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VOL. II.
MURFREESBORO, N. C, -FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1887.
NO. 52.
MURFREESBORO
C3-OOID
COMPENSATION.
If Joy and Perfectness have crowned a day,
Alas! we say, this gracious day is done,
The gods will never send us such an one
Again, however we may strive and pray.
But if in woe that knowth no allay
Full 6low the anguish -harrowed hours have
run
Our hearts grow lighter with the setting
sun,
For then wo feel that all hours pass away.
'Now some are bound to Life with golden
bands
And Life to these is passing sweet arid dear;
They fain would linger in each lovely year
And shun the pilgrimage to unknown lands.
But souls that sorrow know not any fear
"When Death draws nigh with healing in his
hands.
Graham 12. Tomson, in Scribner.
OTL BARTON'S CLAIM.
Phil Barton was a big, raw-boned
man. lle had a sloop to his shoulders
and a sort of chronic scowl on his face.
He was middle-aged and unmarried,
with no very good prospect of changing
lib latter condition. He was not a harfd-
. f ome man and far from an even-tempered
man. In fact he sometimes played the
well-known part of the exceedingly dis
agreeable man from Bitter Creek
though to do him justice he had only
occasionally indulged in those little cc-'t-entricities
of character which were so
marked in the gentleman from the Creek.
Only when somebody jumped Ins claim
thru yir. Barton was reluctantly forced
to admit that he hailed from Bitter
"Crock. Not' from Bitter Creek as it is
known to ordinary people the Bitter
Creek of thw geographer but far up
at the very head-waters where the bhek
alkali water of Great Bitter Spring
gushed out of the volcanic soil where
.Bitter Creek was born that wa3 the
humble birth-place and subsequent point
of residence of the speaker, Mr Phil
Jhirton. And of c'ourse it was wholly un
cessary for him to say anything about
the fact that the residents of Bitter
Creek grew worse the higher up the
( reek you travel this remarkable pecu
liarity of the residents was too well
known. But to. return to Mr. Barton's
claim it was a lamentable fact it was
always being "jumped. "
''Claim jumping" is a light and divert
ing form'- of recreation always more or
le.-s iridulirt d in bv Dakotians in such
portions of the territory where there is
(lovernment I arid op,'n to settlement and
being settled. It consists of moving "on
the claim of some other person who has
not yet secured a title to his laud from
the (Jovernment, and instituting a "con
test" at the land office. If the law is
allowed to take its course and the aggressive-party
can prove that the other Has
not complied with all the requirements
of "the . department of the interior the
right to live on the claim and finally ac
quire a deed to it is given him ; if he can-'
not he has the trouble and the costs,
which pile up to the consternation of all
except the lawyers and officials for noth
ing and the original claimant remains in
the possession of the land. But when
the country is new, the land choice and
the claim-hunters numerous, the law is
not always allow:ed to take its course. In
fact it frequently isn't. And the sur
prising swittness with which the unfor
tunate claim-jumper is sometimes re
moved from the land and his few effects
thrown after him is only equaled by the
astonishing manner in which this aggres
sive 'personage will sometimes secrete
himself in his frail house aud welcome
the original claimant With an old shot
gun loaded with rirlc balls and ten-penny
nails. .
t As I said before, Phil Barton's claim
was frequently jumped. Probably the
- easiest way to account for this is on the
supposition that it was jumpablc if I
may be allowed the word. He didn't
comply with the law. His improvements
were not sufficient. He failed to live on
it with that regularity and persistency
which the law supposes. Not that
scarcely any one did all the law is sup
posed to expect, but the gentleman
under consideration didn't even do all
the eommuuity expected, and the result
was invariably, as he expressed it, "more
A. 1.1- 1 t . a. 1 - , ,
irouuie oout mat ciaim o- mine.
"I thought I'd die a laughin'," said
Judge Posey, of Buffalo City, as he sat in
i.:. .'tK 11V T J. A - J
his uma-. iuu miow a was out to-uay
locatin' that Wisconsin man. Well, I
. seen Phil Barton out on his claim, in
1 2U-G., a bavin' it with that 3Iinnesota
man. Says Phil : 4 Look a-hear, ye
l 4 i e i. i
my claim!' 'Ye bet I have,' says the
Minnesota man, 'an' ye'll find me what
they call a stayer.' ' Now ye want 'o
git!' says Phil. 'Git yerself!' says
MLRta. .'I'll lick ye tm ye can't
sagger alone I '' says Phil. 'Come on ! '
hp wis 3Iinnesota. 'One minute to leave
a f take yer truck!' says Phil. 'Ye'll
l'Hd me right here in this here identical
St a hundred years from now!' says
Minnesota. 'I see I've got 'o lift ye up
an' h'ist yeoff'n the place!' says Phil.
'Well, talk won't do it!' says Minnesota.
Then they Avent at it. Phil banged him
one in the eye and the Minnesota man
brought him an under-cut. Then they
clinched an' rolled, an' tore, an' pounded,
an: pulled, an' got up an' pounded, but
pretty soon Phil got him down an' set
on him, an' says he: "Now, whose
c!aim is this?! 'I guess it b'longs to a
man "bout your size,' say sf the Minnesota
man, an' so Phil lets him up an' he picks
up his duds an' vamcoses, Phil keepin'
the lumber in his house for hi trouble.
