Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-12-16
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
ARriw0Ia
Departures.


knowledge the receipt of a compli-
mentary ticket Of invitation to the first
ball Of Neptune Hose Company No. 3,
Virginia, to be given at National Guard
Hall next Thursday evening. 1t is 4
we'll organized and efficient company.
and the young gentlemen comprising
it are determined to make this ball
one Of the most pleasing, satisfactory
and recherche character. The hall
will be neatly decorated and the floor
covered with canvass; the best music
procurable will officiate, carriages vii!
be sent around for the ladies, every
polite attention will be paid to the
guests, and everything will be con-
Quoted In the most orderly and APP
proved style. Being strictly an invi-
tation social, the aSsemblaSe cannot
fall to be of the most select and mu-
tually agreeable.
ALEXIS COMING We learn from
the Omaha Tribune that the Grand
Duke Alexis Is to arrive in that city
some time next week, and 60 on = big
buffalo hunt with General Sheridan
out In the vicinity Of Fort McPher-
son. Banner Brothers, the famous
clothing dealers at Virginia City, have
just received a note from the Dukes
Private Secretary, ordering full suits
of warm clothing for each OF the par
ty, and Farnham & Jackson, Of the
Gold Hill Bank Exchange, are to sup
ply the necessary whisky, rs Alexis
drinks none but the best. l.. L. Fox,
of the Gold Hill Market, and Mark
Strouse, of the Central Market, Fir-
rinia, have already contracted for the
marketing Of all the buffalo Alexis
shoots.
CLEAR IT Ur.-AlthouSh the Fire
Department water cistern on the Di-
vide, opposite the Summit Market. is
completed, yet the piles of earth at
the surface are only partially shoveled
away. Quite a bank of 1t still re-
mains, almost in the middle OF the
street-enough to capsize any. vehicle
accidentally running aton OF It In the
dark. It should DO cleared away as
o as possible, for there Is only room
for one team 10 pass ut n time, and the
street is narrow enough at the best.
Tho hatchways of the ciStern should
also DO covered, before somebody tum'
bles into 1t.
ALL FOR ALExIs.-Flurshuti " Cook
at their famous confectionery estab-
lishmont on South c street. have just
completed a fine lot Of sugar doinss,
choice cakes and fancy nlceties, fully
and POLITICALLY enumerated IN tnelr
statement, to be found under head oil
"New To-day" in another column
all of which they have prepared as an
appropriate Christmas present to the
Grand Duke Alexis. This fine display
of good things will be on exhibition
for a few days, previous to forwarding,
and simply consists of 4 fair sample OF
what they keep constantly on hand, or
make to order at the most reasonable
rates.
PASE-FooI.-Ghostly pictures APP
pearing on window panes are fooilng
the people of San Francisco, aud the
epidemic Is breaking out in Oakland
and various other places in California
even extending to Virginia, Us we
see by the Enterprise OF yesterday
whether Slippery Gulch will also pro-
duce n pane-fool sensation OF the i
remains to be seen. People in San
Francisco, Virginia, or anywhere else,
who get into the habit Of looking into
glasses of spirits too much, are morally
Certain to see snakes, as well rs ghosts,
sooner or later.
MUppY SEA.-C street, Virginia,
especially South c, is n sea of sloppy
mud at the present time, and the huge
prairie schooners, as they navigate
along the muddy tide, go rolling and
plunging about through the deep
chucSholes and over the crossings, like
Dutch galliots In q chop sea, keeping
their helm hard up or hard down most
of the time to avoid getting cast away
on a lee sidewalk, or wrecked against
lamp or awning posts.
A DIRTY ScRAPE.-Chief Downey
had a couple of men ut work with n
two-horse scraper all day yesterday
and pretty much all night, trying to
scrape the terrible confluent profusion
of mud out Of c street and make it
run Off down the cross streets. They
met with pretty good success, and sent
a thick river OF slumgulllon flowing
down toward Chinatown.
IscuBArrNa.-Chief Malone and his
assistants of the Virginia Fire Depart
ment. are said to be setting on those
two new well-gates, purchased several
weeks ago, to be affixed to the Savage
and Gould Il Curry water clsterns,
above b street, for use in case Of fire.
Perhap. they are trying to hatch out
some plan to make those gates self