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INDEX.
HORSE-CH ESTJN UTS -A FANCY,
My heart, my heart, .
To life did start,
A nd blossom with the blooming spring ;
' My soul did move
- With April love,
And grew with every greening thing, ,
. Fair buds the beech
Too fair forspoeeh
Qf mine t show its changing mief, i
,-Kow" soft and slow! -First
a green glow, .
A,nd then a mist, acloud Qf gre&l.
Soft covering thoy,
The tassels gray '
That hang the willow branches " '
And soft the blush -
That pink doth flush ' s
The apple-trees above the wall
Not sornot so, ;. .
I My love did grow
Asr these do sprout invisibly ;
Scarce can one tell,
Nor reckon well, ' . -
The day, the hour, their birth dl eoo.
But mark the way
That long ere May . i
The- fans do clothe the chestnut-troes ;
On each curved twig
The biid grows big,
Apd shineth bronze-liko in the breeze.
To-day it's sheathed,
. To-morrow 1 reathed
Upon by every ? iid of mora,
! And the tr4 stands . '
' With thousand hand3
Of young green; since t'je midnght bcrn,'
f And so yes, so
My love did grow, -jft'l
by 1 ho breeds and the sun,
f" TU1, bath? 1 in dew,
My spirit knew -Its
fragrant summer-tinie begun.
- In thy sweet eyes
' j My suh did rise ; .
Thy voice made April wind-puffs rude,
I And at its call
:. My longings all
Full-budded into lovings stood.
, i One day, one hour,
And ali the power
Of love I'd sought not mastered me,
And all my mind
, No thought could find
Not green with new-born hopes of thee.
-M. G. Van Iienssclaer, in Harper's.
THE GROANING GHOST.
When I was a young man, my fa
ther's business experienced a severe
check, so ! that it was necessary to re
trench, and we resolved to move. My
brother and myself were' sent to ..find a
suitable house. ; "
'Late one Saturday afternoon we came
"upon the, very tiling, a large old man
sion. . A bill in one of the numerous
windows announced that the house was
to let: 'Apply.; nest door." , We ap
plied. The door was opened by a tidy,
gray -haired woman,
. "Can, we look over the house next
;door?"I said. A rather queer look
1 ii t
i:iusuu ui vvuiuau.s iauc-i.ui a jiiuiiiuiit,
but she answered civilly : 1 : " - '
"Certainly, sirfc-. But it is rather dark
now." !
"So it is," said I. "We may come in
daylight if the place is likely to suit us.
Can you tell us the particulars?" ' The
woman enumerated the rooms and the
various features of tho mansion. All were
most suitable.. l-. : :
; "And" the rent !" I inquired, nerving,
myself for a disappointment. She named
o low a figure that I uttered an involun
tary exclamation., ,
"You see we've liad it on our hands
for some time," she explained, "and we
would offer easy terms to a crood ten
ant."
"And when can we look over it?". I
asked. "Is it your own property?"
"No sir. But we have the letting of
it. . 3Iy husband would show you over
to-morrow if you didn't mind."
We made an appoint mcnt for Sunday
morning and went home delighted; Next
morning we kept our appointment, and
found Everything satisfactory.
The next day I was lunching at my
usual chop house along with two or three
acqiiaintances.
i "Still house hunting, Denton?" said
one of these.
"No, thank heaven," I said. "We've
got a house at last. In square."!
"Which house have you got?" i '
"No. 45," I said. lie threw his head
back and burst into a lit of laughter.
The other men laughed too. I .
; "Why, don't you know," said my
menu, recovering his gravity, "JNo. 4o is
Kaunted?" I saw the other men looking
i. - t a.- , r a r
at me, so i pui on a Doia irom.
"As if every one didn't know that,"
said I, composedly. He was somewhat
takea aback, but returned " to the charge.
"Well,. you'll have, plenty of company
there," he said. ' ' . j
. In the course of the afternoon I took
my brother aside and told him. (; '
4 'Phew !" said Itc. "That explains tlie
low rent. But the governor can't stand
anything of fhe rortt You know, how
nervous he is." v
''Ye?, I know," I said. "And it strikes
me that the best thing is to move into
the house 6ursclves, so that we can tell
him the story is. false, if any one lets it
out to him. Just you and I."
"Right," said he.
Wc had no difficulty in finding a pre
text for" moving in our new domicile be
fore the family. So about 10 o'clock
one evening, after a substantial dinner in
town, we let ourselves into our new
abode and took possession. A bright
hi, uj uur lauuiauy, was oiazing in
the kitchen. We had. a plentiful supply
of stimulants and tobacco, and we made
: ourselves comfortable with our slippers
'and lounging coats, and prepared for a
mgjit of it. ;
t Ensconced in our chimney corners, we
passed the time luxuriously enough. We
had made up our minds "to sit up all
night , and show - the ghost what manner
AiV",,, CIUiatdeal with. . , .
. c 11 take the ghost by the horns,"
saict my brother.
.havc to take the devil bv h!?s . T was not
qua e so complacent, for I inherited some
tmng of my father's nervous tempera
ment. However, I had' company, so I
LKept up a stout heart. We were very
theerfui and light-hearted at first.- " We
wiked over various boyish escapades, and
criticised the character of our friends and
relations. ' . r : -
. Finally, the teat of the fire had its in
evitable effect,, a ad we began to doze. ,
I do not know how long I had been
asleep, but I suddenly awoke with a vior
lent, start. A cold shudder ran. through
me from head to feet. -1 had an indefin
able sensation of something strange and
terrible. I rose and stretched myself and
tried to feel at my ease. ButI could not.
I touched my brother and he awoke. '
"Hello !"he said, "What's the matter?
Why, I've been asleep What's the
time ?" f
"Two o'clock ' said I.
"Just the time for a ghost," said he
with unseemly levity. "Do j-ou know,
Will, I don't think he'll come here. Let's
go and look for him."