It's 'bout the quickest way to settle a
contest,"! ever seen," continued the
Judge "no witnesses or postponements
or appeals or waitin' or nothin', jes' pull
yer coat an' wade in. But thunder," he
added, "it u'd berough on us lawyers if
they all done that way."
The unfortunate Minncsotian was not
the only man who rose and fell on Bar
ton's claim in much the same way. "It's
gittin, 'most so they move on ev'ry morn
m' an' I move 'em off ev'ry night," said
Barton himself, as he stood on a street
corner of Buffalo City. "I tell ye that
claim berlongs to mean' I'm goin' t'hold
it. I'm a peace'ble law-abidin' American
cit'zen, but when anybody tries t' beat
me out o' my home there's goin' t' be
trouble. There won't be no lawin' nothin'
but jes' straight fight in' an' lots ov it.
Them as hops ontcr that claim with the
idee o' holdin' it, will find that I'm a
fighter right from ' Thumper's Corners,
A. i rra ri
iiuiiTir -v m t r - - r i - Awn . -
vui.j v xuai iuwu as move ou.
kin look out the winder an' see old Phil
Barton comin like & slycone, an they
want o' git while they're able t' move
about I I aint no spring chicken, an
when it comes t', fightin' they'll find I
was raised 'way back over Roaring
Ridge! Ye hear me,! gentlemen !" ,
"But how about the widder Baxter,"
said Judge Posey, "I heered she moved
on yer claim an' has put up a shack."
"The widder blank!" sa'd the aston
ished man from Roaring Ridge.
"Yes, they say she's on yer place.'
"That one with the black eyes?"
"Yes." I
"The one what teached the school
down at Dead Lake an' licked the big
boy an' shoved out the school pff'cers?"
. "Same one." j
"She's got a dog, too."
"Yes big yeller an' white cuss." ,
"I seen him killin' cats down at
BufTlo one day. .He had 'env stacked, up
there like hay." j
"Yes, I heered 'bout it. What d'ye
think ye'll do 'bout thejwidder, Phil?" -
"W'y w'y ye see, Jedge, I reckon
the widder'll have t' go. I don't take
none too much stock in these women no
how,an' my 'sperience has been that wid
ders air the wuss kind. I aint been out
t' my place fer two or three weeks-
I reckon I'll mosey out in themornin' an'
see hqw the land lays." ! ,
t. Then this man, whose earliest recollec
tions was of looking down into the dark
waters of Bitter Creek and up at the pre
cipitous sides of Roaring Ridge, walked
away with a troubled vision of black-eyed
widows and spotted, cat-killing dogs.
The next day Burton went out to his
place, but somehow j he didn't get any
farther. Away down on the other corner
he could see a small board shanty. He
rightly coniectured that it was the
widow's house. But he thought it would
do just as well to go down after a day or
two. He would think about it lor
awhile.
The SVidow Baxter was a lady of rather
uncertain age though by no means old.
She hgfd come out from Indiana a year be
fore nnd in that space of time had
workd up a reputation for being excep
tionally able to take care of herself."
Alfer a tew clays Mr. tsarton, late oi
Bitter Creek, determined to go down
and see if he could not induce the widow
to move. He had serious doubts as
to the success of) his mission, but
it had to be done; so he started
out. Before leaving he carefully washed
his face and hands in the kettle in
which he usually boiled his potatoes his
possessions not including anything nearer
to a washbowl brushed his clothes with
the horse-brush and put on a clean shirt,
all of which was rather remarkable when
we consider his before-named nativity.
He walked down across the quarter-section
rather slowly, but arrived near the
objectionable shack at last. As he did
bo, to his horror he saw the white-and-yellow
dog sitting in front of the door
with his fore legs spread very far apart
and a nervous, uneasy drooping of the
lower lip. - As he went past the widow's
cow,which was picketed near the house,
she hooked at him. He ran a few yards
to avoid her and when he looked at the
dog he thought he detected a smile play
ing around the mouth of that intelligent
animal, while a calf near by uttered a low
"bar-r-r!" and a pig squealed, a rooster
flew up on the edge of the pen and
crowed while the hen cackled. Evident
ly the widow's whole family was against
him they all seemed to be applauding
the action of the cow to which animal
must certainly be awarded first blood
figuratively speaking.
He pretended not to notice these
taunts of the live stock and, walking up
to the door, reached but to knock. . But
he didn't know that! the dog had made
a rule against it. j But he had and
enforced it personally.
The dog didn't say anything but made
a vicious and Unwelcome spring at his
throat. Our friend withdrew his throat
from the immed'ate scene of hostilities.
But the dog followed. He tried backing
up and kicking at the brute part of the
time with both feet but he never hit
him and once the dog bit through the
toe of his boot. So he concluded to run.
There wasn't a good prospect across the
prairie with his own house the only one
in sight, so he started around the widow's.
It was ten feet"by twelve in size, and as
he ran very close to it it necessitated
some very short turns. He went around
three or four times and the dog followed.
He gained on the animal a little on the
turns but lost along the sides. Occasion
ally the white-and-yellow cur took a bite
at his legs and once he leaped up on his
back and knocked off his hat.
