Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-11-21
SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPOND.
ENCE.

Hospital A New CoIoutxation
scheme Prevalency Of Suicide
stock Gambling.
SAN Francisco, November 16, 1879.
EDITOR SENTINEL: Winter has at length
set in, in right good earnest, in this PENN.
sula, and almost every day since the be-
ginning Of the month has been marked by
copious pluyial discharges. Frost and
snow and ice, however, trouble us not, as
they do you at this season but if they do,
you are in a measure recompensed for the
discomfort they cause by the bright, warm
CLEANS of sunshine to which you are daily
treated, while we Of this region are for DAYS
together denied such blessings. This con-
dition OF things renders heated stoves, hot
toddles and ample ulsters Injuries not to
be despised. The continued rains and
chilling winds, too, produce much sick
ness and distress, and enable the quack
doctors, the advertising specialists and the
more reputable pill dosers of this city to
reap q rich harvest. If man or woman
lbeg pardon for the faux pas) lady there
be in your midst afflicted with pulmonary
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this mortal coil, and in a hurry to confront
the metaphorical old parsonage, who goes
about with the scythe and sand-glass, come
to this city and place themselves under
some aspiring Esculapius and, my word
for it, they will soon be in a fair way to
require the services Of the grim, old ferry
man to row them to the other shore. Yet.
in the face Of all these facts, and in the
face, too, Of the large death rate, to this
city do the sick and debilitated Of this coast
seem to come for treatment and relief.
What is the consequence? Simply, that
many of them, instead of finding relief,
find death, and rude collins and an I'M
known grave if they are unfortunate
enough to render up the ghost within the
cherries walls Of the
CITY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL.
This institution is situated at the inter-
section of Twenty-second and - streets,
fronting on the latter. 1t is an irregular
wooden structure, built in the center Of a
large block, and surrounded with a high
board fence, to prevent parties from leav-
ing the premises without authority, as they
still sometimes do. Running, longitudin-
ally, from north to south, is a long hall or
gallery, which serves as a promenade for
the more robust inmates during bad wealth.
er. Extending laterally, from each side Of
this gallery, are the wards, fourteen in
number, lettered from A to o, | being ex-
Guided, together with dissecting rooms,
dining rooms for nurses aud small fry off.
GERS, storerooms. cook-house, main offices,
drug store and resident physicians quar-
tiers. These latter are comfortably, nay
lnxnriously, fitted up. and if the daily
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the tables Of the Palace Hotel, it still is, l
presume. sufficiently varied to be tempting.
TEN OF THESE WARD
Are, have been told, devoted to males and
two to females, while the remaining two
are unoccupied. The medical staff COM
prises two, or l believe, three resident, and
fonr visiting physicians, the latter attend
ing to special and chronic complaints. The
grounds, as ! said, are large and well laid
out, aud the Australian eucalyptus grows
luxuriantly. The institution is open to
visitors on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sun
days only. There is a place of worship on
the premises also, which is used in com
mon by the various sects represented. The
Catholics ill it every Tuesday regularly,
and one or more Of the others on alternate
Sundays. 1t is, however, safe to say that
neither religion, nor the pathetic exhorta-
tons Of Wanting preachers occupy much
OF the thoughts OF the unfortunate inmat 8.
II is not religious consolation but physical
restoration that they stand most in need
Of, II current reports be correct. There
are now nearly four hundred patients suf-
fering from all manner of diseases. Con-
sumption, however, proves the most fatal,
carrying off a large proportion Of those
afflicted to THAT undiscovered country
from Whose bourne no traveller returns"
COLONIZATION H
OF some Importance has been lately incu-
bated and perfe cted in this city. 1t has
for It's ostensible object the settlement aud
utilization Of the lands to be acquired
from the Mexican Government for i'm
portant services rendered, 10 forwarding
It arms aud other military weapons and
stores, at the time of Maximilian's at
tempted conquest, by that Argonautic vet
eran, Samuel Brannau. who SO rich, rakish
and fast, but now comparatively poor;
thus affording a notable instance OF how
easily fortunes become dissipated on this
coast. This association, flibusttring ex-
petition, or whatever else 1t may be desig-
mated,
NUMBERS 1000 MEMBERS.
All males, I suppose, becau 'e no mention
Is made Of the other sex as being in any
way connected with it. A sprinkling of the
strong-minded may, however, accompany
it. as "compagnons du voyage" to the new
Ell Dorado. Miners, farmers, mechanics,
machinists. etc., comprise the Industrious
49, .-l.1A .xan,latara nominating l
rock sharps. whisky vendors, needy Mac
awbers and adventurers generally are prob
ably pretty well represented also. Each OF
its members pay into the treasury a stipu-
lated sum on joining, which entities him
to certain (not namedl privileges. but
which IL is not difficult TO conjecture. The
expedition is to be headed by a brother OF
General Ord's, Sam Brsnnan, and one or
two kindred spirits, who, like another
Cortez, are preparing to grid on their ar
mors and go forth to form a new empire
within the realms Of the dead Montezu-
mas. Dreamers and philanthropists' hap,
ply, are not. as would appear, all
dead yet. This colonizing project
may, however, have better success than
others that preceded 1t. Brannan,s claim
Is likely TO be sanctioned, in which case
the scheme NAV not prove as chimerical or
as Utopian in character as may De imag.
ined, from the fact that the Sierra MoJado
mines are said to be included in the tract
Of country claimed by him.
SUICIDE.
1t may well be asked. with the melan-
choly Dane, whether II ia a ''sin to rush
into the secret home of Death ere Death
come to us 7" II It is. then how griev-
ously have many Of the former inhabi-
tants OF this modern sodom sinned against
their Creator. In no city OF the Union mas
the mania been more largely developed
than in this. To what cause, or causes,
NAV be attributed this readiness, on the
part of San Franciscans, to employ the
obedient bullet and the deadly drug as a
means Of expediting their exit from this
wbirling planet into an endless eternity
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