Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-05-20
GENERAL ITEMS

A MIxIsrxR In Lexington, KY, was
the cause Of much domestic infeliclty
In that town lately. He announced
from the pulpit that he had seen apack
Of cards and q backgammon board In
the parlor OF . member Of his church,
whereat a large number Of bis congre-
CATION on returning homo scolded their
wives severely for their gross careless
ness.
A NEGRO acrobat In Costa Rica while
playing hanging recently for the ben
eat Of an admiring audience, was emil
nently successful In creating q ensa-
ton. He hung himself BY the neck
some i've or ten minutes, when some
b~ystanders thinking they had enough
OF the sight felt his pulse, looked at
his face and found him defunct.
A YOUNG LADY living at Eau Claire,
Wis.,, disappeared the other day, and
after 800 people had searched for five
hours, she was found sitting on the
bank Of the river with her lover,
squeezing hands and talking nonsense,
as II nothing had happened.
A CoNNEcrrcUT chap sent his sweet
heart q piece of music entitled I'm
Meet Thee at the Beautiful Gate"
Her father got hold OF II, went out and
poursd a bucket full Of tar on the gate.
He thought they wanted to swing
thereon.
Pre- ApAxrrE boarding houses are
proven to have existed by the late dis
covsry Of a petrified ham In the
pilocene deposits Of California. 1t
only needs petrilsd hash to set the
matter beyond a possible doubt.
A MAINE mother discovered her
thres-year-old boy trying to shave
himself with the paternal razor. She
did not faint. A single was handy,
and he couldn't wear his new pair Of
pants the following Sunday.
BOSTON young ladies put on a clean
pair Of stockings when they have their
photographs taken but after figuring
over the question for several years,
Professor Agsssiz says he does not
know why they do so.
A pIYrRREScE Of opinion between
Lans Lalsed and his wlfe-both drunk
lin Chicago, OF Sunday, resulted in
the perforstion OF tho husband BY a
knife In tho hands Of his spouse. Re-
suit, fatal.
The Gold Bluff expedition has re-
turned unsuccessful. They took a
powerful pump which hoistsd loads OF
gravel, but the yellow sinners were
not there. Exit golden sands Of the
Pacific.
A NATcuEz Coroner put in claims
for fourteen more bodies than he had
sat on, stole four hogs, forged a note.
borrowed money, and has gone to
Washington to live.
"I'M not in mourning" said young
lady frankly to a lady qusrist but
Ms the widows are getting all tho offers
now-a-days, we poor girls have to re-
sort to artifce."
They have a spelling mania In Ne
vada county, Cal. Everybody Is study
ing the dictionary. Those mostly
studied up this way are pictorial and
unbound.
A GEORGIA negro was over-paid 800
on q bank check and returned the
money. The local paper says there's
no use trying. Tho race can't b civ
ilized.
SMALLPOX ia raging In Washington.
D. c. Eighteen deaths occurred on
Saturday and Sunday. The disease Is
said to DO Increasing.
The difference Of . third Of q cent in
the price of beer in Frankfort, has led
to . serious riot with considerable loss
Of life.
MARX TWAIN has gone to Europe.
We shall read, by and by, some funny
things Of the big show and the Vien-
nese.
By the fall ofa gallery In Sing Sing
prison, n. Y, on Sunday, n convict
was killed and several fatally injured.
A CINCINNATI druggist died on a,
steamer near Memphis, Tennessee, last
Saturday, from Asiatio cholera.
= FIVE thousand one hundred and for
ty-seven emigrants arrived in Now
York last Sunday.
SIR Samuel Baker has been heard
from. He 10 well and still exploring
the White Nile.
ELEVEN Oranges Of the Patrons Of
Husbandry have already been organ
lied in California.
A DISPATCH to the Herald announces
the fall Of Khiya and the capture Of
the Khan.
The bond of the New York City
Postmaster Is one million dollars.
W.. N. EvARrsI is suggested for the
United States Chief Justiceship.
The sh~ip-joiners Of New York City
are getting ready to strike.
RYE PATCH is the only Humboldt
stock In the market.
BosToN 10 to have a Bald-headed
Mems Convention.
Tue vomito is raging in Havana.
A DEATH blow has been struck at re-
ligious corporations In Italy, In the
passage on Saturday last by the Italian
Chamber Of Deputies Of the bill for the
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