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VOLUME VII
City of Sandersvlllo.
HUMPHRIES HANGED, 1
Mayor.
j, N. Gilmore,
HE PAPS THE PENALTY OF lllb
Aldermen.
TERRIRLE CRIME.
W. R Thiopen,
B E. Rouuiiton,
j. B Roberts,
Uls < onpKii„ n to ( opium Itnnln too Bnd (01
Hi- Go 0 10 ih„
A. M. Mayo.
S. G. Lano.
(tallow* Bravely.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1886.
NUMBER 23.
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P®ftVII.l, PRACTICE IN AT.T, THE COUFtTR.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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h Millinery
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Stor,-, on Harris street.
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Watches, Clocks
8. Humphries was hanged ii.
Milledgovillc, Ga., for tho murder of his
sister-in-law and nieco. At ton o’clock
!• riilny morning the barber was sent for.
and Humphries was shaved. Ha chatted
with the utmost unconcern on vuriou-
subjoots, not referring to his crimo or
the penalty. Everything was quiet and
no death watch wus kept except Cnptaii
Ennis’ sixtecn-yeAr-old boy, who spem
tho night in the corridor, while Hum
phriaB slept profoundly in his solitnr,
cell until 0 a. m., when he requested o
cup of coffee, aud Warren Edwnrds wn>
requested to bring him iomo ico cream
nt 10.a. m.
From T. H. Morris, of the Milledge
villa Chronicle, an intimate friend ol
Humphries, was obtained tho following
confession: "I putiny faith in Christum'
nin ready to die. I havo mnde n full
confcseion to Cnptaiu Ennis. Go to him
and if ho chooses ho can tell. It idtnr-
break, my heart to talk about the mat
ter. Two reporters troubled me Inst I
night. It was emphatically the result ol 1
hard drinking. I did not make a full !
confession to my wife. I don't know 1
how Elisha’s family could stand it.”
Ennis received a note from Frank '
Humphries yesterday: “Please tell Tom '
mie Morris nil I told you this morning.
P. 8.—Don’t tell any ouo else till 1 inn I
laid away. F. B. lIuMPniuits.”
The evidence is that he confessed to j
violating the persons of his victims.
At 8 o’clock Thursday night Sheriff
Ennis received tho following dispatch
' 'Vlr a: ’ sympathize with the poor on
fotinnaio man, tho law must be exec-red ,
I cannot interfere. H. D. McDami i.. j
At 10:45 the Rev. Mr. Hammond I
called and prayer was offered. A great
crowd lwid assembled nnd crowded about
the jail, anxious to catch a glimpse of
the condemned mnn. He wns suffering
from nervousness nnd palpitation of the
heart. Ho said he wns afraid tho crowd
would unuervo him. A detachment of
the Baldwin Blues wns on guard at the
jail, and another at tho stockade, three-
fourths of a mile west of the city. At
II :35 the sad procession started. From
much exertion and anxiety, Captain En
nis looked wearied, but the firm look on
his fuee and the flush of his eye showed
tluil he was determined to do his duty.
A lur e crowd assembled nt the stockade
elected mound the gallows, and the rush
to get a look at the paisoner was remark-
id I'. Humphries did not wish to talk,
in I nil tiding the platform Rev. Hnm-
inuud offered prayer, Humphries asking
Ilicin to kneel.
When the cap was placed over his face
he said:
“Full out tho cap, it smothers me.
Don't put the rope around my neck too
tight."
THE PROP FAI.LB.
At precisely noon the drop foil, and
the live foot plunge broke his neck, nc
struggled for several minutes. Three
minutes nftcrwnrd his contortion wns
terrible and his pulse nenrly normal. He
xvas pronounced dead by a physician
after thirteen and a lmlf minutes. He
was cut down aud Dr. Whitaker aud
Captain llervy closed his eyes, nnd tho
latter assisted the sheriff in composing
his features. None of tho family were
present. ,
The body was placed in n plain coffin
and turned over to Andrew J. Banks,
who took It to his mother’s house. He
wns hanged in a new check suit nnd he
wore a straw hat. ,
lie is the third white man hanged m
Baldwin county. All were hanged about
One of the boldest robberies that ha*
tunc to the notice of the police for some i
lime was perpetrated at Macomb, His. j
E. V. Kinsey, night agent of the Bar- j
liugton road, at tlmt point, was sitting
iu the station rending, xvhen he suddenly
became aware that tlie cold muzzle of a 1
shotgun was resting against his cheek, 1
while tlu: voieo of a masked mnn, who
stood just outside tlie ticket window, !
demanded:
“Unlock that safe and deliver the con
tents, or 1 will kill you.”
