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POETRY.
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A GOOD DOG.
raou tub alius* fob arocar.
I'm fond of that dog?
Well, I ought to be,
Kor he eared ny life.
And l» fond of me.
lie know* what I’m earing—
There—do yon *ee—
He cornea anij put*
H Hie paw on my knee!
1 war took with the fever.
And down no low
I made up my mind
I had to go:
It wae on the rarda,
I hadn't no Aow ;
It war—Pair In your chip*,
And god-by, Joe!
That'* Jtrat where I war—
Played out, yon may eay.
For the doctor lelt,
• When tap chum run array:
Doctor! in them daya
Went for theii pay:
I lay there alone—
Not a man would atay!
SraS
n
JACK’S SPEECH
BEFORE THE MILITARY COURT AT
FORT KLAMATH.
A Man of Peace.
Only my clop.
Who sat by my bc<l (
Juki where I could see him,
And pat his head:
Ho felt what I suffered.
Knew what I said,
And wouldn’t believe
I was almost dead!
concluded not to fight and to go on the
reservation at Klamath Lake. When
they, got to Whittle’s hou<* on Klam
ath river, the Linkville people came
there to kill them. They came back
to their old place. Aftei tfco the Hot
Day after clay,
And night after night,
He sat by roy bedr!4e v
Always in sight: .
lie seemed to'know! »
That my'head was light;
lie wouldn’t lie down,
And the dog waa right!
1 felt if he did—
And 1 think ao still—
1 should lose my grip-
lie was my will: t
He put out the fever,
Broke up the chill,—
Was something to me
Death could not kill!
I lead a rough life,
I get and 1 spend,
Tay what I liorrow.
Lose what 1 lend; ’
1 loved a woman—
li came to an en<f:
Get a good dog, sir,
You have a friend!
WHAT HE’D DO FOR HER.
I’d swear for her—I’d tear for her,
The Irord knows what l*d bear fer her ;
I’d lie for her, I'd sigh for her.
I’d drink a “grocery” dry for her;
I’d “cuss” for her, do “wus” for her.
I'd kick up a thundering fuss for her;
I'd leap ferher, l*d weep for her.
I’d go without my sleep for her;
I’d fight for her, IM Idle for her,
I’d walk the streets all night for her;
I’d plead for her, l*d Meed for her,
I’d go without my “ feed” f»r her;
I'd shoot for her. I’d boot for her,
A rival who'll come to suit for her;
I’d kneel for her, I’d steal for her.
Such is the love I feel for her;
I’d slide for her, I’d ride for her,
I'd swim 'gainst wind and tide for her;
I'd try for hoT, l*d cry for her,
Hut hang me if I’d die for her.
N. II.—Or any other woman.
Tv as A Piece of My Mothers
Press.—We hoard a story told the
other day that made our eyes moisten.
We have determined to tell it, just as
wc heard it, to' the little ones:
“A company of poor children, who
hail been gathered out of theallpys and
garrets of the city, were preparing for
their departure to new and distant
homes in the West. Just before the
time for the starting of the cars, one
of the boys was noticed aside from the
others, apparently very busy with a
out off garment.
The Superintendant stepped up to
him and found, that he was cutting a
kmall piece out of the patched lining.
It proved to lie his jacket, which having
been replaced by a new one, had been
thrown away. There was no tiipe to lie
lost. ‘Come, John, come! said the Su
perintendent, ‘what are you going to
do with that old piece of calico?’
‘Please, sir,’ said John, ‘I am cut
ting it to take with me. My dear dead
mother put the lining into this old jack
et for me. This was a piece of her
dress, and it is all I shall have to re
member her ty’ And ah the poor boy
of that dead mother’s love, and of the
death-bed scene in the old garret where
she died, he covered his face with his
hamb;Md sobbed as ifliis heart would
breakv w I — YH>l%TC-
“But the train was about leaving
and John thrust the little piece of cal
ico into his bosom, ‘to remember*his
mother hy,l •hurried into the car, and
was soon faraway from the place where
he had seen so much sorrow.”
We know many an, eye will mois-
t *® »* this story is tola and retold
throughout the country, and many a
? r V*r will go up to God for the
‘merles* and motherlcs ill all great
c,l, « in all places. *' '
to* rea< * ers ’ arc your mothers still
lj* re ~ ln you! Will vou not show your
,t u’-' cheerful obedienec! That ,lit-
so well, we are sure
one^ r l hilin ro,n d, that if you should
“dear^V 610 ,ook u P° n the ^ccofa
-rate*
Jack asked as a flavor that when he
spoke the reuegade scouts might be
present to hear him, and when the
court met after noon they were all
there. Intimating that lie would speak
of the white men who were his friends.
Capt. Jack said:
“Judge Rosborough always told me,
‘Be a good man; I know the white
man’s heart, but not the Indian’s heart
as weH.”S He never gave me any but
gnd ad gee. ‘ Ihave known a great
many white‘'people; have known that
a great many of them had good hearts.
