Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-02-25

the first of o series of catastrophles.
Near Ogden the train ran over seven
cattle, which caused the a Miss Wal
ton was In to jump the track, with the
result that several passengers were
slightly hurt, and two had bones
broken. The fair actress again es-
capped, this time without either bruise
or torn dress. Escape number three
was on Monday morning when within
O few miles of Rocklin. The two last
cars-in one of which Miss Walton
was riding-becqme detached from the
train and ran down the line about half
a mile, when they overturned and
rolled over a small e%mbankment. Our
fair actress was %conversing with q lady
friend, when she was suddenly whirled
to the other side Of the car and found
herself on the top OF a confused mass
Of struggling humanity. Gathering
her skirts together, she again emerged
from the carriage window, having
gained a few additional bruises and
another experience. Of the thirty-five
passengers In the two cars, seventeen
were more or less injured, though none
of them very seriously. Miss Walton
says the next time she has any travel
Ing to do 1t will be by water, as "the
little angel who sits up aloft" might
be of duty at her next railroad acci-
dent, and then the theatrical profess
sion would lose n Of its brightest
ornaments.
The Skating CARNIVAL,
Who would have imagined that from
three to four thousand people would
pay from 81 80 to IS each, and then
turn out on one of the toughest nights
of the Winter, to see q hundred and
seventy-flve maskers rolling about on
parlor skates? Yet 1t is a positive fact
that they did it, and if the weather
had been fine, the probability is that
the number would have been doubled.
The carnival was gotten up by the
Rev. DIR. Stone, for the purpose Of
raising money to build a new church,
so it Is perhaps unnecessary to add that
there was q good deal Of swindling in
connection with it. Reserved seats, |
for instance, were sold W three or
four times, consequently when one set
of victims would 90 to take possession,
they would find themselves forestalled
by another, and while these were argu-
Ing the point a third, and In some
cases a fourth, lot Of claimants would
appear, all fully armed with duplicate
tickets, and of course with equally just
rights to the disputed chairs. The
grand navel don't neal DR.. Stone
was beautifully decorated with flags
and evergreens, Transforming what Is
q church on Sundays and n rink OH
Mondays to the MISUNDERSTANDING
ballroom in the city. Soon after o
O'Clock Professor Lovett-it would be
impossible to do anything without him,
so Professor Lovett thinks-marshaled
the motley throng of maskers in a col
'umn, and the procession entered the
hall, glided round 1t several times, and
then its members broke Oft and skated
at will. = Graceful and tanciful COS
tunes predominated over the g~rotesque
and comic, while n few sombre ones,
sprinkled here and there, served rs q
pleasing relief to the bright colors of
tho majority. Sex and age were In
volved in the general disguise, and
although 1t was seldom difficult to de-
termine the former, the latter had to
be left to the dsnouemeat when the url-
masking occurred. Very few falls
took place, and there was no confusion.
All who participated In the affair were
adepts In the use of the t%reacherous
%castors, and so moved about with as
much ease as Morlacchi In a ballet,
skating backward and forward without
any Of the misgivings that always UNI
nerve the novice. Altogether, apart
from the aforementioned swindling, 1t
was a night of thorough enjoyment,
and perhaps all the more enjoyable
from the fact that no one Of the skaters
had anticipated such a crowd Of spec
tators. These were equally pleased
barring the duplicate holders Of re-
served scats-at the brilllancy and
animation Of tho scene ; and the first
skating Notwithstanding the little
fraud previously alluded to-was about
the greatest success In the way Of
amuscments we have eyer had In San
Francisco. JACK HoRNER.