Kinsey, who was n brave man, and a
trusted employee of the road, hesitated a
moment before complying with the do-
wand, hut, when it was repeated with
added emphasis, he opened the safe,took
out a sack containing about $00 in silver
and bunded to tho fellow.
“That ain’t all,” growled the robber:
“give mo tho box or you are a dead
man."
When drowsy Day draws round hi* do way
bed
Tho Tyrian tapestries of gold and red,
And weary of his flight,
Blows out the palaco light?—
'Tis night I
II.
When languid Night, awakening with
yawn,
Leaps down the moon-washed stairway of
the dawn,
In trailing disarray,
Sweeping tho dews away—
’Tis<layl
—Indianapolis Journal.
An Adventure at Zuni.
While tte young m*n were watching | wild animal ad bay. I carried an eieel-
the approaching Indians, somo one aud- j lent rifle, nnd hesitating no longer, fired
dcnlv remembered that two white women at ono of tho savages. A little cloud of
dust showed where the ball had struck
dcnly remembered that
and an infant were in a house outside
the town, aad in the direction of the sav
ages. T hey were wholly unconscious of
impending danger, and unless warned,
would surely fail into the handt of tho
Apaches.
But how were thev to be informed of
th* alkaline sand near a sage-bush some
feet from the Indian.' A derisivo yell
wns tho only response.
“ ‘Bad shot I’ said the girl, and taking
a deliberate aim, she Urea. No shout an-
swored her rifle, for one of tho Indians
it? At that distance'they could not hear was wounded. They seemed somewhat
call, and a pistol shot would not at
tract their notice.
Tho house stood in the level plain,
about a mile from tho village, and a
thousand yards or more from a defllo in
jhe rocks through which the approach-
g Indians would havo to enter the val
ley. Already the savages had. disap-
dlseoncertcd by this, and paused again;
then, spreading out their line, began to
approach once more.
“Presently thoro was a whiff of smoke
among them, and a ball whistled so near
my head that instinctivolv I dodged.
The
o girl laughed at me. Tho Apachos
evidently had tho best rifles made, and
While they hesitated, Stonewall W
sprang up, and declaring that ho. would
seo no woman murdered without making
an effort to savo her, threw tho ladder
In tho northwestern corner of New
Mexico, und ucaUmg ia,pnq, of the fertilo
Valleys that dot those great deserts, is
found thoTndinn village of Zuni. Around
it are h-gh table-lands anil those j over the wall und began to descend, riflo
At tho same time nn ominous click of ' “buttes” so peculiar to tho West, and | in hand, for it was he who had retained
tho hummer xvarned the agent there was n,) ^ nwu y the horizon is bounded by his rifle. His companions called to him
no time for delay. Ho handod out the lll ° Zuni Mountains, a part of the great to como back, that it was too late to
box with its contents $585 in silver—' continental backbono. Emigrants havo | reach the women nnd return before the
and tho robber grasping it, whirled it 1 K rildual lv settled wherever a fertilo vnl- j Indians would he upon him.
nround nnd disappeared in tho darkness. V s ?,^j 8 lnv * lod a plow-share, or n grassy But they might as well havo called to
- — - hillside a ranch, but tins reservation has e whirlwind. Every spark of chivalry
for the most part remained intact. i was aroused in tho young mnn, and hnd
The village where the Zuni formerly ! ho known the Apaches would capture
dwelt wns built upon the top of a butte him, it is doubtful if he would have re-
which stands near by in tho reservation, j turned then.
.U.UU.UB ,u.s uu«,u. vuc uu.iu.uk, uuu imp , r ^ nft “ le str0n K' 10 ’ d ’ *"■! 1 In another moment ho was upon his
it is supposed it is tho ono used to lntim- j !?,„ ’ ml!? horBe > acroBS tho P lnln toward tUe
idato the attent agnmst the hostile tribes around them. | Bn ijf nrr t,ni,>n An his comnamons
pcared behind tho rocks and atuhted 1 they know how to uso them. Wo both
shrubbery beyond the pass, aad in a few | ahicldcd ourselves somewhat behind the
minutes ntoro they would be in the val- pnrapet
ley.
King nt once gavo tlie alarm. Tho local
police wore set on tho trail and telegrams
sent out in nil directions, but the thief
made good his escape. A double bar
relled shotgun, unloaded, wns found
standing just outside the building, and
KNOCKED OFK TDK TRACK.
