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B CHURCH DIRECTORY
igyl^MET^ODlST—i.)<»i <,r. \>\ nu. !■'•;
p »(nd fifth Sundays.
• U'WB**AT PRlN<iS —Second Sunday am'
before.
Ilf IB«> WAY — Fourth Sunday and Satur
f a Of e^orc - Foote, Pastor.
l^^gAPTlST—Douglasville—First and
BEi fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B.- Vaughn.
MASONIC.
|Mj|w'P oa^aßV i^ e Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
Hr. M., meetsen Saturday night before the
Iff- *%***• an( i third Sundays in each month.
I U** & Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Sec-
K? rotary.
f COUNTY DIRECTORY.
■ u Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
■fcClerk—S. N. Dorsett.
—Henry Ward.
i; HpS)epu?y,^herjff-—G. M. Souter.
Receiver—®. IF. Gamp*.
gF'fnx Collector—W. A. Sayer.
* Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Cororer—F. to. Mitchell.
SUPERIOR COURT. '
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon Samson W. Harris.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—B. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August am!
November and holds until all the cases
on the docket are called. In monthly
session it meets on the fourth Monday.-
in each month.
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T, Roberts.
■ Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
ordinary’s court.
Meets for ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and for county purposes on first
Tuesday in each month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justices’ courts.
730th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
in each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
H. Stash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L.Cta.
73tith Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. P„ B.A. Arnold
N. P„ 8. C Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturdm
Franklin Carver, J. P., C. B. Bargett,
W N. P., 3. C. James and M. 8. Guru, L.
• r v CBlk* j i »
*•*»» 12<5ftth Dist. -ft, M. meets third Bator
Hamilton, J, P., M. |.
. 8. W. Biggers, L. >■
U 4A.
m« eta third Satur
Ca,n P- J * p -> w - & Hud
A Hi-1 . L <*
AL meets first Hatur
WraHBWVHnton, J- P-. Alburn
-
itf*i Du G. M. meets fourth TV
day. Gfrmfce W, Smith, J. P., (
R >binson, N. P., , L. C.
1273 d Dist. G. M. meets third 1 i(
Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bouti ?
P. W. J. Harbin, L. C.
Professional Card®
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
VOUGLAHVLAuB, GA.
(Office in front mum, Dorsett's building.,.
Will practice anywhere except in the Coutu.
Court of Douglass county. .
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ATTOR EY AT LAV.',
Will practice in all the coprUt, State an
Federal. Office on Court Bouse Square,
DOUGLASVILLE. GA.
WM. T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT I AW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in #ll the Courts. All !tg»
ttnsinces will receive prompt attention. Ofti.-,
in Court House.
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“ ATTORNEY AT LA*.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
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•nit u»ted to him wtU reoeive prompt ■tteution.
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DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
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< Federal.
fcgmjJOHH M, EDGE,
P<T#>RNEY AT LAW
■L/*'" " DOUGLASVILLE. GA.
in the cgurtamud promptly
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|sWtorney AT i AW,
HHB DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
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DOUGLAAViLLL GA
. Vfiil pre- ‘ th* <• u»’ ; *s is*:> State a»4
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M , JOHN V El GE.
OIrORNEY AT LAW.
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THE WEEKLY STAR.
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HUMPHRIES HANGED.
; 1
' HE PAYS THE PENALTY OP HIS
TEHRIBLE CRIME.
Bls Confession to Captain Ennis too Bail for
1 Publication—He Go s to the
; Gallows Bravely.
Frank 8. Humphries was hanged in
Milledgeville, Ga., for the murder of his
■ eister-in-law and niece. At ten o’clock
Friday morning the barber was sent for,
• and Humphries was shaved. He chatted
with the utmost unconcern on various
subjects, not referring to his crime or
the penalty. Everything was quiet and
no death watch was kept except Captair.
Ennis’ sixteen-year-old boy, who spent
the night in the corridor, while Hum
phries slept profoundly in his solitary
cell until 6a. m., when he requested a
cup of coffee, and Warren Edwards was
requested to bring him some ice cream
at lO.a. m.
