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VOL. 1.
THE TRINITY JOURNAL
I( PUR 1.1 8 II E 1) EVERY S ATI' III) A V .M II H N 1 N 0,
BY CURTIS & GORDON,
E. J. CURTIS, D. E. GORDON,
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Executive Department.
Officers. Offices.
J. Needy Johnson,... .Governor.
It. M. Anderson, Lieut. Governor.
David F. Dol'd.ass,. .. Secretary of State.
•Henry Bates Treasurer of State.
Geo. W. Whitman, Comptroller of State.
W. S. Waij.we, Attorney General.
John 11. Brewster,. . . .Surveyor General.
James Aujen, State Printer.
E. Wii.son, i
E- S. McKenzie, State Prison Directors.
Ai.ex. Bell, )
| Judicial-)'.
6 JUSTICES OF SI l-RKME COCUT.
■Icon C. Mcruay Chief Justice.
%tl«mou Heydc-nfelt... Associate Justice.
<). C. Terry, “ “
DISTRICT JI IUIES.
District—8th... J. M. Peters.
9th.. . . Win. P. Daingerfield.
“ loth J. S. l’itzer.
I'rinily C'o. Official Dirit-lory.
CountjtJudge It. T. Miller.
CoiiniyXClerk II. J. Seaman.
Deputy Co. Clerk, ltohert G. Stuart
II. .1. llowe.
Sheritf Edward Neblett.
Cofouer A. Shepard.
Treasurer C. F. Lynn.
Assessor II. W. Potter.
Surveyor II. L. \\ heeler-
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WEAVERVILLE, TRINITY COUNTY, CAL, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, Mi.
I hoar below on the pavement
The falling of passing feet.
Amt a ray from a stranger's lantern
Comes up from the lonely street,
Anil moves like a ghost thro' my chamber,
.So silently and so fleet.
It is gone, and 1 am sitting
Alone in my darkened room ;
And a gleam flits through my spirit,
Then leaves it in grief and gloom ;
Tor 1 think ot my boyhood’s darling,
And then of her marble tomb.
a. r. i„ l’arin, the •• pote" of tin- Hull'alo
Hyub/ic, salutes the heir apparent (which means,
we suppose, only apparently the heir) of the
French throne, w ith the following sinister verses :
“ Hut wate. \ ou keep a pntiii
()n airs, ami himehy some of the Frenehm'll
<let mad, and not be afrade of the lno.OOO
11 ay nuts which is raised to protect you, and
Sum will bild barryhades and ravenous
Femailes and starvin men’ll tare down the
Iron ralin around your bonrdin-house (the
Toulcrvs) JlMfl shrink !>»• •• • «•••! -
41 Will »s H I were myself ugain.' —Sir Waller
* «.
‘ I resign my soul to (!o<l, and my daughter to
my country.' Thomas Jifferson.
' It is Well.’— Washington.
‘ Independence forever.’- Adams.
‘This is the lust of enrth.’— J. (>. Adams.
‘ I wish you to understand the true principles of
government. 1 wish them carried out. 1 ask no
thing more.’— Harrison.
• I have endeavored to do lity duty. Taylor.
• There is not n drop of blood on nty hands.’—
Frederick F. of Denmark.
‘ You spoke of refreshment, my Amelia ; take
my last notes ; sit down to my piano here, sing
them with the hymn of your sainted mother ; let
me hear once more those notes which have so long
been my solacemeilt and delight.' Sloxart.
• A dying mail can do nothing easy.' Franklin.
‘ Let not poor Nelly starve.- Charles II.
• Let me die to the sounds of delicious music.
Mirabtau.
• I expected this, but not so soon —C. (J. Atherton.
‘ 1 still live.’— Daniel Webster.
The patriot sleeps in the Intel of his choice,
In the rolic of a marlyr all gory,
A ml heeds not I lie tones oft he mild waking voice
That cover his ashes w ith glory.
What recks he of riches, what tares he for fame,
Or a world decked in grandeur and beauty '!
If the marble shall speak that re lords his proud
name,
“ lie fell at his post doing duty P
The pilot that stood at the helm of our bark,
Unmoved by the tempests commotion,
Was swept from her deck, in the storm, and the
dark,
And sank in the depths of the ocean,
llut little lie’ll grieve for the life it has cost,
If our banner shall still Heat in beauty
And emblaze on its folds, id' the pilot we list,
“ lie died at his post doing duty 1”
The warrior chieftain has sunk to his rest,
The sod of Lone Mountain his pillow,
l’or his bed, California has openeil her breast,
llis dirge, the Pacific's sad billow !
