Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-05-07

From depths by such menlories stirred.
FRIGHrFUL ACCIDENT TO - DAN DE GUILE. =
:" Mark Twain" local of the Virginia City En-
terprise, gets of the following at the expense of
- brother chip of another city paper
Our time-honored confrere Dan, met with
disastrous accident, yesterday, while returning
from American City on vicious Spanish horse,
the result of which accident is that at the present
writing he is confined to his bed and suffering
great bodily pain. He was coming down the
road at the rate of one hundred miles an hour
las stated in his will, which he made shortly
after the accident and on turning sharp cor
ner he suddenly hove in sight of Il horse stand
ing square across the channel he signalled for
the starboard, and put his helm down instantly,
but too late, after all he was swinging to port,
and before he could straighten down, he swept
like an avalanche against the transom of the
strange craft his larboard knee coming in con-
tact with the rudder-post of the adversary, Dan
was wrcnched from his saddle and thrown some
three hundred yards according to his statement
made in his will above mentioned alighting
upon solid ground, and bursting himself open
from the chin to the pit of the stomach. His
head was also caved in ont of sight, and his hat
was afterwards extracted in a bloody and DANA
ged condition from between his lungs he must
have bounced end-for-end after he struck first
from the rear that broke his heart one of his
legs was damned up in his body nearly to his
throat and the other so torn and mutilated that
il pulled out when they attempted to lift him into
the hearse which we had sent to the scene of the
disaster, under the general impression that he
might need it both arms were Unfortunately
broken up until they were jointed like bamboo ;
the back was considerably fractured and bent into
the shape of rail fence. Aside from these in
ha 81 O4hor
They brought of him home in the hearse,
and the balance on dray. His first remarks
showed that the powers of his great mind had
not been impaired by the accident, nor his pro-
found Judgment destroyed-he said he wouldn' t
have cared d-n if it had been anybody but
himself He then made his will, after which
he set to work with that earnestness and single
ness of purpose which have always distinguished
him, to abuse the assembage of anxious hash
house proprietors who had called on business,
and to repudiate their bills with his customary
promptness and impartiality. Dan may have ex
aggerated the above details, but he charged us
to report them thus, and it is source of genuine
pleasure to us to have the opportunity of doing
it. Our noble friend is recovering fast, and
what is left of him will be around the Brewery
again to-day, just as usual.
Dan de guile" responds to the above in the
following:
Some three days since, in returning to this
city from American Flat, we had the misfortune
to be thrown from fiery, untamed steed OF
Spanish extraction-a very strong extract, too.
Our knee was sprained by our fall, and we were
for dav or two confined to our room-of course
knowing little Of what was going on in the great
world outside. Mark Twain" our confrere
and roommate, man in whom we trdsted, was
our only visitor during our seclusion- We saw
some actions of his that almost caused us to
suspect him of contemplating trcachery towards
us. but it was not until We had regained in some
degree the of our MANNED limb that we dis
covered the full extent-the infamousness of this
wretch's reasonable and nhuman plottings-
He wrote such an account of our accident
would leave the public to believe that we were
injured beyond all hope Of recovery. Next day
he tied small piece of secondhand Grape about
his hat, and putting a lugubrious look, went
to the Probate Court and getting down on his
knees, commenced praying-it was the first time
he ever prayed for anything or anybody-for let
tiers of administration estate. Before
going to the Court to pray he had stuffed the
principal part of our estatc-consisting of num-
erous shares in the Pewtcrinctum-into his vest
pocket also had secured our toothbrush and
had been using il a whole day. He had on our
only clean shirt and best socks, also was sporting
our cane and smoking our meerschaum. But
what most showed his heartlessness and utter
boots and coat When we missed these we ap-
piled TO Marshal Cooke. The Marshal said he
thought he could find them for u.s. He went on
TO say that, for some time past, he had noticed
the existence of a suspicious intimacy between
- Twain and niger saloon-keeper, who had
dead-fall on North B street. Proceeding to
this place be found that he was correct in his
conjecture = Twain had taken our boots and
coat to the darkey, and traded them for a bottle
of vile whisky, with which he got drunk and
when the police were about to snatch him for
drunkenness. he commenced blubbering saying
that he was :. overcome for the untmely death
of poor Dam By this dodge he escaped the
lookup, but if he does not shortly give up Pew
terinctum stock-which is of fabulous value
shell ont our toothbrush. and take off our socks
and best shirt, he will not escape the Territorial
Prison.
P. S.--We have just learned that he stole the
Grape he tied around his hat from the door-knob
of Three's engine house on South street
d. Dee