Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14
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SAN FRANCISCO, April IA r. NJ
The schooner Maid or the Mist, bound
for San Diego, with lumber and lime,
which caught fire from spontaneous
combustion, drifted ashore near the
Preside and burned all night; she
was completely destroyed.
Sparrow Purdy, son of the ex-Lieu-
tenant Governor Of California, who
served as Assistant Adjutant Cen
eral on the Staff of General Franklin
during the war, has been appointed q
Colonel OF Engineers of the Army OF
Egypt. General g. P. Stone has also
been offered a high command In Egypt,
and will probably accept.
j. Ross Browne has gone East to
urge the Government to make good to
him losses by being superseded In the
Chinese Mission.
A Chinese woman, who claims to
have been held as q slave in n brothel
in this city for three years, having
served out her time according to con-
tract, now appeals to the police to
prevent being resold by her late mas
ter, and Is kept in the calaboose until
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Fifty pounds of specimens Of horn
silver from the Mountain City mine,
In Cope District, New, Is now exhib-
tied here. It Is said to be the richest
of the kind ever seen OH the coast.
There Is much activity among the
holders of White Pine mines, conse-
quent on recent rich strikes. The old
mines In that district, and stock, are
now more In demand than at any pre-
vious time.
The Women's Suffrage meeting last
evening was addressed by Mrs. Field,
Mrs. Ii. F. NJ. Brown Of Chicago, and
Mrs. Laura DeForce Gordon, to whom
a vote of thanks vas rendered.
Among the passengers from China,
by the steamship America, are many
leading merchants, representatives OF
the English army and foreign govern
ments, Including F. B. Bloor, of Brod-
well, Bloor & Cos, Shanghai |; +.
Iyeson, Of Bower, Hamburg & Co.,
Shanghai; w. H. Carter, of Carter q
Co, Shanghai j. p. Barnes, Of Hol-
liday, Wise & Co, Shanghai ; A. A.
Lind, of Care, Lind & Co., Canton; F.
w. A. White, of Macpherson g. Mar
shall, Yokohama John Y. +. Brown,
merchant and planter, Of Penang;
John Grigor, manager, H~ongkong;
and Shanghai banking corporation,
Rudolphe Jansen, of John Burd q Co.,
Hongkong; w. H. Foster, of Russ u
Co., Hongkong; Geo. H.. Dana, of
Hutchinson b Co., Singapore; Major
john w. Munroe, Her Majesty's
Service, Seventy-ffth Regiment Capt.
G. w. Collier, U. s. Marine Corps;
Vicomte De Menttessuy, Paris; G. w.
Git, agent Of Arkansas River Valley
immigration Company; DR.. Suddage,
DR.. GIbbop and Mr.. Yates, us. Navy,
DIR. Eugene Lagrange and Messrs.
Boille and Baudrois, of the French
Legation ut Yedo.
Samuel Guthrie, appointed U. S.
Supervising Inspector Of Steamboats,
in place Of william Burnett, has filed
his official bonds, and yesterday en-
tered upon the discharge of his du-
ties.
The weather is delightful-warm,
clear and no wind. ylr -,
Colored citizens are being enrolled
in Shasta County without objection.
A large extra force Is to be placed
OH the northern end of the Oregon and
California Railroad next week.
John Merrill, alias Dermott, was
sent to the County Court to-day on the
charge Of forging drafts on Merrill,
Moore q Co. &
All Chung was sent to the county
iail for: four months for assault and
battery on o white woman. Daniel
Duffy, for petty larceny, six months.