P do not know nU the Indian chiefs
around, I do not know what their Hearts
are.’ Roslxirough always told me to
he a good man, 1 considered myself
like a white man, and didn’t want an
Indian heart any longer. I took papers
(certificates of character) from good
white people, who gave me good ad
vise. i know all the people around me,
and they all know I was an honest man.
People around Yreka all knew me:
knew I acted right and did nothing
wrong. You men here don’t know
what I have been before. I never
called any white man mean. When I
went to any that knew me and asked
for a food they gave it, telling people
who went through my country that I
was a good Indian and never disturbed
anybody. No white man can say I
told him not to come to my country.
I told them to come, and gave them a
home there. I should like to sec the
man who would accuse me of doing
wrong. I have always been honest
with every man. The Klamaths were
the only people who said my papers
were Itad. I have never known any
other Indian chief who has spoken so
much in favor of white men as I have.
I have always taken their part, and
spoken in their favor. I have done as
my friends advised me, and have look
ed after white people who have traveled
through my country.’
“ I would like to see the man who
came to I.<oat river last winter and com
menced this trouble, and so got me into
this condition I am now. I can not
see why they got ntad at me. I always
told white people to come and live
there, for that the country was their’s
as much ns it was Captain Jack’s.’
“ I have never received anything ex
cept wlmt I bought and (raid for. I
have always lived like a white man. I
have lived peaceltly on what I could
kill with my gun and catch with my
traps. You [to llic interpreter] know
that 1 have lived like a man, and never
begged; got what I could honestly
with my own hands. I always took
your good advice until this war started.
I don’t know how to talk here ; don’t
know how white people talk ; shall do
the best I can.’
“ I have never asked white people
for pay to live in my country. I
wanted them to come. I liked to live
with the white people—told them to
live there and we would all be peace
able. I knew nothing of when this
war was to com rnence. Major Jackson
came and commenced on us while I
was in bed. When Meacham used to
come, he was always friendly, and
Creeks came to my camp ami told me would think so,' and it they would
the white people were going to kill
them all. The Hot Creeks all ran
back and came to me. They were
scared; as white men told them that
they were going to kill them all. Some
of the Hot Creeks were still left at
Fairchild’s, and they talked of taking
them to the reserve by way of Lost
river, and they ran off too and came
to me. When they all got to my place
I told some of them to go back to
Fairchild’s. The Hot Creeks came
from one side to roy place and Hooker
Jim came around the other side of Jule
Lake toget to the lava, bed*. -
*‘1 didn’t know of any settlers being
killed until Hooker cainc there with
his hand and told me about it. I had
no idea they would kill the Bostons
when they went around that way.
When they came, I didn’t want them
to stay with me. Before that my
people had never killed any Bostons.
I did not like it that Hooker and his
men had killed them, and I wanted
them to go away. I don’t know, who
told them to kill the settlers. I always
told them not to kill white people. I
told Hooker I had never killed any
Bostons, and that he had done it of
his own accord and not by my advice.
I thought all the white men in my
country liked me, they always treated
me so well.
“[Turning to Hooker Jim, who was
there by his special request, as were
all the four renegades.]—What did
you kill them for? I did not want you
to kill my friends; you did it on your
own responsibility.
“Afterthat I thoughtall the Bostons
would be mad at me. It troubled me
and made me feel bad. I didn’t want
any of my people to kill the whites. I
never advised them to do it. I told
Hooker and his men it was a wicked
act, and they ought not to have done it.
I knew all the Bostons would be mad
at me on account of Hooker’s killing
so many of their people when lie bad
no bussiness to do it.
“I had not fought in the battle on Lost
River, and I did not intend to fight
anywhere. Fairchild told me what a
wrong thing it was that they had killed
these people living on Tule Lake, and
that if we did not quit fighting, the
soldiers would come and kill us all.
I told him I did not want to fight, and
was willing to quit if the soldiers would
quit. I told him I was afraid to come
to his house. 11c did not come for a
long while after that. The Hot Creeks,
some of them, came with him then.
They left him soon after that and he
did not come for a long time. He wifti
afraid to come any more.
“For a while I heard nothing' from
Fairchild. No one came to my place,
and I could hear no news. After a
great while Fairchild came again with
a squaw, and said we had all better
make peace, for the white people were
all very mad at us.
“My people were afraid to leave the
caves, because they had been told they
would all be killed. My women were
all afraid to go away from there.
While the peace talk was going on a
would have to be done, but not by my
counsel.
“Aa I ms the chief of the Modocs,
the Bostons probably all think I began
the fight and have keep it going. I
told the Modocs the white, people
PEN l
OPE]ST!
A Child Buried Alive, If Another Child
• Hasn’t Lied.
never talked about shooting. I under- squaw came from Dorris’ and Fair-
uttiSSriiSilib
York - "here a countryman
us,y be8i e cd b y *W
*° y ^birt^-said tbe
in A 'P'endid assortment, sir. Stei
.•a' ,L ffr y J? ri °c nt >d every style. 1
„~ re . “'ey clean?”