"Anything for a change," said I, al
though the thought of perambulating
Jhat great lonely; mansion in the dead of
night was anything but agreeable. "I
am wide awake.',' '
"So am I," said he ; and takiug up the
brass Candlestick, he went toward the
door. I followed him closely. We
passed along the passage, our stealthy
footfalls making a faint sound on the un
carpeted floor. jWe examined the rooms
on the ground floor. We heard and saw
nothing. We ascended-the stairs. Every
individual stair creaked horribly, but that
was all. No ghost.
3Iy brother suddenly opened the door"
of a bedroom on the first floor. In
stantly a gust of air blew the candle cut;
and as we stood therein the icy cold we
distinctly heard a groan. It was no
fancy. It was:'a long-drawn, wailing
moan of inexpressible horror and pathos.
It died away in a despairing cadence. It
seemed like the sorrowful lament of a
soul in torment. . As we stood there,
."rasninT
each other's hands, with our
o 1 o
hearts throbbing in great pulsations, it
came again. Oh, the horror of it. It
seemed i be in the room and close to us.
The cold was dealthy, the silence broken
only by that weird and awful moan.
Once more it rose and fell and somehow
or other the next moment we found our
se.lves in the kitchen1, w ith shaking limbs
and ashen faces, relighting our extin
guished candle, j Then we looked at each
other. 1 '
' 'That was no fancy, Will, " said my
brother. I
"Fancy no," I replied, my teeth chat
tering in my head. "What are you going
to do?" r !
For my brother had relit the candle
and was going away.
"I'm going to have another look," he
said. j ,
""But, perhaps," I suggested, "the
the ghost extinguishes the light."
"I'll give him another chance," said
my brother coolly. "Come along, you
chattering idiot." With quaking heart
I followed his foolhardy footsteps. This
time he opened the door more cautiously,
and v c entered. with every nerve strung
to its utmost tension. Holding the can
dle on high we looked around. Pure
vacuity. .And the sound came not again.
KPoor old chap,", said my 'brother.
"He -can't stand the light. Shall I blow
it out again?" j
"If you do-" said I. ; "But, joking
apart, who is. going to sleep ia this room?
I'm not, for one. And this would nat
urally be the governor's room.
3Iy brother was struck.
"You're risrht." he said; "we must get
to the
bottom of this."
He
examined the room carefully, but
there was nothing to be seen, neither was
there anything to be heard. So we gave
up the thing for' that night and went to
bed. ' V- . , n I ,
At noon that day I had to run the
gauntlet of my friends. And, I am bound
to say, kept suspiciously mum. As the
day drew on, I grew! more and more un-
I comfortable, and Pf airly dreaded the or-
deal ot the ensuing nignt. ve agreed
that at 2 o'clock precisely we would again
visit the haunted rotm. .
There was' noj danger of oui going to
sleep to-night, j Wre were painfully wide
awake. ' j j ,
At last the hour began to sound. At
the first stroke my brother rose and took
up the candle. ! I had provided myself
with a second candle on my own account.
We examined the rooms on the ground
floor, without success. We ascended the
stairs, and paused outside the haunted
Chamber. The passage and the stairs
above were thick with shadow. My
brother turned the handle -and the weira
sound died away as we entered..
In a moment ' it came . again. - It rose
and swelled and died sorrowfully away.
It was singularly -human. Yes it was
beyond all description unearthly.
A cold stream of terror trickled down my
back. My brother stood still and listened
intently. The ghost groaned again, and
yet again. It was frightful. The wail
began in a whispe;- it swelled to, an
acutepitch; it diedaway in a note of wroe
that thriiled one's heart. It was awful
to stand there, i waiting for the sound to
come again. My matter-of-fact brother
spoke. -
"All these groans are "exactly alike,"
he - said, considering. "Well, I'll tell
you what, the ghost's up the chimney."
Once more te sound came, as though to
confirm his words. It certainly did ap
pear to proceed from the region of the
fireplace. . f '
; "Still," resumed my brother thought
fully, "a ghost in a chimney is an un
comfortable sort of thing. I'll have that
chimney swept. We'll see' about it the
first thing to-morrow."
We secured the services of an intel
ligent chimney" sweep, and sent him up
the chimney. ? When he came down lie
reported that lie had found nothing, We
sent him up again. This time he found
out something,- This chimney communi
cated with the one next door. V
"That will I be the kitchen chimney
next door," said my brother. "We
must explore that. " Our; landlady wras
considerably amazed when we presented
ourselves and asked to be allowed to ex
plore. After a little demur, however,
she consented; , There was hardly any
fire in the grate. -
"I don't make it up until eleven
o'clock at night," she explained. . " Not
until my master comes home."
The boy went up smartly and shortly
re-appeared, i
" Why, you've got a smokc-jack up
there, Missis," said he.
''What's a ; smoke-jack?" . said my
brother, hastily. The sweep explained.
: ' 'It's a happaratus for roasting0 meat,
fixed in the chimblev., It has little sails,
like, just like a windmill."
"I didn't know it was there," said our
landlady. . ; ' T
. "Doesn't it make a noise Vr asked my
m .1. f . I . i a '
urotner, wun a quicK iook atme.
"We don't hear it,V xeplied the land
ladv, indifferently.- t;V
s Well," 5aid my brother, "just run
back ,to the bedroom and listen. I
believe we've got it. I am going to send
the boy up to turn the thing. :' I did
as he requested. When : I got into the
room the. ghost was groaning in splendid
form. I He was going far faster than ij
had ever heard him before j
The mystery was solved. I
We kept our secret. We were the ad
miration of every one who knew the
story of the house.' -And for a big;
reduction in the rent or a very eomfort-l
able house we had to thank the, Groaning
Ghost. Bclgratia. : 1
Natural Mimicry.
Some insects have a deceptive resem
blance to members " of the vegetable
world, either for the purpose of protect-!
ing themselves or for that of decoying1
their prey. But a more w onderful simu-j
lation is that of the features of other in
sects. ;s" . ; j I
There is in Borneo a sand-wasp which
is addicted to tli3 habit 1 of devouring
crickets, but there is also a species of;
cricket ;which exactly reproduces the ap-j
pearance of its enemy, so that it can even
associate with it undiscovered.
