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■ales of the frontier. KjttJTH STRANGER IN THE SOUTH ■ \VEST THAN EASTERN FICTION. Banker Ralston’s Speculations-“Mol ■liter Killed a Man in the East, Wil- BlAms Killed Molliter, Crittenden ■ Killed Williams and a Snake Killed ■ Crittenden.” From the Nero York Star. ■ I honestly think that if the dime novel Biters, who draw' on their imagination for pernicious stuff which they furnish juve ■i e humanity, ever saw the wild Southwest Br lived among its people, they would have Bpl e opportunity without such necessity B 1 coin many dollars for a long time to come. m y experience as a chief deputy sheriff B New Mexico I have encountered tragedies Bnd stories of such a wild and weird de scription that if I had the imagination and Bescriptive power of a Haggard or a Steven „ W ould make me a rich man indeed. Bln the days when Ralston was the Presi ■, nt of the Bank of California, in San Fran cisco, and at the zenith of his power, and the last idea that could enter the brain a Californian was that that hank should Bui and he (tie a suicide’s death, he was ap- Broached by some mining prospectors who Had been looking for “prospects” in New and Arizona. They told him that the Pyramid range of mountains were Bidden some of the richest silver mines in world, and that all they wanted was a Httlo capital to enrich not only themselves Hut any man who would help them. Rals- Hm was the man. He advanced his money the generosity which eventually bank- Hupted the financial institution of which he Has the head, and drove him to his cruel Heath in the waters of the bay. Tliis was in the early TO’s. If one looks at H map of the Mexican frontier previous to HsfiO he will see nestling close to the frontier Hue, which divides Arizona from New Mexi- H), a little town called Ralston. There the Hanker and his friends sunk many hundreds Hf thousands of dollars seeking for metal iu ■he huge blow-outs which contained noth- Hig. It took about two years or more for Htalston and his friends to find out that they been virtually swindled. They then Hbandoned the ramp, and it. virtually laid until 1880, when Hon. B. Gratz ex-Governor of the State of Mis- and Gen. Boyle, of St. Louis, thought it eould Ik; once more resurrected as a mining centre and anew bonanza. As Hne of the means of booming the camp, it Kos determined to run a newspaper in a lit- place, which at the best of times had more than about 300 inhabitants. I ■ To the writer was intrusted the task of the new pa]>er. which, by the way, never started. Now for a specimen tragedy, which might be spread Hto a blood-thirsty dime novel: I W The St. Louis people had changed the ■biw of the camp from Ralston to Shake- This was done in order to sell more the shares of the mining company. under the old name might have sug- rather unfortunate memories to in- The Shakes]>eare Hotel, an old adobe, was the principal hotel in the Haw, and there I took up my quarters on arrival. It was kept by a poor old Ger- named Molliter, who had adopted a pretty girl named Lisa Lincoln. She about 10, and being with one exception only woman in the place, had many ad- Among others was a desperado of fH>c Curlv Bill gang, known as Charlie Wil- I |I lls - Of .course that was not his name, as every man changes his name when H? goes on the frontier. Williams had an that old Molliter was going to marry girl himself. And so one evening, “Rocksy" opened the first big saloon H Shakespeare and all the boys were iliink- H- i,! if' he approached the poor Dutchman said: >■ “Every man in this country should go Are you heeled f” ■ “No,” replied his unsuspecting victim. ■ “Drawing Iro re volver, U illiams shot deud. . Bln accordance with the beautiful system ; prevails in New Mexico, which is a paradise for thugs and murderers, was released by a justice of the on $3,000 bail. He went up to Silver and while he was drinking in the Gcn- saloon. A miner named Crittenden Hamr in mid began boasting of a rich gold he had made in the Finos Altos mnun- Williams insisted that he should tell IH'l’' ) " lie had found the gold, and take him ns partner. This Crittenden refused to |H a!1( J next morning, while on the way to H 1! unn. he looked back and saw Williams him. He drew his gun, fin'd at illiams and dropiied him from his horse. H 1" then rode off and his victim managed to ■get into town, where it was found that his Hjtntv cap had been so shattered by the bul- H 1"!. tha f amputation was necessary. This HM’illinms refused to submit to, and he lin ■Lcied along for two months and absolutely ■tlie lby inches. Three times his coffin was for him, and each time another man ■filial it. On the fourth occasion, however, H th<’coffin was occupied by the right inhabi .Hfant. Meanwhile Crittenden pursued his ■ jay to his claim, but about the time that ■ " illiams died news was brought into town ■ that he had been bitten by a rattlesnake and ■ 'lied from the effects of the poison. ■ The local paper, the New Southwest , ■ rammed up this extraordinary affair in the ■ following laconic sentence: “Molliter is said ■to have killed a man in the East. Williams ■ killed Molliter, Crittenden killed Williams, ■ a rattlesnake killed Crittenden, and the ■ taake is yet to tie heard from.” ■ I was standing in front of the Exchange ■ Hotel at Silver City one afternoon in the ■ jammer of ’fil, when a young fellow, dressed ■ like a dude, accosted me and said that he ■ Mmired very much a 45-calibre Winchester ■ rifle which he had seen in the hotel office, ■ and which he was told belonged to me. At ■ that time the only Winchesters in the coun ■ try. outside of those in the hands of a few ■ sheriffs, were the old 44 model, and he agreed ■ to give me the old style rifle and sls in ud ■ “ition for mine. As" I had two, and had I r 'Uly mid about S3O each for them, I ao ■ cepted the offer. 