Unit? Land.
Hnwmanv mile* <o Baby
An* one can tall;
Pj> on* atyti •
To t >ar
rie*** u u,; b<jll
W 1 h j, t . C VT n w *W>I l.and !
ii folk* in white j
Downy hr
Cradle
F*oo pur* and hrlr j,t.
What do thav Jo m luh , I (knJ f
Draam and *f A , jj.r.
Laugh n ,i cro w,
rll , kl °* ' +xu\ grow ;
Ji'lly liomm navn tliff.
do ' v in>y in JUby 1 and ?
" °T> tim od<t**t things i
Alight a* wall
Tri to tail
. a Hindi* airga.
"f o i* Cnooii in Baby Land ?
Mother. kind and tweet .
And li*r Uiv*
Born above,
Ouidet the Utti* feat.
Tho Old Rant's Tenantry.
Tha rooatar stalk* on tha m sugar's ledga
Ha has a tail like a s.'tmetai't a.igo.
A maralial'a p'u:ue on hit afghar. ew<\k.
An admiral'* elrid* on hi* quarter Jack,
H# ralea the rooat and ha walk* tha bay
With a draadfal cold and a Turkish way,
Two hroadakla* fire* with hia rapid wicgw
Thi* *®>tan {wood. of a line of king*
Ou* gn teral laugh, four biaata af horn,
Mn rusty syllable* rouse the tuom !
' The Saxon lamia tn their woolen talw
Are playing aohool with the a b. aim ,
A, a ! Lo! All the cattle spall
Till they make the blatant vowel* tall.
And a half-laugh whinny Al>* the alalia
When down iu the rack t'.re elovar falla
A doea it wallsiug around hia mate.
Two.chevron* bU -k on hu wing* of tlal*.
And ahowiag *,* *,O, a wooing not*
The aalia ah iU of hia golden throat
Ill* Our* * "Art of !er" retold
In a!*• ding flue of bine and gold '
Ah, tha buxom girl* that helped the bora,
Tb * nobler Helen* of humbler Troy*—
Aa they av.ppad the hnakt wuh rustling
fold
From eight rowed corn aa yellow aa gold.
By the candle-light in pumpkin bowls.
And tha gleam* that allowed fantastic hole*
In the quaint old lantern'* tat total tin.
From the hermit glim *et up within .
By the rarer light ia girhah eyes
Aa dark aa wells, or as blue aa akies.
1 hear the laugh when tha ear ia red,
I saa tha blnrh. with the forfait paid.
Tha cedar r,ak*# with tha anctant twwt,*
Tha cider cop that tha giris hare iisea j,
And I ■ ,e* tha fiddler through thy. doak
As hv twangs the ghost of " Money Musk I"
The boys and guis in a doable row
Wait face V, face uil the magic bow
Shail wk ,p ihe tur.e from tha violin,
Aftf 1 ua merry pulse of the feet begin.
TUE A ITE OF THE GROWLER.
What a sublime bead be baa I and
what a pair of whiskers! Next to
brother Willie, he is the handsomest
man I ever saw.
I met him quite accidentally. Strange
that he should have come along just
when I was in the midst of my reverie
atawt Willie ! He startled me half out
dmy senses, for I wasn't aware that
■my one frequented those woods but
myself. Willie used to go with me
aometimes before he left home. Poor
fellow ! We have made our last excur
sion together iu this world.
Here I sat, feeding a oouple of robins
with crumbs, and humming an air to
myaelf, while 1 pushed back the looks
of hair which kept falling over my
forehead and dangling in my eyes.
Suddenly arose a voice behind me :
"By my soul, a mermaid ! She's
giving Moiher Carey's chickens their
mess."
I glanced aronnd, tnrned a doxen
colors at once, and tried to faint. If
Willie's ghost bad stood in th at place,
it oouldn't have been more like him,'
with his six feet of manh.ood, broad
shoulders, and sailor's cur, a ud jacket.
And then, such lovel" ,* nautical lan
guage as he used ! It m ost brought
with it a sniff of suit Creese aud a vision
af boundless blue.
Of oourae he apologized for the in
trusion, said he was cruising in foreign
waters and hai*. lost his reckoning ; but
now that he'd found a heavenly body
to level hit, sextant at, he'd take a sin
gle observation, change his course, and
ete' r to v or'ard.
WheD he spoke of the " heavenly
'body " I blashed again ; and, aa I knew
that " nor'ard " meant the village, I
begged him not to stir on mj aooount.
I didn't want to leave on the mar'a
-mind the false impression that I was
-agitated by his compliment, so I in
duced him to remain till I had time to
oonipose myself.
After we had conversed for an hoar
or so, and I was calm again, I gathered
np my things and started for home.
He insisted on accompanying me, be
cause, as he expressed it, "he didn't
fancy the notion of such a precious
little craft sailing alone, when it conld
just as well have the convoy of a man
o'*War."
When we were on the outskirts of
the village he asked permission tn
" heave to," and I came th'j rest of the
way unattended.
Two o'clock A. x. ? Dear me 1 how
late lam sitting up 1 It's all through
trying to wade into that stupid book.
I shall put it back on the shelf where
it belongs, with : ,U face to the wall, so
that it may not tempt me again.
21t. —Two more developments : first,
his name is Jack ; aeoond, he was ac
quainted "with Willie. They made a
voyage^together, if I am not mistaken
—the isst one before brother's fatal
•hip^/reck.
What a host of naval stories he has
at his tongue's end, and what marvel
•ous adventures he has met with in his
time, notwithstanding he's so young !
It is more interesting to bear him talk
than to read the best book of travels
ever printed. He stopped as be was
going by to-day, while I was watering
the flowers, leaned over the garden
gate, and kept me entranced a full half
hour. I presume it's very indiscreet to
get so familiar with strangers the
seoond time you see them, but I nearly
called him Jack to his face. I might
have known that was bis name—be
looks it exactly. There isn't an unaea
manlike inch about him.
22d.—Jeannette has been over to
visit me. She is crazy on the subject
of my aailor. She raves about his hair
and his eyes and his teeth, and—oh
ny I—she even pretends to have made
an impression on Aim. Unhappy crea
ture I Time alone will convince her of
her error.
23d—As I was coming home from
the post-office this afternoon with Jean
nette, who should join us but Jack ?
" I kept in your wake so long with
out being hailed," he said, byway of
salutation, " that I concluded I'd make
a tack, and run under your bows for a
change."
" Forgive my negligence, Mr. "
And then I recollected that he had never
told me his last name.
" Caronby—Jack Caronby, first mate
of the frigate Growler," he supplied.
" I did not see you, Mr. Caronby, or
3 should have paused and allowed you
to overtake us."
At this juncture Jeannette pinched
my elbow, so I had to present him. If
she can construe anything tender or
sentimental from the studied civility of
his behavior toward her during the re
mainder of our walk, she's weloome to.
We passed a drove of oattle on our
way home. Some of them were at
tracted by my red shawl, and began to
evince Bundry disagreeable propen
sities.
"They don't respect vour oolors, Miss
Addison," exclaimed Jack, indignant
ly. " Suppose you and Miss M'Clure
lie off to leeward a jiffy or two, till I
make a ram of this bit of timber and
scatter their fleet. '
So saying, he motioned us gently
aside, grasped a knotted stick that lay
acroM the path, and with one fleroe on-
FRKD. KURTZ, Kdit or mill 1 > ropriotor f
VOE. Ml*
slanght sou! Iht drove galloping in
overt direction.
