py ———————— SE RMN DEAD MAN'S CANNON. It was a warm day in April. Charles Loften took s ear and rode out to the end of tee line, then he walked on tor some distance sod turn, ed up the hiil to toe left and took the road which leads down through Dead Man's Cannon. As he walked down the rough r a! noticed Little child playing around a pile of wood which ber he a father had been chopping, Farther down he saw two girls at a spring, aud as the younger drank from a tin pail she said to her sister, ‘What splendid water is this." Two men who were drawing left their horses and went to the girls | for a drink. Some negroes were laughing and talking around a rough bouse on the | side of the blufl. All these things Loften noticed as | Iwo | he walked, «nd he also noticed men, evidently tramps, who sat on a stone in a lonely part of the cannon | talking in low toues which ceased en- | tirely as he came nearer, Loften went od through the cannon and crossed the tracks to the brewery, where he was going to look at some | pew machinery. After he had examined the machive, he went up 00 the roof of the bgt { blank wall of bis cell. He spoke to ers. " : 3 on \ thi a i o i move, ' s ing, from which there was an excel | jim but the prisoper did pot move | anotber situation sobti; but:1 am al: lent view of the valley. man answering the deseripion given by the men at the brewery and the old negro, had ridden on bis car, A grocet's man who happened to be driving by had seen this man and identified him as Loften, When the officers came to his house often wis writing, and upon being told that he was wanted went at once, thinking there was some mistake which could be easily explaived, and | it was not vatil brought before the was charged with murder, He told his story, as we bave al- ready done above, and pleaded his io the noceunce, but evidence saut to prison 10 awail trial, No one else had seen the two tramps | inor could suy traces of them { found. Loften lay awake all night in his | cell. te had a stainless reputation but how was he to prove it? always had |and now he was in prison accused of murder! He thought of the grief { and shame it would cause to hisiriends: | Then be broke down and cried like a | child. After that he remembi red nothing. his When the jailer came with | breakfast he found him stariog at the | Loften was mad. | magistrate that he learned that be | against | {him seemed Loo strong, and he was! stone | be | prisonment for a crime he had never committed, was ovce more at liberty: New York Graphic. Sn A A——— A JOKE INDEED. Adrian Mosseroft was in, or very thing bad been going more or less wrong with him ever since the first day of the new year, On that day an adroit pickpocket had relieved him of his gold watch and wallet, the later | coutaining his savings for several the money had io the world, fin Adrian had uot begun to save until he met Ethel Bar. roughs, the pretty buyer of the lace mouths, In fact ali he | department of an enormous up town | establishment. Shortly after the loss Li rheumatism, and there lof nis fortune he was taken down | his bed with he remained for two months, sod self out of a situnuion, the firm { whose employ he had been fur more having | their errant boy expressed it, and | busted with tne biggest kind of i {a bust.” than five years gone,” “ What in Heaven's nameam I to (do? asked Adrian of | morning us he paced to and fro | the small room he occupied in Mrs | Hashier's “home for a few select board. get himself one “Of course I shall not i : : ‘ ’ | ready in debt, which it will take mea neatly io the depth of dispair. Every. | { when he got up again be found him- | He knew that he was innocent, | K Pag : 4 in | as | in | house, he ran against the postman. “Another letter for you sir.” saia that fanctionary, * From Aunt Tam again,” Boliloquized Adrian ashe glanced at the hand writing, “acknowledging the receipt of the check, I sappos:; h pe it reached the good old lady in | time." Z | He opened the Jetter—he opened his eyes—he opened his mouth-~he stared like one suddenly gone dement | ed, for this is what he read. “You Dear Youxae Avni Foor I received yours dated Apul 1 with five and tweaty inclosed. I know how you raised it. same house with you. All your mis fortuones since the begining of the | year are known to me also, but Known | to me only lately, or you should hav | heard from me before. ‘Now is the time’ thought I, ‘to try if he really had ‘any kiod remembernnce of bis old | aunt. I 6nd that vou have, and | return your five sand twenty dollars with the interest that | ted on them sicnee yesterday. 