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J MARK FIITIRF.
A Antonio (Texas) correspondent
of the Chicago limes, writes as follows
of the conduct and character of the negro
regiments of the Federal army stationed
in this section :
Asa soldier he is., generally speaking,
the least warlike, the most corrupt, the
most ignorant, and the most dishonest
defender that ever disgraced the uniform
of a nation, This may be said, with the
customary reservations, of the average
negro who enlists in the four regiments
of our natioual army devoted to his use
and benefit. He is forever speculating.
His officers cannot trust him with gov
ernment property. Not alone will he
sell his equipments, but often his clothes,
to procure whiskey. Inr liquor he is a
beast. No woman—white or black,
brown or yellow—is safe in his neighbor
hood. He prefers the white and when
properly roused and fired by drink and
stimulated by opportunity his officers’
wives would hardly be held sacred by him
although watchfulness and the special
interposition of Divine Providence have,
so liir, prevented him from consummat
ing outrage upon them. No sensible
ofncdi 1 would leave his wife unprotected
at a post guarded solely by black sol
diers. Sent upon a scout and lying around
the ranches looking after cattle thieves,
the drunken soldier’s first impulse is to
ravish some unfortunate woman. Asa
natural result he gets shot or stabbed, or
creates some terrible disturbance which
necessitates a court martial. Some of
his officers are afraid of the military ne
gro. When intoxicated he is often muti
nous, and cases have been known where
commanders were compelled to shoot
black sergents down like dogs by way of
example. The negro causes more courts
martial than any other element in the
army. The Inspector-General of this de
partment, under Gen. Augur, made a re
port to the Secretary which showed that
the black regiments committed three
times as many crimes, in proportion to
their numbers, as the white.
i 'ovjs'u .ti/;.v, /*,/1• ./rTA'.vr/w.v;
Don’t be a loafer, don’t call yourself a
loafer, don’t hang around loafing places.
Better work for nothing and board your-,
self, than to sit around corners with your
hands in your pockets. Better for your
own mind, for your own respect. Bus*
tie about if you mean to have anything
to bustle about for. Many a poor physi
cian has obtained a real patient by rid
ing hard to attend an imaginary one. A
quire of old paper, tied with red tape,
carried under a lawyer’s arm, may pro
cure him his first case, and make his
fortune. Such is the world; to him that
hath shall be given. Quit droning and
complaining; keep by and mind your
chances.
Let the business of every one alone,
and attend to your own. Don’t buy
what you don’t want. Use every hour
to advantage, and study to make even
!< isure hours useful. Think twice before
Jou spend a shilling—remcm
er you will have another to make for it.
Buy low, sell fair and take cate of the
profits. Look over your books regularly,
and if you find an error trace it out.
Should a stroke of misfortune come upon
you in trade, retrench, work harder, but
never fly the track. Confront difficul
ties with unflinching perseverance, and
they will disappear at last. Though you
fail in the struggle, you will be honored,
but shrink and you will be dispised.
Tin; l.izzinl.
[Essay on the Lizzud, read before the
Hawkeye Association for the benefit of
cruelty to animals, by a boy of 40.]
The Lizzud is a dry land aligatoron a
small skale. He is a male and a female.
He has four legs and one tale and two
eyes and can climb a tree. Ilis principal
busines is settin on fense rales and ketch
in of flize and skerrin of horses by run
nin threw the leves. Wun skecred my
horse yistiddy.—Lizzuds is principally
negative animals.—They doant go to
skule, doant belong to returning bodes,
doant set on lectoral coinmishuns and
doant be presidents.
Uv all the beasts that fly in the air,
The horse, the cow, the buzzud,
The duck, the junny hug, the hare,
I’d rather be a Lizzud.
Hopin these few lines may find you all
enjoyin the same blessiu.
Samson anti the Jawbone.
When I traveled, in 1871,in Palestine,
an old se. vant from the monastery of
Ramleh, showed me the supposed place
where Samson killed one thousand Philis
tines with the jawbone of an ass. When
I expressed my doubts as to the length
and strength of a jawbone, considering
the great number of surrounding enemies,
the good man explained the case in the
following manner: “ Well, he took hold
of the ass by the tail and swung the ani
mal against the Philistines in such a
manner that only his head, and of this
especially the jawbone, struck the Phil
istines, keeping off in this way the sur
rounding warriors, and giving the blow
the necsessary force to kill. I affirm
that in this manner Samson could have
slain a million Philistines, provided the
tail of the ass did not break.”—Sacramen
to Journal.
Ctaldn'l Manage the Pantaloons.
A woman out in Polk county become
ing converted to the doctrines of Ur.
