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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-12-10
Suspension Of Life Insurance Com
pany.

q NJ Is ITO IN WE
Suspension OF q Life Insurance Com.
pany.
NEW York, Dec. l0.-The Common
wealth Lite Insurance Company has
decided to stop issuing policies. Pol
Icy holders are informed that the COM
pany. has sufficient assets to protect Its
present policy holders and has made
arrangements to transfer Its business
so far as practicable.
A Test Suit.
A suit has just been begun in the
Supreme Court by Morris CULVER,
plaintiff, against Drake Bros, brokers,
to test the legality Of the heavy inter-
est charged by brokers on customers
balances.
Has Come to Grief
J-T. Irving, the s%elf-accused Nathan
murderer, has been sentenced to seven
years and six months In Sing Sing, on
a charge of burglary.
Fire In Ohio.
CINCINNATI. December l0.-A fire In
Springfield, Ohio, last night destroyed
the depot, -four mills, with grain sheds,
etc. The loss Is not a~scertained.
Will be Delivered Next Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, December l0.-When,
OH the Goth Of November, the protocol
was signed BY tho Secretary Of State
and Admiral Polo. the agreement was
conclusive, and required no indorse-
ment OF the Governments Of the Uni
ted States and Spain, al the basis had
been previously settled by them. The
stipulation Of time, manner and place
for the surrender Of the Virglnlus,
surviving passengers and crew, etc,
reserved In the protocol, was signed
last Monday. While the men Will be
delivered to a United States vessel at
Santiago de Cuba, tho vessel Will
be formally delivered at some
some port other than Havana on Tues
day next in daylight.
Ex-senator Pomeroy's Assailant In.
dictcd.
Martin F. Conway has been indicted
for an assault with intent to kill ex-
Senator Pomeroy, October l6.
Suspended.
New York, Dec. 10.-H. p. Her
rick s. Co., brokers and bankers Of Ex-
change Court, have suspended.
Prohibition Petitions Before the
Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-ln the Sen
ate seven or eight petitions for the ap-
pointment of a commission to regulate
traffic in alcoholic liquors, were pre-
sented and reference asked to the Judi
ciary Committee. Edmunds opposed
the reference. as the committee would
report that Congress had nothing TODD
with the subject, exceptin the District
of Columbia and Territories.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-12-10
Fatal Boiler Explosion-wiIl Reply
Weather-IIas Not Yet Arrived
Greeubacks,

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. lO-l +. NJ
A boiler at the candle factory on the
Patrero, at the foot Of Fourteenth
street, exploded at 4 O'Clock this morn
ing instantly killing one Chinamar
and fatally injuring another. There
we're several other Chinese slightly
hurt.
Rev. Father Sheehy intends to reply
to the ex-prless Duggan sometime mex
week In = public lecture.
The weather to-day 10 clear and cold
The Alaska from China and japan
has not yet arrived.
/. Greenbacks, 9lA992I.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-12-10
STOCK
lRsroRrED DAILY ut MINER q HALL
Last Evening.

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1905 Meadow Valley. 1lx bs0. II. Il b3o, l3k,
lSk b3o. l3A. 1917, 1917 bso.
$3.50 Raymond & Ely, sen. SO b30, SC, 81 b3
81 bSO. 50 b3. 20. IS bio. Is bio. AK. 454
- h30, 46, IS IS, II bio. Il bS0. 46. &c b5,
46x, 46x b3o, 10 so. 46H $50. 46H 46H,
46X.
10 Eureka Con-, OF.
$50 Phoenix. Sc.
$50 Phoebe. 56, s.. bso, 5I, 6 bso.
$50 Washington & Creole. AZ.
$500 Page & Psnacs, 4, ~ bSO. ~, 4 so. 4 BE-,
* b30. 81. 3k. 3n bSo. 4 b3O.
500 American Flag, AZ, 4, 81. 81, 4 bSo.
$50 Silver Peak, IN, IL.
l2as Belmont, 70. lsX BIO, l9X, l9k. 20, 2oXbSo,
l9k, 10 bS.
$50 Ingomar. 40c. STHc.
40 Bowery, sc.
$50 HUM & Hunt. I, IN, IA, ~.
IS Chief Of the Hill. /.
1000 Chief, East Extension, Csc.
500 Newark. 2, 2 b3o, 2 $50, asa.
20 Amador Tunnel 2.
SIS Rye Patch, o. 81. 81, Q bS, SS.
800 ri Dorado South. 4.
40 Monitor Belmont 5x.
50 hayes, "a.
800 North Belmont. ~, ~.
70 Euceka Ca. w, 4, lsH. ls.
500 81. Patrick. $. SIS 65O, *.
$50 Independent. IN.
10 Cedarberg ~.
les Golden Chariot, 81.
loo Ida Gilmore. ~.
300 Chariot Mil, Ok, 81 b30.
100 Empire idaho. 5, *.
loO Mahogany. 8 b3.
100 Red Jacket Qdaho). 1,s,2.
50 Mammoth, 25c.
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WESTERN DISPATCHES
FROM SAN FRANCISCO

