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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

UNAPPRECIATED ELOQUENCE.

   A rough bully named Driscoll had a dispute, in 1851, with another man about a
mining claim on Jersey flat, in Downieville. Both rushed into Justice Galloway's
court with their grievances, which at that time convened in Jack Stratton's
tent: being an exceedingly desirable place for veiled justice to frequent, as
abundance of the liquor known as "sheep-herders' delight" was conveniently at
hand. Hogue, the learned butcher, plead in the case against Driscoll. Hogue was
a professional Fourth-of-July "sky-scraper," and when the occasion demanded,
could work up a pretty strong decoction of allegory, metaphor, and floridity,
with a slight tinge of withering sarcasm. As he got warmed up to his theme, and
the canvas roof swelled with the power of his oratory, visions of his stock in
trade floated across his mind, and he gave vent to many fine remarks about the
"cattle on a thousand hills." Driscoll chafed before the thrilling bursts of
eloquence. When the peregrinating cattle had been hurled at him for the third or
fourth time, he could stand it no longer, but pulling his pistol, shouted,
"D_____n your old cattle!"—at the same time swinging the weapon around in an
uncomfortably familiar style, that precipitated a furious adjournment of Justice
Galloway's court. All left but one juryman and Hogue, the latter having soared
so high as to be unable to appreciate the situation all at once. Two sailors
crawled under the tent, floored Driscoll from behind, and the result of that
gentleman's escapade was a short term in the state penitentiary.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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