2 ljc imcs, New Bloomfieft, JjJa. THE CONDUCTOR'S STORY. WHEN I was on the old W. and V. lino in Missouri, I ran what was known . as tha Drovers Express, going West, but which had tho name, I suppose, in contradiction to that title of tho gentleman's wagon, coming East. The drovers, whon coming to market with their cattle, always went with tho boasts on tho freight train, but going homo westward they went with me. . One night I had tin unusually rough crowd aboard. They " were generally rongh enough, but this time they were worso than usnal. I had thoir car (for I kept thera to themselves) placed in the rear of the train, and to prevent their trespassing into tho other car3 of my train, or stepping off tho platforms, I had them locked in. Wo started about 9 o'clock in tho night, and as I went through the drovers' car for my tickets, I found mischief brewing already. Each man had provided himself with a bottle or two of whisky, and the carousal had begun in real earnest, but few if any of the drovers being sober. Ono or two small fights had been begun, ono in particular between a tall Kentuckiun and a short, thick-set Mis sourian, having threatened to lead to serious conscqueuces, both men having drawn their knives. Their friends had, however, separated thera, and had placed them in different parts of tho car, the Kentuckian sitting in tho first seat near the door, in the front of the car, and tho Missourian far back in the rear. The latter, when they wero being parted, had vowed that he would yet kill tho former, but as both were in hot blood, the words were not much thought of, though they helped to sentence him to be hung after ward. As I took up the Missourian's ticket, ha repeated to mo his threats against tho life of his opponent, and proposed a duel with bowics in tho baggage-car. I man aged, however, to silence the half-maddened man, and a friend sitting in the scat with him, and nearest the aisle of the car, promised to see that he should not leave his seat and attack the Ken tuckian. I looked in upon them about 2 o'clock, A. M., and found them all asleep in drunken slumber. Tho Kentuckian sat in the front seat as I had left him, and the Missourian away in the rear, and also in his previous position. Thero boing no more stops to make, I curled myself up in a chair in the bag gage car for a nap and dozed comforta bly till awakened by the rattle of the bell rope overhead, and tho whistle of the en gine calling for the brakes to bo put down. Catching up my lantern I opened the car door and looked out, but found nothing but darkness the most intense. The train having stopped I got off and ran to the engine, asking tho engineer in a half-asleep manner where wo wero and why ho had stopped ? " We're in tho Orover Tunnel," he replied, "and I stopped because the bell-rope was pulled." Tho G rover Tunnel was about . a mile in length, through, which we passed nearly all the way on half-speed and with the steam shut off from the cylinders, thero being a down-grade at the entrance, which was sufficient to nearly give us headway to carry us through. When the engineer saw the light at the other end of the funnel, however he was accustomed to put on steam, and it waa just -at that timo, he told me the bell . was pulled, being the signal for hint to stop. ' i Uy the time my brakesman had - been arouud thoouteide of the train, and finding all thecouplingsright, ond not discovering anything wrong externally, I gave the signal to go ahead, as it waa dangoroua to Btay in the tunnel. As we cauuj out the daylight wai just breaking, aud, with a brakesman, I started through the truiu to find out if possible, who pulled the bell-rope. ),.,, ,:; .i. .,.,! i : ,. Most of the passengers were asleep in the forward cars aa wo passed through, but some few were awake, who told me that the pulling of tho bell came from behind, from some of tho rear cars, ' I made the trip through the entiro trajn with the ex ception ot thq drovers car, auo. yci me account said tha bell was pulled from still further in the rear. It was day- light as the brakesman and myself crossed on to tho platform of the last car.'" 