Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-04

During the cold weather IN 1856 We hat
been unusually gay at our pleasant littl,
station OF Ramjamjo lliraobad in the hear
of Dude. Ia November no less than tire,
brides had arrived from home and beer
feted in turn; while early in December TIL
Thirtieth Light Cavalry and the 0ne Hun
dred and Tenth Native Infantry had beer
relieved by Hampden's Horse and thu
Ninety-third Light Infantry, both rather
"crack" regiments, with good bands ant
capital messes aud just before Christmas
the COMMUNICATIVE chief had passed through
on tour of inspection, and remained fol
four days. Balls, big dinners and picnic;
had been the order of the day, and we hat
even succeeded in getting up some very
fine races. Whether it was owing to tht
reaction after such unwonted dissipation
or to some other cause l know not, but I'M
doubtedly things altered very much for ths
worse with the New Year. Our hitherto
united little society broke up into severa
little cliques, who did nothing but
quarrel at all times, and on every possible
subject. The first row was caused by oul
new chaplain, the Rev. Augustin Chasuble,
an excellent, but for those days an ex.
tremely g high young man, who persist
ed IN making various alterations in the ser.
vices and furniture of the church. This
gave deadly ofense to a large portion of the
congregation. Unfortunately he succeeded
in converting our Commissioner, the ex
officio senior lay trustee, and thereby
driving his colleague, the Brigadier, into
furious-opposition, insomuch that after re.
porting the matter to the Bishop, and fail
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whom he could induce to follow him to
the Mission Chapel, where they were re.
ceived with open arms by the Rev. Calvin
Longwynd. While affairs were in this
critical state my wife's cousin, Captain
Godfrey st. Hill, of the Twenty fifth
Lancers, came to spend his three months
leave with us, and before he had been Z
fortnight in the station managed TO gel
himself and us into extremely hot water.
st. Hill was a strikingly handsome man,
with very regular features and "poetic .
eyes; he was, moreover, encircled with q
halo of glory from having been one of the
" Six Hundred" The ladies', as might
naturally have been expected, made much
of him, and he dashed off at once into We.
hement Irritation with three of the five
spinsters at our little station, one of the
remaining two being too plain and the
other too wise. Had he confined himself
to this amusement it would not have mat
tered much but, unfortunately, he would
be an admirable Crichton," an insisted
on laying down the law to every one on
every possible subject, without the slight.
est respect for age, rank or reputation.
Free-thinking was one of his hobbies,
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regiment, and he was particularly fond
of airing his intidelity, especially before
the ultra-evangelicals, for whom he
had the most profound contempt
At the first big dinner to which
we were invited he placidly set the
Commissioner to rights on the subject OF
Salookdarre rights and permanent settle.
ment, and gave the Brigadier lecture on
active drill and discipline. whereupon both
these potentates came down upon me.
Really, Captain Melville, you should
point out to Captain st. Hill that, for a
young man who has but lately arrived in
the country, and who probably could moi
tell Mussulman from Hindu OF dhol
from paddy to obtrude HIS opinions OIL
matters OF policy, revenue, or finance i:
injudicious, to say the least of it, most in
judicious, | might even add, unbecoming
So the Commissioner. The Brigadier was
less polite and more emphatic. "Youl
cousin is a griffin, sir, and id coneeitec
griffin into the bargain thinks he knows
better than men who were well on in tins
service before he was born-goes in for be
ing Wellington on the strength of tina
Balaklava gallop. He must learn to keey
his tongue between his teeth, or he'll gel
into trouble. You may tell him that
say so. -
At the club dinner he put the GROWING
stone to his offenses, for, as Ill luck woulC
have it, he was seated next TO Colone
Hogg, an estimable butpig-headed veteran
to whom he held forth In his usual strain
until the old man couldn't stand it any
longer, and burst out with, s'You are al
ATHEIST, sir, a republican, a-a-Jesuit
You are like that scoundrel in the Bible
who cared for none Of these things for
got his name. "
perhaps You allude to Calico, Colonel,
suggested ST. Hill with dubious smile a
he ventured on theold joke.
Eyes, do allude to Calico; and let m,
tell you it's no laughing matter that al
officer in her Majesty's service should b,
like an internal old Jewish astrologer.
Then the Colonel rose in great wrath
shouted for his ''hookah,n and retired t
the veranda to cool down.
He had you there, st. Hill--he haC
you there, cried the Adjutant, triumphant
ly. 81 never gave the old boy credit TO
knowing so much about these things, bu
after all he got the fellows name from 70,
so he might have let you down easier"
Next morning some kind friend told tn
whole story to Mrs. Hogg, and long befor
orthodox calling hours she drove up to on
bungalow, and came down on US like he
\ dron in flood. SIT is really intolerabl
that young griffin ike Captain St Hi
should have spoken to my husband in sucl
q manner, and have taken advantage of
mere slip of the tongue to hold him up t
xidicule but it is all of piece with hi
whole conduct ever since he came to tn
station, and the sooner he leaves it tn
better for all parties-I say, Mrs. Melyill
for all parties. A deceitfnl young rep
rebate, devoid of all principle, is a mos
undesirable friend for young married
woman, cousin or no cousin, and so yol
may find before long, Captain Melville"
This sudden change of front and furiou
attack threw us into utter confusion, ant
before we could recover ourselves the en-
envy walked off in triumph, having, as sh
put it, given that silly, sentimental it'll
goose a piece of her mind.
Scarcely had we recovered our breatl
when another carriage drove up, and see
ing that it contained the three mos
waspish ladies in the station, / fed il
AFFECT terror, leaving my poor little wifi
e. 70 encounter them as best she could
The odds were terribly against her, anc
after our friends" had left, / found he
ssobbing hystericaliy-"T They have al
Deen SO cross and unkind and SO har,
upon poor Godfrey. Ii Miss Drury'
morse always does run away with he
Mnen sne rides with him, surely it is no
nus fault; and it is only because he is s
kind and SO clever that he took to read
ing Italian with Miss Bell !; and NOV
every one says that he is behaving shame