W lieu he returned to us J can not to
J began some of her artful tricks flut
tciing and gasping and pretending to
l>e frightened to death. Jack was at
last compelled to offer her his arm and
j escort her to within a few rods of her
I gate. Sly thing I
S-.iHiinjf, waa at morning
srtvioa, like the good man he is.
; There's genuine religion in his broad,
hO jCat face. Sincerity, that noblest of
liQWM virtues, ia sadly rare among
I landlubbers ; its native atmosphere
t art ins to tie that of the sea.
He made all the resuousea as if he
was accustomed to devotional exer
cises. It may l>c that he studies his
prayer-book while tossing *U>ut on the
' brim billows. Well, ho might be worse
! employed.
27 th. —To-day the crisis came. I had
a presentiment that it was impending.
I was sitting ou the pi****, verv luteut
on my embroidery, when 1 heard a
greeting from the street.
•' Misa Addison, ahoy !"
1 looked up. Jack was standing by
tbe fence, with his cap deferentially
! raised.
" May I enter thia harbor without
papers ?"
•'Certainly ; come in, Mr. Carouby.
You will dud a chair yonder in tho eo"r
--1 ner."
He oat<d himself, and began to oon-
Tcrae. Listening to those musical
tone* w:th both my oars, aud wholly
! absorbed in what he was • aying. I did
uot perceive that any third person waa
near. Vol father, who had quietly taken
UP bis position at my side, suddenly
( asked :
" Are you not going to do the honors,
I Maggie *"
1 know 1 evinced great confusion, and
mangled their uamee, and tripped my
self up, and made a dreadful mixture
of it generally ; but I succeeded in my
ultimate object—that of making them
| acquainted with each other.
While they were exchanging tho pro
limiuary courtesies it dashed across me
that 1 had never once mentioned Jack's
; name in tbe family. This is unaccount
able, considering how long I have
known him—as much us a week and a
i dav by the calendar.
Father's interference had the effect
of abbreviating oar tete-a-tete ; for I
incline to think that the "shipmate"
whom Jack had engaged to meet in the
village was a purely fictitious personage
—a creature of his imagination, and
devoid of more solid being.
As soon as my hero hail passed out
of sight there came a broadside from
father. Who was this man? I repeat
ed the name. Where did he belong?
On board the frigate Growler. What
was he doing in this town ? how long
did he propose remaining ? and at
whst bouse, or with whom, was he
stopping ? For the life of me I could
not answer these questions, simple as
they ap* t >ared. Father took advantage
of my silence to read me a lecture on
the evil policy of cultivating people I
hnew nothing about. As though I
knew nothing about Jack, when he had
taken me so unreservedly into his con
fidence, and asked my advice on all
sorts of points connected with his
future career! Naturally, I did not
mention these things to father; he
would only have turned them into a
jest. I had nothing to do but to stifle
my emotions, pr lending to acquiesce
in his philosophy.
Heigho ! It came eventually to this,
that I ahonld heieafter discourage
every attention from Jack, and hold
myself aloof from his society till fur
ther notice.
And meanwhile, Jeannette
31f. —I am all in a tremble. I can
hardly retain my pen in my hand while
inditing these words. And yet I must
write : I shall experience no shallow of
comfort or relief till my soul is dis
burdened.
Where shall I begin? How did it
happen ? In what order did the events
occur ?
Oh ! I remnmiiw, I had gone to
the woods again, and had valked as far
as the spot where I met the first
time. Alas, what a §bod of recollec
tions poured in upon mo as I stood
there ! I had not read my heart aright
till that moment.
Then I became gradually conscious
that I was not alone. The leaves
ru " d, a bush near me was pushed
asuie, and there emerged from the
thicket a melancholy-looking figure,
whom I with difficulty convinced my
self to be Jack.
He advanced. I tried to move away,
lest I should break faith with father,
but oould not. He observed the effort,
and stationed himself in front of me.
" Neither to port nor starboard shall
yon veer," be said, in kind but crushed
and huaky accents, "till I have beard
your batteries speak. Though you
should tear my top-gallants asunder,
snap my halyards in twain, nay, even
carry away my mainmast, yet you must
fire."
"What will you have me say?" I
panted, between quick breaths which
threatened to become sobs.
" Tell me why you always scud be
fore the wind, refuse to see my signals
of distress, or run up the black flag
whenever I approach ?"
" Because I sm forbidden to walk
with you, speak to yon, hold any com
munication with you unnecessarily for
a season. Now will you let me go ?"
There was something in his eye that
told me he comprehended the situation
perfectly. He heaved a deep sigh, fold
ed his arms, and gazed at me long and
steadily.
"It is not your own voluntary act,
then?" he asked, gently, and passing
from maritime to ordinary parlance.
" No, no," I whispered, dropping my
eyes, because I could no longer oppose
them to his.
He opened his arms wide. A mail
impulse seized me, and I drew closer
and closer to him.
"Avast there! Stern all !"
The command issued from some one
who had oome upon us nnperceived.
I uttered a half shriek and darted
back.
There stood Willie, come home from
the sea, risen from the dead !
Of all the torriflo shocks I have ever
received, I think this deserved the first
rank. I had barely time to realize its
force before Jack's ejaculation smote
my ear:
"Shiver my timbers I"
" With th greatest pleasure in life,"
responded W T illie, ooollv removing his
outer garments and rolling up his shirt
sleeves.
I saw there was no time to be lost,
and hastened to throw myself between
the pair.
" Oh, Willie, Willie!" I pleaded,
"do not strike him. He is guiltless.
It iB I who am to blame from first to
last."
" I'll attend to your case, presently,
sis," said my brother, unmoved by my
entreaty. "But the urgent business
of the moment is with Mr. Watson
here. We have rather a long-standing
account to settle."
" Mr. Watson ?" I echoed ; " there is
no Mr. Watson here. This is an old
oomrade of yours, Willie—Mr. Jack
Caronby, first mate of the frigate
Growler."
" Frigate fiddle-stick ! m wager ten
to one he never was aboard a vessel in
his life, though I can testify to his skill
in managing decks,"
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
"Miss Addison," interposed Jack,
" tins individual is the victim of a hal
lucination. If ho wore allowed tho
Growler I ahotild condemn him to an
application of tho tope's end, or swing
him at tho yard arm a while liy the
thumbs, liol u* go wav and leave him
to his unhappy Hluocy." v
" Btop !" 1 cried, eagerly. " Thia
must not lie. He is my only brother,
long lost to us, and now come back from
tho grave. You aud he must tie recon
ciled at once. Here, Willie, confess
that you have done wrong, and shake
hands with Mr. Oarouhv.'
" Are you an idiot, Maggie t" de
manded my brother, now growtug
rapidly augry. " Oorne home with me
iustautly, or I shall think you aa bad
as he I"
He resumed his coat and vest,
clutched mv wrist fiercely, and hurried
tuc on with him toward tho village.
We left Jack standing in the old place,
apparently petrified with astouuhment
and dismay.
My own sentimenta were two-fold :
joyous excitement at my brother's un
expected return, and sorrow for an in
nocent beiug whom he had griev
ously, though I trust unintentionally,
wronged.
When we were out of the woixls Wil
lie proceeded to explain his behavior
ou this occasion. It seems that Jack
bears the strongest kiud of a resem
blance to one Watson, a notorious Han
Francisco gambler, who once lured
Willie into playiug, aud won away from
him all his money, clothes, luggage -
everything he possessed. It was di
rectly after this encounter that the poor
boy, filled with remorse and chagnu,
disgusted with himself, and tired of
existence, caused the report that he
had been drowued during a reoent
shipwreck to be universally circulated,
aud repaired to one of the Jocks with
the iutentiou of committing suicide.