1 wondered very much ■ shut a perfect dude could want w ith it, and ■ judge of my surprise when I was informed ■ ‘hat this handsome, well dressed and gentle ■ ntanly young fellow was the celebrateil ■ Johnny Oliver, one of the greatest cattle B thieves that then infested the border. ■ was a curious fellow, this Oliver. ■ Hardly over -XI years of age, ho told me in ■ conversation that he was a fugitive from ■ Justice, having killed a man iu Philadelphia ■jn a barroom row. He said that from Unit ■ toy he ha I never taken a single drink of ■ inything fermented or distilled; and, ho ■ told, with the settling up of the country he ■ "’ax going to take ii]i a ranch, stock it with ■ tattle, which he would honestly purchase, ■ nrnl live anew life. He was a very good ■ example of the truth of the old saying, ■ (live a dog a bod name and hang him.” ■ He went into the State of Chihqahua to ■ l llu 'chaso cattle with a party of cowboys, ■ was recognized as a thief, followed with the ■ tattle that he had honestly bought, and bb ■ entne part)- killed, and he himself mortally ■ wounded. While lying on the ground, the ■ evil nature of the young fellow became ■ strong in death. He called out to the Mexi ■ tans in his agony, “Agua, Ai/ua! Poramor I ISF* l ” ater i water, for the love of I A Mexican approached the dying man I "'““tin cup of water to hold to lua lips, I tic) it in the act. ofperfonning this I ""rk of charity, young Oliver turned half ■ round and blew out the brains of his bene- I [“'tor. Iu a l'ew moments more he himself I was dead. I * f ‘here can beany humor aliout such a I V if '' us 'ness as the killing of a man, 1 I r°~* Johnnie Price, who was better known I to the sheriffs of Grant, comity, New Mexi- I it'’ d°hnnie Over the Fence,” possessed ■ it. Air, prtc i )e i n g in a hospitable mood I mp uu y down in Dcming, a-.ked a gcntle- I [nun of his acquaintance to take dinner with I t the hotel. Tlie soup served was very’ I “’ | u. and the guest was injudicious enough I sL''wnplaln erf the fact, whereupon, with I *"* ‘ruuu'k, “I’ll send you where you’ll get* your soup hot enough,” he shot his friend dead. Another strange freak of Mexican justice followed. Mr. Johnnie got off with three months in jail and a fine of SI,OOO. As he had no SI,OOO, and no way of earning it in the county jail, he was turned loose at the end of the three mouths. Jake Wallace, who was one of Curly Bill’s lieutenants, and has been frequently illus trated in police papers as one of the men who make tenderfeet dance to the musical accompaniment of a six-shooter, used, when he was in a good humor, to tell a very good story on himself. During the time that San Simon was the headquarters for the rustlers, it was a favorite amusement when a passen ger got off the Southern Pacific train, to make him stand drinks, dance, and other wise amuse the rustlers, miners and cow boys. One night they had a stag buile, or ball, and Jake noticed a rather well-dressed young fellow laughing at his attempt to dance a polka. He approached the tender foot and said: “Now, young feller, yer don’t, like how I dance. You just get out thar and dance yourself, and lively, too.” Jake had him covered with a six-shooter; there was nothing for the tenderfoot to do but to obey. At the end of the dance Jake asked him to come into the adjoining saloon and have a drink. The tenderfoot at once consented. Like all Western men of his type, Wallace was a dude as to his weapons, and his Colt’s revolver was ivory handled and beautifully inlaid with silver. While they were drinking the tenderfoot kept ad miring it, and wound up by asking how much he paid for it. Jake told him ho paid S3O. “Well,” remarked the tenderfoot, “I am a drummer for a gunmaker’s firm myself, and I can sell you a better pistol than that for SB.” “Bet ye yer can’t. Just ye look at it.” And Jake pulled the pistol out and handed it over to the tenderfoot. The very moment the latter’s hand closed upon it he covered Jake and exclaimed: “D—n you, you made me dance for your pleasure and now you’ve got to dance for mine.” “Did you danceT’ I asked Jake. “Of course 1 did,” he replied; “the fellow had the drop on me, an’ it was just my blamed luck. I took the feller as havin’ come from the East, when he hail just come straight from California.” > C. A. M. AT THE “TAYLORS.” Barney O’Holihan and His Wife Try to Pick Out Spring Raiment. From the Springfield Homestead. It was a few days ago I was sittin at the tabul afther atin me supper (we lias supper at our place sune afther 0 o’clok) that I put mo hand in me inside pocket ter fine me spek takuls so aster luk at the bootcher’s bill, an see if he wuzn’t skwazin himself too much on the tiggers, wen me hand wint rite down thru, an’ 1 putty near fell in mesilf. “I’ve got ter git me a nu soot.” sez I. “What’s the matter/” sez the old wumun. “I’m all kurnin ter pieces,” sez I. “Luk at me pokits all blown in, me elbows thin ez a musketer net, an git onto the chin whisk ers kumin on the Dottum uv me pants. Fokes bes takiu me fur a bloody Hitalyun ragpikker wot ain’t got no bag ter carry his rags.” “Niver mind, Barney,” sez she, “I’ll so yer up.” “So me up nothin,” sez I. “Yer’ve soed me up too much now. I’m goin down stlirate ternite ter git me a soot, an begorry I’ll hav a taylor make it fur me too.” “O Barney,” sez the ole wumun, sez she, “the taylors bes all on a sthrike. Yer can’t git nothin done. Yerd better git a reddy-made. Yer can git sum winter gar ments, now the Mothers is ciosin out, putty chape.” “Mrs. O’Hoolihan,” sez I, “ye’ve picked out me close fur me long enuf. I’m goin ter do the job fur mesilf this time.” “All rite,” sez she. “Thin I’ll go wid yer ter see yer don’t git chated. ” We wint along down the sthrate, and the ole wumun she was twichin at me all the time ter luk in the reddy-made windies an see the bargins fur 8 an tin dollars. “Stop twichin me,” sez I, “yer’ll pull me sleeves out.” Wen we got ter the taylor’s I marched in in fine dignified style, as I flatter mesilf I kin make an imprishun. “Sho me sum uv yer fine goods,” sez I. “Sum that isn’t hi-prised,” sez the ole wumun. “Shet up,” sez I, fur I was gittin kiner rili3d at the way the taylor was luaiii at me. “Wot did yer want?’ sez the taylor, sez he. “Sumtnin fur a soot,” sez I. “Der yer prefer a plane or a fancy pat tun/” sez he. “Here’s sum fine goods I just made a soot out uv fur a clerjymun. Yer ain’t a clerjymun, are yer?” sez he. ‘'Tell him yer a clerjymun an yer’ll git a diskount,” wispers the old wumun, nujin me. ” “I ain’t a clerjymun now,” sez I, modest ly, “but I may be if I keeps on. Wot’s the price?” “Sixty dollars,” sez he. “I gess I’ll luk at sum different pattun,” sez I. “Der yer want sumthin ter wear at yer bizinoss?" sez the taylor. “I do,” sez I. “ Wot’s yer biziness?” sez he. “That’s my biziness,” sez I. “Here a splindid thing in eheks,” sez he, dragging out a roll frum behind sum ware. “They’s a good size to it,” sez I. “How menny uv them cheks cud yer git on the sute?” “I cud git four on the pants, four or five on the cote an wun on the vist,” sez he. “An wot size uv a shek wud I be givin you thin?” sez I. “I cudn’t say,” sez he, “but yer cud pay me about thurrty-five dollars cash, I’m thinkin.” “Wud the soot fit me?” sez I. “If it don’t fit yer yer needn’t order it,” sez he. “How menny hip pokkets wud yer put in the pauts?” sez I. I didn’t like the man’s shtyle at all. “I’d giv yer wun,” sez I. “Is that all?” sez