Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-12-20
s,x FnAnc,sco. Dec. II. 1873,

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. II, 1873.
Ed. News IL have been In this most
elegant, stupendous, honest and viz
tuous /" city for the last two weeks
have had but little time to run about,
for the reason that it has been raining
nearly all the time and reminds me Of
rheumatlcs; but you know that I am
young and can hunt and fish just as
we'll as could a few years ago, but
time will tell. I have been to nearly
all the theatres and churches. also to
Woodward's Gardens, the Dry Dock,
Cliff House and California street. The
playing
At the Theatre,
As a general thing, for the last week
or two, has been Of q Heterogeneous,
broken-up, "mullagatawny" kind ; a
little of everything aud not much OF
anything; all "Stars aud no Star at
all. We are promised something bet
ter soon. think the "niggers" are
ahead so far as tragedy, comedy aud
common sense IL concerned.
The City
Ia "elegant" In some respects, viz:
muddy streets. flor 1t can discount
Virginia or "Slippery Gulch'D bad
crossings, insulting a drivers and
conductors, we'll dressed men and the
most loveable Of ladies, and It does
ono good to see them OF = rainy day
with a dress dragging In the mud aud
sweeping the sidewalks clean. THIS l
am informed Ia on account OF their
sympathy for the street-swecpcr. who
only gets $685. 900 a year for that pur-
pose, and why should he not econo-
mize and try aud get out even, at
least? think that he b In with this
crinoline arrangement, or he may
have sub.let the job. Couldn't do that
in your town. This city is
stupcndOus.
Look Mt the wharves, the street cars,
the fire alarm arrangements, the SUI
psrvisors. the Fire Commissioners, the
Police Court, the Jail, the cslaboose,
the City Attorney, the City Hall, and
the forty thieves Of California street.
II five righteous men could have
saved S0dom aud Gomorah. | think
they had five hundred per cent. the
best oil California street. AS for the
brokers, God save US from their hands.
II our Savior should unfortunately
happen to drop down there for five
minutes he would BE- sold short, buyer
90. So far as honesty aud virtue are
concerned, | have little to say. only
that I know a broker who charges IL
per cent. per month and says he does
1t very reluctantly, Tor he thinks he
could get Is per cent.
Pleasure Resorts.
The Cliff House Is u nice place to
go to. Splendid drive out and fine
scenery after yon get there, and then
Oh your way back you come back by
Lone Mountain. which gives you a
subject for meditation and thought.
and il you are inclined to commit sui
eide it Is n splendid place for 1t, for
the old fellow who tends there, has u
hole always ready for n stragglcr.
Triangular Politics.
] have been watching political mat
tiers for the last two or three weeks
ts.ey look fine. The parties at Sac.
ramento. viz Democrats. Republicans
aud Dollies remind one of Midshipman
Easy's duel, which was triangular.
The war for years has been between
the Democrats and Republicans, who
have defled and fought each other to
the knife but now ONE Ia the Dol
lies. who crack their whip and say,
" we've got EN-" aud sort Of make
love to the Democrats, who throw
themselves back and say. We are the
mountain-comc to us )" and then the
duel goes on aud the Democrats pop
away q little at the Dollles, just to
scare them !; the Dollies send II few
small shot at the Republicans, while
the Republicans are plugging away
with a steady hand at the bull's.eye OF
the Democracy, which has shown itself
so plainly for a long time In both CAL
ifornia and Nevada.
ONCE IN A WHILE.