Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-05-25

every few days the papers record that
a young woman answering to the name
Of Carrie Stanley was brought TO the
station house In an intoxicated condi-
ton, and the reader wonders now u
that dissipation claims SO many, victims:
We are in a state of trepidation at
the discovery of a few cases OF
smallpox
In the city. Vaccinate, vaccinate, IS
again the cry; druggists are inserting
their old advertisements about carbolic
acid, chloride of lime, and other loud
smelling fumigators, while tho under
takers are rubbing their hands In high
rlee at the anticipated revival of good
times, San Francisco is essentially q
dirty city, and but for the trade winds
would be the nursery OF num0erless
epidemics. Without being particularly
moral, we rely so much on Providence
rs to neglect the most ordinary pre-
cautions, and instead of preventing
pestilence by the use Of whitewash II
attention to cleanliness, we walt for
its advent and fight it with prayer:
Our streets are a disgrace to a civilized
community. The water front Is a mass
Of reeking slusli, the minor thorough
fares are strewn with accumulated
garbage. and the smaller alleys are
charged with q nastiness Of stinks SUI
ficieHt to breed half a dozen choleras.
There Is hardly decent ash pit within
the municipal limits. An empty dry
goods box In front of the door receives
Old paper collars, whiskyless bottles,
rags, bones, and the Debris of house
leayings an occasional cart trundles
the rubbish off to the Bay, where 1t
becomes marketable real estate In the
shape of "made land" and having
these sanitary safeguards, We lay back
with the proud consciousness of duty
performed. Some day all this will be
altered, but not until the cemetery
census shows a large addition to It's
earth elasped population.
War In Chiuadom.
Painting the Celestial eye bya we'll
directed blow, pounding the Chinese
skull with a bit of 4 stick, or dancing
a Milesian hornpipe on Aslatic ribs
with number fourteen hob-nailed boots,
Is considered by some to be an amrse-
ment sayoring of angelic bliss, but the
recreation Is too expensive for ordinary
occasions, and Is therefore not so often
INDUCED In n It would be if the cost
was less. If so much happiness IAN be
got out of one cracked crown, what
must have been the feelings of Casser-
ly's constituents when they witnessed
the wholesale hacking, mangling, stab
bling and shooting that took place OH
Sunday amongst the Mongollan linen
purifiers. 1t appears that there Is such
a brisk competition amongst the Chi
nese washermen that it was found
necessary to organize a protective
Union. One Of its regulations pre-
scribed that 10 establishment should
be located within ten doors Of another
wash-house. A complaint had been
made about the violation of this rule,
and the offending John was put on
trial. The jury found the culprit gull
ty, and the Judge was about to pro-
nonnce sentence, when 4 friend Of the
prisoner expressed dissatisfaction Mt
the proceedings by pulling the trigger
of q Remington, and. %thereupon q live
" row ensned. The protectionists and
Notwithstanding men had come
prepared for Il conflict, and pistols,
hatchets, cleavers, knives and clubs
were instantly welded with thrilling
effect. The crashing Of glass, break
ing Of chairs, discharge of pistols, blow
ing Of whistles, and Babel of tongues
soon attracted the attention Of out
siders, and a posse Of police started
hastily for the battle ground. A des-
perate fight was in progress, and the
officers had to run the gauntlet of scat
tering shots, charge up n narrow flight
of stairs, and defend themselves against
the opposing factions, now united In
resisting legal interference. A hand
to hand struggle took place OH the bal
cony resulting in the triumph Of the
storming party and rout Of the defend
ers. The police then carried each
room ut the point Of their batons, and
soon none but the prisoners and wound
ed remained Of the opposing host. Fiji
teen half slaughtered Cinnamon were
removed to Jail, eight others were
afterwards taken prisoners, and some
forty deadly weapons were secured as
trophies of victory; The protectionists
are completely demoralized and free
traders triumphant.
Barnum
has Just arrived across the continent.
He has seen boundless plains, broad
rivers, great forests, dark gorges and
canyons, valleys teeming with wealth,
the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras.
As none of these could be transported
East and exhibited for half q dollar
they did not strike bis Snowman intel
lectsas being Mt all wonderful. But
when he visited the Cliff House and
gazed on tho sen lions a feeling Of
mingled astonlshment and delight took
possession of his soul, and he said to
himself, "a country that can produce
such monsters rs these Is certainly not
a humbug, but q people who have such
an immense curiosity at their doors
and have not the sense to exhibit 1t at
fifty cents for adults, children half
price, arc no higher In the scale Of civ
ilization than q Nantucket clam" and
he resolved that cost him what 1t might,
he would transport one Of the animals
East. So the Italian fishermen are
commissioned to catch one alive, and
they have been trying to do so ever
since.
George Il. Russell, late proprietor Of
the Figaro, will commence suit to-mor-
row against Barrett & Mccullough for
libel. C. w. Halliday takes the case
IN hand on n conditional fee.
A tremendous house greeted the Lin
CARDS lost night. Their engagement is
likely to prove a trump card for Ma
guire. Rumor says that James Fisk's
Visit to the coast Is more the result Of
the fair Alice's witcheries than any
desire to participate In mining specu-
lation ; and considering how conspicu-
ously Mr.. Erie figured In the late fam
lily dispute between Horace and his
wife, rumor for once may not be far
wrong. JACK HoRNER.