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RAIL ROBBERS.
Train Plundering as a Scientific Pro
fession.
Prom fits Cincinnati Enquirer.
During the carnival of chaos that fol
lowed the - downfall of the Mexican Em
pire the border counties of Texas were in
fested by whole regiments of professional
bandits —“patriots/’ all of them, and using
their pistols only to “defray expenses,” as
the Salvation Array would say. In Came
ron county, near the Rio Grande, the firm
of Cortina & Bros, was doing a wholesale
business in patriotism of that sort, till one
day the senior member of the concern was
arrested on a charge of having cribbed the
horse of tho widow 11' ,an American
lady who had been visiting on the Mexican
side of the river. The next day a represen
tative of the Matamoros Ranchero called at
the headquarters of the firm.
“It’s an infernal piece of blackmail!”
cried Cortina, junior, “hut mark my word,
“we’ll make them sorry for it. There’s
some mistake about it, sure,” he added after
a while. “If that hail been my brother
lie would have kidnaped the old lady, too.”
By a similar line of logic a Mexican ex
pert would probably arrive at the conclu
sion that no countryman of his could have
had a hand in the recent Texas train rob
beries. On the first ocasion the passengers
were not molested at all. The last time
they wen-let olf with an optional contri
bution. That latter transaction, especially,
would have struck a Spanish-American
critic as wholly unprofessional.* A wealthy
candidate for the Presidency of the Repub
lic might content himself with stopping a
train for tho purpose of “removing” a po
litical rival, but a specialist should have
business experience enough to know that
only a thorough and impartial search can
do justice to all parties concerned. A sin
single deviation from that rule once lost
Maj. Jeaningros tho prize of a perilous ex
pedition for the capture of an army chest,
which a disguised paymaster managed to
smuggle through in a shabby-lookiug tool
box.
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
When the first regular train was put on
the Trans-Cordilleras line from Vera Cruz
to Pueblo the cavaliers of the road scruti
nized the phenomenon with a glad surprise,
at. once appreciating the business advan
tages of the novel invention. Stage
coaches could take to the woods or change
tlieir route altogether (the Vera Cruz dili
gencia having thus dodged the best-laid
traps), but the preordained track of a train
promised to raise interception to the rank
of aa exact science. From November, 1869,
to May, 1870, the passenger train of the
main line was robbed about once a week,
and by some queer coincidence nearly al
ways on “crowd days,” no matter how cun
ningly the depot agent might have smug
gled in his passengers in tho bustle of mis
cellaneous traffic It seemed clear that the
“patriots” must have an inside spy, but a
constant change of employes evidently
failed to diminish their sources of informa
tion. Railway patrols were equally una
vailing. A force of mounted rangers
scoured the country in every direction,
south and north of the track, but that track
led through a rougher mountain country
than the eastern division of the Denver and
Rio Grande road. Regular train guards
would have strained the resources of the
impecunious company, but had at last to be
adopted as a lesse - ."il.
FRUITLESS PRECAUTIONS.
Uniformed beef-eaters to the number of
twenty and upward were hauled to and fro
on the line of the most dangerous section
(from Plan del Rio to Amozo?) ;but the raid
ers got their work in all the same.' Twice
the westbound train was robbed in the open
prairie within gunshot of a regular station:
twice the track of the lower section was ob
structed in a way that prevented the trains
from meeting at the dinner station, thus
putting the eastbound passengers at the
mercy of the bandits, and on one occasion
the car containing the beef-eaters was un
coupled and left on the track, while the rest
•of the train pursued its ambushed way in
charge of an improvised conductor.
A COUNTERPLOT.
But as the excess of all evils tends to sug
gest the means ot relief, the afflicted offi
cials at last bethought themselves of invok
ing the aid of the contra-guerilla, “mounted
detectives,” as we might define them, a
quasi-organized body of frontier guards,
subsidized by the general government and
employed chiefly in the neighborhood of the
Indian reservations south and southwest of
the Rio Grande. The leader of those rangers
at that time engaged in guarding the mines
of Chihuahua, which has been repeatedly
raided by the moss-troopers of Paneho Par
ras, but after meeting the agent of the
Railway Commissioners he had a private in
terview with his ablest lieutenant, a noted
partisan of the Juarists, and a ready cham
pion of every desperate enterprise. “The
Parson” (El Cura), as his soldiers called
him, in allusion to his favorite disguise, at
once closed the bargain, but stipulated for
absolute soerecy and carte-blancne privilegs
lor all preparatory arrangements. Three
days after El Cura and a picked posse of his
sharp-shooters embarked for Vera Cruz un
der various disguises. During tiie first half
of May, I'jTO, the spies of the bandits had
no reason for special apprehensions. Anew
brakemau or two was added to the force of
the freight department, the baggage master
of the passenger train was reccomended for
a position in the custom house, and his suc
cessor was temporarily accommodated with
several assistants; anew huckster appeared 1
os tiie platform of the dinner station and
seeiN.'d busy enough to justify his engage
ment , two partners, but the trains came
and went as usual; the beef-eaters were
again outwitted, and on May 18 n train was
for the last timo stopped in the open vega
and ransacked from end to end.
FLYING ARTILLERY.
