2 I)c STimcs, New Bloomftclir, )a. ROBBERY ON CHRISTMAS EVE. "V T7"IIEN my ninta nsked of mo last V Christmaa Eve pennissioa to re main with his family at the eastern end of our route, and not to make tho tedious forty hours' jourucy towards tho blue waters of tho 1'acifie, on which I was about to start, I had too much heart to refuse him. Ho Joo Nicl was his name had a young brido and a younger babe, and it was hard to sepcrato them. True, our orders from tho company wcro that both of us should always jointly make tho trip, for wo wero carrying largo iuantitics of greenbacks and national notes for tho payment of the 1'aciQo Kailroad contractors ; and of course there was no lack of robbers who were awaiting every chance to clean ou); our trunks, aud per haps clean us poor messengers out of ex istence. Shortly before au express ear had been entered on our lino, and Hill Hughes, tho messenger, beaten almost to ' death, and his valnablo chargo taken ; and it was to guard against such future surprises that a mato had been given mo 5 but Joo pleaded ho hard to stay at homo, and ex plained to mo so clearly a littlo plan of his own, whereby I could mako the trip in safety alone, that I give in to his request, and hastened with him to set our littlo plan in motion. Joe's brother, Ned, tho engineer, was to run his engine for tho first ono hun dred miles of my journey, and ho was to help in tho plan. You see Ned was courting a younger sister of Joo's wife, aud so it all being almost in tho family, ho was willing to do a good deal to give Joo his Christmas at homo. First we went to the railroad superintendent, and got his permission to take my through ex press car out of tho train and substitute therefor a grain car. My car was one of those kind with a passage outside, and doors nt each end besides those at the sides. This made it easier of attack, should robbers get ou the train, as the multitude of doors required a stricter guard against surprise with an increase of danger. The grain car had only the two side doors, which locked from without, but had two littlo grated windows for ventilators, ono at each end, with wooden shutters on the inside to closo them up tightly. Ned was to lock me in, and to hand the key to tho next engineer that camo on, with some private instructions. Well, at 7 o'clock on Christmas eve tho train was ready tostart. Our express superintendent was down to seo his off, and noticed the changed car, but sup posing the other to bo out of repair said nothing. lie watched mo place the val uable packages I had received in my safe and iron chest, and then springing into tho car, warned both Joo and myself to bo very careful, us ho had news that mis chief was intended before long. Joe was helping mo in tho car, so as to appear bc for tho superintendent to bo going with me. Ned came and locked us in, Joe first kissing his wife, who was on tho platform, good by, aud pretending lucky fellow that ho was so sorry that lie was going away at Christmas. As soon as the door' was shut and locked Joo went through that on tho other side, first thanking me again for 'befriending him, and then I heard him lock the other door with tho key Ned had sent to him by his fireman. Wo wcro off in a few moments, and I had time to look uround andnrrango my traps to make tho trip as comfortable as possible. There was no receiving or handing out of packages to bo done till the next morning, when the new en gineer would open my door. Ned would leave us ubout midnight, and till then, when ho would look in upon me, I might make myself as happy or ns miserablo os I chose. Iu less than an hour after leaving I had slung a hammock I carried with me, and bad turned in. Tho shutter over tho forward ventilator my car was next to tho engine I had closed and fastened with a wedge, to keep the wind from blowing it open. The rear ventilator 1 left open, the little six by six nolo, guarded by three irofl bars, giving mo vontilation. Near this I had slung my hammock, and then with a revolver in a box closo to my hand, and with tho bell rope running just over my head, I surely was in 6afety, and so I dropped asleep. How long I slept I could not tell be fore I awakened with a start as some thing passed over my mouth. It seemed like a mouse or rut, but it left an over whelming smell, a closo, suffocating feel ing, and beforo I could open my eyes to see clearly, or could come to my senses, I was again asleep. Again I awuko, this time completely, but with a fearful weight of oppression over my eyes. My hcud ached, and I strovo to pluco my hand upon it. My hand would not obey my wish; I must be paralyzed ; it sceuicd us if I was yet dreaming; I had no power over head or limb. Another effort I would make to shako off this deadly feeling, but as I strove to turn in my hammock, or to lift myself, something cold touches my forehead with a refresh ing coolness, and a 'gruff (voice bids mo lie quiet. I turn ttiy head with 'intenso difficulty and pain, and I seo a black viaaged mun standing over me. lie re- Iionts the injunction to be quiet. 