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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24
Things that Steam has Ruined.

Steam has ruined a great many
things for us, and spoiled much poetry
that was good aud true In Its time.
The song of the myraids are dead
songs. What do they know about
hearths and hickory. OF backstick and
forestick, and topstick, aud a great.
cheerful fire. with n human smile and
a human companionship In 1t, who sit
around an unilluminated hole In the
floor aud feel y gust Of hot air like n
simoon? Did you ever sit before a
fireplace In a Fall night-an eccentric
pathological says that Autumn Is q bet
ter word than Fall-with somebody
who owned to loving very much ; sat
nj hour without speaking, and looked
into the fire, you and she. and yet. 1t
seemed to you as If you had been talk.
Ing all the while? 1t was the fire !!
No couple can sit aud think thus
around that defective spot In the floor,
and et.joy 1t unless they are idiots.
Then steam has ruined the Iambic
poetry OF the fails, and substituted
therefor n gigantic smut.machine that
runs wild IN the field. and puts peo-
ple's eyes out, and gives them the con-
sumption. and burns mp the wheat
stock. aud blows up the engineer.
where IL your GRADER. that went In
with his skeleton fingers and laid out
the grain becomingly. after n Chris
tian fashion? Dead. Steam killed him.
And what las become Of the reaper,
and Longfellow's and everybody else's
poetry about him? Cut to pieces with
knives, ground fine with wheels. The
clean and blessed fists that kneaded
the dough after a pugllistic fashion In
the old days, and moulded 1t Into an
eloquent answer to n Of the petitions
In the Lords prayer, have forgotten
their cunning-steamed to death. En-
ter a mechanical bakery. Steam has
bewitched everything. Yondsr are
three, five eight barrels Of flour tum-
bling about In a mass of dough that
would crush a district school.teacher,
and all. No hands. There are doors
opening In the two-story oven, and
cars laden with bread and, crackers
come rolling out on a railroad track,
and the doors close behind them. No
hands. Yonder runs a train In at an
open door; it will stay In the hot
chamber twenty minutes. aud come
out Of Its own accord. The engine has
burned up the rolling pin and mould
ing board, and the big wooden cradle
wherein they kept the dough warm till
It 'rose" like any other member Of the
family; the fork wherewith the blessed
biscuits and the mlnce pies were tat
too, d like New Zealanders Is thrown
away and the knife that naked the
old oval shortcakes thus, x x, and
without which household monogram
shortcakes were not shortcakes, has
followed the fork.-B. +. TAYLOR.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24

PERHAPS the funniest typographical
error Of modern times occurred In a
recent issue Of the Denrer Ne,os. What
are VIC to think of an evangelical ALL
ance such rs here described? "A band
Of 800 clergymen are on the frontier,
and after q successful raid they will
retreat to their reservation. carrying
their scalps and plumber with them
to enjoy under the protection Of a
government post, a feast and u war
dance, for which the pioneer citizens
Of Colorado furnish both the scalps and
the food. Comment on such n state Of
affairs Il useless" Zone would think
SOY mo words can do the subject
Justice" Scarcely. But 1t Is fair to
presume that II the word ''~Cheyennes"
had been substituted for the word
.'clergymen" above, the purposes OF
the author would have been better
realized.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24
andrew JOHNSON.