That outrage furnished a welcome pre
text, and tin; uo* rluy the train started out
with a howltfer cmispicui usly mounted on
tin* weaker-deek ol the tender. On that
isolated redoubt the commissioners might
a- well have mounted a wash tub, for in the
absence of an ordinance guard there was
nothing to prevent tiie robber from collar
ing the engineer and pitching his battery
overboard; but tho arrangement served as
an excellent blind; an innovation of some
kind bud been visibly adopted, and the pa
triots might la* expected to take their meas
ures accordingly. Those measures were
simplified by another equally futile ehungo
of programme. The old train guards (the
beef-eaters) were now transposed to an open
platform ear, drawn by a special engine and
lollowing the train at a distance varying
from a hundred yards to half a mile; for
nothing seemed now cosier than to run the
main train ahead and detain the rear-guard
by some sudden destruction.
A BAITED TRAP.
Traffic of some sort or other seemed, nev
ertheless, to increase, for tho passenger
trains now began to carry the double bag
gage car, and modified their schedule, ao,if
their overload made it diffleultto run the up
grades on time. The rear guard, too, then
modified their speed, so much, indeed, that
they often remained a full mile behind. For
nearly a week tiie little howitzer rode tri
umphant, and the bandits themselves seemed
to enjoy the absurdity of the phenomenon;
but on the long run there was no resisting
that combination of business chances, and
on May ‘ill a big tree was suddenly dropped
athwart the track of the rear train, just
whim the front train was making good time
on u down grade. At the end ol that grade
a red flag was tluteritng in the breeze; a
blockade hove in sight, and the train came
to a full stop.
EL CURA’S AMBtfsn.
“O Dios) Ladronee!Bandits!” Yes, here
they came, twenty, thirty, half dozen of
them pistol in hand, emerged from Behind
the obstruction or stepped from the shadoof
Coileea.mg thicket*.
“Alaxo! Out and down, all of you!
came tiie fully exp et**.l command, which
the trainmen otieyisl with perhaps rather
suspicious alacrity, for they were ordered to
halt and then advance one at a time.
“What'* in that third cart”
biiall we open it/”
“Never mind now. Out with your boodle,
turn out your pockets, and be quick about
it!"
The search began.
“Hury up • Here comes the train's guard
yelled out one of the brakemen.
“Who was that’ Hush up, you lunatic,”
growled the leader, not, though, without an
uneasy glance to the rear. “Here, niv
men, stand together here?” —fearing
that some of his cut-throats might take the
alarm and run. “This way, all of you!”
Just up to the programme, for in the next
second the door of ear No. .3 began to gape,
and a moment aftor a crash of musketry
turned the scene into a Calx-1 of yells and
confusion, and before the robbers could an
swer the shrieked commands of their leader
twelve of them were rolling in their blood
and the rest rushed for the woods in wild,
speechless terror. Volley after volley sent
forth its storm of balls and slugs, and
when the beef-eaters at last did come,
though at a double-quick, the work was
done, and El Cura, note-book in hand, was
standing on the track, while his men
dragged up the corpses or emptied their pis
tols into the brain of some crippled wretch.
FRUITS OK VICTORY.
For the next six months the security of
that road was equaled only by the populari
ty of its securities, aud the stockholders de
cided to push its terminus to the capital of
the Republic. Some twenty miles west of
Pueblo the Vega is tolerably' level, but then
a second mountain range begins to rear its
ramparts of cliffs and chaotic rocks; and as
soon as the first train had entered that laby
rinth of the wilderness interception became
chronic again, and for nearly a year the
plunder of every rich cargo proved that the
patriots had once more established a perfect
system of espionage. They scorned to know
the contents of the mail bags, aud bnllion
had to be shipped under the protection of
such expensive escorts that the rate of ex
change exceeded that of every other civil
ized or semi-civilized country of the world.
More than once, indeed, the cavaliers were
routed by the timely arrival of a patrol,
but, time permitting, they rarelv failed to
indemnify themselves by an exhaustive
search. They would rip up bundles and
saehols, empty the contents of every trunk,
make passengers strip to the skin, and in
dobuttul cases take their wardrobe along to
search it in the leisure of their bivouacs.
Their ferreters seemed to have developed a
sixth sense for the discovery of hidden val
uables, but for all that one little Jew from
Vera Cruz once managed to baffle their vig
ilance.
AN OUTWITTED OUTLAW.
Just as they entered his car he turned
in his seat, an with an appearance of
anxious dispatch proceeded to squeeze a
small satchel behind the shutters of the
next window. They could not help noticing
his maneuver, and promptly ordered him to
stand up and fold his hands. When they
collared him in due course, their spokesman
at once turned to that window.
“What’s this here? Tn- to bent us, you
poor sinner, did you? Legale—hold him,
let me see that bag; aha! banknotes; I
thought so.”
“Oh, don’t! don’t!” wailed the poor sinner,
“that’s my children’s monev: they will
starve; they will die; my poor little girls.”
“Girls, you say? Send them this way,
and we’ll take care of them,” was the
brutal reply. “How much is that, any
how?”
“Oh Lord, senor, all I have in the world;
*512.000 in American money—sl2,3oo, I
think.”
“Is that so?” fingering over the notes.
“Yes, more or less; let’s see your pockets
now."
A handful of silver was turned out, bit
by bit—some $lO, perhaps.
“Oh, Senor, you are surely not going to
take my last penny?”
