Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-12-26

10 kill the man who hollsrs Rag Bet
lies |! Bags 70 under my bedroom window
Al 7 o'clock In the morning; I have wanted
to daughter the bsys who tsot Christmas
horns ; I have felt an impulse 10 strangle
The man who rays, "Didn't I tell you 10
short 'sm." aud I feel yet that I could cit
NEws printers who made me say some
thing I didn't say didn't intend 70 say.
and had no idea what lie meaning was after
he made me say 1t.
ciRisrNAs
win be here tomorrow. It's approach has
been NANTES, for the past week. made ss
by the great crswds on the streets. the
decorations Of stores with Christmas
greens. the crowded stsrss and the pres
sncs Of bundles. During this period near
ly every perssn you would sse on the street
was carrying . bundle or parcel. had
occasion 10 60 to OAKLAND yesterday. and
the boat WAS loaded to the waters edge
with people and brown-paper parcels.
There we're about 1900 persons on the
boat. aAd with the exception Of fifteen men
and enc cross-eysd old wsman. every =
Of them was carrying something 10 take
homo for Christmas gifts and 70 put In the
childrsn's stockings, esmprising every do
scription Of article suitable for pressnts,
from q tin whistle to q Shetland pony. The
stores aad markets, made their grand
bursts Of display Last night, 1t being Sat.
urday night, and Christmas Eve to all
business infants and purposes. The stores
in this city keep . great variety Of gseds
fer the holidays. each departing from its
particular line TO keep goods belonging to
some other line. The dry goods stores
keep In addition 10 their usual stock.
statuary. paintings. articles OF vsrtu and
furniture. The furniture stores keep
rsady-mads clothing. and the clothing
stores sell furniture. The candy stores
sell candy. potatoes aud infants' cohins ;
the undertAkers offer oPen-back shirts and
patent popcorn balls. besides making o
splendid display Of cofins and caskets for
holiday presents, and the hardware stores
sell cord wsod and chromos fer holiday
gifts. The sidewalks along Ksarny. Mont
gomsry and Market streets are crowded
with men and boys. peddling chromos.
neckties. toys and all sorts Of patsntknick.
knacks. and ON nearly svsry ssrner VI
those streets are temporary stands for the
sale Of candles. gilasi glass balls. wax
canary birds and other articles incident tn
the Christmas festival. II will lie all over
In = little while. Myself and the other
country folks will no longer DO seen gaw-
king and staring on the principal streets ;
the sale Of Roman wrsstlers will fall OF
90 that there will DO = panic In the market
fer them ; women will cease hunting the
toy stsrss. and there will no lsnger be any
demand for little WAL candles and
shromos three for ten cents apiece.
and the city will get back again whore II
was before the holidays commenced. and
the people will resume buying stocks, and
begging on the street corners. and crowd
ing around hand organs. and wishing for
rain u IL don't rain. and curaing the rain
II IL does rain, and will otherwise resume
their usual avecations.
FLORENCE
Will open 81 the California Thsater
tomorrow night in the play Of "Ths
Almighty Dollar" which has been very
popular In the East. I saw Flsrsnss some
thing over twenty years ago. at Niblo's
Garden. New Ysrk. where he was playing
In Irish comedy. II used 10 be then "Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Flsrsncs. the Irish Boy
and Yankee 0al." and they used To
capture . good many Of my spare
shillings. I used to thiak they were
way up" ~ We say here In the city. aud
shall 60 to zee Florence for the sake Of
old timss. But psrhap. seeing him now
will bs like . good many more Of the