_« . -- -. .. solitary house. As his companions
Tho meadows along the nvor at Unroot watcbe d him from tho housetop, they
of the butte supplied their wants with broko into a hearty cheor. It was truly
little labor, and as fast ns tho harvests ' a „ allftnt di( , di X soldier may charge
ripened, they were stowed away in the tb ” cannon . g mouth without flinching
granaries upon tho top of tho mountain. whea two armies ar0 etching, and lie
But m their security they lost their war- knoW8 hig ga u antr y will bo blazoned to
A shocking accident occurred on the
New York, Providence nnd Boston rail- _ ^ > —
read, at tho tillage of Poquonnoek, like qualities, nnd jpst in proportion as u^worldl Imt'to^daro *uch"fiends' as
Conn. Benjamin Gardiner, a farmer, ltis agriculture nnd tho ruder nrts progressed tbe8e a i ra0 st ulono iu tho groat xvildor-
wife, and tho wife of their son James, among them, tlioy have grown less sav- n( , s8 ' f or lbo 8llkc 0 f t wo unknown
while riding homo from church in a one | sgo and more timid. i won J en was truly heroic.
1 heir houses are built of stone and These women were tho wife and daugh-
sun baked brick, with tho entrance t « of a man named Dan Dubois. This
through the roof, just as they were a man bnd com( , from Wheeling, West
thousand yours ago. Ihe householder yirginin, a number of years before, aud
horse wagon, were struck by the west
bound express train, going fifty miles an
hour. Mr. Gardiner xvas hurled a dis
tance of forty feet from tho crossing, re
ceiving fatal injuries. His wife was
killed outright and Mrs. James Gardiner
died before alio could bo removed. The
horse was killed nnd the wngon broken
into splintors. Tlie accident happened
nt tlie crossing just west of tho culvert,
a short distanco from Notink, nnd ns tlie
railroad is bnnked up at that place, the
engineer oil tho express did not see the
party until within twenty yards of tlu
eroding.
it up after him. The dwellings ware so tlc(1 ll0r0 „ pun tho y, u „i River,
constructed at first as a precaution Throughout tho frontier country Du-
against enemies and even now, with nil bois bnd mako 8Ucb a nam0 f or bravery
the protection thu leu oral Government and daring that his presence carried more
can givo, tlie custom is often useful, ns tor| . or to Ind i nll8 lind thieving Mexicans
the following incident will show
(SPANNING TIIR MIIIHHSIPPI.
A contract for a $1,000,000 bridge ovet
the Missouri river at Konsaa City for tlu
new St. Paul line, haB been let. The
bridge will be 1,200 feet long with
proaches of 200 feet. It will be of the
cantilever pattern, eighty feet above low
water, nnd when completed will be one
of tho finest structures of the kind in the
country.
I'. W. ALKXANIIBR OBAD.
After a long and painful illness, Col
onel P. W. Alexander breathed his lust
Thursday at eleven o’clock. His remains
were sent from Marietta to Columbus
for interment. They went by way of
Opelika, reaching Columbus in the after
noon. Tho funeral services were con-
ducted in the Episcopal church in Col
umbus Saturday morning at ten o’clock.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
_ . - , . . ; than ft whole regimont of aoluicra. Many
In August, 18dl, a party of young men marvelous feats are credited to him. but
connected with the Territorial surveys certa ( n j t j 8 that he could draw his re-
wns stationed for set oral weeks at this yolver and shoot so quickly that the eye
place. The day before their arrival n ( , ould not dct( . ct the movement of his
band of murnuding Mexicans had crossed hand> He rarely missed his aim, and
tho border, and made a raid upon the feftr wa8 un known to him.
adjacent ranches, and driven swuy somo q>| le .Mexican woman whom ho married
ponies and cattle. Tne Zuni, having rc- wa8 of a {amll .. t h ul f or generations had
covered from their fright ns soon as the gul y ered f rom the Apaches. Iler tinces
Mexicnns disappeared with tlie booty, 1 tori n8 far back as the records show had
had hastily summoned theirwhite neigh- been kille 1 by them, and tho natural
bor and were organizing for pursuit. timidity of the Mexican lind been so iri-
But there were only a few g„od weapons tensified in her thnt tho sight of an
in tlie whole party, nnd when tho young apache was sufficient to throw her into
men arrived with their rifles and heavy ten .