A species of mantis imitates the white
ant, and mixing with the family, like one
of its own members, quietly devours a
fat termite, from time to time. .
Flies often dwell as unbidden guests ic
the nests and hives of i wjld honey-bees.
They are belted and bearded in the self
same pattern as their unconscious hosts,
but their larvaj pay for their hospitality
they steal by devouring the young-grub:
of the hive. ;
Beetles often imitate hornets, since the
latter are insects to which birds in search
of animal food prefer to give a very wide
berth. Even the mimicry of stinging in
sects is sometimes performed by innocent
little creatures quite destitute of any such
means of ; defence. A common insect,
known. in England as the devil's coach
horse, throws up its tail in the aggressiv
fashion of a scorpion, when irritated, bul
it has no hint of a sting. In its warlike
attitude it is exceedingly alarming, not
only to boys and girls, but to chickens
and birds. j x
The bumble-bee flies, which are inol
fensive little creatures, imitating the wile
bee, flit about and buzz angrily in the
sunlight, quite after the insect they copy
and gain an undeserved reputation of
fierceness. ; i ' I
Certain beetles have become modified
to resemble wasps, even to the extent o
losing their solid waists for. others o
ultra-fashionable slendcrness, and others
which mimic bees, have' acquired useless
little tufts of hair on their shanks, to rep-
resent the pollen-gathering apparatus of;
the true bees. ; - . r I
A curious case of imitation is that of
two species of Malayan orioles, which are
almost exact counterparts of two varie-J
ties of honey-suckers. ! The latter are
such fierce birds as to be avoided by al
theij feathered neighbors, and thus the
orioles find their own deceptive plumage
a great protection. Youth Uompanioyi.
Quaint Service in a Japanese Hotel
In a' Japanese hotel the kitchen is al
ways the principal room in the house and
near the entrance, j The first thing tnat
strikes us is the row of large blue platters
arranged around the wall in a shelf rack
near the ceiling. I have come to regard
these platters as a test of the prosperity
of the house, writes a correspondent of
the Qincinnati Enquirer. If they rar
many and large three feet across rth
hotel is flourishing: if few and small, th
reverse, botne nrst tnougnt is : "jtiow
are the platters?"? -'t j!
We are shown our rooms upstairs; all
ways, if possible and leaving our shoes
behind walk upon the soft mats in j our,
stocking feet. Immediately a servant
brings tea and a tray of tiny cups with-j
out saucers; then .tobacco and a small
fire-box for smoking purposes. Now all
the visitors in the house and all thej
neighbors wrho an crowd in have
arrivpd nnd are in onr rooms and are eX4
! amining us. ;
! We think we would like to wash our
j hands and faces and then have something
;toeat, so we clap our hands three times
and a servant sereams "hi," and soon ap-t
' pjears, bowing, and asks what we .wantj
j Wc call for water, which is brought in a
: large bucket with a wooden handle, and
j a flat copper basin, in which we perform
our ablutions in full view of the crowd
; in the street beknv us. Little tables
about as large as a small napkin, are
placed before each on the floor. j
We order rice, which is brought in a
small tub with brass hoops. We ask for
eggs, and they bring thirty for four per
sons. We use our own knives and forks
and the visitors look at u? and then at
each other and smile admiringly. J
New York's Y. M. C. A.
f There are few more pleasing places of
resort in' this town than the bright and
' cheerful rooms . of the Young Men's
Christian Association on Twenty-third
street and Fourth avenue. The immense
buildingcontains reading rooms, library
gymnasium, parlors, lecture 'hall, and
class rooms, and is visited by 1,000 young
men every day. The library contains
35,000 volumes. There are two bowling
alleys, and chess and checker rooms.
There is a chess and checker club of fortjr
members, twenty -five of whom are en
gaged ina'tournament.' Ira II. Brainarci
is chairman of the Club, and two young
men. the brothers Henthorf, are consid
ered the most proficient players. The
members enjoy the privilege of baths j-
tub, shower, needle, and douche ,ten
-ing Sun. . .
Eating: Contests. j
These eating contests, quail or anyt
thing else, are not so common as they
used to be, savs Jack Farrelly in the
St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. They used to
be popnlar down south, where big colored
people were hired to i eat against each
other. A professional cater (I don't
believe there are any now) will train on
certain foods and go right through his
job' on time at an average rate, and
not be sick when he is done. When it
comes 1 o drinking, that is a different?
fhiny all depending on the make up of
the man. One man could drink a quart
of whisky at a swallow, while another
would drop dcaa. A man can accustom
himself -to do feats of eating, l)ut he
must naturally have a capacity, for drink
inST. " :
LODISVILLEIN ALARM.
THE SIGNAil C& Till BCL.ljs MIS
TAKEN FOU'A RIOT CALJi.
;Fruitless Attempt of a ?Iobio Capture
Assailants of si Younff Lady.
A Louisville, Ky:, dispatch says: Great
excitement was occasioned here by the sound
ing of eleven taps by the fire department
bells, as the public generally understood'
them as the signal that an attack had been"
mad ? ou the jail, where Turner and Pat erson,
the negroes who assaulted Jennie Bowman
: are confined. Militia were stationsd- around
the building rand people, knowing this, at
once Circulated reports of an encounter be
tween the mob and the soldiery. Boon after
the alarm a crowd of 3000 persons assembled
in the jail square. Jefferson street was the
scene of great conf usion, people rushing to
wards the nrison from al Tvinf.si' Tt. wa
I ; soon learned that no assault had been matte
upon the jail, but that the alarm was the
: usual call given to notify members of the
legion when they are expec!d to report for
duty at the armors'. The peop'e misunder
stood the signal, thinking it was caused by a
; riot at the jail. The crowd then dispersed,
and no more trouble was feared.
Ten hours previous a mob of about 5000
men and boys, armed with a section of a tel
egraph pole had marched in a bod v to char e
the jail, where Turner and Patterson, the
negro assailants of Jennie Bowman, are con
fined. The police, thirty strong, in a double
column met the crowd at Fifth and Jefferson
streets. The officers ordered the mob to dis
perse and then charged upon them, They
scattered and retreated up Jefferson street,
where they, began gathering in numbers.
