Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-05-03
SACRAMENTO LETTER.

SACRAMENTO LETTER.
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SACRAMENTO, May l, 1872.
Ed. NEws:-Of all the lifeless
places this Is the worst especially for
a letter writer to find material worth
writing about. II old Rip Van VIM
kle had gone to sleep here, he would
mover have suspected chat any unsual
time had elapsed during his little nap
Of twenty years. He would have been
like the man who. while going up
Snake River In a steamboat went to
sleep for five or six hours, and on wax
ing, though the boat had made over
average timo, wanted to know what
they had tied up" for. The country
was so m%onotonous he thought they
hadn't moved.
Theatrical.
Proctor has done his best to amuse
the people with a very good troupe.
but the people would not p~atronize
him aud he had to leave as soon rs the
Legislature did. / hear the "Palace
of Truth" Il shortly to be produced
here. am delighted that they are to
even play "Truth," for we have so lit
tie of It In reality, that, like some OBJ
solete customs, we need to see Il play
cd or we would forget there ever was
such q thing. IL
Tho weaker
Has really commenced to be uncom-
fortably warm, and every n who
car, contemplates a flight to some
place supposed to be q watering place,
where they can be ten times as uncom-
Portable. and pay rs many prices for
the privilege.
PieaIc, aud A~rIstseracy.
Picnics are all the rage. Two left
town this morning, one train Of twenty
cars of Irish and ten Of Baptists. 1
think some Of the "boys Of Green
Erin" brought some Of It home with
them, from the festive sounds that as
sail mine eur rs I write. The open
cars looked like fields Of flowers, filled
as they were with tho many bright
colored dresses of the ladies and chill
dren. There seems to DO but one class
who enjoy themselves here, and they
are the working class, As 1t might
properly be termed. The self-styIed
aristocracy are afraid Of losing their
dignity if they should con-
descend to be cheerful, and join In
common sports. The fact Is the most
Of them have come from this Same
working class, and have only the pres
tige that wealth gives, and their new
found role Of aristocracy sits 80 loosely
and badly OH their shoulders they are
afraid lest a little thing may cause 1t
either to fall of entirely or get so dis
placed that they will be In the condi-
tion Of that animal Of old, who borrow
ed the skin Of the lion.
8tocks.
Stocks do not seem to interest the
people Of this place, although thoy
may in an hundred years from now II
the mines hold out. San Francisco
has gone crazy over them. 10 60
down Montgomery or California
streets Is like passing through an infu-
rated mob. Men schemlng. jostling
and gesticulating in the widest MAN.
ner. one might almost imagine he was
on c street, Virginia, from the many
familiar faces he meets there. l caught
q peep at Colonel Avery, as no passed
through the other day. / think his
Eastern trip has improved him,
though there was not much room for 1t
at least In his own estimation.
A waraiuE - Letter Writers.
must tell you a good joke that came
to my knowledge to-day. A lady &C
q~uaintance Of mine has a gentleman
correspondent In San Francisco. To-
day she received a letter that she
thought read very strangely. The man.
ner Of address was very peculiar also,
but still unable to understand 1t, she
kept OH reading. when q check fell
from Its folds. The name on 1t was
strange, and after nearly finishing the
Interesting epistle, 1t flashed over her
that he had written two letters, and
directed them wrong, and she had re-
celved the one intended for his sweet
heart. The cat was all out Of the bag.
That boy need not claim to belong to
the Y. NJ. c. A. any more. l think his
mother should send for him to come
home, or come aud take are Of him,
and "put him in his little bed"
The only cheerful things about this
place are the frogs. They are unceas-
Ing In their concerts. They Seem to
think this place was made for them,
and they are Immensely delighted
thereat.
ssanEsrd,s Family Gar.
Leland Stanford and family chris
tened their now a yesterday, BY 60
ing to San Francisco It It. It Is the
finest one Of the kind ever built on this
coast, and Is the most elegant and COM
plete I eyer saw. It contains a sitting
and dining-room, two bedrooms and a
kitchen, all as compact IS q lady's
work-box, and as rich as circumstances
will permit.
Funeral Of Mrs. Dana.
The funeral Of poor Mrs. Dana, late
Of Virginia city, took place to-day. I
was not able to attend, but I san them
take the remains from the cars. How
very sad, that n so young and uni
versally loved, should be snatched so
suddenly away. In many respects her
death reminds me Of one who left you
q little over a year since, In as sudden
and unexpected . manner She, too,
was the youngest Of two sisters. May
God comfort the sisters sorrowing
heart. None but those who have ex-