I. “That’s enuf,” sez he. Then the old wumum sho has to pipe in. “Does yer giv suspiiulers with um?” sez she. “No, wo don’t give suspinders with um,” sez the taylor man. “Don’t be imitatin my wife,” sez I swel lin up to him. “Yer can git a pair of suspenders with the tin dollar soot, Barney,” said the ole wummun, “an the shek is bigger.” “Der yer want the goixls? sez the tay lor, and he wlqxckod. the roll uv stuff round. “No,” I sez, gittin riled up, “I don’t want the goods. An a uignorammus that don’t kno no better than to put only wun hip pokket in a pants an no-license boginniu nox Monilay, 1 don’t want ter thrade with. ICum on, old wuinum,” sez I, an we marched out in grate shape and left tiio dure open ter shiiito uim. ... “They was a fine soot at the clothiers fur eight dollars,” sez the ole wummun. “Git that, Barney, an I’ll put yer in three hip pokkets.” “We’ll luk at it termorrer,” sez I. “I’ve had enuf uv ternite.” “Barney,” sez sho, as wo wnz sthrollin along, “wot der yer think uv that new fashion uv tliim hand-painted rubbuns with their names painted mi that the ladles bee wealin’ inslitid uv bokas, thet wesor at the opemn the uther nite? I’m thinkin uv bav in um fur me lady frinds at me sore eye Uixt .Saturday nite?” “ Yer’d betther liar um fur the min with their names painted on," sez I. “They’d be sum use thin.” “Wot der yer manor sez she. “So the hackinan wud kno ware ter dhrop ’em wen he carried um homo in the inornin, ’ sez I. ; ; Crows Piuwms of Germany has written to Princes* Beatrice, of Eiighunl. Hint the Crown Prince ami herself would be delighted to receive ii visit trom tln ir sister, but Unit they can not acknowledge the presence of Prince Henry of Uatteuber* in any other way than as a member ul Princess Bouu ico suit*. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. FREAKS OF THE INSANE. The Queer Fancies of People Who Are Crazy. From the Baltimore Herald. Doubtless one of the most interesting fields for human research is that which em braces the hallucinations of lunatics. By what psychological power insane persons are enabled to believe themselves potentates or criminals or the victims of the passions of others is a mystery; and the manifold de lusions to which such persons are subject— no two cases being alike—onlv increase what no mystagogue or physiologist has as yet fully explained. Every reader will recall the case de scribed by Dickens in “David Copperfleld” of poor Mr. Dick and the trouble lie en countered in writing his memorial of Charles 1., and tliat other case, described by Eggles ton in “The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” of the lunatic Andrew Jackson, whose head was one-half sound and the other half “tater.” Such illustrations of the freaks of in sanity are to be met with in real life every day. For some time past a reporter has been collecting information concerning the freaks of the insane patients confined at Bayview, Mount Hope and Spring Grove Asylums; and he has also been the recipient of a large correspondence from the keepers of almhouses throughout the. State, wherein liauper lunatics, subject to the milder and less violent forms of insanity, are cared for. From hundreds of eases investigated the following are selected. For obvious reasons they are given without being at tributed to the particular institutions where the victims are confined: An unfortunate, sjioken of by an alms house kw'jK'i' of one of the Western Mary land comities, imagines that he has been elected President of the United States and that he is restrained from assuming the functions of his office by his twin brother, who is endeavoring to pass himself off as the the one chosen by tlie electors. The patient is greatly pleased when he is addressed as “Mr. President,” or “Your Excellency,” and instantly becomes violent when liis right to the title is dlsputed-or ridiculed. Another similar case to the above is that of a patient who believes that he is the com mander or a vast army. One day he es cajied from his cell, and when found was standing upon a high hill a few miles from the asylum, whence a view of a large tract of the surrounding country could lie had. His right hand grasped a stick, which he wielded above his head like a sword and shouted: “Form fours 1 Drawsabris! Charge!” He imagined that he was ordering a charge of cavalry. Upon being told tuat his troops had achieved a great victory he suffered himself to be earned back to the asylum without making resistance. A familiar figure upon the streets of Balti more is an aged man with a quick, erect, military step, and wearing a “G. A. R.” cap anil blue army coat. He fancies that the civil war is still raging, and that he is home on a furlough, which is extended from time to time. His mental delusion is the re sult of a wound in the head received in the rifle-pits before Richmond. / At an asylum near the city is confined a patient who thinks he is a distinguished military officer and requires every person coming near him to make a military salute. A numerous class of lunatics are those who imagine themselves in communication with spirits. The minds of those have gen erally become diseased by religious enthu siasm and influences. One of this class firmly believes that everything he is request ed to do is in direct opposition to the tenets of the Episcopal church. When told to eat or to dress himself he refuses to obey. Another holds imaginary conversation with unseen spirits, which continually hover around him and give him an account of events in ths spiritual wuirld. Mrs. R is perfectly sane on all sub jects, save that of spiritualism. She be lieves there is a spiritual citj in the centre of the earth and that when a person dies his soul is conveyed below, where everything is the same as it is on earth. She is in the asylum under oath, waiting for her father, the angel Michael, to call her back to her former home, which she left 38,000 years ago, to relate her impressions of the asylum. Her mother is Queen Victoria. M W alw'ays fancies in the morning that he w r as the first man who lived on earth; that;he is now 1,700,000,000 years old, and has the same number of years yet to live; that the entire population of the globe are his lineal descendants. In the even ing he believes liimself to be the Saviour, and says that he was crucified three times. T B thinks he is King Solo mon. If not watched he eats and swallows hisMotlies, saying that after being received interns stomach they are fashioned into ap parel for his hunilreds of wives. A demented inmate of a county almshouse has not spoken for years. He is, during ids waking hours, W'aging a continual war fare