1 From T. H. Morris, of the Milledge
ville Chronicle, an intimate friend of
Humphries, was obtained the following
confession: “I put my faith in Christ and
am ready to die. I have made a full
confession to Captain Ennis. Go to him
, and if he chooses he can tell. It almost
breaks my heart to talk about the mat
ter. Two reporters troubled me last
night. It was emphatically the result of
hard drinking. I did not make a full
confession to my wife. I don’t know
how Elisha’s family could stand it. ”
Ennis received a note from Frank
Humphries yesterday: “Please tell Tom
mie Morris all I tola you this morning.
P. B.—Don’t tell any one else till I am
laid away. F. 8. Humphries.”
The evidence is that he confessed to
violating the persons of his victims.
At 8 o’clock Thursday night Sheriff
Ennis received the following dispatch
“Whiist ’ sympathize with the poor un
fortunate man, the law must be executed
I cannot interfere. H. D. McDaniel.
At 10:45 the Rev. Mr. Hammond
called and prayer was offered. A great
crowd had assembled and crowded about
the jail, anxious to catch a glimpse of
the condemned man. He was suffering
from nervousness and palpitation of the
heart. He said he was afraid the crowd
would unnerve him. A detachment of
the Baldwin Blues was on guard at the
jail, and another at the stockade, three
fourths of a mile west of the city. At
11:8fl the sad procession started. From
much exertion and anxiety, Captain En
nis looked wearied, but the firm look on
his face and the flash of his eye showed i
that he was determined to do his duty. I
A large crowd assembled at the stockade
.rcckd around the gallows, and the rush
'• get a look nt the paisoner was remark-
h. Humphries did not wish to talk,
tn 3 (ending the platform Rev. Ham
m<> 1 1 offered prayer, Humphries asking
t »• '<> kneel.
When the cap was placed over his face I
he said:
“Pull out the cap, it smothers me. I
Don’t put the rope around my neck too I
tight.”
THB DROP PALLS.
At precisely noon the drop fell, and '
the five foot plunge broke his neck. He i
struggled for several minutes. Three i
minutes afterward his contortion was
terrible and his pulse nearly normal. He j
was pronounced dead by a physician
after thirteen and a half minutes. He
was cut down and Dr. Whitaker and I
Captain Hervy closed his eyes, and the
latter assisted the sheriff in composing
his features. None of the family were i
' present.
The body was placed in a plain coffin
; and turned over to Andrew J. Banks, ;
< who took it to his mother’s house. Ht
I was hanged in a new check suit and he
wore a straw hat.
He is the third white man hanged in
Baldwin county. All were hanged about
women.
The confession which he made to Cap- )
tain Ennis was said to be too bad foi
publication.
KNIGHTM TEMPLAJL
At the Knights Templar grand en*
i eampment meet mg in St. Louis on Thurs
day, the proceedings of which were not
i made known until last night, the report
i of the eoumittee on credentials was re
ferred back to the committee for correc
tion.
The regrets of Charleston, 8. C.. com- !
mandery, No. 1, were read, and the at
tention of the committee on finance was
called to the deplorable condition of
, their brethren in that city.
The grand procession was at least thret
miles long.
The grand encampment, at its after
noon session, appropriated <2,000 in aid
of the knights who suffered by the earth
j quake in Charleeton.
SCHOONERS IN COLLISION,
I Ths Mary Ann Cat tn Twa by th* Nanisßsnnt
-l.aM es Lifb.
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 ding
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
psassngere were lost, one of them a lady.
CAUGHT BBTVTKBN TBI BAILS.
JM Eldridge, aged fourteen years,
who lives with his parenta near Oxmoor.
: on the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
wm walkißg on the track and hie foot
caught between the tie and the rail. He
heard the north-bound paesenger train,
and m he could not extneate his foot he
deliberately palled out hie pocket knife
tad tried to sever hb foot from his an
kle to eave hiawdt He fainted. The
engineer saw him, stopped the engine
reeoued him Hb &tber carried him
to 4b-. for medka! attro-
uee He will not bee hb foot, although
several baden end KMaata are seYerea.
FAWNING TO NONE CHARITY TO AI.L.
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1886-
A BOLD ROBBER.
In Ajjein Frightened by a Gan Which Was
Not Loaded.
