that Mr. Kilburn, the gentlemanly and affable advance agent of the Nina Saville Dramatic Company, now performing at Andy Hanks’ Opera House to big houses, was brutally assaulted by a ruffianly young Englishman, named Beauvoir, for no cause whatever.  We say for no cause, as it is obvious that Mr. Kilburn, as the agent of the troupe, could have said nothing against Miss Saville which an outsider, not to say a foreigner like Mr. Beauvoir, had any call to resent.  Mr. Kilburn is a gentleman unaccustomed to rough-and-tumble encounters, while his adversary has doubtless associated more with pugilists than gentlemen—­at least any one would think so from his actions yesterday.  Beauvoir hustled Mr. Kilburn out of Mr. McMullin’s, where the unprovoked assault began, and violently shook him across the new plank sidewalk.  The person by the name of Clark, whom Judge Jones for some reason now permits to edit the moribund but once respectable Gazette, caught the eye of the congenial Beauvoir, and, true to the ungentlemanly instincts of his base nature, pointed to a barrel in the street.  The brutal Englishman took the hint and thrust Mr. Kilburn forcibly into the barrel, leaving the vicinity before Mr. Kilburn, emerging from his close quarters, had fully recovered.  What the ruffianly Beauvoir’s motive may have been for this wanton assault it is impossible to say; but it is obvious to all why this fellow Clark sought to injure Mr. Kilburn, a gentleman whose many good qualities he of course fails to appreciate.  Mr. Kilburn, recognizing the acknowledged merits of our job-office, had given us the contract for all the printing he needed in New Centreville.

DOCUMENT NO. 29.

Advertisement from the New York “Clipper” Dec. 21st, 1878:

    WINSTON & MACK’S GRAND INTERNATIONAL MEGATHERIUM VARIETY
    COMBINATION.  COMPANY CALL.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Company will assemble for rehearsal, at Emerson’s Opera House, San Francisco, on Wednesday, Dec 27th, 12 M sharp.  Band at 11.  J.B.  WINSTON EDWIN R. MACK—­Managers.  Emerson’s Opera House, San Francisco, Dec. 10th, 1878.  Protean Artist wanted.  Would like to hear from Nina Saville. 12-11.

DOCUMENT NO. 30.

Letter from Nina Saville to William Beauvoir.

NEW CENTREVILLE, December 26, 1878.

My Dear Mr. Beauvoir—­I was very sorry to receive your letter of yesterday—­very sorry—­because there can be only one answer that I can make—­and you might well have spared me the pain of saying the word—­No.  You ask me if I love you.  If I did—­do you think it would be true love in me to tell you so, when I know what it would cost you?  Oh indeed you must never marry me!  In your own country you would never have heard of me—­never seen me—­surely never written me such a letter to tell me that you love me and want to marry me.  It is not that I am ashamed of my business or of the folks around me,