r.rrcrAL TO THE GOLF HILL DAILY NEWS.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-12-10
TELEcRAPHIc!
DISPATCHES
o N EsrIo InTELLIcEHo E

lsrrcrAt TO TEE BOLD Hull DAILY srws.l
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

SIERRA MADRE TUNNEL COMPANY.
English capitalists have come forward
and subscribed $50, 200, 900 stock, and
work has already commenced on the
Sierra Madre Tunnel through the Rocky
Mountains. A company has been
formed in Colorado, with Col. Heaton
as President, for the purpose of tunnel
ing through the Rocky Mountains. By
means of this tunnel the company ex-
pect to reach all of the one hundred and
fifty assure veins of silver ore, known to
exist in the mountains, and if their cal
culations do not miscarry, their earnings
will many times replace the amount in
vested. 1t is estimated that the cost of
this work aciH not erceed $50, 200, 900.
This looks like business indeed
Western World.
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ILLUsTRIoUs DUNcEs.-The brilliant
Sheridan showed so little capacity as a
boy that he was presented to tutor by
his mother with the complimentary &C
compartment that he was an incorrigible
Ounce. Walter Scott was all but a
Ounce when boy-always much reader
for "bicker" than apt at his lessons.
At the Edinburgh University, Professor
Dalzell pronounced upon him the SEN
tence, "Dunce he was, and Ounce he
would remain" Chatterton was re-
turned upon his mothers hand as ga
fool, of whom nothing could be made"
Burns was dull boy, good only at
athletic exercises. Goldsmith spoke of
himself as a plant that lowered late.
Robert Give was Ounce, if not rep
rebate, when youth; but always full
of energy, even in badness. His family,
glad to get rid of him, shipped him to
Madras, and he lived to lay the founda-
ton of the British power in India.
Napoleon and Wellington were both
dull boys, not Distinguishing themselves
in any way at school.-Snailes' Self
Help.
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A North Main-street gentleman saw
his boy in front of the house throwing
a ball in the air, last evening. He
hadn't played ball himself for thirty
years, and knew nothing of the kind of
ball base ball clubs have introduced in
the past few years, but he felt the old
spirit rising in him at the memory of
former triumphs, and he held up his
hands and told his son to "let her slide"
She slid. He caught it full and fair,
and then dropped it and started into the
house, with his eyes full of tears, and
his hands pressed under his arms. The
youth subsequently informed another
boy that he could plainly hear the "old
mans" bones Ddnbwy News.
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A Visit to the San Francisco Cord
age Factory.

It was privilege few days since to visit the
tablshment of the San Francisco Factory. We found
the old wooden structure had been removed, and q
rstclass proof factory erected in its place. Here
tofore fire insurance was deemed indispensable at 81 q
cent Now this expense is saved by the magnificent
structure. which is ornament and a credit to our
city. The San Francisco Cordage Company manufac-
tory is located the Potrero-rubbs Co., agents
office 6l and 6l3 Front Street. 1t established in
1856 but recently enlarged and extensive and fine i'm
provements made in buildings and machinery. which
completed in the month of April OF this year
The factory building is 200 by 50 feet two stories
high built of brick and iron and covered with French
tile imported from Marselles The iron beams and
girders for the floors made by the Phoenix Iron
Company of Philadelphia. the rolling mill bere not
being prepared to make that kind of iron. The build
ing is boted with iron through and through in the
moat substantial manner. making it both fire and
esrthquakeproof Near the building is their reproof
Bonded Warehouse. with a capacity of 1905 bales of
hemp. The buildings for the engine boilers. and ma
chime shop are all fire proof and substantial. The
ropewak building is LOO feet in length. extending
rial are landed This company have complete tarring
works in building entirely detached from all Others
and prepared to the demand for tarred rope
working force of s. hands is employed. all expert
enced rope-makers. The Superintendent, Mr. Spinney
and some Others have been the establishment since
it started: they from Boston with the machinery
in 1856 to put il into operation The large amount
of new machinery into their proof building is
of the latest and most improved kind. and works to
their entire satisfaction The capacity of this factory
is 5000 900 ms working 10 hours day while the
estimated consumption of this entire coast is only
100000 Ds. This company import Manila Hemp large
ly upon their account. The market continues
quiet. We have reports from the Alameda Facto-
ry, and therefore not advised of its sales The San
Francisco Company's price of Manila Rope and Hay
Rope for invoices of 10000 ms l6c lots of less than
IO00Oins lie; lengths and Sizes lsc-CommerciO
Herald, Aug. 81
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