Fortunately he was met by an officer of
a whaler wLich lay hard by, deterred
from his rash design, aud induced to
commence life anew as a common sailor.
His first cruise was wouderfully suc
cessful, aud he returned to California
to recover his old goods, if possible,
from the gambler. The latter had
meanwhile departed for the East.
Willie's first thought was that Watson
had found some letters or other sou
veuirs in s truuk of his, whence he had
gaiued the knowledge of father's being
a retired merchant in prosperous cir
cumstances, and had traveled Eastward
with the idea of playing on the sym
pathies of the family and swindling us
with some cleverly concocted story.
Among other papers Willie missed
was one little note I had written him,
deploring the fate that had doomed me
to j>erpetnal girlhood, and robbed me
of the privilege of becoming a brave
sailor Isd like himself.
How sorry I am for Jack when I
think of the wound ttiia blunder must
have indicted ou his sensitive heart I
It it bad enough to be identified with a
scoundrel through a resemblance which
was nature's fault, and not one's own,
bnt to be loaded with insult besides
must be more than a proud apirit *tn
brook. I hope and pray that no evil
may come of it.
I am mortified beyond description
every time my mind revert* to that
scene in the woods, and Willie's iutem
perate language and demeanor. I
wonder if Jack will forgiw bim for old
acquaintance sake ? It strikes me that
as a friend of so many years' standing,
aud in consideration of Willie's hot,
unreasoning disposition, he ought to
overlook this trifling mistake, and
make it up without delay. Perhaps he
will. We shall see to morrow, when
Willie is cooler. It does no good to
argue with brother now, for he de
clares he is ready to swear in court that
that horrid Watson and my Jack are
one and the same.
/tw houri later. —ln the midst of
the domestic jubilee over Willie's
restoration I was called aside to receive
a note.
It was scribbled hurriedly in pencil on
a half sheet ot paper.and the snperscrip.
tion was in Jcaanette's handwriting
I took it quickly to my room, and began
to read :
" DEAR FRIEND.—When this reaches
yon I shall have passed out of your
sight—
' It nur be for veam.
And U may be forover.'
Woman-like I have resisted Jack's
importunities for four successive days,
and accepted him on the fifth. Wo have
taken flight together.
" Luckily father and mother are both
absent for the day, and will Dot return
till too late to put any impediment in
the way of our elopement. We shall
join the frigate Growler with all speed,
aud set sail for foreign shores. A tour
around the entire world is the least that
Jack will let me off with.
" Now I want to confido in von, as I
believe I may, without fear. It is ODly
my desire to shield our servants from
unjust suspicion that prompts me to
speak ou this point, aud you must use
your information for no other purpose.
Jack thought it best to take every pre
caution to prevent detention ; so I ab
stracted a blank check with father's
signature on it from the drawer where
mother always preserves it as a guard
against sudden emergencies. I never
conld get the hang of these money
matters ; bnt Jack is as wise as I am
ignorant, and he says he can fill up the
check in such away as to draw money
for our traveling expenses if we need it.
He is acquainted with bankers in all
the large cities.
" Jack—the jolly, fooliah, rollick
some fellow—aends you the enclosed
lock of hia hair, which he says may poa
sibly prove a ' slick ' in your affliction
I did not know, to begin with, that yon
were afflicted in any way, and I haven't
the remotest conception of the meaning
of'slick.' Bnt Jack says you are well
versed in maritime language, and will
understand him perfectly. Ho I am
satisfied, dear, if you are.
" Believe mo, sweet Maggie,
" Yours till death,
"JEAXNBTTB."
I longed to cry, but the tears refused
to flow. I was conscious of an inclina
tion to tear my hair, but resisted it.
At length I relapsed into a state of
marble-like stolidity, and went down
stairs again.
Drawing a chair beside my brother's,
I leaned over and whispered,
" Willie, may I ask you a question?"
" Two, if you choose," he replied.
"All right—two. First, where does
the frigate Growler lie ?"
"At the further end of Nowhere,"
jocularly. " All the lying is done by
the first mate. To be sober, though,
His, there isn't snob a frigate in the
navy, to my knowledge. Now, then,
what is question number two ?"
" This—what is the definition of the
nautical term, ' slick ?' "
" Ilumph I How shall I explain it
to you ? Well, to use a poetical ex
pression, it means 'oil npon the
troubled waters.'"
Oh, how I wish I had been born a
man!
Lewiß Smith, of Temple, Vt., in ap
plying for a warrant for the arrest of a
neighbor named Burton, for slander,
stated that he and his wife had knocked
Burton down five and three times re
spectively, but in spite of these per
suasions the obdurate man persisted in
telling stories,
CENTIIE 11A EE, CENTH
i •nuii.iMi iiuiir.
A Urovi ot I f bi*r>* Rnnulng
A iuii, S lit A*v* rikritty I'tnuui
I "J Ml >i*
A most disastrous ami unprecedented
calamity occurred iu New York. A
■ drove of wild Texan steers were ou
their way to the cattle market en route
for Buffalo, and while being Conveyed
from Weehawkeu by the Forty-second
street ferry escaped from their drunken
or careless drivers. The cattle scat
tered throughout the street* and
avei ucs of the metropolis wounding
ami injuring men, women and children,
aud diffusing terror and absolute
consternation among the citiseua.
Over fifty persona were more or less
severely injured, some of whom are
young children. The couduet of the
police wo* moat absurd, excepting in
a few instances, and it aeeuied a* if a
riot was transpiring iu the metropolis,
for five or six hours, lasting uutit near
ly ten o'clock iu the evening. It is not
known how many of the injured will
die as yet, but some are very badly
bruised internally, and some others
will, no doubt, be disfigured for life.
The steers were crazy from thirst and
• hunger, and ttie manner iu which the
crowd acted made them more so. They
separated and wcut through different
street*. One scene is thus diseribed :
About half-past seveu o'clock, says
the Herald, the first **rd be
came a scene of frautic cx-iteineut. A
muffled noise of human voice* mingled
with guu shots and the collision of
vehicles wa* hc-arJ in the direction of
Greenwich street. A general rush of
people was made toward the spot, the
howls and excitemeut growing mo
mentarily more intense. Ou a sadden
a steer of colossal proportions, snorting
fury, his eves ablaze with rage, and
bounding like a deer, fled downward
through Greenwich and oast Court
laudt street. Multitudes of little chil
dren were playing ou the sidewalks.
The dense throng that pursued the
animal, armed with knives, bludgeons,
guns and revolvers, were sufficient to
warn all jiersous sway, and the street
was cleared far more speedily than
when the ponderous fire engine shoots
along Broadway by night, at once the
harbinger of safety and danger. Little
Maggie Slater, of No. 156 Greenwich
street, had not time to flee into her
house, and she *M tossed into the air
by the animal. Fortunately the bull
did not strike her a second time; still
she lay insensible for several minutes,
but was afterwards restored and pro
nounced out of danger.
