Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-04-11

driven beside herself, Moran snatched
up her cloak and rushed out into the
darkness, and followed by the crowd,
now loading her with blessings, she ran
across the mountain to the farm held
by Denis Coyle. The doors were closed,
but there was light in the kitchen
Window, where Denis not at all COM
Portable about his full barn when the
people were growing more like wild
beasts every day, was sitting with big
blunderbuss loaded beside him. He
looked up with startled face as Norah
shook the window frame.
'Lot me in she cried fercely !;
the cries Of the women and children is
driving me mad ) and as he pushed up
the window she clambered in, and,
jumping down on the floor, pointed out
into the night, where already sea of
white, eager faces were swaying to and
fro
Sure, they're come already; the
Wedding will have guests enough"
Then turning back to Denis, she held
ont her hand.
"'Give NE the key of the granary
don't ye see they are waiting for the
Wedding faist??' Denis stared, and
muttored something about "a priest A
wild laugh broke from Norah's lips.
Faith, we'll have neither priest nor
parson aither, Denis Coyle,' she cried
'Faver and famine is the priest and
parson that married me to yes; aud
this IS our weadin' night There, give
me the kay
"Donnis threw the key to Que Of his
men who had cone into the kitchen,
saying-'Let them get it fairly, meal
apiece NOW, and enough for week to
come "His words reached the ears
Of the crowd, and yell rather than a
cheer broke from thousand throats :;
then the window closed, the shutters
put up, aud Denis ard his strangely
welded wife left alone.
i * i
"Nezt day there vas Consideration
aud horror on every face. Denis Coyle
was dead, murdered, they said !; at any
rate he was found dead in his bed With
strange fnger-marks upon his throat !;
and poor Norah crouching, a raving
lunatic, in corner Of the room.
"That is Norah's story, sir; and
sad enough one it is" "But, Dick ?"
I asked. ''Wbat became Of him ?"
"EIe came back after his time was
over; but he only stayed long enough
to hear the story, and then went away
| none Of US knew where and wherever
it is, poor boy, it's sore heart be car
ries with him."
| THINK men drink in crowds be-
cause they are afraid to drink by them
selves. 1t requires good deal of cour-
age to stand up alone and pour a glass
Of whisky down your throat.
There are some inconsistencies ia this
world that I don't exactly understand.
Everybody is anxious to go to heaven,
but nobody is in hurry about it.
| IF man is without enemies I
wouldn't give ten cents for all his
friends. The man who can please ev-
erybody hasn't got sense enough to dis
please anybody.
When an acquaintance says: GLOW
are you p and rushes by you without
waiting for reply, I wouldn't t, if I was
in your place, follow him more than
half mile to tell him I was we'll.
A convenient way Of testing the af-
feotions of your intended is to marry
another woman If she don't love you,
you will find it out Immediately
Do unto other men as they would
like to do unto you, and they won't
have enough money in two weeks to
hire shirt washed.
THE REAL POINT At IssUE.-It is
not a question Of veracity between Gen
eral Grant and Andrew johnson, but
one of far greater import and the at
tempt to belittle the case by trying to
show that soldier who never lied to
human being can be borne down by the
loud aspersious of perfdious Execu-
tive, whose Presidential record is one
catalogue Of falsehood, is simply an ex-
pedient to conceal the real point In con-
troversy. That point is that Andrew
johnson had determined to rioIate the
}at0 Of the t0nd IN tie interest Of trea-
son, and sought the c0Uer Of General
Grants name 10 assist him in the
crime. To use General Grants lan-
guage, the whole matter from beginning
to end was an attempt to involve him
in re, istance to law, for which A. j.
hesitated to assume the responsibility in
orders. Here we have the kernel of
the entire conflict Washington Chron.
FEB. End.
If young lady snubs you young
man, don't snub in return, for that
would be initiating her own bad man
ners. Keep your temper and your self
respect. Only don't give her second
opportunity. The snubbing business
don't pay except against those who do
the snubbing. 1t is pretty certain that
DO real lady or gentleman ever practices
it, and from any other it can be no in