The union Democrat., 1870-05-07
sANrRANcIsco CORRESPONDENT
NJ TOMBSTONE.

great tombstone. It is to the memory of Aud
Lang oyne. Aald Lang Syne in jamestown
ana sonora A. ID. 1860, to 1866. All the
rest OF the Inscription is craven in pictures.
see myself dissoluse pedagngae stagge,-
ing up IRON the Tuolunne River; staggering
over ked Mountain; and finally staggering
into 'Jimtown' to pursue staggering career
OF preceptorship, And there are Pete Hal.
derman and jim Stewart, DR.. Dodge and the
two Saticns, Horace Jones and Tom S,o.
Charles c. Brown aud Dixon, Baxter and
Preston. The Baron Nielsen, Keefe
Baker, Hefernan and all tue Boys in
black gowns, cowls, white cross down the
back, r1srching down s'Jimtownn street at
one-o clock on bright moon-lit morning ;
! The ''Owls' for the reformation of confirmed
drunkards; the "owls, wetting their beaks
at Nelsen's every Is minutes; The Owls
of which /, the preceptor of youth, was an
active member the s'Cwlsn for fear of whom
neither Dave Hayes nor Jack pennison dare
stay night an that ''Secesh Holes" the
owls" who took it on themselves to marry
a Chinese couple one night N Christian
fashion one-tenth of the ceremony being per-
formed by Preston and nine-tenths ty the
Owls at midnight, partly at Press Office,
partly in Browns quarters, partly in Mel
sens bar room. partly all over town to the
air of the Arkansas Traveller by the Sut-
tons with marchings and counter-march
iugs around that Mongolian and his bride :;
the American ceremony You know: FOR the
groLm had been Bob Gardeners cook son tho
river" and he courted his wife at Chinese
Camp and her owners fearing her marriage
and their loss abducted the bride; sent her
to Jimtown the cook followed with letters
of explanation from Bob to myself advised
with a lawyer the lawyer saw a fee: went
after my Chinaman bargained with him for
$50 to restore the maid then through China
town, we hunted found her in a hen-coop
and lost the groom he had taken to opium
and become Indifferent to matrimony the
woman was shut up in the lawyers Office !:
we couldn't stand any nonsense; we found
our cook we packed that cook off and made
him marry got S. for ny share in this ras-
cally transaction for it was villaincus and
the lawyer tried to chisel the Justice of a
part of his marriage fee and then the cere-
mony ended in spree and all went merry
as bell as everything always did in JIM
| town.
And then | see on my tombstone Charles
Carol Brown that compound Of originality,
individuality and ecceniricty sitting ct his
window opposite Dixons, studying a little
French and little Music and little astrono-
my and little Latin and all the girls that
passed by; studying them all at once; there
are two yolins and stack of sheet music on
his table /; he could play through it all in two
hours the neighbors wished he would re-
move : he insisted that they sholld buy him
out if rot, he declared he'd ''play them
out !" and rise on the property at the rate of
hundred dollars per month. Poor Charley |!
| see him there studying astronomy at night
in his yard before high STOOL. with specta-
cles and candle and the celestial maps
which he had borrowed from young lady in
Sonora aud all the neighhors looking at him
| from their windows wondering what in the
world the man was up to. and he searching
! for new stars of the first magnitude stars
which some of the brother "Owls' had them
selves marked down on those celestial charts.
L behold &. g. arguing with Parson IIar-
mon arguing in our Sonora Main Street: ar
guing that Heaven must be within SO miles
of the earth for this reason, angels had
wings; wings were made to use in an atmos-
phere without an atmosphere wings are use
less even 80 an angel ; the earth's atmosphere
reached over and above us 33 miles there
was no other known atmosphere; hence an
gels must fly in it where else could they fy?
Where were angels there was Heaven; hence
Heaven must be within 33 miles of the
Earth But this is a broad and lofty tomb
stone and as | stand by it in the rank grass
and the wild brambles in the neglected cor
ner of the graveyard, and rub from its face
the moss, grown even in short ten years.
| find the craven pictures starting out By hun
dreds.
There is Jim Stewart Just back from Vr-
ginia; Jim Stewart and Brown and the
Baron" rannhing together; eating hreak.
Fast at Ii A. NJ and shooting Mrs Heffer-
mans chickens through the cracks in the iloor
for dinner; and this picture runs into ar
other just across the way where "Jo' the
gr, CIR is cooking duck for dinner dinner on
Sunday dinner to which the Padre from So
nora is an invited guest; and Mrs. II. shifts
Boiled duck in the morning air; she colnts
her flock misses one then she smelt not a
duck but rat and over to "Jo's" goes she
with her tormentor and fishes her duck out
of Jos" kettle and returns home and the
Padre bad no duck for his Sunday dinner.
| And then Jim Stewart wanted more retire
ment. and built himself that house on the
hill; and fitted up nice quiet home for him
self and the g Baron;" with wide French bed
stead, all for James: have seen four meh in
that bed many nights, have myself formed
a fractional part Of thatfour When Jimtown
was full we used to say "You can find lodg-
ings at Stewards. " it was indeed qniet and re-
tired; but not until James went back to the
Confederacy.
/ see Dr. Dodge and his companions in
Chinese Camp restaurant, see him acciden-.
tally upset that table and crockerv. and then
attempt explanations as TO how it was done
nv diagrams marked by his fore-fnger in the
crust of mince pies; it was batch of dog
en- pies on the counter: the restaurant keeper
demanded damages. 1t was an accident I"
said the Doctor 1t wasiaus,o ard be care
lasslv drew before him pie and looked pro-