“D —n it, no!” broke in in the leader.
“Let him keep that, and his watch, too.
This will do us,” shoving the roll into his
grip-sack. “Good boy!" with a slap on his
“Next!” with a complacent grin, which a
week or so later was probably seen on the
other side of his face, when he ascertained
that those “American bank-notes" had been
issued by the Confederate government. A
package of less irredeemable securities had
in the meanwhile been sticking safe under
the cushion of the wily passenger, who had
taken that satchel along for the special pur
pose of diverting attention from the main
stake.
YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.
An Eight Year Old Boy Plays Incen
diary in Brooks County.
From the Quitman (oa.) Free Press
Our readers will doubtless remember a no
tice which appeared in these columns three
weeks since in regard to the burning of
Stonewall Academy in the Morven district,
and subsequently an account of the burning
of another house near by into which Mr.
Williams had moved his school. Suspicion
had been directed to a little son of Mr. Jack
Croft, who lived near the school houses, on
Mr. Golding's place, but the evidence against
him was insufficient. The boy was caught
on Monday morning last, by Mr. C. C. Mc-
Rae and Mr. Hill, while attempting to burn
the third house into which Mr. Williams had
again moved.
It is the most singular case of youthful de
pravity that ever occurred in this section.
The boy is only 8 years and 5 months old and
is very small for his age. He confesses the
whole thing and lias given a detailed ac
count of the proceedings. He burned the
academy building by setting fire to a pilo of
dry pine saplings that were learning against
the chimney corner The second house was
burned by setting tire to one of the sills,
which was pitch pine. He went to lied last
Sunday night determined to burn the third
house, and prepared himself with a bundle
i of light wood splinters and a box of matches,
which he secreted under his pillow. The last
building was about a mile from the txiy’s
home and had to be reached by a small path
or trail through the woods. The boy got
out of bed at about 3 o'clock in the morning
and started for the third time, determined
to again apply the incendiary torch. The
night was (lark and rainy and most children
of his ago would not have dared to venture
out of doors at such a time under such sur
roundings; but nothing daunted by forbid
ding circumstances this youthful but de
praved boy went boldly forth prepared with
matches aud splinters and filled with a
strange determination for one so young.
The path which the ltoy took forked about
half way Itetweon his home and the new
school house, and by some singular coinci
dence the child took the wrong fork, which
carried him to the home of Mr. Hill, a gen
tleman who only a few minutes before had
left the school house, where he had been on
watch for the iwandiary during the night.
W hen the boy reached Mr. Hill’s the rain
was [louringdown and the night was very
dark. He evidently thought he had reached
the school house and when near the building
struck a match. Mr. Hill Ices two faithful!
and powerful dog* which were alarmed by
the striking of the match, and detecting tho
presence of a stranger, made a simultaneous
attack; one in the rear and the other in front.
The boy was cornered and finding himself
about to be torn to pieces, shouted loudly
for help. Mr. Hill come, drove off the dogs
and carried the child indoors. Ho still car
ried his splinters and matches, but told sev
eral stories to account for his apjxarance at
Mr. Hill’s. One was that he went out the
evening before to look for the cows and bad
been out nil night. Finally, however, he
made a full confession to Mr. Griff Golding,
and gave the details as above stated, but
more fully.
The family leaves the county in compli
ance with the following resolution adopted
at a public meeting:
We the citizens of this neighliorhood have
adopted the following resolution to-wit;
That Mr. Jack Croft, and his family leave
! this community within three days nrid not
locate again nearer than twenty-five or
thirty miles to the place of his present resi
denee, and that the meaning and intention
is that they remain permanently away,
and that said Croft agrees to these terms.
Imitated Constantly
But never equaled. Colgate’s exquisitely
perfumed Cashmere BouuueL Toilet JSoau.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. JULY 5. 1887.
KITTLE CREEK'S LONE FISHERMAN.
The Trouble That Lye Goodyear's Bear
Story Heaped on His Mind.
From the New York Sun.
Harrisburg, June 12.—1 t was drawing
toward evening on one of the very rainiest
of the many recent very rainy days we had
had up among the mountains on the head
waters of Kittle Creek. Although it was
the month of warmth and roses, the weather
required a blazing fire in Maj. Haight's
cabin fireplace. A yellowish fog, such as I
had never seen hovering at such an eleva
tion before, where such fogs as occasionally
visit these hills are white and fleecy and
ephemeral as dew, had formed around the
south border of the ground that st retches
away from the edge of the Major's pine
bordered clearing, and was climbing, elose
rnnked and slowly, up the bold escarpment
of Big Oak Knob, like an army storming a
height. Through the diagonal lines of fall
ing rain the edge of the pine forest could be
seen but dimly from the cabin window, and
the spiteful storm seemed to begrudge even
that dismal outlook, so savagely did it dash
and beat against the small and grimy pane.
The utter cheerles.snoss.of the prospect with
out had penetrated the cabin, and neither
the efforts of the blaze on the hearth nor the
influence of an opaque bottle that stood on
ttie tablo between a teacup and a green glass
tumbler had been able to dispel it. So the
Major and I hail sat in gloomy silence for
nearly an hour, when suddenly he broke the
silence and said;
“Do ye b’lieve th’taman 75 years old, an’
with only one leg an’ one arm, would tell a
lie?”
