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pocket the loss, and I advise my friends to pursue the same course. As the money stolen from me has been appropriated to defend and clothe the prisoner, and as I have been compelled to pay my own expenses for over nine hundred miles of travel, besides occupying two weeks of my time, I may expect a bill from your county for board and lodging of the prisoner, as also the expenses incurred in sending him to the state board-house.

Respect funy Yours,

MILO HOADLEY. San Francisco, May 4, 1877."

A miner committed suicide on Feather river. A coroner's jury, a new institution in these parts, was empanelled, which after hearing and weighing the evidence, brought in a verdict that the dead man was " a damned fool."

Henry Lark, in 1854 justice of the peace at Amador, held court in the bar-room of the Magnolia saloon, that beino- his favorite resort when not enoao-ed in trading horses. One day Jim Wall, the sheritf, brouoflit in an Irishman accused of stealino;; messes of meat at different times from his neighbor's cabin. The justice was deep in old sledge with the barkeeper, Pitts, for a dollar a side, being far too shrewd to waste his time at any one-sided whisky game.

" Here, judge, give me your hand while you settle this business," said the sheriff, approaching the table.

" Git, and don't bother me," responded his honor. But recalling the dignity of his office as he raked in the dollar at the end of the game, he arose, and giving the sheriff his seat, threw his leg over the adjoining table, and with his eye took in the prisoner,

" Well, what you got to say for yourself?" at length demanded the judge.

" I beg," clearly and promptly fell from the lips of the bar keeper,