revolvers they were requested to lend stonewaU . B companions watched him
them to the /urn Indians during the few ju , had ri(lden *,. ros8 tho interVC nlng
days necessary for pursuit. Owing to , , t0 DuboU , house: they saw him
the bad feeling which universally pre- ' )ril)J?frora hi8 horse and enter the house,
vails against the thieving border Mex- 1 , * . 4 . . unnoillin ,i
leans,and the hospitable reception which n,u ," 8 yet g tho ApncheB hnd ,,ot “PP elired
had been accorded the young men, they j“i C fo P lmd th o Mexicamwomaa engaged
Srrt f'Tli n?nnd el re r ^ 1 i*> some household work,” said Stonewall
One of them, however, refused to part „ , .. u .. ^ Wilo
with his rifle, and several of them're- ^rvnr,d, “wlMet:he baby was pi a^ing
tallied their revolvers, while allowing ncnr herontho floor '- Her daughter, a
the Indians to take their other nrms to
aid in recapturing their property.
Tho following day, while the young
l men were scattered about the town, some
; rending, gome sketching the quaint ob
jects around them, they were startled
sud' *
T wus sufficiently acquainted with
Indian tactics to know that when they
had approached in fair-range of our rifles
they would mnko a rush for tho house,
and under tho shelter of the walls try to
break through tho door or climb up to
where wo were.
“Thnt bur last hour hnd como I could
not doubt, and it was horrible to think
of dying by those (lends nnd being cut
to pieces afterward.
“But tho girl stood observing them aa
coolly ns though they had boon rabbits,
waiting till they should ho within better
range of her rifle before wnst'ng more
ammunition. I was preparing to lire
agnln, for in another moment tho savages
might rush upon tho house, when e clat
ter of hoofs sounded behind us, and
turning, I saw Dan Dubois galloping up.
“The girl hurried down, and letting
her father in, both xvoro with mo in an
other moment. Springing upon tho liar-
apet in full view of tho savnges, Dubois
opened a rapid lire upon them. Instantly
they recognized him, nnd bogan a hasty
retreat. Tlie distanco was so great
that little damage was done among them,
but quite a number, ns wns afterward
loarned, wore slightly wounded.
“The rest of Dubois' party was only a
short distanco behind with tho recap
tured ponies nnd cuttle. As soon as they
reached tho town tlioy started after tho
Apaches, and somo milos away from
Zuni joined npnrtyof troops under Lieut.
Gilfoyle, xvho. having learned - that the
Indians had loft their reservation, was in
pursuit of them.
“The tight which followed a few days
later Is u matter of history not necessary
to relato liorc. Before being overtaken,
tho Apnchcs had murdered and scalped
forty men, women and children. In
every instance tno henrt was tnken out,
nnd the body itself was mutilated in a
most shocking manner.”—Youth's Com•
panion.
Ths stiver brook will miw the*,
The breeze that used to kiss thee,
Aad ruffle with a soft oarws thy curia of
sunny hairt
When the early dewdrops glisten
On the roses, they Will listen
for thy step upon the garden walk, thy
laughter In the air.
The meadows gay with flowers,
The summer’s leafy bows**,
Will know thy joyous smile no m*ra; th*
woodland stand forlorn;
I hear the soft complaining
Of birds, from mirth refraining,
That greeted with their caret* awaet ,thy
waking every morn.
Poor mother! hush thy weeping,
Abovo thy darling sleeping,
Nor fret with aught of earthly grlaf th* »tlll-
ni-si where he lies;
Flowers in his little Angers,
Where the rosy flush still lingers,
For the augols are his playmates on th*
plains of pai odlse.
—Chambers's Journal.
PITH AND POINT
Made of all work—The newspaper.—
Boston l u’lstm.
Mnny a mnn Is tlio architect of his own
fortune, but never gets enough money to
build.—Call.
“What did your father leave you when
he died, FnU” “Faith, he left me an
orphan."—1'id Bits.
It is a curious fact thnt tho sun never
shines so hot on tho baseball grounds aa
does on the harvest field.
If it was not for tho weather there
never would be nny variety in some peo
ple's conversation.—Siftings.
Swinburne savs: “When young men
ell nt mo—I smile.” We suppose that
when they yell: “Swinburne, come
,nd tako a drink."—Loicell Courier.
Oh, mamma,’’ said a little boy when
he saw n Chinaman for tho first time,
just look at that man with his trousers
tucked iuto his shirt.”—Merchant Trav
eler.