The inquiry was a startling one under the
circumstances. It took pie so by surprise
that I said nothing and stared blankly at
the Major.
“Do ye b’lieve it or not?” he repeated, tak
ing up the bottle and the teacup and exact
ing its duty from each.
“Well, Major,” I said, “that’s a hard ques
tion to answer, not knowing—”
“I see,” interrupted the old woodsman.
“Ye don’t know the man, never see him, ail’
never heerd him talk. Wall, ez this mois
tua’ can’t keep a wringin’ itself out many
days longer, ’cordin’ to the way that fog's
bankin’ of itself down vender ’long the pond,
an’ the way that wind’s a beginnin’ to slosh
around ’mongst them pines, an’ ez we won’t
hev no time to do it arter this weather
clears, fer vv’en it does clear thuz pointer to
be some all-sloppin prime picker’! fishin’ in
that pond, we'll jist slide over through the
woods to Lijo Goodyear’s an’ spend the
evenin’. Lije is the man I’m puzzled on.
He’s told me sumpin’ at least ev'ry year for
thirty years, an’ I can’t make up my mind
wutlier lie’s lyin’ ’bout it or not. W’en he
fus’ told me it I thort sure he were a-stretch
in’ of it pooty vlurn taut, ’cause then he
wore only 45, an’ had both legs an’ arms.
W’en he got ketched in a b’ar trap by his
right arm, twenty years ago, an’ had to stay
ketched fer three days ’fore any one kiin
along to take him out, an’ then had to hev
his arm cut off, I says, to myself, if ever a
man had the habit of lyin’, this orter cure
him, sure, by guns. So I went over to see
Lije. ne were nussin’ his arm, or rather
the place whor the arm had ben, an were
cut up giner'ly wuss’n a b’ilt ham at a stun
frolic. But, by gum! he kim straight to the
dough trough with that story, an’ never
flinched a muscle nor missed a word. Still
I couldn’t get it jist squar in my mind w’at
to think about it. I got to tossin’ up pen
nies to see w’at I orter set down ns the pro
per heft to give Lije an’ the yarn. I’d say,
‘Here goes! If it comes down head, Lije is
a liar. Tails, he hain’t.’ Wall, sometimes
it’d come down heads an’ sometimes it’d
come down tails' an’ so I see th’t it wouldn’t
lie fair to jedge Lije by tossin’ a cent, an' I
were left flounderin’ ’roun’ in the swamp
hole o’ onsartintv, ez ol’ Deacon Slocum
used to say in his prayer. So I give up
thinkin’’bout it all, an'used to go an'hear
Lije’s story w’enever I felt like it. Say, hez
ye noticed anything absent-minded or kin-
der gone away ’bout me lately?”
“1 haven’t, Major,” 1 said.
“Wall, tli' lies been!” exclaimed my host.
“Las’ December Lije Goodyear got ketched
ag’in. ‘Twa’n’t his arm this time, an’
’twa’n’t in a b’ar trap. He sot down on
Jerry’s runaway to wait fur a deer, an’ fell
asleep. The deer kim along, an’ ez it went
slashin’ through the brush it woke Ljje up.
His gun were layin’ on the groun’ ’langside
o’ him, an’ he made a grab fer it an’ ketched
it by tlie bar’l. He give ita yank, the ham
mer struck agin a stun, or sumpin’, an’ the
gun went off. The ball jist plowed through
Lije’s knee, an’ they carried him hum an’
cut his leg off. Then I got to thinkin’ ’bout
that yarn ag’in. ‘Lije is 75 year old,’ I says,
‘an’ drawin’ ’long to’ard the time w’en the
hunter that never misses his mark will draw
bead on him an’ fotch him down. If Lijo
tells mo that story now, with one leg olf
an’ ono arm off, an’ him 75 year old, how
kin I helpb’lievin’ him? An’ if he don’t tell
me it ag’in, then he’s ben the most onmerci
ful liar fer thirty years that ever tramped
these woods sonee the days of—of—oh! you
know them fellers I mean. Them two fel
lers I use to hear Deacon Slocum preach
about. They got struck with a shower o’
sulphur an’ brimstun’, or turned inter salt
or sumpin’, on ’count o’ their disposition to
lie. Them's the fellers I mean.
“Wall, arter I thort Lije must be gittin’
’long pooty smart I went over to see him.
He saiil he were poorly, an’ he looked it. I
sot thar for an hour an’ more, au’ Lije didn't
seem to see the finger board ez p’inted him
in tiie direction o’ that story. It made me
feel bad, but it were a great, relief to my
mind. ‘By gum!’ I says, ‘Lijo is a liar!’
Then I sot a spell longer an’ got up to go,
w’en if Lije didn’t begin with that story jist
ez solemn ez if he were only 25 year old,
with both arms an’ legs, an’ were preachin’
a funer’l samion, then yo kin bait me on a
coon trap. He told it jist the same to me
ez ho told it to me thirty year ago, showin’
me how he ketched one o’ the b’ars with one
hand by the throat an’choked it till it weak-
ened, whiie he kicked the life outen the
others, an’ . But hoi’ on! I’m a leetie
ahead o’ my story. W’en Lije fits’ begun to
tell me that story in 1857 he used tu show
ino how he grablxid one o’ the b ars by the
throat with iiis right hand, an' kicked an
other one to death with his left foot, both at
the same time. Arter he lost hisyight arm,
w’en he’d come to that place in his story,
he’d say: ‘Ye’ll ’scuse me, Maje, but ye
must ’member,’ says be, ‘th't ’twere with
iny right hand I choked the b’ar—this hero
way—but now I’ve got to show ye with my
left hand,’ he says, ‘how I done it. Ho, he’d
say, ‘p’tend this' were ray right hand,’ and
then on he’d goon with tiis story. An’ that
alluz puzzled me. I’d say to myself tii't if
the man were lyin’ he wouldn’t be so blame
conscientious as to ’sense hisself fer havin’ to
use his left arm, ’cause he didn’t hev no
moro’n an inch an' a half o’ right arm.
