Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-05-09

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GOLD HILL, FRIDAY. NAY Q. 1878
ALI. porRN, q, H1issr .aa Proprietor.
-- o1NERAL IT7NA
The new telescope being made at
Cambrldeport, Mass, for the Washing
ton Observatory, will, II Is said, BE- tho
largest In the world. The object glass
will have q diameter Of 2sh inches
and the tube . focal distance Of 81 feet.
The total cost Of the telescope and Its
REQUISITE machinery will bc $4,000,
Of which the object glass alone will
cost ga, 900. It vas cast In England
and finished In Massachusetts,.
MARY wEruERBEs, chief engineer Of
q doggery on the Water Front In San
Francisco, made the acquaintance Of
j. 8. Sawtslle. Hs drank some wine
and she borrowed $l75, unknown to
him. Sawtelle deeming the woman
too intimate on so short NJ a~cqualnt-
snce had her arrested and held In
$4,000 bail.
Bowen. tho author Of the famous
Woodstock letter which first gave rise
TO the Beecher scandal, has been sued
in 5000 for libel BY Kiusslla, edi-
Tor Of the Brooklyn Eagle. Bowen ID
under arrest. The case will probably
expose the whole mystery Of tho IA
nous Woodruff scandal cases. .
1. Ar the municipal election In Rs
leigh. n. c., on the 9th instant, the en-
tire Republican ticket for Mayor and
nine Commissioners was elected by
majorities ranging from 800 to $50, q
Republican gain Of 500.
THERE wero received at the Union
Stock Yard. New York city, last week,
a. us head Of cattle. This beats Kan
sas City, which had heretofore been
champion, having received $4,000 In a
week.
The Hon. Jno. B. Hawley, Of Illi-
nois. and tho Hon. ]. n. Rusk, Of
Wisconsin, have returned their back
pay to the Treasury. Both voted
against the grab bill. $50
The rumor started by the Eureka
Sentinel that Perley and Thornton are
about to figh. \ duel with harpoons
across Lake Blglsr is pronounced with
out foundation.
OMAHA complains that the zeal of It's
Street Commissioner Is unfiagging and
not to DO curbed In consequence Of
which its sidewalks arc In a dilapldat-
ed condition.
STOKES will be sentenced next Mon
day. His counsel, Dos Passos, has been
threatened with evils II he persists In
carrying the ease before the Court Of
Appeals.
LIFE Is not made up Of events; man
isnot 1.-The creature ofcircumstance," as
Is so ofssn asserted. The great results
Of life now from character, moi con-
dition.
JOSEPH SrIcER, aged Is, was killed
and horribly mutilated with an AZ. by
his father, on tho 9Th instant. They
lived about six miles from Copperop'
oils.
SIX thousand eight hundred and
forty-one emigrants arrived at Castle
Garden on Saturday last. The tide o.
emigration Is now at its height.
The Khan Of Khivs offers uneondi'
tional submission. This practically
settles the Khlvan difficulty and ends
the war. 81
The Turkish Government has for
hidden the expectation Of horses from
Asiatic Turkey for the next seven
years.
QUEEN VICTORIA Is agslng rapidly,
She Is only 81, yet looks nearly 20
Her hair has lately become very gray
A RAILROAD accident occurred near
Shrewsbury, England, yesterday. Four
passengers were killed and 0 wounded.
An unknown man was run over by
the cars at Livermore, yesterday. He
Is supposed to have been intoxicated.
JUDoE A. r. WEAVER, Of Colusa,
committed suicide yesterday.
A PANTY Is fitting out at Phoebe to
explore southeastern Utah.
ALBERT WrcKs, aged go, suicided at
Santa Barbara, yesterday.
A NATIONAL poker Congress Is talked
Of In Chicago.
OAKRs ANEs died at $3.50 last night.
THE Dublin police are about to strike.