1 trace lis arm down towurds my head, and ; see that it is revolver which is touching my forehead. In a half asleep, half foolish manner, I glance at tho deadly instru ment, and wonder what it cost, and whether it will shoot straight aud into my brain should it bo fired. Tho effects of somo drug ore still working upon mo, ond as I came moro to life, as it were, I recognize tho funics of chloroform. Two other black-visaged men aro busily sorting out my valuables, and aro throw ing all dangerous bonds and papers into ono corner of tho car, whilo they aro placing in bags tho currency and notes. Tho man watching nio speaks, nnd says : " No. 1, ho is coming to." 80. 1 comes close and looks at mo ; ho also is black visaged, made so, I now see, by a crapo veil or mask. Without speaking, ho re turns to his work of sorting tho money. Having'nothing else to do, I look more closely at myself. Small, thin, cords, which cut deeply into my flesh, aro tied around my wrists and ankles, while others tie mo tightly to tho hammock. 1 must, indeed, have been far gone in sloop, and deeply drugged, to havo allowed this. Tho robbers evidently mean mo no harm, but how can I face the company after this robbery? How account for tho absence of Joo, without his immediate dismissal ? As for myself, it will be tho old story. Tho papers will say, I was a willing con federate, and submitted to being tied and robbed. I shall bo imprisoned, perhaps for life. My poor wife and children will bo worse than fatherless. No. 1, who is hard at work yet with his companion, opening tho bundles and sorting out their contents, here for the first timo speaks. " We're Hearing tho hog tunnel, No. 2," he says, in a light, lisping voice. Even in my half stupor I know that voice. If it is whom I think it is, his left arm is slightly crooked, tho palm of tho hand turning nearly out wards. As ho moves into the light of tho solitary lamp, to glance at some bonds, 1 plainly see the turned baud; "J5ill Lane," I call, " won't you free my hands ? this cord hurts inc." With a horrible oath he springs forward : " You've scaled your doom," he says ; " you must dio now." I plead for life, for ho has cast asido the crape and 1 seo tho devil in his eye. 15 ill used to be on our run as messenger, but a robbery occurred of which ho was sus pected of assisting in, or at least of al lowing himself to bo robbed, aud was dis charged. 5ut I plead in vain. The couspirators confer among themselves for a few mo ments, and then my hammock is un hooked and thrown upon the floor, and I um rolled up in it, and into an incredibly small place. The bundle iB then tied up tightly, and ono of the robbers tries its weight. I am slight of form, and ho can easily lift tho bundle up, aud throw it on his shoulder. How can they got mo from the car? How they got in is as yet a mystery to me. Tho doors are locked on tho outside, and could not be broken opeu with the train ut full speed from without. As I lio upon tho floor nearly suffocated and in fearful pain from my cramped position and tho tightness of tho ropes, IS ill hisses in my ear, " Wo aro going to throw you over the Rocky Kuu." Even death in the form of being cast a living bundle from tho cars into tho waters of tho run, which we cross in a short time at an immense height, is pre ferable to the agony I am enduring. I think I prayed with my soul then. 1 have prayed beforo going into battle, when expecting to bo wreckod at sen, and ut other times when my life was iu dauger, but I never prayed before I think with all my soul. Then there was a chanco of escape, here was none. My senses quick ened with tho ogony of the moments, wcro wonderfully acute, or clso I was al ready iu delirium. I thought I heard voices at tho forward ventilator. I thought I heard him say " Watch closo and shoot if there is danger." Of.courso it was fancy, fur the train was going at full speed, and Ned must bo at his post ou tho engine. , Next I heard cautious footsteps on the roof of my car probably, if anybody, it was a brakesman goiug over the car to the cngino for his lunch can, which was there keeping hot. I lay still a few mo ments longer, then moro footsteps are plaiiqy heard on tho roof. This timo I was sure there were two or three persons. Ah, 1 forgot, uo doubt, they were confed erates watching outside, while tho three within did tho plundering. All of u sud den tho bell-pull overheard rattled as if energetically pulled; the engine whistled brakes, ond I felt every bruko on the train was put down to a purpose. The robbers consulted for a moment, and then one said, ' It is nothing, they are stopping for a hot journal perhaps I5i 11 sprung to 1110 and pressing his revol ver against my body, hissed, ' If they call for you, say all right." 5efuro I could reply, a rasping noise was heard, followed by tho report of a pistol, and tho fall of some heavy body across my ulrcady over taxed frame. 