Take, for instance, the following:--A vessel having been blown up during the high pressure of a race, among the witnesses called was one who thus replied to the questions put to him:-- EXAMINER.--"Were you on board when the accident took place ?" WITNESS.--"I guess I was, and nurthing else." EXAMINER.--"Was the captain sober ?" WITNESS.--"Can't tell that, nohow." EXAMINER.--"Did you not see the captain during the day ?" WITNESS.--"I guess I did." EXAMINER.--"Then can, you not state your opinion whether he was drunk or not ?" WITNESS.--"I guess I had not much time for observation; he was not on board when I saw him." EXAMINER.--"When did you see him, then ?" WITNESS.--"As I was coming down, I passed the gentleman going up." The court, of course, was highly amused at his coolness, and called another witness .-- But let us turn from this fictitious anecdote to fact.
It was only the other day that I read in a Louisville paper of a gentleman going into the Gait-house Hotel, and deliberately shooting at another in the dining-saloon when full of people, missing his aim, and the hall lodging in the back of a stranger's chair who was quietly sitting at his dinner.

Again, I read of an occurrence--at Memphis, I think--equally outrageous.

A man hard pressed by creditors, who had assembled at his house and were urgent in their demands, called to them to keep back, and upon their still pressing on, he seized a bowie-knife in each hand, and rushed among them, stabbing and ripping right and left, till checked in his mad career of assassination by a creditor, in self-defence, burying a cleaver in his skull.
In a Natchez paper I read as follows:--"Levi Tarver, formerly a resident of Atala county, was recently killed in Texas.

Tarver interrupted a gentleman on the highway; high words ensued, when Tarver gave the gentleman the lie; whereupon the latter drew a bowie-knife, and completely severed, at one blow, Levi's head from his body." In a St.Louis paper, I read of a German, Hoffman by name, who was supposed by Baker to be too intimate with his wife, and who was consequently desired to discontinue his visits.

Hoffman remonstrated in his reply, assuring the husband that his suspicions were groundless.