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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14
mn. STANTON N ms sIck ROOM.

Z-E N@HN
he sat propped up by pillows in the
chamber where he died, his cheeks
hollow, his hands attenuated, his eyes
lustreless, and there was nothing to
indicate the mighty nature of the man,
but the broad intellecttta sphere which
doomed above.
The day was tempestuous and gloomy,
and the wind howled violently around
the angles of the building. After some
conversation, we noticed this by say
ing, that doubtless such dismal noises
had the effect Of making him feel un-
usually sad. "Oh, no." he answered,
"not at all /; ON the contrary, I derive
a peculiar pleasure now in listening to
the bowling of the winds. There ,pd,
q time when 1t would make me dread
fully nervous, and keep INT awake for
hours In the night. Then, there were
thousands Of ourboys afloat on the At
lantic coast; others were on the treach-
erous bosom Of the Gulf; others were
exposed upon the surface Of the Mis-
sissippi, and Thousands upon thousands
lay drenched in camp, or shiyering
upon picket duty; but"-and herc,t the
speakers eye exhibited reyiving light,
and his voice strengthened into joyful
volume-"but the boys are all home
now; all home now out Of the reach
Of the Storm" 1t Is impossible to de-
scribe the exquisite tenderness with
which this was said, or to explain the
emotion which we felt when, rs he con-
cluded, we saw a tear break from each
lid and quietly roll down his cheeks.
We had witnessed the same exhibition
from Mr.. Stanton once before, when he
was in tho full of his health, at the
War Office, audit occurred In the midst
of an imprisoned description Of the
barbarities which had been pcrpetrated
by the Confederates upon the Federal
soldiers at A~ndersonville and Libby
prisons. This showed the heart and
purpose Of the man with n nobility Of
proof that no base SANDER can affect.
In another interview ut his house,
Mr.. Stanton spoke Of the part he had
taken In the late Presidential canvass,
and expressed regret that his health
had broken down before he had time to
do Justice, through his speeches, to the
main influence which had saved the
country in its hour Of peril. Foremost
among those influences he placed the
loyal press and it had been his inten-
ton, he declared, to specify some of
the most promising Journalists by
Wire, Spirit Of the Times.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

A SLIGHT earthquake was felt at b.
den Baden, in Germany, last month,
followed by a great increase Of flow
from the hot springs which originally
made the reputation Of the locality. 1t
has also been discovered that the walls
of the new castle are beginning to
settle and crack in an alarming man
ner. These facts, taken in connection
with the sinking of part of the castle
garden, which has been known to be
going on for long time, and the i'm
mense assures in the ancient walls
tend to show that the fate of Sodom
and Gomorrah may at some future day
be experienced by this famous gam
bling place.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14
LOVE, ROMANCE AND TRAaIcAL
DEATHS. 49,. {