_ou know tho nature of nn oath,
mn’nm?" inquired the Judge. “Well, I
reckon Iorter,"wns tho reply. “My
husband drives n canal boat."—Merchant
Traveler.
handsome girl of sixteen years, was
seated by tho door thrumming n guitar.
‘“Bun for your lives! ’ I said; ‘the
Apaches arc coming 1’
•'Snatching tho baby in her arms, tho
woman dashed out of the door, never
women.
The confession which ho made to Cap
Nine pupils in the Allogafl, (Mich.) publio
schools are married woman.
Hundreds of baby alligators are "Sold as
ladies' pels in Now York yearly.
There are twenty-one murdsrders In the
Uuitol States jail at Fort Smith, Ark.,await
ing trial
California fruits hare token the place
of Southern fruits in tho markets of Rich
mond, Va
The estate left by the late Miss Henrietta
Lenox, of New York City, Is estimated at
somo «U(),000,00a
Of tho 137 counties In Georgia, 108 have
mddonly by a woman' howling *" d Ck the X nor one* looking
icreaming from ono of the hmisetomL j b ,,*[ t J d f faUow bor for eacb mo .
Immediately the cry was caught up aid j wng ,. xp( , ctillg toh ’ tt r tho yells of
repeated, ns other women hurried out! h I dj b tl * house, but gli.no-
upon heir houses until it seemed that , . b k L obgervo(l tbo ^ irl casting
tho whole town had gono mad. Prom ...> „ ,
t.,in Funis was said to bo too bad foi absolute prohibition and twelve others have
nnrtiol nr nil i hi f.t nn
nublicntion.
knights tkmflak.
AND —
JEWELRY
UHl’AIUBD BY
OUR
department
’ ["'PpHed with all the requisites for doing
•'ll I'IihIh of Joli and Hook work ill F ist-
LIusb HiyJe, Prompt y and at lluu.-
smmble Prices.
wedding cards,
VISITING CARDS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
BALL CARDS
At tho Knights Templar grand en
campment meeting in St. Louis on Thurs
day, Ihe proceedings of which were not
made known until last night, tho report
of the committee on credentials was re
ferred back to the committee for correc
tion.
'The regrets of Charleston, S. C., coin-
mandery, No. 1, were read, and the at
tention of the committee on finance was
called to the dcplornblo condition of
their brethren in that city.
The grnnd procession was at least thrci
miles long.
The grand encampment, nt its after
noon session, appropriated $2,000 in nid
of the knights xvho suffered by the earth
quake in Charleston.
SCHOONERS IN COLLISION.
The Mary Ann Cut tn Two by tho Summeroel
-I,oik el l.lfo.
partial prohibition,
llEeoRTS from Louisiana indicate that tha
sugar yield of that Stub) will fall about Of-
toon per cent, beloxv that of 1885.
Evkiiy day at one o’clock $300,000,000 sit
down to lunch in an upper room in the West
ern Union Building, in New York.
It xvill cost $4,000 and tako 0,000 books of
gold leaf to gild the great dome at Notoe
Dame Unlverfity, Indiana. The work Is go
ing on now.
The principal contributors to the London
fund for the Cbarle-iton sufferers are the
Itothschilds aud Barings. Each house con
tributes $2,600.
A shoe-lasting machine has just heen
invented in Massachusetts. By It one man
with a helper can turn out 250 to 300 pairs of
shoes por day.
The greatest balloon in the world has been
constructed at San Francisco by a Mr. Van
Tassel It will hold 150,000 cubic feet of gas
aud has been made for the purpose of travers
ing the American continent teem ocean to
ocean.
A Dakota fanner, gnirahling at the poor
outlook for wheat iu the early summer, of
fered to give to his wife all the wheat he
would have over 1,500 bushels. Ho has
threshed a trifle over 2,500 bushels, and the
wife is going to have a new black silk dree.
one end of tho village to the other arose
tlie cries; eight hundred women and
children howling, screaming, beating
their breasts, and tearing their hair.
Tho young men gathered nt their camp
in alarm, and inquired the cuuso of tho
uproar. A band of Apnches was coming!
The women hnd espied them some dis
tance down the river, creeping stealthily
upon the toxvn. Evidently they hnd
learned that tho men were axvay, and,
tired of being good, they lind put on
war-paint, left their reservation in Lin
coln county, nnd xvere out on a raid.
Tlioy wi re coming noxv to butcher tho
defenceless women und children, and
enrry off whatever plunder they could
find.
There xvas a hurried consultation.
