W. R. Stebbins begs to express his
heartfelt thanks to the geuerous donors
for a most elegant pair of opera glasses,
with ins name engraved thereon, which
were left ou his desk ou Saturday even
ing' Lt was one of the moit happy sur
prises of the year. There was with the
glasses a note expressing “Best wishes
and a Happy New Year,” aud signed
“From your true friends.”
[We congratulate Mr. Stebbins on so
propitious an opening of the new year.
To have friends is good; but to have
friends behind your back is better. We
had tbs pleasure of seeing these glasses
aud wo join iu saying they are elegant
They are costly and chaste in orna
mentation. —Eds. ]
Killed Hla Man.
On Sunday week, C. F. Perkins, of
Dixon, on Suake river, Carbon county,
killed Wm. Ike. Iu the afternoon
about 3 o’clock, at the termination of
a game of cards, in which John Irons
aud Wm. Ike were playing against C.
F. Perkins and John Baker, a dispute
arose and John Irons tjiryw his glass of
liquor on Perkins and pitched the glaqs
at him. Bill Ike then threw off his
coat and said be could whip Perkins or
any of bis men. Perkins reached down,
picked up a beer bottle and threw it,
instantly stooping fur another, when
Irons jumped Mm. They were se]>-
arated. The bottle thrown had
struck Ike's head, knocking him
down. He gut up pretty soon, and in
response to inquiries said he did not
think he was hurt much. He then
rode six miles from Perkins’ saloon to
John Irons’, vomited once, sat around
awhile and said he would go to bed.
Next day about 2 o’clock, finding him
too souudly asleep to be aroused, Dr.