On rushed the steer, turned up Cedar
street, and in an instant confronted a
police officer at the corner of Chureh.
tie stood, faced the bull, fired straight
into his eves and was instantly dashed
under a wagon, lie was not much
hart, so he picked himself up and
joined in the pursuit. The animal rau
toward a second policeman, pitching
him also upon the sidewalk, and con
tinued his flight to Liberty street, dowu
Liberty to West, and then northward
ito Murray. By this time upwards of
forty policemen aud an immense con
course of people were dose on the bull's
heels, firing, but with no visible effect
.Several men who knew the coarse the
steer was taking, rau to the foot of
Murray street and drew wagons, track*,
hand cart*, etc., across West strict,
thus erectiug an impassable barricade.
As the bull ueared lae structure he waa
severely wounded by a pistol shot in
i the leg ami fell to the ground. There
upon two young men—Messrs. J. P.
: O'Kiordan, shoemaker, of No. 127
Liberty street, and Charles Hober,
saloon keeper, of No. 160 Greenwiali
I street—wbo bad joined early in the
[mrsuit, fell upon him witli two big
mtcher knives aud cat his tluost.
Several men held him fast by the horna,
and it gave the crowd enough to do to
hold him down during the struggle thst
followed the cutting of his throat. On
, the animal's race down town lie struck
several persons, who must have been
more or lea* severely injured, as they
were almost instantly carried to their
respective homes. The excitement con
sequent on the pursuit was intensified
I by the rumor that came to many oars
thst a whole drove of animals had
broken looeo in the upper part of the
city and wore spreading destruction in
all directions. A sharp lockout was
consequently kept toward tho fonr
point* of the compass, and every
ghostly looking black object that came
to view in the streets van set dowu as a
mad ball. About the same hour in
which the existence of the above men
tioned quadruped was brought to a
cloee, a scene by far more painful and
dongerons was witnessed in the most
crowded quarter of the City, along the
i Bowery from Grand street to Tenth.
An immense throng stood aloug the
Bowery when the rumor of the presence
of mail steers went abroad and spread
with telegraphic rapidity. The num
ber gradually increased, until there
were upward of three thousand people
! present. The first proof given of the
! escape of the animals was the sudden
. appearance of one of them at the cor
ner of the Bowery and Fourth street.
He stopped for an instant, and then,
striking an nnknown lady at (ho corner
of Broome street, knocked her heavily
Ito the ground. Sergeant Maloney who
j bad rushed out of the Bockmau street
j station house, not so much for the
putposo of shooting the animal as for
j that of preventing the exeiled multi
! tude from using their firearms with
recklessness, for the frequent discharge
' of guns and pistols by this time was
| like a fnsilade, though it hail no effect
I upon the animal. The Hergeant pur-
I sued him up Bowery and Fourth aveuue
| to Tenth street, back again through the
i same thoroughfare to Broome, through
j Broome to Elizabeth, to Hester, to the
Bowery and to Broome, where Officer
Donavan, thinking that the auimal was
faint with fatigue and wounds, jumped
toward him and seized him by the
horns. lie was instantly tossed into
the air by the ferocious beast, nnd fall
ing with a thud upon the street receiv
ed injuries which necessitated lus re
moval to the Park Hospital. Amid the
shouting and firing of tho populace,
Hergeant Maloney raised his voioe and
! begged tho peoplo not to use their fire
arms, lest some person might be killed.
His advice was only partially heeded,
however. Maloney, assisted by several
citizens and officers, procured a ropo
and lassoed the bull, after which be
procured a carving knife at the Occi
dental Hotel and cut the ham strings,
when the animal was speedily dispatch
ed. It was a long time before the
alarm and consternation of the throng
subsided, many persons expressing
fears for the safety of friends whom
they supposed to have been injured by
the animals in other portions of the
metropolis.
Similar sceneH were enacted in the
various streets visited by the angry ani
mals, apd over forty men, women and
children were injured, somo of them
fatally, before the last steer was killed.
Belle De Forest is the name of a
pretty orphan girl, with brown hair and
hazel eyes, who flung herself from a
fourth story window in Baltimore re
cently because of want and disappoint
ment. She said, when her severe in
juries would permit her to speak : " I
have never yet met a woman who would
pity or help me, nor havo I found one
man who acted towards me with honor."
U CO., l'A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1874.
Ncenes In the Street* of Haul* I'e,
The streets of Hants Fe present a
very sinking appearance to the eyes of
any one who lias not aeon the like be
fore ; those around the Plana are gener
ally tilled with immense wagons drawn
by" six, eight, and often ten yoke of
half Starved oxen, the ouly means of
bringing the luuoh-ueeded supplies
from the end of the railroad. While
theae great vans sre tieisg unloaded the
oxeu often lie dowu iu their yokes, and
their tired appearance, ami the anneal
ing look of their large eyea, would ex
cite the pity of many meu far less
frieudly thau Mr. Itergh to the brute
creation. In all the streets can t*> seen
great numbers of little autmsls called
by the .Mexicans " buroa," but belter
known to English speaking people as
donkeys. These small beasts are
packed with all aorta of loads. Often
as many as fifty can be seen in a single
drove, with nearly as many drivers,
coming into town loaded with wood.
The usual price per " cargo, as they
call it, ia "dint reals," or twenty five
ocuta. About sixteen such loads make
a cord. Again, a train of "buroa"
will be seen loaded with all kinds of
merchandise,frequently with a barrel ou
either side of each lieaat. A pack-sad
dle is used upou thrill, but no other
equipment. Tney are guided by hlowa
on alternate aides of their heads and
necks, administered by their drivers
with a club never less than two inches
in thickness. Not unfrequeutiy two
men are seen mounted ou una of those
little beast* of burden, either of whom
could pick him up and carry him away.
The " buro" is the best example of
patience the writer baa ever seen.
These animal* live upon almost
nothing, a standing joke of the oouutry
bring that a few sheet* of browu paper
constitute a grand feait for a " buru.
They do a great deal of work, and
render many service* on the rough
mountain trails that could be obtained
from no other animals. The aide walks
of the city are generally covered with
" portals " or porches, and the streets
are fringed during the day aud half the
uight with the ptctures-iue people of
Uie city ; some wailing, kiicawber like,
•• for something to turn up others
moving slowly along, for but few Mexi
aus tivpik life loug eaoagh to make
uy haste iu getting through it.
The Mountain Meadow Massacre.
A Halt Lake Citv dispatch states thst
the Mormons at Beaver county, Utah,
are greatly excited because they antici
pate an attempt to arrest prominent
Saint* indicted for participation in the
Mountain Meadow massacre. It is
represented that the Mormons evince
s determined spirit to resist the ex-
I>eotcd legal process by the District
Court, and the authorities will probably
call for the assist a nee of the United
States troops to aid them in the dis
charge of their duty. It is not unlikely
that bloodshed will occur, but it is high
time the Mormon* were taught that the
law of the Church, or, what is the same
thing, of the prophet Brigham, is sub
servient to the law of the land, and that
criminals even in Utah must be brought
to justice.
Twenty years have passed aince a
party of emigrants. numWring over 300
men, women and children, pursuing
peaceably their journey from Missouri
to California, * ore murdered in cold
blood at Mountain Meadow, in Utah.
But one escaped to tell the horrible
story of slaughter. Nine little children,
too young, a* it was supposed, to realize
their terrible situation, were saved and
adopted by the Mormons. Three of
these afterward displayed too clear
knowledge of what had transpired, and
they were also put out of the way. The
olhi-r six wre sulisequrntly restored
by ttie United Htates officials to their
friends and relative* in Miaaonri. The
Mormoua at the time attempted to shift
the responsibility of the massacre upon
the Indians, but subsequent develop
ment* leave no doubt that the wb'de
slaughter was planned and perpetrated
iby the Mormons themselves. Those
high in authority in th© Church di
rected the. bloody work, and prominent
" Baint* " have recently been indicted
by the Grand Jury for murder by par
ticipation iu the in ansae re. It is hi be
hoped they will speedily be brought to
juntioc, tried, and if found guilty, suf
fer the just penalty of their crimes.