Wall, it happened th’t the leg he shot off
were the left un, an’ w’en he were tellin’ me
the story arter that, an’ kim to whur ho
kicked the b’ar, he’d say to mo, ez cool an’
e’lected ez could be: ‘Maje,’ he’d say, ‘I
kicked the ever!ostin’ breath outen that b’ar
with my left leg, but ye’ll hev to ’souse
mo fer astin’ yo to let me show ye
with my right un how I done it,’ he’d say,
‘bein’ ez iny left un is planted up thar on the
ridge. ’
“Wall, I were tbrow’d inter the swamp
hole o’ onsartinty ag’in, an’ I’ve ben flound
erin’thar ever m nee. Now von come’lung
o’ me, an’ we’ll go spend the evenin’ with
Lije. He’ll tell that story, an’ you kin jedge
mebby by hearin’ on it wutlier it’s a lie or
wuthor it hain’t. I don’t keer wuther it is
or wuthgr it hain’t,but I want to know sum
pin’ sure bout it, one way or t’other, or I’ll
DUst!”
We found Lije Goodyear sitting by his
fireplace in a big chair. His one remaining
arm was in a sling. His sole surviving leg
was done up in bandages and propped care
fully on a stool. His wife was frying pork
for supper.
“Why, Lije,” said the Major in surprise,
after wo wore seated by the fire, “w’at’s up
wi’ ye now?”
"Ant the ol’ woman?” said Lije, in a voire
so deep and strong that one could
scarcely help wondering what its volume
and compass must have been when ita
owner was in full [xjunession of all his mem
bers.
The old woman didn't wait to be asked.
hui. in a thin and squeaky voice that con
trasted comically with that of her husband,
or what was left of him, said:
“Lije is keerless —tcr’ble keerless. Never
see setoh keerlossness. If 1 had a young un j
2 year old, an’ it were ez keerless ez Lije is,
I’d lam the keerlessness outen it. Tb’ huin't
no ’souse fer setoh keerlessness. He must
ha’ ben liomed keerless. Needn't tell me
th’t he’d ha’ ben ketched in that b’ar trap if
he wn’n’t keerless. An’ how’d he shoot ins
logoff? Keerless. An’ he hain’t satisfied w,’
leavin’ his arm in a liar trip an’ a peggin’
away at his leg wi’ a charge o’ buckshot —-
yes, it were buckshot, too! Yi can t tell
me, Liie Goodyear, th’t a ball could ha’
chawcrt up that log o’ your’n like It was!
’Twere buckshot! Ho wn’n't satisfied even
wi’ peggin’ away at his leg wi’ a load (•’
buckshot ez if he were pluggin’ a doer an’
they a fetohin’ of him hum all bunged up
an' not wuth a cent fer nothin’, jist in pig
killin’ time, too, an’ me up to niv ears m
sassage meat an’ lard an’ headcheese! No!
That wa’n't showin’ enough yet how law
less he could be', and so w’at does he do but
up an’ prance ’round t’oeher day on Ins
crutch out in the yard while I were to the
barn a milkin’ an’ the groun’ ez slippery ez
ico wi’ the rain wo’d been a havin’. W’en I
kim in I found him on one side o’ the door
stun an’ the crutch on t’other. People that’s
lceerful alluz goes out .setoh days wi’ one leg
an’one arm an’ a hiek’ry cnitcli. I’ve alluz
noticed that pertic’lar. I fetch him in, an’
he’s been ’joyin’ of hisself ever sence with his
one arm broke an’the las’ leg he’s got sprain
ed. Soon ez he gits rid o’ the arm an’ leg
he’s got left, then he gointor gradually shed
his ears an’ cunjer up some slick way to do
without his eyes. He’s durn eonsid’rit, Lije
is. He don’t wanter leave me u widder all
in a lump an’ to wunst, ye see, but wants
to kinder slide off by easy stages, a slice at
a time.”
The Ma jor afterward told me that he had
forgotten to mention that Mrs. Lijo was a
“corker.” We sympathized with Lije, and l
sat for two hours, without his men
tioning the story that troubled the Major
about Lije’s veracity. The woodsman
grew impatient mid restless. Finally Lijo
said:
“I had a story I wore gointor tell ye,
Maje, but I can’t do it.”
“Not the one ’bout tho b’ars!” exclaimed
the Major in dismay.
“Yes, the one ’bout the b’nr,” said Lije.
“Why can’t ye tell it, Lije!” asked the
Major, appealingly.
“Why can’t I tell it!” exclaimed Lije.