1 fainted. When 1 caino to, Ned was chuffing my hands, and half a dozen men were rubbing my swollen and chafed limbs, while bruudy was being pluced on my lips. Ned was almost hysterical wheu I cuine to, but the craziest of all was little Jack, the wood passer of tho engino, who kept shouting, " I shot him, I shot him," till sonic one knocked him down to make him quiet. Then it all come out. The robbers hud been concealed ou tho rear of my car, and hud watched mo through tho grating. On my goiug to sleep, a slender stick with a spongo soaked in chloroform at 0110 end, had been placed under my nose, rousing 1110 for a moment but to send 1110 into a deeper sleep. Then with a fino saw a portion of tho cur had becu removed, through which they crept, hud then closed it behind them. Ned after a while thought ho would have a look at mo, so crawling over his cngino ho essayed to oped tho ventilated shutter, and peep through. Fjnding it fast ho looked through tho bcll-ropo hole, which hap pened to bo a largo ono, and taking in matters at a glance, ho had called little Jack to him, and handing his revolver had given him tho uicssago I had heard. Then crossing tho car ho had obtained tho services of tho conductor, brakesmen aud sonic willing passengers, and having surrounded as far as they could a fast moving car, he had pulled tho bell aud so signalled tho fireman to stop. When Jack saw H Si 11 point his revolver at mo ho thought ho was going to shoot me, so forcing tho ventilating shutter open ho brought him down with a well-aimed bul let, killing him instantly. Wo took the other two to a town on our route whero justice was.' done them. They got thirty years frco board. As for Ned, tho ex press foH;s wcro vexed at first, but as I had suffered so much and pleaded so hard for both him and myself, wo kept our old places and still do. Christmas day I spent iu bed,aud also a few days afterwards get ting well, but they brought my wif'o and family to me and we didn't faro so badly after all. Misused Words. ANY women, and even some men, who should know better, are in the habit of speaking of their jewelry when they mean their jewels. Tho word thus used is of very low caste. Think of Coknf.ua pointing to tho (iiSACcm aud saying " These are my jewelry ;" or read thus a grand passage in tho last of the Hebrew prophets : "And they shall be mine, saith tlie Lord .of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewelry !" As applied to trinkets and precious stones, the word means, at best, jewels in i;cn- cral, not any particular jewels. It is of very lato introduction in any sense; not being 111 Shakespeare, or tho IJiblo or Milton, or in Johnson's Dictionary. The earliest authority quoted for it by llich ardson, is Buiko, who speaks of" the jew elry and goods" of India. 15nt, properly, jewels arc no more 'jew elry tuau shrubs aro shrubbery, slaves slavery or beggars, beggary. Jewelry is properly tho name of tho place in which jewels arc kept, as slavery is tho naiuo of the condition in winch slaves aro kept as herniary is that 01 tho condition iu which beggars arc, nnd as shrubbery is that of grounds filled with shrubs, lhcso words belong to a numerous class ending in ry, which express place or condition, which is moral place. Such aro belfry ,librury, launilry, bakery, buttery, nviary, grocery, pottery, armory, infirmary, bindery, con J'eetiunarg. From grog wo havo rightly formed groggery ; and our translators of tho Uiblo called Judca, tho place of the Jews, Jewry. Now, wo might as well call a knot of Jows, Jewry, or whisky toddy and rum punch groggery, as a set of jcv;cb, jewelry, liut jewelry is one of a lew of those words which havo bceu perverted by careless speakers. A Boy's Composition on tho Goat. Tho following " boy's composition" is the latest. The boy who " manufactured" it is bound to mnko his murk in tho liter ary world. Who knows but that somo day he may be an editor? "A goat is stronger than apig,and gives milk. He looks at you. So docs n duo tor, but a gout hns 4 legs, and 2 butt ends My goat butted Mr. Tuft in a bad place and a littlo calf wouldn't do so. A boy without a father is an orphan, and if ho hadn't got a mother ho is two orphans. The goat don't give so 'much milk as u cow, but moro than an ox. We saw one ut a fair one day with u card tied to his left cur, and he went in 011 a family ticket. Mother picks geese iu the summer, and the goat eats grass aud jumps on a box. Somo don't liko goats, but us forme, give me a mule with a paint brush tail. Tho gout U a useful animal, but don't smell us sweet lis nice bear's oil fur the hair. If I had too much huir 1 would wour a wig as dipt, looters doe. I will toll my goat for three dollars and go to the circus and see tho elephant, which is bigger ns fivo gouts. Father is coming home to-morrow and the baby has got the croup bad." A AVitty Retort. At a court held iu Lynchburg, Yn., a distinguished member of the bar, appeal ing to tho court for tho discharge of his client, wound up with tho statement thut if the court pent him on for further trial, a stain would bo left upou his character that could not bo washed off " by all tho waters of tho blue ocean, and all the soap that could be manufactured from the ponderous carcass of tho commonwealth's