THE SERENADE.-That was a very
unfortunate affair that happened to
young Millicent, of the band, Friday
night. He had engaged some of his
fellow-members to join him in sere-
made to an estimable young lady on
Essex street, with whom he was keep
ing company, and at midnight the party
repaired to her residence, with their in
struments and music, and boy to hold
the torch. Everything started off well,
and the entertainment promised to be as
gratifying as the most sanguine could
have asked. During the performance of
the second piece, gem from Mozart's
collection, the boy, who was leaning
against tree, was so influenced by the
harmony, and soothed by the melody,
that he unconsciously dropped off into
a slumber, and a moment later the torch
suddenly swerved, and descended with
its blaze of camphene against the back
of young Millicent's head, and in a flash
ignited the wavy masses of his hair.
The others dropped their instruments,
and smothered the fame in an instant,
but it had done its work. His head
was entirely burned over, and he had to
be carried home, and the young lady
was made so sick by the fumes of burn
ing hair that she was obliged to keep
her bed all the next day. 1t will be a
month or more before young Millicent
will be able to appear on the street,
which will give the torch-boy plenty of
time to arrange his earthly affairs
Danbury Neus.
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A HOSPITAL FOR B1Rps.-The world

A HOSPITAL FOR BIRDs.-The world
moves, surely, and charity to the help
less is gradually coming uppermost;
but of all the provisions for the needy
the newest is an institution for sick
pets, in New York, at No. Greene
street. 1t is devoted exclusively to the
treatment of sick and MANNED dogs and
birds and other pets. Although limited
as to space it gives accommodation to
large numbers of little sufferers. Cages,
which line the side of the room, contain
canaries with the pip" canaries at
ficted with the asthma and behaving
under the infection very much like hu-
man invalids similarly situated, cana
ries with broken legs, and, in fine, ca
naries with all the diseases known to
their race. Some of the little sufferers
have broken wings or legs, which are
bandaged or splintered scientifically,
and they chirp mournfully when sud-
den spasm of pain overcomes them.
1t is our dull season, said Mrs. -.
"We haven't many birds under treat
ment now, but sometimes we have the
place full. Some time ago canary was
brought to us that had had one leg eaten
off by rat. Nobody thought it would
live, but after a time we brought it
round, and it sings now as well as ever.
The great difficulty was to teach it to
balance itself on one leg instead of two;
but after awhile it learnt even that, and
now hops around as well as ever. The
only thing in which it differs from other
birds, is that it is put to bed every night
on a napkin laid in the bottom of the
cage, instead of roosting"
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Danbury News.

New apples are one dollar and ten
cents quart. Ten cents for the apPies
and dollar for doctor
We never knew man to be elected
I'm an office of trust who carried horse
chesnuts in his pocket as preventive
of rheumatism,
The Danbury man who has attained
his majority without having been kick
ed by a horse, or thrown out OF awagon,
has no business here.
The sunshine which warns and cheers
our hearts exposes the weak spots in
our Sunday suits. That's the only OBJ
lection we have to sunshine.
A Young man who has recently lost
both of his parents, and has just recov-
cred from a severe attack of illness
which left him penniless, writes for a
position on this paper as humorist.
A very juvenile member of Danbury
Sunday-school asked his teacher, Sum-
day, if anybody could go to heaven who
didn't have bay-window on his house,
and was favorably impressed by the an
swer.
A Danbury man while under the in
fuence of liquor, yesterday, claimed
that he was George Francis Train
When sobered this morning, and learn
ing what he had done, he tried to take
his own life by knocking his heac
against telegraph pole, but was mo-
successful.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

The postal cards are now being turned
out at very rapid rate, the average
number shipped daily from the manu-
factory being between seven and eight
hundred thousand, while the number
will probably soon be increased to one
million a day. The ratio of the de-
mand is far in excess of the estimates
made by the Department, and it now
seems likely that the first years con-
sumption will reach at least two hundred
millions.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