The United Btate* laws have been a
dead letter in Utah Territory for years,
but the last session of Congress adopted
legislation which, though uot altogether
satisfactory, has at least had the effect
of setting the wheels of justice in mo
tion. — HcituLlic.
Took II Im Out.
Tli© Delaware Railroad, says Max
Adeler, rtins right through Peabody's
farm, just below our village, and close
to the track there is a kind of a mud
hole. Into this one of Peabody's horse#
fell, the other day, and defied every
effort that oeuld be made to get him
out. While I'ealxidy was working at
the job, a freight train ran in upon the
siding and stopped to shift some empty
car# Tho engineer noticed I'eabody a
trouble and finally offered to pull the
horse out with the looomotivs if I'ea
body would give him fire dollars. Pea
body gladly consented ; and the en
gineer got down for the purpose of fas
tening a rope under the horse's belly.
Just as he completed this job, the fire
man, a greenhorn, got meddling with
the starting liar, anil the engine sud
denly gave s jerk and began to move off.
In loss than a minute that iron steed
was proceeding down tho Delaware
peninsula at the rate of s mile a minute
with Psabody's hors* liehind, slashing
up against th* fences, swishing through
ditches, hutting against the cross-ties
and dancing and frolicking and jump
ing about in the most extraordinary
manner. When the engine was stopped
twenty-three miles below, by leaping
th* track, and rolling over into a gully,
there was nothing on the rope but four
ribs and a piece of the backlione, and
these Pee body concluded not to drive
home. Tho engineer says all he prom
ised to do wo* to get the horse out, sn<T
he got it out. But I'eabody somehow
don't appear to tie satisfied.
A Ventriloquist Joke.
There was much excitement on the
train bound south from Charlottesville,
Va. In the palace car was a gentleman
who had stepped aboard at Charlottes
ville with a child muffled from head to
foot in shawls. Before the train had
gone far the occupants of the other
compartments in the car heard a child's
cry, then another. Then came the
angry tones of a man's voice, "Yon are
not Charlie ; you are Tommie; and if
you make any more noiae I'll throw you
out of the wiudow." "1 want to go to
mamma. I am her own little Charlie,"
the child was heard to say. Then blows
were heard, and screams, and a passen
ger said, "It is little Charlie Boss ;"
and a rush was made. The man was
dragged from his compartment, and the
ladies sprang forward and got their
arms about the child. They removed
the covering from his face and fonnd
that instead of Charlie Boss they had iu
their embrace the wooden automaton
with whioh the ventriloquist Wyman is
wont to amuse the pnblio. The prac
tical joker was Wvman himself, whe
was on his way io Lynchburg.
The IMacervllle Snaka.
It ap|>esra that th* big snake has
again broken out up near I'lscervilla.
From time to time we have seen ac
counts of this monster snake published
in j-apera of that region, but we were of
the opinion that it was all owing to the
lo*r quality ol the liquor sold up that
way. lteorutiy a well-known official o|
this oouutry returned from California
byway of the i'lacerville route, bring
liig the latest intelligence in regard to
the doings of his suakeahip. Tne gen
tleman- who refuses to have his name
mixed up with snake stories says he is
of the opinion that there really is a big
snake of seme kind up there in the
mountains. The region principally in
fested is about four miles this side of
I'lacerville. Four days ago the big
snake came into a man's dooryard,
where there were a lot of fowls, and
gobbled up about twenty young ducks
before the very eyea of the inmatee
There were in the bouee at the time e
man, three women, and several chil
dren. There waa no gun or other
weapon iu the house with whioh to at
tack the snake, aud th* man waa obliged
to let him have his own way among the
ducks. The women and children were
so frightened that they would not re
main in the house after the snake left,
and all bauds went over to a house on
the maiu road, and remained there for
a day or two, nutil their nerves had
quieted dowu. They all declare that
the snake wan at least forty feet long.
The stage-driver with whom our official
rode stated that he saw the snake the
day before he went after the ducks,
anil Lad a good square look at bim as
he lsy by the side of the road, lie
says that he oould have shot the
monster if he had had any one to hold
his team. II is only passenger* were
Chins men, and they were so badly
frightened thst he Jid not dare trust
them with the line*. Th# driver as
serted that the snake appeared to him
to be between thirty ana forty feet in
length, and of large size in the middle.
Whether or not there is such a snake
as is described in the locality named,
all the settler* believe there is, which
is about a* bad as iui realitv. The
people up there—particularly the
women and children—live in constant
fear of the big snake. Our informant
is of the opinion thst there may be run
ning at large a boa-constrictor which
some time or other escaped from some
menagerie ; that the ansae may now be
of large size ; bnt be thinks the fears
of those who saw him added a good
many feet to his length.— liryinla
CVy Enterprise,
Funny Scene In Charrh.
The Alexandria Oaiettm contains the
following :
An episode somewhat unusual is re
ported to have occurred at the pro
tracted meeting now in progress at the
M. E. Church, South, in this city. The
pastor, Kev. Mr. Wsngh, who has bean
most zealously engaged iu the duties of
his ministry, was fervently prearing
home the great truths of ttie Gospel,
when an alarm of fire was sounded
without. Many of our most publio
spirited citizens are members of the
congregation, and the alarm drew nam
hers from an endeavor to svoid'eternsl
flame * to au effort to extinguish a tem
poral fire. The hasty exits naturally
attracted much attention, and the pa*
tor seize.) the occasion to point a moral
by reference to the zeal with which men
b are the promises of eternity at the
calls of time, and how much more in
terest was felt in saving brick and mor
tar than in saving immortal souls. At
this point, the alarm being a falsa one,
many had returned, among them Mr.
Robert L. Wood, a member of the
church, wbo rose, and said in sub
stance : " Brother Waugh, you must
not apeak so ; I went out not to save
brick and mortar, but, it might be, to
rescue some poor family from destruc
tion."
Rev. Mr. Waugh said he did not in
tend to give his remarks a personal ap
plication. but had endeavored to draw
from a fleeting occurrence a suitable
leason. as was his duty as pastor, and
he again pioceeded to cote how soon
the sanctuary was deserted when the
calls of earth were heard, whereupon
Mr. Wood rose again, saying, " Yon
must not talk so, air, to this congrega
tion. "
Rev. Mr. Waugh—Sit down, Brother
Wood.
Mr. Wood—No, air; I have a right to
speak.
Rev. Mr. Waugh—Sit down 1 but Mr.
Wood not heeding the command, it was
repeated five times, Mr. Wood remain
ing in a standing position, and the ex
citement becoming so great among the
entire congregation that the services
bad to be abruptly cloaed without the
usntl ceremonies.
The Open Polar Sea.
