Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-11-28
4 BODlE SENSATION.
The HaeriAsial C8sfiag Of / Sixteen Year Old
Girl.
is. F. Examinsr.1

The Haeri1cial Cfsriag Of / Sixteen Year Old
Girl.
Is. r. Examiner.l
In the matter of the illimltable
and marvelously.varied enterprise,
the newspaper Of . lively mining
camp is 80 many laps ahead OF the
comparatively tender. footed me.
tropolitan morning paper that 80
far ~ there is any hope of the lat.
ter ever coming within hailing
distance Of the former, 1t might 81
any time proiitsbly limp of the
track. The real high. spirited, bu.
collie journal would disdain to issue
q number that did not have . verb
fed and detailed history, either Of
. miner that had picked his way
into catacombs containing the 70.
mains Of the last ten tribes Of Isrs-
81, or Of the discovery Of destruct-
I've cross between Texas steer
and q mountain rattlssnake, OF Of
. petrifisd giant, or an infant lake
serpent, or . fallen section Of .
fixed star, or q wild man Of tho
woods. The serolite and the Nam.
moth Cave aud the limestone
corpse "racket'-t0 borrow q tech
meal term from street-corner yer.
Misunderstanding been worked" to
the fullest limit of its capacity, the
Bodie Standard Of the 10th instant
tides over the uninteresting int.
rim till the sprightIy buC0lic re-.
porter shall have devised IN entire
ly new line of marvels, with the
following
cURIoUsLY CONSTRUCTED FABLE:
"Some months ago q lady and
dAughter-the widow Of wealthy
deceased merchant of Chicago
visited San Francisco, stopping Ut
the Baldwin. Lucky Baldwin met
her and was conquered. Marriage
was proposed. The lady returned
to Chicago, leaving the daug
some sixteen years Of age-in
charge of her af6anced. After an
absence Of i've months she returns,
and finds her daughter sacrificed.
A suit is commenced for Slo0, 900
damages. This is too bad, and,
taken In connection with Uncle
Sans Illicit distillery bill, will
give Lucky Baldwin ell he can
very we'll attend to, and 10 robbing
him Of or making his title OF
Lucky Baldwin q misnomsr."
Notice how skillfully the min
ing camp litterateur, not knowing
that the law makes 3 necessary In
nuendo - libelous ~ 10 . lucid as
sertion, but we'll knowing what .
Golconda one strikes who has re-
covered against q frontier village
newspaper . judgment for damages
for libel, constructs this startling
revelation. "Lucky Baldwin met
her and was conquered" This ID
itself, In Bodis parlance, = dead
givs.away. Every child knows that
Mr.. Baldwin is masquerade.
marriage was proposed" Who
proposed II. and to whom? And II
Mr.. Baldwin proposed 1t. to the
widow, whom did he propose she
should marry? It could not, Of
course, have been Mr.. Baldwin
himself, for he 10 already married
% much ~ the Constitution, the
statutes and the peace and dignity
Of the State Of California will per-
NIT. Surely, Mr.. Baldwin, who
ordinarily IL s'gentlsman Of kindly
heart, could never have conceived
the flendish proposition that she
should 60 and marry the Bodie
Standard man.
FORBID THE THOUGHT.
'.She returns and finds her
daughter sacrificed" Again boz.
rowing from Bodis diction, that
was mighty tough. Who sacrificed
her and how? Was there made of
her peace Offering to heaven after
the manner of Abraham, who,
proceeding on the principles subse.
quently ultimAt6d by Artemus
Ward, was willing to sacrifice his
whole family rather than have any
Misunderstanding with Provi.
dsnce; and was she 90 hastily sac.
riflced that Providence was not, 40
In the case Of Abraham's son, al
lowed time to interfsrey Or was
she stoned to death? Or, coming
later down In the tragic records Of
martyrs and sacrifices, was she
burned ct the stalker We pause for
. reply. We are compelled 10
pause because Of the inability of
the Examiner reporter to i'm medi.
ately get such reply from Mr..
Baldwin himself. That reporter
went y eaterday to the deliberately
carved and diligently polished
counter Of the office Of the superb
Baldwin caravansary, and modest.
ly asked Of the tall, long. bearded
chief clerk:
"May see Mr.. Baldwin,"
"You may" answered the clerk,
gazing with far-away look out OF
the plAte-glass front At the softly
falling rain.
"Where can I see him ~
~ guess he's In the house. It's
raining" said the, clerk, intently
examining something in the or.
tistic frsscoing OF the ceiling.
"Here, in this house ?" asked the
reporter.
"House on his ranch In Los An.
geles," answered the clerk, turn
ing away to play an absent mind
ed solo on the buttons of the cleo.
trio bells.
swell, 40 long a. you feel satis.
fed that he 10 in out OF the vet, or
has an umbrella, that's all I wish
to know. Good day ~ and the re-
porter drixxled out into Market
street.
There 10 this much sure, that II
Mr.. Baldwin commsnces suit
against the Bodie Standard man