Mary Walker, took advantage of her
husband’s absence to array herself in his
clothes. She put on the coat first, and
Snoring the buttous, pinned it up from
in down. Then she put on the vest,
back in front, and toilsomely buttoned
it up behind. That was about 3 o’clock
in the afternoon. At about half-past
six her husband found her seated on the
side of the bed in a disordered room,
weeping, her hair down, face red, eyes in
flamed,and her whole mental being con
vulsed with fretful exciteineut,impatieuce
and anger. She held his Sunday panta
loons in her hands, and all those three
mortal hours she had been trying to put
them on over her head.
A Cnre for Rheumatism.
An agricultural journal recommends
the following recipe as a simple and in
valuable remedy for rheumatism : ‘‘Take
a pint of spirits of turpentine, to which
add half ounce of camphor : let it stand
till the camphor is dissolved, rub it ou
the part affected, and it will never fail of
removing the complaint. Flannel should
be applied after the part is well fomented
wiwh turpentine, liepeat the application
morning and evening.” It is said to be
equally available to burns, scalds, bruises
*nd sprains, never failing of success.
a!;c #|idl)orpe Cdj®.
BY T. L. GANTT.
Hi: turn ./ rn.i H,ni:n j.iff.
A Strange Incident in the Career of
Stonewall Jackson—The Vain Efforts
of a Northern Kifleman to Stay the
Silent Hero of Manassas—A Strange
Reminiscence of the Wilderness.
From, the Detroit Free Press.
That was an awful day when that Con
federate lion, Stonewall Jackson, crept
upon poor Hooker hidden in the Wilder
ness. Lee on one side—Jackson on the
other, and the woods around Chancellors
ville shook and trembled, and were almost
3wept from the face of the earth by the
whirring round-shot, the hissing shell and
the screaming grape-shot. Men were
struck stone dead as the battle-line ad
vanced or retreated. White-faced re
cruits and bronze-faced veterans were torn
to fragments and hurled againt the liv
ing. Wounded men fell in their tracks
to be crushed in the earth by the great
limbs cut from the trees by shot and shell.
The roar of guns, the crackle of musket
ry, the fierce shouts and awful groans
made such a hell upon earth of that bat
tle-field as was never seen before nor af
ter.
Fighting Joe Hooker was in a box,but
not a man in his great army dreamed
that it was so until the long gray line of
Stonewall Jackson came creeping through
the quiet forest at three o’clock ou that
ever to be remembered 2d day of May,
1863. The light earthworks had been
thrown up to face anothei way, towards
Lee. All lines faced Lee, all men were
looking for Lee, when three division of
Confederates, moving with soft step, took
Hooker’s army in the rear and drove one
brigade pell mell into and over another
until veteran soldiers were without
strength or presence of mind. That aw
ful night when
the wounded were being buried
ALIVE
in the woods, and the dead were thicker
than the leaves just broadening into full
life, a report ran through the reorganized
ranks that the great Stonewall Jackson
had been killed. Thousands believed it,
but three of us, lying side by side in the
new battle line born after night came
down, put no faith in the rumor. Why
we did not is what I started to write
about.
Stuart’s cavalry had been following up
by Hooker’s army,but it wasllike a rat fol
lowing in the footsteps of a horse. Lee
was so far away and coming up so slowly
that Hooker had time to throw up light
earthworks, seize the best ground, fell
trees to pretect his flanks, and make
ready to shatter and hurl back the ex
pected attack. On that second day of
May his soldiers, hidden in the woods or
lying in the fields, washed their clothing,
wrote letters home, made comfortable
beds for themselves, and were not in the
least troubled about what another week
would bring forth. Asa deep river sud
denly bends to avoid a bluff,so did that
great army of Loo’s bend to avoid the
wilderness, it split in two to attack at a
given hour on both sides, and Joe Hooker
satin his tent and congratulated himself
on liis impregnable position—considered
impregnable by him when two great
highways ran along the’rearof half of his
army. So universal was the feeling of
security that soon after noon three in
fantrymen start >d out to
BEG, BUY OR FORAGE FOOD.
Sigel’s corps was on Hooker’s west flank,
and commanded that day by Howard.
Part of this corps faced the old turnpike
and plunk road, part faced the other way.
Most of the men were hidden in the
woods and behind ridges, and up the
broad highways which should have been
first looked to Stuart was pushing his
cavalrymen as skirmishers. We three
men were ".beyond Sigel’s corps, and on
the point of entering a farm house from
which everybody had fled, when, less
than rifle-shot away, we caught sight of
the Confederate advance. The cavalry
men were advancing slowly evidently
expecting to find a heavy guard at some
point, but at the time we imagined that
less than a regiment ofStuart’s men were
feeling along up to pick up stragglers,
locate positions, etc. We, at least, did
not fear them, and the proposition to
enter the house and secure a better view
of the roads speedily conveyed us to a
chamber window. We could see but
little more from the past, but we did see,
soon after reaching it,
THAT SAME STONEWALL JACKSON
ride from shelter out upon the turnpike
in full view, attended by only three or
four officers. He had come out there to
make observations. Like a eat, before
she destroys the mouse, he was wondering
at what point he should strike to disable
his victim soonest.
