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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 64, 18 June 1863, Page 3

The Word " Garotte." — In the field of La l^unta, in the Havannah, on the Ist September, 1351, General Lopez was executed by order of ihe Spanish Government, who had captured him nfler almost hunting him to death with bloodhounds. The Spanish mode of execution, hy means of an instrument called the garotta — a strap fastened to the back of a heavy chair, in which the victim is seated to be strangled — was rather fully described in the newspapers, as the death of General Lopez was at that time a subject of the deepest interest. This was probably the first occasion on which the British public had heard of the «arotia, and so great was the fascination of honor implied by the mode of death so described, that people took the earliest opportunity of adopting the word, and the verb "to garotte," was found useful to denote a method of robbery which arose about the same time, and" of which we have unfortunately heard a great deal too much ever since. — Athenccum. A Tart Kkply. — When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a laborer was once brought into court as a v.itness. When he came up lo be sworn, his lordship said lo him — '" Iteally, witness, when you have to appear before Court, il is your bounden duty lo be more clean and decent in your appearance." " Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lornship comes that, I'm thinking I'm every bit as well diessed as your lordship." *' What do you mean, .sir?" asked his lordship angrily. " Why," said the laborer, " you coruc here in your working clothes, and 1 come in mine." Kkmark.9 bt an American Scavenoer. — " When dead hores and other garbage is left lying loose around a camp, the noospaper proprietor writes and says, 11 Our army is again on ihe offensive."