Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-12-26
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

Mss Anthony " Baldwin
-Sr~o
A ScHooLBoY on FIREs.-The Car
son Register gives the following: n.
+. Dow, 4 ten-year old school-boy Of
this city, is author Of the following
composition, which is a very clever
take of on the excltability OF frsmen
In general: Everybody knows how
exciting it Is whenever there is a fire.
The fire companies are always on hand
and the jumper must be drawn by q
crowd Of young men. Sometimes
there Is q call for the jumper here and
there at the same time, and some Of
the boys get mad, and the mad Is fol-
lowed by a fight, In which somebody
Is knocked down and gets q black eye
and loses two or three front teeth, and
tho Sheriff comes along and arrests
two or three persons, when quiet Is
restored. When the engines reach
home there Is a key of lager awaiting
the boys; some II gets top-heavy
and then there is another fight. But,
laying aside fights and other things,
let me give you . piece of advice,
young juniors, who 90 to fires: First,
scramble, like q pair of cats being
dragged up stairs with their tails tied
together second, run any way but the
right way-lf you run on the top of n
wood pile, so much the better; third,
if you can't make the night hideouS
enough. otherwise, kick any one who
comes in your way, but DO sure you
don't kick anybody who has more mus
Gle than you have, for If you do he
might turn around and kick you in tho
shins and make you cry out Of the
other corner Of your mouth fourth,
when you reach the place Of conflagra-
tion do all you can in the way Of cut
ting down all the picket fences in the
vicinity. Don't forget to yell all the
time, Of course, and the more ladies
there are around the greater the neces-
sity for doing so. Fifth, when the roof
gets to smoking, get to work In good
earnest with a crowbar and remove
the stone steps; then get an Ak and
chop down the apple trees, for fear the
apples will be spoiled. OF course you
will not forget the looking-glass, wash
bowl and pitcher, for we all know that
the further you throw the mirror the
moro pieces it will be- broken into"
SEVERE AccIpENr.-About 4 +. II.
Sunday an accident occurred at the
Crown Point hoistins works whereby
Jack Shepherd, who has been employed
there attending to the cables, ropes,
etc, for q long time past, was severely
injured. One of the wiro cables being
somewhat stranded needed repairing,
and In order to do so the cage was
hoisted to near the surface and secured
by means Of q clamp placed upon the
cable. The cable was then Stacked
down between the sheave ut the top OF
the hosting frame and the reel, bring
ing the damaged portion into a con-
venlent position for repairing. While
Nr. Shepherd was busily engaged III
the job of repairing, the clamp sud-
denly slipped loose, letting the cage
drop heavily, giving the Stacked cable
q terrific jerk. Mr.. Shepherd was
leaning over it at the time, and being
caught by it was thrown upward some
ten or twelve feet, and In falling
struck his face full upon the heavy bed
timber Of the reels, known rs the
"pil!ar block" His nose was mashed
flat and his face somewhat bruised, but
he was fortunately not otherwise in
iured. DR.. Hall repaired the badly
broken nose as well as possible. Both
his eyes arc BACKED and swollen, n
Jacks countenance bears the appear
ance like unto that Of 4 genuine prize
fighter. lie was indeed fortunate i'll
not having his brains dashed out.
Suor.-The most serious unpleasant
ness resulting from the observance Of
Christmas was a quarrel between two
men ut a saloon on the Divide, pro-
duced by the use Of too much or too
bad whisky, which resulted in II
shooting the other In the left arm with
n navy-slzed Colts revolver, inilicting
n serious wound. The ball passed
through the arm near the elbow, shat
tering the bone badly. DR.. Conn rem
dered the requisite surgical assistance.
He extracted the ball In several pieces
from the opposite side Of the arm from
where 1t entered, also q number Of
pieces Of the shattered bone. The
shooter was arrested and this forenoon
had his examination before Justice
Young at Virginia. 1t appears to
have been an unfortunate quarrel be-
tween friends, which both parties are
DESTROYS Of hushing up, therefore we
considerably omit names.
A FAT TURKEY.-The senior Of the
NEWS acknowledges the receipt Of a
large fat Christmas turkey, BY express,
from our old towney, William II. II.
Lee, who keeps the Quincy Market,
ZIG X street, Sacramento, and where
he keeps on sale such desirable eata-
bles as fresh fish, poultry, game, fruit,
vegetables, butter, eggs, turkeys,
chickens, etc, where our Washoe deal
ers can establish a trade If they wish
as Mr.. Lee promises to fill all orders
promptly, when sent by responsible
parties.
HOLIDAY GooDs.-R. L. Higgins, c
street, Virginia, is selling OIL his great
assortment of holiday goods at sx-
trcmely cheap rates, and his fine new
store Is filled with eager purchasers
from early morn to sloppy eve. his
stock Of goods Is unsurpassed In the
city, and he allows zone to undersell
him. lie invites everybody to call on
him before purchasing elsewhere. See
h;s adyarfIsement I'm another column,