American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-26

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"A MAN OF PEACE,-The editor of the Poto-
rnac Sentinel, published at Williamsport, Mary
land, is one Of the most, reasonable men we have
eyer read of. He is magistrate, it appears,
~ well he ought TO be- His paper of yester-
Day 8 date contains an article which we quote
chiefly on account of its honest frankness and
primitive simplicity. He says .,,-r.., ,tl
On Friday morning, last, we took our papers
designed for the Western mail) in q, basket,
and went to the post Office, As the p M.
was not in, we proceeded to arrange bur pack
ages on the doorlsil, so that might return ID
our business, and the postmaster yget them ou
his return. While thus employed John Sharp
less, the person whom we fined a short time
ago 800 for keeping a gaming house, at the
Potomac Hotel, rushed upon us with the ferocity
Of hyena, and but for the interposition Of Mr..
Joseph Byers and others, would in all proba-
bility have killed us. Owing to- debility from
sickness, we did not resist the cowardly as
sault, and the consequence was we were seri-
ously injured. ". .r'
n'The pretended cause Of justification for the
assault was, that we had published paragraph
IN our last weeks paper, informing the public
that the said John Sharpless was fined 500 for
having kept a gaming house. . IL we are to 10
around and ask Tom, Dick, and Harry what we
may or may not publish, how in the world are
we to get our paper out The 38thS article of
the Bill Of Rights Of Maryland reads: !. 4. 4.
.. That The Liberty Of The press ought 70 Be IN
uiolaby preserved T . l..,,,..l.,.. .+
elf, them we stated nothing but facts, we
had the " inalienable 4right-yea it was our
bounden duty7-to make the public acquainted
with tho facts in the case. An editor is SEN
tinel who is bound to keep his patrons advised
OF all items in which they are interested. If
the said innkeeper had not permitted gambling
to be carried on in his house, under his own
observation, then he would not have been fined,
nor the facts published ga r.trataa .aH
MODEL HUsBAND.-"I do believe" says
the husband, taking his spoon out Of his glass
and tossing it on the table, .'that1 Of all the
obstinate, wrong headed creatures that ever
were born, you are the most SO, Charlotte.''3sl
Certainly, certainly; have your own way,
pray. You see how much / contradict you, "
rejoined the lady
'Of course you didn't contradict me at the
dinner-table; oh no, not you" says the gentle
man. r. .. @....
.'Yes, did," says the lady.
con- you did J" cries the gentleman; you
admit that ~
.If you call that contradiction, l do" the
lady answers z" and I say again, Edward, that
when l know you are wrong l win contradict
you. l am not your slave W.aa III .ra.a. aau
| "Not my slave !" repeats the gentleman, bit
terly ''and you still mean to say that il
| Blackburn's new house there are no more thar
| fourteen doors, including the wine-cellar
Il mean to say" retorts the lady, beating
time with her hair brush on the palm Of her
hand, "that in that house there are just four
teen doors, and no more"
"Well, them" says the gentleman, rising in
despair, and pacing the room with rapid strides,
= this is enough to destroy mans intellect and
drive him madl''
By-and-by the gentleman comes to little,
and reseats himself in his former chair. There
is long silence, and this time the lady begins
81 appeal to Mr.. Jenkins, who sat next to
me on the sofa in the drawing room during tea >
Morgan you surely mean," interrupts the
gentleman. af. a....
Il do not mean any thing of the kind" an
swers the lady. !, -...,. .t...t.-
"Now, by all that is aggravating and impos-
sible to BEAR" cries the gentleman, clenchine
his hands and looking up in agony, "she i:
going to insist upon it that Morgan is Jenkins
Do you take me for a perfect fool " ex
claims the lady. do you suppose / dom
know the one from the other? Do you suppos
| don't know that the man in the blue coat wa,
Mr.. Jenkins ?"
jenkins in a blue coat ~ cries the gentle
man with q groan. Jenkins in q blue coat
A man who would suffer death rather than wear
any thing but brownl'
"Do you dare charge me with telling an un-
truth p demanded the lady, bursting into tears.
I" i charge you, ma am" retorts the gentle
man, starting up, with being monster Of con.
radiction-a monster of aggravation-a--s-
l. 4 l. n 4 AZ.
should be doomed to hear such statements p
SUICIDE IN FRANCE. number of suicides
in France from the year 1885 to 1916 amounted
to 33, 032. During the year 1885 the number
was 2,305, and from that time it regularly in
creased to 8, 102, with the exception Of the year
1874, which fell off AZ from the year lS43. The
proportion between men and women was /, 7S6
to $40 in 1885, and similar in the other years.
Suicide was much less frequent in the noun
tain regions than in the level country. The
number was decidedly influenced by the season
of the year. There were the least in the month
Of December, only 1877 cases in the whole
twelve years. From that month there was q
regular increase till June, which numbers 1894,
and regular decrease again from that time
TIL December. Among the suicides during this
period we're 239 children under l6 years Of age;
thence the number increases till between the
age of 40 or so, Of which class there were 6,675
coses; then again regular decrease--there
being still 458 cases over 80. As to occupation,
1880 were day-laborers, 1888 military men,
| ,57l capitalists. or the deaths, IL ,0S4 we're
by drowning, 10,605 by hanging, 5,862 by
shooting, 2, ,321 by the fumes of charcoal, 1928
by sharp Instruments, 791 by poisoning, and
1899 by falling from height. As to the
causes, there were 6,449 cases from mental
iberration, 2, ,745 from bodily suffering, l,ls6
from fear of legal process, 1923 from domestic
troubles, 1858 from poverty, 1907 from pecu-
mary embarrassment, 143 from i'll treatment Of
parents, 9s8 crossed in love, 14S from Jealousy,