“Sizzlin’ ginger! kin I show ye how I
clutched the throat o’ one o’ them b’ars with
my right hand an’ shetits caloric squar’ off,
wen I hain’t got nary a hand to show ye
how’twere done? Kin I lay it down to ye
how I kicked the life outen one o’ the other
b’ars with my left leg, w’en my left leg is
three foot under ground, an’ my right un is
laid up stiffer’n a fence rail an’ sorer’n the
earache? No, I can’t! I can’t do it! I never
know’d afore w’at it were to be a cripple,
Maje, but now Ido.”
The Major never spoke a word on
the way back to the cabin, but when
we got in and he stirred up the fire and
shoved the opaque bottle across the table,
he said:
“I’m inter the swamphole o’ onsartinty up
to my nock, an’ if Lije Goodyear dies afore
someone else hears him tell that story an’
eases my mine by jedgin’ of it I’m a goner
from the Gone Woods, sonny, an’ th’ haiu’t
no help fer me!”
SOME TALL HOTEL BILLS.
The Ashes of the Great Senatorial Fight
in Albany Last Winter.
From the New York Evening Nun.
Two racy bits of gossip concerning the
late Senatorial contest in this State have
been whispered around hero during tho last
few days, having been brought out by the
recent presence here of Senator Hiseock and
ex Senator Warner Miller, who are both
interested in the stories. The first
story is that after' Levi P. Mor
ton had turned his foreos over to
Hlscock and succeeded in electing him
to the Senatorship it was proposed by Mor
ton’s friends that Hiseock and his friends
should pay Mr. Morton’s hotel bills. To
this Mr. Hiseock readily assented. His own
enpense in that direction had been very
light, probably not exceeding $1,500 or
$2,000. He is worth half a million dollars
and could agree to pay a large sum of
money after securing the great prize. It
was several days liofore Mr. Morton’s bill of
expense at the Dolavan and Kenmore hotels
was made up. It amounted to $12,400, and.
when it was presented to Mr. Hiseock he
protested that the amount was too large
and kicked at its payment, and finally went
back on his agreement. Mr. Morton paid
the bill and smothered his chagrin.
Wie other story has reference to Sc nab r
Warner Miller’s expenses at Albany. A,
syndicate of politicians and wire-pullers was
made up to run his canvass. It consisted of
Congressman George West of the Saratoga
district, ex-Cougressman Henry <4. Bur
leigh of Whitehall, Patent Medicine
Warner of Rochester, and State Senator
Sloan. They spent money like water, and
had tho hotels and boarding houses of
Albany filled with grangers and politicians
to double or even treble the number that
were brought there for botli the other can
didates. The hotel expenses reached the
enormous sum of SBB,OOO or SBO,OOO. After
tho canvass was over the bills were pre
sented to Mr. Miller, and the money has not
been forthcoming. The syndicate had made
itself responsible, and pending settlement
with Miller they gave a joint note lor the
amount necessary to pay the bills.
PLOT FOR A NOVEL.
How tho Reporter of a Magazine Killed
Himself Too Soon.
Fi om the London Vanity Fair.
The shocking death by suicide of Mr.
Harry Boteville Thynne, rendered so much
more shocking by the fact, that the rash act
was almost certainly due to his having
come to the end of his resources and his
hopes, and to his having therefore before
him once more the prospect of being home
less and penniless, iias been rendered still
more melancholy by what lias occurred
since the fatal act was committed.
One and t wen ty*y ears ago there died Mr.
Beriah Botfield, of Norton Hall, Nortluunp
tonshire, whose widow married and is still
the wife of Mr. Alfred Heymour,
of Knoyle. Now Mr. Botfield,
who had a taste for researches
into his own genealogy, discovered, or
thought he discovered, in the course of those
researches, t.lmt his own true name was
Boteville, and that lie was descended from
a common ancestor with the Marquis of
Bath. Consequently, at his death, tie left
all iiis fortune, subject to a life annuity of
£SOO a year to Ids widow, now Mrs. Alfred
Seymour, to Lord Bath’s second non at Ids
majority, and, failing him, to Lord Harry
Thynne s eldest son. The condition annexed
to the bequest wns that these legatees should
bear the name of Boteville and tho fortune
amounted to some £IO,OOO a year. Accord
ingly Lord Bath’s second son, I/ii'd John,
and Lord Harry Thynne’seldest son, Hurry,
each had conferred upon them the name of
Boteville, the one being Lord John Bote
villo Thynne, the other Mr. Hairy Botevillo
Thynne.
It seemed an absolute '■ertnintv that Ixird
John would inherit the Botfield fortune, for
ten days ago lie was one of the healthiest,
strongest and most splendid of young men,
so that the possibility of the fortune over re
verting to Mr. Harry Thynne appeared so
remote as to is l beyond the limits of any
.reasonable expectation. Yet on Thursday
week, the Iftf h of May, Lord John was acci
dentally killed; and, he being then under
age, tiie fortune would have reverted to the
next legato l , Mr. Harry Thynne, the unfor
tunate and lamented young man who had
shot himself in Duke Street twelve days
previously out of despair caused by impend
ing destitution.
She Who Would Bo
Tho Queen of Beuuty must look to her teeth,
for a pretty mouth is indispensable to
female loveliness. Brush your teeth care
fully with fr i grant BOZODONT and you
will be charmed with the result, for it is
without euual as a (leuLrdice.