Grim-minded and sour-tempered was
the third man of us, and war’s horrors
delighted him. When he had takeu the
second look at the little party sitting on
their horses in the open road, a wicked
smile crossed his face, and he whispered:
“ Bv the hundred gods of the heathen !
but that chap ou the left there is old
Stonewall Jackson, and I’m going to
drop him !”
Old Fete, our sour-tempered compan
ion, had a first-class Minie rifle with him.
He had carried it for several months, in
some way escaping the attention of the
inspector, and in some way always se
cured ammunition for it. I saw him, in
at least a half dozen instances, shoot
down videtts or skirmishers who seemed
to be half a mile away, and he was known
throughout the regiment as a dead shot.
There was considerable firing around
us from foragers, stragglers and men
cleaning their guns, and a shot from the
window might uot attract particular at
tention. Besting the heavy gun across
the window sill, and having as'steady rest
as a hunter ever asked for, “ Old Pete”
was ready to keep his word.
IT SEEMED LIKE COLD-BLOODED ASSAS
SINATION.
I could almost count the buttons on
Jackson’s coat, _and there seemed no
escape for him. I was watching him
when the rifle cracked. He had a field
glass to his eye, aud the only movement
we could see was a quick motion of the
head, as if the bullet had cut close to his
ear. The glass was uot even lowered.
“ Old Pete” swore a terrible long string of
oaths as he realized his failure, but iu a
minute was ready again.
“ I hope never to draw auother breath
if I don’t kill him stone dead !” he mut
tered as he knelt down. Jackson did not
face us as before, yet was* a good mark
eveu fora musket. We watened him as
before, and this time the bullet must
have swept past his face, as he dodged his
head backwards. The glass was dowu
theu but he raised it iu an instant and
went ou with his survey.
“ Have I got to be a fool ? or have I
grown bliud ?” howled “ Old Pete,” as he
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1877.
looked down upon his unharmed victim.
“I’ll kill him this time, or shoot myself
in this chamber?”
It was dangerous to remain there lon
ger as the cavalry had crept nearer, and
Jackson’s aides seemed to have got the
idea that a sharp-shooter was posted near
by. Yet “ Old Pete” would have had
a third shot if the Confederates had been
in the house.
THE TARGET WAS AS FAIR AS BEFORE.
He took a more careful aim, and yet
when he fired he saw splinters fly from a
railway over beyond the General. The
cavalry were then close upon us, and our
two muskets were lost in the hurried flight
from the house. Half au hour after that,
Jackson was driving our brigade and
divisions as he willed.
“ I’ll measure off the same distance,
shoot ofl-hand, and bet my life that I
can hit a soldier’s cap nine times out of
ten !” growled “ Old Pete” as he hurried
forward, and suddenly overcome by in
dignation and chagrin he battered his
cherished gun against a tree and destroy
ed it.
As if seeking personal revenge, Jack
son’s legions passed right by us. The
nearest brigade of Sigel’s corpse was
picked up and dashed to pieces as a
strong man would lift and hurl a child.
Running along with the amazed and
frightened men, but bearing off towards
our own division, we picked up other
muskets to replace our lost ones. Reach
ing a knoll from which we had another
view of the turnpike, we halted for a last
look ; over the heads of the frightened,
fleeing soldiers—over the ground strewn
with arms and accoutrements—over
the blue smoke just now beginiug to
rise,
WE SAW JACKSON AGAIN.
He was far away, but it whs Jackson.
“ Curse him! but he has got a guardian
angel,” howled Old Pete as he shook his
fist toward the turnpike.
No other man ever had a rifle drawn
on him at such fair range and escaped
three cool, carefully aimed bullets. His
escape sent a thrill of superstition
through each mind, and from that hour
to this moment, when the news of Jack
son’s death reached us, “ Old Pete” never
spoke a word. It was a puzzle that he
could not solve. As we lay in line, every
musket barrel still hot and every eye peer
ing through the darness to catch sight of
the grey line coming on again, an aide
came hurrying along and shouted out:
“ We’re all right boys; Stonewall Jack
son has been killed up the road there 1”
“ Old Pere” leaped up, whirled around
to face the bearer of the news, and sav
agely shouted back:
“ You lie! you lie I you lie! Stonewall
Jackson can’t be hurt by shell or killed
by bullet I”
BUT IT WAS SO.