3 ! has sccumuia Go to the City Bavk snd you will find there { awaiting you 81025, “From yOuis affectionately, ‘AUNT TAM! | Pippintown, April 2, 1880. Di | troit Free Press. CW A—— HAUNTED BY GHOSTS. | | An cdd-looking couple were among { the passengers who alighted from the Western express at Union Station Baltimore, the other evening. The was tall looking; the woman short and chunky wan and I have a spy in the cadaverons | THF, CZAR'S PRISON, I “Quis enstodiet ipuos custodes 7’ is i | the reflection which « rings to one's | mind on hearing the rumors as to at tempts on the Czar's life fu bis rural retreat at Gatehing, The country bouse inhabited by the Autocrat of All the less than au fortress surrounded by moats, with a strong garrison, and [situated io the midst i Lussins is nothing more or of un immense camp, in which ments of soldiers, horse, foot, artitlery, | even here the life of the scvereign is exposed to various perils chief among which is the notorious dissafection of The tis leg 18 portions of his vast army 1e was when the Czar could at reckon on the fidelity of his troc ' and on the blind aud noreason ny de votion of the liberated serfs, It is ACKBoOwiedged LU! = is changed, il ihe revolulionary mover spread with appalling and rapidity, even 10 classes which bad slways been regarded trustworthy. Meanwhile, 111 has the best of the situation. bowev.r, Alexender no alternative but to make Picked sol- diers guard him day end night wt Gatchina, snd the strictest discipline prevails in the fortress castle, writer who a short tighe ago bad the rare privilege of an iotroduction to the presence of the Czariua, gives a of | graphic sceount of his visit, snd : i countiess detach | son of Hattie Morgans, who has seen hut twenty-three years, and who las been stoker in Eugland and engineer on » freight engine in Connecticut, She has bright colored, banged 1+ir, large dark eyes, urd, sithongh ber face is weather beaten, she is quite handsome, Bhe is rather of a expression of character, mascy line in appearance and determined Her story runs as follows : About five years ago, while she was and even engineers are quartered. Yel! st Now all! A | living in London, she fell in Jove | with Toms Winnan, an engineer on 3 s Fu ] 5 » ’ | the *F ying Scotchman,” an express brain which runs between London sod | Edinburg. Bhe loved him fondly» | ku was never happy except when he She was anxious to be it sh | Was Lear ner, . «3 | constantly with biw, and was ar ired between them that his fireruan, Bo she arraved {10 a coarse sult of men’s clothes wid was at anes transformed into a handsome young fireman " Day after day she atiewd d 10 duties, ber and th ponds rous engine, No 62, with 1s sevenetoot drivers, used to do the mile 8 mivute nct over the heavy metals, Both she and Tom kept iheir secret well, snd she and Tom were to be married, but on one black Tom killed by being run over by a shunt- dny Was ing car, and he died in Jess than an hour with his hesd in Hattie's lap. In her anguish ber secret was revealed. : . : i . . > He watched the river winding| He was committed to an insane sey- | y She left England, which bad away past cultivated lands and patch- { lum, but the judge made a stipulation } more hs p siness for her, aod came to mg time to clear away, sod—and— pg, were as ugly as human beings | the precautions taken to prevent any no confound it, I shan't be able to invite | 14 pe. es of torest, past sandy flats and rocky | has if he shou d ever recover bis rea- bluffs. He noticed the tall sycamore, | on he should he tried for murder. with their white bark, scattered over the valley. In the distance he could gee the piled up stone aod the tall masts of the derricks for moving it whefe a great ridge was being built, and near by the cluster of bouses covered with tar paper, where the | workmen lived. Oo the other side was the city with its towers and chimneys and over all the dark cloud of smoke curling upward. And then there was the river again, and more flats and more blaffs and more cultivated land, forest and white-barked sycamores, Loften went dosn and started for home. men still sat on the stone waisperiog together, and again stopped when he came near. It was growing dark. The men who had been drawing stone had left their wagon by the road and gone for the might. He met ome old negro carryiog & pail of water. no one talking before the house now, The spring was deserted, and