attorney.' To this tho ponderous attor ney replied that whilo ho deemed it for eign to tho case ut tho bar, ho desired to advise tho court, if they thought it ad visable to boil his body into soup, thut they should look to tho opposite council for tho 'concentrated lie' out of which to make it !" . A Handy "Witness. VEHY adroit was tho march that Lijo Loomis stolo on tho " Statute of Limitations." Lijo was the factotum of Guy's Nock. Ho did a miscellaneous business as carpenter, cow-doctor, eoffin makcr adding to his other functions, that of undertaking to tho county poor house, lie was, withal, an easy, good natured fellow, free to trust, and a most indulgent creditor. Anions tho others whom Lijo had trus ted to his cost, was dreg Grimes, with out exception the greatest promise-maker and breaker in Guy's Neck. I verily be lieve ho would, if possible, havo put a creditor off till the Last Judgment, and then, 011 the score of being a busy day, have begged him to wait till to-morrow. Grog hud wheedled Lijo with promise till tho hitter's claim was " outlawed." Losing patience at last, Lijo took his ac count over to tho Squire's, when to his no small discomfiture, ho learned that unless ho could get a new promiso from his debtor, with witness to it, he might whistle for his bill. Su'h fellows as Greg always know a good deal of law, especi ally the sharp points of it. Greg would talk as freely and full of promises as eve r when he and Lijo wero alone, but, beforo others, would evade the subject, or else remain provokingly mum. Ono day Lijo drovo up to Greg's door with his old gray maro and spriug wagon, n plain pino cofliin 0110 of thoso flat, toped affairs deemed good enough for pooi folks being behind tho scat. " Moruiu', neighbor," said Lijo. " Samo to you," said Greg; "goiu' to plant a pauper, I see." " Y-a-ass ; old ISoko took rather sud- dent leave last night, and went to try tho chanty ot another world. ould you mind gettin' in and comin' along, neigh bor ?" said Lijo; " it's mighty dull goin' to n funeral all alono by one's self." Gregg didn't mind, but straightway mounted by Lije'sside. The two chatted away, after a sort, to prove how cheerful good company can render even u gruvo occasion. " I 'sposo you haven't foraot that littlo bill o' mine?" Lijo ut last took tho liberty to hint. "Not by no means," said Greg. "Let's see, now how much did you say it was ? I misreuiember rightly." " Even sixty-nine dollars, besides soven years' interest." ' "Quito right," Greg assented; "I recollects now." " Ef it's nt all inconvenient to pay it," said Lijc, " don't you put yourself out ou no account." " I've been thrcatciiiu' to pay it for a month back," suid Gregg; but times hov been tight, an' an' how would Monday week do ?" " To a dot answered Lijo. " I'll send it round," said Gregg. A curious sound camo from the coffin. The ghost of a chuckle, Hurdles would have called it, Gregg gave ono lump, and lit in nn adjacent cow pasture. Looking back, ho saw J.ijcs prentice, the most mischievous imp in Guy's Neck, but with plenty of sense and of a lawful ago to bo a witness sitting up iu tho coffin aud laughing like mad ! Gregg took in the situation at a glance. He had been duped into committing him self before a witness. " It's a dirty, misty, mean trick ?" he exclaimed. " What is it ?" said Lijo. " Why, triflin' with a body's feeliu's about old Hoke, uiakiu' b'lievo he's dead !" " And so ho is," suid Lijo, " only I wus goin' urter tho body, instid of fetchiu' it uwuy." (Jregg turned offiu disgust, Lijo bawl ing lifter him : " I on't forget Monday-week ; and per 'aps it'll savo both of us some trouble." Gregg didn't forget, but has never moro than half enjoyed himself nt a funeral since. tir A family scene, father aud mother and baby being the Jramnti perivntac on a railway train tho other day, gives promiso of tho good time coming of woimiu's rights. The woman, who was of stern and determined aspect, wus giving her undivided attention to the perusal of a copy of the evolution, while her meek looking husband took tho entire churgo of the active and somewhat troublesome infant. During tho trip circumstances rendered it necessary to make a purtiul chunge of the baby's wradrobe ; where upon the latter produced from a satchel tho necessary articles of infantile wear, to the infinite amusement of his fellow pas sengers, and espcciully to the undisguised dolight of tho ladies who observed his movements, proceeded to provo himself adequate to tho emergency, with an adroitness and skill that plainly indicated careful nnd long continued practice. A votine roan at Iinli.-iii.iiiolin. Tml.. has been under troatmont for what Is discovered to bo lead colic. It was a lomr timo before tho doctors found out whoro ho crot it : but at last tho terrible truth camo out. lie had been In tho habit of kissing a young woman who improved her complexion by tho aid of cosmetics. CP A inporhrM an article headed with tlio conundrum, "Why do wive fade?" Wo Bttppose it to bccaiiKO tliuy won't wash. Dou'tit? 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