A GOLD MINER'S DEATH.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 148, 3 April 1886, Page 2

A GOLD MINER'S DEATH.

Goul:e> anything b« more patiietio than this brief notice whiich comes from Plaeerrille, California •, " James W. Marshal], the discoverer of gold it* California, di<-d on Monday at his home* in Kersey. He was- 73 yeirs old, and died a poverty stricken, disappointed man." Thig was, say 9 a New York paper, the man whose discovery in 184*3 made the Stale of California,, and Jed +& tnat production of got I tiiat has since* then amounted to 1,6'00,000,000d01. Many a time since that fatefu-1 18th of. January has the on-fortunate man cursed t.ie day he 1 found the glittering nugget m the imll-r.u-e »t Coloma, awd full of ,oldeu ilrwni'! Hew with the irews to his uartner, General Suiter. Alas for the golden dreams and for the happiness of industrious obscurity ! His discovery was li is gveat misfortune -a veritablecurse thiough life. Adventurers flocked in fFom every ywt of the world-.- They dispossessed hinyof his haid earned propetty and coolly appropriated his houses., Hi>s cat tier were killed by the starvingminers, his daim* were '"jumped •." an \ f superstitioosly credited with some mys-* tt'rious power of finding gold, the uutVsitnuate discoverer waa lorever tracki 1 '! and dodged by men whom disappointed avarice nmde demons. Again nnd again he sou«ht to dude the*»i,. and wutfld steal" off in seirch of some* unexplored gulch, where- in peace be hoped to» firvl the millions, the visions of wiiich foreever burned in his- brain ;. but go whore he wouid,he could work btft a few hours, wht-n a stream of men pouted in upon, him and took up the claims above tiid: below him, and finally, disappointed,, they would even drive him from the* little spufc he selected. He was alwa)9 unfortunate } he never made any rich strikes, but drifted about, for ever seeking — Tantalus like— the fortune thafr for ever eluded him, until, disappointed and Mnbiitered y injwstf-e and misfortune, the wretched man found only in the grave rest an ! refine IV in the curse that pursued him. T <» great State «»f •Jahfoinia, with its mili.ona 'es whose hi'lksl. lolly t'osu moi'i 1 t>> n woiil I havu p-'iiaioned Mirsh.dlt'or life, abanloucd i he discoverer of California's, wealth tiy poverty and wretchedness. Some yearsago tiie Legislature, recoguiaiug tU«