ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO BURGLARS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 4521, 11 December 1883, Page 2

ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO BURGLARS.

A New York telegram of Oct. 16 says :—: — John Irving and John Walsh, widely known burglars, shot and killed each other in "Shaug" Draper's saloon early this morning. They had a bitter quarrel, and it is said that six weeks ago they met in another saloon and drew pistols on each other, but were separated. The police story is that John Irving and Jack "the Mick" were in Draper's saloon shortly before two this morning, both filled with liquor. They quarrelled about some rascality in which they were mutually interested, and became noisy. Billy Porter entered and tried to stop the row. This interference only roused the rioters to f nry, and both whipped out shooters and fired at close quarters. Every one in the saloon sought shelter as the double report sprang out. The shots were fired at the same instant and with like effect. Irving fell dead, with Johnny " the Mick's " bullet in his brain, and "the Mick" fell, shot through the heart. Neither lived long enough to breathe twice after the shots. Billy Porter and gang ran out into the street, but the reports of the pistols were heard by the police, and Porter was arrested. Every person suspected of being in the saloon at the time of the shooting was arrested.

An American editor who telegraphed to a Connecticut brother : " Send full particulars of the flood" — meaning an inundation at that place — received for reply : " You will find them in Genesis."

A good specimen of Yankee brevity is the order received by a commissariat officer named Brown from a Colonel Boyd, which could scarcely have been couched in fewer words than — "Brown — beef — Boyd." The colonel received his supplies with a note running — " Boj'd — beef — Brown."

An unfortunate man, who had never drunk water enough to warrant the disease, was reduced to such a state of dropsy that a consultation of the physicians was held upon the case. They agreed that tapping wus necessary, and the poor patient was invited to submit to the operation, which he seemed inclined to do in spite of the entreaties of his son, a boy of seven years old. " Oh, father, father, do not let them tap you," said young Hopeful, "do anything, butdo not let them tap you." "Why, my dear ? it will do me good, and I shall live long in health to make you happy." "No, father, no you will not ; there never wus anything tapped in our house that lasted longer thau a week."

In the eleven months of 1882 ending with November, over 10,000,000 American newspapers were sent to England.

A young lady awoke from a deep sleep the other night feeling a hand clasping her left wrist. She shrieked, went into convu'sions, and finally became sufficiently composed to see that she was holding her own wrist with her right hand. She might have died from fright. No girl is safe until she has a husband to hold her wrists for her.

This is a curious advertisement in a London paper: — "A lady wishes to recommend another lady who, through no fault of her own, has become in distressed cirenmstances, thinking that if 1000 benevolent persons were each to subscribe £10 it would place her iigaia in affluent circumstances."

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