Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-05-17
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AcowARDLY attempt was made day
before yesterday to asssssinate MIR.
Gresnwald, the proprietor Of the Ne
tropolitan Hotel, at Corinns, Utah. oy
German named Utzbaum. &c shot
at Mr.. G.. from behind q fence With q
musket. The ball struck In the face
near the right eye. 1t 10 hoped the
wound ID not fatal. The German was
arrested.
TEE losses Of our troops In the No
doc war thus far have been se%venty-one
killed and sixty-sevsn wounded, or
o than the whole force Of the
Modocs. Seven Nodes have been
killed 50 far and a few wounded. 1t
must DO diseouraging to the troops, II
not to the Government.
A TEXAS paper says that ono Of the
Democratic Congressmen from that
State intended to devote his back pay
to the payment Of the school teachers.
but finding an opportunity to invest 1t
where It would pay him ten aud q half
per cent. a month, he changed his
mind.
A+YANKEE grocer, being solicited to
contribute to the bullding Of = new
church, promptly subscribed his name
to the paper In the following manner:
"John Jones (the only place in town
where you can get eleven pounds OF
good sugar for one dollarh twenty-five
cents.
BAD news for tho bald-hsaded. A
Washington physician has discovered
that nearly all persons who live to be
eighty or over retain a thick head Of
hair to their death, while those who
become bald In middle life seldom
live to be older than sixty-five OF sew
enty.
The shoe-heel Il hereafter to DO
made upon the idea Of common sense
and common comfort. Paris makes
the move, aud Of curse the fashion,
able world will follow. The hes, will
be low aud made as near as possible
like the natural heel.
ARANxsR at South Bend Indignantly
rspudiatss the remark that Colfax has
no principle. "why," he remarked
to an u~nbelieving Democrat she's had
= large principal deposited with me
for several years, and draws Interest
on 1t regularly"
MAURICE DAILY won the great bill
lizard game for the championship Of
the United States, the diamond cue
and $1,000. against grille Dion, BY q
majority OF al points. Dion 10 said to
have been very much overwhelmed at
his defeat.
CHARLES READ, who was confined
In the jail at Palisads for the shooting
Of Pat. Brennan, escaped therefrom
yesterday. H0 was only In for sixty
days. Deputy Sheriff Roberts Is In
pursuit and expects soon to rscapture
him.
FIVE freight cars wsre dumped Of a
temporary bridge at Dry Creek, this
siGe Of Sacramento, Thursday after
noon. The cars were badly smashed
but nobody was hurr. Trains were
delayed In consequences.
REPORTS from Khiva represent that
the Khan Is greatly alarmed at the ap-
proach Of the Russians, and has or
dered a levy en- masse Of all the able
bodied men Of the population to resist
them.
WE have the pleasure to-day Of add
ing to the "Roll Of Honor" the name
Of Senator Casserly, OF California-he
having returned his back pay to the
Treasury. The list lengthens.
E. B. WAsHBuRNe Is nominated-in
capitals, toby the Pottsville tPs.)
Miners Journal as the "~centenni,l
candidate" Of the Republican party
for the Presidency.
BARNuM's East Indian taplr escaped
from his cage q day or two since, and
made 8 great scattering among the
crowd, but injured no one. He was
loon recaptured.
ONE Of the most prominent articles
Of American production, which will be
exhibited at the Vienna Exposition, is
that yclspt "oHicial Corruption"
LooIc by a p~ositlvist: Nothing Is
better than heaven /; = leg of mutton
Is better than nothing; therefore a leg
Of mutton Is better than heaven.
TIE Boston Herald says: "Naturaly
Charles Sumner declines back pay.
Will the Massachusetts, Legislature let
that pass without a censure?"
THOMAS B. NEWMAN, a Buffalo miser
aged Is years, died yesterday. He
could not take with him the $3.50, 900
he had accumulated.
TIE girls In Syracuse, N. Y, anuse
themselves BY blackening their faces
and going out into the streets for um-
brellas to mend.
GIRLS scarcely ten years Of age
work In the Lawrence mills from half
past 6 o'clock In the morning till 10
o'clock at night.
THERE were two executions yester-
day, Michael Nixon in New York and
Joseph o'Neal In Illinois.
The Danbury man says the only
good way to put up a stove Is at AUG
ton.
The Buffalo dis.illeries used 1870
600 bushels Of barley during the year
1872.
A NEW way to pay old debt.-ss,.ls
them In full.