They then organized at Fourth and Main
streets and after several? speeches again
marched to the jail. The crowd numbered
about 500 and many of the- men were armed
with sledgehammers. They appeared de
termined and seemed to have leaders. They
reached the jail, and when the police guard
line was reached a lively scrimmage took
place and several shots were fired, but no
one was injured. The mob then retreated in
t'ae direct on of the armory, but rapidly grew
smaller and then dispersed. It is' believed
that .another attempt to reach the two negro
murderers will be made, and if the mob has
determined leaders they will probably suc
ceed in their purpose. '
Among those who were arrested and taken
to the station house were John Letterie and
Allen McDonald. The former was a member
of the late Kentucky Legislature and the
latter is a leader in an association organized
to promote purity in the city g verument.
Jennie Bowman, the young lady assaulted is
still sinking. She may die at any moment.
The fee ing is that her death will precipitate
trouble. Judge Jackson's call on the Gov
ernor for military aid has been answered,
and several com, anies have been ordered to
guard the jail. V
, THE MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION.
Lata.in the afternoon the Mayor issued the
following proclamation: i
Mayor's Office, 1
Louitville, Ky., J
To the People of .Louisville, Ry.
It is my duty as Mayor to enjoin upon the
people the necessity for preserving order and
maintaining the majesty of the law. A most
diabolical crime has been committed in-our
City, but the law must inflict the punishment.
A riot is more dangerous to good government
Al - I ' r l - i t ' i .
tuaii tx.uy mtiiviuiiai criminal, jyncn law
subverts every principle of law and attacks
our very civilization. I, therefore, in the
discharge of my duty, request every citizen
to remain at home to-night, and to avoid all
t gathering, and I caution pi rents; not to per
mit tneir cniiaren to go into tne streets, as
their presence increase the number and ad'Js
to the excitement. I must and will discharge
my duty to uphold the law and to preserve
I- good order, and I command a 11 riotous assem
blages to disperse. (Signed)
" " P. B. Reep, Mayor.
crowds about the jail.
Despite the Mayor's procla ation, how
ever, the squares about the jail are densely
packed with men. The police nave been able
to clear the street for about a half square
east and west of the prison, but beyond theeo
limits the people are jammed together as
close as sardines, and no effort so far, has
been made to disperse them. Two companies
of militia wait in readiness for the order to
march, at any moment from the armory, some
five or six squares away. On, Market street
a crowd of about one hundred men- are
marching up and down, each with about a
foot of -white cotton rope tied to the arm.
In a prominent place on the . cou.1 -house is
the, illuminated design, "Wanted live hun
dred men to join the mob." Up to this wr.t
ing good order has prevailed. The mob ap
pears to have no leader, and appears to be
only watching out of curiosity for something
to turn up. The police and military aite de
termined to defend the jail, come what may,
and if the attempt is .made to-night, or intho
morning, there will be bloodshed sure.
. A BRUTAL CRIME.
The history of the trouble is briefly thus :
On April 21 a burl- negro named Albert
Turner entered a house in a fashionable part
of th s city, between eleven and twelve
I o'clock in the morning, having first observed
' that all the inmate had left.
While he was ransacking the place Jennie
Bowman, the white se. -ant girl, returned
and pluckily fought Turner,- giving him
several , severe gashes in the face with a
tumbler.
i The brute knocked her down, crushing her
skull with a brass" poker and otherwise dis
figuring her, and then made his escape. He
secreted himself in a stable, but was found
by the police and arrested. He acknowleged
his guilt and was taken to Frankfort, the au
thorities fearing that he would b9 lynched.
Turner subsequently made a confession, im
plicating another negro, named Bill Patter
son, and he was also taken to 'Frankfort to
escape the mob.
Turner made a confession on Monday night,
in which he said that he and Patterson beat
and kicked the girl to insensibility and then
carried her to her room where Patterson
tried . to assault her, but was prevented by
Turner.
The girl is almost certain to die, and the
evidence is strong enough' in thit case to
bring both men to the gallows.
KNOCKED DOWN IN COURT.
A "Wronged GirTs Father- Takes the
Law Into His Own Hands.
; Ch cago, 111., A dispatch says: Frank
Mumford, 40 years, old, a lottery sharp,
stood in the dock in the Armory Police
Court, charged with having wronged Julia
Bernhardt, a pretty girl of 13. Mumford
had given employment to her father and
pretended to be a friend to her bedridden
mother. The weeping girl recovered her
composure long enough to tell her story;
then-she broke down. "
. At tho same moment her gray-headed
father made one bound from 'the witness
bench to the dock and planted his fist full in
the prisoner's face, Mumford fell senseless
the blood gushing from his mouth. In an
instant the court-room was in -confusion.
The 200 spec ators climbed on the benches,
men shouted approvingly and women shriek
ed. When order had been restored Justice
Meech, fined the father $25 for contempt of
couri The old man pleaded pitifully for
mercy. "My God"5 he wailed, 'I couldn't
help it, Your Honor: this scctundrel has ruin
ed my child, my beautiful Julia.' By this
time the prisoner had regained consciousness
and was on his feet. The magistrate con
templated the trio for a moment, and then
addressing Mumford. said:
; tiT -n.iiiinn- giw inv Kiich contempt-
ible person as you to be knoc! ed down, -
even m my couru ucu " , i II
such as this old man has. Mr. Clerk remit
thThe"f ather and daughter left the court-
v,.,,i in y,a-nA while Mumford went to
IWUi UCAAAV . . i
jail in default of bail. , " . . .. 1
A BOLD ROBBERY.