- "A
Close upon the Northumberland
son tragedy follows another equally
beinous in its characteristics the Bau-
man-MeSamara affair of BROOKLYN.
In both If these cases the on;ltv mar.
ties were persons of education. who.
must have been we'll aware
of the gulf thew were about to plunge
into but their moral training was in
sufficient to restrnin them when the
hour Of temntat,on came. and 30 thew
fell And eo have thousands of Others:
and 90 We fa,r will thousands more.
Ell + ,nn.boIosor, morol atmos.
,horo ;n which ,hev Nve .holl he thor.
pnrhIv ,ur,sel Rnt entity as the
-. s,;cs above named, and others like
them. have been. the guilt was not
wholly tha;rs Some If ;t-and not
nm ;nconside,ab,e nort;on-was due to
tho doror,I;za5 surropnd,ng. In which
.ho,, fo,nd ,hon,so1vos R,lwsr In
ON: of H. roy,sis ohsorvos that what
Il called "nubl;c onin;onn Is. In fact.
IN any nsrticular individual. nothing
MORO Than N. on,n;on of tho class Of
""-.,n T..
pp ,v,.S;a ao,n ne, !; ; J.,
~ " ~
qu,.e 'rue in.S, pc
WIN rehneu society wouiu ieei 'liat nc
hau ioSt cas'e nc were seen coming
OUT VI u'i no", :.
sn
ho soeH' iee.nis nne '"''s'i' '"
oue inc h'p''u nequ' ~ W SUI '
pa,.s n." syn nun H..
pci0 op
".'" 'eS"' -" ~"
s'0S, n n"S,.""I
.paN pnm h,,n Co., not
sMa~asno,.1. ~. O. az, to., ho
uo' nv Wv No"'"
ap phi ~ n~S H.. 81. ,oosa no,,ons
which nreyail rs to the sanctity of the
morri,ge relation. anon certain cir
clos ,n Now Enolond, New York and
o,bsr rarts NJ tho Union. ore n frr,it.
h,I source of crime. Scarcely n day
Misses without n tragedy somewhere,
h,y;,o ;ts origin IN the violation of
n,,rital RIGHTS and If the journals
q this country fail now and then to
contribute their daily quota, the de-
ficiency Is made I'm from those of
France and England. The daily "a
pers of Paris and some of our sensation
woelI;es have mucb IN answer for In
this respect. In many of them there
is In every issue an instalmcnt of a
serial romance. and In almost every
c,,o tho cuh;ect of !. IA ,ntrione. duel-
H. - .:n,aou r.,.h .ho most nm
- .I,o ooum;ss;or If
.a"h an5 ~ ~ thoss cr,m,os the nr,n-
Gina, ono beinv incomnatibility, either
&c ~ton,ror fortune or nassions. II Is
- ho sa.rod thot . worry LARGO npmhcr
or no,Sons :, ,bis~ conntrv boyo become
;ndoctrin,ted with these nernicious
ro,;ons Tn fact n ia evident from tho
s,,,Io Of tho nor;oi;cols of !, cbeon kind.
which find = ready sale here. They
are illustrated with engravings repre-
sentinp sensational scenes, wherein
jealousy and infldelity, revenge and
murder NAV n conspicuous mart. Some
If those axnosed nj the street stalls
and IN tho windows of small sbons
In Pho s;,Ie straats arc NOT FIR from
mo,;,;ro ,n1o,orc,, Tboro ,bev are
Ill. o,o,,;nn Tho nr,,;ont ;m,,;no.
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

A YOUNG man sent his father In the
country his photograph, accompanied
with a request for aid, as he was poor
and required money for the necesSarys
Of life. The old man looked over the
photograph and responded: "You
can't cheat me, you young dog; you
cant be very poor to be living among
marble vases aud statues aud nice
furniture, such IA your picture shows."
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

"MNRK TWAIN" figures in the Lou
don Court Journal as mark Turner"
At last accounts from Buffalo, Mark
had not heard ofit-the poor Innocent.
lie is getting his name up, sure. Re
Gently, 4 New York paper said he was
q great Buffaloafer; which Is very
unjust to Mark, as he is q decidedly
industrious man.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

TIE telegraphic wires between Gold
Hill, Virginia City and California are
working very poorly for a day or two
past, and seem to be on q "~strike,"a
spree or frozen up. We have been
unable to get a word over them since
Yesterday morning.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

DISPATCHES from London state that
the Crown has seized some land be-
longing to the late George Peabody,
on the ground that Peabody was an
alien. TO 4 man up a tree, it might
look for decency sake, that the
Grown should wait until brother
Peabody was buried. Alas, for human
gratitude. either for the dead or the
living,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

TRoUT.-In Lake Tahoe there are
nine known varieties of trout. Ac-
cording to our taste, after a fair trial
for the last seven years, the best ones
are the silver-sides, weighing from five
to fifteen pounds. Some Of the trout
in Tahoe are a very inferior fish-as
poor rs most Of those caught in Pyra-
mid Lake, one hundred and ten miles
OF, but with u water connection be-
tween the two lakes.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

"My dear Horatio, I had a very
mysterious dream" "What was 1t,
my dear?:" II dreamed I saw you
carried up to heaven in a golden cha
riot, surrouded by angels clothed In
white linen and purple. What Is that
a sign OF. dcar." ''It's O Sign Of a
full stomach, my pet"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