Ex-Presideut Andrew johnson made
a Characteristic speech from the Metro
politan Hotel balcony, In Washington
city, last evening. His thoughts and
utterances we're the same as when he
was Chief Magistrate Of the nation,
and his references to the Constitution
fully rs numerous. 1t may be true
that the overweening loyalty of,Arf-
drew johnson to the fundamental law
led him Into error and placed him in a
false aud antagonistic position to the
majority In Congress; but at this pc
riod Of Jul history many men are
turning back to remember that Andrew
johnson never used his power or POSI-
ton for personal benefits, and there
are few who do not believe that his
patriotism was as sincere, even II his
Judgment was defective, as that OF
many who during his administration
condemned his every act and ridiculed
his %utterances. Men are to-day more
willing to hear constitutional questions
discussed than In the year just succeed
ing the war, and there are numbers
who feel that perhaps there IL posst-
6ility Of the correctness Of Andrew
Johnson's theories; who, knowing that
a strict adherence to constitutional
limitations has not been practiced,
pause and ask themselves whether 1t Is
better thus. There are many who,
sustaining Congress against the So
called u~surpations Of Andrew johnson
at the time Of the contest between
them, are now mquiring whether a
usurpation by a body Of men Of powers
which do not belong to 1t Is less dam
gerons than an adherence to the fun
damental law of the nation. We say
these Inquiries arise. We do not now
discuss their foundation or tendency.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24

A NAUTICAL (NAUsHTYcAL) CoMPARI-
soN.-While the proposition to turn
the borders Of Lake MERGED Into a
cemetery. and so destroy the immense
body OF pure water therein contained.
was In allegiance, passed by the Board
Of Supervisors, and awaiting the May
or's action. when an honest condem-
nation of the proposed measure might
have done some good, the virtuous
Bulletin had not one word to say upon
the subject. But as o rs the thing
Il done, when Mayor Alvord, without
the support of that paper, has done his
duty like an honest nan and an excel
lent officer. behold. the Balietin's eyes
are opened, aud then, when 1t can do
no good and the comment Is not need
ed, 1t can come out IS bold as n sea-
BOBBY. and take It's position on the
very m~aln-yard Of success and bedsub
the subject with their approval. The
bravery Of sucking doves we have
heard Of and read .about; but this in
dependence Of the Buiistin beats those
csllow things very essentially.-S. +.
Ahd.
We are informed by those who have
been at sea that the nautical compari-
son In the above comments Is some
what peculiar aud laughable. For
which cause and the benefit OF San
Client Mariners" we copy the item.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24
A PIucky Conductor.

How some Western gamblers found
their master In n Michigan conductor
Is thus told by the Detroit Free Press
OF Friday:
For the last month a trio Of monte
men have been " working the lines
running into Detroit. They have been
nut of the Central, chased of the
Detroit and Milwaukee, and kicked of
the Lansing road. but they made q
fresh start the other morning on the
Southern, going on to Conductor Will
sey's train. At the depot they got In
with an old man named Fremont, who
lives In Pittsburg. and was on his way
home. They pretended to live In Pit
tsburg also. and soon after getting on
board the train they brought out their
cards. Fremont Is one OF those smart
old chaps who think themselves post
cd, and he knew the game. and decided
to make ON money out OF them. He
lost Is, then 80, and between Detroit
and the Junction he lost $55. This
was all the money he had. but his
blood was up, and he had hauled out a
heavy gold watch to stake oh the next
bet, when the conductor passed along.
Seeing what was going on, Wilsey told
the old man to put up Ills watch. At
this. one OF the gamblers snatehed 1t.
saying, ~ have Won this" and
then looked up at the conductor with
a face full Of brass. The train had
been at a stand still. and rs 1t started
the conductor pulled the signal to stop
and turned to the gamblers and de-
mauded that they give Fremont back
his watch and money. They refused
Ia chorus, and one of the gamblers, as
the conductors coat came oil, This ~
better p and pulled out a revolver and
lined it on Wilsey's eye. Commence
shooting" replied the conductor. ana
out came his own pistol, and for twenty
seconds two reyolvers were held up
Into two mems faces, hammers up aud
fingers on the triggers. The two
other gamblers began to feel tor their
hip pockets. when Wilsey quietly said:
III you don't hold up your hands III
blow the top Of your head OIL AT
that momenta Toledo merchant and a
lake captain came up, each with a
cooked revolver. AT this the gamblers
offered to restore the watch, aud when
they had done so the conductor made
them return the full $55. Now them
said he, when he was through with
them. get Off of this trim. shall
remember you, and II ! ever catch
one Of you OIL my train again. I'll have
the engineer run her up to sixty miles
all hour. and my brakemen will pitch
you into the first swamp The fell
lows were ready to 60"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24
INVESTIGATIONS ARE IN ORDER.
It Is said that the next session Of
Conoresa will be mainly evoted To in