A ,Tral Stopped in Arizona and Plan-
v dcrcd by Desperate, Men. "
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One of the most audacious, desperafA ami
successful traii robberies ever j recorded o i
cur red on the west-bound overland j train on
the Southern Pacific Railroad, near Tucon,
Ariz. A special from Tucson tays: "The
western-bound express due here at. 10:30 p.
m.', was stopped arid robbed at JPapago star
tion, 16 miles east of here, about the nuniter
of men engaged ia the robbery is variously
estimated from five to eight. I CoL! Harper,
the engineer, when approaching Panago, was
signaled by a red lantern to-stop. lie slowed
down, and as he approached tho j light he
noticed obstructions on the track so placed
that, i i case he failed to stop tho engine
w.uld spread-tho track and derail itself.
Immediatel v upon stopp'ng, a dozen or more
shots were fired into the express car, and a
man with a pistol in each hand boarded tha
locomotive and commanded jHarper not to
got down. The other robbers had in the
meantime been prying open the expres car,
and failing to get it open, they placed a stick
of giant powder under it and compelled Har
per to light the fuse attached. This he was
obliged to do, but to avoid being blown up,
t h i messenger opened the car and the rob
bers took possession. They then took charge
of the car, uncoupled thi engine, baggage
and express car from the remainder of the
train and made Harper get on the engine
and pull ahead two lengths. - This being
done, Harper was again put off, and the rob-bei-s
took charge of the engine and pulled
s x miles toward Tucson, Here, they killed
the engine and left it. During the run the
robbers vent through sthe ma:l and express
cars, but did not get more than five thou
sin . dollars. It is reported that the express
messenger threw thirty-five hundred dollars
into a stove and so saved it from the robbers.
Ten trailers have left for the scene of the
trouble. . The robbers are believed to be dis
charged railroad employes, although they
compelled Engineer Harper to show them
how to handle the locomotive."
Additional facts ware received concerning
the robbery in dispatches to Wells, Fargo fc
Co. They were to the effect that the train
was held up three miles east of Papogo in a
cut. The mail was robbed as well as the ex
press, from which 5,000 was taken. No one
was injured by the shooting. When news of
the robbery was carried b ck to Pantano,
United States Marshal Mead atd a deputy,
two deputy sheriffs and two others started:
after the train. Marshal Mead sent for troops
to Fort. Lowell, add thirty-five soldiers left
there to scour the, country. '
The mad and express agents were given
just one and a half minutes to get out, un
der threats of being blown up with five
hundred pounds of dynamite, and they at
once got out. "With rewards offered by the
railroad company, Wells, Fargo & Co., and
the Post-office Department, it will profit who
ever may be the capturer of the robbers
$2,200 for each capture.
PIERCtD WITH A SWORD.
A Falling Man Accidentally Jluns His
Friend Through and Thro gh.
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A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C, says:
There was a procession in Clinton in honor
of the completion of a railway, and thou
sands of people lined the streets. Col. Wpi.
C. Jones, o prominent young officer, was.in
command or' the troops as Col nel of the 21
Infantry Regiment. His horse, alarmed at
the noise, i ecam unmanageable and dashed
wildly into a group of marshals.
Col. Jones was thrown violently from his
sad lie, holding fast in his right hand his
drawn sword, which as he fell, pierced the
body of II. A. Jones, one of the marshals.
Both in on fell together, while their horses
dashed away. - The sword, Avhich was a Uni
ted States regulation blade, transfixed Mr.
James from back to breast, the blade enter
ing on the left side of t he spine. After pass
ing through the body it snapped near the
hilt. The sword was drawn out by the point,
weich protruded several inches in front near
the breas -bone.
The accident occ'u red immediately in
front of the residence of Mr. Jame's father,
ana both Mr. James and Col. J' nes were ta
ken to this house in a stats of unconscious
ness. The regimental surgeon and other
? hysicians say that the wound may not prove
fatal, as the lungs were not touched. Col.
Jones narrowly escaped concussion of the
brain and the dreadful occurrence nearly
drives him mad.1
THE OTHER SIDE HEARD FROM.
Numerous Trotests Against Suspend,
ing the Long and Short Haul Clause.
A dispatch from Washington says: J. M
Burlingatne, secretary of the Business Men's
Associati.on of Minnesota, comprising boards
of trade, business men's and farmer's organ
izations cf the state, w rites by instruction .1b
the Inter-state Cormnerce' Commission, ask
ing that the association be notified before
any consideration is given to the prayers of
the railroads between Chicago. and St. Par
and Minneapolis, and it be afforded a hearing
on the subject. An intense desire, he says
exists that there s . ould be no susnensio i of
any provisions of the law until its effects
have been thoroughly tested. Charles M. Hil
seeretarv of the Philadelphia 1 odi Mer
chant's Association, writes enclosing a copy
of a resolution of the association protesting
against the suspension of the long and short
haul provision for the Pacific roads. In its
fireamble-the document recites that the rates
rora San Francisco, to the east have been
from fifty to sixty-two cents per hundred
Sounds, while from many nearer points it
as been fxom $3 to $4 50. The treasurer of
the J.-B. Williani3 Company, soap manufac
turers of Glastonbury, Ct., writes in refer
ence to the petition of the New iTork, Isew
Haven and Hartford Railroad. Company,
sayin ho is confident he represents the sen
timent of a majority of the manufacturers
ad shippers of Xonnecticut, protecting vig
orously againts the. suspension of the long
and short haul claune. He savs that for
years this road has had a monopoly of almost
tMe entire traffic of the state. The only two
lines of steamers from which the road would
receive competition are virtually under its
thumb, and are obliged to submit to almost
tny terms the road 5ees fit to dictate
TWO NOTED LULU FIGHT.
Missouri's State Auditor and an Ex
Judge Use Canes and Pisto a.
A Jefferson CitV, Mo. .dispatch savs: Ex
Supreme Judge John W. Henry and Stat
nl tor V alker, had an altercatioa on the
screet in which Judge Henry was shot, onco
in ue right arm and again in the ureast, anrt
Walker was severely cut in the heal by a
blow from Judge H nry's cane. The affair
erew out of the late investigation of Auditor;
Walker by a legislative committee. Walker
accused Judge Henry of talking about him
with a view to injuring him and took strong
exception to the Judge's testimonyfore th?
committee. -Judge Henry rep.ied that he
had told nothing but the truth, whereupon
Walker, in profane language, called him a
liar Judge Henry then struck Walker over
the head with his cane, and Walker whipped
out a pistol and fired at him. The ball en
tered the palm of the Judges left hand,
passed up the arm just under the fekin to near
the e bow, where it came out, crossed his
breast and lodged in his breast bone. The
h-4 a danzerous one.
