Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-09-21

RI hc discovered. From the number
exhibited, a stranger would imagine
we were the cleanliest people on the
face of the earth, for rows, regiments
and battalions Of the things were
churning and wrlnglng clothes oil over
the Pavilion.
"Bltters."
The display of Austrian, Russian
prussian and half a dozen other varie-
ties Of national bitters would have
delichted the soul of n veteran bar
keeper, The vendors of these de-
coetions we're noisily eloquent on the
medicinal merits of their respective
compoupds, and induced rural visitors
to invest largely IN the gaudily labeled
black bitters. h'9
sacramento Girls.
An agricultural Fair without girls
to give it life and beauty would be
almost too dismal for an ordinary
imagination to conceive. One of our
old songs, popular in pioneer days,
says:
The Sacramento gals arc some;
They're down on men what live on rum.
THEY'RE pretty girls, / must confess,
But Lord.a-massy how they dress.
Without venturing to hazard an
opinion on the truth Of the first two
lines, l can say that the last are e r
tainly as applicable now as they were
ten years ago.
"What do you think Of our Sacra-
mento girls ?" asked q lady friend
whom | met in the Pavilion.
"They are very pretty, but much
too pale to accord with my ideas Of
beauty?" I replied.
"Say much too painted" was the
uncharitabIe rejoinder II am sure a
man wouldn't have been guilty Of itl
at is fashionable up here to be pal
lid"
1t Is ungallant to mention it, but
when I brushed n white cloud of rice
powder from my coat next morning,
and reticctively watched 1t settle OIL
bureau and chairs, the conversation OF
the previous evening forced itself into
my recollection.
The Races. .rHra#
As the State donates $4,000 for what
It puritanically calls encouragement
Of fast stock" and only parchment
diplomas Of no intrinsic value for the
encouragement of anything else, it is
but natural that while the number Of
exhibits of industrial products becomes
annually less, nm increasing interest
| should be taken In the "trials Of
speed." The races-to drop agricul-
tural jargon-are the For, and but for
them very few Of the fifteen thousand
visitors would have cared to leave their
homes and put up with the expense
and annoyance of 4 week III Sacra-
| mento.
The racing programme attracted
| eight or ten thousand people each day,
| and the usual amount Of gambling and
| iockeying was rs rife here as 1t gencr-
ally Is OH other C tracks. Racing,
under proper conditions, is a true
| Olympian game, bus as the noble AMI.
mails come In after each heat, half dead
with exhaustion from running in the
swelterfng sun, 1t was evident that the
sport was more adapted to n colder
cline, and that no practical good to
the State could result from its encour-
agement here.
Old Friends.
Strolling round the city l renewed
my acquaintance with n great many
very old friends. The first one I saw
was OIL a blank wall, and called "a
grand Panorama of the Franco-Prus-
sian War" knew 1t years ago, when
it was a "Siege Of Sebastapool," and
afterwards when it was n "Sepoy
| Mutiny," and "A Great Civil War;"
and 4 War with Austria" and unless
the approaching millennium puts it on
the retired list, | expect to meet 1t
many times more. mammoth Dick"
a fat beast Of %stupendous proportions,
was another old friend. He came down
to San Francisco last Christmas and
exhibited himself for the benefit of the
| Orphan Asylum. There he got slaugli-
tered to furnish a New Years dinner
to the Industrial School children, and
! afterwards went up to Marysville and
| Stockton rs n Sanitary Fair bull. He
Is n benevolent animal and always
shows himself for charitable purposes.
That trick pony-the very perfection
of symetrical wood cuts-was also
there, picking the pocket Of the uncon:
Sclous ring master. or all the board
fences and circus bills within the city
limits, and the learned pig, just as dis
| sipated rs ever, with n clay pipe in Its
mouth, and the two bowers and ace,
king and queen Of trumps in its left
paw, doomed up from almost the first
window l looked at. / am afraid he Is
past reformation, and that like Sacra-
mentans generally he rather rejoices
in his iniQuitics.
Tho Capitol.
Of course I visited the Capitol and
praised it rs in duty bound. 1t ,cfH be
a fine building when finished, but Is at
present In too crude 4 condition to
elicit much genuine admiration. The
appropriation voted for its completion
has been spent, so that further work Is
stopped until more money can be pro-
cured. Last week a big safe came up
| for the State Tre1surer's Office. and as
there was no funds to pay laborers
hauling it into position, the Attorney
! General, State Printer, Surveyor Gen.
eral, and n few private Secretaries,
took hold of the ropes and managed to
place 1t under cover.
Moral Reflections
But to return to the Fair, and our
moral reflections. Unless Sacramento
can furnish a better show for the eight
thousand dollars she gets, than the one
lust concluded, 1t Is time to let some
F6ther city have a try at the business.
The fruit display was not nearly equal
to the exhibition at the San Francisco
Pavilion a fortnight ago, and n can
see more agricultural machinery:
blocking the sidewalk Of Front street,
than there was altogether In the Sac
ramento building. Nicely arranged
furniture from New York, pianos from
Chickering's, bookbinding from CHI
cago, bonnets and fancy dresses neatly.
Fglass-cased as cheap advertisements OF
local milliners; multifarious "bit-