Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-08-01
cnr SAN rrgu,;sro news Letter.
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SAN Francisco, July %, 1868.
! - ,,.. Tinon of Athens when about to cut
down tree in his garden went throug" 'n' S.'''S pro-
a,.inino that many citizens had hung hePselves to its
! ,. and if ,nv more desired to do 50 they must go
~ op may have been cynical as he whcnl announc-
,r readers that by the time should be ready to
write again there would probably be some suicide or mur
IL, record II is sat to calculate on at least one suicide
m ,ol, il, hs citv On Monday night last one was com
t op Ecarney street at the French IIoeid Frater-
5 The proprieres on that night FIRST attempted to cut
har throat but it hurt sll determined to leave this
- l r taors she climbed out through the skyght ana
hurled herself to the pavement The operation was sue
ccssful and in a few hours She died
Another n Young man whom | know we'll became smit-
ten with fair songstress and because she "oud not re-
cprocac his ardent love- and warPe the soit notes oil al
fccon for him-wherein she manifested g'od sense ana
sound discreonhc procured heavy portion oI 'na' ar
ticle which conducive to the sleep that knows no
waking put away his play books and harpoon swallowed
large quantity of the audanum rushed to the homo and
rooms of the lady and announced the impending catastro
phe with cultural uteraucc But she did not fancy the
idea of his making the exit from Time Eternity through
her door and a physician was summoned In twenty min
utcs time the would he victim had swallowed half yard
Of stomach pump tube and gladly yielded Up the nasty
stuff Restaurant tickets and apothccares labels will ind
cato the best plan for creating suicidal sensation with
safety The young went around among his friends
few days with shame and modification IN his councnanGe
then left for other scenes Really the inclination to com
nit this crime fcaruIy common in California aud seems
o be constantly the increase OF course We are not
neritted TO bury the self killed by the waysde dis
inherit their heirs couscate their property and so the
insane and melancholy the idiotc and despairing who
choose leave the world upon their own notion can do 50
| at any time.
We had an earthquake shock yesterday morning Ihavc
now experienced four these shakes, and begin to like
them though the huge yawnng seams from base to tol
of the buing am now in indicates the danger which at
! tends them
some weeks since a number Of persons who not Dash
aways augurated plan TO ras' cu6ool qW RON t'
wreck Of the ship Utica, sunk near Goat Island in 1850
The plan worked bat the mermads had spirited away The
casks and the thirsty Wreckers got only some old iron and
sheet copper for their pains.
The Cdppcrhcads apparently confident of their abi
DOwncy and the greater portion of their ticket
counting greatly ON the immigrant Buternuts and draft es
capcs who constantly swarmng over our eastern line
Would it not be pleasant these reprobates her,
and vote California (Which has her hundreds of thou
sands in solid gold and silver to strengthen the military
arm of the Governmcnt into the rank and position of
state whose Governor when sympathzng traitors mohbeC
and sacked city would ask them friends to put dowI
their and consent to dcslst from murder2 The mate
rial which constitutes the strength and utter h'ndshnes
of such mobs comprises the rank and file of nowncy par
ty in this city. It is undcnab' Go into the under groun'
saloons Dupont Pacific Jackson and other streets an
you will find tow headed sculons who curse the Govern
ment and against and all measures for putting
the knife to rebHuns hcart Tue Nefale ul All nation
ates there, and they hurrah for Downey Go amonl
the fstorcd red neckad pimps and stool pigeons of tn
prostitute places lanes and alleys and You will iin
them all for DoWncy and his reptile ticket Go into th
precincts where den and hide the shaphn ragged and I'll
thy thieves of the petty larceny grade and you Will hn
duplicates Of the scouurels who spread terror through tn
city Of New York recently Every one of them would re
sst draft harc-wuud murder harmless women and chill
drcn butcher negroes etc and they boast that they vii
vote the tUppcrhead ticket And So 70 some of the hg
class saloons aud hotels that know of, and you will FIN
the men who wide trimmed hats and long half the
are the rngeader Coppcrh"nds and managing Knights
the Golden Crclethe Nobility of the MOB the Arstocrn
cy of latent and rdly Treason, Certainly they d.
serve to direct the destiny Of loyal state like ours An
are We IN duty bound to permit them TO do so2 thin
| not Truly yours, DEGIus,