Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-11-07
SAN FRANCISCO. Nova. Is


SAN FRANcIsco, Nova, 1870.
Mondays sun set on one Of the most
remarkable days in the annals Of San
Francisco; a day given up by the
whole city to the excitement of open
and acknowledged gambling; a day
from which will spring more democrat
i~zation, more crime, more ruin and
disaster than any other day in her pre-
vious history has brought forth; a day
that will be remembered as long as the
Mercantile Library stands, to reproach
us with the facts to which it owes its
existence.
Tuesdays u rose on n disappointed
city. The tense nerves had been un-
strung. The excitement of tho pre-
vious day had been followed by its
natural depression. Business was
neglected. Every ones whole duty
seemed to consist In asking every one
else: "How much did you lose: ?" and
"Who Won the big price," Lotteries
on Tuesday had not many friends.
They were generally denounced as
demoralizing and pernicious. If the
corps OF Young Christians had only
seized the opportunity, they could
have converted half the population to
q belief in Solomon's creed that IAN
is vanity" But they neglected their
duty, and by night the depression had
visibly given way to bourbon and Bit
tiers, and san Francisco was almost
itself again.
The lottery is going to he a ceaseless
topic for months to come.
Tho Man Who Nearly Won
has already become n nuisance to his
acquaintance by his constant repeti-
ton of his story "Just rs | was
going down to the Office to buy my
tickets, who should meet but jack"
he commences; land Jack. says, stake
q drink, old man : and | said | didn't
mind :" and so on 0d Ill.,. ending in the
course Of an hour or two with the
statement that but for that drink lie
would have reached the office n minute
sooner and thus have secured the
ticket that won the $1,000 DOC.
The Disappoiaied Man
Is also rather n numerous individual.
Strange to say, he invested his money
without the slightest expectation of
drawing a prize. ~ didn't expect to
win anything" lie begins, "but
thought | might just rs well take 4 few
chances for luck, to see how they
would turn out. never did go much
OH the thing, because | knew 1t would
be n blk right from the word 60" etc,
etc., and he generally winds up by the
assertion or advice that "You can just
bet some of them lei OH the platform
made money out Of It,"
The Man Who Hadn't n Tiekct
is either q drunken impccuniosity, q
very sensible, Woodworking man, or n
pious fraud. The latter are in the
majority, and in such q decided ma
jority that the serious question arises,
"Who DID buy the tickets:" lie Is
sometimes, though not always. n
church member, and occasionally a
deacon. If he is u Scudderite, or Il
Scottist, or n II~emphiller. or belongs
to any other Of the leading denOmina-
tons, he slipped into n brokers' office
one night when the streets were pretty
quiet, ind bought n few coupons. If
lie had won anything his own mother
wouldn't have known it, and as he has
lost lie intends to ignore the trans
action 50 completely that even the
Recording Angel shall be puzzled to
know whether he bought or not. lie
has made up his mind not to lose any
thing BY the affair. For many months
to come, that weekly dime dropped
into the collection box will be reduced
to five cents. and his paper collar ex-
pcndlture will be curtailed by wearing
one collar for many days. But the
pious fraud'is not necessarily a church
member. lie may he : good citizen.
He wishes his friends to think that lie
rose superior to temptation, or he lost
and is ashamed, or lie doesn't want his
wife to know, or he has private reasons
for c~oncealing what he now regards as
M instance Of folly. Ho don't always
succeed IN making his friends believe
that he was so Indifferent to the event.
but he Is generally n good fellow, and
they don't tease him much.
Tho Mas Who Felt He Was Going
to wis,
and didn't, is the most detected person
in the city. He is the man that the
papers will talk about for months to
come, rs the individual who mort
gagged his bolIse and lot, as the indi-
vidual WHO drew all his money out Of
the bank, who pawned his brotlIer-in-
laws watch, who went OIL 4 drunk,
who committed robbery, who blew out
his brains, who went insane, who In
short did all the deeds chronicled In
the local items Of q daily journal.
Amongst this class are
Tho Dreamers Of Dreams,
hnlipvers I'm lucky numbers, the