ALovEr.Y girl in Wisconsin recently
recovered 4 hundred and forty dollars
damages in a breach of promise suit
against q perfidious lover. Her lawyer
congratulated her on the amount, when
she exclaimed, with a ferocious glance
Mt the mulcted defendant and ner-
vously clinching her fingers; sd
give every penny of it just to have one
GOOD pull at his hair"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

TmcmNA.-It is stated by a CORES
pondent Of the Chicago Tribune that
the cases Of triehine spiralis In Kane
County, Illinois, in all some ten in
number, the particulars Of which have
been published, have been clearly
shown to have resulted from q custom
adopted by some Germans Of eating
pork raw. 1t has been estimated that
u cubic inch of pork infested by these
PARASITES contains a million.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

n has long been n cherished idea
that the Italian opera depended prin-
cipally OH Italian singers. A French
paper has ruthlessly shattered this be-
lief by publishing the following list OF
performers in the Traviata ut Paris
recently: Wachtel, 4 German, from
Hamburg; Zimelli, an Alsatian ; Bon-
nehce, n native of Toulouse; Nine.
Morensi, an American, from New
York; and Nine. Krauss, a Viennese.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

AT a colored meeting a few nights
ago, a worthy brother, whose piety eS-
ceeds his learning. rather astonished
his hearers by quoting, during an ex-
hortation, from 'sde 'pistle OBJ st. Paul
to de Canadians" So the n. y. Sun
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

So many men are very "short -
about this time, that Tom Thumb and
Commodore Mutt have ceased to be
curiosities.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

THERE was n fire in Cheyenne, Wy
oming Territory, January 18th, which
destroyed property estimated at $780,
600, upon which there was but little
insurance.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

A HUNDRED years ago IN author was
generally considered an equlvocal
Something between a pickpoket and q
magician.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

PUBILcD ocs.-yice PRESIDENT olfax
will please accept u acknowledge
ments for interesting public docu-
mentl-
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14
COCK FIGHTING

;noCK FIGHTING EVERY SATURDAY.
" Night, at the Cock PIT, In tho basement Of
A four pound two ounce, o four pound nvo ounce,
and four pound eight ounce cock, Or any oLner
weight, can DO matched for from 80 TO 3lu:
Pcrsons having chickens for sale can dispose Of
them by calling at the premises.
Admission. Fify Cents. 100
Virginia, January 9Th, 1871. JaS.im
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

Mr.. BseaH has brought a man before
the New York courts for sklnning q
dog alive.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

THE Bank of California pays its
usual l per cent. per month dividend
on the 18th, amounting to $4,000.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

nR. STEPHENSON IS PREPARED. WITH
J pure vaccine virus, To Yaccinate all persons
who may desire It, at his ONCE or thcir places Of
oPFicR-No. 100 South G street. Virginia.
jal81mSp
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14
SEEDS. Seeds. e

Just received. 1000 papers Flower Seeds. d.
assortment indeed. Also on hand, all kinds Of
Vegetable Seeds, warranted Fresh and Genuine,
in quantities to suit, either by the pound or In
ANAL nnnera.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14

d EsAINING IN THE cold MILL POST
III ofiice January 10th, lS.O. II not called for
within one month they Will be sent to the Dead
Letter Once.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-14
lMusiaRsTs.
OPERA HOUSE.

roHN PIPER HAS THE HONOR TO AN;
nounce 10 tho citizens Of Virginia guy anu
ia Vicinity that, great success ootalhGa ny
tho BRIGNOLT TROUPE, he has conciudca III
srr.nCcment I'm order to give
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-24

this animal TO be called msnatee, from
the Latin word nldnus, the hand. The
writer, who for several years resided in
those countries where these animals
abound, has seen the animal, and has
been told repeatedly by the natives that
the female holds the cub TO suckle as the
mother does her babe. The tail Of the
manatee is shaped like an open fan, and
the close observer will perceive ten diyl-
sions, which mark the ten toes. Mana
tees swim by the help of this broad tail,
which moves up and down, and not from
right to left like that of the fish. This
limb, which at first appears to be mere
fin or nerve, melts almost entirely into
butter when fried in pan, and is highly
priced by the natives for ointments and
other medicinal purposes. The animal
weighs from one thousand to fifteen hum
dred pounds and the meat is considered
a great relish. 1t looks and tastes much
like pork, and needs good deal of cook
ing. It is q strange fact that the flesh
keeps longer from decay. than any other,
and it is, therefore, salted and preserved
like pork. They are caught with har-
poons by the Indians, who know their
haunts end customs, and it seems as if
they were becoming more scarce every
year. Scientific american.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-24
The connecting Link between Men
and ftsh.