Lying in the arms of those who loved
him, so near us that the cries of our
wounded must have reached his ea/s, was
the mortally wounded General, whose
skill Hnd strength had no match. While
the white- faced up to tin 1
torn aim sfiirttef&u foreifc trees —while the
wounded crawled here and there in their
awful agony—while the living looked
into each other’s anxious faces and
wondered if another night would find
any of us there, the legions of Jackson
were strangely silent. Now and then
came the sudden boom of some great gun,
sounding like a deep groan of dispair, but
there was nothing more to break the
silence. While men rested in line of bat
tle, having- the awful horror of war on
every side, there was one who gave up
his life as he whispered, “ Let us cross
over the river and rest under the shade
of the trees.
kjbcej\'T liisco /.v jvompeii
That comparatively so little of the
treasures of the Pompeiani is found is ea
sily explained by the fact that the inhab
itants who had escaped and thieves broke
into the houses, especially betweeu the
earthquake and the eruption, and carried
off all articles of value. Mostofthe houses
have indications of these visits in the
modern mason work which closed a hole.
lam not aware that what are called the
“ water castles” have been sufficiently
noted, perhaps for the reason that most
have been carelessly distroyed. One how
ever, has [lately been discovered, and
propped up and bound round with iron.
They were buildings tjpr supplying the
neighboring.houses with water. The top
was a large vasca to which water was
carried up by leaden pipes, a great
number of which still lie under the level
of the ground. By pipes the water was
again distributed from house to house
from the vasca. The Sarno, which sup
plied it, still runs underneath Pompeii,
and impurity is evident from the deposits
which have been formed on the walls of
the castle; its continued dropping has
covered them with a kind of stalactite.
Further examination shows that these
deposits correspond exactly with the
stone with which a great part of Pompeii
was built. The stone was brought from
Sarno, on the river of the same name,
which thus supplied the inhabitants with
building material and drinking water.
The spot on which excavation are actu
ally carried on now is called the bathing
establishment. It is an imense hall, and
is still half full of pumice-stone ; but iu
the very center of the mass, after many
feet of soil had been moved, there were
found, last month, four human skeletons,
one of a woman, and by them were the
following precious objects, which
they were evidently carrying off: In
gold, two necklaces, consisting of ninety
four pieces, representing ivy leaves, two
ear-rings, a chain with an emerald. In
silver, two casseroles, a large looking
glass, three vases, a ladle, six large
spoons, sixteen smaller spoons, two forms
for making pastry, like scallope shell;
all are well preserred and highly decora
ted. They have been sent to the museum,
but are uot yet exhibited to the public.
A max who was too rneau to advertise
laud he wanted to sell,put a written notice
in the post office. A man who was in
quiring for a small farm was referred to
the written notice, when he replied, “ I
can’t buy laud at a fair price from any
man who does his advertising in that
way. He would steal the fence, the well
bucket and the stable doors before he
gave up possession.
Two men were ridrng iu the cars the
other morning, when one asked the other
if he had a pleasant place of residence.
“ Yes,” was the reply ; ‘‘we have seven
nice large rooms over a store.” “ Over a
store! I shouldn’t think that would be a
quiet place. ” “Oh ! it is quiet enough.
The folks don’t advertise.
J t Jl.II" TER OF FIRST THIJF&B.
The first almanac was printed by Geo.
Yon Purbach, in 1460.
The first copper cent was coined in New
Haven in 1787.
First watches were made at Nurenburg
in 1477.
The omnibus was built in Paris in
1827.
The first college in the United States
was founded in 1636.
The first compass was used in France
in 1150, though the Chinese are said to
have used loadstone earlier.
The first chimneys were introduced in
to Rome from Padua in 1268.
The first newspaper advertisement ap
peared in 1652.
The first air pump was made in 1650.
The first algebra originated with Dio
phontus, in either the fourth or sixth ceu
tury.
The first balloon ascension was made
in 1783.
The first natioual bank in the United
States was incorporated by Congress De
cember 31, 1781.
The first attempt to manufacture pins
in this country was soon after the war of
1812.
The first printing press in the United
States was introduced in 1692.
Coaches were first used in England in
1568.
Gas was first used as an illuminating
agent in 1702. Its first use in New York
was in 1827.
The first glass factory in the United
States, of which we have definite knowl
edge, was built in 17S0.
Gold was discovered in California in
1848.
The first use of a locomotive in this
country was in 1829.
The first horse railroad was built in
1826-27.
The first daily newspaper in the United
State was published in Boston, Septem
ber 25, 1690. The first religious new pa
per, the Boston Record, was established
in 1815.
Organs are said to have been first in
troduced into churches by Pope Yitalianu
about A. D. 670.
The first steel pen was made in 1803.
The first machine for carding, roving
and spinning cotton, made in the United
States, was manufactured in 1786.
Envelopes were first used iu 1839.
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846.
The first iron steamship was built in
1830.
Ships were first ‘ copper bottomed’ in
1783.
The first telegraph instrument success
fully operated by S. F. Morse, the inven
tor, in 1835, though its utility was not
demonstrated to the wo.’ -util 1844.
The first lucifer match was made in
1829.
The first steamboat plied on the Hud
sau in 1807.