About this time Mr. Barton executed a
wild leap and scrampled up on the low,
tar-paper-covered roof of the shack. The
dog didn't seem to be able to follow
though he acted as if he was going to be
very gOQd on the watch. But that was
an improvement. And though he was
still subject to the taunts and jeers of the
live stock and domestic fowls, he never
theless felt much relieved. But the feel
was short-lived. The door opened and
the widow herself came out ! She wasn't
very large but her eyes were blacker than
ever. And she had a shotgun in - her
hands. I
"AVhat ye doin' up'n the roof o' my
house?" she demanded with feaaful em
phasis. I
"Mis' Baxter," said the brave Mr. Bar
ton, who had removed scores of objec
tionable men from j his claim and had
come down to see that the widow also
went, "Mis' Baxter, I come over t' see
how ye were gittin' 'long an' if there was
any 'sistance I could (render ye. Haint
ye got no chain fer that dog?"
"Shut up 'bout that dog! Ye didn't
come fer no such thing ye come to try
to make me git. off 'n this place!"
"Ye hain't goin' though, be ye?" he in
quired Anxiously, and at the same time
diplomatically and guardedly.
"No, sir I hain't!!
"I knowed ye wasn't I knowed itall
the time ! Say, what ye goin' t' do 'bout
thatdog?" j
"Shut up' I say ! I Now ye ever goin'
to mosey 'round here 'bout this claim
'gin?" I :
"No marm." !
"If I let ye down air ye goin' to make
tracks up 'cross the quarter to yer own
ranch?"
"Yes marm." j
"Tige, come here! ! Now Mr. Barker,
you slide down off'n that roof an' don't
ye git into the rain bar'l either, an' then
scoot fer home or this dog'll chew ye up
till ye'll feel 'sif the Methodist Church
had fell ontcr you !"
"AH right, widder good by I" and as
Mr. Phil Barton, professional bad man,
late of etc., etc., took long stepi
through the tall prairie grass it seemed to
him as if the cow, and the calf, and the
dog,and even the pigs and chickens were
all involved in one immense, ; malicious,
triumphant grin.
After he arrived home he sat down tc
think it over and count the wounds the
dog had inflicted. : "I reckon when she
says she's goin' t' stay that she means it,r
he soliloquized. "Wall, blamed if I don't
rather like her style! She's got the git
up an' git, now I tell ye I"
He remained very closely at home foi
several days. A dozen times a day he
would look around at his lonely room,
sigh and then say: "Blamed if I don't
like her style!" And at last his horse
brush and the potato kettle "were again
brought into service for other than theii
regular uses and once more he started
forth to. visit the widow Baxter this
time on a much more decided mission.
He approached her house from thereat
and very cautiously. He had visions ol
the dog. Thi3 guardian' was nowhere
visible, however, and even the cow
seemed to intuitively I understand the
nature of his visit and only sniffed the
air inquiringly, after the manner of the
cow. Still he knew he was treading on
a sleeping volcano. But he had a plan.
He crept up through the long
grass to the back of the house,
stepped up on the water barrel
and very quietly drew himself up on. the
roof. Then he laid down and looked
over the front edge and kicked on the
roof with his toes. Low, harsh, ominous
barks came from the house. The volcano
was beginning to rumble. Then the firm
tread of the widow was heard, the door
opened, the dog shot out and the widow
followed with the shotgun!
' 'Mis' Baxter, " said Barton with a grin,
"how d'ye do!"
She wheeled around quickly and saw
him on the roof. " j
"Hey ? You here again?" she said in
a loud voice, while the dog made insane
efforts to gain the roof. ;
"Oh, don't be scart I jes' come down
'cause I had a little matter t' speak of." '
"Scart! Do I act scart? Did I act
scart before?"
"Oh
no, no, course not I meant
er-
5J
"Ye don't know what ye did mean!
Now you come down an' git or I'll help
Tige up where ye air !" f
"Don't do that, Mis' Baxter no need
of it. I come down .on a very friendly
matter."
"Go 'head then don't lay! there like
a bump on a log!"
"Remark'bly friendly matter, Mis'
Baxter." '
"Well, out with it, ye old fool!"
"W'y yes I will. Y'esee I want 'o
tell ye something."
"Tell it then !" I
"Well, ye see, Mis' Baxter, the fact is,
blamed if I don't kinder like yer style!"
"There, that's jes' it jes' zactly what
I suspected all the time ! Ye can't en
courage these men a bit 'thout some
thing o' this kind I orter filled ye plum
full o' shot the first time ye ', were here
and then there wouldn't been none o' this
kind o' talk!"
"Mis' Baxter, don't ack so mean t' a
feller ! I have a great likin' fer yer style
I an' want 'o marry ye, if agree'ble !"
"Lor sakes, I knowed it frum the
first ! An' then some day ye'll throw it
up to me that, I led ye on, Mr. Barker."
"No I won't, never. 'Sides, my name
aint Barker it's Barton 'Mis' Barton,
hey? Mis' Phil Barton? How does that
strike ye ?"
"I reckon ye low to marry me an' get
the deed to this land yerself an' I don't
have nothin'?"
"W'y w'y I'd have to, ye know, if
we was married:"
' 'Then we won't be married. I tell ye ;
you move off'n it six months till I prove
up, an' then I'm blamed if I won't have
ye, Mr. Barton -though I reckon we'd
better live in my house, 'cause I notice ye
haint got no tar'-paper on yours."