with imaginary beings who attack him. In the Dorchester county pauperhouse is a lunatic who fauces that he is the smartest man alive, all others 1 wing fools. For hours he will speak upon some scientific subject, and, if his hearers manifest any impatience, will scold and abuse them. In the same institution is a crazy phren ologist, who delivers lectures upon his fa vorite science and insists upon giving every person whom he secs phrenological exami nation. His favorite “organ” for lecturing upou is veneration, and if his subject have it well developed he will talk to him for hours. However, he will have nothing to do with a person whose developments fail to suit him. He has written several thousand pages of a work on phrenology which he ex pects shortly Ur have published. A female patient is a county almshouse is possessed of the delusion that she spent ten years in heaven and was sent on earth as a missionary. A man in the same almshouse believes that because of his sins, which are many, he was killed by a thunderbolt from heaven; that he was raised from the dead, and put in confinement to repent. Another inmate, a female, is the owner ol* Maryland and the wife of President Lin coln! She often leaves food for the “Union gods,” and because they do not get it is greatly distressed and fears they have been destroyed. One of the patients met with atone of the eity institutions is a believer of witchcraft. The witches annoy her in every conceivable manner, but she gets rid of them by trump ing on them. Hhe ulso fancies that attempts are made to poison her, and that the resi dent physician visits her room ut midnight and stabs her. Another patient thinks the asylum is a large boarding-house tor celestial spirits and that sh# has the authority to discharge all the servants and uttenilants; also that a great many jieople are drowned in a deep well near the Imilding and that she has pre viously met every stranger who calls. Many female lunatics were met with whose afllictions appeared to be connected with an unfortunate mniTiageorlove affair, and the reporter was told that this class comprised the larger portion of the female patients. E. H. G declares tliat her husband has deserted her, after robbing tier of her jewelry, and that she wants to go to Cris iiold to see hoi - only daughter, tThis patient was never married, her family having broken off her engagement a week prior to the date set for its consummation.] Me vend unfortunate! were met with who protested that their liusliands had placed them in the asylums in order that they might marry other women. R. 'H says her husband is iqistairs, and that she is not allowed to see him. At times she becomes violent and thinks he has bwn killed and his remains sent to New Zealand for interment. F. W. M talks incessantly aliout her mother-in-law. and avows that her sister-in law has been shut up in a dungeon, where she is being torn piecemeal liy infuriated bloodhounds. Mrs. B imagines that ns the cock crows every morning three men with ho sis over their turn* come through her window and attempt to kill her child and then her self. Mrs. A— - thinks that her husband is dying for the want of projierly cookwi food, aiid she wants to go home anil attend to pre ]wiring his meals, of which his constitution requires eight a day. Mrs. MeC ’s hallucination is that her husliand is jealous of her and that he has had hereoniined and has briliod the physi cian to administer slow poison to her. Miss O— is haunted by pci-sistcnt lov en! who seek her hand in marriage, hut sho is compelled to refuse them because of a proviso made in the will of a deceased uncle. Sometimes she thinks of disobeying the be hest, and then her uncle’s ghost visits her. R. L is insane on the subject of base ball. He will often play a game by himself, and at the end always imagines that his eluti is.benton because of the unfair rulings of the umpire. Then ho becomes violent and will assault aiiy person he can. An nother base hall craiiK offers to si'll him self to the visitors for $35,000 for the sea son. H. G nbominates the face of a wom an and raves and curses when one comes near him. E. L believes that he has lost the power of locomotion and crawls on his hand and feet. N. H. E fancies that his internal anatomy is constructed of iron and en deavors to eat any substance upon which he can lay tis hands. C. T. M owns everything in the world. He makes money out. of tissue ] taper and offers it to bo distributed among the poor, of whom he believes himself to tie the only benefactor. T. H crows and flaps his arms and imagines that he is a fowl. He disowns all who claim to be his relatives and seems per fectly happy. R. H is a pugilist, and draws pic tures of men in fighting attitudes on the walls, and then punches at the pictures with his lists. Mrs. G thinks that the resident phy sician has her face and will not restore it to her, and consequently she is unable to leave the asylum. Although the above is only a partial list of the many reports of the vagaries of in sane persons in the reporter’s possession, it is believed that they will afford an entertain ing view of an interesting subject. THE DUDE AND THE BEAR. Bill Nye Again Rouses Up the Inter state Commissioners. From tlie New York World. Under the interstate commerce law a dog cannot ride on the elevated road, but this does not apply to other wild or domestic animals. This is the reason that a dude yesterday, accompanied by a young bear, weighing about forty pounds, successfully evaded the ticket taker and rode down-town on one ticket. The dude wore one of those short-waisted and sawed-off ulstei-s, commonly called Nor folk jackets, but the cub wore nothing but an air of defiance. The two sat down near each other, but the bear was restless. Finally he jumped up on the seat near a lady who was riding down town, and she went into another car. There wa.s a gixxl deal of room then near the dude, but nobody wanted any of those seats. There ought to be some ruling on this question of liear transportation. It is a matter which interests all of us. Can wild beasts and reptiles be classed as peoplo, while dogs are ruled out? Can a man accompa nied by a small dog be barred out, while the owner of an elephant or an active hornet’s nest may take his property with him on his journey'? Here was a clear case of a wild beast, whose youth alone prevented him from eat ing people, for he looked hungry enough to eat the hind legs of a railroad frog. The question to be submitted to the Inter state Commission is, whether the railways by thus leaving down the bars are not, as common carriers, to admit a gentleman ac companied by a