One of the boldest robberies that has
eome to the notice of the police for some
time was perpetrated at Macomb, Tils
E. V. Kinsey, night agent of the Bur
lington road, at that point, was sitting
in the station reading, when he suddenly
became aware that the cold muzzle of a
shotgun was resting against his cheek,
while the voice of a masked man, who
stood just outside the ticket window,
demanded :
“Unlock that safe and deliver the con
tents, or I will kill you ”
Kinsey, who was a brave man, and a
trusted employee of the road, hesitated a
moment before complying with the de
mand, but when it was repeated with
added emphasis, he opened the safe, took
out a sack containing about SSO in silver
and handed to the fellow.
“That ain’t all,” growled the robber;
“give me the box or you are a dead
man.”
At the same time an ominous click of
the hammer warned the agent there was
no time for delay. He handed out the
box with its contents—ssßs in silver—
and the robber grasping it, whirled it
around and disappeared in the darkness.
King at once gave the alarm. The local
police were set on the trail and telegrams
sent out in all directions, but the thief
I made good his escape. A double bar
relled shotgun, unloaded, was found
standing just outside the building, and
it is supposed it is the one used to intim
idate the agent.
KNOCKED OFF THE TRACK.
A shocking accident occurred on the
New York, Providence and Boston rail
road, at the village of Poquonnock,
Conn. Benjamin Gardiner, a fanner, his
wife, and the wife of their son James,
while riding home from church in a one
horse wagon, were struck by the west
bound express train, going fifty miles an
hour. Mr. Gardiner was hurled a dis
tance of forty feet from the crossing, re
ceiving fatal injuries. His wife was
killed outright and Mrs. James Gardiner
died before she could be removed. The
horse was killed and the wagon broken
into splinters. The accident happened
at the crossing just west of the culvert,
a short distance from Noank, and as the
I railroad is banked up at that place, the
engineer on the express did not see the
party until within twenty yards of the
crossing.
SPANNING THE MISSISSIPPI.
A contract for a $1,000,000 bridge over
the Missouri river at Kansas City for the
J new St. Paul line, has been let. The
I bridge will be 1,200 feet long with ap
proaches of 200 feet. It will be of the
cantilever pattern, eighty feet above low
w ater, and when completed will be one
of the finest structures of the kind in the
country.
P. W. ALEXANDER DEAD.
After a long and painful illness, Col
| onel P. W. Alexander breathed his last
i Thursday at eleven o’clock. His remains
were sent from Marietta to Columbus
for interment. They went byway ot
i Opelika, reaching Columbus in the after-
I noon. The funeral services were con-
I ducted in the Episcopal church in Col-
I umbus Saturday morning at ten o’clock.
HEWSY GLEAHIHGS.
Ninx pupils in the Allegan, (Mich.) public
schools arc married women.
Hundreds of baby alligators are sold m
ladies’ pets in New York yearly.
Thkke are twenty-one murderdeni in the
I United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark. .await
ing trial.
California fruits have token the place
of Southern fruits in the markets of Rich
mond, Va.
The estate left by the late Miss Henrietta
Lenox:, of New York City, is estimated at
i some >10,000,000,
I Os the 187 counties in Georgia, 108 have I
absolute prohibition and twelve others have
partial prohibition.
Rbcurts from Louisiana indicate that the
I sugar yield of that State will fall about fif
teen per cent, below that of 1885.
Every day at one o’clock >300,000,090 sit
down to lunch in an upper room in the West
ern Union Building, in New York.
It will cost >I,OOO and take 6,000 books of
Kid leaf to gild the great dome at Notre
me University, Indiana. The work is go
ing on now.
Th« principal contributors to the London
fund for the Charie-ton sufferers are the
Rothschilds and Bal ing*. Each house con
tributes >3,500.
A BHoa-LASTTKO machine baa just been
invented in Massachusetta. By it on* man
with a helper can turn out 250 to 800 pairs of
shoes per day.
Thk greatest balloon in the world ha* been
constructed at San Fraucteco by a Mr. Van
Tha-el It will bold 15 >,tXX) cubic feet of gas
and has been made tor the purpose of traver*-
ing tbs American continent from ocean to
ocean.
A Dakota farmer, grumbling at the poor
; outlook for wheat in the early summer, ot~
fared to give to bis wife ail the wheat he
would bare ever 1,500 bushel*. He has
threshed a trifle over 8.500 bushels, and the ?
wife i* going to have a new black silk dress. ■
Wm Sore the Galatea Would Wl«
the Cap.