SWIFT'S SPECIFIC.
CANCER, ,//./
V?' it: in Diseases
Promptly and moat
MILLINERY.
NEW Nil I JJNKItY'AT
KROUSKOFFS
Mammoth Millinery House.
We are now offering immense lines of New Straw Hats,
Ribbons, Feathers, etc., which are now being shipped daily
by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Krouskoff, who is now
North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in
the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell
fine Millinery cheaper than any retail store in New York. How
can we do it? Cannot tell. This is our secret and our suc
cess. Perhaps on account of large clearing out purchases or
perhaps from direct shipments from London or Paris —but no
matter so long as the ladies have all the advantages in stock
and prices.
We are now ready for business, and our previous large
stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lines of
fine Milans in White and Colors, for Ladies, Misses and
Children in an endless variety of shapes.
RIBBONS, RIBBONS, new novelties added and our regu
lar full line entirely filled out.
We knock bottom out in the price of Straw Goods.
We continue the sale of our Ribbons at same prices as
heretofore, although the prices have much advanced.
We also continue to retail on our first floor at wholesale
prices.
S. KROUSKOFF.
IRON WORKS.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS,
Broughton Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Streets,
Sa'v r 'axxxxe J lb_ ;; - - Georgia.
CASTING OF ALL JCINDS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES.
THE RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND FOR OUR
SUGAR MILLS AND PANS
IB ITAS induced ms to manufacture them on a more extensive wale than
I I ever. To that end no pain* or expense has been Kpured to niuinUuu
their HIGH HTANAKD OF EXCELLENCE
fIS Those Mills are of the BEST MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, with
heavy WROUGHT IRON SHAFTS (made long to prevent danger to the
H ■■ operator), and rollers of the l**ht pig iron, all turned up true.
TTiey are heavy, strong and durable, run light and eveu, and are gnaruu
teed matorad
WE GUARANTEE OUR PrIcES TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED.
A Large Stock Always on Hand for Prompt Delivery.
\V in. Kehoe &c Cos.
N. B.—The name “ KEHOE’S IKON WORKS,’ is cast on all our Mills and Pans.
Engines, Boilers,
j Kinds.
Simplest, Safest and Most Durable. All Machinery fully Guaranteed. Reliable Ma
chinery at reasonable prices.
Do not buy without first seeing us, or writing for our prices, naming Just what you want. Address
mcHMG&rvA. I TALBOTT & SONS, Macon, Ga.
.T. C. WEAVER, Manager.
MOSQUITO NETS.
SHOO FLYI
DON’T BE TORMENTED WITH MOSQUITOS, BUT CALL AT
LINDSAY & MORGAN’S STORES
169 and 171 Uroujghton Street,
AND SECURE AT ONCE A 'MOSQUITO NET OF SOME KIND. On hand LACE and GAUZE
NETS, FOUR POST, HALF CANOPIES, TURN OVER and UMBRELLA
MOSQUITO NET FRAMES.
REFRIGERATORS of several kind). Prominent among them is the ALLEGRETTI, also the
EMPRESS, TOM THUMB, SNOWFLAKE, ICE PALACE an.l ARCTIC KING.
BABY CARRIAGES. About twenty five different styles to select (ruin. Prices very low.
Our stock of CHAMBER and PARLOR SUITES is full.
STRAW MATTING. Big stock, low prices.
ItT Orders drilled With Dispatch. j!U
LINDSAY & MORGAN.
Vale Royal Manufacturing Cos.
ga.,
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
H, Doors, life, Mantels, Pew Ms,
And Interior Finish of all kinds, Mouldings, Balusters, Newel Posts. Estimates, Price Lists. Mould
ing Bonks, and any information in our line furnished on application. Cypmss, Yellow Pine, Oak,
A*n and Walnut LUMBER on hand and in any quantity, fwrnMiel promptly.
VJLUjJ ROYAL MANUFACTURING- COMPANY.Savannah, Ga*
OFFICIAL.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer,
Savannah. Ga., May 1, 1887. f
From and after MAY Ist, 1887, the city ordi
nance which specifies the Quarantine require
ments to l>e observed at the port of Savannah,
Georgia, for period of time (annually) from Mav
Ist to November Ist, will bo most rigidly on
forced.
Mcivhnnts and all other parties interested
will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar
autine Ordinance upon application to office of
Health Officer.
From and after this date and until further no
tice all steamships and vessels from South
America, Central America. Mexico, West Indies,
Sicily, ports of Italy south of 40 degs. North
latitude. and coast of Africa l>eween
10 degs. North and 14 dogs. South latitude,
direct or via American port will be sub
jected to close Quarantine and be required
to report at the Quarantine Station and be
treated as being from infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains of these vessels
will have to remain at Quarantine Station until
their vessels are relieved.
All steamers and vessels from foreign ports
not included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will be required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer.
Neither the Contains nor any one on board of
such vessel* trill be allowed to come to the city
until the t'essels are inspected and passed by the
Quarantine Officer.
As port* or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori
ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will
bo enforced without further publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
of the quarantine flag on vessels subjected t< i
detention or inspection will be rigidly enforced,
J T. Me FA HI .A NP. M. D.. Health Officer.
ORDINANCE.