As long as the ocean wave weeps on our shore,
And our valleys bloom out in their beauty,
So long will our country her hero deplore,
Who fell at his post doing duty !
The annexed little song, by the Herman l h
land, is as delicate with love sentiment as well
could be. The most modest and gentle daughter
of live could not tell her love more naively :
1 always go in tin: evening hour
To walk along the mead ;
And she comes nut of her garden bower ;
It stands in the way. indeed.
We have arranged a plan—
’Twas quite in the way of the world it ran.
Hut how it happens that we kiss,
I really do not know ;
1 ask her not she says not " I cs,”
Nor says she ever •• No
Hut when our lips together meet,
We hinder not —’tis very sweet.
The breezes do the rosebnb w oo.
And ask not “ Lov'st me, say'!”
The rosebud cools itselt w ith dew,
And says not “ Hive me, pray
So 1 love her, and she loves me. ■
Yet say we neither, " 1 love thee I
It is hardly possible, however, that the peculiar
characteristics of this touching little song would
he fully appreciated by the very handsome young
bride, wlm on being asked by one ol her brides
maids when observed in deep rcllection on hci
wedding day, what was the subject of her medi
tations, replied, “l was thinking which one o!
my old beaus I should marry in case 1 should be
come a widow.” ,
Dl'lV OTED TO THE INTERESTS OF TRINITY COUNTY.
Night.
Portentious ,, Pome” and Prophecy.
He Died at his Post doing Duty.
BY CAViO.V,
“Strike the Harp Gently.''
\\ c have received a message, dictated by
the late Miriam (Joodeuow Robb, a few days
before the gates of Paradise were fitted up
at the coming of one of the fairest and pur
est of those whom Rod created only a little
lower than the angels, ller request was that
(Jen. Allen and the editor of this paper
would not forget that she had lived— that
they would collect and send to her little
daughter “ Ella,” the articles written about
herself—that when Ella shall have learned
to read, she may honor the name of her lost
mother, and be taught that this world is not
so very dreary ; because in this far-olf sun
set land, among the nodding firs, and bleak
and silent crags of California, many a heart
calloused with the curse of gold, welled up
like a fountain in the desert, w hen the sweet
voice of her mother bade the bearded miner
“Strike the Harp (Jently.”
Strange it is, when the Angel of Death
is sent to execute the decree of “dust to
dust,” that the young and beautiful perish,
vhile the old and the deformed and the hea
y laden are left to toil with their heavy
mrdens ! Hut so it is ; the archer sends his
lmft at the soaring eagle rather than at the
tart ridge cowering under the hedge ; and
vlien the lightning crowns the mountain’s
>row with lire, the ignobler trees escape its
cngeance, but the lofty pine that lifts its
cad heavenward and nods to its Creator, is
•lasted, and its branches withered, leaving
•nly the rived trunk swaying to and fro,
riling on the overhanging dome, in char
cters invisible to mortal eye, “Thy will be
one ! And when the “demons down lin
er the sea” come up and war among the
•'lives, the worthless hulk is thrown upon
he beach, but the noble ship goes down full
f life and majesty.
And when the flower girl goes forth to
atlier the first-born of the spring-time, the
bending with the purest distillations of
ght, is gathered first.
lost thee, sweet singer! Rest thee he
alth the green prairies of Illinois ; and ev
ry evening, when the chaste sunlight draws
s last magic circle round thy sleeping-plan*,
till honored by the tears and memory of the
• \ ed and lost, “Stiukk the 11 w:e (1 1 vn.v !”
\ mi the little Ei.i v! In after years, when
In' glow of womanhood has mantled her
heck when the stranger’s kiss, pressed on
cr infant brow, shall have grown cold—
hen the chaste summer wind sweeps up
oiu Lake Michigan and plays among the
ranches of the’locust and the willow in
Jod’s Acre —when
'lie young lambs are playing in the meadows,
The young birds are eliirping in the nest ;
file young fawns are playing with the shadows,
And the young (lowers are blow ing towards the
west—
et Ella, kneeling by the honored grave of
genius, whisper to the ever-watching angel,
“ Mother, Strike the Harp (Jently for me 1”
Sierra ( 'ilizcn.
Extract* from Blithedale Romance.