hyena, a pet goat, an alli gator or a rhinoceros. Unjust discrimina tions cannot be made to the prejudice of any one. It is to be hoped, however, that further complications may be avoided by leaving the bears at home, and if owners can tear themselves away from their bears during business hours and leave them at home, it will do much to restore travel to its normal condition. Bill Nyk. A Painter’s Boyhood. From the London Globe. Sir John E. Millais last night distributed the prizes to the successful students of the Sheffield School of Art, and took advantage of the occasion to narrate several eventful episodes of his life. Fifty years ago his parents brought him from Jersey to South ampton and thence to London. As they approached the metroisilis on the top of a mail coach, ho remembered that he observed a great red glow in the sky wiiieh was new to him, and he usked his mother what it was. “My boy,” she said, “those are the lights of London”—the London in which lie was to sink or swim. Two days later he was taken by his mother to Sir Martin Archer Shee, then President of the Royal Academy, who received them with old fashioned kindness and jxiliteness. His mother,who was a clever, practical woman, (and here he should like to suy that he owed everything to his mother) lost not a moment in telling the President the object of their visit. She told him how their neighbors and friends in Jersey thought greatly of his talents, that he would not trust to the opin ion of friends, and so she had come to fiiui to ascertain from the best source whether it would be prudent for his father to bring him up as an artist.. The first remark which Sir Martin Shee made he should never forget. He said: “Madam, you had better bring the boy up to lie a chimney sweeper.” They could imagine that his hopes looked very black indeed Nothing daunted his mother replied: “But surely. Sir Martin, you will look at the boy’s draw ings before you decide.” Thereupon a port folio was brought up from tlie hall and opened and inspected by the President. After giviug the drawings some careful at tention the President turned to him, placed his hand upon his head and looked him steadfastly in the face, saying : “You did all these drawings yourself, my little man?” He was too frightened to answer, but the President evidently thought he was not an impostor, for turning to his mother he said emphatically: “Mo/lain, it is your dutv to bring this boy up to the profession.” Following this advice he was at once placed with Mr. Savs, in Bloomsbury, but Mr. Mass was unfortunately ill, and he must say he got little or no instruction from him. But he was placed among companions who were much older than himself, some very clever draughtsmen among the numlicr, and he improved by looking at their work and obtaining their criticism upon his own work. He eould not too strongly insist upon the advantage students might lie to one aiinthor. At Mr. Mass’ he workoil hard, very hard for so young a Isiy, and made great priigress. From that school he went into the Royal Academy as a probationer, and after passing a qualifying examination he became a student. /Vs the youngest stu dent he reirieinbrrod one duty in connection with those early days. He was told oft by the other stu dents daily to obtain their luncheons for them. He had to collect from 'lO to 60 pence from his coin] anions, and go with that nourd to a neighboring baker's and purchase as many buns. He liod an eye to business even in these days, for ho got u commission upon the transaction. He always got n bun lor himself gratis, and the good-natured Imker gave him his liest, Imn —a bath him, value twopence. In the very first year of his stud ntship he enten*d for u prize, a medal given for the bust drawing in the antique ami failed by oue vote, so that he could thoroughly sympathize with those students who were not taking prizes that night. The next year he ugam tried, mid to lux joy ami astonishment lie won a first of three prizes. Since then he had tried for many mmlalx, and he hoped they would not think it hn iii'xloxt in iiim to say that he had always won them, because it Was a simple fact. LETTER FROM GEN. JACKSON. A Hitherto Unpublished Epistle of Great Interest’ A Decatur, (Ala)., letter to tlie Missouri Republicans ays: From a gentleman who now lives In Flor ence, Ala., I obtained letters written by Gen, Jackson that are incorporated below, and also others that will hereafter appear in print, os fast as they can lie arranged for publication. The letters were written to the father of the gentleman who gave them to me. The recipient of the letters was the intimate friend, the occasional business part ner, and the political lieutenant of Gen. Jackson. He was a man prominent in poli tics, eminent in finance, renowned in state craft and exalted in society. The letters were left among his private papers in the care of his wife, and by her, till the ilay of her recent death, were treasured as relies from which links were made chaining the past to the present. They’have never Loan made public, and were given to me with the expressed condition that the name of the re cipient and donor lie suppressed. Not on ac count of any unpleasant associations con nected with their publication, but simply that the family do not desire newspaper no toriety. As to the genuineness of the docu ments I refer you to any reputable citizen of Florence. The different, letters cover a period when events were happening that formed tho early pages of our historv. England had received her breakfast of indigestible American man hood, her dinner of tho same food and was again receiving her supper, after which she went to sleep and left America in peace. This country was then in its swaddling clothes; her Institutions were infants; her finance crippled; her credit in danger; war was going on by ocean, lake and land. The Spanish were contesting the right to the Mississippi river; France possessed Ameri can territory; England was arousing the savages to bloodshed, rapine and murder; the lJey of Algiers was robbing Ameri can merchantmen and Decatur w r as sent to Tripoli to thrash the Algierian pirates. WORDS WERE THEN BEING UTTERKII that live in history and song to-day, that were uttered when order blossomed as a flower from chaos, and will end only when time slips into the bosom of eternity. The gallant Lawrence was crying from the deck of the Chesapeake: “Don't give up the ship;” Perry sent the message, “Wp have met the enemy and they arc ours;” Francis Key wrote his soul-stir ring song, “The Star Spangled Banner;” the grand idea of “free trade ami sailors’ rights” was being expounded; the Semi