It Is said that the next session Of
Congress will be mainly devoted to In
vestlgations. We hope so. There ia
far more need Of investigation than Of
legislation. And the inquiries should
he made to include not only frauds,
briberies, morals, etc., but the moth
DDS By which legislation has been made
not only hurtful, but dangerous to the
country. II the next Congress will
devote its time to self-purifcation and
to the repeal Of special laws which
have enriched themselves and their
hackers out Of the public funds and
the necessities Of the country, 1t will
do a work which will be a credit to its
members and a relief to the country.
Moreover, II the time Of our Senators
and members OF Congress is principal
ly occupied in this manner there will
less opportunity afforded for the jobs
now being concocted for Its support
and sanction. A vigorous inquiry into
the Louisiana matter, the Fort Smell
ling swindls. and other like topics will
e~ffectually put a damper upon the rebel
debt assumption and the Northern Pa
ciflc Railroad intersst-guarantee jobs.
There will, It Is to be hoped, DO In the
coming session Of Congress some lit
tie regard paid to public needs and de-
mands. The effect Of the late elections
will be apparent in a more guarded
and perhaps more honest attention to
public needs. and may we not hope
that on the part OF Republican men,
bers a spirit of reform, In accordance
with the demands Of the people, will
be visible. As we said before, there
are plenty Of subjects for Inquiry, and
It is we'll enough to investigate
before We legislste. In fact, to a COM
mon understanding, this would seem
the regular way. Some Of u Con-
gressional Committees have been &C
tive during the past Summer In study
Ing up the transportation question.
From them we may expect to learn
something this Winter,if needed legis-
lation be not obtained. Another Com
mittee Is at work on the electoral col.
lege question, and In this particular
we may be enlightened and benefited.
But what will be Of greater help than
all are the inquiries which We hope will
be made touching the civil service re-
form, the responsibility for Its appar-
ent failure, and the necessities for Its
growth and success. The investiga-
tions Of last Winter were praiseworthy
and have had a most salutary effect.
Had Congress performed Its full work,
and expelled Its proven bribe-takers
and corruptionists, the Republican
party would not be rs to-day, defeated
in California and Ohio. The people
have determined to know who are
their faithful, and who their unfaith-
full servants. and will not be content
with less than justice. It will be a
good time for back-salary-grabbers and
Credit Mobilier thieves to stand of the
track after the November elections.
and a very favorable time next Winter
to exhibit In their true light some Of
the bright legislative luminsries OF
later years. In fact, Investigations
are In order.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24
Births.

REEsR-In Gold Hill, October %, to the wife
OF j. D. Reese, ason.
McCONAU9HY-In Phoebe, October IL, to the
wife OF John McConaughy, q daughter.
BAsS-In Phoebe. October 10, TO the wife OF
Stephen Bass, q son.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24

ALEX. Conn, who set the fire, which
last Summer, laid Hamilton, Nevada,
In ashes, was yesterday sentenced 10
seven years. Imprisonment In the State
Prison.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24

The Grand Jury. o: White Pine
county, failed to find an Indictment
against Finney, the alleged accom-
plice Of Matheney In the Green muir
der, hear Eureka, Nevada, some
months since.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-24
TO MlLLMEN !

WE HAVE FOR SALE AT TIE GOLD
w Hin NEws Once half . ton Of superior
Type Metal, for iounaling purposes In 2uaIts
Nils. Hosting Works, etc. VIII ossoid atfe
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&radiug fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
l0riginal.]
WATCH.


