Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-15
~. Tbere are vhol, families Of thcm.


babies are lying around in al corners,
or FORMULATING ~snjoyingly about in
the arms OF their mother or nuBc.
Every other thing it is wont you take
care OF my baby while / 60 out and take
q saili" or "I1l leave baby with you q
few minutes while l 60 to dinner"
When there happens to be a dance given,
which is occasionally. the friendly bach
elor spectator is worried every once in q
while by a baby being dumped into his
arms with the hurried remark Of "hers
Mr.. Jinkins, do please hold my baby
while I dance this Horse Guard Quad
rifle with Sam Brown" They all look
healthy and arc liable 10 do well.
The Dinner He'll.
Everybody lives in good. clean, healthy,
well ventilated rooms and houses, and
when meal time is announced. every
body gathers in toward the common GEN.
ter-the big eating room ut the rear OF
the original Mckinney log house. There
they get their regular beef, yenison,
grizzly bear and other seasonable fruits
TROUT coming in only when caught),
meat-pie, cucumbers and onions, cheese,
watemelons, plenty Of fresh milk, pud-
ding a Ia mode de Windsor sauce, frc-
assed grouse, Irish pommc de terre,
French stew, and the luscious German
tiapjack; all, and plenty more good,
wholesome grub, goes to satiate the
great American appetite with which
everybody there is afflicted. According
10 our observation and assistance about
meal time, John Mckinney will come
out bankrupt. But as we started in to
remark, that dinner bell. 1t is an an
Gent crow bar strung up to the fenco in
the back yard, and IL is performed upon
by the boss waiter with a hammer,
c~ieaver, or whatever weapon he happens
to have handy. Then as we said before,
everybody gathers in toward the COM
mon center, standing not on the order
of their gathering, but trying not to be
left behind.
ACruel Swindic.
There is a lady from Virginia City
who keeps one OF the Mckinney COWS
rented, to provide ''ono cows milk" for
her baby. She found il necessary to
provide this COW with a bell, and there
fore sent TO her husband. who is in the
grocery and hardware business, for a
bell. Thinking one bell was just az
good AZ another, he sent ont a common
hand bell, such Ms is used in regular
hash houses. II was strapped to the
cows neck and does first-rate except
when the COW happens to cruise near
town, which she il sure to do about
meal time, ~ses-sawing her old neck
scratching against a tree. The effect il
to create q rush Of hungry folks from
all quarters half a dozen times before
the regular honest old crow-bar bell
gives the right signal. Another bell for
that COW has been sent for and will he
forwarded this evening. Talking about
bells. old Harris, who is also out at Me
K~inney's, says that the only Ineligible
note sounded by the Gold Hill public
school bell is Tonic allagher; Tom
Gallagher; Tonic gallagher"
Mistaken Identity.
While at the lake, we heard a good
story about a lady who had been on a
visit to San Francisco for several weeks
and was to meet her husband at Truckee
on her return, and 60 with him over to
the lake. lie rugged himself up in a
colored shirt. straw hat and other ar
rangements for roughing it" and was
on hand 10 meet his devoted. When the
train arrived she looked out Of the win.
ow at the crowd OF people and remarked
to herself. "Whst q long spared, un-
calmly, slouchy hang-dog looking fellow
that is, coming this way; thank the
Lord i, isn't my husband!' But 1t was.
The weather
AT the lake has been blustcry and a lit
tie too cool during the last two or three
weeks for thorough enjoyment. Cntwo
other occasions the lake has been too
rough for any Of the steamers TO cross.
This has moderated the ardor Of many
who would otherwise have gone to the
lake, and caused many to return homo
from there. Thus IL Is that the number
Of visitors at the lake is considerably
less than IL was last year.
Homsua ard.
We came home by way Of Tahoe City
and Truckee, starting at 2 o'clock p. NJ.
and taking the steamer Governor STAN
ford across the lake. This steamer runs
around the lake, carrying people wher-
ever they want to go; and the steamer
Truckee, another fast boat like the En-
erald, works exclusively at towing logs
and RATS across the lake to the saw
mills. At Tahoe City we found our old
friends Forbes and Campbell, who are
running the Post-office, Custom-house
and chief liquor dealing establishment.
Taking the stage. myself, Tom Collins
and three other Gold Killers were whirled
along at n very lively rate. We stopped
u short time 10 look at the famous Conner
fishery, where they raise trout from the
spawn, and we're told that the concern
was not so successful this season, for
some reason or other, NJ II was last
year. At 8 o'clock 7. N. we arrived at
Truckee.
As the eastward bound passenger train
from San Francisco would not arrive till
~ O'Clock, we took n look about
town. aided and Allotted by Mr.. Frink of
the Truckee Republican, whom we hap
pened 10 come across, and who showed
us through his printing establishment
in good style. Truckee has been and
still is q great lumber depot. The tim
Der is pretty we'll thinned out around
there, and most Of II for the saw-mills
at that point is fioated down in the
river or in fumes. II is a lively place
and deserves TO do well. The famous
old locomotive. Samson, still gravely
backs and fills up and down the track in
front Of the principal hotel, being used
exclusively as a switch engine. She is
also arranged as a fire engine, and il the
town was to take fire the Samson is
ready to put il out. The big rocks have
also all been blasted and removed from
the plaza in the centre OF the town, ut a
cost Of 81, GOO.
Gold Hill.
We reached home early next morning,
sleepy and tired. but we'll pleased with
our trip to Tahoe. and found Gold Hill