Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-09-28

the preliminary examination, Will en-
ter as q student In the fourth class
The lady teachers are also petitionine
for tile appointment Of one Of theil
own EEK to the position Of Deputy Su'
p%erintendent Of. Public Schools. They
argue that nlne-tenths Of the teacher.
are women, many Of whom find II
necessary to appeal to the Superin,
tendent for advice and assistance, aut
they think that an experienced woman
would be far more able to render II
than the best-intentioned male officer
The request Is not unreasonable, but
hardly likely to be complied with.
shrimps fer Manure.
That crustacean delicacy, the shrimp
whose usefulness was supposed to bt
limited to the lunch-table, has been re-
Gently put to = purpose certainly moi
embraced In Its original mission. Some
two hundred Chinamen are employed
in catching them along the shores O
Marin County. They are then boiled,
dried In tile sun, ground In hand.mlll:
to a fine powder, sacked and shipped
to Hongkong, where they are used As q
fertilizer, and said to be nearly equal
to Peruvian guano. The ship Sonora
Is taking In two thousand sacks 'oi
them IS a portion Of her cargo.
Tho Hebrew Nsw.Year.
No one can have any idea how nu.
merlcally strong the descendants Of
the children of Israel are In this city,
unless he takes a walk round town dur.
ing a Jewish holiday. Yesterday and
to-day being the Hebrew New-Year,
were universally given up BY those re-
ligionists to feasting aud mcrry-mak-
ing, the pursuit of the FURNISHED dol.
lar being forgotten as completely as II
It had no existence. Battery, Front,
and Sansome streets were almost as
quiet rs ON Sundays, from one-half to
two-thirds Of the stores being closed
In some Of the blocks, and . friend III.
forms me that he counted twenty-nine
stores closed on one side Of Montgom.
cry street.
A Charitable Csmpetition.
There. is a very active competition
amongst our interior towns to secure
the proposed odd-Fellows' College and
Home. Gilroy, San Jose, Haywards,
Napa, Stockton, and of course Oak
land, are playing what may be called
q game Of charitable poker for the
pafze, San Jose, from present appear
ances, holding the winning cards. Val
.lejo commenced by anti-ing fifty acres
Of land rs an ~inducement, and Hay
wards saw that and went ten better.
Napa raised ten more, and offered IN
addition perpetual free passes over the
railroad and ferry to and from the city,
to all the young Odd-Fellows who
might attend the College. Stockton,
after some consideration, "passed,"
and so did Oakland, but Gilroy couldn't
be blutfed, and raised to a hundred
acres and 5000 in coin. San Jose,
who was last player, and had carefully
watched the game, climaxed all by a
proposition TO donate Its race-track,
equivalent to m offer Of $4,000, and
rs none of the others are likely to put
up such q sum, San Jose will probably
sweep the board.
The Italian FIshermen
resumed their piscatorial ~avocations at
daylight yesterday, their strike having
died a natural death for want of funds.
Although always called Italians"
the fishing fleet is really manned by
representatives of every nationality In
Southern Europe, Turks, Austrlans,
Maltese. Portuguese and Greeks, form.
ing together a larger proportion OF
those engaged than Simon-pure ltal-
ians. Some one must have been fishing
all the time. for there has been no
scarcity Of smelt or salmon In the mar
ket, aud prices only nominally adj
vanced.
The Ticket Agents RxeursIonists,
whom more fuss has been made
than any other visitors Of the season
except the Boston millionalres, have
been returned to Chicago In a little
better condition, 1 warrant, than they
came. They were the most pretentioua
set Of deadheads yet bowled across the
continent, for coming ostensibly on
business, they did nothing but talk
buncombe and guzzle, while the un-
wonted fat fare they were treated to
had such q religious effect upon them,
that Notwithstanding the innate
roguery Of railroad men, they broke
out all over with Watts hymns. They
were also taken badly with psalms
when leaving here on Friday morning,
which lasted until they got to Sacra-
mento, when n dose Of Record afforded
them some relief. But the complaint
returned ut Lake Tahoe In the form OF
America" and It Is now believed
there is no remedy for 1t except the
contemplation of their own tariffs,
which are certainly sufficient to extin-
gulsh both religion and patriotism.
An Old Order Revived.
We have secret orders Of every pos
sible kind for the purpose of pcrpetu-
ating foreign c%lani,hness, but not one
devoted to the native American. The
Celt becomes an Ancient Hibernian.
and the Teuton an independents Red
Man, the first year they land on our
as a rule forget that they are
Americans except on election days.
1t Is now proposed TO counterbalance
the indirect but powerful political In
these ana kindred societies
WELD by the revival Of tho Order Of
Americans. There IS Know
In the name, but said not
to be In the interest. 1t Is beginning
TO be understood that secret societies,
except for charitable purposes, are
Inimlcal to the best interests OF the
and II the United Amer
leans have any other object besides
benevolent motives, their resurrection
do more harm than good.
seateaeiaG Crinissis.
The recent attacks on Judge Lake
had no effect In inducing him to
relax the severity of his sentences. As
MANY of the criminal population as