Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-01-18


DEAR JOURNAL Having just recovered from
agood, substantial laugh, which made the ven
cradle pines on Parks Bar fairly tremble to their
foundations | propose itemizng few things for
the perusal of your readers If there is NOR
tai on the earth physiognomy who does enjoy
good laugh, that one is your humble servant.
Reader do you know that hearty laugh brings
light out of chaos, roses out of barren places,
and buds out of dead Eastwood stumps? It's
water on your wheel, immortality's glmmer and
interest on your greenbacks It's an auxiliary
to Digestion bootees for the orphan, and COM
fort for the widow It's rosin on your bow,
hopes soft whisper, light along your path way,
and affections pearly tear ! It's stability to
government, Affections balm, the keynote to
happiness, nitro-glycerine in your bedrock tun-
mel, shelter from the storm, and storage for
trunks You have my opinion, reader
Now propose telling you something of pc
culiar kind of varmint which has troubled US of
Parks Bar with its nocturnal perambulations-
Don't know its species, exactly, but judging
from the suffering harshness of voice should
take it to be a cross or rather the connecting
link between Bashan bull and jersey cider.
mill The latter, for harshness beats the to us
familiar q s-q-u-e-a-k " of a Chinese river-pump.
We read him the Riot Act twice without effect.
How wanted copy of the laws of California
printed in Spanish, just then. Have an inkling
that he belongs to the g carraho " persuasion.
and think little Spanish might have had the
desired effect. At last we hit upon the following
expedent Pard took down the fiddle and 7
the hute, and each commenced playing his own
tune. You would have split your sides to see
the big disgust he had on as he toddled off Mad
is little too thin to express his indignation
We would keep dog, but | have always been
afraid that he would get disguised and leave
when my week TO cook came round Pard's
wife is coming home soon, and then culinary
matters will be better arranged. Mr. Editor
you completely knocked my matrimonial pros
poets by heading the last squib letter from the
old man." You may be in my fix one of these |
days, and then I'll try and see that you don't
marry in my township. But I'm not going to
lay me down and die for all the Sally AIMS and
Betsy James that ever paraded in the van of
waterfall.
few words with the New Year. How do You
like the state of affairs as far as you've gone
young 'un? How do you like this cold snap
with the mercury % below Jamaica Ginger and
q still downward tendency, like Mashoe stock ? /
How do YOU like the political situation, with An
dy Johnson in the Presidential chair, and the
/. State government reins in Democratic hands p
Dear young 'un, you have caught the great Re-
ipublican party somewhat disha6Hie but by
next Fall we expect to have our toilet nicely ar
ranged Until then We expect to luXurate on
green foliage in sackcloth and ashes. BY that
time you will have arrieed at the age of maturi-
7ty, and prepared to he in at the death of Democ
racy. Stand by and the fight, and, dear
1868, don't lend the Democrats a hand if you
can help it. Don't, now
Pard. and myself engaged in running a
tunnel through the Canyon Greek divide, to
~ the waters Of McGiivray's new ditch to the
Trinity side Of the mountain. The distance will
be over 200 feet | have splendid wheebar-
row-none of your lubber headed vehicles of the
Andy Johnson kind-which is lettered @ Gen.
Grant Dent mention this, for you know boss
is good Democrat. Pard. and have adopted
preamble and resolutions by which to be govern
ed in our labors. Will explain first time you
come this way
Immediately under us is lateral ditch just
completed, and belonging to Johnny Phbrook.
1t covers the large bar opposite Wills. Days Re-
treat, aud Numerous small bars along the west
side of Canyon creek for a mile or more Some
of them are known to contain good dggings.
Samsoaville is vile to you is it not p
1t is located one-fourth of a mile above the But
lersbridge- Inhabitants mostly of the rice per-
suasioa streets narrow, and of about the same
regularity as n bull-frog's intestines. | have
witnessed the rise of this Empire, and expect to
witness its decline as the Johns who work
ing for Nc make ditch so fast that in few weeks
the shanties will have to be torn down and rebuilt
On the Trinity side.
NY letter is completed with the exception of
the and-so-forth and postscript. never rightly
understood the meaning of the former, but
pect to when brother Fitzgomery gets up his
new school books for the Pacific coast. In Ken
lucky it meant grape vines. wish was there
to-day, standing by log-heap fire roasting pig
tails with Deacon Pogram's daughters, while the
Deacon sang his fayorite song,
When smile rage at Satan's face,
And frown facing world
Glorious old Kentucky that has given the
country Clay, Crittenden, Nasty, and mod
esty almost forbids me to add, "Jacnto. =
Glorious old State with all thy faults love
thee still, but cant help thinking that II the dew
il had your politics you would rest better
Reader, if you are getting nervous, 60 to bed,
but before blowing ont the light I" foot your
horn - time or two for GRANT, and you will
wake in the morning feeling as fine as Ber-
trand colt at battalion muster. JAcINTo
A FAILURE.-The American colony in the Holy
Land, which was organized in Maine by fanatic
named Adams, has surely come to grief Most
of the one hundred and sixty dupes which COM