....  Our readers may have noticed in yesterday’s issue an editorial article in which we charged Judge Black with having murdered his father, beaten his wife, and stolen seven mules from Jo Gorman.  The facts are substantially true, though somewhat different from what we stated.  The killing was done by a Dutchman named Moriarty, and the bruises we happened to see on the face of the Judge’s wife were caused by a fall-she being, doubtless, drunk at the time.  The mules had only strayed into the mountains, and have returned all right.

We consider the Judge’s anger at so trifling an error very ridiculous and insulting, and shall shoot him the first time he comes to town.  An Independent Press is not to be muzzled by any absurd old buffer with a crooked nose, and a sister who is considerably more mother than wife.  Not as long as we have our usual success in thinning out the judiciary with buck shot.—­Lone Tree “Sockdolager.”

....  Yesterday, as Job Wheeler was returning from a clean-up at the Buttermilk Flume, he stopped at Hell Tunnel to have a chat with the boys.  John Tooley took a fancy to Job’s watch, and asked for it.  Being refused, he slipped away, and going to Job’s shanty, killed his three half-breed children and a valuable pig.  This is the third time John has played some scurvy trick, and it is about time the Superintendent discharged him.  There is entirely too much of this practical joking amongst the boys, and it will lead to trouble yet.—­Nugget Hill “Pickaxe of Freedom.”

....  The stranger from Frisco with the claw-hammer coat, who put up at the Gag House last Thursday, and was looking for a chance to invest, was robbed the other night of three hundred ounces of clean dust.  We know who did it, but don’t be frightened, John Lowry; we’ll never tell, though we are awful hard up, owing to our subscribers going back on us.—­Choketown “Rocker.”

....  Old Mother Gooly, who works a ranch on shares near Whiskyville, was married last Sunday to the new Episcopalian preacher from Dogburg.  It seems that he laboured more faithfully to convert her soul than to save the crop, and the bride protested against his misdirected industry, with a crowbar.  The citizens are very much grieved to lose one whose abilities they never fairly appreciated until his brain was scraped off the iron and weighed.  It was found to be considerably heavier than the average.

But the verdict of the people is unanimously given.  He ought not to have fooled with Mother Gooly’s immortal part, to the neglect of the wheat crop.  That kind of thing is not popular at Whiskyville.  It is not business.—­“Bullwhacker’s Own.”

....  The railroad from this city north-west will be commenced as soon as the citizens get tired of killing the Chinamen brought up to do the work, which will probably be within three or four weeks.  The carcases are accumulating about town and begin to become unpleasant.—­Gravel Hill “Thunderbolt.”