the water ran quietly down the bill. The little girl and the mao who had been | chopping wood were gone too. Near the head of the cannon Loften | met a well dressed man going down. | 1 hey nodded as they passed and said something about the bad walkiog. Loften noticed that black clouds were gathering, and when he reached As he went up the cannon the | : There was | For seven years Churles Loften was lin the asylum. He ate and slept and | was taken out to wals by a nuise with | some of the other patients, but he nev. | er spoke nad be never appeared to] | notice anyone or anything. At the end of seven years his res son suddenly returned, Everythiog was clear up to the night of his im- pris went, but of the time he had 'spent in the asylum he remembered in thing. The court was not fied that he bad recovered his reasoa, and a time was set for his trial, Ou the night before Charles Lofien’s ltrial a robbery was attempted io a neighboring town. Between one sad two in the mort. | ing the owner of a handsome place on the outskirts of the town was swaken. ed and thought be heard some cne moving in the bouse. He got up and went to his door and found that abOUL ia Lhe | some ule Was moving { library. The house was lighted ity, and by pressing a ! | bead of the stairs the light co turned oo all over the first floo This he did, and in an 1u-tant every | room was lighted. g anton! | Two men who were gropio Re . : {in the darkness were at first bhina d i {and stupefied hy the bright light ¢ « { Ethel to go anywhere, or give her lb yuquets, or candies, or books or aay [thing else. By jove! I've a good | mind to ask Avot Tamasio for a loan | She must be pretty well off, for she | used 10 tip me generously when I was |a boy. I'll doit, ~1'm sure she will |let me have it—and pay ber back as {soon as | can. He bad just come to this conclusion when maid servant knocked st his door and haoded in a letter, He tore open the envelope, took out the enclosure and began to read : “My dear nephew,” he repeat. ed slowly. “Why, this most be from I'm nephew to. What a strange co incidence ! In a moment more I should have written to her.” then he went ou with the letter. “I am vary sorry to be obliged to ask of you the favor I sm about ‘Ww ask. You sod all the rest of my re lations, have always thought 1 was rich, although I bave lived aM my ife ina very simple manner. I have never said anything to the contrary, for I have found being thought rich | secures for one a great deal more al tion thas one would rece ve if supp » wr— a lamentable fact, but nevertheless, Can you give If you can I CS ETE a & Inet we twenty-five dolara? want them st ones, Your mother's sister, TAMASIN BROCK Pippinton, BR. 1. April 1, 1886." “iv Jove!” exclaimed Adrian | mishap. Traveling from St. Peters. “That's a queer pair,” said one of burg to Gatebina in company with the gatemen as they slowly walked | Gen. Igoatieff aud Gen. Baomgarien, Aunt Tamssin She's the only person | through the waiting room. “Who are they!" was saked. “Dou't you know "em? Why, the is Golish sud woman —well, she is his wife, and calls her Susie.” In early life Jarniog went to New York, where be shipped on a brig bound for China. He sod avother man the he Jaruing, sailor incited 8 mutiny, aod the crew | murdered the captain and made off with the cargo, which mostly c insist ed of clothing, flour snd geveral articles intended for the missionaries, They sold the cargo at a South American American port, and efcer puttiog 10 | sen again they wrangled and fought gver the division of the booty. This ended io putting Jarning overboard {in the brig's yawl and castiog him 1 | |adrifi. He was picked up wheo near ly starved and taken to San Fran Cis. Jaroing was pext beard of in the slave trade. For seven or eight years he commanded a slaver and made six | trigs to Africa. His last trip with the slaver was in 1856. He bad 400 negroes on board when be left Africa The poor wretches were packed in the hold of the vessel and pearly starved: | When out in midocean the sbip eo- one of the Emperor's aides-de camp, be pot.ced all along the route small detachments of engineers, encamped in the open air at short intervals from esch other. Cossacks, mounted oun their small horses, galloped about in every direction. at the station by one of the imperial LJ The party were met strongly guarded, arrived ata huge companions had to show their papers, Thence they were conducted to wing of the palace, where the same ceremonial was gone through, after | which they