lioles were driven to Lake Okeechobee, and the Indians on the Canadian frontier were allowed to rove without a bridle in their murderous invasion; Dick Johnson hail slain the groat Tecumseh, and Andrew Jackson, the writer of these letters, was waging war against a foe more bloodthirsty, relentless, venomous and deadly, more wily, stealthy and dangerous,, who wore foraging upon the inland birders of advanceng civilization. The dangerous Creeks, led by the dauntless warrior chief, Witherfurd, were tievastat ing pioneer homes and committing murder ous depredations against the people of the interior. With a handful of Tennessee volunteers and the rawund unarmed militia of Georgia and Alaliainu, Jackson was sent to suppress the Creeks. That ho did so, tho battles of Callabee, of Antossee, Tallushat chee, Talladega, Ennickfau and Tohopeka' or “Horseshoe Bend” all testify. It was at Tohopeka that Chief Witherford delivered his defiant defense to Gen. Jackson in words that be spi ike the man, and that should sound, their sentiment in every ear to-day as they did then. Driven into a narrow bend from which there was no escape, he delivered himself of the following worils, as reported by Gen Jackson himself: “I am in your power. Do with me as you please. lam a soldier. I have done the white people ail the harm I could. I have fought them, and fought them bravely. If I had an army I would yet fight and con tend to the last. But I have none. My people are all gone I can do no more than weep over the misfortune of my nation. Once L could animate my warriors to battle, but I cannot animate, tne dead. My war riors can no longer hear mv voice. Their bones are at Talladega, Tallusatchee, En nickfau and Tiihoixilc. I have not surrmul ered "myself thoughtlessly. While there were chances for success I never left my post nor supplicated for ]>eaee. But me people are gone anil I now ask it for my nation and my self.” TO THE TENNESSEE TROOPS. Below will bo found a letter written by Gen. Jackson, Jan. 5, 1814: Headquarters Fort Strothers, Jan. 5. 1814. —To Col. Leland’s Regiment of East Tennessee Troops: Maj. Gen. Coke has re ported Ui me that your term of service ex pires on the 14th instant. I therefore as sume no elnim upm your services beyond tliat period. But, although I cannot demand the further continuation of your services as a right, I may nevertheless hope to obtain it when I nppeal to your patriotism. For what pur]>ose was it that you quittod your homes and penetrated tho country of the enemy? Was it not to avenge the blood of your fellow-citizens, inhumanly slain by that enemy, to obtain security in future for our extended and unprotected frontier, to signalize the valor by which you were animated? Will any of these objects have been attained by abandoning the campaign at the present period? Not one. But an opportunity shall soon lie afforded you of attaining them all. If you have really beun actuated by the feelings and governed by tho motives which, your commanding Gen eral presumes, influenced you to take up arms, none of you tail resist tho appeal nor hesitate to embrace with eagerness the op portunity which is about to bo offered you. The enemy, more than half conquered, but deriving encouragement and hojxi from the tardiness of our operations and the distrac tions which have prevailed in our camp, are again assembling below us. Another lesson must be furnished them of awful admonition. They must again be made to feel tlie weight of that power which they have so uuprovokedly incensed to war, and to know tnat though freemen may lie slow to take up arms they never finally lay them down until the objects are attained which urgoil them to the resort; but an admonitory lesson is about to lie furnished them. In less than a week I shall have tlie encamp ment to meet them. Will any of you ac company me? Are there not many among you who, at such a moment as this, would think it a sacrifice to tile feelings of honor to tiave them measured by tim computations of time? What if the period has expired for which you tendered your services, is this a consideration for the patriotic sons of Ten nessee, who came forth to redress the in jured rights of their country and to acquire for themselves a name of glory? Is it a con sideration with you when those objects have tieen lmattainecf, and when an opportunity for attaining them is no near at hand? Did such men enter the field like hireling soldiers to serve for pay alone ami U feel no further obligation to their country, themselves and their families after tho expiration of the term for which their services were engaged? Will it b* sufficient gratification to their feel ings tiiat they served out three months with out seeing the enemy, and abandoned the campaign when the enemy was in the nigh borhoou and oould lie seen and conquered in ten days. Under such circumstances, can they hereafter take any pride to themselves for the sacrifices they have made and the service they have rendered? Can they here after hear the very name of the Creek war at feeling shame and com punction of heart, and being overspread with a suffusion of blushes? You say that you only engaged for three months' service, and that period being expired, you are not bound to serve any longer. That is true, you are not tsiund by tho law to serve any longer, but are you Ixiund by nothing else? As honorable and high-minded men, do you in such an emergency as this feel no other obligations thou t hose which are imixwed by the taws? And did you enter the field only to escape disgrace? Had you not some ob ject in view —some more positive good to ob tain? It would he doing you a groat injus tice to suppose you bail not, and no less in justice to behove that you will abandon the field without contributing vour exertions to attain them. Your General is far from enter taining either Ur lief Relying upon the mo tives which governed you in quitting your homes and upon the determination with which he presumes you arc still animated,ho calculates with great confidence that many of you will remain a short time longer to aid in the conquest of the Creeks. He asks not for your services longer than twenty days, and who, for the benefit of their country and their home would not with the utmost cheerfulness submit to such a sacrifice —who in the present condition of our affairs will even reckon it as a sacrifice! The present fort must tie retained and defended when we set out to meet the enemy, and if any of you will remain for this purpose for twenty days afterwards you will render service to your country no less essential than if you marehed to the field of battle, and one which your General will as thankfully accept and acknowledge. Tuesday next is the day fixed upon for taking up the line of march, and in twenty days thereafter he calculates with great confidence on being able to complete the object of thdexoursiou and return to this place. Thus long as patriotic men he would ask you for your services, and thus long he entertains no doubt you will cheerfully afford them. I rejieat that after the 14th inst. I have no legal claims upon your ser vices, but for a short time beyond that period those services, for the reasons men tioned, will he more needed than ever; and the commanding Genera! jiorsuades himself that you will all lie anxious to return to your homes, not only with the consciousness of having done your duty, but having done something more than your duty. Andrkw Jackson, Major General. Address to Col. Sillerd’s regiment, Jan. 5, 1814. T. Li. C. •SMOKE.” A Touching Story of the Custer Mas sacre. