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Show i 311 K!t:!tS SX A MII.1I. , TIev. Mr. iremphill has l.'ecn expatiating ex-patiating in S:in I'Vancisco upon murder. mur-der. Jako a true philosopher he resorts re-sorts to statistics, and says: Iu Croat Britain there were 1 murders to the million: in Bflium, IS: Era nee, ;U; Austria, Bavaria. OS; Tusc;my, oil I'apal States, IIS. Thn ninth census showed that in the Eastern States there was murder to o."U!U0, or nearly 28 to the million; and, if j the truth must be known, California occupies to-day the bad pre-eminence j of being foremost in the annals of murder. According to the last cen- sils, thero was 3 homicide in evei-v -1,000 persons, or 'J0 to the million. Pioche, howt-:vor, discounts any place on earth. Within the past thirty days ten pistol shots and thirteen knife wounds were indicted upon fellow-creatures by men, and only three at that. llarilngton, on the Gth of July, wounded four men with three shots, inflicting live wounds, one mortally. mor-tally. EorgtiKOti stabbed his victim thirteen times, producing death; Mc-Kinneyshot Mc-Kinneyshot Courtney live times, producing pro-ducing death. We arc not anxious for distinction, hut. if any .one w ishes to take a note of passing events, they may dot down tho fact that more deist de-ist ruction has been caused in Pioche ! within thirty days by three men than j was ever done before. E.c. |