Dr. Hays, in a letter on the Austrian
Polar expedition, says : The highway
to the Pole was, I believe, open to
CapL Ilall, and bad he lived I beUeve
he would Lave reached it I believe
the-same thing oould have been dons
by my old commander, Dr. Kane, in
August, 1853, and by myself in 1860,
bad either of us been cleaned with
steam ; and I believe, as I tiaTe repeat
edly asserted publicly, that the Sound
can be navigated with steam-power any
rear ; and in proof of this we may cits
the fact that Oapt Hall eiperienoed no
difficulty whatever in the Polaris.which,
as if it* were lint s pleasure voyage,
steamed in six days from Upernavik to
the highest point ever reached by anv
vessel; and even-the land lie sighted
beyond must, I think, have been some
thing further north than Ist, 83°, which
seems to have lieen the northern most
point—Cape Vienna—seen by the gal
lant officers of the Tegetthoff. For in
1861 I traced tho outline of the land,
which I named Cap© Union, on tli©
t. cat side (imperfectly traced, it is true,
owing to the great difficulties of the
situation), to Ist. 82°, 45 seconds, and
Cspt. Hall must have seen land beyond
this. Dr. Hays adds : As for myself,
my going bock to the scene of my oll
contests ha# been, as those interested
in Arctic exploration well know, merely
s question of money. That forthcom
ing, I shall lose no time in once mors
leading an expedition into Bmith
Bound.
Shutting Off Criticism.
" Did you ever see that picture,
grandma f" asked a young lady, as they
took a view of tho family portrait gal
lery.
" Bee it! Why, it's a portrait of my
self when I was seventeen."
" I thought you'd forgotten it, or yon
wouldn't always be lecturing us girls
about modesty in drees."
Grandma looked over her spectacles
and declared the girls now-a-days were
very impertinent to their elders.
A Hros BILL.— Mrs. McGnffey,
Dayton. Ohio, while traveling in
(Switzerland, took the small-pox, snd
was for many weeks confined to her
room at a hotel in Vevay. When she
reoovered she fonnd a bill awaiting her
attention, which was figured at the
modest anm of $1,300 a month. All
the guests in a panic left the hotel, and
during her illness the small-pox patieut
was the sole tenant of the houee. She
oonsidered the bill reaeonabl# enough,
and paid it,
Terms: 52.00 a Year, in jYdvanoe.
Tki Du|rri of oirrtu4 Trawl.
The Mowing card appeared, numer
ously signed, in the Han Francisoo
JtulUtin : " We, the undersigned par
■una, have just arrived in California
from Omaha, and we feel it to l>e our
duly to warn the public that neither
life or property ia aafe on the emigrant
traina of the Central Pacific railroad.
This thoroughfare of travel ia infeatad
from end to end with thievea, gamblers
aud sharpers, who are little better than
highway robbers. The osml actors and
brakesmen of the trains sre either
afraid to exercise any authority or are
in league with these marauders. There
ia no law and no place of appeal for
protection, as is the oaae on shipboard,
Lut every peaceful or unarmed psaaen
ger is at the mercy of any ruffian wbo
chooses to maltreat him. The conduc
tors refuse to take any notion of such
outrageous actions when oomplnlned to.
On our reoent trip, many pour men of
our party were fleeced oat o! their last
dollar at three-card moute— several of
them being family men. We do not
oumplaiu of this so much as we do of
the fact that our train was literally
captured this side of lteno, by s gang
of eight or ten moute brigands, wbo,
because they ouuld get no one to bet
with Ibem, passed through the ears
calling the passengers vulgar names,
striking them, spitting tobacoo juioe in
their faces, flourishing bowie-knives
and revolvers, and thresting to out our
throats or blow oar brains oat. They
were all heavily armed, while few of us
had w capo us of any kind, and. in fact,
did not ooue to this Btate with the ex
pectation of having to fight oar way
through. At Truck.ee we were informed
that a passenger on an eastward-bound
emigrant train had been barbarously
bos ten for refusing to gamble with
these scoundrels. It was also staled
that more danger exists on the east
ward-bound trains than on the traius
fur the west. All of these gamblers
and capper* are personally known to
the railroad conductors, but an* never
disturbed, but, on the ountrary, usually
ride in the same oar with the ound no
lo ra aitef they have ooneladed their
devilment for the trip. Ho far as we
could discover, not the slightest sem
blance of law waa observable along the
Central Pacific railroad in Nevada,
everything being controlled by ruffian
ism and threat# of murder, and we be
lieve that the traveling public, es
pecially the poorer olaee, should be
made acquainted with these facts."
Married Women's Eights.
A oaae waa triad in New Turk whioh
is illustrative of the rights and respon
sibilities of married women. In 1869
the plaintiff, Isaac E. Liuekworth, be
came a lodger in a honae in Weat Ninth
atreet, and after a time he bought the
huuae and became landlord aa well aa
lodger, executing to the huaband of the
landlady a written leaae, which at the
expiration of the term waa replaced by
a ucw leaae reciting alightly different
terma, bnt retaining the name of the
landlady's husband aa leasee.
The huaband waa then an employee
of a Dry atreet mercantile firm at a
aalary of $3,800 a roar, from which ha
made hia wife an allowance measured
by the amonnt of the rent of the honae.,
which laat year waa SI,BOO. The firm
in 1872 opened a bran ah office in the
Weat and aent the huaband to take
charge of it, ao that be waa neceaaariiy
away from hia home the greater part of
the time. Meanwhile, hia wife carried
on the boaineae of letting aparlmenta
in the honae, and eupported beraeif
and other* dependent upon her from
the income thai derived, paying the
rent out of the advances from her hua
band. She waa careful to take several
rece pta purporting to acknowledge
payment* of rent by her huaband. He
loat hia situation in February laat, and
ainoo has not given hia wifa any money
with which to pay rent. She left the
house on the first of May, taking the
fnrnitnre, which waa her indtvidnal
property, and leaving a quarter'a rent
due—s(so.
The plaintiff sued the wife for thia
amount, with ooeta, saying that after
the expiration of the laat leaae evi
denced bv writing, he made a new
leaae, oralW, to the wife, regarding her
aa the real tenant, and giving credit
solely to her, because abe waa one of
the pair who paid him his rent. On
the other hand, her counsel contended
that the original contracts made with
the huaband were aimply continued by
parole, the wife acting aa hia agent and
doing nothing to charge her separate
estate. Thia answer wsa sustained by
the jury, who found a general verdict
for the defendant.
lioeomoUve Caprice*.
It in perfectly wall known to expe
rienced engineers that if a dosen differ
ent locomotive engines were mad® at
tlie une tim®, of the name power, for
tb® name purpo®®, of like material*, in
th® earn® factory, each of theae looo
motive engines would com® out with ita
own peculiar whima and way*, only as
certainable by experience. On® engine
will take a great deal of coal and water
at once ; another will not hear to anch
a thing, hot lnalsta on being coaxed by
apadefnla and bucketful*. One i* dis
posed to atart off wben required at tha
top of speed; another must have a little
tim® to warm into it. Theae peculiari
ties are ao accurately mastered by skill
ful drivers that only particular men can
persuade engines to do their best. It
would seem ss if some of these *' excel
lent masters" declared, on being
brought from the stable, " If it's Smith
who is to dries, I won't go ; if it's my
friend Stokes, I tm agreeable to do
anything." All locomotive engines are
loir-spirited in damp, foggy weather.
They hare great satisfaction in their
work wben the sir is erisp and frosty.
At snch time tliey MO eery cheerful and
brisk, bat they strongly object to lies*
end mists. These are points of charac
ter on which they are united. It is in
their peculiarities and varieties of char
acter that they are the most remark
able.
Capture of a Slave I>how.
Her Majesty's ship V alt are, says the
London Time*, Commander A. T.