The entire Hebrew Bible was printed
in 1488.
The first society for the exclusive pur
pose of circulating the Bible was organ
ized in 1805, under the name Lithe Brit
ish and Foreign Bible society.
The first society for the promotion of
Chistian knowledge was organized in
1698.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1826.
The first Union flag was unfurled on
the first of January, 1776, over the camp
at Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of
white and red, and retained the English
cross in one corner.
The first steam engine on this conti
nent was brought from England in 1753.
The first saw-maker’s anvil was brought
to America in 1819.
The first temperance society in this
country organized in Saratoga county, N.
Y., in March, 1808.
Glass was early discovered. Glass
beads were found on mummies over 3,000
years old.
Glass windows were introduced into
England in the eighth century.
The first telescope was probably used
in Englaud in 1008.
Every family should keep a box of DR.
DURHAM’S VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS.
For sale by Smith & Young, Lexington, and
all dealers in medicines. myll-6m.
coj\'Ffssi ©. v of a step .norm:it.
Being present at the bed of a sick lady
once, I heard things that utterly con
founded me. Said she:
“ I married Mr. Gale when I was seven
teen. He then was the father of two lit
tle children, Alice and Green—beautiful
children indeed. For a while after we
were married, I doated on them and lov
ed them intensely ; but by degrees my
love for them abated, and in a couple of
years it was changed into downright
hatred. Mr. Gale often looked very
thoughtful and serious, for he was a man
of very acute discernment, but he never
remonstrated with me—he kept his keen
mental anguish within the private recess
of'his own bosom. As my affection di
minished, of course my actions were
more morose and tyrannical towards his
children. My own two children, Ida
and Martin, took up all my care. Every
thing that could be done towards dress
ing, food and spoiling was done by me;
and even Mr. Gale often joined me in it
in a degree, perhaps more to diminish
my asperity towards his own, than to ca
ress mine. But he signally failed, if that
was his intention. Afted a while the
children—ail four—were sent to school,
and now on my dying bed I confess my
partiality with a burning blush and a
deep pungent pain of conscience. There
were two baskets prepared, and with
strict orders for each couple to eat out of
their own basket. I gave my children
fowl, pies, sweetbread, waffles, etc., but
his had nothing but corn bread, and fat
meat. Once I remember, Alice asked
me to put a bit of chicken in her basket
for she was sick; but I gave her cheek
| such a slap that she never repeated the
request. My children were well dressed,
but his were obliged to wear coarse and
patched clothes. I then thought that
no one would notice the difference that
was made;. aud I learn that it is common
neighborhood talk. I shall soon die, and
I want all the neighbors to know that I
am sorry for my past aets, and if I could
live I would certainly do better.” She
then called Green and Alice to her bed
| side, and asked their forgiveness for
treating them so, and especially when
| going to school. Alice with tears in her
! eyes replied :
“ Never mind that ma; for Itta and
Martin always let us eat with them.
And asto the clothing, brother aud I
were 'ajjfeys clad better than we de
iserved.”
.VA'fl BtATi/AA’.
A Blotxi anti Ttimnler Romance On! of
His Own Life.
Selma (Ala.) Times.
Your brief allusion a few days past to
“ Ned Buntline” (E. C. Judson) has fresh
ened my recollection of some startling
incidents in his career that appear to
have dropped through the seive of the
public memory. In early life “ Ned
Buntliue” was an officer in the United
States navy, but was dismissed by Presi
dent Polk, as I now remember,
for drunkenness. In 1846 “ Ned Bunt
liue” turned up in Nashville, Tennessee,
which was, at that time, a mere inland
city, hanging loosely on the circumfer
ence of civilization, and was without
railroad or telegragh. How and why
he came there is an enigma he only can
solve. After getting there, he was em
ployed by Mr. Tannahill assist him in
editing the Orthopolitan, a literary paper
recently started on the usual starvation
principle. There was nothing particu
larly spicy or brilliaut in the Orthopoli
tan, which gave up the ghost after a lan
guishing existence of some eighteen
months, without leaving any aching void
or being followed by a first-class funeral.
Ned Buntline, while acting as assistant
editor of the Orthopolitan, was received
socially at the house of Mr. Porterfield,
a respectable merchant of Nashville, but
abused the hospitality of Mr. Porterfield
by seducing his wife—a handsome, but
vain and showy woman, whose ailment
was admiration. When the infidelity of
his wife came to Mr. Porterfield’s
knowledge, he armed himself and set out
to hunt up the seducer, and, seeing him
on the street, fired at him twice without
effect. Judson drew his pistol, rested on
his left wrist, and killed Porterfield at
the first fire. He surrendered himself at
once and was placed on preliminary trial
almost instantaneously in the court
house. #
The news of the seduction of Mrs. Por
terfield and the killing ot her husband by
the seducer was soon known all over the
city, and aroused very great indignation.