"Call off the dog, Mis' Mis' "
"My name's Julia call me Jule."
"Call off the dog, Jule."
Mr . Barton descended, and the widow
said, addressing the dog:
"There now, Tige, don't bite him no
more 'less yer told to. Come in an' sit
down, Phil, an' rest awhile an' try a
piece o' my wild strawberry pie."
One day the next spring Judge Posey
had just returned from a drive into the
country. He put his feet up on the desk
and leaned back to rest, saying:
"I was past the place Phil Barton used
tc have. The widder Baxter that was
'pears to have the place an' him too. He
was talkin' to me an' says he: 'Jedge, I
'low to put taters on that tstrjp down by
the pump.' 'What ye ; goin' to put on
it?' asked the widder as she come out.
'Taters,' says Phil. 'Pertaters?' says she.
' Yes, taters,' says he 4I 'low ye won't
do no such thing I nvant beans on that
air strip," says the widder. 'Taters 'u'd
be better,' says Phil 'Whose farm is
this?' says the widder. Then Phil turns
to me again, an says he : 'Jedge, I reckon
it'll be beans on that air strip!"' Da
lota Bell.
Poor Pnssy's Pelt.
It is estimated that not less than 9,
000,000 kittens are annually brought intc
this sinful world. Of these the great ma
jority are miserably drowned a practice
which is destined shortly to be done away
with by the recognition of the cat as a
fur-bearing animal. Rugs i of selected
maltese and tortoise shell are already quite
expensive, and excellent imitations of va
rious furs are made of this material. Tax
idermists, too, are advertising for kittens
by the thousand to stuff for ornamental
purposes. At present the only purpose to
which they are applied in this country, is
the manufacture of carriage robes, but
vast numbers of them are sent to Europe,
where they are in great demand for coats
and hats, dressing-gown linings and other
garments. .-'-.
The pelts come from all parts of the
country. They are gathered, by profes
sional collectors, who supply them by
the quantity at regular rates. A common
cat skid is worth five cents, a pure mal
tese ten cents and a black one twenty
five cents. The cheap kind must be dyed
before making up, butMhe black and
maltese are prettier with their color un
altered. Acarriage robe of the best cat
fur is worth from $40 to $50. 5 There are
always plenty of stray cats in the rural
districts. The Maine woods are full of
them. They increase wonderfully fast,
and it is good sport popping them off the
fences and stone walls along the roadside.
Boston Herald.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES . FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
An Infallible Slfrn-PeedInaTrrnps-Xo
Occasion to be Afraid A
Bad Standing Practising
Economy. Etc., Etc.
"That peddler must have very good
bananas," remarked Merritt. j "I guess
I'll go over and get some." j
" What makes you think they are
good?" asked Cobwigger. I
"Because," returned Merritt; -I see
the policeman samples them every time
no passes. j uaqe.
- Feeding Tramps.
"I don't believe in feeding tramps at
the door," said Mrs. Crimsonbeak. You
feed them once and they are sure to come
back.'
"Well, I don't know," replied Mrs.
Yeast; "I always give them bread when
they come to my door, and I can't say
that I ever knew a tramp to come the
second time."
"Oh, well. Mrs. Yeast, you make your
own bread, do you not?" .
This was all that was said, land yet
Mrs. Yeast went down the street like a
straw hat on a windy day. Statesman.
No Occasion to Be Afraid.
"Why don't you propose to her, Joe?"
. "Well, I'm half afraid."
"She loves you, don't she?"
"Oh, awfully."
"You agree with her father in politics ?'
"Yes,"
"And with her mother in religion?"
"Yes:'
"And with her brother as to who is the
best pitcher?"
"Yes." "' J
"Then blow me if I can see what you're
afraid of Harper's Bazar.
A Bad Standing:
"Do you. know anything about the
Jefendent's character," asked thecounsel
of a colored witness.
"I reckon he got one, boss."
"You don't understand me. Do you
know anything about his standing with
the people among whom he moves."
"His stan'in', sah?"
"Werrybad, sah."
"Bad!"
"Yessah. YToh see he hab a wooden
leg au' natirally takes ter settin' down."
Merchant-Traveler.
Practising Economy.
Omaha Girl "My dear, now that we
arc engaged, we should begin to take
practical views of life.
"Accepted Lover "So I have been
thinking."
"I feel very much like having some ice
cream, but first I want " you to tell me
frankly how much money you have in
your pocket." ,
"Just twenty-five cents, and no more
coming until pay day."
"It's so nice to begin figuring on ex
penses of living; seems as if we were
married. Have you only twentyfive
cents left, dear?"
"That's all."
' 'Well, wre will get along with two
p'ates to-night, and you save the other
five cents for a nest egg, you know."
Omaha World.
A Fond Father. !
An over-indulgent and recklessly ex
trvagant father was lately heard to say
to his son, a tender youth of twenty-five,
six feet three in height:
"Now, Bub, if you'll lick in like the
smart youngster you kin be when yer a
min' to, an' hoe them five acres o' taters,
an' hill-up that ten acre lot o' corn, an'
weed out that acre o' onions, an' grub
out that back lotr an' cut yer ma her win
ter's stove wood, an' split a thousand
rails, an' weed the turnip patch, and do
a few other little chores, I'm blamed if I
won't give you fifty cents to go to the
circus with ! Yes, I will I . An' if you'll
hoe down the jimson weeds in that ten
acre lot o' seed corn I'll throw in ten
cents extry that you kin layout in
lemmy-nade an' peanuts ! Blamed if I
don't bleevein payrents lettin' their chil
dren have some enjiyment in this world."