Walker got a heavy blow on the left temple,
cutting a long gash, and he is now suffering
from nervous prusti anuu,
heart and numbness of his left side, but the
doctors say will be all Jight in a few days.
Both are old men, and Judge Henrr uit
feeble. 1 -
1ELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
. ;"? Eastern and Middle States.
Fire in a big Brooklyn gas fixtures' manu
factory caused a loss ot' JjOjOlKV.-.
"Jake"' Sjiahp, tin? jivuj who is charged
grant his Broadway horse-car co:nj-aiv a
charter, was haukvl up ia court by tle '
trict-Attorney on ilonaay, and his trial net
for an early day.
A fire at Alletrhny Cltr. ronn.. rcsuUl
in the death of j two petvoai a man and a
woman anl fatal in juries t oiw man. J
NcMEROrs stove foun irles in the Fist hive
been clw I IwHaus.? moMei-s rifusl t- work j
on patterns made b3 a boy cot lei St. Louis
urm. - ? j-: . , . .
Fivk miners were smothered to deithby
the collapse of a pillar in an Ashland tlViui.)
mine. 1 -
-1 -
IwESTrGATiox of the PaciSc rail.tad by
the Coinmiialon rerentlv appr:ntjl .lxgan a
few days since in New York.
: The Xew a:upshire Cattle Commfesloners
have ordered a cattle quiuintUie a?aia-t.
MassachusHts aud New ork o;i a-con it of
the alleged existence of pleuro-pneumonia in
those States, j -
A sixSTORY fui-riiture factorv in New
York succumbe 1 to the Ham??, iois, $oj,-
Both briwhesof th.11 New York Tiislattir
have iosn1 tti biU providing for a half holi
day on Sat urd-j vs. t
Sxtiuh and West.
'- i t"
i Many promin nt px),il, in "lu ling several
members of Prcsiueut'Clevfli-iiis Cabinyt,
, were present at tlie u'lveiling -t a st-jtu t ).
John C. Calhoun in Charleston, S. '. Mili
tary co:n:anies fro;u all partiof the State"
pameipate-i in the parade. !
i Somr boys were ex imin'nj an old shell '
emboildcd in 1 1 jo side of th s lo intain at !
Harp r's Ferry, Vu., vh?n it i; t d w ith
such tremen lou.-. foivj that s?vciii dfl!iiigs
100 yards ..away were al'.ii'st d-mohshtil.
Six persons w-J injured, two with probably
fatal res alt.
At least 4K) ( !ii!dron aradown with niasles
at Madison, Wis. Many adults lave also levu
attacked. - . '
A scaffoi-T) at ?Ioiiticell 'T III., was thrown
to the ground by the antics of a calf, one of
the four men u::i it bciag killed and one fa
tally injured.
' Three brothers n.amed Hay ward were
drowned in Chtsapc;aked3jy by the capsizing
of their boat. ' '
At Haverhill, Ohio, Dr. W. T.' Northtip, a
prominent "physieian, was murdered by
rhomas '.McCoy, a .'saloon keejer. and his
, brother A If rod'ths postmaster at Ufaverh'iU,.
aided by Pieiro ) and James McCVfy, sons of,
Alfred, aged twenty andfilte.m. Dr. Northup
drew his pocket-knife and severely -wounded
Alfred McCoy. Tire other .AlcCoys were ar
arrested. Dr. Northup had antagonized the
McCoys by -working hard for 'local option.
I The schooner Flying Scud, ' from Alaska,
has been lost at sa with all on loard, com-
E rising four whites and fourteen native
unters.' .
i Three young children of Sharp Smith
were burned to death during the father'
absence from hi home in Spartanburg Co.',
S. C. ' -
Foster's OrERA House at Dcs Moin??, one
of the finest theatres in Iowa, has been totally
destroyed by fire. Iss about $.o,Xi.
J. H. Marcuji wrs publicly, hanged at
Jjouisa, Ky., for thy murder , of liis cousin,
Fisher Marcum. J
The Captain and crew of thBmish steam
ship Benhope have arrived at Savannah.
While sixty miles from land a nro broke out,
and 23,GC0 cases' of crude "X'troleum each
case containing about foriy KHons legan to
explode, hurling tlia vessel's timbers high into
the air. The crew took to the boats,and were
-picked up byja pa-jsing vessel.
: A MEJfHER of the Michigan legislature
named Dakin has been "expelled for corrupt
practices. !
Washington. .
General Grant's birthday was celebrated
under the auspices of a Grand Army .-Post in
a AVashingto i church on Taiesflay. Among
the speakers were t!io Mexican Minister, Sen
ator John L. Morgan, General Ileuklo and
others.- ' , 1 . -
! James II. Marr, chief clerk to the First
Assistant Postmaster-General, is dead.. lie
was born in Maryland in lfl' and had been
fifty-six yeare in the continuous service of the
Postofli'ce Department, beginning with the
administration of President J ackswv
President Cleveland's mo-it intimate
friends deny the statement 'recently made
that he had declare 1 .emphatically .that he
would not accept a renomi nation . .
Senator Beck, a member of the Senate
Finance Committee, thinks that owing to t hj
accumulation of the surplu revenue in th"
Treasury, an extra session of Congress to re
lieve tho country of a possible linancial strin
gency is necessary., i" .
The Government has been informed that
many Indians in the vicinity of Yuma, Ari
zona, have died lately of measles. -
A coming bulletin of the Agri'i'ultural
Department will give full' ''and iexpiicit
directions how to tell the difference between
genuine butter and oleomargarine.
Nearly . 400 p?nsions have been granted
under the Mexican Service act of January
2ytb.- About 1-VJ0 Mexican claims" have
been received at the Pension Office up to date.
