Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-01-05

TEAMsTER WHsKY.-A teamster in
the employ of n Of our prominent
Gold Hill quartz team proprietors,
who has been in the habit of using
about 50 or 40 drinks q day Of whisky
in order to keep his system toned and
regulated right, has got so that he is
not particular ut all rs to the quality
Of the beverage as long as the quantity
Is all right. The team proprietor
keeps a bottle Of spirits Of t~urpentine
In a back corner of his kitchen cup
board for use In doctoring sores on his
animals. and in the same cupboard
also a bottle or so OF whisky from
which the boys can help themselves.
Early this morning the tcamster In
question reached after the whisky, but
accidentally got hold Of the %turpentine
bottle and took three big swallows
his regular measurement, without no
ticing any difference in the beverage
at ali. Shortly afterward the proprle-
tor took the Same bottle. but detecting
the blundcr at once, said "Look here,
jim, didn't you take a drink out Of
this bottle? p" "Of course I did,"
why, you laundering fool, you've
drank up half this turpentine :" ''Well
that's pretty good on me, but I'm id
If l noticed any strangeness In the
taste, except that 1t seemed to slip
down a little smoother, II anything.
Never mind. l guess l kin stand 1t till
next drinkin' time" And he did stand
it first-rate, although Il has make his
tobacco-Spit smell like mustang llni-
ment most all day.
GAILAoHER's LANpINa.-Our enter
prisiug fellow citizen, Thomas Gala
CHER, is having a commodlous and sub
stantial platform built beside the
track. near the Gold Hill Office Of the
Virginia and Truckee railroad, at the
upper end of town, IN order to have
all the wood which Is brought MP by
the cars for him landed thereon. As
1t will be thus deposited where 1t can
he seen and properly watched over all
tho time, Gallagher thinks there will
be less shrinkaCc IN tho cords-that Is
to say, there NJ be less wood una
countably missl.,s or surreptitioaily
strayed away than if 1t were deposited
at other places he knows OF. II Is
quite possible that his wood would
hold out better. He deals In choice
nut pine, and sells it In lots to suit,
delivering it wherever desired.
FRESH SHE'LL. OysTERs.-For these
popular biyalvcs In all their original
purity and l~usciousness, and ut whole
sale rates, in any desired quantity,
send TO Emerson, Corville IS Co., No.
AZ Pine street, San Francisco. They
arc sole proprietors Of the celebrated
San Bruno and Raccoon Straits oyster
beds, anG >r1ply the trade with the
choicest OF Sloalwater Bay oysters,
and also the New York transplantel
oysters, said to be the finest favored
in the world. In any quantity. Coun-
try orders promptly filled. See adver-
tisement.
GUINEA PIGs.-These pretty little
beasts are not natives of the land :of
sagebrush, and probably never have
been. In fact, the only one we ever
heard OF being here Is at the Fashion
Saloon, on the Divide. 1t Is the happy
mother of one little pig at the present
time. Perhaps Guinea pigs may some
day be among the staple productions
Of the country.
LEAF YEAR BAHIA grand leap
year ball is to be given next Thursday
evening under the auspices of the
Young Ladies' Social Society of Gold
Hill, at Liberty Engine Hall. The
young ladies propose to carry this fes-
tive project through in the most APP
proved style, and expect the gentle
men to second the motion properly.
CnowS POINT BuLLIoS.-At Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S Virginia office, this fore
DON we saw 10 bars Of bullion from
the Crown Point mine, weighing 1900
mounds, and worth about $4O,0OO,
brought there for shipment to Calitor-
mia. 1t made quito q desirable looking
stack of bricks, yet nothing very I'M
usual In this locality.
ORpuASs.-Two more half orphans
we're admitted to the State Orphan
Home day before yesterday-George
A. and Charles X. Keefer, respectively
aged eleven and five years. They
were admitted from Ormsby county.
This increases the number OF children
In tho Homo to forty-one.
CHANCE O A BAReAIN.-A COM
plete set Of bedroom and kitchen fur
niture, all new, for sale cheap, In Gold
Hill also 81 cords Of wood, sawed
and split, and half q ton Of coal. A
gentleman and his wife removing, Is
the occasion of sale. Read advertise
ment In another column.
CENTRAL TRUsrEEs.--B. F. Sher-
wood. William Sharon and Il. F. Nor
row have been elected Trustees OF the
Central Mining Company.
wEArnER.-To-day is very fine and
pleasant, like yesterday, and the snow
melts away considerably. The sleigh
lug this side Of the Divide Is done for.
SMALL-rox.-A child at Carson broke
out with the unmistakahle smallpox
yesterday. 1t is the first case Of the
season.
SUccoR AssEssMENT.-An assessment
of 81 so per share was levied by the
Succor Mining Co. yesterday.