Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-02-04
JIM BLUDSO,
OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE.

oF THE PRAIRIE BELLE.
Wall, mol can't tell whar he lives,
Because he don't live, you see;
Leastways he's got out of the habit
OF liyin like you and me.
Nhar have you been for the last three year.
That you hayn't heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks,
The night of the Prairie BELIEF
He weren't salnt-them engineers
Is all pretty much alike
One wife in Natchez-under- -the-ull
And another one here in Pike
keeress man in his talk was Jim,
And an awkward man in a row.
But he never hunked, and no lied,
l reckon he never knowed how.
And this was all the religion he had
To treat his engine we'll;
Never be passed the river;
To mind the pilots bell;
And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire
thousand times he swore
Ho'd hold her nozzle agn tho bank
Till the last soul got ashore.
All boats has their day on the Nissssip,
And her day como at last
The Movastar a better boat,
But the Belle she ,coulclat be passed.
And so she como tearin along that night
The oldest craft the line,
With ngger squat on her safety valve
And her furnace crammed rosin and pine.
The Are bust out she clared tho bar
And burnt hole in the night,
And quick flash she turned, and made
For that willer bank the right
There was running aud cursing, but Jim yelled out
Over all the internal roar,
I'm hold her nozzle agip the bank
Till the last galoots ashore"
Through the hot, black breath Of the burnln' boat
jim Bludsos voice heard,
And they all had trust ia his cussedness,
And knowed he would keep his word.
And, sures you're born, they all got off
Afore the smokestacks fell
And Bludso's ghost went up alone
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle
He weren't no saint--but at jedgnent
I'd run my chance with Jim,
'Longside Of some pous gentlemen,
That wouldn't shook hands with him,
He seen his duty dead sure thing
And went for II thar aud thon;
And Christ amt goin' to be too hard
On a man that died for men. In.
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Brigham YoUNa is said to be worth $s,O
100.
STOCKTON is to have steam fire engine In q
hort time.
SACRAMENTO is having lively time with chick
N thieves.
GoLp has been discovered in the bluffs near
Sioux City.
A COAL mine was discovered near Napa few
lays since.
A RICH copper mine was recently discovered
near Latrobe.
In Merced county field of 81 $40 acres has
been fenced in.
AN anti-Mormon newspaper is soon to be issued
1t Salt Lake City.
FIFTEEN rHoUsATD miles of railroad were built
II the United States last year.
THERE is an average attendance of ITO persons
It the San Quentin Prison School.
A FARMER in Suisun recently received five
ead Of cattle direct from England.
LARGE droves Of Texas cattle are being driven
orth through Kansas and Missouri.
THE San Jose Patriot thinks it will take two
ears to finish the State Normal School Building
SCARCELY day passes in San Francisco with
'ut suicide, murder, or something else in that
inc.
In several counties of this State states have
,lready been fixed up for the approaching cleo
ion.
THE residents Of San Domingo have again
yoted unanimously in favor Of annexation to the
United States.
THE growth of Philadelphia and Cincinnati
n the last decade are exactly alike, according to
he late census.
VALLEJO bar-keepers complain that the Rus
ans now in port at that place take a whole bot
le in three drinks.
A CLUB Of twenty-five persons in Folsom were
ucky enough to draw a pair of suspenders in
he Nevada Lottery.
THE wool crop of California in 1870, was 23,-
57,sl pounds, worth $4,243 300, and our ex-
orts during the year exceeded those of 1869
1927 ,OO3 pounds.
A FLOCK of 700 sheep was offered for sale in