Kvery true woman’s heart will say “ Well
said !” to the following speech of llollings
worth, iu reply to Zenobiu, who charges him
with despising woman s
“’Despise lierV No!’ cried Hollings
worth, lifting his great shaggy head, and
shaking it at ns, while his eyes glowed al
most fiercely. ‘ She is the most admirable
handiwork of Hod, in her true character.—
Her place is at man’s side. Her ofliee, that
of the sympathizer ; the unreserved, unques
tioning believer ; the recognition withheld
in every other manner, but given iu pity
through woman’s heart, lest man should ut
terly looso faith in himself—the echo of
Hod’s own pronouncing “ it is well done.”
All the separate action of woman is as ever
has been, and always will tie false, foolish,
vain, destructiveof her own best and holiest
qualities, void of every good effect—and
productive of intolerable mischiefs! Man
is a wretch without women ; Imt woman is
a monster—thank Heaven, an almost im
possible and hitherto imaginary monster—
without mau as her acknowledged principal!
Ns true us 1 had once a mother whom 1
loved, were there any possible prospect of
woman’s taking the social stand which some
of them—poor, miserable, abortive crea
tures, who only dream of such things be
cause they have missed woman's peculiar
happiness, or because nature made them nei
ther man nor woman !—if there were a
chance of their attainingihe end which these
petticoated monstrosities have in view, l
would cull upon my own sec louse its physical
force, that unmistakable evidence of superiori
ty, to scourge them back within their proper
bounds! ltut at will not be needful. The
heart of true womanhood knows where its
ow n sphere is, anti never seeks to stray' be
yond it 1’”
Judge Kki.i.oog, a venerable citizen of
-Michigan, arrived in Washington recently.
It Was his lir.it visit to the Federal Capital,
uud when the cars stopped lie was a little
uncertain where he was ; but as he noticed
that aV the passengers were leaving the cars
he followed suit. As he entered the main
hall of Hie depot, he saw a man engaged in
caning another ferociously, all over the room.
“ Win n 1 saw that,” soys the Judge “ /
knew l was in Washington immediately.”
Shocktxo.i-Mrs. l’artiugton reading an
account of a railroad accident, was much
surprised to learn that the locomotive had
been driven oft the track by one of the
switches. “She shouldn’t have thought,
saiJ she, “ that tie great iron engine would
mind such a little thing as a switch.
“ Yes, but you must remember, mamma,”
-aid Ike, the locomotive has a
tender behind .”
“ oh, that indeed," replied the old lady,
resuming her paper, “ well, you need not
talk about it, ropon. ;
The Fate of the Steamer Pacific.
How soon tlio whirl of business avoca
tions that pre-occupation of miml which Prov
idence has kindly intended should be the pan
acea for all griefs, make us forget startling
occurrences and great calamities ! It is now
si.\ months since the steamship Pacific left
Liverpool, and of her subsequent fate we
shall know nothing until the sea yields up its
secrets. A little while ago thequery on ev
ery lip was, “what has become of the Pa
cific?” The New ark Mercury w ell and tru
ly remarks that the heart of the entire na
tion throbbed with intense anxiety during
all the weary days when the missing steam
er was expected but did not come—and we
were loth to surrender the hope that she
would yet drop her anchor in our familiar
waters Hut months have slipped away,
and still the steamer is not here, and the
world has forgotten that it ever watched for
her coming with straining eyes. So brief
are all popular excitements ; so soon are all
great events and all alarms forgotten by the
world. To-day we may stand on tip-toe
w ith some strange excitement our hearts
may beat with the most painful apprehen
sions—-tears may press their way from every
eye, and drops of agony from every brow
but tomorrow flings a pall over all, and we
go upon our way seeking some new adven
ture ] repared for some fresh alarm. Yet
there are some who still think of the mis
sing steamer, and of those she bore with her
along the pathway ol the seas. In our ac
quaintance there is one circle at least where
despair has folded its raven wing over the
place where one who sailed in the Pacific
was wont to sit when ‘ at home.” In l/hit
home, the memory of those bitter days of
doubt and uncertainty, and tin- conviction
which came at last that the wandering bark
with its precious freight must have gone
down to the fellowship of eartlfs stranded
navies, will always remain as vividly and
freshly as in the beginning. And Thought,
like the dove from the ark, will often soar
over the great waters where the Pacific wan
dered, seeking to gather from the wave some
twig that shall tell of the place where she
went down to her slumber on the sands.-
Ah, what a revelation will that lie, when
the occult shall give up its secrets, and the
accumulations ol ages shall lie exposed to
the day ! As the Ilufl'ulo /.'.ip/r.v.v beauti
fully remarks, the pathways traced by the
keels of commerce, lead over the tombs of
untold wrecks, and the shadows of the liv
ing fall upon the dead, without heed from
the quick above or the forgotten ones be
neath. And ever and anon—in the bright
sunshine or the dark night, w ith gentle trade
w inds fanning the lazy sails, or thundering
tempests splintering the huge spars and hurl
ing the great irons as toys in their wrath
ever ami anon another of the voyagers goes
down to join the great armada there, below,
and w hile weary ones on shore grow sick
with hoping for her return, lies with her com
rades of past ages, awaiting the final hour.