Tid-Bits.
She Was Ready to Lend.
Borrowing Neighbor "Have you a
drawing of tea to lend me this morning,
Mrs. Greene?"
Mrs. Greene "In deed I have not, Mrs.
Maloney." !
Mrs. Maloney "Then have you a cup
ful of sugar against next Saturday night,
sure?"
Mrs. Greene "Not a drop of sugar
have I in me house, Mrs. Maloney."
Mrs. Maloney "And could you spare
the children two or three slices of bread
till me old man gets his pay?" j
Mrs. Greene "We haven't so much as
a crust of bread in the house, ashamed am
I to say it." !
Mrs. Maloney "Then in heaven's
blessed name, what have you at all at
all?"
Mrs. Greene "Weve a house full of
measles and mumps and scarlet fever
and plenty to spare. Which will you
have?"
The borrowing neighbor quietly sub
sided. Chicago National.
X Stem Winder, j
Stiggins was passing a watchmaker's
establishment, and looking into the win
dow he noticed a very pretty girl at the
counter.
"Ha!" he soliloquized, "I'll go in and
take a look at her under some pretext or
other."
He entered, and was waited on by the
young lady's father.
"What can I do for you?"
"I want to get a key for my watch,"
he stammered, feasting his eyes on the
young lady.
"Let me see your watch," said the
watchmaker. ' . ; .
As if in a dream he took out his watch.
The watchmaker examined it, and said
with surprise :
"Why, your watch is a stem-winder."
Stiggins don't remember how he got
out, but he does remember that the young
lady smiled audibly at his discomfiture.
Jewelers' Weekly. " !
Driving Home the Crackers.
It was an amusing sight, a few weeks
since, to see one of those stiff, upright,
imitation English coachmen sitting on
his box in front of a grocery store, whip
Well poised, reins properly grasped in
white gloved hands, gaze directed
straight forward between the ears of the
well groomed horses.
Anon out comes a clerk from the storo
with a well fiilled paper bag, opens the
carriage door, places the bag within up
on the seat, and reclosea the door with a
slam.
Scarce had he turned away when the
coachman started off his team with a
stately trot, nor halted till he arrived at
the mansion of a wealthy resident in an
aristocratic quarter, before which he
halted and solemnly waited.
In a few minutes a maid servant rushed
out.
- "Why, what is the matter John?
Where are the ladies?"
"Eh? Hinside, I suppose. Cara't you
hopen the door?'
"Open the door! V Why, there no one
in the carriage. Where did you drive
from?"
" Bless my 'art ! no one there? Why,
I just drove from the grocery store and
'eard the coach door shut when they got
in."
"Got in! Why, they did not get in,
and you have given a bag of soda
crackers a ride home and left the ladies
behind."
Such was the case, and the solemn
Jolm went back at a brisker pace, resolv
ing to trust to eyes rather than ears for
th; future. Boston Bulletin.
How Stonewall Jackson Fell.
After night fell, Stonewall Jackson
rode out with his staff to reconnoitre in
front of the line he had gained. It was
his idea to stretch completely around the
rear of Hooker and cut him off from the
river.
The night was dark and Jackson soon
came upon the Union lines. Their in
fantry drove him back, and as he re
turned in the darkness his own soldiers
began firing at their commander, of
course mistaking his party for the enemy.
Jackson was shot in the hand and wrist,
and in the upper arm at the same time.
His horse turned, and the General lost
his hold of the bridle rein; his cap was
brushed from his head by tie branches;
lie reeled and was caught in the arms of
an officer. After a moment" he was as
sisted to dismount, his womd was ex
amined," and a litter was brought. Just
then the Union artillery opened again
and a murderous fire came down upon
the party through the wools and the
darkness. One of tho litter bearers
stumbled and fell, and the others were
frightened; they laid the litter on the
ground, the furious storm of shot and
shell sweeping over them like hail.
Jackson attempted to rise, but his
aid-de-camp held him down till
the tempest of fire was lulled.
Then the wounded General was helped
to rise and walked a few steps in the
forest ; but he became faint and wa3 laid
again in his litter. Once he rolled to
the ground when an assistant was shot,
and the litter fell. Just then General
Pender, one of his subordinates passed.
He stopped and said ;
"I hope you are not seriously hurt,
General. I fear I shall have to retire my
troops they are so much broken. v
But Jackson looked up at once and ex
claimed: "You must hold your ground, General
Pender, you must hold your ground,
sir!"
This was the last order he ever gave.
He was borne some distance to the near
est house and examined by the surgeon,
and after midnight his left arm was am
putated at the shoulder.
When Lee was told that his most
trusted Lieutenant had been wounded,
he was greatly distressed, for the rela
tions between them were almost tender.
"Jackson has lost his left arm," said
Lee, "but I have loit my right arm." St.
Nicholas.
Life on the Moon.
