Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-11-25

FTIenUS Cdo6i
held in $500 for trial at the Municipal Court She
appeared mOdestly upon the stand and seemed to
care but little for the charge against her probably
she knows that she can at any time stop the pro-
ceedings by accepting the hand of her accuser,
when all other means of escaping from the accu-
satiOn fail.-Bosfon Herald.
Lor's WFE-A French savant M. de Saulcy,
gives the following Interpretation of the sacred mar
rative of Lots wife:
The Diebbel- ell Melehh, or Hjebel Sdoum pre-
sents a compact mass of rock salt, the height of
which varies, but never exceeds 100 yards. At the
summit the salt 10 covered over by stratum OF clay
Of a dirty white hue The whole of the hill side
presents numerous assures followed by the winter
torrents, and the constant crumbling Of the soil
At many points appear vast pyramidal columns of
SALT one of which has no doubt been taken BY Cap
tain Lynch for the famous pillar into which Lots
wife transformed All the disconnected masses
and those which still adhere to the mountain, have
their surfaces deeply furrowed and indented by the
rains. And lastly wherever the rock leans over it's
lower part is hung with stalactites of salt. Ia it
possible to explain the death of Lots wife! | am
inclined to believe so, and this would be my solution
At the moment when the huge mountain was heav-
ed up Mechanically, there must have been through
out its whole extent tremendous falls Of detached
masses, similar to those we have observed at every
STEP Lots wife having lotered behind, either thro'
fright or curiosity, most likely crushed by one
of these descending fragments, and when Lot and
where she had stopped, they nothing but the
salt rock which covered her bo1y. The catastrophe
may he explained many ways; but having visited
the spot hold to the opinion have now advanced,
without seeking, however to impose it on others"
PLAIN ENGLIsH.-What pity people will swear,
and what pity they use the best of mother tongue
to do it in. We heard Flanderish cartman, this
morning, bestowing string of epthets and string
ofbuckskin upon audience OF one, viz: his poor
old horse the former of which, as good, sterling
Saxon. would have made the fame of any man who,
for half an hour, could draw from the same pure
English wells. We do not mean to say that our
cartmans language was very courtly, but it was
muscular and Saxon to a degree there the ring
of true coin in it, ust as man grows earnest-we
came very writing honest, and perhaps it would
have been better if we had-he grows natural and
child like and fall back upon his vernacular. When
gets in fog, he drifts Homeric bar, or
tOgrles, we can't think of a better world his broken
thought, with some passage from Tactus or Ivy
lrrate the most artificial man that was "made
up" and if he is not an unmitigaed fool, his YER
nacular will come up from the bottom of his heart,
where it was packed away beneath much Latin and
Greek, and thin strata of French and German, and
he will say more and better, in a minute, than he
had uttered before in month.
En- Iish. like beauty, is. when unadorned adorn-
ed the most" The cunning old rogue who said that
language made to hide ones thoughts would
not have spoiled the point, but saved the truth had
ne amended it by substituting used for made, and
pity It's it's true"
When people fall to quarrelins, they have much
10 say about plain talk" That's just the sort Of
taIk-Rlain English, or none at al.-N. Y. Tribune
WHO KILLED THE BULL 1.-The bull of neghbor
of mine esquire Johnson) was killed; it was val
liable one, and the Squire's suspicion was immedi-
ately fastened on a trifing fellow in the neighbor-
hood, with whom he had difficulty, by the name
OF Williams the perpetrator of the deed, but who
Indignantly repealed the "soft impeachment" The
Squire, from his intimate acquaintance with human
nature believed that he could substantae the charge
by fellow of the name of Smith, and accordingly had
him summoned as witness. The trial was before
Squire W, and John S. Fale appeared for the
Brayser.
The witness Smith was called and after being
duly impressed with the solemnity of oath, and
ofthe Importance of deposng to the truth, by Squire
You know, Mr.. Smith, that Squire Johnson.
bull was killed r"
81 do" says Smith
And you also know that Williams killed the
bull 2"
81 do"
" Your honor" says John, "the testimony is sufi
GENTLY clear and to the point think to justify his
commitments
One moment. Mr.. Smith," says Ceylon, before
you retire, You say that my client, Williams kill
ed the bull"
II do"
" How far off were you when the bull was killed.
About four hundred yards
81 Did you see Williams kill the bull :"
mo"
Did you hear the report of the rife, when the
bull was shot 2"
"No."
Did you ever hear Williams, or any one else
says that he killed the bull ~
IL did notn
Then, Mr.. Smith, if you were four hundred
yards from where the bull was killed. didn't SET
him, didn't hear the report of the rifle William.
nor any else didn't tell you he did it, please in
form this court how you know that my CLIENT Will
Hams, killed the bull 2"
Smith thought minute and then said
- heard him drdp"'
Ne,O York Spirit of the Times.
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