And what a thought it is, that here in the
beaten track of daily intercourse between
two continents, no less than in the frozen
seas, where man’s voice is rarely heard, and
the best efforts of man’s skill have been bat
tled, and the strong barques he built, surren
dered to the mercies of the wild storm and
the cruel iceberg ; no less than in the bays
of tropic lands, where overarching palms
make dusk the silent anchorage, the golden
iriiits sway in the evening breeze ; no less
than in the rock-bound fastnesses of the
southern capes, and the emerald harbors of
the coral isles, where silence and solitude,
tw in consorts, reign evermore supreme the
solemn navy of the dead has squadrons ly
ing moored iu the grave, all tranquil now,
but some day to be mustered, and called to
quarters and inspected.
Si'C.vk K ixiu.y to Tin Motiikii.— Voting
man speak kindly to your mother, and cour
teously, tenderly, of her. Hut a little time
and you shall see her no more forever. Her
eye is dim and her form is bent, and her
shadow falls toward the grave. Others
may love you fondly ; but never again while
time is yours, shall any one’s love be to you
as that of your old, trembling, weakened
mother has been.
Through helpless infancy her throbing
breast was your safe protection and support;
iu way vv aril, testy, boyhood, she bore patient
ly with thoughtless rudeness ; she nursed
you safely through a legion of ills und mala
dies.
Her hand bathed your burning brow, or
moistened your purched lips ; her eye lighted
up the darkness id' nightly vigils, wutehing
sleepless by your side us none but her could
watch. Oh, speak not her name lightly, for
you cannot live so many years us would suf
fice to thank her fully. Through reckless
and impatient youth, she is your counsellor
and solace. Through manhood she guides
your steps to improvement ; nor even then
forsake or forget.
Speak gently then, and reverently, of
your mother; and when you, too shall be
old, it shall in some degree, lighten the re
morse w hich shall be yours for other sins, to
know that never wantonly have you out
raged the respect due to your uged mother.
The above inculcates one of the highest
and holiest duties of nature. Indeed, it
would seem to lie ut the foundation of all
virtue and happiness.
ItEADKit, did you know tiiat every column
of a newspaper contained from ten to twenty
thousand distinct pieces of metal, the mis
placing of any oue of w hich would cause a
blunder, or typographical error ? W ith this
curious fact before you, do you not wonder
at the general accuracy of newspapers?
Knowing this to be the fact, you will be
more disposed to excuso than magnify errors
of the j>rtss.
Distressing Affair.
The editor of the Milwuukie II
writes from New York the following ac
count of a receut ease of flagrant immorali
ty, which has east a deeper gloom than the
shadow of death upon a respected family,
and dishonored a wide circle of fashionable
life in that city :
“ Fashionable society is just now pro
foundly stirred by an elopement—in so
called high life. It is the talk of even this
great city, for the circumstances are most
extraordinary and distressing. As the af
fair has got into the prints, a few words
a ill not lie amiss. The hero is Maj. Kear
ney, who lost his right arm in the Mexican
war. He is a married man, and the father
i f a family, but is separated from his wife
on account of the brutality of his temper.—
She lives in Washington. Major Kearney
is a man of large property—rated from
$1100.000 to $400,000, and on account ot
his large means and his rank in the army
continued to lie received in the best society.