'After unlocking the door, we essayed to push it open, but some weight against it pre vented us. With ' our united strength, however,1 we pushed It open, and found the cause of the obstruction. ' Against the bottom of the door lay t ho Kentuckian, his body twisted ana Tolled ud into a distorted heap, as if he had been overtaken by a fit. Supposing him to be in a drunken stupor, I raised him to; his seat,' and then began to loose his collar and neck-tie. ' As I did so I noticed a livid blue line running exactly around his throat, and cutting deeply into the flesh j bis race also waa or a deadly hue: ana frightened at I knew not what, I sent the brakesman for a phyticiau whom 1 knew was on the train. . As soon as he came aud had handled the Kentuckian, he ex claimed, "tne ' man i dead his neck u broken the man has been murdered I". Immediately I rememhored. the Gght of the. preceding evening between the now dead man and the .Jlissouriuo, aud telling the doctor of uiy fears that ' the latter hud kept his word and murdered tho Kentuckian, wo agreed to make somo movement toward tho detention of the murderer. Going to the rear, we found tho Missourian curled up in his Heat, his friend also being in the outside seat, and both being appnrcntly asleep. As we looked upon tho Missourian wo heard him mutter, " I'll kill him, I'll kill him," as if half asleep and awake. Wo were turning away when tho doctor's quick eye caught a glimpso of something tho man had in his hand, and reaching over gently drew it from ' his lingers ex claiming, and this is what tho deed was dono with." holding up to mo a thin leather string, about tho size of a small whip-lash, and nsed by drovers as- n belt around their waist, and also to hopple au unruly ox, or to tic the legs of a calf. As vc left the drunken man, the doctor said, " That brute has crept up behind the Kentuckian, when in the darkness of tho tunnel, and throwing his strap around his throat, has jerked his head back and broken his neck at once. The body had then fallen forward against the door while tho murderer had groped his way back to his scat, and bad accidentally caught tho bell-rope in his drunken grasp and sc pulled it." As wo passed tho next station, I threw off a telegram to our headquarters, asking for somo polico to bo on hand on my ar rival, and as wo camo into tho depot, a force of men surrounded tho cars, whilo we Went into it and mado tho arrest. The drovers were still sleeping their or gies off when we entered, the dead Ken tuckian lying in the corner just as we had left him. Wo arrested the Missourian on achargo of murder, and also his friend who sat by him, as an accomplice, as it did not soeni probable that tho drunken fellow could have passed out of his seat and into it a:nin without awakening his companion. Tho rest of tho drovers wero examined and testified strongly against the prisoner as to the quarrel and the threats ho had used, and tho doctor swore that the neck of the murdered man had been broken by a sudden jerk, and tho mark mado on his throat by just such a strap or thong as was found in tho grasp of tho Missourian. The prisoner produced good testimony as to his character, and his counsel fought bravely for him. lie showed that the thong was in use by every drover, and that each man in tho car had ono or more on his person. The words we heard," I'll kill him, from the murderer ho argued, meant what he would do and not what he had done. Ho showed the Missourian to be wealthy, of good character and of a peaceable disposition except when in his cups, but it was of no avail, and tho wretched man was sentenced to be hung in six weeks from tho timo of his trial. I went to visit him several times in his condemned cell, and somehow or another the declaration of innocenco the fellow made to me shook my belief in his guilt, although I had witnessed strongly against him in his trial, and at last I found myself fully confirmed in my new belief of his entire innocence. I could see no way to savo him however, and five weeks of his time on earth had rolled by, and yet the mystery was us great a one as ever. , i , . One morning about that time I was running the same train, only as it hap pened, we had no particular drovers' car. In the last car was our superintendent, a tall, lean Yankee, fully six feet two inches in height, and of about tho same height as the murdered Kentuckian. , ' It so happened that ha occupied (,hc same scat as tho Kentuckian had done, and I was also in my old place in the baggage-car. When exactly in the samo place in the tunnel, just when tho engi neer had put on steam to carry us through, the bell-rope again rattled, and tho engi neer whistlod for the brakes. ' Springing to my feet I ran to the rear oar, firmly persuaded that now I could solve this mystery. - ltcaching it I found the super- intondcut fitting back in his seat, and holding his hand to his throat while he gasped for breath. , Cue or two passeu-j gers were attempting to be of som use to him ; but he could only moau aud hold tightly to hut throat- ; ,.... At last he reoovorcd sufficiently to take hia hand away, and then I saw the slight, 1 livid blue mark which J had seen bel'oro, in a most exact similar position on the neck of the Kentuckiun. . As the superin tendent got over the shock, be proceeded to tell us how he received the, mark and its foarful effects. He had been asleep, and wag awakened by the train entering tho.' tunnel. Half asleep ' ho' stepped to the