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Show Swindling the Heathen, Yesterday, Justice Pyper sent a sharp youth up for thirty (lays for swindling a Chinamen. The boy went to the celestial with a piece ol brass, which be represented was a piece of gold that had been melted in the Virginia city fire. It wag worth $30 he said, and he wanted to "soak" it for $5 until morning. The Chinaman bit, and lat the boy have a V. Subsequently the heathen obtained a bottle of "medicine" (acid) and applied it to the Dugget, when, as he expresses it, "ho allee come gleen likee hay-glass, allee same what cow oat." That Chinaman China-man will not "soak" any mors nug-geta nug-geta until ha tries them with "medicine." |