Show justice in BV by during a visit to the mounta ns of calavis caiane Bs county we ve were to the foll following OT in tere ter teresing eting tim tin perform ane scene scena justices court mining claim in dis dig one pirt pirty represent edby learned counsel the other peirina pc pe adina iding his own case justice gentlemen the ifie court is ready reldy to ari ani adjudicate jn in the cise case counsel will please proceed I 1 learned counsel proceeded to state that he could prove prior possession of plaintiff that an illiberal ond unjust attempt was being made with malice clifort aforethought thought to defraud his liis client out ont of his auriferous possessions and introduced evi evl evidence to support his position defendant gentlemen of 0 tile the jury I 1 appear here as my own coun counsel seif supported by an implicit conti conri confidence dence in your sense of justice and the righteousness of my caus cans gentlemen of the jury my opponent has summoned to hispid his aid ald a lawyel attired in a Sh Shang angline hae coat and pitted pilled him against an li imbie abut but honest miner gentlemen odthe of the jury is this proper is it ri right I 1 had always been lead to relieve region 0 of 17 country would resist the introduction tion of Shang hae coats and narrow legged what then is m my y surprise to witness in t this h is august assembly a gant gentleman ieman leman attired in pate pite patent n L leather boot stand tip up collar coldir and coat cott and pants aforesaid afire said sald any one who the assistance of or such counsel inuss be gentlemen of bf the iry iury lury try devoid cfall of all ail the humanity I 1 don t mean to appeal to your prejudices prejudice but I 1 can and will p prove rove my prior my possession of the claim in question plaintiff a hicl justice juaice I 1 fine you ten dillars dollars for contempt of court I 1 Defend defendant int assertion ia is not proof neither is iq prediction eviden evidence e and when the plaintiff accuses ns me of lying he insults the majesty of tle tie law the tile sanc sanctity sanctity tit of or justice and the holiness holi bess hess of truth the tile defendant hen then called bitne witnesses seg ses who proved precisely what had been established by the plaintiff viz not nol colbin nothing hin bin the jury retired to deliberate but immediately returned gitlia with a verdict verdic that neither of the claimants had proven possession posses siou and that the claim was as vacant the foreman of the jury had taken a position as near as possible to the open door and the tile moment the verdict was rendered he with the judge jury and loafers made a break for the disputed claim and a oce wee commenced that would have made tam tarn osh OS hinters etera mare stand aghast at the recklessness of their made career Posses possession sion eion in this case appeared to be ten points of the law and with a vim vig vigor gor and a wind that did credit to the inhabitants of calaveras Calavera Cala caia veras hey they bey pushed forward for the golden prize supposing in our simplicity that a powder mine was about to exp eap explode lode iode we leat left the building with the velocity of a f frightened cat and land turning I 1 1 as we ran to look upon i wreck of or matter and the tile crush of woid worlds wold wa we fetched up very again against t the tile trunk of a lofty pine where we experienced erpf the truth 01 ot the philo philosophical maxim that action and reaction are always the same althou although gh in opposite directions gaining the perpendicular we w looked around to 0 see if the light lightning nim had struck any where except in our own nel nei neighborhood and bi ing convinced that it hai had not we turned to look upon the tile conini who headed by uhe the shanghee Shang hae lawyer were fast fi piroa aching the golden goal in this case casp as in many others other we saw legal artiman aei aRi irnen gaining the advantage over justice and when hen we si saw v the latter litter functionary vt a somerset over a rugged merged S tump slump we could but feel file the that all honest men experience when walien justice is is cheated 0 of f ita it prey W when h eli ell the lawyer was wag on the verge of gaining a i possessory title to the claim aforesaid we e we were con eon convinced vinced of the he im of beatin acaling coat ct in the mountain region for in a dt sperate effort the defendant seized leizea the tiie lawyers appendage and with the aid and comfort thus ass aff afforded crded to the energy enemy they pitched ed lead head foremost into the claim together and when we left the cise as well as the head of one disputant st was tin in chancery may god defend the right sacra sarra sacramento m ento unon EFFECT EFFECTS Sor OF DRESS A certa certain 1 in kni knight 9 lit having lot bis his wife and not being being at all sure as to the locality in which her spirit rested applied toa ton to fl devout hermit who nho picked upa up living by reveal anty ng that ori sorl soil oil of secret in our own days day the I 1 rev nev mr godfrey pro professes to betat get at the same mystery by dint dial of of table turning well vell the reverend gent lemans ancestor the hermit thought upon the question by going to r sleep leep sleep over oven it and when he hea awoke woke he informed the knight