Borne of the young men advised that they
should mount their horses and escape ns
quickly as possible, leaving tho xvomeu
and children to look out for thcinselvos;
for if they remained, what defence could
half-a-dozen boys, armed xvithrevolvers,
make against seven times that number of
men?
But ono young felloxv, xvhom wo will
call Stonewall W ,remonstrated so ve
hemently against deserting tho women
and children t hat the rest of tlie party
yielded, and they resolved to remain and
make what defence they could. Hastily
niu-r her mother such a look of scorn ns
I hnvo never seen on any other faco, and
instead of following, she quickly took
down a rifle from tho xvall and fastened
a belt of cartridges about her waist.
“ ‘Bun!’ I culled to iter in Spanish,
thinking she had not understood; the
Apaches are in Ihe passl’
“ ‘1 will not run !’ site replied,in Span
ish; ‘I xvill fight them here!’
“Frightened as I was, I almost forgot
tho danger in admiration for this girl
Born of u Mexican woman, she was afire
with her Virginia lather’s blood. Amo
| meat before 1 had been thoroughly
scared, but her spirit was contagious,
and now I xvas heartily ashamed of my
fears.
“I remembered now to havo heard of
this girl at the fort, und that sho xvas a
line shot with the rifle.
“‘I’ll remain with you,’I said, for no
man could have left so brave a girl to
fight alone. No time win to bo lost,
and we quickly barricaded tho heavy
door.
“Nothing further was said, but her
quick, nervous movements showed hor
alive for the fray, and I do not be
lieve a thought of fear had crossed her
mind.
“The door securely fastened,- we
climbed out upon tho top of the house.
collecting their xvenpons and ammunition which, like those of Zuni, xvas flat and
- had a stone parapet for defence. As we
above, the leaders of tlie
Friday a disaster occurred in the Bay
of St Johns. The British schooner
Summerset collided with the schooner
Mary Ann, cutting her in two. There
were twenty-seven persons on board the
ill-fated craft, two of whom were drowned.
The others saved themselves by cling
ing to the main rail of the Summer-
set or were picked out of the water by
her boats. The Mary Ann sank within
two minutes after the collision. Two
passengers were lost, one of them a lady.
Wan
Sure the Galatea
the Cup.
WoAld Win
CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BAILS.
POSTERS,
handbills,
PROGRAMMES,
STATEMENTS,
letter headings,
dodgers,
PAMUHLETS,
ETC.. L. C., EiO
Wh ?heLouuSle Neville railroad
| xvas walking on the. track _ and hi. foot
" “ 8 ht between the tie and the rail. .
SSS .£ °°^zLC BengortraiD '
He
. , Minot extricate his foot he
nnd ns he cornu uu ^
and ns no X t b j g pocket knife
deliberately Pull d P from hig an .
and tried to sever He {flinted The
' kle 'nrer° a toW b S, lf «topped th*.engine
^'rescued him- His father earned
him
and rescued *u— • ^ me dlcal atten- tier,:nn fr.m Great BiTtianas.-he appeared
to Birmingham* * <?., although just after the Mayflower crossed the
He will not 1088 . l ’ 3 1
tion. He will K i M ^ severed, 1 finish ahead in the second race,
several leaden ana mu
1 they climbed upon one of the highest
1 houses in the village, and drew the lad-
■ der after them. There, sheltered behind
j the raised defencos of tho roof, they
1 would be most seenre, and able to do
j sosse damage to the nsailants.
Tho party of A [inches could be seen
plainly m the clear atmosphere of this
■ region yet some distance down the river,
i but approaching still, one behind tho
1 other, in true Indian file.
1 It is no disparagement to^those young
men to say that they xvere thoroughly
. frightened. It is one thing to rend of
brave deeds and danger faced while
seated safely at home, but quite another
to find yourself in tlie heart of a xvild
j country, with two score of painted sav-
I ages creeping upon von. It xvas not
death alone thnt Apaches might inflict,
. but torture and mutilation too horrible
| to mention.
; It is doubtful if there exists a people
more devoid of human feeling, more
cruel and fiendish, than these Apache
Indians. Formerly, in their long marches
: across the country, they would kill the
! old and infirm when they began to im-
| -jitfde their progress; and on one occasion,
Thia«*nti|Om(in caine. over froin Engv, yvhen a squaw could carry no more of
bind exprewly.to,see- the Galatea, takfthr lier husband’s trappings on account of
back the America’s cup. -The abor* 1*2* the pappoose in her arms, the father took
an autf0r«toili.!fm>«?:#>!jie sanguine gen- the child from her,^ aa4. swinging it
‘ about him by the! heels, dashed Its head
against the gtound; then pointing to his
luggage moved on.
came out
Apaches were just appearing through tho
defile in the rocks. To approach us they
would have to puss overu thousand yards
of level plain, und with the txvoritles we
hoped to do some execution among them
before they reached the house, -and then
defend ourselves as long as possiblefrom
behind the xvall upon the roof.
