cited, and announced their belief that the culprit should have been pardoned after the first unsuccessful trial.
The proud province of Aragon is one of the most attractive and peculiar sections of Spain. Obstinacy and self-will are marked characteristics of the people: it is said of an Aragonese that if he should take a fancy to batter down a wall with his head, he would keep at his work until he had made a breach or broken his skull.
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AFTER AN EXECUTION IN SPAIN.
The bravery of the men is world-famed. The passions are quick in Aragon, as well as unreasoning and imperious. Assassinations are numerous. When affairs at Madrid in 1869 did not progress to the liking of the Aragonese, a band of bravos sallied out from Saragossa with the avowed determination of cutting the throats of all the government
