The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-04-02
H The, Boston Mail gets Of the,
following pretty good aneedots Of tbas
nervous, fretful, yet always fine TRACE

following pretty good anscdots Of That
nervous, fretful, yet always fine TRACE
dian, Macready:m atasoa VI.
Macready was proverbially particu-
| lar about the stage business. He an
moved the stock actors exceedingly al
rehearsals, by giving every man his
particular place on the stage, 50 that
| 10 the picture presented, he should be
| in the centre. THIS actor must stand,
here, that actor tbere--it was his will.
On one Of the nights Of his last en-
gagement in Boston, when he was to
| play Hamlet, he was very particular,
at rehearsal, in the disposition Of char
acters at the fall OF the curtain. He
| had selected the most commanding
place on the stage, well down to tie
lights, and declared that there he III
tended to die. It SO happened, that
as The fatal moment. was approaching
Just after Hamlet had stabbed the
King, that bis majesty took it into his
head to die on the spot selected by
the philosophic Dane. The poison
was burning in Hamlet's veins, he was
in the agoilies of death, but still he
found time to say so/ko Goce to his
step-iather, "back-boch-Im going
to dir khercl' The blood Of out
ragged royalty was up, and the stabbed
monarch replied, I'm hiag,am Ill3
die mheyc + a--A pleusc-pick
out q place Jar yourself,.' and Ham
let was compelled TO let his soul out
further up the stage. {
FouND HUNe.-A German who
had been employed by NJ. Leblanc,
Esq, of this Parish, to cut wood and
who worked alone in the woods-was
on last Saturday found IN bis camp,
hangingby the neck. lie had been
dead several days.
The rope by which be was hanging,
had cut about two inches into the
ioist to which he was tied, as if some
heavy weight had been attached to
it, V1s-u- US.
KARNEs CouNTY TExAs.--Tbis
new county was organized on the Sth
inst, under the following officers:
N j. Pleasant, Chief j Justice; Ben
iamin Moore, County Clerk, Col.
Newell, District Clerk G.. s. Bout
well, Sheriff; James NJ. Sullivan,
Lewis Clemmons, George w. Rhymes,
P. Garfield, County Commissioners,
John Tennyson, Assessor and Collec-
tor: w. G. Horrell, Coroner.
The county site is permanently To-
Gated at Helena. Said town stands on
the old Mexican track leading from
Goliad to San Antonio, six miles above
the mouth of the Ecleto, and two miles
below the mouth Of the Cibelo, and
one mile from the San Antonio river,
and is quite thriving village nj pre-
sent. There are several stores and
groceries, and about dozen families,
one physician, aud not single knight
Of the green bag.--Picayane.
A fellow who wished an introduce
ton to q Young lady lie saw in the
street, one evening, got a companion
10 go and offer bis company, and
wbllr be was thus engaged, came up
and Knocked him down for Insulting
the lady, and Of course protected
the fair one h9me.
More PosTHumous BeNEvoLENcE. ,
BY the will Of the late james 2.
Vanhorn, Of New York city, he has
left SIS, 900 TO the New York Orphan
Asylum, $40, 900 10 the New York
Protestant Episcopal Bible and Prayer
Book Society, $4,000 to the New
York Protestant Episcopal Missions,
and the residue ofhis estate. estimated
at $4,000, to the American Bible
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