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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 446, 5 January 1869, Page 3

Ballabat Mining Speculations.— In these times, it is refreshing to bear of people making money in mining. Who is there that does'nt know little Jones of ofßallarat? The luck of little Jones is proverbial. Jones made up his mind some time ago that he would visit his native country. Before his departure the cautious Jones sold out a few hundred full Band of Hope shares at Ll2O per each. This was good, but Jones did something even better. He had had a dream about New North Clunes shares, and bought threa hundred at eight pounds each. Shortly after, the shares began to rise, and the mail takes home to little Jones the pleasant intelligence that his shares are worth about eighty pounds each or 1,24,000 for what cost L 2.400. Besides this, he had L3OOO in dividend. This, we think, is the best single mining share operation pubicly known in Victoria. — Melbourne Leader. A duel with Bwords took place on Sunday morning, September 27, at Lac-de-Grand, on Dutch ground, between Messrs Rochefort and Baroche. It was occasioned by a paragraph inserted in the 17th number of the Lanterne. It lasted a quarter of an hour, the combatants having paused five times. At the first assault M. Baroche received a wound in his right thigh, but he persisted in continuing ; at the fifth, in a corps-a-corps which the second vainly endeavored to prevent, M. Baroche received a a wound in his side, and M. Bochefort in his right arm. The physicians pre«ent, M. Laussedat and Chaunt then interfered, and prevented a sixth assault, which must have ended fatally M. Bochefort's seconds were M.. Charles and Victor Hugo, the poet's only sons ; M. Baroche's second were M. de Lyones and Adolphe Belot. During the combat, on seeing M. Baroche's shirt torn, " Dieu! I have killed him," exclaimed M. Bochefort. On discovering his mistake, explained to his adversary by the seconds, the duel proceeded. A missionary among the freedmen in Tennessee, after relating to some little colored children the story of Ananias and Sapphira, asked them why G-od does not strike everybody dead who tells a lie, when one of the least in the room quickly answered, " Because there wouldn't be anybody left." A culprit, being asked what he had to say why the sentence of death should not be recorded against him, replied, "He had nothing to say, as too much had been said already."