Some three years ago in Paris he met Miss
Maxwell, then only sixteen years of age, a
daughter of Hugh Maxwell, collector of the
port of New York, and know n us an emiuent
lawyer and one of the most esteemed citizens
of New York, lie there commerced his at
tentions, and after her return to N Y per
sisted in them, notwithstanding his obliga
tions as a married man. IIis great wealth
allowed him to be pertinicious, and he has
finally so corrupted this young girl after
three years of pursuit that a few days
since they sailed for Europe. She is about
nineteen, very pretty, and sings like a syren,
lie is lo, as our informant remarked “ ugly
as sin,” and brutal in his temper. Yet this
girl, so highly bred and related, bus aban
doned parents, wealth, friends, home, and
all, to follow this man as his leman. Il is
one of the most distressing cases that ever
occurred in this country. It has created a
startling sensation. The truth is, the admi
ration for money has become so excessive
that its mere possession has allowed men
| who arc pirates in heart to be kindly re
ceived, and in religious families. This sad
case has made even fashionable people
think, and perhaps they may demand char
acter as well as wealth as a passport to the
sanctities of their domestic privacy. If so
good will some out of this evil.
Putnam as a Spy.
Among tl.c officers ol the Revolutionary
army, none, probably, possessed more orig
iutility Until General I’utnum, who was ec
centric and tearless, hlnnt in his manners,
the daring soldier, without the polish of the
gentleman, lie might well lie called the
.Marion ol the North, though he disliked dis
guise, prolmhly from the fact of his lisping,
which was very apt to overthrow any trick
ery which he might have in view.
At this time a stronghold called Horse
neck, some miles from New York, was in
the hands of the Itritish. i’utnum, with a
few sturdy patriots, was lurking in the vi
cinity, licnt on driving them from the place.
Tired of lurking in ambush, the men begun
to be impatient, and importuned the Gen.
with a question as to when they were going
to have about with the foe. One morning
he made a speech something to the following
effect, which convinced them there was
something in the wind :
“ Fellows, you have been idle too long,
and so have 1 I’m going to Hush’s, at
llorsencck, in an hour, with an ox team and
a bag of corn. If I come back I will let
you know the particulars ; if I should not,
let them have it, by hookey.”
lie shortly afterwards mounted his ox
cart, dressed as one of the commonest order
ot ankee farmers, and was soon at Hush’s
tavern, which was in possession of the Itrit
ish troops. No sooner did the officers espy
him then they begun to question him as to
his whereabouts, and finding him a complete
simpleton, as they thought, they began to
quiz him, and threatened to seize the corn
and fodder.
How much do you ask for your whole
concern ?” asked they.
*" “ For mercy’s sake, gentlemen,” replied
the mock clodhopper, with the most deplo
rable look of entreaty, " only let me off,
and you shall have my hull team und load
for nothing ; und if that won’t dew, I'll
give you my word I'll return to-morrow, and
pay you heartily for your kindness und con
descension.”
“ Well,” said they, 11 we’ll take you at
your word. Leave tlm team and provender
with us, and we won’t require bail for your
appearance.
l’utnam gave up the team, and sauntered
about for an hour or so, gaining all the in
formation lie wished, lie then returned to
his men and told them of the foe, und his
plan of attack.
The morning came, and with it sallied out
the gallant band. The Hritish were hand
led with rough hands ; and when they sur
rendered to Oeu. l’utnam, the clodhopper,
he sarcasticly remarked :
“Gentlemen, 1 have kept my word. 1
told you I would call and pay you for your
kindness und condescension.”
,\ Mistake Gentleman (who is thinking
of building, and who consequently looks on
every house in a brick and mortar point of
view.) Hy the way, Mrs. Frizzle, is yours
only a twenty-live foot front?
I.ndy— Really, sir such a question :—
(aside) I low on earth did he discover I
wore one ?
A I.IBEI.1.ER of the fair sex says the women
are all alike. “ When they are maids
they’re uuldasmilk ; once make them wives,
und they lean their backs against their mar
riage certificate aqq lief}' j'Oli. 1 ’
War with the United States.
The Liverpool Xarthern Times, of June
-3d, has the following sensible remarks on
the subject of a war with the United States :
“Those who tulk of war with the United
States seem to forget altogether the magni
tude of the conflict in which they would in
volve us. \\ e have all witnessed the gigan
tic means we required to enable us to invade
the Crimea, one of the most isolated portion*
of the Kussinu territory, and what would a
similar force amount to on the North Amer
ican Continent ? What would an army of
250,000 men be in a struggle against the
States, with their railways, navigable rivers,
steamboats, and all their appliances for the
rapid concentration of numbers ? In Amer
ica we have a people full of energy and re
sources, equal to ourselves in valor, and in
domitable perseverance.