Nashville was in a ferment, and poured
into the court-house to watch the progress
of the trial. So indignant, incensed and
excited were the people that they re
quired but a spark to fan them into a
blaze, and this spark fell unexpectedly
among the combustible materials ready
collected. A brother of the deceased,
armed with two old-fashioned revolvers,
suddenly entered while the trial was in
progress, and proceeded to ffpen fire on
Judson, who was defenseless and in cus
tody of the law. Everybody looked upon
this attack of Porterfield as just and pro
per, and left Judson to liis fate. Finding
everybody was against him, Judson, at
length, darted through the crowd and
ran for his life with the nu>b close at
his heels, some shooting at him with pis
tols and others pelting him with stones.
In this plight he reached the City Hall
and fled up stairs, with the mob in full
cry after him. He finally reached a
room in third story, and hidliimself from
his pursuers by standing up in the win- J
dow and dropping'the curtain in front of
him; but a he was in plain view of the
crowd in the street below, his pursuers
pretty soon were apprised of his hiding
place. The window was raised and look
ed out upon the public square, crammed
and jammed with the mob that was
thirsting for his blood, yet as soon as
his pursuers drew the curtain out and
thrust his pistol at him, Judson leaped
from the third-story window, intending
to grasp in bis descent the iron balus
trade belonging to the second story. It
was a fearful leap. No matter which
way he turned, there seemed no loop
hole though which he could escape a
violent death. The mob was past all
control, lie struck the iron baluscade
in his descent, but failing to grasp it, he
fell into the pavement below, bruised
and senseless, in the midst of the mob.
At first he was believed to have been
killed by the fall, but upon subsequently
showing some vitality such as were op
posed to mob violence hastened to carry
him to the jail as being the place where
he would be most secure. After night
fall a rumor got into circulation that Jud
son was not seriously hurt; that he had
fully revived, and was to be secretly con
veyed from the jail and put upon a steam
boat then ready to leave the city, and
this rumor so excited and infuriated the
mob that it rushed fantically for the jail
and got Judson out of t in no time.
He coidd neither stand nor walk, yet was
he carried off to the public square tc be
hung to an awning post. Three times
was he hung up by he mob, and as often
was he cur down by some unknown per
son in the crowd. At last he was sarried
back to jail in an insensible state; the
mob, having been made to believe he was
sure to die in a few hours from the effects
of his, fall dispersed.
To the general surprise, “Ned Bunt
line” got well. It was wonderful how
he “ pulled through” such a emash-up.
He was put on his trial previous to the
day given out for it, and was acquitted
upon the ground that he killed Porterfield
in self-defense. He was conveyed se
cretely on board of a steamboat, and had
got off ere the mob suspected what was
going on.
Subsequently, he turned his attention
to the writing of seusational and “ flash”
novels, and started a newspaper iu New
York City. “ Ned Buntline” was public
ly cow-hided in 1851 by Kate Hastings,
in consequence of something said about
her in his newspaper ; but even this con
temptuous and rough handling by an
outcast of society had hardly the least
damaging effect on Judson’s social or lit
erary rank, since he had been regarded
as a “ spoiled egg” for many years.
The Happy Mother of Four Boueiiig
liable*.
Last Friday night Mrs. Milton Barrs,
who lives twelve miles south of town,
gave birth to a pair of babies, and on
Saturday gave birth to another pair.
The first two were born just before 12
o’clock at uight and the latter two just
after 12 the same night, which gives two
of them Friday, the 2-ith, for their birth
day, and the other two Saturday, the 25th,
for their birthday. Two of the new
comers are boys weighing four and a half
pounds each, and the other t\yo girls—
one weighing four pounds and other
three. The news of this marvelous child
birth spread rapidly through the coun
try, and large numbers of Mr. and Mrs.
Barr’s friends hastened to their residence
to see four babies alive. Sunday 150 or
200 persons visited Mr. Barr’s residence
to see the babies. The mother is doing
well. The children are all perfect in
shape and healthy to all appearance.—
f.tbanou ; J/o.) Journal.
jl. i
VOL. Ill —NO. 52.
thi: no.y'Fs of .no.y'sTFßs.
Wonderful DismcrieN in flic Sand
stone Rocks ol' Colorado
“Nature has borne strange children
in her day,” says Shakspeare, aud he is
not far wrong if we may judge from some
recent discoveries in the- rocks of our
neighborhood. While exploring some
rocks in the white sandstone hog-back
of the cretaceous period, near Morrison,
Bear Creek—the same stratum as at
Colorado Springs, a few yards west of
Old Colorado City—we came suddenly
upon a lmge vertebra?, lying as it were
carved out in bas relief or a slab of sand
stone. It was so heavy that it required
two men to lift it. Its circumference
was thirty-three inches. We stood for
some moments looking in astonishment
at this prodigy, and then hunted around
for more relics. Presently one of the
party, a little in advance cried out,
“ Why, this beats all 1” At his feet lay
a huge bone, resembling a Hercules war
club, ten inches in diameter by two feet
long. On digging beneath it a number
of smaller vertebra were discovered, aud
at the base of a cliff two enormous frag
ments, reminding one of the broken col
umns of some ancient temple, or a couple
of saw logs, lay on the ground, possible
thigh bones, fifteen inches in diameter at
the but end ; and in the cliff above them
was another fragment sticking out like
the stump of a tree. With help of a
sledge-hammer and crowbar the rock
was removed around it, and underneath
lay some ribs three inches in diameter
with other bones.