No more appropriate instruction is contain.
ed in the Bible, than that embodied in the
words, "watch and pray" The passing events
of the day warrant us in concluding that no
man is absolutely safe, who does not pray
without ceasing, and keep sleepless watch
over his life and acts No man has arrived
at that stage in the divine life, that he ought
to say or feel that there is no danger of fall
ing into grievous sins. AS long as we are in
the flesh, we are in an enemy's country, or
rather in country invaded by hostile and
uncompromising foe. Satan never slumbers
nor sleeps. Men of the most eminent piety
have, by taking off the sentinels, been shared
by the great emissary of souls. Why may he
not capture any of us if we cease to watch
There is no good reason why he may not any
day, lead us into sins that will disgrace us
in the eyes of our fellow men, and make our
lives full of sorrow all the days of our earthly
pilgrimage 1t is useless to argue that we
may sin, and then repent and God will forgive
This is tempting the Lord our God. Our
God is sin-pardoning God but this is not
the condition upon which he proposes to par
don sin. God proposes to pardon our sins if
we will believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and
he proposes to grant us his sustaining grace
if we will watch and pray. Otherwise God
threatens to punish US for our sins. "Watch
and pray, that We enter not into temptation.
This is the safe rule.
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few others superior supplies had been receiv-
ed. Of 100000 bales received in Bombay
during the two weeks ending April 26th, the
largest proportion was of the kind known as
"Dhollerah," and the quality was barely fair,
it being very difficult to obtain higher class to
fill special orders. The small crop of Jeree
Hing gunghat, which is usually of fine quality
and commands extreme rates, is known to be
failure both as regards quantity and quality.
Taken altogether, the results, so far as
known of the new cotton crop in British India,
are regarded as unsatisfactory. The decline
in price is reported as having produced de-
pressing influence on production, and unless
an advance should be established it is expected
that there will be serious diminution in the
area devoted to cultivation. 1t is also found
that the condition of labor is much less favor
able than in the United States. Although the
Southern planters may have too substantial
grounds for complaint respecting the effects
Of political excitement upon negro industry,
vet their position seems almost envable when
compared with that of the Indian cultivators.
The Hindoo religious festivals frequently oc-
cur in the height of the cotton season and are
long drawn out, and at such periods it is ut
terly impossible to induce the natives to work
on any terms. These and other facts point to
the conclusion that, for the present, at least,
there are not sufficient grounds for apprehen'
ding that American cotton is likely to be su'
perseded for many years to come by foreign
competition. At the same time, however, ii
would be folly to overlook the fact that this
foreign competition is in condition to be i'm
mensely stimulated by any material enhance,
ment of prices resulting from war, short crops
increased demand or any of the various causes
that would be likely to promote that event.
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EAST INDIA COTTON.

THE DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING IT'S PRoDUC-
The unwearied industry and enterprise which
has marked the efforts of British manufacture
ers to enlarge the cotton supply, and to in
crease it's cultivation in all parts of the world,
has probably never been surpassed in the his
tory of similar undertakings. and whatever
English energy and unbounded wealth could
accomplish has been tried In India, where
cotton has been grown from the earliest period,
and where large amount of the staple has
been produced, no labor nor expense has been
spared in order to secure an abundant har-
vest and good quality; but there, as else
where, the attempt to procure rival in all re-
spects equal to the article raised in this coun-
try seems to be unavailing, and the following,
which is taken from the New York Bulletla of
late date, shows the position and difficulties
of the Indian crop at the latest intelligence:
Advices from Bombay to April 10th repre-,
sent that the new cotton crop is scarcely equal
to theAverage of former years in quality or
quantity. In the Dharwar district very lit
tie was doing in the new crop, although the
usually busiest part of the season had arrived.
AS on ly three weeks remained to send cotton
to the coast, considerable falling off in the
supply, as compared with last season, was an
ticipated. The quality of the cotton coming
forward was very unequal, the receipts from
some districts being very poor, while from
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Ghildreu's department.
OrigiIlal.]
THE STUDY OF NATURE.