This gen Hem »n came over from Eng
land expreesly to see the Galatea take
bock the America’s cup The above »
an eccuratelikeneto of theaaagufoe geu
tlex ac from Gresd Eritian as he appeared
just afu.r the May dower oroeeed the
finieh ahead in the aeeond rao*. i
DAY AND NIGHT-
T"
When drowsy Day draws round hi* downy
bed
The Tyrian tapestries of gold and red,
And weary of his flight,
Blows out the palace light-
’Tis night!
11.
When languid Night, awakening with a
yawn,
Leaps down the moon-washed stairway of
the dawn.
In trailing disarray,
Sweeping the dews away—
’Tis day!
—lndianapolis Journal.
An Adventure at Zuni
In the northwestern corner of New
Mexico, and nestling in one of the fertile
valleys that dot those great deserts, is
found the Indian village of Zuni. Around
it are hgh table-lands and those
“buttes” so peculiar to the West, and
not far- away the horizon is bounded by
the Zuni Mountains, a part of ihe great
continental backbone. Emigrants have
gradually settled wherever a fertile val
ley has invited a plow-share, or a grassy
lillside a ranch, but this reservation has
for the most part remained intact.
The village where th* Zuni formerly J
dwelt was built upon the top of a butte |
which stands near by in the reservation.
It was an impregnable stronghold, and
for untold centuries these people held it
against the hostile tribes aro-tnd them.
The meadows along the river at the foot
of the butte suppl.ed their wants with
little labor, and as fast as the harvests
ripened, they were stowed away in the
granaries upon the top of the mountain,
ut in their security tney lost their war
like qualities, and just in proportion as
agriculture and the ruder arts progressed
among them, they have grown less sav
age and more timid.
Their houses are built of stone and
sun-baked brick, with the entrance
through the roof, just as they were a
thousand years ago. The householder
climbsup on a ladder, and thendjraws.
it up after him. The ds^ingvver6 i ’lso
constructed at first jBH
against enemies, !i nd
the protection th <•
can give, the custom h =
the following incident
In August, jyaL. a party of
connected v, if& Tarritori•
wax jttario'-i-.lnfer' '
riser Tht day before
band of "
the border, and made a raid upon jfie
adjacent ranches, and driven
ponies and cattle T.te Zu%i a
co ■ cred from their.
Mexicans disapj
had lui.-tiri auu t
bor and were organi
But there were g.
in the whoie party, and whem^®
men arrived with their rifles jbnffijjbftvy
revolvers, they were requea®aß|idS£d
them to the Zuni Indians du
days necessary for pursuit, f ..yww>to
the bad feeling which unireHnjße
vails against the thieving
leans,and the hospitable
had been accdMed
were eirily p'rsuaded
One of them,-
with his rifle, and
tained their
the Indians to take their other firms to
aid in recapturing their propert™|
The following day, while
men were scattered about the toW, some
reading, some sketching the quaint ob
jects around them, they were «Sittled
suddenly by a woman howlim* and
screaming from one of the housetops.
Immediately the cry was caughjf'up and
repeated, as other women out
upon their houses, until it that
the whole town had gone ma<yßr'rom
one end of the village, to the otu|r arose
the cries; eight hundred women and
children howling, screaming, beating
their breasts, and tearing their hair.
The young men gathered at their camp
in alarm, and inquired the cause of the
uproar. A band of Apaches was coming!
The women had espied them some d.s
tance down the river, creeping stealthily
upon the town. Evidently they had
learned that the men were away, and,
tired of being good, they had H ut on
war paint, left their reservation in Lin
coln county, and were but on a raid.
They were comi g now to butcher the
defenceless women and chii ireu., and
carry off whatever plunder they could
find.
There was a hurried consultation.
Some of the young men advised that they
should mount their horses and escape as
quickly as possible. leaving the women
and children to look out f<>r themselves,
for if they remained, what defence could
half-a-dozen boys, armed with revolvers,
make against seven times that number of
men I
But one young fellow, whom we will
call Stonewall W . remonstrated so ve-
hemently against deserting the women
and children that the rest of the ;»arty
yielded, and they resolved to remain and
make wi.at defence Hastily
collecting their ammunition
they climbed upon one of th* highest
houses in the village, and dn wtne lad
der after them. There, sheltered behind
the raised defences of the roof, thev
would be mos-t secure, and able to do
some damage to the asaiiante. ~
The party of A;.ache* cculd be seen
plainly in the clear atmosphere of this
region yet some distance down the river,
but approaching still, one behind the
other, in true Indian file.