were taken through a per’ fect labrioth of passages add stair | cases to rooms reserved for them. The | writer was asked if he would have | luncheon or tea, and was then left 1 himself voill the hour sppointed for his audience. At noon Gen. Baum. | | gartesi came to fetch him. Ou his way to the central building | be saw the steps crowded with centries, who io turn presented arms with such a Jin that he shrewdly suspected that the noise was intended to warn their | | comrades farther off of the arrival of |a stranger. Next a large hall, in | which 100 soidiers of the Guard were | on duty, was traversed. At the fur. | ther end the visitor bad again to ex” carriages, which started off at full | speed, and after crossing a bridge | gateway, at which the writer and his | {this country. She bad some money, but it soon dwindled away, and she found that she somethivg. So again disguising herself she ap- must do plied for a fireman's ! on i i position ® ncomotive on a Connecticut railroad. She served pearly two years acoepta- bly, sod bas boen given a freight en- give. ran ' As she bad a seventy-four mile and 27 was the pumber of ber engine, it is believed that ber run was on the New York division of the New { York, New Haven spd Hartford nilroad. She worked very well and i showed ber skill when ber engine got out of repair. She was fioally given the day express 0 run, sod while there she killed two men. One was walking on the track sod she blew the whistle repeatedly, but be paid no at. teotion and the mavgled him, engine struck and The other man under took to drive his wagon over a grade crossing, and both be sod his horse were mutilated past recognition, | These nccidents broke Hattie Mor- | gans all up. She was exhonoreted by | the officials, but she could not sleep, | and she says the men c osiantly ap. peared before her. Fioally she was running engive | No 120 with fast express the rate {ot fifiy miles an hour. Far ahead on | the track she saw something which | she thought wasa piece of newspaper. | As she peared it she saw it was a lit when he bad fiaished bis aunt's letter | countered a fearful storm, sod the the top of the bluff it was quite dark. | He took a car and went home, and as ing 80 suddenly, then they came 0 | their senses aod ran, and as the pro. | prietor hurried down the stairs he saw hibit his papers, and after ascending “wants help from me, and I just on | Masts were strock by lightning. The the Pp ant of se king " loan of her. i hatches had been battered bown, but a magnificent staircase, and crossing a hall in which was a gigantic Moor in | tle child playlog with the dirt and | stones. Its little life was crushed out on the instant, Hattie tried her best he went into his house he beard the roar of distant thunder, Poor old suutie, wonder what can be | the negroes, frantic with fear, burst ._|a superb costame, and two huge the matter. She used to have enough | one of them open and came swarming | Teherkesses armed to the teeth with | them ruening through the house sud to reverse the engine, but in vain. As the flashes of lightning for a second illuminated the lower end of Dead Man's Cannon a well dressed wan lay io the road near the rock where the two tramps had sat whisp- ering together—but the tramps were gove. It was still moonlight when the quarrymen started for their work. The storm had gone by and the sky was bright with stars. As they entered the cannon the paling of the moon indicated that the sun would soon be up and the sky was already growing red in the esst. A light mist flosted among the tops of the sycamore trees on the flats, Suddenly the men stopped. Right before them on the road lay 4 man, His clothes were soaked by the rain, which had fallen in torrents, snd his white collar and cuffs were wiled with mud. His bead was cov- ered with mud sod blood, and an ugly gash in his throat showed how he had died. One of them at once started for the town to notify the authorities, er. Inquiry at the brewery brought out the fact that » strange man had been | escaping by a side door. As the men crossed the yard the night watchman saw them and fired his pistol. The foremost man fell, but the other made good his escape. On the first day of Loften's trial a jury had been selected, a few witness es had been called and the court had adjourned, On the second day of the trial, just as the third witsess was about to take the stand, a note was handed to the jadge. It stated that, on examining the wounds of the burglar who had been shot in the