Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-08-20

and the clamor Is renewed, only dying
out when the last saloon extinguishes
its lights, and lager beer cellar pianos
Jingle ont their last patriotic tune
Majsr Jsha stratnan
is out on parole until the Courts de-
termine the legality Of this conviction.
The issue involves the constitution
atty Of the new Municipal Court, and
the question will be carried to the Su-
preme Bench for q decision. Judge
Morrison sustained the Act to-day, and
Il Is sincerely to be hoped that It will
stand. If It Is declared unconstitu-
tional, all the convicted felony of the
last three months will be brought from
San Quentin, and have to undergo the
tedium of n lew trial, and as the wit
nesses are now scattered far and wide,
many of the gentry would escape pun
ishment.
A New Theory OF Crime.
Preseason Poey, who was Director Of
the Observatory at Havana, up to the
outbreak of the Cuban instruction,
has taken up his residence In San
Francisco. At the last meeting of the
Academy of Sciences he addressed the
members upon meteorology, branching
off into earthquakes, spots on the sun,
and various other physical phenom-
enas. Having astonished the Society
with his profundity Of learning, he
went into some startling speculations
on the origin of crime. Murder, theft,
suicide, lust, and all other crimes
against person and property, he ex-
planned, were epidemical and their
p~eriodicity was rs much governed BY
the movements of the heavenly bodies
as night and morning or summer and
winter. Disease and sickness, he said,
were also under astronomical influ-
ence and depended entirely on planet
airy conjunctions and cycllcal laws,
and 1t was consequently quite useless
either to legislate against crime, or to
hope to prevent sickness by sanitary
measures. He didn't make many COLI
verts to his theory, being unfortunate
In the selection of an audience. l know
of some eight hundred men who would
instantly fall into his way Of thinking.
At present they are conflned-in direct
violation of theoretical law, and In
total defiance of the cyclical changes
of heavenly bodies. Quinn, the child
slayer, would instantly conform to the
Professors views, and so would the
three robbers who were ordered to be
deprived Of liberty for twenty-one
years by Judge Lake, last week. l
can guarantee that Jack Tyler, who
shot Jim Dobson, will subscribe to the
new theory, and that George Hoge and
! Charley Duane and Maurice j. Carey
will adopt 1t also. Let the reformer
establish a new School of Moral Sci
ence. and he will o o turn out plenty
of ripe scholars who will do credit to
their teacher.
Tho Municipal Kleciien.
The Republican County Convention
meets tonight for the purpose of NOM
mating q Municipal ticket. Those who
have the welfare Of the party at heart
are endeavoring to dissuade 1t from
such n course, rs there Is not the slight
est chance Of electing its nominees,
and the only result Of its efforts will
be the triumph of the Democratic
ticket over the Taxpayers Union: a
square fight between the ~unterrihed
and the Union would result In the de-
feat Of the former and cur honest
local government, and that IL a con-
summation that the political trlcksters
don't at all desire. So, to prevent such
a catastrophe, they put q Republican
ticket In nomination, and by thus
splitting votes, elect their own favor
ties and perpetuate the power Of the
Ring In the Board Of Supervisors.
James n. MIarshall,
The discoyerer of gold at Suffers mill,
Is writing a book detailing his expert
ences in early days. He tried lectur-
ing last April, but although his story
Is an exceedingly interesting one, he
could not get together n paying audi,
ence. Governor Haight Is much blessed
for vetoing the bill passed by the Leg
islature granting the old man 800 q
month for the term of two. years.
Advertising DodBes.
A handbill with q war map OIL one
side and an insurance company's ad-
vertisement on the other, Is the latest
plan of mildly presenting the adval-
tages of life insurance. Advertising
appears to be swayed by the whim of
fashion to a very considerable extent.
FORMULATING advertisements were
all the 20 q few months since. The
principal streets were Mt that time mo-
nopolized by a succession Of forlorn
looking individuals carrying boards
lettered with frantic appeals to buy
this thing and try that. Then we had
the handbill era, with boys stationed
every few yards, to distribute touching
appeals about saving u hard earned
money by purchasing shoe strings and
paper collars OF such and such a mer-
chant. Now the style Is to daub the
side of o house with immense letters
and paint the sidewalk with a friendly
advice to 20 to Jones' for your butter.
| think the men who carried the boards
round have all gone into the present
business, 70 there Is an alarming In
crease In the number of stands for the
sale Of that article.
A New Hearse.
We are rejoicing in the possession Of
n new three thousand-doliar hearse-
the most expensive thing of the kind
ever constructed. It is covered all
over with carving and gliding, and is
of such q r~esplendent nature that oven
Chicago-througha representative ed
itor-went into ecstacies Mt Its unique
appearance. They are ugly things at
tbn hast md n seems almost imDOssi-