The President has made the following ap
Xintrnents: Isaac Hilliard Polk, of Califor
nia, Receiver of public moneys at Los An
geles, Cal.; Frank W. Welna, of West Point,
Neb., Register of the land oflica at Niobrara.
Neb. Postmasters, AHert J. Lovelee, at
Adams, N. Y.; Wright . F. Perry, at Cole
Spring, N. -Y. , - '
Valentine Fleckenstein has been ap
pointel Postmaster and John W. Martu
Collector of Castoms at Rochester, N. Y.
Foreifjn.
Four new Cardinals wiU soon tje createc
by the Pope.
IS Ecuador recently the IiberaJ leader
Yargas Terres, was captured, tried by, court
martial and shot.
Junz 22 ha? Ijecn officially-set apart as tlit
day for observing the Queen's jubilee ix
Canada.
Three young men were drowned at St
Romuald, (Canada, by the ups3ttingof a boat
Damaso Campo, a planter, lias been kid
napped by Cuban bandit?, who demand i",
0J for his ransoru.
The yacht Thlstte, tha British vessd which
will coine to America this summer to race for
the world's championship, has just beea
launched at Glasgow. -
An American party of prospectors have
discovered two of the seven silver mines in
Mexif-o workexl by the Spaniards over o
hundred years ago. Tho whereabouts ot
tbeso mines ha3 been a mystery for man y
years.
Mb. Gladstone, in a speech at a dinner
given by Labor members of Parliament, de-cia-ed
his , entira dis!eiief in the accusation
mad-bythe Lohdon Timrs that Parnell had
written a letter expressing approval of the
Phoznix Park munlcrs.
The Cambridge University Boat Club i
making arrangements to go to America this
surauar to' row a race with the Harvard
University Boat Club.'
The Rev. Dr. McGlynn, of New York, ha
again informed the Pop? that he refuses tc
come to Rome.
A tcmbeb of Nova Scotia lobster .fisher
men have be3n lo.-rt in a heavy gale.
TitsDuke of Portland's residence nt Rob
crtland, his feat in Ayi shire, Scotland, taa
teen destroyed by firs.
Thirteen men who recently resigned from
the Irish Constabulary have failed for New
York. A large crowd, including the Mayor
of Cork, bale them farewell amid cheers for
rarnebV
ANTI-POVERTY SOCIETY.
The New 3Iovcmnt y Ir. Mltnn
an4 Henry ;HriT
A dispatch frtmi New York kis: "1
Anti-Poverty S jtv. of which Ir. M (;ivr
i pitjdfnf. and Hoary "f..r;-4. is ;.-- - r. ,-tt-?nt,
held thi-ir fut pu'Uc in., tin : t
nt Cliickcrin-; Hall. Tl- Hall vx:.s -I
to ovcrfl m ing. an 1 :i tf.f j l.stfortn
l;ir.i uumU-r f load-M-s f tr-.. t":n:t .A . -IU"ty.
Th exrci-iis H!itt with s mm I v
a c!;oriu of littyvoic x lfftu v i vi; j r
dI, and in his op:iin- addn 4 nd; i i
protKV of s-it'dt a larKiT an li.-jn-,- n t? w
in-tlng.uf thi Anti s-! t y . h s.'t y s ,,i1
that Qiere is o widt-prcad fc!i:n; in "th '- -:n -munity
fl,njnt th' ,nl timi -f p.'"t.
In stirtinc tliis ;!;,-, we . imt j.r r
form n church. Th",iv niv nhci c), Vn ), -s
enough in the n:n:r,nuil y. Thn- isr, i'.i ' '
ss.x-tarian in the platf riu of th-o,--. tv. All
cr"Hls ar wvlcme. ' tf Arc l.thrj" V.s v-
gaU''ChW.MW t j Ml ll IS Wt K-nilH', ;m t if
'Koiiert lnger U lsir s t.i ! rs o;n- a tn ,) r.
h" v.U ic w. l :n " ;i's .
t
aroaiyj't'u' -religion s -ntiM.-t.t m m-n v.
w m n to !;!; v:v, U oht r. .u d t-i do -.
it
"hanty i annoi .1 , li ; 1 that :th y-
erty that fc .tor's in f.i- fci-ai f .f ..ur-r-a'
cit.e d 's not :it i 1 1 ofn th 1114 iidi,:)--o
' t:J" ( "reato! lu from man' vinfnl.i -prxac.i
tie -Mini- f lira. !
r. i;d. "Ina.stsiu 'ha w li cdon i! unto t '
1 i t of t 'a ; ; y ha v. il 1 it u a' in 1 1 T
like- tho who try to -t -.-utc the 1:1 -a I
'stand h: for tl rights th !." I-il
Mr. G'-org as t.jaki'ig. 1. Mct;iiii
stepjKnl u;'t:vtht p'at form. Kvery man ni-!
v.ojm ii ros. in s at ;. a;n t lie ,;ic.. t- t In. I
of ctithudjsjii n-i n ! for wi uil mia'i;- -J'heji
i.inet was n-sti'-d. Dr. Mct;inn -!;.
red to the reading d -sk an t nid: "I aia 1 :
tensely eon-eious tha? v. e stand h"i e to ni jit
on n htslorte platform. The fi uiii'l.-! of t h ,
society in ears to e me will look back iijc-n
to-night's meet i. g ith pla-uie ami s tU
faction. It is not amiss that I. a pri ?
C.ii iit. should stand here to spik -n a ;m
which proMss tonb li; li this liorrid.crmie
poverty, which is trV injustice o( man in
violation of The law of (01 1. J would l-ei-creant
to my sacred priest Ihhi if I should
falter to speak the word which I am t-:n
inanled by my Lord and MhIit to .-p :ik.
