Year: 1873

From the Virginia Enterprise, June 1871


ATTEMPTED BURGLARy.-Nipbt
before last, about 10 o'clock, a
burglar made an attempt to rob
the residence of q. w. Hazleton.
clerk at the Bank of California,
but was frightened Off by the re.
turn of some of the inmates of
the house. The thief had first
placed a ladder against shed in
the rear of the dwelling, and
climbing upon the roof of the
sh 'd bad endeavored to open a
window in the end of the main
building. Being unable to open
the window (Which was fastened
on the inside), he then hunted
about the front door of the house
till he found the key, which had
been left under Il brick, all the
folks being from home. When n
party OF the inmates returned the
door wa, found unlocked, antthe
burglar W still in the house. He
was running back through the
rooms and up stairs, and before he
could be head off by the backway,
he had made his escape by way of
the shed and ladder. 1t was found
that he had sacked all the plated
ware in the lIOuse-doubtless TAX
ing it to be solid silver-and had
carried it with him as far a. the
window opening upon the shed.
Here he seems to lave weakened
and dropped it. The fellow seems
to have had a sweet tooth. as
while in the house he devoured
three or four small jars Of jelly.
The drawers o the bureaus had
been rummaged, and the house
pretty thoroughly ransacked, but
all that the fellow finally got
away with was what he carried in
his dread basket"


WE are informed that it was ar
ranged night before last, at Il meet
ing of the belligerent parties, that
the adjourned prize fight between
lrevillian and Hogan shall take
place about the last of this month.
The place selected for the holding
of the tistic picnic will remain Il
terra incognitn to all but the
favored few who 90 as friends of
the principals to see that during
the exchange of courtesies no
breach Of the etiquette of the
ceremonial code of muscle occurs.
from the Gold Hill News Of June 1sth.l


\ CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE
We believe it is a well-established
fact that the bodies of persons
drowned in Lake Tahoe have
never been recovered, tie clear
cold waters of the lake absolutely
refusing to give up their dead.
This circumstance, which at first
thought appears strange, is ac-
counted for upon the hypothesis
that the waters at the bottom of
the lake are so icy cold as actually
to arrest decomposition, and con-
sequent expansion of dead body,
one Of the conditions under which
it would be expected to return to
the surface. Whether the victims
who repoSe at the bottom of the
pellucid waters of this far-famed
lake undergo petrificatiOn, or are
transformed into mermen and
mermaidS, is a secret which will
never be known until they come
to the surface at the summons Of
Gabriel's trump.


SMALLPOX. We have been in
formed on very good authority
that the smallpox has broken out
among the Piute Indians, en-
camped on the hillside southeast
of Virginia City. If sucn be the
case the redskins should be quar-
antined, and not allowed to dis
seminate the disease among the
thousands Of people residing in
Virginia and Gold Hill. 1t is to
be hoped that the City Fathers
will inquire into the matter at
once, aud prevent if possible the
spread of the loathsOme disease.