The Manchester IN. H. Union tells
of a Newfoundland dog that fell into a
canal there, recently, and was unable to
get out. At length he succeeded in
getting his paws upon the bank, and
Gov. Smyth's dog, approaching the sit
uation, seized the drowning dog by the
neck, and, making vigorous sally back
ward, drew him on the bank. The two
dogs looked at each other with the
greatest complacency and went home.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

From series of very curious expert
ments just made. it appears that the
high notes of violin string are accom-
panied with sufficient conclusion to ex-
plode iodide of nitrogen on paper affixed
to it. The sound-waves generated by
the explosion of the merest trifie of nj
tro-glycerine are also, it is found, ca
pable of exploding an equal quantity of
iodide of nitrogen at distance of eight
and half feet.
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A man in Scott county, Kentucky,
has been tried three times for the same
murder. First he was sentenced to five
years imprisonment, next to two years,
and the third time acquitted. The
Louisville Courier-Journal says that the
chances are that, if they had tried him
again, they would have given him a
$3.50 watch and chain.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

a MUTUAL MIsTAKE.-Two gentlemen
were riding in stage coach, when one
of them, misplacing his handkerchief,
rashly accused the other of having stolen
it but soon finding it, he had the good
manners to beg pardon for the affront,
saving it was mistake to which the
other replied with great readiness
Don't be uneasy; it was a mutual
mistake you took me for thief and
took Won for gentleman"
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In the pavilion of the ministry Of

In the pavilion Of the ministry Of
agriculture at Vienna, floating cannon
ball may be seen. Although weighing
fifty pounds, it lies like down feather
on a silvery mass, consisting of pure
quicksilver from the celebrated mines
of Idria. A hundred and fifty cwt. of
this metal is exhibited in large iron
cauldron, offering sight seldom to be
met, and on it rests the solid iron ball.
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A LIBRARY FOR FIFTY (5o) CENTS


Literature, Art. Science, and History.
The Tribune Extra Sheets, containing:
LECTURE EXTRA No. l. Illustrated-Tyndall's Six
Lectures Light
LECTURE EXTRA No. Q Beecher's Compulsory Ed
ucation; Fields Masters of the Situation; Phillips
Lost Arts; Bellows Is there God; Mark Iwains
Sandwich Island Letters.
LECTURE EXTRA No. 3, Illustrated-Prof Wilders
Brain and Mind; Prof Bankers Chemical Discoveries
Of the Spectroscope Prof Youngs Astronomical Con-
quests; Prof Youngs Present knowledge of the Sun.
LECTURE EXTRA No. six shakspearrean Stu
dies by John Weiss Seven Art Studies. National Acad
envy Course; Partons Pilgrim Fathers Men of Bust
ness; Bret Hartes Argonauts of 40.
LECTURE EXTRA No. S, Illustrated Three Lee
lures by Prof Louis Elsburg, on Sound and Hearing,
Voice and Speech and the Explanation of Musical Har
mony; Prot. BENZ. Silliman's Deep Placer Mining in
California; DIR. X. W. Raymond the Seven Senses;
Parke Goodwin True and False Science; Prof Z. L.
Youmans on the Limits of Science.
LECTURE EXTRA No. -Beecher's Seven Lectures
for Ministers: Thoughts for Minister'S Thoughts upon
Prayer, Prayermeeting it is The Ideal Prayermeet
ing, Music in Churches, Society in ts Church. The Fin
gers Of the Church.
LECTURE EXTRA No. 7-Beecher's Concluding
Lectures: Revvals in the Church, Religious Awaken
ings, Thoughts Revivas. Religious Experience
Also. 1.-THE Moravian Church, by De schweinitz;
Greed Statements by Thomas Starr King; 1.-The
Death Menace by Bovee; and History Of Secta-
risn Appropriations
LECTURE EXTRA No. s-The Method of Creation.
Twelve Lectures by Prof Agassiz concerning Animal
Lie. Also description of the wonderful Fossils dis
covered in the Rocky Mountains; the Fossil Man of
Nentone: Prehistoric Remains. by lie Plongeon; The
Art of Dyeng, by Prof Chandler.
Nine Extra Sheets containing 50 Lectures and
100 Engravngs and Credit Mobier Report 50
Address THE TRIBUNE, New York.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