“TK S ur ?‘ s »ep in, sir.”
pn at tke countryman, with
on, for you bcttcr P ul on «
n-ndhtl 0 *' * ; y / )an S n**n who was at-
near
-«3*S*mnu
5«&raHw!Si
stood Ivan Applegate that he'wascoin
ing to have a talk, and not that he was
coming to bring soldiers. I was will
ing to hold councils with any one who
talked peace to me. The way I wanted
that council to be, I wanted to have
Henry Miller there when Applegate
met me, and to have him talk for me.
Dennis Crawley also told me he wanted
to be there to talk with me when Ap
plegate came. I was a good man, lie
said, and he wanted to have me get my
rights.’ '
“ It scared me when Jackson and
bis troopers came riding into my village
at daylight. It made me get out of
bed without even a shirt on. I couldn’t
imagine what it meant to have soldiers
come that time of day. Major Jack-
son surrounded my camp, and then
said for us not to shoot, for he wanted
to talk. 1 told Bogus to go out and
talk to them until 1 got my clothes on.
Bogus didn’t want to; but he went and
told them that I wanted to talk, and
not to shoot. Then they all got off
their horses. I thought wc were to
have a talk, and went into another
house to meet them. I thought then,
why are they mad at me ? What have
they found out about me that they have
come here to fight me ? I went into
ray tent and sat down, and then the
soldiers commenced shooting. There
were only a few of my people there.
All were not there.’
“|Mnjor Jackson shot my men while
they were standing around. I ran
away and did not fight any. I did not
want to fight. I took my people away
who had been shot and wounded. They
shot tome of my women and some of
my men. I didn’t know anything
“ After that I went off to the lava
beds and did nothing. I had but very
few people, and did not want to fight.
Never did want to fight. Thought it
was no use with so few. I went to the
lava beds, and while on the way to my
rock house (cave) a white man came
to my camp. 1 told them how the
soldiers had fought me while 1 was as
leep, hut that I vyould not do any harm
to him.’
“ After that I stayed in the lava beds
and went nowhere at ay. I did not
want to fight, and did not think about
fighting any man. I did not see any
iwiite man for a long time, and did not
wish to kill anybody. I stayed there
quietly in my cave.’
“After awhile John Fairchild came
and asked me if I wanted tofight I
told him -not that I hod quit fighting;
that I did not want to fight any man;
that I did not wish to fight him or to
fight anybody; that I had quit and did
not want tofight any more.
“The Hot Creek Modocs did not come
to the lava beds. They were not in
child’s, and said the Peace Commis
sioners wanted to get them out and kill
them all; that a man named Nate
Beswick had told them so. An old
Indian man, who was lately killed in
a wagon on Tule Lake, came over in
the night to the lava beds and told the
same story again; This old Modoc
told me that Nate Beswick told him
that day Meacham, Canby, Dyer and
Thomas were going to get them out
and kill them. Then another squaw
came and told us the Peace Commis
sioners had a great lot of wood all
piled up high and intend to burn Jack
on that pile of wood; that when they
brought him to Dorris’—if ever they
got him there—they would surely burn
him alive. [That was at the time
when tents were made ready for them
at Dorris’, and wagons sent for them,
and they failed to corneas agreed.] All
the squaws about Dorr's’ and Fair-
child’s told the same thing. After
hearing all this news I was afraid to
go, and that is the reason I did not go
and make peace;
(To Riddle, the interpreter)—You
and your woman always told me the
truth and advised me well, but I didn’t
take your advice. If I had listened
to you instead of those squaws who
were lying to me so, I would not be
in the trouble I am in now.
“The reason I did not go when the
wagons came after me was that squaws
came the night before and told me the
peace, talkers were ready to burn me,
and I was afraid to come. I can see
now that those squaws and Bob Whi
les’ woman lied to you. I would
have been better off to have listened
to you. Bob Whittles’ woman came
to me. and said I was not one of her
people, and she didn’t wish to talk
anything good to me. She always
gave me bad counsel. Bob’s woman
told itke that if she did not come back
right away we might know the soldiers
would be coming the next day to fight
me.
“I have now told Jon all about why
I did not come in and make peace.
I was afraid to come. I don’t const
der that when you come to talk to me
with newspaper men that I was really
the chief then. Your chiefs among
the Bostons listens to the people, and
the people listen to them ana obey them
but my men would not listen. I told
them not to fight, bat they wanted to
talk and make peace, and live aright,
but my men would not listen. The
Modoc men in the rock caves would
not listen to what I said. There can
not one of them speak to me, and
tell the truth, ana say that I ever
wanted them to fight I always told
them to keep out of trouble, and to
meet in council in a friendly way.