It is no dia aragement to those young
men to say that they were thoroughly
frightened. It is one thing to re;id of
brave deeds and danger faced while
seated safely at hom?, but quite another
to find yourself in the heart of a wild
country, with two ecore of painted sav
ages creeping upon you. It was not
d ath alone that 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 aud fiendish, than these Apache
Indians. Formerly, in their long marches
acr xss the country, they would kill th<
old aud infirm when they begin, to im
pede their progress. and on one
when * squaw could carry n
her husband's trappings on acco«K|K
the pappoose in her arms, the fstbdto dr
the child from her, and
about him bv th da&edjw
•gijjst the rroond; then jxrintf'g j
lu£g .ge ai Ved on.
I 1.
While the young men were watching
the approaching Indians, some one sud
denly remembered that two white women
and an infant were in a house outside
the town, and in the direction of the sav?
ages. They were wholly unconscious of
impending danger, and unless warned,
would surely fall into the hands of the
Apaches. .. ;>*<.-•
But how were they to be informed of
it? At that distance they could cot hear
a call, and a pistol shot would not at
tract their notice.
The house stood in the level plain,
about a mile from the village, and 1 a
thousand yards or more from a defile in
the rocks through which the approach-,
ing Indians would have to enter the val
ley. Already the savages had disap'- j
peared behind the rocks and stunted i
shrubbery beyond the pass, and in SLfew i
minutes more they would be in the val-.
ley.
While they hesitated, Stonewall W
sprang up, and declaring that he would
see no woman murdered without makifig’
an effort to save her, threw the bidder
over the wall and began to descend, rifle
in hand, for it was he who had retained
his rifle. His companions called to him
to come back,, that it was too late to
reach the women and return before the
Indians would be upon him.
But they might as well have called to
a whirlwind. Every spark of chivalry
■ was aroused in the young man, and. had
; he known the Apaches would capture
i him, it is doubtful if he would have re
turned then.
In another moment he was upon hig
horse, flying across the plain toward the i
solitary house. As his companions
: watched him from the housetop, they
broke into a hearty cheer. It was truly
a gallant deed. A soldier may charge
the cannon’s mouth without flinching
when two armies are watching, and he
j knows his gallantry will be blazoned to‘
the'world; but to dare such fiends as
tWe, almost alone in the great wilder
: n”, for the sake of two unknown
truly heroic.
were th 6 w if e daugh
ter of * Dan Dubois. This
man had from Wheeling, West
. of years before, and
having tniqybid a Mexican women, »et
' tied hereltfln the Zuni River.
th 6 frontier country Du-
Ibhpta such a name for bravery
Hpid dariqraßpt his presence carried more
Eterror and thieving Mexicans
of soldiers. Many
HHgßpus feats are credited to him, but
it is he could draw his re
and shoot so quickly that the eye
mßnot detect the dfovgtojnt of his
naaa. rarely
fe&r wlh, unknown to
The Mexican wonyi ll
lllllßk'.-Ap- l:, ‘ afetes'U
~ • ’’•'d
f ' ’* T’:d the natural
had been so in
tensified in her that the sight of an
Apache w*s sufficient to her into
terror. /
StonewaU’Vkonipanions watched Him
till he had ridden across the intervening
plain to Dubois’ house: they saw him
. | spring from his horse and enter thqjtouse.
aud as yet the Apaches had not apjieared
.in the pass. *
Mexiflmi woman engaged
household -vork,” said Stonewall
ard, “whije the baby was playing
J nwF her on the floor. Her daughter, a
girl of sixteen years, was
seated py the door thrumming a guitar.
‘“Run for your lives!’ I said; ‘the
Apaches are coming 1 ’
“Snatcfiringithe baby in her arms, the
woman dashed out of the door, never
pausing for a question nor once looking
back tor the girl.
