Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-07-17

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escaped with only q rib broken aud a
few bruises. A coal oil lamp was
broken and set a sofa OH fire, but it
was extinguished by the prompt appli-
cation Of a bucket or so OF water. The
grand crash, rs well rs the cry of fire
caused a general alarm to be sounded
by the Gould & Curry whistle, and fire
bells, bringing out all the machines Of
the Department, but fortunately they
were not needed. Had the south wall
similarly fallen there would most GER
tainly have been much more damage,
and the loss of several lives, for the
residence of Nh. Savage is close to the
church. As 1t was, the upper portion
of the wall falling upon it did consid-
cradle damage. 4 pile of bricks came
crushing through the roof and partially
through n wooden ceiling into the
room where Mrs. Savage and little
daughter were sleeping. In the next
room two or three men were sleeping,
and luckily at the south side, for the
north half of the oom was totally
demolished by a huge body of the fall
ing wall. Had they been at the other
side of the room they would surely have
been killed outright. The stables OF
Mr.. Savage, where his teams arc kept,
would also have been destroyed had
this wall fallen. Tho south corner Of
the front IS very unsafe, and has been
so for some time past, the stone foun-
dation being cracked and spread open
five or six inches. Quite q report was
in circulation at first that the building
had been maliciouSly blown up with
powder, but there is no Indication
whatever Of any such thing. The
building fell simply from its own de-
fectivc construction. The carpenter
work of the roof was defective, aud
the mason work Of the walls by no
means good, the bricks being evidently
laid In mud instead Of good mortar.
, 1t was indeed fortunate that the acct
dent did not happen during church
hours, or on any occasion when there
was n congregation present. We hear
1t stated that the Pastor, Rev. Mr. Nc
Grath, had prepared n sermon against
the Vigilance Committee, which
he was going to deliver yesterday,
attracting doubtless nh unusually
large audience. Had the church taken
occasion to fall then, the resuld would
indeed have been fearful. Chief
Downey had q force of men ut work
Yesterday. Notwithstanding that 1t was
Sunday, clearing the ruins Of. that
church out of Taylor street, while
other parties we're busy throwing down
such portions OF the wall rs appeared
liable to do injury from falling. We
understand that the church Is to be re-
built; If so we would suggest that the
cornerstone laid in 1863 be reclaim, or
re~-opened, in order to insert this Item.
HANGING AND HAYING.-'rhe other
night, rs the Vigilantes were having
n ncck-tie-sociablc out OH the Geiger
Grade, In the neighborhood Of the new
"gallus" strike of the Sierra Nevada
mine, n ranchcr by the name Of Andy
Brown arrived in the vicinity OF the
party. trith a Toad Of hdy-singular as
it may SEEM. but nevertheless true.
He and his team were stopped by the
picSets Of the camp, who presented
arms. The man of hay dismounted,
and trying to reason the matter with
the picketS, whom he mistook for high
waymen, telling them lie had done
nothing, that lie had no money, that he
was an orphan, a single man, and that
he had Il lame horse, etc. He was re-
questcd to keep quiet, and to take a
walk up the road where the meeting
was being held, which he did, leaving
Ia, Nn.. ,N,nlip~ IIn 10 mn h1RE
shortly, terribly frightened. exclaim-
ing rs he reached the lead-horse of his
team, "Oh. my Mary! I want 10 sell
my hay, oh, | want to sell out! l
want to 60 home! Oh, my -"
A PoLIrIcAI. STRAW Commodore
Cross, one of the principal stockhold-
ers in the celebrated "IIoyle Ledge"
in Gold Hill, returned yesterday from
a visit to San Francisco and other fash
ionable places where capitalists resort
during the cheated term.,' He came
over the great railroad to Reno, and
last Thursday, while OH the cars he and
several others took it into their heads
to open the polls to see how the pas
sengers stood Oh the Gubernatorial
race, which is beginning to become
lively In California. He made return
to us of the result Of the election on the
cars, which we publish, just to show
how the political strawS bob OH the
other side of the mountains : Total
votes polled, l29; for Booth, for Gov
ernor of California, % for Haight, 81.
Several ladies voted, all for Booth, and
none for Haiyht. Several declined upon
the ground that they knew nothing
about politics; but the Commodore
very calamity offered to enlighten
them, and they told him to go TO
grass" Two political "straws."
OFFICERS ErEcr.-The following Of
flcers were elected at the last meeting
of the Virginia Miners Union 4: Presi-
dent, James Phelan; Vice President,
Robert Morrison ; Recording Secreta-
~, Martin O'Shea Financial Score.
tary, Alex. Mot; Treasurer, Richard
Arnold Conductor, Duncan Black;
Warden. John Steele; Financial Com
mittee. John Cavanaugh, Jas. OToole'
ID. j. Lord.
DREss wEIL.-All good, respectable
men dress decently, and surely no n
has any excuse for wearing shabby old
clothes, when a first rate rig an DC
procured at Waller'S just above the
News office, at your own price. ASK
Waller about it.
YELLOW JACKET EI.EcrIoN.-The
annual election Of the Yellow Jacket
Mining Company took place to-day,
resulting as follows: Trustees-T.G g.
TAYLOR, William Sharon, Thomas SUN
derland, L. B. Storer, D. L. Bliss;
T. G. Taylor, President and Superin-