The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-09-28
EDITORIAL LIFE IN CALIFORNIA

EDITORIAL LIFE IN CALIFORNIA
A good picture and life like, Of Cali.
fornia editor, may be had in the perus.
ri ofthe following from the Alta Cal.
jornian
" First, he gets up III the morning
ut ten o'clock dresses himself, puts
on his hat. in which are six or seven
bullet-holes, and goes to a restaurant
for breakfast. After breakfast, starts
for the Office to look over the papers,
and discovers that he is called scoun-
drel in one of them, liar in another,
and q puppy in another; he smiles at
the pleasing prospect of having some
thing to do; fills out and dispatches
Three blank challenges, a ream or two
of which lie always keeps on hand,
ready printed, to save time; COM
mences writing a leader, when as tho
clock strikes eleven, large man with
cow-bido in one hand, a pistol in
the other, and bowie-knife in his
belt, walks in and asks him if his name
is -; he answers by knocking the
intruder down two pair Of stairs with
chair. At twelve o'clock finds that
his challenges have been accepted,
and suddenly remembers that he has
little affair Of that nature to settle at
the beach that day at three o'clock
goes out kills his man, then comes in
and dimes on stewed grizzly. Starts
for the Office, and while going there
gets mixed up in street row, and
has the heel Of his boot shot off by
accident; laughs to think how bcauti.
fully it was done, arrives at his sane
tum, and finds an internal machine
upon the table; knows what it is, and
merely pitches it out of the window
wnites an article on moral reform
and then starts for the theatre; is at.
tackled on the corner of an dark alley.
by three men, kills two of them, and
takes the other to the station-housc.
Returning to the Office at II o'clock
at night, knocks a men who attempts
to rob him, kills dog with n piece
of paveing- stone, gets run over by
cab. and has the tail Of his coat slit
with a thrust from a knife, and two
bullet-holes put tho his beaver as he
steps within his. own door; smiles at
his escape; writes until two o'clock
and then turns in,' with the happy
Of having two duels to
Eight the next day.
RoBBrNG THE MArL.-Ira Smoot,
Postmaster at Lions Beard, Sewer
county, Ark. was arrested last week,
BY Col. Hays, agent ofthe Postoffice
on the charge Of having at
different periods distracted money from
etters passing through his office. lie
vas examined before a magistrate, and ,
he charge being fully sustained. was
'rdered to give bonds to appear before
he U. s. District Court. Failing TO ,,
urnish the required security. be was
laced in the charge Of the Deputy U.
J. Marshal, to be conducted to the !,
Ill at Van Buren,. but made his escape |
rom that officer tho first night after :
e started. He has not, at last &C. .
cunts, been re'aken.
Washington Ark., Telegraph 18Th. 9
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How A CHILENo CAN DIE.-A con- o
let culprit, named Sebado, was re- Il
emily executed at Sonora, Cal. He II
ddressed the spectators in Spanish 0
ON the gaIlows as follows
He said if he had been an American n
Q would not have been molested, and :;
@ advises all Spaniards, whenever h.
ICY meet man with white skin =,
i'd fair hair, to put knife into him a,
p to the hilt. He complained much 81
injustice, but he would now show =
le people how a Chileno could die.
q insisted upon having woman
rought upon the scaffold to play the -
lrp for him to dance his way out of =
70 world, otherwise he would die un- |
sppy. In conclusion, he said If any m
,e present desired to send word or an
oney to their friends where he was ar
'inghe was just the man to take it. le
G. G. Foster, writer of some ia [
nts, who was confined in Moyamens- +,