“I turned to follow her, for each mo
ment I was expecting tn hear the yells of
, the Indians about the house, but glanc
fing back, I observed the girl casting
after her mother such a look of scorn as
I have never seen on any other face, and
instead of following, she quickly took
down a rifle from the wall and fastened
a belt of cartridges about her waist.
“ ‘Run!’ I culled to her in Spanish,
'thinking she had not understood; *the
Apaches are in the pass!’
“‘I will not run!’ she replied,in Span
ish; ‘I will :sght them here!’
“Frightened as I was, I almost forgot
the danger in admiration for this girl
Born of a Mexican woman, she was afire
with her Virginia lather’s blood. A mo
ment before I had been thoroughly
■ scared, but her spirit was contagious,
and now I was heartily ashamed of mv
fears.
“I remembered now to have heard of
this girl at the fort, and that she was a
fine shot with the rifle.
“‘l’ll remain with you,’l said, for no
■ man Gould have left so bra ea girl to
. tuht alone. No time wa< to be lost,
j and we quickly barricaded the heavy
door.
“Nothing further was said, but her
quick, nervous movements showed her
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 the top of the hou«>e.
wnich, like'those of Zuni. was flat and
had a stone parapet for defence. As we
I came out above, the leaders of the
Apaches were just appearing through the
defile in the rocks. To approach us they
would have to passovera thousand yards
of level plain, and with the two rifles we
hoped to do some execution among them
before they reached the house, and then
defend oursebesas long as possible from
behind the wall upon the roof.
“When the savages had entered the
valley they paused as in consultation.
There were torty-th ee of them. They
were evidently surprised at seeing a
white man there, and were considering
if it were Dubois, for had they not
thought him to be in pursuit of the
Mexicans, they would not have ventuied
to make an k.
‘•presently they began to advance very
cautiously, creeping upon the ground so
as to expose as little of their persons as
possible to our fire.
; “They knew the man they saw was
aot Dubois. I was aware that we were
iu imminent danger, with scarcely a
chance against those savage*, but so
thrilled was 1 by the bravery and deter
mination of the girl standing mar me
fjjjifat I did not feel afraid, ."he had not
sines oar coming uivm the houre-
Sgp. but, dressed in her liidiau ©oetuwo,
fetes stendins.rifle in hand, watching the
IMi.ted towns o thry mw'-.ri pearer,
r Ups and her fine Spanish
ii she
wild animal at bay. I carried an excel
lent rifle, and hesitating no longer, fired
at one of.the savagqs. -• AJittie., cloud of.
(lust showed where., the list! najl
the alkaline land near a sage bust some
’ feet ‘ from the Indiah. A derisive
was the only response. ; ’ •
“ ‘Bad shot!’ said the girl, and taking,
a deliberate aim, she fired..
Swered her rifle, for; one of the ,Indians'
was wounded. They seemed somewhat
disconchi-ted by this, and- paused agaih;
onb their- line, began to
approach, once more. . =■ V--- J
, • .“Presently. there,.was a.whiff of sxht>ke,
among them, and | ball whistled so' nepr
. iny head 'that 1 douged.
The girl laughed at
I -evidently had the ’be^tv.ii£ek ,< inad&‘.and
i they.knew howto, use'them*' 'Wjxboth
: s.bield,e4 ourselves somewhat behind. t|e
“I w4B*.sufficiently acquainted with
Indian tactic VoNknow that”when they
had approached in-fair rifles;
they would make' a rush for’
and tinder the shelter of the w’a'ls fry to
break .the door or climb up to
where we were. r ’“ \
“That our last Tibuf had cojne I could
not doubt; ond it was 'horrible to think
of dying by those tieqd>. .
to pieces afterward,,. ■ < . I J
“But the girl stood observing them art
coolly as though they had bt ? en riihbits,
waiting till they should-be Within better
range of her rifle before hast ng more
again, for in another moment the sayagSs
might rush upon 'the house, clat
ter of'hoofs sounded behind us, and
turning, I saw Dan Dubois gallcping-Up.,
“The girl hurried down, and lofting
her father in, both were with
.other moment. par- *
apet in full view of the savages. Dubois
opened a rapid tire upon them. .Instantly
they recognized h m, and’ began a Imty
retreat. The distance was so" great*
that little damage was done amongjuiem,’
but .quite.. *, number,, 4s ”w.up • afterward*
learned J were sbghtly wounded. .
