The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-10-14
NUMBER 16.
Sad. Sad Words-Thc Last of the Living.
stone.

Which is prose elegiac madrigal, by the
New Orleans Peaytae, in the words follow
ing. to wit;
Sir r. l.. Murehison has informed the
London Times that he has Just received let
ter from Or. Kirk, at Xanzahar, dated July
10Th. which commenced thus:
II can | regret to ssy, give no further ac-
count of Livingstone y
On reading this we pulled out our ''requi-
en- handkerchief. kept specially for such
solemn occasions, and after wiping the usual
tear from our left eve. which is assigned to
special foreign weeping duty 1.-THE right be-
ing assigned to mourning for distinguished
Americansl, we proceed to fulfill the usual
melancholy duty of doing UP poor Living
stones biography. We had got as far as his
celebrated dancing the polka ca costup,e-a
white hat and white choker-hefore the
Sultan OF Timhuctoo, with the Thermometer
at $50 degrees, when the paragraph in the
Times again came before us.
BE 1t noted, that we he'd suddenly pushed
that mastodon sheet aside when we read DR..
Mnzebar 's-we mean Dr. Kinks first para.
graph, II can give no further accounts of
Livingstone p
That was most satisfactory paragraph,
There could be no longer any doubt as to his
whereabouts. He had either been chewed up
by afull grown, hlack-maned African lion,
or roasted by full-grown. black-polled Afri-
can king, and digested as u tender midday
lUnch
Poor Livingstone - such is life, we ex-
claimed "we'rc here to-day, and we re some
where else some other time It's satisfac-
tioa anyhow to know that he is somewhere,
and that he is dead. Peace be to his re-
mains, if the lion or king left any" and we
wrote away with melancholy pleasure.
But this DR.. Kinks letter did not emo here.
1t went on making uncertainty ont of GER
tainty. Our requiem handkerchief and left
eve tear had been used uselesslv. The doc
tor ''is" alive. Heis nowhere again. DR..
Kirk locates him when last heard from, as at
"a little-knowa place, west Of Tanganyka.
Hardee's official map of Louisiana don't say
where that is and we are again left in geo.
graphical gloom. "Do not despair" saws
Kirk to Hutchinson "the doctor is moving
slowly but safely he evidently feels his way,
and is determined to leave little doubts be-
hind him this time" Doubtless
'Now, we say: Who is Kirk? Who is
Livingstone? What manner of men are
these, who thus brighten the scientific world
from its propriety; disturb the eeuanimity
even of the believers iii Mt Ararat; and
keep the dealers in, and the students of Afri-
can geography in woful doubt and insane
suspense, for ever SO many months, without
any prospect of satisfactory settlement of
the Livingstone mystery.
We can stand the pyramids we can en-
dure the Sphynx. They were "puzzlers" to
the Murchisons of Pharoahs time Hid in
this age of progress, civilization, levee boards,
slaughter-h0uses, water-works and inodorous
closets, we will not submit to Livingstone.
Livingstone, if you are q man, leave every
thing behind you feel your way out f; and let
Kirk, MurchisoD, and we-uns in general,
burst in ignorance no longer.
In the language of Cassius to Brutus:
Livingstone, we locke tovords yer !"