An Ordinance to amend article LX. of the Sa
vannah City Code, adopted Feb. 16, 1870, so as
ton-quire all occupants of houses, merchants,
shopkeo pens grocers and tradesmen occupying
premises to which no yards are attached to
keen within their premises a Ik>x or barrel of
sufficient size, in which shall lie deposited all
olTal, filth, rubbish, dirt and other matter gen
erated in said premises, or to put such box or
barrel in the streets or lanes under conditions
prescribed herein.
Section 1. Beit ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the
Authority of the same, That section 2 or said
article be amended so oh to read as follows: The
owners, tenants or occupiers of houses having
yards or enclosures, and all occupants of houses,
all merchants, shopkeepers, grocers and trades
men occupying premises to which no yards are
attached shall keep within their yards or
promises n box or barrel of sufficient size, in
which shall lie deposited all tho offal, filth, rub
bish, dirt and other matter generated in said
building ami enclosure, and tho said filth of every
description ns aforesaid shall be placed in said
box or Iwirrel, from the first day of April to the
first day of November, before the hour of 7
o'clock a. m., And from too first flay of November
(inclusive) to the last day of March (inclusive)
before the hour of 8 o'clock a. m., arid such mat
! ter so placed shall be daily removed (Sundays
excepted) by the oiijs-rlntendent, to
such places two miles at least
without the city as shall designated by th
Mayor or a majority of the Street and
i Committee. Ami it shall Ikj unlawful for any
occupant of a house, merchant, shopkeeper,
proccifcor tradesman to sweep into or to deposit
>n any street or lane of tins city any paper,
trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, hut
the same shall Ini kept in Ixixes or barrels as
hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scav
enger of the city. Any person not having a yard
may put the box or barrel containing the offal,
rubbish, etc., in the street or lane for removal
by the scavengar, provided tho Ikx or barrel so
put in the street or lane shall Ixj of such char
acter and size os to securely keep the offal, rub
bish, etc., from getting into the street or lane.
And any person other than the owner or scaven
ger interfering with or troubling the box or bar*
rel so put in the street or lane shall Ixs punished
on conviction thereof in the police court by fine
not exceeding SIOO or imprisonment not exceed
ing thirty days, either or both in the discretion
of officer presiding in said court.
Ordinance passed in Council June Ist, 1887.
HUFUS E. LESTER, Mayor.
Attest: Frank E. Rebarer, Clerk of Council
Citv Marshal s office, I
Savannah, April 23d, 1887. f
THE City Treasurer has placed in my hands
Heal Estate Executions for 1886, Privy Vault
Executions for 1886, Stock in Trade and other
personal property executions for 1886, and Spe
cific or License Tax Executions for 1887, com
manding me to make the money on said write
by levy and sale of tho defendants' property or
by other lawful means. I hereby notify ail par
lous in default that the tax and revenue ordi
nance will l>e promptly enforced If payment is
not made at my office without delay.
Office hours from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
ROUT J. WADE,
Citv Marshal.
• QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer, \
Savannah, April sth, 1887. f
Notice Is hereby given that*the Quarantine
Officer is instructed not to deliver letters to vea
edi which are i I to quarantine
tention, unless the name of consignee and state
ment that the vessel is ordered to some other
port appears upon the face of the enslopa
This order is mode necessary in consequence of
the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent to
the station for vessels which are to arrive.
j. t. McFarland, m. and.,
Health t )fflcer.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer, L
Savannah, March 25th, 1887. |
Pilots of the Port of Savannah are informed
that the Sapclo Quarantine Station will be open
ed on APRIL Ist. 1887.
HpeciaJ Attention of the Pilots is directed to
sections Nos. ad and 14tb, Quarantine Regula
tions.
Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regula
tions will ue maintained bv the Health authori
ties. j. t. McFarland, m and.,
Health Officer.
RAILROAD RONIDS.
The undersigned offers for wile at par ex-July
Coupon #590,000 of the MARIETTA AND
NORTH GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY'S
FIRST MORTGAGE 6 PER CENT. FIFTY
YEAR. BON Do, m multiples of SI,OOO to suit
buyers.
binds can be safely taken by inves
-1 tors as a reliable 6 per cent, security, which
will, in all probability, advance to 15 points
above pur within the next three or four years,
as this road will travertin a country unsurpassed
for mineral wealth, for climate, for scenery, fur
agricultural purposes, and for attractiveness u
tb<* settler.
The comparer hns mortgaged its franchise and
entire line of railroad, built and to be bujtt, and
all its other property, to the Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust Company to secure its issue of 50-year
C per cent, bonds. These bonds will be issued as
the rate of about $17,000 per mile/ton a lino ex-
U tiding from Atlanta, Ga., to Knojfville, Tenn.
A sinking fund is provided for their redemption.
It will lx* one of the best naying roods in the
South. It will Ixs of standard gauge and will
develop a region of country expending from
Middle Georgia, through North Carolina to
Knoxville, Tenn., where it will connect with
lines leading to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis
and Pittsburg.
The rout is now completed to Murphy, N. CL
and is to lie pushed on to Knoxville as fast aS
the nature of the country will permit. The high
financial standing and energy of the men prin
cipally interested in it sufficiently guarantees its
early completion.
Further Information will be furnished upon
application to A. L. HARTWDUE, Savannah,
Ga , or to BOODY, McLELLAN & CO., 5?
Broadway, New York.
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