When they would not listen to me
surely fight they must do it on their
own hook. Hooker Jiin wanted to
fight all of time. I sat on one sideall
this while with my men who agreed
with me, and said nothing.. Now I
have to bear the blame for what the
rest of them have done, fcjconqhes
John was on Hooker’s side.- I was
with a few men qnd had nothing to
say, and they were all mad at ipe, I
can’t see how the Bostons think I am
to blame for the war when it was those
others who did the murders.
“I talked to /n»seop!e. I said:■ I
like -my w fc-tmd children, and t wish
to live in peace ahd be happy with
them. They would not stop to listen
to me. 1 had done nothing, had shot
nobody, and; did not commence the
fight. - Hooker always wanted to fight
the Bostons, and it was he who did
the murders. When I talked as I
have said Hooker and his friends told
me to hush ; that I knew nothing; that
I was no Itetter than an old squaw.
“I and Hooker had a quarrel. I
said I had done nothing wicked or
mean to bring on the war; that it was
he who had murdered the settlers. I
got mad at Hooker, and if I could
have seen through the wall of my tent
I would have killed him. I thought
I would kill him. I wanted to kill
him because lie had murdered the
settlers on Tule Lake, and had made
the war worse.
“For a while there was nothing going
on, and then the soldiers came again.
They came fighting; fought all one
day; they fought a little the first day,
and they fought all the next day.
Then they went away again. Before
the battle One eyed Link River John
came and told nte not to be mad at
them (the Klamaths) for they would
not shoot at us. Some of the Klamath
scouts cantc and had a talk with me
then in the lava licds.
“After that battle (Jan. 17) for a long
time there was no fighting, nor was
there any talking going on for a long
while. Then Fairchild came again
and said lie wanted to have me conic
out and have a good talk. He said lie
and his jtcople were mad at us for
killing those citizens on Tide Lake. I
told him I hail never killed anybody
and never wanted to kill anybody, and
didn’t want any more war. I did not
know what they were mad at me about,
for I was willing for both sides to quit
and live in peace again. I told him
that I did not now want the Lost river
country any more, Itecause there had
Iteen a war about it and bloodsheed
there, and that I wanted to go somc-
wheres; that 1 would like to go to
some place where no blood had been
shed as there had been there.
I don’t deny that I told Fairchild
and everybody else that I wanted to
talk good talk anil quit lighting. That
was what I meant and what I told
him.
When the fight commenced I
thought the Bostons were mad because
wanted to live on Lost river. I
had a fuss with an Indian named
George, who took the part of Hooker
Jim. We quarreled, and he told me
was no better than a squaw ; that I
had never killed anybody; that he and
Hooker were not afraid, and had kill
ed white people and lots of soldiers,
lie said: “You have never done any
fighting, and you are our chief vet;
ou are not fit to be a eliief.”*
I told him that I wasn’t ashamed of
it; that I did not w ant to kill anybody.
Thev told me I laid in camp like a
chunk, doing nothing, while they went
around killing' people and stealing
their things. They said they were
Indians, and were not afraid to kill
men. “What do you want of a sun?
You do nothing with it. You don’t
kill anything, but sit around on the
rocks.”
I told them I was not ashamed to be
called an old squaw ; . I had advised
them to keep peace and kill nobody,
and they hail done these murders
against my yvill.
“Scar-face told me he could go and
fight with the Modoc warriors and
that I was no better than an o'd squaw.
I told them to go out and fight on
their own account; I neither wanted
to go with them. Scar-face will
tell what he knows. He does not
want to keep anything hack ; neither
do I wish to keep back anything.”
Jack asked the privilege to add to
his remarks the next morning,' and
the court iudulged him in it. His
words were few. He made a brief
speech, reiterating som. of his words
of the day before, and insisting that
Hooker Jim urged on the murder of
the Peace Commissioners, and went
out that day for the especial purpose
to kill Meacham. This sjteeeh was
made part of the records of the court,
and ended the open sessions of the
commission.
Capt Jack’s speech is considered by
the court as rather dull and wanting
in part, but it struck me that lie made
a very fair effort. The gentlemen of
the court are not experts in Modoc
oratory, and were evidently anticipat
ing too much.
Captain Jack showed far more un
derstanding and intelligence than any
other Indian on trial, and it is evident
that his power all comes from the
possession of more than average intel
lect and force of mind. As to the
verity of his assertions, it must be re
membered that he has been “a liar
from the beginning,” and that ho was
endearing to make the very best of a
very bad case. He rather humbled
himself in some respects, abased him
self to prevent his being too highly ex
alted on the gallows.