Brooke, was cruising off the northwest
coast of Madagascar when a sail to the
southeast was reported by the mast
head-man. Chase was given, aud near
ly five hours afterward the dhow was
come up with and boarded. It was full
of slaves, forty-one men, fifty-nine wo
men, and one hundred and thirty-seven
children. The slaves were suffering
acutely from weakness and cramp, hav
ing had to remain in one position for a
long time. Several of the children
were unable to straighten their legs for
three or four days after they were re
ceived on board. One woman was
found buried up to her neck in damp
sand at tne bottom of the Blave dhow,
under the lower slave deck. The own
ers of the human cargo were thirty-five
armed Arabs, and the captain deter
mined to take them to Zanzibar and
have them summarily dealt with. The
Vulture sailed for the Seychelles after
burning the dhow and picking up four
boats that had been sent away cruising
a few days previously. The passage
was made in ton days, and during that
time seventeen liberated slaves died of
dysentery and extreme debility. This
is the largest oaptnre whioh has been
made for a very long time.
SO. 43.
A TEXAS YEJfDETTA.
History of Ifc. Tifhir-taUM Warn*—
aiStlMB II.SUMM Alr*djr.
A member of ons of tha two military
compautM sent from Galveston, Texas,
to Indianola M guards of the prisoner
William Taylor, accused of killing Wil
liam Button and Gilbert Slaughter on
the Morgan steamship iMt spring, baa
contributed to the Galveston Noun the
following account of tbeeatcagM out
of which the murder and arrest grew :
" We reached the wharf a few minntee
before eight o'clock, where we wen
met by District-Attorney W. H. Crane,
who accompanied the command to the
court bonae, and caused the sheriff to
receive the prisoner and place bim in
jail; and by bia request Gapt. Weeks
placed sentinels around the jail to pre
vent either a rescue or an attempt to
lynch, M the Governor had been in
formed might be attempted. On the
wharf there were fewer persona than 1
expected to see, judging from rnmora
we had heard ; and on the streets very
few of the partisans of the antagonistic
factions wrre seen. In fact, scarcely a
dogen of them were noticed; they were
very quiet and orderly. In this con.
nection I will add that the much re
gretted feud between the families and
friends of Button and Taylor should
cease. It hM already oust a sufficient
number of lives to cause those now liv
ing to reflect and stop. From twe gen
llemen who reside in that portion of
the Bute I learn that the feud originat
ed in Alabama about eighteen years
ago. Their account of its subsequent
progress is M follows: Shortly after
the death of a member of one of these
families at the hands of the ether, one
family moved to this Bute and settled
in Western Texas. Subsequently the
other came and settled, unknowingly,
in the same neighborhood. Here they
lived peaceably np to the end of the
Lste war, when one, Charles Taylor
(though no relative),came among them,
and, being accused of stealing horses,
fled to Bastrop oonnty with a friend,
Jim Sharp. They were panned by
several citizens, among whom William
Button WM said to have been. Taylor
and Sharp were caught and shot, After
the return of the punning party to De-
Witt oonnty. Book Taylor, ancle to the
prisoner, and Dick Chiabolm expressed
their feelings so strongly regarding the
killing of Charley Taylor and Sharp, M
to give offense to William Sutton and a
Mr. White, from which resulted a fight
and the death of Taylor and Ohiaholm.
It ia stated that the next two killed
were Littlejohn and Btannard, who were
shot in Wilson oonnty, both friends of
Sutton. The supposition was that Tay
lor's friends committed the act. This
WM in 1870, when Davis' State Police
were in force, and with whom, rumor
says, Button WM friendly, if not con
nected. In 1871 C. 8. Bell, SUU po
liceman. abet and killed Hays Taylor.
In 1872 Dobey Taylor WM killed by a
man iq Kerrville. In 1873, as Mr. Cox
and a friend were riding in advance of
Messrs. Tixnlinsoo. Walls and Itagland,
friends of Sutton and party, from
Helena toward Yorktown, tbey were
shot from the bushes and killed, it was
supposed by the Tsylor party. During
the same year Mark Taylor WM killed
by a party with whoa Jack Helm was,
and in the same year Helm was killed
in Alaacoaa county, it WM believed by
some of the Taylor gang. Ia 1873. Pit
kin Taylor, another uncle of William
Taylor, was called out of his bouse and
so badlv shot that be did not long sur
vive. Shortly afterward two more of
bis relatives, the Killett boys, were
killed.
Karl? last spring the Sutton party,
under Capt. Tomlinsoo and Wuliam
Sutton, completely surrounded Uic
Tavlora, and would hare ended the dif
flculUeebad not good citizens interfered
and secured a treaty of peace, which
waa signed by each member of the two
parties, and waa kept until the killing
of Sutton and Slaughter on the steam
ship Clinton last March, and aa a prin
cipal in which William Taylor, the
prisoner, it now under accusation.
Within a month from that time. Scrap
Taylor, the only brother of the pris
oner, who had been oaptnred in Co
manche county and sent to DeWitt,
charged with cattle steeling, waa taken
from jail by a mob, consisting, it waa
thought, of Sutton men, and shot to
death.
These are all the homicides I could
hear of, yet my informants admit that
there may hare been others, aa the two
parties ars always in the saddle, arrayed
against each other. At present the
Sutton party are largely in the aaoend
anU lam alto told that the fend has
drawn into it many others, and if a
general fight should at any time begin,
there would be 1,000 or 1,200 in vol red.
It is thonght to be utterly impossible
to obtain an unbiased jury in any of
the adjacent counties, for these parti
sans hare sympathisers in them. Yet
in Indianola* there would have been no
trouble. At the court here the venire
of sixty summoned waa a very intelli-
Cnt one, and men who would have
en just without fear or favor.
Speaking of this difficulty, an attor
ney stated it waa with regret that the
people of a eounty like DeWitt, with
1,600 voters, felt it necessary to call
upon the Executive for protection and
tiie enforcement of the law. All with
whom I conversed expressed themselves
favorable to the passage of a more vig
orous police law, even the re-enact
ment of the Davis Police oill, with the
objectionable features, such aa the sus
pension of the hatea* corpus, assess
ment and collection of money from
counties to defray expenses, and the
power of the Governor to declare mar
tial law. They believe anch a law, in
hands of good officers, is absolutely
needed in tha West. I hear only the
moat flattering reports aa to the oon
ductof Oapt L. H MeNelly and his
command, and wonld auggeat that by
some means he be appointed Sheriff of
that county, and allowed to retain hia
command to enforce the law, whioh he
would do if the Legislature would en
large his powers. I believe it wonld
break up both gangs, or at least their
earrving weapons. It ia conceded, by
a large number of citizens, that had no
troops oome, either an effort to release,
or oao to lynch Taylor wonld have been
mails. Several of the leading men of
each party were in attendance on tha
court. '
Then and How,
There is, says an exchange, a striking
contrast between Banmm's first and
second marriage. When he waa
" Taylor Barnnm," helping his widowed
mother, who kept tavern in Dan bury,
he courted Charity Haltett, " a sewing
girl." Charity Hallett yielded to the
youth's ardent affection, and beeame
hia bride. They oommenoed house
keeping in the second story of a small
building, on the first floor of which the
bridegroom kept an oyster saloon. Let
this be compared with the Barnnm of
to day, with a property of three mil
lions,' and with a palace at Bridgeport
surrounded by a park, the establish
ment being unequaled in all New Eng
land. _____
A St Louis woman, who appeared
against her husband in court reoentiy,
swore as follows: "Since he married
me he has never given me a penny, and
I've pawned my watch, my jewelry, and
my false hair to get along."
More Masked Robbers.
