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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. MEDICAL. ■pKSY FILLS I BB U*r4 regularly by 10.UQ0 America# * Iba Wuhi-o. OuiitkTiip riuriaiok tv tIM. o Cash Saw did. 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