Surely, my friends, it should hardly ! 11
c.ssary torn priest t-i ajM!oi.e forlovin.; the
poor; for - teaching m-n the letter law .1
'Christ taught the equality of men - 1--;ih-'
all are children of a i-omnion father A'l
men were created cipial.and were ma d f i -'higher
and letter thm;;s. If tio-l is a fat Ian".
he eannot te a ste;i-ta! her. Iftef is a jui
(ol, a loving (oui. he did not send hi- lul
dren into this world to suffer, and he did not
ine n to give into t;he hands of an executive
few the good thihgs of 1 he eartli. We are
attracted solely to-this work by the ivli.-ion
that is in it. We are not e-talili-hm a
now church; we nir. cngageil in a work in
which wo find the very e.s.-ence of all religion.
It is a doc'trino that makes the hearts of m -n
as tender uh a woman It is becau-? this
moveni nt has the love of '.eternal ju-ttee in
it t hat it has for us an jitt ra tion." Dr. Me
tJlynn, in elo.-iin, su'et that he always m
tendt.sl to remain a Catholic, and to j reach
Catholic do-t fine, and to trv and bring b.e k
religio 1 to the world. "Beligiou w id tiever
beVight until we shall sei a democrat ic J'o
walking 'o'i.i Itroadway with a stocpip
hat 011 his head, and carrying an unihivli.
under his Mnn. In -my ojiinion that man vi!,i
lie-ti.e greatest of Mp'.s. Instead o'f haxiiu;
men carry him on their sluhilders. he nHI
hive the lautrh on them, for he will carry
them in his -heart." let uh do the rate-' oi
the y. aster, and do what we can to riht tlf
wrong, and cause tie; bhi,s.'d day of justice to
go on ; and the da w ii of the day of jnM !
will h the iK'ginninj;, even on carlh, of th--doing
of tho will o! the Father as done in
Heaven, and the leginiiirig of the reign of
tiie Prince' of Peace,"
KILLING ' DISEASED CATTLE.
The I linois Iiivc Slock Commissioner
, ' JMirKtiiiifr a Vigorous Course.
A dispab'h from Chicago sas: I'Imiio
pneumoniu, u-cord i ng to-1 he st at i-t ics of t h
live stK'k eoiuinissiou, is.inore prev ail nt m
Chicago and vi in ty than it e cr was fon-.
It has been found in s.-,ary to ipi.nantn
the district between the lake and ti e Dc
pla tries river, lying north of Twenty s-cond,
inchnling the tow n . f Lak" 'j..v and ) t
f erson, roid to staldi.-uii pat rol to piv t-at.
t he smuggling of .tt h past tie iniara nt 11."
limits. Diseased ro-.vs have Ik - ii sj.oieht- t. I
by the huwfrcd, infected barns -have been
disinfe't.t d and even destroyed in fomeci,
Since the discowry of the. disease, In -t tail,
it has lieon spreading "slovly despite tie
preventive uieastires. It has Ik come rpid m-r
and apnarently can only lw eradicated by
sacrificing nil the cattle that h ive Le. jj ,
osed to it. . j
A count just mad" of. the 'veterinai ia n . n
paged showed that tO; cows were qnaia-i-ti-n.-il
ami that upward- of had be. i
f-laughleri d. Each animal i apprai-x-d t
fore being slauhten'I and thev claims are
promptly jmid by the commi.' -sioners. All
animals "ins; ected now are marked with a
tag in order to prevent their ten. oral without.
jerinissioh, A gol de. .f trouble un,
exe: i-nced by the veterinarians , w h-n they
undertook to corral and tig ti e hejiN that
are running loose in the northwestern part
of the cityon account of the determine i oj(
iKsitioii of the owners of tie herds. The
latter are mostly ignorant foreigner-, a r I
would not nndersUiml that the pi-ecaution.-n y
measure were I-ing exetci-ed tor tin-ir If n
tit, but nrified them-elvcs with lilh-s ai l
revolvers nnd'drovi the veterinarians o'.
The jMtliee were finallj" called up ntoprote, t,
the doetors, and the 4 tagging'"' and hi--i t
was finally accomplished.
. Chairman Pearson lieves that thedi- a -
was brought Jto Chicago originally tvnt
Geneva, and came to II uiois from .M.ar land
and New Yrk through the indivrimnia"
shipment of bhxKled cattle. A sjcial from
Helena,, Mont., says that Gov. lc-le- will
proclaim quarantine m Texas 'cattle from
Illinois,' New Jersev, New York, r-'ntivha-riia,
Maryland, Di-taw are, the Ih-trn t of
Columbia. Viririnia. Vermont and Texas.
SINGULAR EXPLOSIONS.
Lit !.Tilown Up by Tin Cans - A Wb !r
NciglibxjirlKXMl Tcrrilied.
New York. A dispab-h says: A qn. k
succession of terrifif? explos ons iKrun-l in
the Bolton dyeing, printing and th-a'-lnn ;
company s nulls in the villa se of Bronx.. .n-,
Westchester count v. - The shock w .vi lil.e n
eartiiquakt, and extend'e! to a radius of t. 'in
miles. The mill wjw ljwovere l to on br
at half-past . thrw o"elck in the mormn.
The flames were fehootmg un fifty feet high,
lighting up the wun try for mile-aronn 1.
Suddenly . an explosion o -cured th?it
the little country houses in the .imm-1 at -neignlxrhof
1 to-their very foundation,
threatening to shake them down. ! Me t. w -men
and children ru-hed out of the;r h on - -s
in their night clothes, screaming ar.d wnu
ing their hands. The first explosion was
followed in rapid succesrion by four other-,
that tore otr the root and end of the m.ii an i
sent bricks, shingles and debris suihng
through the air a distance of 11 hnii u -
Yards- The milLs are ownel by Th. .mas and
Henry Bolton, and William H. hinl.nl.
The loss is estimited at alnjut l-V).fK;i).
Mr. Birchall baid that the explosion v. as
causetlbythe tin cylinder drying cans, of
which there warf one hundrwl in the m il.
-We cloth is' rolled ov r the.-" cylin i t s to
.dry: It is said that a certain amount oti-r-spiration
from the steaming of the t-h'th
gathers on the inside of the cylinders during
the da v, and when the tire reached them
Be tam "was generated and tho cans licw
up. '.....,.:.. " . !