. Yesterday evening a Globe reporter
obtained an inkling of what seemed to
bo a sensational graveyard myste
ry, which^ excited enough curiosity
to Induce him to investigate it thorough
ly. ' Accordingly he visited the young
lady from whom the report originated,
aud iifterviewed not only her, -but her
father and -imtthor. The result of the
coapraice wAkas follows:
Statement of Miss Mary'Myers,
interesting young miss iour-
tee P^ears qgc next month. On
Thursday mqrolng, between 8 and 3
o'clock, she visited the “Old Picket
•rff,
in at the time the burial case was
opened. :
What to think or make of this won
derful case is a difficult problem. The
pertinactly of Miss Myers in relating
the story precisely the same to the re
porter and to her mother, who is a
very intelligent German woman, and
who took her into a private apartment
and critically cross examined the girl,
is calculated to impress any one with
the truth of the narrative; and the
personal investigation of the grave by
six adult persons besides the girl, in
duces the belief that the story of the
young miss is truthful, and, fur
nishes only another proof of the care-
lesspessand culpability of hasty burials
where persons have died suddenly. ,
Who. the resurrected girl or tlie
on the Gravois road, for, rae n who carried her off are 4 was im- w '[h rain
tnepWpose of watering some Rowers possible to discover at the late hour at' pain,
and which had been set out on the which tbe information reached us; but
graves of ltcr dead brothers and sis- we hope that to-day further light may
ters, four in number, the last of whom be thrown on the matter, and that the
little girl, if still alive, may be restored
to her parents, if they are living, or at
least be properly cared for. Miss
Myers is confident she would recognize
the men should she meet them again.
had been bpried some seven years
since, which plants were set out last
LAUttHERlsfes.
Why is the earth like a Colt’s
pistol ? Because it is a revolver.
A dealer in ready-made undrwear
advertises them as male and female
envelopes.
A man’s dearest object should be
his wife, but sometimes it is his wife’s
wardrobe.
Little fish have a good notion' ps to
the commencing of life—they nlways
begin on a small scale.
“Died 9 fighting Bill Jones,” was
the verdict or a coroner’s jury over an
Indian territory man.
What is the difference ictweeu
cloud and a beaten child ? One pours
and the other roars with.'
The Shah -wanted to purchase thir
ty thousand pounds worth of handsome
English Indies, bat there were draw
backs. - !
New Haven, July 23.—At the
trial of Glione, the Italian padrone,
before the City Court to-day, several
Italians from New York and other
places were present. The four boys
testified that they had been in this
country twenty-one months, and had
been kept in a Crosby-street den in
New York until they were brought to
New Haven seven weeks ago; that
they were beaten and kicked unless
thev brought in the prescribed sum of
collin laid I “®"°y “very night, and were told by
Thev then forced open the lid I (jl,one steal lf th , c y ^ould not
wooden bn rial case, when a e f» i ‘ h »* ^7
also tolil by Glione that their parents
would he fined and they bo arrested
by the police if they ran
Saturday. After watering the flowers
she took a stroll through the old grave
yard, and in her peregrinations noticed
a little roseinary shrub on a newly-
made grave. On stooping to examiue
and smell of it she heard a voice from
the grave crying, “Open, open.” The
young lady liecame very much agita
ted, hut, still preserving her conscious
ness, started off in search of assis
tance. Espying two men not a great
distance off, she went to them and
related what she heard. At first they
laughed at her, but at length becom
ing impressed with her earnestness,
they consented to follow her to the
grave, which had a small Iward at the
head of it, on which was inscribed:
“Emma Grit we,
1873.” •
The men found some shovels near
by, and immediately commenced un
earthing the 1 coffin. At length fhe
dirt was removed and the
bare,
of the
young girl, lietween nine and ten years
of age, rose from the coffin.
She was immediately assisted from
the grave, and seeing the young lady,
Miss Myers, caught hold of her dress,
calling her “Mena, Mena.” She also
claimed one of the men who had un
earthed her from her living grave as
her father, hut lie denied knowing
her.
The resuscitated body clung to Miss
Myers and wished to go with her,
but, after carrying her some distance,
to the exit from the kirk-yard. Miss
Mary relinquished her burden to one
of the men, who, accompanied by his
companion, started for the residence
near the new. l’icket graveyard, some
miles beyond the old one, on the old
Gravois road.
Miss Myers inquired of the little re
surrected girl her name, hut received
no reply, and, in answer to interroga
tories to the men, was told that they
lived just beyond the new Picket grave
yard. She says she would know the
men, or at least one of them, if she
should sec them again, ns one looked
very like an uncle of hers, and the oth
er was blind in one eye.
Miss Mary says the supposed corpse
was dressed in a rather short white
dress, with tucks two-thirds of the
way to the waist, each tuck being
trimmed with white lace, the dress
was low in the neck, around which was
a gold chain. .She also had a wreath
of flowers on licr head, and white sa
tin slippers on her feet. Her hair
was of a silvery whiteness, and she had
beautiful blue eyes. Her face red as
if they had been touched up from a
carmine saucer. ,
Although the young lady, Miss
Myers, told lterstpry with a straight
forwardness that scarcely admitted of
a doubt, yet the Globe man, skeptical
as newspaper men usually are, was not
thoroughly satisfied, and proposed, al
though it was 7 o’clock in the evening,
that a visit be made at once to the
grave which had been opened. Mr.
