Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-02
Apish polka, new from France,
Schottische. waltz and contra dance,
Fen good old Virginia s reel,
Puttinp life and metal in the heel

Putting life and metal in the heel.
In all, it was a pleasant party, and if there
was one amang them a. that didn't ENJOY
themselves, it was not the fault of mine host.
MINING.-Smth & Holmes tried a, for this
place. novel experiment, by blasting their bank
on Saturday last The nature OF their claims
are such that they have had heretofore to spend
one half of the year in drifting out the ground,
leaving pillars to support the bank, and when
water came in the winter cut them of with q
hydraulic and wash the dirt, which is sixty feet
deep. Having read Of Guy Fawkcs' ingenious
method of adiOurning Parliament, sine die, and
concluding that it would be great saving OF
labor to Guy Fawkes their claims, they accord
ingly ran tunnel in their new claim. back from
the face, over fifty feet and one twelve feet at
right angles from the first. Finding they were
not on the bed rock, they sank shaft seven feet,
in the bottom Of which they deposited $50 pounds
of POWDER and four strings of fuse leading to
the mouth Of the tunnel, leaving a chamber
around the box containing the powder. They
tamped the dirt back in the tunnels and ignited
the fuse. It took the fire about fifteen minutes
to run through, wheu in the language of the
fash nOvelists, n four feet sigh" aud a " hey
rife groan" was all that emanated from the bo-
som Of mother earth. When the tampng flew
out, (not Of my Imagination, kind reader) about
a minute after the explosion the dirt from the
tunnel was carried over one hundred feet. One
tunnel, fell senseless from the effects OF the foul
atmosphere he was carried cut, but could not
be res torCd to life until some one knowing Johns
hydrophobic hatred for water, called for some to
throw on him. Smith Il Holmes say they cannot
tell what effect the blast has done till they com
mence washing, but from appearances they think
it works to a charm, and regret not putting in
more powder.
We should judge from appearances that the
miners in this vicinity are doing as well this
winter as usual They are not communicative,
and | am not imaginative enough to invade the
province OF the itemizers of the day, and specify,
although while trying to inform myself on that
point, one gentlcmanly miner had the Kindness
TO inform me that Whisky Bar did not pay |
think there has been no more toes or fingers
smashed, or bullfrog leaps of twenty-five feet, to
an inch, made, since One Who Knows" wrote
to you, but if anything of the kind re- occurs, it
shall be duly chroncled.
BROKEN LEG.-We are informed by DR.. Davis,
who attended on the injured man, that NJ. Ward,
a miner on West Weaver, had his leg broken Just
above the ankle joint, by falling bank, Wednes-
day afternoon of this week. He is doing well.
LAUGHABIE INCIDENTAL gentleman from
Douglas City banded us a letter dated Feb. 9Th,
the other day. which he said he had carried in
his pocket three weeks. 1t was signed Dutch
Bill" and as portion Of it has kept well, we
give it:
'' Great excitement prevailed here yesterday,
caused by the arrival of one of the pioneers of
Weavervllle, named Samuel Curry. lie wore a
beautiful cockade, and appealed to the sympa-
thies of our citizens in behalf of the much in
jured land of the orange and palmetto. Inter-
est was felt in his cause up to last evening,
when be was persuaded by some naughty men
for the paltry sum of two hundred dollars, to
eXhume the body of a Chinaman. When fairly
engaged at his work he pounced upon by the
police Of onr city, who after desperate struggle
and the firing of numerous shots, (nOne however
taking etfect,) secured him, and upon intcrrogat-
ing Sam, he boldly and fearlessy asserted that a
gentleman had right to prospect when and
where be pleased, in or out of the Union, and he
would do it, by Cd. p. s." Jacinto' is very
sick with the whoopins cough and unable to
preside over the Bean Poker Club"