The rocks in the vicinity were full of
fragments. Selecting one of these, we
lifted off a large cap of sandstone above
it and disclosed a perfect shoulder, ulna
aud radius, of another somewhat smaller
animal, the thickness of the bones aver
aging about five or six inches. This,
lying as it were like a beautiful sculpture
on the sandstone, we succeeding in re
moving it exactly as we found it. Sever
al smaller bones of animals of various
si7.es were discovered, but as the sun was
fast setting behind the mountains we de
ferred moving our trophies till the fol
lowing day. During the night it snowed
heavily, but next morning we succeeded
in dragging our priz.es on temporary sleds
down the cliff to the road, aud bringing
home to the neighboring village a wagon
load of bones and depositing them in a
shanty, preparatory to packing them off
East to Prof. Marsh of Yale Uollege for
identification. The monster to whom
the bones belonged could not have been
less than sixty or even eighty feet long.
In the cliff above these bones, impress
ions of leaves were found (Dakota group)
of dicotyledonous trees of every singular
shape, some resembling a lyre, and oth
ers the leaves of the tulip tree, willow,
conifers, etc. These trees grew probably
ou the shores of small islands in the ere
tacious ocean in which the marine mon
sters roamed, and not far off oysters (os
trea congesta), clams (inoceramus), bac
ulites and ammonites, and other marine
shells were found in abundance. ___ -
Along the shore of this ancientTsea
squatted and leapt’Ehe dinosaurus or the
terrible lizards, one of whom, the lcelaps,
was 24 feet long. From the length of
his hind legs, it is supposed that he was
able to walk upright like a biped, carry
ing his head 12 feet in the air. There
was snother still larger, 35 feet long, and
of the same habits. In the air overhead,
hngh bat-like creatures ( Pterodactyls ),
combining a lizard, a crocodile and a
bat, flapped their leathery wings (25 feet
from tip to tip) over the sea plunging
every now and then in the water for a
fish. There were birds, too; a diver
( Perperornis), five and one-half feet high,
and some, strauge to say, with spinal
vertebra like a fish, and armed with
pointed teeth; iu both jaws. Enormous
tortoises and turtle were the boatmen of
the age. One discovered by Cope, in
Kansas, was fifteeu feet across the end of
one flapper to the end of the other.
Huge clams also lay scattered over those
ancient shores twenty-six inches in di
ameter. Our saurian did not fall short of
the biggest of these monsters; he could
not have been less than sixty to seventy
feet long, and probably either a mosa
saurus or lizard allied to the clasmosau
rus.
The ocean in which these creatures
lived was gradually enclosed by the up
heaval of the sea bottom on the west, and
soon became almost an inland sea. As
the elevation continued and its area was
contracted, ridges would rise, isolating
portions of the sea into salt lakes and
imprisoning the life in them. The
stronger soon destroyed the weaker, till
the water by evaporation becomiug shal
lower, all life finally died, became skele
tons, aud, in course of ages, fossils in
sandstone.— Colorado Springs- Gazette.
Tin: nott’s jvobmlitw
I think it was in ’SO or ’sl when I was
crossing the plains to reach the gold
field. There were only three of us, and
wc were all the time on the lookout for
Indians. 1 believe Mormons had only
settled at Balt Lake about four years
previous; and to cross the plains was in
those days a risky undertaking. We rode
all day aud at night one always stow!
guard.
There was an awful silence in those
plains, and sometimes thesileuce weigh
ed down upon up strangly that we would
ride on for hours without speaking and
you never even heard the barking of a
cayote.
The air was rare and transparent, and
the expanse about as level as a vast sea,
with occasional billowy heaves which one
could see at a distance of twenty miles.
It was nearly always the same, except
when the buffalo skulls were very thickly
strewn, or where those queer Indian
graves raised ou poles stood out
against the horizon, like old black insect
with long legs.