neighboring town two nights before, it had been found that be could not live, and on learning this the man made a confession. He said that seven or eight year before he and one of his companions had murdered a man in Dead Man's Canon and robbed him of some valu: able papers, which he bad in his pos. session. He koew that an innocent man had been arrested, but thought he would be soquitted. He bad af ~The man who listened to the story, that Lofen was now on trial to live on comfortably, I koow, and how good she was to me when I was a liule motberless boy. I ought to be ashamed of myself for not having been to see her for the last five years. Haven't ever written to her. Sop pose she thinks I'm a selfish wretch and I bave forgotten all ber kindness, Bat I haven't and she’s got to have that money. My mother’s only sister and my oplysunt. Yes she's got baveit. But where is it to come from!" Then his eyes brightened a» they fell upon his spring over coat, carefully spread over the back of bf chair. “I'll sell that,” be said. “Jim Tarver wants one. He'll take it, and I'll wear my winter one till warm weather, of account of the rheums tism, I'll tell the boys. Ha! Ha! who'd ever thought it covld have been » merry thought in connection with that pain fiend, the rheumatism, sod I'll pond my dress suit and my sealokio csp. [ have never pawned saythiog aod have always declared I pever would, but in this case I must fly to my aocle to get help for my sunt" He was as good as his word, and that very afternoon a check for $25 went 0 Aust Tam, Thethird of April dawned bri | and clear, but the sir was un ap on deck. Jarning and the crew made no (effort to save the poor, trembling | creatures who were shouting for help | and trying to cling to the wet decks. | Many of them planged overboard, and scores of others were swept away | by the tremendous seas that evrey few | moments engulfed the ship. When the storm had abated there was not a dozen of the 400 remaining on board. It was a horrible sacrifice of human life, but it could not be helped, Jarn. ing used to say in later years, From that time on Jarniog was a changed man. The events of that terrible voyage seemed to havnt him continually, During the war he fought with the Union, and, it is said, did good service, but only as so ordinary sailor on ove of the Union vessels, When the war ended be came dirks and pistols were stationed, be was introduced by a man servant into a small but elegant drawing room, whence he passed, under the conduct of one ofthe gentlemen on service, into the Empress's reception room. After half an hour's conversation, in the course of which her Majesty remarked that there ware some very impious men in Russia, the writer withdrew but ere he took leave of Gen. Baum. garten the latter referring to the frankness with which be bad spoken, told him that no Kaossian would have dared to give advice to the Crarina, jokingly adding: “Take care! You may be sent to Siberia” What edn be more charscteristic than this rap prochement of the anide-de camp's grim jest about Siberia sad the precautions taken by the sovereigo to avert all danger from bimse.f and his family ? EE EL THE FEMALE FIREMAN, A dispatch from New Haven, Coun. w—— When the train stopped the engineer almost fainted. That was ber last trip. The little child haunted ber day and night, and she had a severe fit of sickness. Then she resumed ber proper dress. She is now engaged to be married to an engioeer who has charge of a sixty horse power engine in a large factory not far from New Haven. She hopes on her wedding tour to the “Flying Scotchman”, where she received her first lessons in railroad - ing. But she can never, she says, forget the lives that were crushed out when she stood in the cab sent the locomotive along at almost light. ning speed, The jury in the ome of Yarnwoag who slew the son of Robert Lind Col. lier, returned a verdiot on Saturday of murder in the first degree. A wo in for a new trial was filled. During the night Yarborough attempted wo commit suivide by slashing his throat with « pocketknife. He may die from the "Eve dead body of Dr. Joh Buraety, sped $0 years, was found by the police on Sunday on a oot in the second story surrounded by regs and Bith of every description. There were no marks of violence on his person snd it ls believed be died » atural desth, Scorsted un. | eencks of old hem visit England aod show ber hasband | of the house where he had lived alone, % 2
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