“When tlie savages had entered tho
valley they paused as in consultation.
There xvere forty-three of them. Tlioy
were evidently surprised at seeing a
whito man there, anu xvere considering
if it were Dubois, for had they not
thought him to be in pursuit of the
Mexicans, they would not have ventured
to make an attack.
“Presently they began to advance very
cautiously, creeping upon tho ground so
as to expose as little of their persons as
possible to our fire.
“They knew the man tlioy saw .was
not Dubois. I was aware that we were
in imminent danger, with scarcely *
chance against those savages, but so
thrilled >vas I by the bravery and deter-
niinntion of the girl standing near mo
that I did not feel afraid. Bue had not
spoken since our coming upon the house
top, but, dressed in her Indian costume,
jwas standing,rifle iu haud, xvatching the
An Indian Pollntch Party.
Autumn is tire happiost nmo of the
year to the Indian. Then he earns money
picking hops, fruit, otc, Tho woods are
alive xvith fat grouse nnd other game,
streams throng with salmon nnd moun
tain tront. An hour's xvalk along the
bench xvill half fill a cotmo with clams.
Abzvc all it is tho season of potlatch
(free gifts). The man nr woman wishing
distinction in thnt line notifies all friends
and relatives to assomblo ut somo placo
designate 1. From Vancouver Island arid
the British mainland come “King
George” Indians, followed by their “Bos
ton” brethren iu eighty-foot canoes all
tho way from Alaska. Across mountain
trails como others on gayly trapped
horses. When all are assembled tho in-
viter distributes as presents monoy,
food, dry goods, blankets, etc., as long as
the stock Holds out. Every guest gives
to every other guest, the entertainer alone
being prohibited by etiquette from re
ceiving, At a potlatch I at tend -d an old
woman gave away $2,(U)0 oil in silver
dollars. For years she hnd gone in rags,
washod at logging camps, xvoikod or
begged wherever possible to save for this
occasion. Hie gavo away tho blankets
that farmed her bed. As tho lust canoe
pulled axvay she hailed it to wait a mo
inent. . Back she ran to the camp fire,
snatched off a little old iron kettlo of
cooking fish and gave that, too, leaving
herself destitute of everything on earth
but the wretched rags upon her hack. As
compcnsutiuu sho enjoys the hoi or of
chief potlatch until excelled by unothor
with more means and ambition. There
is much fun at this family reunion nnd
“hiyu anpolili" (plonty floun. By day
men hunt, fish, play games, liorsu and
canoe race and gamble. Women visit
old frionds, sew up their newly received
clothes, knit soeksund recite legends, it
being a peculiarity of tho coast Indians
that they never put burden bearing or
dirty work upon their xvomen, every
limiter ut evening brings in nnd cookshis
own gnmo. Women bnko biscuits in
Dutch ovens, roast potatoes in hot ashes
anil make great boilers of coffee. After
their lea t a fi e is built wor.h see.ng,
Perhaps young men have gone into tlie
forest, hunted up n enormous p teb-pine
stump, and brought it down the river on
nil their canoes lashed together. Borne
times a dozen men uro needed to un oud
it. Children pile hign othei Yesinous
woods. Crackling, roaring, the fire leaps
as high as pine tree tops and throws
strange shadows on the dark forest or
moonlit rivrr. Tho people da- ce, tell
stories and sing native songs far into the
night.—Sin Francisco Chronicle.
How Long the Drowned Remain.Under
Water.
ted forms as they crawled nearer.
The Nexv York Herald says of the pro
ce c 8 through xvhich tlie body o! a drowned
man must pass before it xvill rise and
float on tho surface, and lioxv many dnys
the body will remain at the bottom in
hot weather:
In hot weather the process of the de
velopmcnt of gas n a body under xvater
(xvheth r salt o. fresh) tttk s place very
rapidly in all tho soft structures, but
especially in the intestines, causing r
distention of the abdomen, and, ct nse
quently, an expulsion of xvater from the
stomach and of blood from tha heart,
while ultimately the air passages are
cleared of any obstruction. The precise
chemical process by which this gas is
formed depends, of course, som what on
the ci ntents of the stomach, though
probably carbonic acid and nitrogeu are
Sho hnd a pretty hat,
And she had a little cough;
And her little cough, it Is no harm to mention,
When in tho church she sat,
Shook the plumos upon her hat,
And to it i many beauties colled attention.