car door and stood looking, or trying to look through tho door win dow.' '" " ; "" ; Suddenly, and without any warning, lie felt a ropo slipped under his throat, and at that moment the engine giving a jerk, he was thrown violently into a corner of tho car.' " ' : " " " ""'' ' The mystery was solved at last. ' The train, as I have said, entered the' tuunel at a slowrate of speed end without the 1 use of steum, the grade at' the entranee foroiug the cars together and giving thoin sufficient headway. . At this time the bell rope, which of course has to be much longer thuu the length of the train whon the cars are close together, , to pllow of sufficient length, y, hen they are diuwn out to the full extent of the , car-couplings, hung loosely and in festoons through the car, and both the Kertuckiun and our superintendent being a tall mon and stand ing just where tho longest festoon would be, near tho forward door,tho ropo slipped under their chins, and the engineer sud denly putting on steam, the jerk threw them from thoir feet, and as in tho case of the drunken Kentuckian, who must in his drunkenness have gono to tho door for Bomo purposo, was sufficient to break his neck and causo death. I carried myself to tho doomed Mis sourian tho news of his pardon for a crituo, by tho way ho had nfcvci com mitted. Hut such is tho justice of our laws, and ho joyfully accepted that so lution of the mystory. , Each Christmas I received from' him tho best and fattest of his drove, and he writes mo frequently congratulating him self on bis escape from the gallows. . Reminiscences of Old Bob Carson. rilllE celebrated mountaineer and trap I per yet lives on tho Missouri river, near the town of Arrow Rock : is hale, stout and hearty, able and willing to mako many more like trips. 'He is full of an ecdotes, and gives us many hair-breadth escapes from mountain storms and Indian fights. ' . " He says tho last tight place he got into was in the year 184G, during the Mexican war. Tho Mexicans wero committing depredations of all kinds, and had stolen some of tho government horses and mules. Captain Price afterwards Captain Sterl ing Trice was in command of a company of United States volunteers, who were ever ready for a scout or a fight. He was ordered to mako a detail of twelve of his best men, and send them in search of the stolen property. Twelve choice well-tried men wero choscu. Then camo the query, who is able and willing to take command of this squad ? It must bo some mun who can talk with the different Indian tribes through which they may have to pass in pursuit of the Mexicans. Luckily for tho squad, at this moment Bob Carson rodo up, well mounted on his favorite hunting horse Leo. A shout frojn tho twelve brave men bid him wel come ; their object stated, and requested him to tako command. Nothing suited Carson better than this. Ho told Captain Price that ho could follow a coal train as fast as any living man could, and to give him self no un easiness, that ho would bring his twelve men back and not lose a scalp. The sequel shows how ho succeeded. Tho second day out they struck the trail ; lato in the evening they saw in tho distance a largo party of Indians, and as they were on friendly terms with the dfferent tribes, Carson and his band hur ried to overtake them, hoping to gain some information concerning the stock. The Indians saw them approaching, and halting for them to come up. As Carson and bis men camo nigher, his keen eyo discovered that they wero on tho war-path, knowing no fear, he rodo up, and the Indians, 1,400 strong, closed wings and completely surrounded them. Sandivere, tho chief, rode up to Ciirsou, exclaiming : " Pcds tcdoly you are my prisoner!" . . ; Carson alter questioning tho chief a short time, found that they were also in pursuits of lost stock, stolen, as thoy con sidered, by United, States troops. ,,. , The Mexicans had told him this talu to screen themselves. But all hia intrigue could not induce Sumlivcre to roloase him and his twelve mon.-,.' i- . , , , . The next morning, tho old chief com menccd making preparations to shoot and sealp his prisoners. Carson called him aside for a talk, and finally persuaded him to send one of his best runners to Cap tain Price's cuuip, and if things wero not found just as represented,' that on the fourth day from the 'departure of : said runnpTj at twelve, o'clock, bo might do w'th his prisoners us he plewwd, The runner, started. Carson , and his men, sanguine that everything would prove satisfactory to the phicF, remained their, prisoners, cheerful and happy.. . , ' .; On the morning of tho fourth day all were momentarily expecting the runner to appear. Ten o'clock camo, and no runner insight; 11,' and no runner in sight. Everything in camp was excitement and commotion. Sendivere was certain his runner had been foully. deult with, and in his auger mado preparations fur sum mary veugeunce. Twelve o'clock and no runner in sight as far as tho eye could reuch. v ' .