The study of nature is the most interesting,
as we'll as the most profitable, of all studies.
Wherever we cast our eyes, we behold won
derful things. The only reason that every
thing we see does not fill our minds with in
describable emotions, is that we come in con-
tact with them every moment of our exis-
tence. To study nature, we need no book.
The blue sky above us, the green earth upon
which we walk, is the book of nature. 1t is
always new. We cannot wear it out. 1t
will be bright and new when the present in
habitants of the earth shall have mingled
with their kindred dust.
Creation is unit. We mean by this that
it is but one single thing. Finite beings,
such as we are, have to divide it into parts,
that they may talk about it understandingly !;
but it takes all these parts to make the whole.
In art, some things resemble, in their struc'
ture, the works of creation. A watch, for in
stance, is composed of multitude Of parts.
1t has wheels and springs and plates; but
none of these is a watch, and take away any
one of these little pieces, and the remainder
would not be watch. 1t takes the whole to
make watch. The same principle, perfect
and complete, is manifest in the works of Gre
alton. There is an inseparable connection
between all the parts So inseparable is this
connection that the air which covers the earth
with an invisible sheet; the earth itself with
the millions of living creatures upon its sur
face, and the broad cerulean ocean, teeming
with innumerable creatures, great and small
are simply one thing. They appear different
to our finite eyes; but the only difference
which exists is, that the elementary principles
or atoms as we call them, are differently COM
bined and arranged. The green carpet,
which is spread over the earth, feeds the
countless millions of living creatures which
live on its surface or burrow in its bosom.
Grass is the food of everything Man and
beast, insect and reptile live on grass. The
food of every thing grows out of the ground.
The waste of one class creatures is the food of
another class. Every creature, however tiny,
is refuers furnace which is purifying some
thing which has been vitiated, and preparing
it for something else. The air which we ex-
hale or breathe out is poisoned, and if re-
breathed to any considerable extent, would
prove fatal. The weeds and grass take this
vitiated atmosphere and purify it and send
it out again. So the work goes on from year
to wear. The sun rises and sets. His bright
beams give the delicate tint and sweet odor
to the rose, and the rich green to the grass.
The study of nature sobers the mind, and
and at the same time enobles it. All young
persons should direct their attention to the
works of nature
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WoSDERFUL DEALINGS Lord has
dealt wonderfully toward us. Begin at the
beginning. 1t was no small wonder that he
should love us or ever the earth was. There
were many other things to exercise Jehovah's
thought besides thinking upon man : "What
is man, that thou art mindful of him." And
if he must needs think of man, there were
many kinds of thoughts that the Lord might
have had toward man besides thoughts of
love- yet the Lord was mindful of us, and
still though we be poor and needy, yet the
Lord thinketh upon us.-Spugeon.
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ba5~ Trying to rise by wickedness is like
climbing lightning-rod, blistering the hands
by the operation, and getting pierced at the
top, only to be in constant danger of being
struck by q fatal shaft.
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~A near-sighted Indianapolis woman
patched the seat of her husbands pants with
a cold buckwheat cake, that the children had
left in her work basket. The color of the
patchwork matched the original trousers, and
as the cake was tough, the mistake might not
have been discovered, but the old man got
caught out in shower day or two afterward,
the patch began to swell, he felt cold patches
on his back, and thinking that it was spinal
meningitis that had clutched him, sent tor a
doctor, who soothed his fears ; but he wants a
divorce
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OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH "0LD SOL"
CTILL continues, and we are prepared, better
! than ever, to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PIC
TURES of every style, at our gallery in the "Ad-
ickes Building"
A lotof nice ALBUMS always on hand. Also
stereoscopes and Views.
April 10 Is tt
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THE MORNING STAR.

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State and circulation in Wilmington fifty per
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