So we came at last to the head of the
Sweetwater, then nearly a thousand
miles from any settlement; and the
skulls lay very thickly theie—thick as
boulders in a toreut-bed sometimes;
and there were little mounds all over
the plains, and these mounds were all
graves. *vi
Each grave had a great buffalo or elk
skull—all white and bleached and ghast
ly-looking —at one end of it. I remem
ber some of the elk skulls must have
measured five feet between th* tips of
the horns, and the bone ws* white and
dry as salt. Aud on every skull that was
placed on a mound had b§en written im
pencil or scratched in’witb
name of the dead innn_/below,
■ \S, : . .. Lii ivlin
years, Pii
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sfv many of them. Tlier* were other
skulls lying along the road here ami
therewith little sentences written on
them in pencil, stating that so-aud-srf
ami so-and-so had passed by at sack *ntf
sach a day.
We use to pick up clean skull ourselves,:,
once in a while, and write something of
this kind ou it, so that we might leave *
sort of clause as to what had become of
us if we should get killed.
Well, as we were tumbling over the.'
graves and reading the inscriptions oi*
the skulls, I suddenly saw a great dog
rise from a mound at some distance and
slowly retreat to another mound still?
further oft) when he turned and stared at
us. He was one of those huge English
mastitis, and must have belonged to one
of the dead men. You could see through
him ;no starving wolf could have been!
gaunter, and his great protruding eves*
had the wildest look you ever saw. lie
seemed to have leet his voice aud hi*
ftesh together, and looked like the Very
phantom of a dog. We called and whis--
tied to him but lie never barked—only
stared at us with the same wild look.-
Then we went to the grave lie had been
lying on, and it was nameless —there was .
no skull except the long coffin-shape of
the mound.
We tried for ever so long to coax the"
dog even to come and eat something but
he vvomd not come near us, and would
run off in a weak, shy way, if we tried to*
approach him. God knows how long
he had been there! we remained ar
whole afternoon, just to dig a little hole'
for water for the dog; you could strike*
water there at four or five feet, right
among the graves. Then we left some
crackers and dry meat for him and rode'
away west.
As I went i turned and saw him re
turning to the gravejand liedownon it at
full length as though trying to guard it.-
And I watched him, until at last, whenr
I turned in my saddle, I could see noth
ing except the white skulls all behind
me, and a few weird Indian graves oiv
the edge of the horizon where the. night
was creeping up.
TOUT MS&MSSiM
New Madrid, September 19.—Tbe
river monster which has been seen at
many different points above here, creat
ing great coustination and devouring,
horses and cattle that swim the river,,
has uudontedly reached this neighbor
hood, and there is considerable excite--
ment over Us arrival. This morning
about 8 o’clock, while the ferry-boat,,
which contained two wagons and three
horsemeu, was crossing to the eastern*
shore, and while in the middle of the*
river, there was a violent shaking of the
boat, the movement being so sudden that
one man who was seated on the gunwale
was throne into the water, hot, grasping,
the side of the boat,was drawn
further damage than a
ing. The first shock " It
'find lifted thi
and almost c:
a standing p|
culty. The 1
whirlpool, tlj
high and wad
prow to stern
tant, the occl
an immense
water with i
undoubtedly
the euormol
ing of the ifl
tiou of its ta
stream oX wa
noise that wl
After this tS
neath the wj
pn hv thrwp
en oy tnose nrw
scared out of thd
row to the shore!
When the story]
great
the. village, anJF fifty ora hi
went down to tfie river to cal
ble, a sight of ol e gigantic reptilefl
is considerable excitementun the si]
and it is probable and expedition
organized here \lo watch the rivei
i.:ii ♦i. t* • *
kill the. monster. Besides. Ihe fcrryil
there w$ re five /persons in the boat,!
follows: Williajjm Ferris and wife, Qfol
Smith, B. \Y . Vv’illiams and Henry He
meyer. The ldtier is tbe travellingaai
for a St. Louis firm, and tbe oth|
people well known for there !
■bienn Xan. *
Some gentWTnan were talking afl
meanness, yesterday, writes “ Eli■
kins,” when one said lie knew a m.™
Lexington avenue who was the mea*
man in New'York. 1
“ Jlow mean is that?” I asked. - j
“ Why, Eli,’” he said, he is so tra
that he keeps a five cent piece will
string tied to it to give to beggars, I
then when their backs are turned fee ■
it out of tjieir pockets !” ■
“ Why, this man is so coizfoun
mean,” continued the gentleman, *‘l
he gives his children ten cents api
every night for going to bed wit ii
their supper, but during the night, vl
th,ey were asldep, he wcot up stairs, I
ehe money out of their clothes, audJ
whipped them in the-morning fjflflßj
“ Does he do anything else ?i
“ Yes, the other day I dined
and I noticed the poor littlesr
whistled all the way upslaiflß!
dessert, and when f ask< 1
scamp wlmt made her
he said:
“ Why, I keep her
can’t eat the raisins ou
A NtrangCj
A convict in the
tralira undergoing ;
meat for stelfcij'a^
living by
i ■ g jM|||
< msl
might select,
of which he"
swallowed,
swallow a
prisoner is a
thJ
All
chain
of the
swalh
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