that he ile had been in a vision to the tribunal of souls soul and that he be had llad there learned all about the lady in in question lie ile had seen feen ft st michael and lucifer standing opposite each other and between them theina a pair of scales scale in one of which which wlas was alced the ladys sou son soul soui with its it select assortment of or good deeds and in the other all her evil actions A fiend with all her gair calr garments ments and jewellery jew ellery in his posses possession ston was looking loo kingon J ori orl the beam of the balance had not yet made a movement when the impetuous was about generously to claim the theoal thus weighed thereupon pon lucifer urbanely Urbi nely remarked that he would take the ther liberty of informing his once orice esteemed friend of a fact probably bly unknown to min him this borri wonna in aid baid gaid hp be had iliad no less than ten gowns and as many cri cotts coils its and you yon know as well aej as I 1 do my good Al michael ichael ahat that half the quantity would loave have sufficed for her lier require me ments monts nt and would not noi have been beell contrary to he the lat lai law or op god st mit nit M nha ha hai 1 looked rath rather e r offended at its being supposed that he me knew an anything y thing about women and their gear and suggested that tint too much intercourse with both had been beef the ruin of his ex colleague fier comme un tin archangel was the corin colon commentary of tile the lucifer who accord according accordingly to some old fath fathers eis eKs tempted eve in very excel e lent french however that may be he added the value cofone of one of this pretty wantons cantonis wan tons tonIs super flukus gowns cowns or coats would have clothed and kept forty poor men through a whole winter and the mere waste cloth from them would have sav ll 11 two or three from perishing touche fille he said addre addressing the fiend who carri carrl carried ehl ehi the finery throw those traps into the ecale scale the fiend obeyed by casting them in where the ladys ad S b bad a d actions lay an and strai straightway down sit sark sank X th thit it scale and upward flew the beam which bore the and its ounce of virtues virtue this was done with such a jerk that the he soul itself fell feli into the outspread arms of touche fille who made off riff with his prey without waiting wailing for further award lucifer looked inquiringly at st Micha elbut v but the latter ol observed served that though g his lils opponents aide decamp de camp somewhat too hasty he woud would not dispute the castany cae any further dat bat but dut what may I 1 ahk aik do you intend to do with her she shall havi hive a new dress daily and fancy herself uly in ali all sal sai I 1 michael you certainly are the most exquisite of torturers and M chie despite hit his modesty does know what most vexes a woman gig eig to whither the last peron person addressed had not time to say lie ile was up ted led by lucifer who remarked 1 I 1 have business upon earth my affairs at home are well cred for in my absence by a regency and si they parted and the moral of the tale i that luxury in dress tends to idad lead to the devil A french writer i VERMONT the follo following winz account of the baptism of vermont is from a work published several years ao ajo entitled the history of the rev hugh nugh petters Pet girs tirs chaplain Chap fain tain to oliver crom well written by the rev samuel samue 1 A peters L L D bishop elect of the state of vermont verd iverd mon us a name givan to the green mountain Ic unla n in in october 1763 by the rev dr peters filhe the first clergyman who paid a visit to the thirty thousand larid inrid settlers in that country in the presence of colonel taplin colonel wiles colonel peters judge sumner judge sleeper captain peters judge peters and many others who were proprietors of a large number of townships in that colony tile the ceremony was performed med on on tile the top ofa of a rock i standing banding tan dina ding on a fi high 1 agh mountain then named mount pisgah be baue it provided to the comply a clear sight of lake champlain at the west and of connecticut river at the easl east and overlooked all tile the tres treb tres treb tr cs and hills inthe vast wilderness at the north and south the atthe performed in the he following manner arid and form viz priest peters stood on the pinnacle of the rock when he received recel ved a bottle of spirits from colonel taplin than haranguing the company with a short history of epe ept n t settlement and tile the pros proa 0 of f i its ita t a b li foan laa ian lan impregnable barrier harner begreen berty hefty een fen the in inthe uhe the bouti and llie tile late cojeni of I 1 W r ail tn in the tile nort it uhichi might b returned in fe e next century to their L I 1 ite te for tho iho governing ero iro vernine verning anile Arric alenci rica by the dif dlf different Terent europe he lie continued nys vvs VS have hee heo bottan th tho iho rock etam atam standing ort oil bioust ragah rV gah which makee makes w pan pad of the everlasting hill bilt I 1 t 41 3 the tho spine apine of arribi Arri qi asia and america ha together the terrestrial ball and biadin di w 1 allyre allire atlantic ali All antic antie from tile the pacific ocean lo 10 dedicate