Myers, the father of the young lady
referred to, immediately acquiesced in
this matter, and ordered his horse to
be hitched to his light spring wagon.
The reporter visited a friend across the
way, Mr. John Page, and stated the
matter to him. He said he had a good
horse that needed exercise, and order
ed him to be harnessed, after which
the reporter, seeing a couple of friends
standing near by, asked them to ac
company the party on the trip. They
acquiesced, anil the whole party, con
listing of Mr. aud Mrs. Myers and
their daughter Mary, in one vehicle,
and Mr. Page, the Globe reporter,
and two friends in the other, start
ed. They visited the old Picket
graveyard, arriving there when it
was quite dark. Miss Mary took
the lead, and without a halt
tremor, led the way to the disembow
eled grave. The newspaper man, still
suspicious, hastened forward and over
took the young Miss, ih 'ofder to care-
fully watch her countenance and move
ments, but there was no sign of trepi
dation or hesitancy on her part,
Straight onward she sped her way—
never a halt or a turn, either to the
right or left, but direct to the grave in
question, led the way.
A careful examination showed that
the grave had very recently been open
ed, that dirt had been deposited on the
south side of it, the grass had been
trampled down, while tjrat sur
rounding graves was upright aod fresh;
two sods, one at the head and the
other at the foot, had evidently been
recently uprooted, and, although moist
at the bottom, had certainly beeu with
ered by the hot sun of the previous
day and moistened up by the rain of
Thursday night.
Miss Mary further states that the
fingers of the left hand of the child
which had been buried alive had all
been gnawed off, with tho exception
of the little finger, which was about
half gone. A toad jumped from the
SLAVERY IN CONNECTICUT."
Interesting Trial of an Italian Padrone
for Holding Four Boys in
Servitude, and Teaching
Them to Reg and Steal.
A Scraton household is enjoying an
era of peace. The lady of the house
put her tongue to a flat-iron to see if it
was hot.
One item in an Oregon horse doc
tor’s bill read: “ To holdin a post-
mortim examinashun on a hoss who
afterwards recovered, SI 50.” It was
away, and
that lie had a legal right to hold them.
They all said they would be glad to*be
free, if the law would give them free
dom and protect them from Glione.
The contract under which the padrone
claims the right to hold the boys were
translated and laid before the court,
and it appeared that the boy’s services
had been sold to him by the parents
for four or five years at the average
rate of about S20 per year, and with
the provision that the parents should
pay for medical services and should
forfeit wages and a fine of $80 if the
hoys should run away during the term
of service. The recent Italian laws
upon this subject were also laid before
the court. Bignor Zccchit Delasali,
editor of the Eco D’ltalic, was one of
the witnesses for the State. The stat
ute under which Glione had been in
dicted was passed in 1854, for the pur
pose of nullifying the fugitive law,
bnt never used for that purjwse. The
penalty is State prison from two to five
years.
The court held that Glione is guilty
of imprisoning free persons with the
intent to keep them in a state of ser
vitude against their will, and required
the prisoner to furnish bonds in the
sum of §4,000 for his appearance be
fore the jury in October. Falling to
furnish the bonds, Glione was commit
ted to the county jail. The boys will
be taken care of by the city authorities
until October.
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In Death ! UNtrtib.—ft happens
sometimes that something feesh comes
from the salt *ea«. Wrecks and loss
of lives occur every day on tbjs. watery,
C et, and most of theaea'stores have
told; but not all. Now and 1 (hep
» 5o . A IWbak inmrloriti'Mr ss >
One of Josh Billings’ maxims is,
“Rise earl}', work hard and late, give
nothing away, if you don’t get rich
and go to the devil, you may sue mo
for damages.”
‘Why are you for ever humming
that air?” Foote asked a man without
a sense of tune in him. “Because it
haunts tnc.” “No wonder,” said
Foot; “you are ever murdering it.’’
An Illinois jiaper remarks that,
“ Our readers needn’t try to get any
points out of our political articles ; wc
put ’em in this week because our
patent medicine stereotypes have been
mislaid.”
there is : A fresh incident' oif a’ wrerie,
w iich illustrates a hdroic oj*» pathetic
phase of humaii qiture. The British ,
bark Moueecli was lately wrecked* off
Cumberland Island, near thq.coabt.of
Georgia, and nhte’ iWifrffiertt lbst.* The,
Vessel was dfiveb Oiir' lhfe sh'oals ariltl
was rapidly goii^.tovpMMiitiJketorm.
There were, three, small{boa^s,, which
were lowered,' aua into one of them
the captain 1 Handed itfSSvite? #ko had
voyaged with -him, hs sfai« andstorm,
for (forty, y^ars*;, »v wo* *i »H
He tlieq stepped into the Ippat him
self, and'beftro ft was loosed from its
fasten ing. to the ehi^> M was capsized
and ingulfed in the overriding waves.