The Pittsburgh a*mkto fivuu the
following Seconal of ft daylight rob
bery by mooUd nam, which occurred
in Beaver county, Pi, recently:
" A furrahonae bttwwn Hookiten
i a<l Prink fort Springs, Boftwr oonnty,
I* .nwapied by two beabelor brother!,
John and Htowl Miftin, who have
for yeara Ixwn living clone, nod have
been largely engaged in the wool bnsi
neea. It WM known that they had •
onmnlated a vaMetook ol woel.iWrtoolT
estimated at from #B,OOO to 812,000.
They were alao known to hfi a con
siderable amount of money, rnmora
baring been enrrent among their neigb
bora that they bad accreted about their
bonae vaat anma in gold and silvan
- Samuel, who ia sixty-nine yeara of
age, wna in (he bonae ek>M- About
three o'clock in the afternoon four rob
bera appeared. Tbey first bound
fiiimi acd thee demanded to be in*
formed where bb money WM eeeteled.
t J refuaed to tall, and they tbreeleoad
to kill bim if be did not divulge im
mediately. Being unable to eeu for
aaaiatanoe, be told them where a smell
aom WM aecreted, but they warn not
satisfied by any means, and again re
tnrnad to the victim. Be aMnred them
that be knew nothing of any other
money, and bia penu.tence in proUst
ing bia ignoranoa aeemed to be believed
by the robbers. They pot the viatim
on a bed. and then prooeeded to search
the premisea. About half-paet four
o'clock John, who ia sixty-nine year* of
age, and who had been to the poet
offioe, returned home. Aa soon ashe
entered the bonae be WM samed but
be made stteh e vigorous reaiatanoe that
one of the aooundrela atrnck him on
tba head with a hatchet. The blow
rendered furl her reaiatanoe impossible,
and be WM bound and laid on the same
bed with bia brother. Be WM interro
gated about the money, bat would not
tell an til be felt oonvinoed be would be
killed if be did not impart the desired
information. The mooey. M sUted,
had been buried in the cellar in 1881,
and an old barrel had been placed over
the spot. There WM originally about
12,700 n gold, but at various times
money had been taken frem the stow,
and it WM supposed there WM fully
$2,000 remaining. Hie robben re
mained until evening, having made
ample arrangements for getting away
with their plunder. Tbey had only
gone a abort distance when they found
that John had released himself. Tbey
then returned to the bowse, sots tied
him. and placed bim in a bed by him
self. About nine o'clock John again
obtained bia freedom, and started at
onoe to a neighbor's boose, about a
mile distant, when he gave information
of the outrage.
"It appears that the brothers have
been aooumuiatingvoo! for twelve or
fourteen yean. One day reoenUy a
man called upon them and represented
that be WM buying wool, and offered
to take their entire stock. They wanted
81.36 per pound, but he refused to pay
that asm and left. Ba WM walking,
and this fact made them suspicions.
The circumstances, however, had been
forgotten until tbey were recalled by
one of the thieve* remarking : * Will
yon take lees than SL3S a pound for
your wool now Y The news of the wto-
Wry hM greeted intense excitement,
snd persons living in the locality are
making svery effort to obtain come el us
to tha thieves."
Hew Whiskey Acts.
Nathaniel Van Lewen, wbo resides on
Green and vlto has hitherto
borne a'good reputation, but who has
of late Decome involved in domestic
difficulties, landing him to drown his
sorrows by indulgence in intoxica
ting drink*, waa ameUd on complaint
ofOvereeer of the Poor Biley, at Weal
Troy, N. 1., lor noo-snpport of hia
family, waa discharged the next day,
and again commenced drinking. Be
waa again arrested and sentenced by
Justine Remington to jail for ten dnys.
Nothing nnnsnal waa noticed until
Saturday night. About twelve o'clock
at night Dr. Oobb, the jail physician,
waa summoned, and foond the man
then Üboringnndar strong mental ex
citement. The doctor administered
strong opiates to quiet him, and no
more trouble ensued until the next day
at one r. v., when Dr. Oobb was again
sent for in haste. The man waa then
eoffering from ddiriona convulsion*.
He was laboring under the delusion
that he had murdered a portion of the
members of hia household, and was suf
fering all the agonies of remorse for
the fancied commission of Bust crime.
He had attempted sell-destruction by
trying first to batter his brains out
Jainst the walls of the oelL Finding
the walls would not serve hia purpose
he then got on hia bunk and sprang
from thence head foremost against the
door of the call, which la composed of
stent oaken bars three inches square,
set vertically three inches apart. Af
terward be grasped the bars of the
door in hia hey*. and in that poeit.oa
butted his bead repeatedly with grast
force against the door until the alarmed
keepers aeourad him. Tha wounds he
inflicted are absolutely frightful, one
wound nine and one-half inches in
lenuth extending from the forehead
££ the base of the akull Tha de
tached scalp from this wound had fallen
over on his shouldsr. Another wound
i five and one-hall inch* in length ooin
meaeed at the top of the bead and ex
tended down over the right forehead,
thus making a T shaped wound, the
loosened rcalp from which hung down
over hia right eye, presenting a fright
ful appearance. One piece of the scalp,
two and one-half inches square, at tha
crown of the heed, wna entirely crushed
off and waa found in the oelL The cell
presented the appearance of a alaiigh
ter-taoose—the walla and door bespat
tered with Wood in every direction.
Dr. Oobb, assisted by Dr. BuKogton,
dressed the wounds in the beat possible
manner. Afterward Dr. Oobb pro
cured an order from Juatioe Itemington
to remove the wounded mah to St. Pe
ter's Hospital at Albany, where he may
receive such careful nursing as hia pre
oarious condition requires. He is not
expected to recover. It is said that he
has before attempted suicide.
A Thiers Triek.
At the risk of increasing the facilities
of the criminal classes for their raids
on society, wc would call attention to
an invention —French of course—known
as an " escape-box," which is swallowed
before going into prison. This oon
trivanoe is for the special use of rogues
who have the misfortune to get into
prison and would be glad to step down
and out. It is of polished steel, about
three inches long, and contains turn
screws, hammers, silk thread, and other
implements necessary for escape. When
it passes the bowels the prisoner is pre
pared to cut the thickest iron bars and
set himself at liberty. Notunfrequently
this emetic fails to operate satisfac
torily, and tha death of the patient is
the oonscquenoe, so that after all per
haps no harm will result from the in
formation here imparted.
SWSAIIM. —A pious elder of the
Scottish kirk on his way to service of •
Sabbath morning saw A little boy and
girl playing mtrbln. Ho wmthfully
inquired : "Do von know where chil
dren go to who play marbles on Sun
day f 7 "Ay, ay," nnsweied the boy,
" they gang down to the Held bv th
brig" (bridge). "No!" roared the
elder, 14 they go to hell and are
burned." 'Ae little fellow, looking
shocked end frightened, called to his
sister: "Come awa', Jeanie, come awa',
here's a man sweariiig awfully."
RATIOCIHATIOH.— 'Tourist (who has
had a mouthful of bread and cheese) —
"Ah, well; good morning. Mrs. Shark
good morning ! Ah—by the bye tho',
you seem to be very much troubled
with rata here !" Mr. Ob, 70s ;
that we are indeed, air." Tourist— >
"WelL I'll tell you a oapital way of
getting rid of them." Mr. S. (eagerly)
—" Oh, indeed, air ; now will yon ?
I shall be so glad." Tourist—"Yes,
charge *Olll hsli-s-crowß for breed End
cheese; they'll never oome again."