ami and consecrate tho iho extensive wilderness wild inea ernes rnea gd manifested in the flesh and to give it ja a nelv n nime ime imp worthy of the athenians athenian and i anc I 1 n cieu cleu t spartans spartano Spar tans which new name Is verd 1 ji in n token tolien that her mountains and huia hula shan sh aBber anber bf r green cent and shall never die and then gjud ir the e spirits around him and casi catl the bouie boule e rock etym the ceremony being oven over jae jre 1 jye e company descended mount amount pisgah nahi andt bak k refreshment ina in inn a longhouse house kept by quion a otley where they spent the night with gat pleasure after this priest peters petera through most of the settled settlement ants preaching and baptizing for the space creif of eight time he baptized nearly twelve bundred hundred children and adults 1 T I 1 i 1 rt T foa roa A year YEAH it J s not that in these thebe days of travel and of peril V byrand hyland and and by sea the chapter chapler of or accidents and quai ties for the past year should be long anu and and sad gad ad we have gathered from reliable sources s and figures which are appended append cd alobou although js high highly y probable that the tho number of d liby ilby fatality of travel is somewhat greater than inhere represented during the ilia year 1855 1865 ibe ilia number of accidents in various parts of the country result ing ng in it losses of life or of ws was 1421 by which UC ilg persons were and badly Avo wounded undid more alore than 60 employees of the railroad companies are included in a this allis numb num benor berof enor enof the killed MUM of bof which 20 were engineers and anda G conductors i ia za A the steamboat accidents have not been beell so numerous amounting tp to 27 but deaths an of GO over these caused chused caused by rail v the loss of property occasioned by destructive fires ilar lias been enormous amounting to more than this s tile the estimated loss tt about goo extensive conflagrations the figures do not embrace the vast amount of property destroyed by almost innumerable smaller airi disastrous as these results seem geem to bel bethey belaey bet hey are happily far less in magnitude than those af pf or the former year 1854 during that year the railroad accidents numbered 51 more while the t tho 0 number of the killed was 70 and of orthe tila tile the ilia wounded 50 greater than in the last year r 4 the steamboat accidents ot A were 45 49 diminished in 1855 1853 to 27 the killed diminished to tila the wounded diml nied tb j the number of or fires in lit 1651 was la stitch decreased ly by 0 in and the loskot of properly property ra wety amounted to amich was reduced to during the last year na 1 observer jan 17 1 11 antt 11 if v TUE POET AND THE BASKET BASK 2 am no enemy to learning no enemy io lo college colleges on the con eon contrary arary I 1 am urn the steadfast friend of both but I 1 am opposed to having them overrated as they tiley are and the advantages of both EO so abundantly ant exaggerated by lle ile the lie great mass of our people as ir icso t other earning learning were valuable no lather other knowl knowledge edgo worth having T I 1 would remind them of tiie ilia basket bas ket kel maker the only maii man of a large targe crew cast ashore among sav ees ages who was able his past count account while mille ilia rest sat twirling their thumbs liable every moment to he be knocked in tile tiie head bead for their la ignorance the basket maker was made mado chief oil on tile the spot and almost worshipped wor shipped for lils gils ingenuity I 1 or I 1 mi might lit remind them of that other crew taken by a barbary corsair when they were tan before the bey lie he inquired their several occupations tile ilia jiggers and and carpenters were al alf sent nt the doc dock yard a the sa igors had a co fl provided id d for or them and even the tile offit As eels were turned to ac rc count one way or another at last his 1401 highness ness nees came come to a literary man a t P passenger is and a what to do with fill mim fim for a long I 1 his I 1 is cud not sas say thil at last learning that tiie the prisoner was a mail of sedentary occupation and having them explained by file he interpreter lie he ordered the poet a pain pair 11 ir of feather breeches and set him film I 1 hatching chicken and now which of lle ile the lie t two 0 was the educated man mail the pietor poet or the basket v maker rjohn rioha neal WIT A dispute arose between basken three able hendrie men drle drie one irish one scotch and the other english as to the respective clive traits of their countrymen A wager vager was laid the irish were were the wittiest the scotch the most cunning and the english most frank they agreed to walk cut in the streets of london and the first one of elther either nation met should be inquired offis of as to what he be would mould take and stand watch all night in the tower of st Paul church pretty soon a john bull boll came aiona blong along and was accosted thos thas what will you take and stand all night in the tower of st pauls paulh q 91 1 I want to do it short of a guinea frankly answered mr bull the next one accosted was a scotchman sandy randy replied and what will wll boti you gie gic me roe last not least patrick was inquired af f as lo 10 what |