When the boat reappeared thetenptnin
was still clinging to its side, but no one-
else was there. He looked around oven
the desolate waters, but saw not the
form lie sought, and all the thirty years’
companionship came up before him
like a beautiful island in the sea. The
waves lAshed around the .island and
then it too disappeared like a mist.
There was nothing but wreck and ruin,
and the hungry sea around him.
Those on the vessel observed the
captain’s situation, and threw him a
rope with a running noose. It was a
moment in his grasp, but he cast it
away, saving: “ My wife' is gone,
and I will go with her.” He loo: e I
his hold on the boat, and utuid the
howling wind nnd raging sea he chose
a watery grave with his faithful wife,
who had so long sailed with him and
cheered hint iu life’s ocean. And
Capt. Thomas and his sailor wife wero
of the nine drowned on the wreck of
the Monarch off Cumberland Island.
At no moment of diffi mlty does n
a husband knowing his own utter help
lessness, draw so near to his wife’s
side for comfort and assistance, as
when he wants a button sewed ou his
shirt-collar.
A young man in Connecticut, hav
ing the late railroad disasters in his
mind, has broken his engagement
with a young lady, because she
wears a train and is negligent abou
her switch.
There is a man in Indinna who is
now living in a housa with his filth wife,
seventeen children and three mother-
in-laws. Aiiiljyct—wo were going to say,
and yet lie is not bappv, but it sounds
too incrodible.
A youth stepped into a book store
and asked, “what kind of pens do you
sell here, mister?” All kinds,” an
swered one of the clerks. “Do you ?”
said the little chap; “then give me ten
cents worth of pig pens.”
Searching the Worm* fob the
Kansas Murderers.—An agent of
the Special Detective Agency of New
York Is now iu Paris in pursuit of the
Bender family,' who are charged with
being the authors of the wholesale
murder lately discovciod at Chcrry-
ville, Kansas. Detectives from the
same agency have been sent to' London
and all the leading European cities.
One of the accused, Johanns, dr, as
she is commonly known, Katie Bender,
is quite young, has red hair, aud is a
person of rather repulsive features,
with a furtive and distrustful expres
sion. She was seen on a steamer
which left New York for Havre, and
it is supposed that the whole family are-
present ooucealcd in the French
at
The degenerating, effect of the pre
vailing fashions upon the modesty of
ladies was shown by a lady calling at
the Omaha Republican, office, one day
last week, and oskiug for ten cents
worth of “bustle timber.”
capital or in tho environs. Kntc-
Bender is possessed of some education,
and is said to he able to speak a little
French. If they are really in France,
now that tho |iolice aro on their track,
it will lie impossible for them long to
escape detection.
It appears that the world is to l»o
ransacked, that these murderers may
be caught, ll is a most singular that,
with the strongly marked characteris
tics of all four members of this in
famous family, ihey have escaped de
tection so long.—American Register qf
Pari*.
And exchange says: “When you
see a bareheaded man following a cow
through a gate, and filling the air
with garden implements and profanity,
you may know that his cabbage plants
have been set out.”
What Happened at a Danbury
Deacon’s Dinner.—When you are
carrying several articles and one of
them slips, it is best not try to recover
it. An Essex street man named
Roberts was helping his wife prepare
the dinner table on Sunday, as one of
the deacons was to take dinner with
them. Roberts took, a plate of steak
in one hand and the coffee-pot in the
other, and had a dish of peas on the
arm with the steak. The wind blew
the dining-room door partly too as he
approached it, and putting out his foot
to push it back, the ^artn with the peas
moved out of plumb, and the dish
commenced to slide. A cold streak
flew up Robert’s spine, and his hair
began to raise, and lie felt a sudden
sickness at the stomach, but be dodged
ahead to save «the peas, and partly
caught them, made a wrong move, lost
them again, jabbed at them with the
coffee-pot, upset the steak dish, and in
springing back to avoid the gravy
stepped on the cat that belonged to the
fatuity down stairs, and came to the
floor in a heap, with the steak and
peas apd a terribly mad cat under
him, and an overflowing pot of scald
ing coffee on top of him. Then he
bounded up, ana stamped on the steak
dish, and picked up the other dish and
threw it out of the window, and finish
ed that performance iu time to burl the
coffee-pot and the remaining contents
after tnc cat, which was making tbe
very best time down the front stair
way. The deacon didn’t stay to din
ner. Roberts retired to the bed-room
with a bottle of sweet oil and a roll of
cotton batting, and Mrs. Roberts went
over to her mother’s to cry—Danbury
News.
Young Gent.—“Might I ask you,
miss—.—.” Miss.—“Very sorry, sir,
but I am engaged for the next three
dauccs.” Y. G.— “It is not dancing
—ah—it—is—it’s—beg your pardon,
Miss, you are sitting on my hat!”