—Boston Courier.
IVond-puIp is now used for the manu
facture of hats. When the wood*n hat
oomes into general use it will be difficult
for some men to mark tho distinguish
ing line between the hat and the head.
-Elmira Advertiser.
Tlie man whoso hair xvas bald last year,
Who HWore abort tho Hies,
Now of these insects lias no fear
And thoir aita -Us defies;
For their assaults cares not a fig,
Because this year ho woars a xvlg,
—Boston Courier.
At a revival meeting in 0 country town
not long ago a young convert, wh6 wa*
by business a milkman, arose to apeak.
Just at that moment ono of the brethren
started in with the hymn: “Shall w*
Gather at the River."—Puck.
Tho old man goes a reaping,
While his oldest girl is weeping,
As tho klt-lien ttixir she's sweeping,
“Oh, pa, I want a tricycle.’’
While her dad, xvith fun so jolly,
Laughs at his daughter's folly,
And a sickle gives to Dolly,
And bo says: *‘W*11. then try sickle.
—OoodaW s Sun.
Snft*ffingR of tho Red Man.
A Cheyenne, Wyoming, correspondent
of tho Denver Tribune writes: Advice*
from Fort Washakie, in the Shoshone In
dian reservation, are to tho effect that
the Shoshones, who for twenty year*
have been tlie friends of tho whites, aid-
ing tho government infighting the Sioux
and other hostile tribes, are almost starv
ing, while the Bioux are provided abund
antly. The reservation is thirty miles
square, aud it contains 1,500 Indian*.
The buffalo are extinct, tho antelope are
exceedingly scur, e, nnd the Indians are
compelled to subsist on jack-rabbits and
prairie-dogs, which are also snare*.
Every spring large numbers of Shoshone
children die of starvation. The supplies
which are furnished by the Government
are so meagre that they last only a few
weeks. The pretense of teaching these
Indians farming is ridiculous, as only
one farmer is there attempting to teach
them, and the seeds tvhich are sent aro
usually eaton for n lack of other food.
The total amount of potatoes sent for
seed was not enough to plant twenty-five
acres, and about enough wheat was fur
nished to sow one hundred acres. Ex
tensive machine y xvas sent, which is ut
terly useless, as there is nothing to use it
on, and the Indinns aro ignorant of its
uses. Washakie, chief of the Shoshones,
is sixty-nine years old. Ho is infirm and
destitute, but he has Held tlie tribe
friendly to the Government. Should he
die there is sure to be a revolt, nnd he is
almost out of patience. Their reserva
tion is far from the railroads Txvo com
panies of whito infantry and one com
pany of colored cavalry are nt 1 ort
Washakie. The Indians would be a'fle
to clear out thu country quickly, and a
revolt is expected if something is not
done shortly to relieve these starving In
dians. r
Restoring Color to Fnhrios.
The restoration of color to fabric1
which from one cause or another havo
deteriorated in this respe t has suggested
various chemical applications nnd pro
cesses. It has been customary to employ
ammonia lor tlie purpose of neutralizing
acids that have accidentally or otherwise
destroyed the color of the stuffs, this
being neces nrily Applied immediately,
or the color is usually imperfectly re
stored. An application of chloroform
has tlie effect of bringing o.itthe colors
as bright as ever. Plu h goods and all
articlo, dyed xvith aniline colors, faded
from exposure to light, resume their
, . original brightness of appearance after
among the chief pro lucts of the g .scous . be ; n sponged xvith ch’oroforra; the
r.. ..1! tinin rn. ® *• . ® 1 1 /■ i_ • 1...
putrefaction going on. The time re
quired fer a drowned body to float vnr.es
greitly. In some well-attested cases^ the
body has risen to the surface within three
days, but generally this occurs betxveen
the fourth and uintli dnys. The process
Wt lips compressed,and hm 1 lino Spanish j of decomposition ia usually thought to
eyes flashing as if die bed been some j be more rapid in fresh than in suit water,
commercial chloroform, which is leas
costly than the purified, answers well
for this purpose.
In great houses of former time* and iu
some colleges there xvere movable stocks
for the correction of the servants.
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