-.) :'. ' i t 3 Carson thought his: hour had como, as I (reparations were being made; and, well mowing the terms would . bo complied with, he culled Suudivcro and told , him that ha would like to have a talk with him. before lie and his men were shot. Carsoo in the meantime walking .slowly and leisurely from the cauip, telling the chief that tho hoists, . saddles, bluuketsk etc.wcro all donated or willed to him, tho great thief, and that hp was not com pelled, on account of this donation, to divide theni among his warriors. ' ' 1 The' chief was much ' interested and pleased with this donation, and by this time they were eighty to one hundred yard from the Indian camp, when Curson, with the dexterity of an old monntuinoor, pulled from his- boot-leg an ugly-looking holster pistol, cocked and presented di rectly in tho fuae of tho old chief, exclaim ing : ..... ...., Stund sir I you are my prisoner." , . "What do you moan ?" asked 1 Suudi vcro. .. , , j 1 " I moan just what t say -if you move ono iuch you are a doad man." , Tho Indians, seeing their chief in danger, started to his rescuo, but Carson told him to motion his men back, or he would shoot him on tho spot. Tho old chief, well knowing tho man ho had to deal with, instantly complied aud motion ed his men back. Carson then told him to order -up his twelve men with thoir horses jdst as ho had reocived them, and Leo with them. This was instantly com plied with. Carson then mounted the old chief behind ono of his men and started for Capt. Price's camp, where Sandivere found things as represented by Carson. Tho runner had been thero, but had lost tho trail, which had caused tho delay. Capt. Price gavo the chief may presonts, and escorted him to his tribe. Ho evor aftrwards was atruo friend to the whites, and in many instaces did very valuable service. Thus, by tho coolness, cunning and downright bravery of Bob Carson, this devoted band of twelvo bravo men wore rescued from ccrtuin death. Parties who wero with Carson at that time can vouch for tho truth of tho above statement A Jumping Match. A young man who relates tho story himself who fought but did not die, at both Antietam and Gettysburg, went into Providonce on foot, with some small ar ticles for sale. Ono night, just beforo tho sablo curtains of evening were being lowered upon him, ho applied at a very respectable looking houso for entertain ment. He was very kindly received by a young lady, who happened to be the only ono of tho family at home, with whom ho partook of tho evening meal, and to our hero everything seemed to be going "merry as a marriage bell." It seems however, that the young lady began to suspect that in " entertaining a strang er," she had not entertained " an ungel." But how to get rid of him was the trouble! At length sho asked him if ho could jump wcll,saying she could jump further than any Yankee living. This was a " stump " which the hero of a dozen uattle fields was not disposed to take, and they arrayed for a trial of leap frog. The young lady placing herself against tho wall, at three jumps reached tbe door. Our Yankee then took his station for trial. At two bounds he near ly reached the door, when Miss Blucnose, with all feminine fascination imaginable, said sho would open tho door for him, so that he wight havo a chanco to see how much ho excelled her, and took tho third leap which landed him outsido of the house. Tho young lady instantly closed and fastened tho door, took hat, mittens, over coat and valcis of merchandise into tho chamber, threw them out of the window to him, and told him there was a tavern about seven miles below, whore, no donbt, he could be entertained. Ho went on his way meditating on the mysteries of woman. . ' '. A (Question. . . , ', ' . A teacher in a . western county in Canada, while, making his first visit to his " constituents," camo in for conversa tion with an eminent Vermont lady, who had token up her residence in tho " back woods." Of course the school and for mer teacher cumo up for criticism, and the old lady, in speaking of his predeces sor, asked : '' ' ' ' ' ' : ' 1 " Wa'ul master, what do you think he learned the scholars ?" ' " I could'nt Bay, ma'am. Pray what did he teach ?" Wa'ul, hn told Vm' this ere arth was round ; what do you think of such ituffr" ' . . , ; . '! I'nwilling to oouie under tho category of tho ignorami, tho teacher evasively re marked : .... " It docs seem btrangc, but still there aro many learned men . who, teach these things." . MVYal,"., says she, . " if the arth is round, and goes round, what holds it p!"'' :' . .' . 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