Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-04-13

them, and always the most during
hard times. Examine the treasurer's
receipts at the California, and If 1t
swelis up into the thirty thousands,
rely upon 1t that trade Is dull and
money tight. We don't gloom over
misfortune, but either suicide in a
Quiet, u~npretentious manner, or plunge
into dissipation. One self-murder per
diem Is the average. Ten a week, with
the ordinary sudden deaths and addi-
tional homicides, keeps the Coroner
pretty busy but he can stand a daily
suicide without growing about too
much work.
A TrngedInn Coming.
Theater-goers little know what a
treat is in store for them. By the last
Honolulu papers 1 see that Walter
Montgomery, late Of Melbourne, Is
.sstarring, at that earthquake empo-
rum. Years ago 1 had the pleasure of
witnessing Nj. Montgomery's acting
at Manchester, England, and he was
then considered only second to kean:
| am very curious to know what kind
of a reception critical C?) California
will give him. Dare wager n quarters
subscription to the Young Mems Chris
tian Association that he isn't appre-
ciated.
A Revelation (Not according to st. John).
Wasn't that q nice revelation Mr..
Eugene Mccarthy made III Saturday
night. It cost him, he says, over 800
600 to put the Mortgage Repeal Bill'
through the Legislature. That was
the price Of the five votes sufficient to
insure a majority. And then comes
forward Col. Smith, and admits, Eyes,
he Is compelled, with Il feeling of sub
dued sorrow, to admit that there might
probably have been a few black sheep
in the Assembly, but then taking them
all In all, their patriotism, probity and
integrity, was above suspicion, and he
hurled back the foul Charge" etc.
Every day fully-developed, rapacious
hawk jumps out of some of the harm
lesslike "Be it enactcd's' Of the AS
sembly. The latest is a bird with n
$l5, 600 stomach, which it gorges out of
the city treasury for the benefit of the
presentation Convent" Do you
know that in the opinion Of Jack
Horner, Republican, Democratic, Chi
nese, Fifteenth Amendments, Female
| Suffrage, and all the subjects Of the
hour, Sink into insigniticancc compared
with the tremendous conflict that must
soon be waged on American soil about
this sectarian school question. Grid up
your loins, D We orators, study the sub
|ject we'll, We youthful debaters, whose
votes will soon be q power. for the
little cloud is certain to spread, and
darken the horizon with the threaten
ing of a big storm.
Journal site.
In II of Marryat's novels there is 4
funny account of a triangular duel.
Three combative individuals fire away
at each other until. offended honor Is
satisfied, and then want to know what
the dispute is about. Three of our city
papers are in the same position. For
more thana year the Alta and CAL have
been furiously attacking the Chronicle,
varying the monotony Of warfare by a
| shot at each other. Now they sign a
sort of journalistic truce, and discover
that there is room for all thrce-the
AHa as a commercial organ, and the
! CAL and Chronicle as cheap Democratic
and Republican papers. Next Tues
day the Chronicle enlargcs. and will
contain four columns more than the
| Sacramento Uaion, which does not
look very much like the C"i's predic-
ton of an early demise. (The wish
was father to the thought-Hamlet.)
JACK HoRNER.