrillos, and the
ball went on. We had the pleasure of
attending, and never in the course of
our worldly career did we cver chance
among q more social and agreeable
company than that Of last night. The
ladies were rather above the average in
the way Of good looks, and rs to the
men they were all "cannie Scots with
whom we affiliated with the most per-
feet facility imaginable. The band,
composed of Rippingham, Fillebrown,
and others, from Virginia, discoursed
most excellent music, the hall was neat
ly decorated with pictures around the
walls, and the front end bore tho name
Of BURNS in large letters, neatly made
with evergreeus. Plaid was quite OBJ
seryable among the ladies' dresses, and
VIM. Laird, u very excellent operator
on tnat peculiar musical engine demon
mated the Scotch bagpipe, Was pictur-
~esously dressed in full Highland cos
tune ; several Of his children who were
present were dressed in like manner.
Mr.. McDougal, when he danced his
Highland Fling, also donned the Scotch
bonnet and plaid. Among other nota-
BILE features in the terpsichorean line
was n genuine, old-fashioned Scotch
reel by the whole company, to the mu-
sic Of the bagpipes alone, Mr.. Laird
taking possession Of the orchestra for
that purpose. This reel was executed
with a refreshing degree of lively, hila-
rous vim we have seldom reen equaled (;
it was followed by a very satisfactory
repetition Of Mr.. McDougNl's Highland
Amid the maze of quadrillc, scho,titch,
waltz and m~azOurka, the time
whirled swiftly by until the hour
of midnight, whonail adjourned to
SUPPER.
The tables were spread in the San
Francisco Restaurant beneath the hall,
and were most beautifully and tasteiully
supplied with all the Injuries OF the
season, gotten up in Welch Il M"dden's
best and most acceptable style. After
the ompan were all seated, President
Mckenzie called the OSsemblage to or
der, and Orator Dunn pronounced the
following "grace," by Burns:
"Some hae meat and Gamma eat,
And som would cat eat wha want 1t;
But we hae meat, and we can eat
And sac the LORD De tnalklt.
The company now instituted u highly
appreciative raid upon the bonntiful
spread of good things before them, and
after q toast drank "To the memory of
Robert Burns" which was appropriate
" responded to by Mr.. Dunn, the COM
pnny repaired to the hall for an hour
or so longer, while the tables were be-
ing cleared preparatory to the
SOCIAL COMMUNION.
At "a o'clock the company all went
down to the tables again, which were
nov provided with glasses, and wine
and other beverages being called for
and poured out, the assemblage was
called TO order, and toasts, sentiments,
songs, speeches, etc, were pronounced
TO be in order. President Mckenzie
proposed n toast to Robert Burns, who's
birthday was now being celebrated.
This was responded to by Orator Dunn,
who also gave several pleasing and ex-
c~slleut r~ecitations from Burns and other
authors, all Of which were well received
and loudly a~pplauded. Mrs. Gillespie
being called upon for a song, sang
bonnie Doom" Mr.. Gillespie sang
Robin was a rovin' boy" Thomas
Harper sang when the war is over,
Masy." Mrs. Ross sang in beautiful
style, "Dsar Scotland, | have no home
but thee" Mr.. Laird sang Health
20 Scotland" In response to q
toas. by Mr.. Dunn 1.-THE Sons
Of Erin's Isle,' Mr.. Mckenzie
responded by singing "Erin ia my
Home"-not that he was an lrishman,
but there being no one else to respond
to the toast, he did it. Mr.. Davidson
sang IT'S the March Of the Cameron
Men," Mrs. Ross sang the "Red,
White and Blue" in excellent style, and
Mr.. McDougal created much merriment
with o song about a beer.jcrker that
bilked him or somebody else he repre-
scented. We speak Of these songs col
lectiyely, but they were interspersed
throughout the exercises. Among tue
toasts given were ''The Press imme-
diately responded to by Mr.. jenkins.
'sThe Miners; :" responded to by Robert
Ross. "The Memory Of Washington
responded to by Mr.. jenkins. "The
Ladies; God Bless Them )" happily re-
sponded to by Mr.. Dunn rcciting
screen Grow the Rushes, o." THE
Land we Left, and the Land we Live
in :" responded to by Mrs. Gillespie in
the song Of "Scotland, Love Thee"
All the songs, sentiments, speeches,
ETC., were much ~applauded, and after
about an hour and n half of this pleas
ing social intercourse, all adjourned
onoe more to the ball room.
CONCLUSION.
We would like much to give " de-
tailed description of this interesting oc-
casion, bat neither time nor space viii
permit. When we left, at . clock tins
morning, the ball was still going on.
The Virginia Band had gone home, but
that irrepressibls Highland piper stood
tanning the wind through his pipes ut