a ——INEA ress | le Ping, dun, CENTRE HALL REYOR FRIDAY DECEMBER, 2d, 1870 How thie Highwaymen Twice Cap {ured the Central Preifie Rail rond Train—Nasks, Romance and Treasure: : Mr. Cun mings, the baggepe-mastsr, makes the following statement of the trans action to ene of our reporterst We had Just got about ning miles owt of Verdi. The moot was shining brightly. When the | bréakman went arennd the cars, ne he al. ways does, to soe if gape any “dead heads’ on bo lly ave, | beosaw two r the ex. | press car, and a t doing there, when THES ‘pistol to his face and told him to get ipside, | He came in the baggazecarging tolg the gongugtar, | Mr. Marshall, that some won, outside drew | n pistol on him. Marshall opened the door to go ontside, when they pat the pistal to | his faco, He came in and picked up a hutchet aud said they had pistols ont¢' ero. | 1 told him not to go out with nothing but | a hatchet, for they might shoot him, 1] then said we had better etop the train and | tee who was running it, weorthem. Whila | we were talking the rest had climbed over | to the express carand detached it. At this time the train had juet stock tha grade. ! hoy wero i i { ! } of fifty miles an hour. The engineer | whistled dun brakes. He then looked around, when two pistols were planted right in his face. They told him to go en. He sacked them where they wanted him to Here he pulled the whistle twice, when one of the men asked him what he did that for. He answered that it was to loose the brakes. They then toid him to go down to the lower switch. The engi neer, Mr. Small, said, “The other train is due therein a few moments, and we will be ran into." “That's all right”! one of the fellows said, ‘we've fixed that all up.” They had placed obstructions on the track When they gotdown to the swiich they took the engineer anc fireman, and made them stand onthe ground, and then they went to the door of the express car and knocked. The expressman, who had seen gomething was the matter, stipposed it was geome of the train men, and opened it, when they put a pistol to his head, and told him that they wanted the specie box and must have it. They were all masked. Thenext time we were robbed it was done in precise. ly the same manner. None of us had fire- arme except the expressmad, and he had laid them aside and could not get them in time, Two of the robbers were dressed in sol- dier's clothes, and two in citizen's dress, and they bad two Henry rifles and two carabines, besides revolvers, in the party, and were supposed to be deserters who escaped from Camp Halleck a few days since. as they had been seen within a day or two in the vivinity of Independence. As soon as the train arrived at Leano, Divi- go. engine, with men, to Wells for forces for by daylight had three different parties on their trail. gine and train for Garline, stopping at El- ko for Sheriff Fiteh and posse of nine men, « notifying the commanderof the pat of the circastances, and asking for a squad of cavalry #4 start on pa suit. Tmpressions are that there are so many and so experien- ced scouts in pursuit that it will be impos- gible for the robbers to escape. Acthere is no telegraph office near the ecene of robh- The excess of males over females in the different countries of the world has recent. ly been the subjeet of investigation. In the United Btates, in 1860, ina total white population of 19,060,068, thore was an ex- cess of 498,736; in a total free colored popu- Intion of 431,440, there was an excess of 17,- 047 females over males; and in atotal slave pr pulation of 3, 204.318, these was an ex- cees of 755 males. In 1890, in a total white population of 27,007,314 théré Was an excess of 780,544 males; in: a free colored popula- tion of 487,008, there was an excess of 19, 900 females; and in a slave population of 3,062,700, an ‘excess of 114% male In New York city, atpresent, it, is asserted that there nre 11,000 more meles than fo males, while there aro 132,000 more fumales of a marriage ible age than wales of that | class. In Greal Britain, mtheothor hand, there ia an exoess of 700,000 fomales over males; and in France, Austria, Italy, Spain and Prussia, with a population of 138,000,000, there are L0H, 000 mora {e- tales than mala | f i { From the Titusville Herald we learn that | the predugtion of petroleum, for the | month « fUctaber, amounted 16 20,120 bar- | rela per day, or a total production for the | month of 624902 durrela,. Contrary to | general expectation, gho district of Wast Hickory shows ‘a detline in the vield of | from 200 to R00 barrels, This loeality du ring the month of September exhibited the largost incranse of any distriot inthe region would bo fully maintained during Octo- ber. Tho Sapramoe Court of Massachusetts has fiftean hundred divoree cases on its docket. We are not told how many more there would be, did not one or both of the parties go to Indiana or Chieage to be relieved of sheir connubial infelicities Up tothe late war of sections, there had never been a divorce granted in South Carolina, Since the war the blacks of that State almost come up.t0 Massachusetts in the number of their applications to bo relieved of the mat- rimonial yoke. Bad practices are more catching than goo l ones, which may ac- count for the spread of the divorce epide- mic. Massachusetts just now seems to be pretty deeply afflicted with the complaint. The Courier-Journal thinks: If Gen. | Grant dosn't mind we thall have to run him for President in 1872 PROMPT TEEATHENT | § a ie 3 3 e i TO RENDER EXIgy ENCE DESIRABLE | v a — i 1 If you are suffer from favo Itty d does it ce uj Yous eral 1? Do you feel wenk. debilitated, easily tired? Dogs a litile ex ertion : pitation of the heat 7 Dole your Hy urinary organs, or your kidneys, fre of order? 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