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean When you hear this story you will see how appropriate his narno is. The small, well built terrier lying there on the Turkish rug, in a spot of sunlight that brings out the sil ver in his dark hair beautifully and makes the parting on his head like a fine lino of silk. Smoke, old boy, look up. Where did you come from? Who are you, Smoke? Do you remember the Captain’s whistle? Ah' food old fellow, good dog; of course you do! here now, lie down again and shut your eyes while I tell the young people your story and how you got your name. Gen. Custer hod started forth on that last, tragic march of his. .Smoke’s mistress, the wife of Gen. Terry's aid-de-camp, has just lieen telling me of the strange, siul morning when she and some other ladies of the camp stood and watched the line going out. Tlie sound of the march came in a peculiar, pitiful, wild music from the Indian scouts who headed the little army. They were singing their death song, with which they always go to battle, anil it must be heard to be appreciated, so weird and strange and wild it is, and while the scouts with their varied colored flags flying, ride by, crooning, chanting,singing, one can fancy a plain dark ened by contending enemies, death riding fiercely and cruelly, victor hero and there, contending grimly with life on every side. All you who have read the story know that Custer and his forces, contrary to first, arrangements, pushed on and met tin' Indians at Big Horn—meeting slaughter as well. The battle, nearly all of whose records the grave holds in il.s grasp of etor nnl secrecy, was fought, and two days later Gen. Terry’s troops, marching down upon the valley, found only the dead emblems of the fight. There lay their dead comrade silent and alone, not ft creature to lie seen t'; > r or near, hut away in the distancea shad".- outline marks the vanishing Indian foi Capt. G , Gen. Terry’s aid-de-camp, w . one of those who marked the deal and gave them burial with all the means of identifica tion imssilile, and it was while he was en gaged in this sad occupation that looking up ne beheld near him a small dog—fierce in expression for a terrier, not supplicating or wistful exactly, but bright eyed and angry. The Captain would have caressed the little creature, but it trotted away. He followed and was led to one of the Indian tents, whom, stark and cold lay the dog’s master —an Indian who had crawled there to die. It was impossible then to coax the dog into any show of friendliness, but lute in the day the Captain saw him again ap proaching—this time the oyos had lost their fierceness they wore subdued into some tiling pitiful and pleading, as disregarding the other officers, the little dog ran up to his first, friend and held out, his paw. Then the Captain discovered that a cactus thorn had been embedded in it,, and the dog, with quick instinct, had sought him to procure relief. The thorn and all the prejudices were re moved together. There was no further question of conciliation. The Captain adopted the dog then and there arid sent him home to his wif6, who, because of the fires ho had come out of on the field of bat tle, christened him “Hmoke.” Bo yon see Smoke is a sort of hero now in his Westem home, and is enjoying an old age of comfort and honor, although the de tails of Ids career before that day of battle can never be known. He is a pure blooded Scotch terrier, quick, alert and sagacious, with one peculiarity. Nothing will induce him to make friends with strangers. Loyal and devoted to his mistress ana her imme diate family—dignified and tolerant of out siders, yet he is under no circumstances to tie beguiled into demonstrations of any sort away from home, and at the suggestion oven of a caress from a stranger’s hand will rise from his reeumlient posture, give himself a little shake, and in the most dig nified manner stalk away, leaving you witli a sense of your own impertinence In having attempted'anything like intimacy with so exclusive a canine sovereign Do you hear all this. Smoke, old boy? Ah I there, you are realty enough to get up and wag your old tail and run to the window, for liorotha nnd Margarette are calling to you. Doro tha’s eyes are eager, her littlo golden rings of hair (lancing in the breeze, and I am sure Smoke realizes that she, too, is a “Child of of the Regiment." TAFFY FOR “DOCTOR” MARY. She Seeks Information About Her Sup posed $26,000 Legacy. A Philadelphia dispatch to the New York Star says: Chief of Detectives Kelly was startled from his reveries the other morning, while seated in his private room, by the en trance of a female in male attire. She was got up in the latest style. A high, glossy silk hut adorned her head, a fine gray heavy overcoat of the true masculine cut covered her body, while upon her feet she wore, as Chief Kelly termed them, regular Yankee toed shoes. In her hands she carried a silk umbrella with u . fancy oxydized head. It was Dr. Mary Walker, and she wanted a private inter view, which the official could not escajie ac cording her. To the chief, without much ado, she made known the purpose of her visit. She Haid she wanted assistance, and she knew that she could liest obtain it through the detectives. Then she went on to say that some time ago she noticed a iMU-agraph in a Chicago paper purjiortingto be a dispatch from New Orleans, which set forth that a man named Charles 11. Walker had died in the last-named city, bequeath ing ti'i.OOO to Matw Walker. • Years ago,” she said to Chief Kelly, “while living at Oswego, N. Y., I there knew a man of that name. I was then alsait graduating, and he took a great in terest in me. It is for that reason that I think it must be the same man. I have written to the Chicago pu|>ors, but I can get no reply. I have also written to the Pr iliate Court at New Orleans, but the an swer I received from there Ido not like. It is all written in one luuid, and the language is slangy. The writer says, among other things:’ ‘Somebody has been giving you taffy. 