WHO LOST THEM? -- On the evening of the attempted assassination in the pawnbroker's shop in Commercial street, officer Watkins arrested an old State Prison graduate who had on his person a handsome gold pencil case of very peculiar construction, with the words "Patent applied for," engraved upon it; it has a pen in one end and a pencil in the other. He also had a neat affair in the shape of a gold tooth pick and ear pick, gotton up on the same plan as the pencil case. Any person who may have mysteriously lost articles of the above description are requested to call upon Mr. Watkins and identify them. Moreover, if anybody wants a spry, intelligent thief or two, the same may be obtained at Chief Burke's hotel, as all the thieves in the city were arrested on Wednesday night in the hope of finding among them the robber of the pawnbroker.
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THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. -- That "mirror that reflects the marsh-fires of pestilence," the Police Curt calendar, presented us with twenty-five subjects yesterday, classified as follows: Drunk, ten; misdemeanor, six; assault and battery, six; petty larceny, one; suspicion of larceny, one; assault with deadly weapon, one.
[transcribed from microfilm, p. 1. - The phrase "marsh-fires of pestilence" is from a poem titled "On Honesty" by Martin Farquhar Tupper. Clemens may have seen it in the book Tupper's Complete Poetical Works published in 1851.
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A REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT. -- An ancient patriot -- Patrick Henry -- turned up in the station house yesterday, with snakes in his boots. That is to say, the poor fellow was attacked with delirium 'tremens.' He has been arrested several times lately for drunkenness, and day before yesterday he was left in jail over night to give the whiskey an opportunity to soak out of him, but the experiment was a failure -- he began to show unequivocal symptoms, yesterday, of the dreadful distemper above mentioned and Judge Shepheard humanely had him transferred to the station-house.
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SUIT AGAINST A MINING SUPERINTENDENT. -- Suit was commenced yesterday in the Twelfth District Court by the Ophir Silver Mining Company, against W. W. Palmer, late Superintendent of the Company. The plaintiffs allege that prior to January 1st, 1864, Palmer was employed by them as their General Superintendent, at a salary of $2,500 per month; that on the 18th of December last, a new contract was made with him, to go into effect on the 1st of January, 1864, under which the said Superintendent was to receive a monthly salary of $1,000 and two per cent. on the dividend to be thereafter declared by the Company, in lieu of the old contract salary of $2,500. Under this engagement Palmer continued in the employ of the Company up to June 6, 1864, when he resigned his position, and the resignation was accepted by the Company. The complaint avers that during his incumbency the defendant got into his possession $8,456, in gold coin, which he fraudulently converted to his own use, and utterly refused to account for, claiming that notwithstanding the new contract, as above stated, he is still entitled to $2,500 per month, up to the date of his resignation. The plaintiffs ask for judgment for $8,456, and also ask that defendant be arrested and committed to the County Jail, until said debt is paid, or he is otherwise discharged by law.
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