There is reason for thinking that the
moon is not absolutely airless, and, while
it has no visible bodies of water, its soil
may, after all, not be entirely -arid and
desiccated. There are observations which
hint at visible changes in certain spots
that could possibly be caused by vegeta
tion, and there are other observations
which suggest the display of electric
iuminosity in a rarified atmosphere cov
ering the moon. To declare that no pos
sible form of life can exist under the con
ditions prevailing upon the lunar surface
would be saying too much, for human in
telligence cannot set bounds to creative
power. Yet, within the limits of life,
such as we know them, it is probably safe
to assert that the moon is a dead and de
serted world. In other words, if a race of
beings resembling ourselves, or resembling
anv of our contemporaries in terrestrial
life, ever existed upon the moon, they
must long since have perished. That such
beings may have existed-is possible, par
ticularly if it is true, as generally be
lieved, that the moon once had a com
paratively dense atmosphere and water
upon its surface, which have now, in the
process of cooling of the lunar globe, been
withdrawn into its interior. It certainly
does not detract from the interest with
which we study the rugged and beauti
ful scenery of the moon to reflect that if
we could visit those ancient sea-bottoms,
or explore those glittering mountains,
we might, perchance, find there some re
mains or mementoes of a race that flour
ished, and perhaps was all gathered again
to its fathers, before man appeared upon
the earth. Popular Science.
Insect Wonders.
Spiders have four paps for spinning
their threads, each pap having 1,000
holes, and the fine web itself is the union
of 4,000 threads. No spider spins more
than four webs, and when the fourth is
destroyed they seize on the web of oth
ers. ,
A single female house fly produces in
one season 20,080,320.
A wasp's nest usually contains 15,000 or
16,000 cells.
A queen bee will lay 2,000 eggs daily,
for fifty days and the eggs are hatched in
three days. A swarm of bees contains
from 10,000 to 20,000 in a natural state;
m a hive from 30,000 to 40,000 bees.
Every pound of cochineal contains
70,000 insects boiled to death,, and from
000,000 to 700,000 pounds are annnally
brought to Europe for scarlet and crim
son dyes. ,
Two thousand nine hundred silkworms
are required to produce one pound of
silk ; but it takes 27,000 spiders to produce
one pound of web.
" SPLITLOG."
AX INDIAN 1YIIO IS A MILLION
AIRE IIAILHOAD nUlLDMIt.
His Farly Love Tor Machinery and
Adventures The Various
Steps by which He Ac
quired a Fortune.
Mathias Splitlog is a full-blooded
Wyandotte Iudian, aud was born in an
Indian village in Canada, and shortlv'af
tcrwards moved to Ohio. While a" boy
he w.u apprenticed to a carpenter and
millwright, and, although his wages were
only $7 per month, young Splitlog
thought he was getting rich. He im
bibed a love for machinery and inven
ventions, which has caused him to lend
a helping hand to many a poor fellow
who had a useful invention which onjj
needed money to develop it and make it
pay.
SplitlogY first venture was to build a
steamboat,whichhedid in company with
his brother. Thev launchod the- lxat
upon the St. Clair "River and started in
the fishing trade. Uncle Sam soon le
came jealous of the boys, and confiscated
the boat on a charge of smuggling.
In 1842 the Wyandottcs, who were tht
last of the Indian tribe? then in Ohio,
by the treaty of the Upper Sandusky,
ceded to the United States their lands in
that State, and received in exchange
land in what is now Wyandotte county.
ivansas. in 1843 Splitlog came est
with some of his tribe and found, after
his arrival at West Port Landing (now
Kansas City), that he only had fifty
cents in his pocket. He induced an ol.l
Indian to go his security for the price of
an axe. With this axe he cut cordwood
for the steam!wats at the rate of twenty
five cents per cord, and after paying foi.
the axe, which cost $3, he soon saved
enough to buy a pony, and shortly after
ward we rind him with a herd of horses.
About 1850 Splitlog was married to tht
granddaughter of the old man who went
his security for the price of the axe, and
shortly afterward he began to build a
mill. At this time he had no money to
pay for labor, o th.t he did the work
himself. He selected the timber, cut
and hauled the logs, and then had a
"raising," that is, had his neighbors
come and help him raise the building.
He finished the mill himself, with every
thing but the burrs. Those would"
cost at that time $150, and Split-log-
had no money; still he was
determined not "to give up the idea
of running a mill." When in th:s di
lemma a steamboat, which was unload
ing a paif of burrs at the ''landing,'" ac
cidentally let them fall overboard, aud
they sank to the bottom of the Missouri
River. Splitlog, learning ot this, con
tracted With the owner to pay him $25
for the burrs and take them up himself,
which he eventually did after much
trouble and hard-work, and having got
the burrs out of the river it took but a
short time to get ready to start the mill.
The machinery was rigged for horse-
)ower, and the day that Splitlog started
le hitched in eight unbroken horses from
his herd and earned eighty-five cents in
cash, aud in the evening he gave this
money to his wife and told her to go to
Northrup's (Splitlog's present bankers in
Kansas City) and buy them something
good to eat, as he now had that much
money that he did not need.
Splitlog's mill was a success, and in
1855 we find him one of the leading men
of his tribe. liy the treaty of the Upper
Sandusky the Wyandottcs were not al
lowed to alienate their lands, but in the
year 1855 a new treaty was ma;le between
the Wyandottcs and the United States
which severed the tribal relations of the
Wyandottes.