As a maratime Power, the States are a*
much to be dreaded as France or Russia.-—
They have already seventy-live men of war—
eleven ships of the line, thirteen frigates and
nineteen sloops,carrying 201*2 gnus. Their
land forces are, however, far more formida
ble than those of any country in Kurope.—
Their regular, or federal army, does not a
mount probably to more than 20,000 men,
but they have, exclusively of the States of
New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Kansas,
Nebraska and Iowa, no less than 2,407,826
truined men on their militia roll This de
teusivo force is ready for the field at any
moment, and with the vast means of tran
sit, both by sea and land, they have at their
disposal, they have little to fear from the
combined strength of Kurope. New York
has 205,553 rifles for its defence, Massachu
setts 142,200, and the incipient California
208,046. There is no room for doubting the
efficiency and general character of these largo
bodies of men, and we should look well to
what we are about before we sutler ourselves
to be involved in a struggle with such a Pow
er. It is rather a serious matter to think
of engaging in a contest with a people who
cannot have less than 3,0(10,000 of bayo
nets to cull to their aid. Sending puny ar
maments against such a nation, would bo
exposing them to slaughter and defeat ;nml
can it be possible that Parliament would en
courage any Ministry in a course which
would leave us open to the chance of being
called upon to make the sacrifices required
to carry on a war on the largest scale ever
know n V
i » »- ■ ■ .
Hoot's.--" Solitary and alone" among
the press, stands the Providence Journal in
defence ot hoops :
“ We think the hoops which the ludiei,
in the exercise of their undoubted sovereign
ty, have added to their dresses, have been
the subject of unnecessary complaint. As
the matter has been explained to us, we un
derstand that the hoops take the place of
from five to fifteen skirts or petticoats, tho
weight and cncnnibrrnoe of which are alike
unhealthy and uncomfortable, 'flic hoop is
light and graceful, and although there is no
need of making it big enough to go round a
country lawyer’s ollice, as the amusing cor
respondent ol the Pawtucket ('Anmule would
say, still pretty formidable dimensions may
be endured ; and, since the ladies are sure
to have their own way, wc may say, must
be endured.
A Gknti.kman was once dining with a
friend, when a most dreadful storm arose.—
In hopes of abatement, the entertainment
was prolonged to tho latest possible hour ;
but at length it was over, and the storm
showed no signs of ceasing, but on the con
trary, grew worse and worse. The host in
sisted upon his guest’s acceptance of a lodg
ing for the night, in view of the impossibili
ty of reaching his home. The guest com
plied, but in a few moments was missed from
the parlor. In half uu hour he reuppeared,
drenched with rain. “ Where, in heaven’*
iuiiiic, have you been asked the host,
viewing the singular object, which looked
like a dog about the paws, and a weeping
willow about the head. “ I ?” said lie, qui
etly shaking olf the water, "I have been
home to tell my wife that, as it was such a
bud night, I should not return.”
“ Mink Got VoT a BbopU! !" Mr. Du
bois, the new Dutch Ambassador,came over
in the steamer with Mr. IJuehaimn, and wan
eating his first breakfast at Washington at
Willard’s Hotel, at the time the California
Congressman had shot Keating the head
waiter. IDs Dutch K.xcellency had heard
that the “ Vanins" were very "strango
bcoplcs,” and during the murderous affray
he looked quietly on without leaving his seat.
After the scene, and when the floor of the
room was covered with broken plates, de
molished chairs, human blood, the dead and
lhe wounded, the newly arrived ambassador
leliberately arose, reviewed tho surround
ngs, and slowly walked out of the room audi
bly repeating “Mine Cot rot a beoples! If
they vill kill u man before breakfast, vot
vout they do before dinner
A Coubaokols Lady.—The Richmond
WAig says a lady went to the office of a
dentist in that city, recently, and had eight
teeth extracted. It appears that the dentist
refused to administer chloroform unless a
physician wus present, and the lady engaged
one for that purpose, lie failed to attend,
however, and after waiting some time she
submitted to the operation without the use
of the the antesthic. There are few men
w ho can boast of courage like that.
Bo ! A young gentlemen the otl-.. ,
szsjfl rtit ■ , ” 1 w
iicud* togulhoi-- 1 - - to P ut our
, _ would give you definite
uuswer.’’
NO. 31.