1 Then it is signed ‘Jules Verne, Clerk of Probate Court.’ I don’t like that.” The officer promised to aid her in every possible way, and she retired after bestow • ■ng a 7-inch smile upon the man behind the desk. LOTTERY. B Unprecedented attraction'! Over a Million Distributed. CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000 L.S.L. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature in 1868 for Educational and Charitable purposes, and ita franchise made a part of the present State con stitution, in 1879, by an overwhelming popular vote. tin Grand Single Number Drawing* take place monthly, and the Semi-Annual Draw ing* regularly every lx month* (June and December). “We do hereby certify that toe supervise the arrangements for all the. Monthly and Semi- Annual Drawing* of the Louisiana State Lot tery Company, and in perron manage and con trol the Drawings the iselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, with fao similes of our signatures attached, in its adver tisements." Commissioners. We the undersigned Banks anti Bankers loiU pay all Prizes draum in the Louisiana State Lot teries which maybe presented at our counters, J. H OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat’l Bank. PIERRE LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat’l Bank. CARL KOHN, Pres. Union National Bank. GRAND SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING In the Academy of Music, New < )rlearis, TUESDAY, June 14, 1887. Capital Prize, $300,000. 100,000 Tickets at Twe.it y Dollars each. Halved $lO, Quarters $5, Tentlis $2, Twentieths sl. LIST OF PHIZES. 1 PRIZE OF SBOO,OOO is SBOO,OOO 1 PRIZE OF 100,000 Is 100,000 1 PRIZE OF 50,000 is 50,000 1 PRIZE OF 25,000 is 26,000 2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are 20,000 5 PRIZES OF 5,000 are. 25,000 25 PRIZES OF 1,000 are 25.000 100 PRIZES OF 500 are 50,000 200 PRIZES OF 800 are 60,000 500 PRIZES OF 200 are 100,000 A!*!'ll< X I MAT ION PRIZES 100 Prizes of SSOO approximating to SBOO,OOO Prize are 50,000 100 Prizes of SBOO approximating to SIOO,OOO ITize are 90,000 100 Prizes of S2OO approximating to . $50,000 Prize are 20,000 TRI.MINAI. PRIZES. 1,000 Prizes of SIOO decided by .$300,000 Prize are 100,00# 1,000 Prizi*H of SIOO decided by.. SIOO,OOO Prize are 100,000 8,130 Prizes, amounting to $1,066,000 For clubs rates or any further information apply to the undersigned. Your handwriting must lie distinct and Signature plain. More rapid return mail delivery will be assured by your enclosing an envelope liearing your full ad dress. Send POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Or (lent, or New York Exchange in ordinary letter. Currency by Express (at our expense I ad dressed Al. A. RAIPHIN. New Orleans, l,a. or M. A. DAPPIIIN, Washington, D. (1. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK. New Orleans, La. RFMPMRFR That the presence of Oen r\ CL IVI L_ IVI DL_ l\ era ig Beauregard and Early, who are in charge of the drawings, is a guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity, that the chances are ali equal, and that no one can possibly divine what number will draw a Prize. REMEMBER that the payment of all Prizes is <JlAll ANTHER BY FOI K N ATIONAL IIA.NRB of New Orleans, and the Tickets are signed by the President of an Institution, whoso olmrUire’d rights are recognized in the highest Courts; therefore, beware of any imitations or anonymous schemes. RAILROADS. South 'Florida RailroadL Central Standard Time. ON and after SUNDAY, March 20, 1887, train* wifi arrive and leave as follows: ♦Daily. + Daily except Sundays, JDaily ex cept Mondays. Iziave Sanford for Tampa • and way stations *110:80 a m and *N 4:40 p m Arrive at Tampa.. *i 3:40 p m ami *N 8:50 p m Returning leave Tam pa at *1 9:30 a m and *5 8:00 p m Arrive at Sanford *1 2:90 p m and *N 1:00 *ta Is-ave Sanford for Kissimmee and way stations at t6:oopm Arrive at Kissimmee at t?:00nm Returning leave Kissimmee t 6:25a ra Arrive at Sanford t 6:20 a m •llSteamhoat Express ** West India Fast Mail Train. BARTOW BRANCH. OAILT. Lv Bartow Junction.ll:2s am, 2:10 and 7:15 p m Ar Bartow 12:28, 810 and 6:15 p in Returning Lv Bar tow 9:50 a ra, 12:50 and 5:80 p n* Ar Bartow Junction 10:50 a ra, 1: to and 0:80 p m PEMBERTON KERRY BRANCH. Operated by the South Florida Railroad. •Leave Bartow for Pemberton Ferry and way stations at 7:lsam Arrive at Pemberton Ferry at 9:45 a m •Returning leave Pemberton Ferry at . 3:25 p m Arrive at Bartow at 8:85 p m ILeave Pemberton Ferry 7:004 m Arrive Bartow 11:85pm tLeave Bartow 1:10 p m Arrive Pemberton Ferry 5:15 p n| SANFORD AND INDIAN RIVER R. R. Leave Sanford for Lake Charm and way sta tions tlOilAam and 3:lopm Arrive Lake Charm... 11:45 ain and 6:40 pm Returning— I-eavo Lake Charm 8:00 a m and 12:80 p ra Arrives at Sanford 7:40 ain and 2:10 p m SPECIAL CONNECTIONS. Connects at Sanford with the Sanford and Indian River Railroad for Oviedo and points on Lake Jesup, with the People's Line ana Deßary- Itayn Merchants’ Line of steamers, and J. T. and K. W. Ry. for Jacksonville and all Intermediate pointsou the St. John's river, ard with steamer*, ror Indian river and the Upper St. John's. At Kissimmee with steamers for Fort* Myers and Bassinger and points on Kissimmee river. ■ At Pemberton Ferry with Florida Southern Railway for all points North and West, and at Bartow with the Florida Southern Railway for Fort Meade and points South. STEAMSHIP CONNECTIONS. Connects at Tanqia with steamer ‘ Margaret” for Palma Sola, Braldeutown. Palmetto, Mana tee arid all points on Hillsborough and Tampa Bays. Also, with the elegant mail steamships “Mas cotte” and "Whitney,” of the Plant Steamship Cos, for Key West and Havana. Thru ugh tickets sold at all regular stations to points North, East and West. Baggage checked through. p.iKMeugers for Havaua can leave Sanford ou Limited West India Fast Mail train at 4:40 p m (stopping only at Orlando, Kissimmee, Bartow Junction, Lakeland and Plant, City), Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, connecting same even ing with steamer at Tampa. WILBUR McCOY. General Freight and Ticket Agent. HOUSEKEEPING goods. J. E. FREEMAN. A. H. OLIVE*. Freeman & Oliver, FURNITURE, Matting, Refrigerators, Stoves, Crockery and House Furnishing floods. 192 BROUGHTON STREET. I furniture Stored During Summer Months. 11