After the adoption of this, treaty Split
log began to speculate in real cstate.and,
although he can neither read nor write,
he has been one of the most successful
speculators in the neighborhood of
Kansas City, and is to-day worth over
a million dollars. About fourteen years
ago Splitlog moved to Indian Territory
and located on Elk River, near the Mis
aouri line, and about four miles from
Tiff City, and recently he became in
terested in a silver mine in McDonald
County, Missouri. With his charcter
istic energy he began operations at once.
He hired a mining expert named B. F.
Requa, from Chicago, to superintend the
operations at the mines, and becoming con
vinced that to develop the mines and build
up the town of Spliilog a railroad was
necessary, he, together with his partner
in the mines, Mosc3 W. Clay, commenced
negotiating with the projectors of the
New Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott
Railroad Company, and soon that com
pany was formed for the purpose of
building a railroad between the terminal
points named in their title and running
by way of Neosho and Splitlog City.
This company being too slow to meet the
vigorous ideas of Splitlog and Clay,
they severed their connection with
the same, and Mathias Splitlog,
Moses W. Clay, George Hubbert and
others organized the Kansas City, Fort
Smith and Southern Railroad Company,
with a capital of f 3,000,000, for the pur
pose of building a railroad from Kansas
City to Fort Smith, passing through
Splitlog City and Neosho. This road U
now graded for about thirty miles be
tween Splitlog City and Joplin, and it is
only a question of a few months when
the cars will run southward from Joplin
to Fort Smith, and Mathias Splitlog, the
millionaire Indian, who is probably the
richest man of his race, will be known
all over the country as the only Indian
railroad-man in the United States.
Mr. Splitlog has five children four
boys and one girl and now lives at
Splitlog City, McDonald Count-, Mo.
He is like most men' of his race, very
taciturn in his habits, seldom speaking
in more than monosyllables, still he is
far from being disagreeable, because he
can make himself clearly understood in
very few words, and is a good listener
and quick to catch a point in the discun
sion of any question; and when he de
termines what course to pursue, he be
gins at once in the execution of his
plans and never ceases until he has ac
complished his ends. St. Louis Kejmb
Ikan. - ' -'
" The title of Generalissimo is used by
the Spanish and Italians. It has been
used bv the French, Cardinal Richelieu
being the first to take it. It is applied
to a general in chief who has under him
two or more grand division under gener
als. The English hare uever used it.
KILLED AT A LAUNCH.
A Peculia-i Act'hlent n't Milwaukee
Many IVrsnns Injured.
By a iovuliar ace:. Knit nt th- Luhk hiiu
tho hue s.Umier Wm. H. Wolf, at !f
it Davidson' ship yar 1 Milw.uik Wk.
Thrve pi-ron- won? ki 11 o-.xtriht, .v,-r!
others fatnllr injur.-1, alut twenty vri "1: .
hurt, an.l a number of others l-v-i - -ri -.:-! v
iajumL AK?it 1.0 X) h i l .rsth.-r-l
to witness thelaunoh. mI- -ks w J rv I.
vossls were cmw.I si a:l ewrv v.v an 1
lum!r j'il was hla k with surU!, l'i
rectly oppmit th-; era.lit-l v.-s-sol was t! .
lary c-il oSx-k of tht N-r;hu, s . rn Fu I
Couuviny. It is a n.f(-.I il k with kv.
derru-ks for unUva.lin coal l"i.n tla-r f
of this coil hil a nuiiitr if j., - ;..
hi.l ass mt.lil. The viow fnm th.it j. In:
was a tine one, as the ve,-l din - tl v
toward the ilwk. A tin! wi.lf siru k ti -
water, her p.irt tle was Luried innhe 1 :. k
water -of tie tdip; then she reeovred n i
rolled heavily to jnrt, Th wau r di;.i.v -I
by her hull rs liKe a tidal wave an I .w.- t
over th3 eoal dn k and up towards ltsr-'.
cauin a cloud of coaldiK and -pr-iv. i :.
supjorts of the d.x ks were inuri:. i,nt t..
stan I the foree of the wave, and alut f.: t v
feet of the shed went down w ith its living
freight. I:is nntly the shed went down tl.. r--was
wild exeiteisV-nt i the devfc of t!...
steimer. A scene of ind.-rila!Me i-i ui-!i
ensu.vl, but a few eool-head.sl jn-ople at on ,
set to .work to rescue the jwoplo thrown into
th ? river an I res u tho - l;ried in the d '
brisof tiii platform, l'.itro: wans were
sunimon-M, un i th- express wagons were
turned into ambulances, and the' deal and
injured carriet nw.iv. tvin to the ( i i
that mmy eas.sof injuries were no r, t. -1,
tha unfor.un it vs b -in hurriel ho:U .. lll t ;li
riajjes, it is i:njKssib- to ;u-m-;-i tam tie- full
extent of the accident.
TAR AND FEATHERS.
A Minister Cet.-s II iniself I ilikcl by
Preaeliint: l're- Iiove D(K liins
T. e Rev CO. Rhodes a Methodi-t pna. S.-r
of I-jvcr, Mich., swore out warrant-, for
the arrest of lr; VY illiam F. Harrison mil
Dr. Wils n, the latter a veterinary sur'-on,
ami for twenty eiht others v, Iimm-n.i:n- an
not given, for grievous"! odily assault.
