Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — A Dead Letter. [ARTICLE]

A Dead Letter.

B*ll Franeiaco Po*t The Chicago Times comments on what it calls the “grim humor” of an incident recently occurring at a ftmeral in that city. The decwased, it seems, had died from drink,and when the coffin was about being screwed up, the corpse’s wife arose and placed within it a bottle of whisky. If that is the Times' idea of humor, perhaps it would like to copy a still more worthy illustration of that style of fun from this vicinity. The celebrated brigand and a highwayman, Joaquin Murietta, killed on this coast some years ago, was in the cheerful habit of innocently disemboweling any one to whom he happened to take a dislike. One day, up in Mendocino county, he waited all day behind a bush on the roadside in order to waylay a mail agent with whom he had gotten into a quarrel the night before. Finally he heard footsteps approaching, and jumping from his concealment, he drew his knife across the stomach of his victim. The head of the expiring man fell into the moonlight, however, arid the bandit saw he nad killed the wrong person. Taking a bit of paper from his pocket, the murderer pinned it to the dead postal official’s coat, after sprawling upon it: “Opened by mistake by Joaquin.” LnHnllltEoßMat Farm. Frank O. Harring, Esq., of the Champion Safe Works, 261 and 262 Broadway, New York, reports the use of Bt. Jacobs Oil for a stiflhess and soreness of the shoulder, with most pleasant and efficacious results.