Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-27
attempted to open the bulkhead would get a

attempted to open the buikhead would get a
d. Sc he'd have TO digest in his shroud. How
ever. he was hailed again, through the Chin
ney. made to understand that friends were
above, end then he came out Al mel to tie
! teeth and backed by his passenger, who wss
fairly loaded down with weapons. The old
man himself held long hsrpoon in one
hand. resdy to pop it through the first un.
| friendly form before opening up fire with his
| pistols and guns. WE'LL the Englishmen put
crew on the brig, clapped the pirates into
irons, and sent ST and his brig to Jamaics.
! She arrived nearly week before her captor.
| L. was found that the pirates couldn't be tried
there, and they were shipped to Boston, tried
for piracy and hanged in short order, all five on
one scaffold. Old ST wouldn't talk much
about it; he was probably mad, as only an
old salt water tyrant can be, because he had
missed the privilege of making short shrift of
the pirates at his own yard.arm. The story
the lads told, and the testimony of the pas
senger and the captors, secured the convic
tion of the rsscals, and went all over the land,
and was so full of horrible and blood curdling
details that it was the sensation Of the day.
and all the papers were full of it. The lad
refer to became himself ship-captain, but
In long years after he could never tell the
tale Of that terrible voyage without being
greatly moved. As for old 81, he lived to be
an octogenarian, and to the day Of his death
used to plague the man who as lad, sailed
with him to Palermo and back, By telling
him that the one regret he had was that of
not having let the pirates roast and eat him
when he was a boy, and before he got old and
into tie cares of the world"
CoRoNERs INoUEsT.-On yesterday Cor
oner Vermilya went out to the Cosumnes to
hold an inquest in the case of William Mbrris
Jenkins. The deceased was native of Cali
fornia, born in Sacramento county, and 19
years of age. Wednesday forenoon he worked
in the field. and at noon, not feeling well, said
he would not work any more that day. but
would take his gun and do little hunting.
At o'clock that afternoon be was found
dead and lying in the road opposite the place
of Mr.. Balls. He had killed some game,
which he bad in his game sack. When found
one barrel of his gun was empty. and he held
the ramrod in his right hand Evidently the
gun was discharged while be was in the act
of loading it. The charge took effect in his
mouth and blew off the entire top of his
head. The jury summoned in the cas-, reu-
dered verdict of accidental death, in &C.
cordance with the above facts
WEATHER REponT-The following report
was received from Sergeant Barwick last
evening The rain which began at P. NJ on
the 25th, and ending at $3.50 P. NJ. yesterday,
the Goth, amounted to .5S of an inch. To.ai
for the season s 40 inches. For the season of
1880 to corresponding date, 13 Oh inches
1873, 7.95; 1873, 49S; 1877, 9.77. Average
for past FIVE seasons, S.64 inches. Deficiency
of present season over the average for the
past five years, 10 inches.
Too Much "TRUBLE."-A correspondent
sends in a long communication about some
"truble" between herders, in which
"riffel played lively 'parte " in "bat-
tel'' and one man couldn't hold out "enny "
longer and bagan retreting," and so on to
the end of 'trublus chapter. Now what
has the human race, as represented in
newspaper Office, done to have this "truble"
coma upon IL?
INCORPORATED Articles of incorporation
have been fled with the Secretary of State
of the Gilmer.S Salisbury Mining Company, to
operate in lincoln county, Nevada. The
principal place of business is San Francisco.
Directors james Heron, g. w. Banks, L.
4. Rowel, s. D. Brastow and H. II. Hsmer.
Amount CT capital stock is $4,000, ,000,
divided into loo. coo shares.
NOTHING IN IT.-A rumor was current in
she city yesterday that William Gardner,
conductor well known here, had been shot in
Arizona by cowboy. Inquiry by telegraph
reveals the fact that there is no truth in the
report, aud that young Gardner is well and
uuinjure6.