Mr. llhd"s says that a few davs n; .
while die was holding divine erviee at a
private house in Kc!i Township, thirty up ;i
dis.uisM wit'i fals l-ards an l Mark-;i--d
faces, entered the house of Harris n, and
Wilson, he says, led the arty. KLdes was
seized and struck on the head with a lu!.
He was then taken out, his clothes removed,
and his body ledauhcd with tar. A feather
bed was then cut ojh n and the fvntL.-rs ap
plied. He was nexfridden on a rail Hut
terriidy maltreated. They dragged him. hi
claims, to ards a mill pond on the farm ai: I
threat lied to throw him in. but d.-s-st.-d
when he said he cou!d not sim. Th-y,
however, gave him jx severe well pumping
and then another -o it of tar and a cmt ot
tine grass, the feathers having given out.
lie was finally liberate l more d- ad than
alive.
Rhodes claims not t know the motive of
the jarty, but from another sourc corn-s
the statement that the preacher has given
great oSTeneo in the community by his fret
love doctrines, which he has mixed with
free Methodism. Rhodes is an o!d man and
a harmless looking creature.. H- sa s th t
s m? f the iarty to the outrage f,t l r. atlv
stirred up against him localise he has fv pi
ed the evil isoings in the township. Hi"'
soa and Wilson have U-en arrested, an I
their examination is set for Wednes :av.
STAGE SPARKS.
A -Vif.nnesk statistician compute- that
IJszt's eonijositions mimlx-r 1,1'Ji.
Veroi will cele!.rate next jear his fifty
years' jubilee as an opera comjoser.
MRS, Lanctiiv's season opens at, th F.flh
Avenue Teeatre, New York, SeptemU r 1
Gilrekt and Sullivan, it is reported, a i
thinking of writing a comic opera louri lit on
tlic Wild Wdst show.
Thomas Keene has fully recovered froi:i
his ill health, and will resume his professional
labors next season in the l."nited States.
MAUD I'oweli the young American vio
linist, has closed a three-year's contract to up
pear in the principal American an 1 Kuropeau
cities.
Joseph Hoffman", the infant phenomenon,
who plays the piano as no child has don -since
the time of Mozart, is coming to Am 1 1 i
under the Abloy" management in Novem!-;-.
The iersyinnel of the Imperial Theatre in
Ht. Petersburg, includes !," emj !oi-s, f
whom W ) are musicians, lo choristers. :o,d
400 Russian. Cerrnan, and 1 "n n-h a-.-tor-,
actresses and sir.gers.
Two new plays by Frank II. How e. a n? ! -niaa
who lately gave up the p: aetj,-e of la v
to divote himself to play writing, have- h-u
accepted by A. L. Palmar for early pri i
tion at the Madison Sjuare Tu-atre, New
York.
Bkonsox Howard's new play for Ie t
Bon and Crane, is call.-d "The Henrietta.'
and is Slid to have lieeu inspire I by the fol
lowing text of Thackeray's: "Thes" ino:i-y
transactions: the.se rrpeeutations in Lfo and
death r
A JUBILEE TURNED TO GRIEF.
"While Celebrating, Two Anti-I'rrdiib -t
ionists nr." KillcI
Saturday night a numler of men and Loy
m era collected on the public sjuare at Fort
Worth, Texxs, engaged in firing anvils arid
discharging fireworks in honor ofjthe victory
won in thefctate by the Anti-Prohibitionists-when
ai accident occurred that has already
resulted in two deaths, and in all probabili
ty another will follow. A k'g of jKwd r
had been secured for the (x-i-a-ion, and one
of the boys seated himself tle n-on, when
someone from the other side of the so,iar,.
fired a rocket, which struck the keg of jov
der. causing a terrible explosion.
James Lazenhy, seventeen years, old. was
blown several f-et ia th air. IF; was burn
ed on every part of his lody, arid expired
Sunday morning.
Wave Hatchell, aged ix j'ears, was burn
e 1 nearly a. ba 1 as Laze nby. H- died Sun
dav afternoon.
(i us Hatchell, aged eleven vears, was strip
of his clothing from his hips dow n. 11
canuot recover.
Two other boys, KamJohn-on and William
Saskalierry, were terrible, but not nece-.sart-ly
fatally burned.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
A Bolt Comes Iown a Chimney.
"What a Stage Driver Saw.
A spec'al from I tourney, W. v"a., says:
tco. Rodgey, eighteen years oi l, who re
sided near Williamsport, in ('rant counts-,
was struck by lightning and instantly ki'IM.
He was sitting near the fire-place in his fa
thers house, when the bolt cam down the
chimney through a stovepij? hole. Th-j on! v
mark left by t.oe suptile fluid was a snuil
blue spot on the young man's right fch ul ler.
The stag -driver just returned from Peters
burg, in the sani! county, says that just as h
passed IioJg y's house, a large Thall of lire,
about two feet in diameter, fell from t!e
clouds, and when about six feet from tin
ground burst with a terrific rert, scatter
ing streaks of flame in every direction, a , 1
so frightening his horses as to render thera
almost unmanageable. This was a few min
utes after ItoJgey was killed.