Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-04-06
LETTER FROM San FRANCISCO.
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san Francisco, April 9Th, 1870.
Ed. NEWS: / don't wonder at the
earth having M ague fit on Saturday,
for a more miserable, cherries day 1t
is impossible to imagine. From MORN
ing to night the rain poured down in a
pitiless, unnecessary torrent, wasting
moisture so much needed in the co,r-
try on an mappreciative city, prevent
ins ladies from attending the theatrical
matinees, making businessn nuisance,
and effecting no conceivable useful
purpose. A San Francisco earthquake
has been so often described that the
subject has lost novelty. and as one in
no way differs from another except in
degree, it is rather difficult to say any
thing original about them. Perhaps
the restaurant keepers are the heaviest
sufferers by these periodical shaEings,
especially if they occur ut meal times.
Everybody makes Il wild rush for the
door, overturning tables and chairs,
mincling soup, fish and joints on the
floor in 4 confusion never seen out OF Il
sailors SQUAD pie. and In the fright be-
come ~forcetful Of the fact that a pa
tient, sharp-eyed gentleman sits behind
the counter In readiness to take pay
for the three twenty-flve-cent dishes.
With breakases and oblivious CUSTOM
ers, the r~estauraters calculate that each
shake costs them 4 hundred dollars. b'lt
at the What Cheer House they are al.
ways prepared for the emergency, and
throw wooden bar across the door
way. caginS their patrons Il securing
the dimes from : too haSty exit. The
story of the man who was bathing ut
the time, and ran out in Adamic COS
tune, has been told too often, and for
n iictional individual he has become
| altogether too notorious but 1t Is q
fact that some ladies walking in front
| Of their Grecian Bends (rain won't keep
the dear creatures from shopping), for-
rot for 4 moment the dignity Of fash
lon, and consigned their Alexandrian
linn the latest a~bominatiOnl to the
| limbo of departed corns and bunions,
and Strengthened themselves into de-
cent looking women. But even the
earthquake did not create half the SELL
| sation caused by last weeks startling
| discovery Of the amount Of poverty in
our midst. Boston might suffer, Now
| York have her starving thousands, the
| cities Of the old world tester with pau
perism. but that in the Queen City of
| the Pacific men should cry for
Bread or Work,
Was such an appalling novelty that it
was hard to realize. We knew that
times were dull. business depressed,
and employment difficult to obtain, but
had 10 idea that the provcrbial wolf
was already bowling. The emergency
has developed any quantity OF eloquent
demagogues ready to uso the laboring
class for their own purposes, but food,
not politics, is wanted, and the speak
ers have not had much opportunity to
air their ideas. Yesterdays meeting
at Union Hall was the most successful
move of the impromptu campaign. 1t
was got up in a hurry by the project
ors of the Rincon Hill scheme, and
may have some effect in procuring the
Governors signature TO that measure.
If 1t is possible to find an amusing in
| cident in the midst of so much misery,
1t was the sceno at Yerba Buena, when
the cemetery keeper, uncertain Of the
Whereabouts Of many graves, CON-
mcnced
ProspcctinE for Pioneers.
Shades Of 'i9ersi whose bones are
scattered on guleh and bar and moun-
tain side, aud whose lives unwittingly
built up an unknown land into a sub
| urb of civilization-thinl of the re-
| vense brought by years. Many q time
| and oft have you, with glowing cheek
| and chest expanded frames. prospected
| the birthplace Of the mountain streams,
delyed for forgotten water courses, and
| robbed the earth OF the treasures she
had accumulated since Creations
morn, and now in the whirligig of
| events others prospect for your remains
as you once prospected before. Though
| miners pick and shovel, the keeper was
not unprovided with appliances for his
search. These consisted of 4 long,
sharp-pointed iron rod, and All UNDER
| takers old map Of the cemetery lots.
With a thoughtful glance at the map,
he would quickly walk to the marked
spot, thrust his divinlng rod into the
| loose sand. and intently listen for the
prod against the pioneer coffin. In
| very few Instances was he at fault.
Numbers Of braye, honest fellows l
| once knew were buried in Yerba Buena,
and many . home in different parts of
the world is still waiting for 3 letter
from those who sleep there. \ good
many mothers, sisters and sweethearts
are still expecting that some day the
door will quickly open and q lost one,
with bronzed face aud great beard
walk into the house. But they are all
sleeping, cslmly sleeping, aud the