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Coverter - l°'5l Daily Ttelta - Tuesday, Xoverster 11, 1351 ole1)
UTO^TANT ELECTION AT BAY £T. LOUIE
’.e are much in fault in having/orritted to state before that our rejected felloe citizen, W. a'. \Beecher, Esq., late of Heloomenia, "as, ve learn, elected Coroner of the Bay of St. Louis fcy a flattering majority.
1'r. Beecher is eminently qualified to administer "Coroner1?
1 quest l?'->" in ^ style satisfactory to both living and dead. The solennity of his manner, the gravity of his countenance, and the ’■’eiprint of his oerson, •'•.'ill enable him to set unon a dead body in a runner ••’hich ’-'ill nlace the fact of the death of the party bejzord =11 disnute.
' r. B. is also ~n admirable fisherman and angler, and as most of the cases of <?u~''^r death, near the pay, occur frorr. drowning, he ■'•’ill be able to V ok uo the bodies with the sane skill with which he is ^’or.t to hock the black trout in Molf River.
*-'e learn th-t T/r. B,r zeal to en^er uoon the duties of his office, ves disnlaved, shortly after his elect ion, in rather a striking manner.
Two Italians having gotten into a fierce fight about the election, sorre persons called out -"part them." "!Jo, no," fiercely interrupted the new Coroner, "let them fieht it out, and eive your
This int' ’~ation produced a very sudden cessation of hostilities between the oarties.


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