Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-06-27

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NATIONAL BIRTHDAY-THk
MISERY OF DRUNKKNNRss-
LYDIA THOMPSON.
San FRAso1sco, June %, 1870.
The sabsiay Frssd AEais.
In the absence of more exciting mat
ter, the late subsidy fraud still occu-
pies a fair share Of public attention.
Mr.. J. B. Haggin, Vice President Of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, has ad-
dressed q communication to the Board
Of Supervisors, in which he states that
the company over which he has the
honor to preside, do not desire to avail
themselves of a mistake, and intimates
rather obscurely that unless the city
absolutely forces the million dollars
upon them, they would rather net take
it. By thus making a virtue of neces-
sity, It Is expected that the public will
be so impressed with the graceful dis
interestedness of the action as to abb
solve Messrs. Stanford & Co. from all
suspicion Of having manipulated the
altered tickets. But the community
albeit easily hoodwinked in most mat
ters-has so thoroughly made up It's
mind that the railroad was the prime
mover In the attempted roguery, that
a dozen disclaimers would not con-
vince 1t to the contrary, and Mr.. Hag-
gins e~plstolary effort IL looked upon
as being dictated by the same motive
that causes q pickpocket to cry "Stop,
thief" a little louder than any Of the
pursuing crowd. The city has offered
q reward of five thousand dollars for
the discovery of the gentleman whose
pencil wrote the hundred odd "Fors"
on the First Ward ballots-a sufficient
pecuniary incentive, one would lmag-
Inc, to stimulate detective skill to un-
ravel the mystery.
Harry Byrnc's Opening speech fer
the Prosecution In the Carrie Dia.
mend Case
was hardly one Of his best efforts. He
seemed to feel that eloquence without
evidence would be thrown away, and
consequently spoke with a restraint
and lack of fire quite unusual with
him. Mr.. Cook, counsel for +. n.
Neuval, asked the Court leave to de-
part from the ordinary custom of re-
serving his reply until the commence
ment Of tho defense, and, after n
nights consideration, the request was
granted. So that, without q particle
Of evidence. having. been offered, the
jury had to listen to elaborate eh pnrte
statements, and then the testimony for
the prosecution was called. The prac-
tice laid down In all criminal proceed
lngs Is for the defense to walt until the
witnesses for the State have been ex-
amined, and then make u reply, so that
this breach Of precedent causes much
comment,
As was to have boon expected, nl-
merous
. Forged Lottery Tickets
are In circulation, some so eXcellently
coumterfeited that 1t Is impossible to
tell them from the genuine article. |
know that last week an application
was made to an engraver OIL Sacra-
mento street to work on some plates
for the purpose of forgery. He prom
ised to do so, and made an appoint
ment with the man for another meet
ING, telling Captain Lees Immediately
atterward Of the arrangement. But 1t
f. supposed that the Intended forger
watched so closely as to become aware
of the infarmant's visit to the police
station, for he has not yet returned to
conclude the agreement. While 1t Is
almost impossible to protect the public
from fraudulent issues Of lottery stock,
Maurice Dore & Co. have contrived to
effectually guard themselves from the
risk of paying prizes to counterfeit
tickets. As every one now knows,
these are printed In various colOrcd
inks, on various colored papers, and
on the back Of each coupon Is n num-
Der of irregular lines, running In ey-
cry direction. Each ticket has q diff
ferent arrangement of these lines, so
that when 1t Is separated from the tag
no other In the whole series could pos-
slbly have lines that would join the tag
and ticket together. For instance: II
No, 10 draws $2O, and the holder
of No. II grasses those figures and SUBJ
stitutes the winning ones, all the mall
ayers have to do to detect the change
Is to place the presented ticket against
the tag of No. IL, and rs the lines oil
the back would not match, the at
tempted rascality would be Instantly
discovered. So holders Of tickets
be careful not to cut or def:ice
the edge.
A Zig TranssctIsn.
Until lately all the bags used In
sacklng California wheat were Inn
ported from Great Britain. In conse-
quence of excessive competition the
market became very irregular, and
last year sacks that cost 12k cents to
land, we're sold at 10 cents. .As q con-
sequence many importers dropped this
branch of business, which caused those
who had stocks TO hold for IA cents,
but upon English shippers hearing of
the partial failure Of the grain crop In
this State, agents were again directed
to sell at a reduced rate. A few
moasfs ago o factory was started at
Oakland to supply this particular man
ufacture, and experience proving that
1t was impossible to compete with i'm
porters In the present demorallzed con-
dition of the market, the parties inter-
ested resolved to place the trade on n
legitimate footing, and with that OBJ
ject In view have purchased. all the
available stock here and to arrive.
The sale embraced upwards off, 00O, 900
bags, involving q consideration Of oyer
q quarter of q million dollars. The
factory Is now holding these sacks ut
an advance that barely covers cost, but
the business will be restored to a steady
basis, and In future the homemade
article will command q reasonable
The preparations for celebrat-
The National Birthday
are proceeding apace. At first 1t was
n. 40,