To believers in the Darwin theory it
will be Of interest TO know that In the
quiet bays and rivers on the eastern
coast of Central aud South America
there lives an animal, which might be
rightly considered as the connecting link
between men and fish. II is the mana
tee, the water sirec, the sen-calf or sea-
ccw, as the strange animal is sometimes
called. 1t belongs to the order OF the
Ustnvss, epd is altogether herbivorous,
living oh grass Vbiel sroys under water,
or ou herbs which Ii sesks on shore The
body is piscifarn, aud measures some
fosfiesu or more feet in length; the
skin being very thick, without hair, aud
Of Q dark color. The upper part OF the
body, especially Of the females, much re-
sembles that Of q woman, the breasts
being Of the same form. In place Of the
6ns Of The ordinary 6sh, the msnstee has
/. short arm Of only ore joint, which ter
hfnstssts = .C,t cf hand, on which the
nsils are SIslnoliy Mtible, end Which
The animal uses With much dexterity, 10
moving about when on land, and in car
rying ia young. This limb has caused
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-24

dips of tho strata in the neighboring
mountains. They differ greatly In size,
those in the most modern parts of the
building being scarcely broader than a
hair, while in the most ancient masonry
they are sometimes five inches in width.
The Grand Duke, having expressed a
wish that exact observations should be
made. this was done, aud according to
the Karlsruher Zsitiung, on the 4.h of
November, all the assures we're found to
have changed, some to the extent of a
half millimetre. Parts of the wall of the
castle garden were greatly dis6gured. at
the same time the new sandstone sup
ports burst, and have sunk considerably,
while the wall itself is marked by new
perpendicular assures. Attempts have
since been made to remove the water from
under the most unsteady parts of the
walls by means of ditches and other con-
trivances, and by these means the move
ment, though 1t still continues, has been
greatly reduced.-NorM German cor.
respondent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-24
Don Piatt on Queer Fishes.

was called upon, the other day, by
queer specimen ofhumanity, who had in
acted himself on the world for about for y
years. He wore an abbreviated bob-tail,
tight pantaloons, and q cane. The cane
was something more than broom-hsndle,
and something less than club. Although
dressed iu the latest style, he was evil
IDENTIFY of an old style, peculiar to the
frontier, and bothered me amazing
whether he was full of enthusiasm or
whisky. He stared at me second and
then asked:
"Are you the wielder of the facile pen
styled D. ~"
/ responded that such was my maiden
name.
"Well," he continued, 81 am the ed
itor of the 7rnmput of Freedom, in
Missouri, and that's hell Of scurril-
Gus sheet up our way"
expressed myself delighted to make
the acquaintance of SO renowned per-
sonage, and invited him to be seated.
"No, sir" he exclaimed; p" don't
propose to angle my corpus at the pres
ent writing. i know that your time is
precious. The world waits anxiously
for the scintillations ofyour brilliant pen.
/ say, let it scintillate. You refer, in
your letters, to that ancient person of
the State Department as Old Sardine. /
have Just interviewed him. / come to
give you the process and the results, that
Won may send them flashing over the
world, from your scintillating pen. l
was here q candidate for Consul
ate. l am not now 80 much a can
didate as / was. l am RACED.
I ON spoHged out. / went to
see Old Sardine. l said: Fish, l sm
a candidate for Consulate ! put in
his venerable fapper petition signed by
all the members of our Legislature. l
gave unto him recommendation from
the delegation in c ongress. | consigned,
then and there, q petition from nearly
everybody, from the Governor to the
Sheriff of our county, and then gave
him what don't float about numerously-
a letter from old Billy Tecumseh. The
fishy old humbug wakened up and read
my papers; then he said, as if he just
thought of it when about making the ap-
pointment, Hold on, Mack, I've some
thing here bearing on this l said, pro
pei, Fish
"He fumbled about and then brought
out letter. He turned down the corner
so that l could not read the name. |
knew as soon as saw the writing that |
was corpse. / said, Fish, every word
in that letter is as trus as holy writ
The old ccss had settled back in his arm
chair, and was pulling string through
his teeth. l determined to die game. l
Strengthened myself up and said blandly,
but firmly, Fish, / have been in Mis-
souri, seven years, and have been drunk
IS blazes q thousand times. Butt went
on-I ever got go mean drunk as to pick
my teeth with string. Good morning,
Fish Come back, Mack, come back
aud take drink But responded at
the door, see you damned first There,
sir, scintilste that from your facile pen.
As for the consulate, / am a corpse"
So saying, he wheeled about and stslked
out. The story sounds apocryphal from
the fact that Mr.. Fish offered the sppli-
cant o drink in the State Department.
Il may be, however, that be has private
bottle there. Who knows2 D. P.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-24
A Rich Prixe-The sIs,OOO,o0O MIL
liner.