A Portland man, caught fishing for
trout on another man’s land the other
day, completely silenced the owner,
who remonstrated, with the majestic
answer, “Who wants to catch your
trout ? I am only trying to drawn this
worm.”
A man in Griffin has sued the oity ^ a f^" r t), e ]; t tt e was assisted
for $20,000 damages, believing ^ that [ QU ^. 0 f course it must have got
amount will recompense him for being 1
locked an hour or mi " *“ 11
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A man named Moore, a represen
tative of a Philadelphia jewelry firm,
stopped over Sunday at a Northern
Vermont town. In the cool of thei
‘Saratoga trunk on the brain is now
fully recognized by the medical faculty
as a malady peculiar to the fashiona
ble women of New York. A brilliant
imbecile says that the trunks have an
advantage over the woman, inasmuch
as they wear their own locks, which
the women don’t.
A Western editor announces the
death of a lady of his acquaintance,
and thus touchingly adds: “In her
decease, the sick lost an invaluable
friend. Long will she seem to stand
at their bedside, ns she has wont, with
the balm of consolation in one hand,
and a cup of rhubarb in the other.”
Senator Scott was talking to a Penn-
sylvania Sunday school, a Sunday or
two ago, and asked the schollars why
Simon was kept in prison. One of the
teachers quietly prompted the boy to
say that it was for a hostage, and the
youth, not quite catching the words,
piped out, “He was detained for
postage.”
As a dr unken man was
along one of the streets of Novv Yor'
the other night, he saw street cars
passing with different colored lights,
and gazing at the red, yellow, blue and
green lamps, was heard soliloquizing:
“ I must” get out of this place. It’s
too sickly. They’re runninning drug
stores around on wheels.”
A young lady whose “pa struck ile”
evening he bethought himself to take a few years ago, says the Titusville
a little walk, and finally reached the \BtrM, and who has since been at a
village graveyard, Seeing the door of
a, vault ajar, he opened it and stepped
within, when a gust of wind came
and the ponderous door shut to and
the bolt lock sprang. He tried-to es
cape from his imprisonment, but in
Vain. All night long he toiled and hal-
loed, but with no effect. At last, in the
morning, he was successful in escaping,
having to pound the look open with a
heavy Btone.
A Forsyth negro has won one thou
boarding school, recently returned and
a party was given for her benefit. Up
on the bottom of her invitation cards
she caused to be inscribed: “ R. S.
V. P.,” and one was sent to an illiter
ate rich fellow who has also made his
money by bring. He'did not come
but sent a card with the letters “ D. S,
C. C.” Meeting him in the street,
she asked him what he meant. “Tell
me first what yours mea:t.” Oh
mine was French for “Response if you
onnnot accept” “Well, mine was
Gkttixu Divorces.'—The hus
band mn divoreo his wife at plea
sure and leave her the charge of
maintaining their children in the Is
land Corea. If she proves unfaithful,,
he can put her to death. 1
The first wife may be divorced t in,
Siam, but not sold, as the others may:
be. She then may claim the first*
third and fifth child, and the alter
nate'children are yielded to the hus
band. When a man desires divorce
in the Arctic regions, he leaves the-
house in anger, and does not return in
s-vcral days. The wife understands
the hint/ packs up her clothes and
leaves. ’O *:.•
A Goon Deicriftion.—A young
sailor, now oa a visit to Athens, gave-
us, this week, the following description
of a quadrille : You first heave ahead,
said he, and pass your adversary’s
yard-arm, regain your berth on the
other tack in the same order, take
vour station with your partner in line,
hack and fill, and then fall on your
keel, and bring up with your partner ;
she then maneuvers ahead, off along
side of you ; then majie sail in compa
ny with her until nearly astern of the
other line, make stem board, east her
off to shift for herself, regairi year
place the best way you can, and let go
your ancliqr.
The N. Y. Bulletin says :—“The
South, although blessed with a liberal
crop of cotton and relatively high prices,
winch should have made that section
richer by $100,000,000, has foolishly
speculated against the tendency of tho
market, and lost a large portion of the
profits of the crop. For these reasons,
the crops of 1872 have behind them
little which warrants us to expect a
large fall trade with the agricultural
classes. How far the crops of this year
will compensate for these things remain
to be seen. ■
Destroying Caterpillars.—An
excellent remedy, which has been used
on a large scale in Southern France,
consists in a dilute solution of sulphkW
of potassium, at the rate of about one-
part in five hundred. The infested
plants are to be sprinklod hy means of
a garden syringe, and it Is said that
vegetation is not in the least injured by
its application.
Tho Georgia Enterprise says there is
a man living in the Southern portion <
of Nowton county, who has caught 89
pounds of fish, killed 75 large snakes
and joined the church—ill in the Inst
five weeks. And his crop is free from
grass, at that
Henry Thomas, colored, tried to stop
up the rauzzlo of a brass-barreled
pistol with his thumb, while his other,-
hand rested oarlessly upon die trigger;.
The experiment was not. (V. success.
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