When a woman puts three-mackerel
to soak overnight in a dish-pan whose
sides are eight inches high, and leaves
the pan on stairway, she has accom-
plished her mission and should go hence.
This is what Division street woman
did Friday night. Filled the pan at
the pump, and then left it standing on
the steps to the stoop, while she went
into the next house to see how many
buttons would be required to go down
the front of a redingote. And mighty
important affair that was to be sure.
And there was her husband tearing
through the house in search of hand
kerchief, and not finding it of course.
And then he rushed out into the yard,
wondering where on earth that woman
could be, and started down the steps
without seeing the pan, or even dream
ing that any one could be so idiotic as
to leave it there. Of course he step
ped on it; or, at least, that is the sup
position, as the neighbors who were
brought out by the crash that followed.
saw a Mortified man, and a high dish
pan, and three very demoralized mack
erel shooting across the garden, and
he was nice sight, was that unhappy
man, when they got him on his feet
There wasn't dry thread on him, and
his hair was full of bits of mackerel,
and one of his sholders was out of
Joint, and his coat was split the whole
length of the back, and he appeared to
be out of his head. He was carried in
the house by some of the men, and laid
on bed, while others went after doc
tor, and sixteen women assembled in
the front room, and talked in whispers
about the inscrutable ways of Provi-
dence, and what a warning this was to
people who never looked where they
were going.-Danbury Ne,cs.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

One of the curiosities of Indiana is
a girl whose left foot is ten times larger
than the right.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

For Coughs and Throat Diseases, use
Browns Bronchial Troches having proved their
efficiency by test of many years.
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REAL HAIR pnMpApouR RRAlps.

THICK WITHOUT RATS from SO to 81 IS; long
switches Sb three long heavy side curls 81 IS: long
single curs 81 First quality hair Tangled hair made
into curls or switches. Side curls steamed for twenty
five cents. All work done cheaper than elsewhere.
JOHN ID. WILSON All Suffer Street. opposite the
Synagogue, San Francisco.
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MINK HoUsEKEEPING.-One sunny
morning in summer, down this pathway,
still sparkling with the dewy moisture,
came stealthily moving the long, 1.-the
form of mink. Her fur looked worn
and rusty when the sunlight struck her
as she skulked between the tussocks of
grass. Occasionally she halted to look
about her, alert for anything eye could
see, or ear could hear but hearing moth
ing but the sweet notes of the song-spar-
row, and complaining cry of cat-bird
among the alders, she again moved on.
AS she reached the,,muddy edge of the
brook, she trod more daintily then,
winding among the pickerel- weeds,
swan down stream, hardly disturbing
the water, only making long, wedge
shaped wake as she stole into the shad-
owy edge of the brook. Suddenly she
disappeared under water but soon
came up, struggling with something
that swayed and pulled her about, dis
turbing the quiet of the stream, and
sending a muddiness down with the cur
rent. But she bore the almost unman-
ageable wriggling eel (for this it was
to the stone wall, and, drawing herself
and burden up out of the water on the
large stone, readjusted her hold, and
seized the creature back of the head.
Then bracing herself to suck the blood,
the thrashin,g struggling eel grew grad
ually weaker and weaker, until it look
ed perfectly limp and lifeless. Then
she jumped from the wall, dragging
this eel longer than herself, up through,
the grass, taking different and more
concealed way than the one by which
she came, and soon disappeared alto
gether. In the thick banked wall of
this barn on the hillside, she had
her young; and after they grew large
enough to require something more sub
stantial than Natures first provision,
the mother used to bring them fish of
different kinds-eels, ducks, and like
prey. So sly and stealthily did she
keep herself, that she was not seen I'M
til the young were half grown, and she
betrayed herself by bringing this food
which impeded her movements. By
travelling the same way so many times,
. she grew bold.
These minks are very destructive to
fish and when the brook is low, they
can often be tracked for long distance
by the dead cells, pickerel, sinners and
sometimes trout, left lying along the
bank the mink only sucking the blood,
and leaving the fish unmutilated. One
autumn some sinners, meant for bait in
fredericksburg through the ice, were
kept in an old tub set in a spring near
the brook; and in one night all these
fish were killed by mink, who left
them laid in row on the ground. They
looked precisely as if some person bad SO
arranged them. But through the back
of each fish, near the head, were four
tooth-marks, that told who had been
there; this being frequently the only
mark the mink makes on his victim.
Old and New for august.
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FARMS BOUGHT AND SOLD.

Also San Francisco improved and unimproved prop
erty: Furnished Houses bought sold, and rented.
Mining property for sale Mills business opportu
mites. W. b. SKELLENGER Real Estate Agent,
422 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.