From the Troy IN. " Times, 1lth.l
Some months since we published a
statement to the effect that Miss Gray, a
milliner of Fort Edward. had become the
fortunate heir to 5000, 900, which her
lover, q young Englishman, had willed
to her on his dying bed. The main fact
in the case-the heirship-is true; but
we now learn that ii was not 10 the lover,
but to his father, that Miss Gray is iu-
debted for her extraordinary good for
tune. 1t seems the lover, on his return
to England, like too many others, proved
inconstant, and married another lady
against his fathers will. Whether it was
remorse at his faithlessness or from
other cause, certain 1t is the young man
died 10 about year after his marriage,
and left sll his property to his father.
The old gentleman was without heirs,
and not having become reconciled to his
daughter-in-law, upon bis death left one
half of bis property to the government Of
Euglsnd, and the remaining halt, Sl9,-
100000, 10 Miss Gray, the Fort Edward
milliner. The sum was so large that
many people were disposed to doubt its
truth when it first appeared In print; but
Miss Gray has already received the frst
iustsllment of her fortune, q trifs Of
s., 900. 900, from the British Consul in
New York. 0n Tuesday last she re-
ceived a dispatch from the Consul an
uouneing that the money awaited her
order, aud on the following day she left
Fort Edward for New York, where it
was paid oveF to her. Lucky girl.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-24
For Moderate Drinkers.

A merchant prince" of this city--a
portly six -footer" of great manly
beauty, who never dined without his
brandy and water, nor went to bed with
out terrapin or oyster supper, died Of
chronic diarrhea, a common end of those
who are never intoxicated and never out
of liquor. Halls Journal of Health
gives the following account of his death /:
Months before be died-he was a year
in dying-he could eat nothing without
distress, and at death the whole slimen-
tary canal was mass of disease; in the
midst of his millions he died of insnition.
That is not the half, reader He had
been steady drinker, daily drinker,
for twenty-eight years. Scrofula had
been eating up one daughter for fifteen
years; another is in the mad house; the
third and fourth we're Of funesrthly beauty;
there was q kind of grandeur in their
beauty; but they blighted, and paled and
faded-into heaven, we trust-in their
sweet teens; another is tottering on the
verge of the grave, and only one is left
with all the senses, and each of them is
as weak as water.
The same periodical instances another
case that should supplement the one just
given:
A gentleman of thirty-6ve was sitting
in q choir with no specially critical
symptoms present; still he was known
to be dssipated man. He arose, ran
fifty feet and fell down and died. The
whole covering of the brain was thicken-
ed its cavities were filled with fluid
that did not belong to it, enough to kill
half dozen with apoplexy; great por-
tion of one lung was ia state of gam
creme, and nearly all the other was hard
ened and useless; blood and yellow mat
ter plastered the inner covering of the
lungs, while angry patches of destruc-
tive Inflammation were scattered all
along the alimentary canal. Why, there
was enough of death in that one man to
have killed forty. The doctor who talks
about guzzling liquor every day being
healthy" is a perfect disgrace to the
medical profession, and ought to be
turned out to break stone for the term Of
his natural life, and at shilling day,
and find himself.