“The rest of Du bois’, party .was .only A
’ short distance behind ‘ with the iccap
tured'pohire avid cattle. As soon as they
reached the town they started* after the
Apaches, and some .miles away from
Zuni joined apprtybf tr .ops under Lieut.
Gilfoyle, who, having learned that thq,
Indians had left their reservation, wf®m
pursuit of them.
“The fight which followed a fewjd a js
later is a matter of history not
to relate here. Before being
the Apaches had murdered and s'calped.
forty men, women and children. ‘lh
every instance the heart was taken opt,
and the body itself was mutilated..ip
most shocking manner.”,— -Ydjnthlin..Gom- i
’V - *' i *
Party. ?
0 happiest time thjfc
Then
picki ruit, etc. The woods awr
alive with fat grouse anti, other
Streams throng with salmon and, mbiinp
tfoin front. An hoqr’s walk along the
beach half fill a' conoe with clams..
Ab ;ve fell it is the sdason of. potlatc|x
(free pfts). The man or w oman wishjng
distUctiou in that line notifies all friends
and relatives to assemble at some place
designate I. From Vancouver Isiaftaa id
the Br.tish mainland come “King
George” Indians, folb wed by their “Bos
ton” brethren in eightyriout canoes all
the way from Alaska. Across mountain
trails ebnre others on gayly trapped
horses. When-aibaro assembled the in
viter distributee . as.-, pteseiite rinehey,
food, dry goods, blanket,, etc,, as; Jong as
the stock holds opt. - Every guest.gives
to every other guest',, the entertainer alone
being prohib.tetf‘by 5 etiquette‘from*re
ceiving. At a potieteh-ItHtcr d -(-ban-old;
woman gave away sjlt-ia S&tirr.
dollar ß - For y : i»kl>g ß ».
washed at logging, pampjt, w.oikj»d, or
begged where/er possible to save ior llj's
occasion, ’the "gave away the Wirnkhtl
that formed her bed . As the-last canoi
pulled away.she hailed-it to wait a mo
ment. Back she ran to the camp , fife:
snatched off a I ttle old iron kettle or
cooking iish’arid gave that, top* leaving 1
herseli- destitute of everything uh efcrth
but the wretched rags upofi her fiir k. -As
compensatipn she enjoys the ho or of
chief potlatch u.itil excelled by another
with more means and amb.tion. There
u much fun at this family reunion iSnd
sapoliti” (plenty floiirj. By day
men hunt, fish, play games, horse’and
canoe race and g,in b e.® Women *-Mt
old friends, «cw up th«ii newly tec«-i,s6d
Clothes, kn t socksand rt’c.te
being a pecu ia ity of the t oast |ud[|h 8
that they never put b iiden Ijeafiujj br
dirty Work upon their*. wom>n, &mrjl
hunter at evening brings in and cootewbis
own game. Women bake biscuits in
Dutch ovens, roa-t. potatoes in hot whea
and make rest-boos epffee.
their lea t a fie -is built'w >r h see ing.
Herha-is young men have gone into th*
forest, hunted up n enormous p U:h-f4ne
stump, and brought it down the rbir on
alltheircan.es la-siud together, tjome
times a dozen men are neejdedtfo un pad
it. Children pile h'g i othei reSinons
woods. Crackling, rparing/tho fire Jeeps
as high to pim- tree’ top* and throws
strange shadows on the dark
moonlit river. Th* people
stories and sing native songs far into the
night.— Sin Frdhclxco (Jhronide.
n
How Long the Drownfed Re&i/ltfUiKler
’' "... Water. a s*' *
The New York Herald. «»ys of- rhe pro
cess through w hich the body o a drowned
man must pass before it will rise and
float <pi the surface’ and how*hrarijf. days
the body will rertiain' at the in*
hot weather: * * 4*“
In hot weather the lirocesa of the do
velop nent of gas n a bodv under water
twheth r salt oi fresn) tak s place very
rapidly in all the soft stru tures, but
especially in the intestines, causing a
di-teution of the abdomen, an f. c n*e- ;
quently, an expulsion of water ffotm the
stomach and of blood from ‘t&e h» ; axt,
while u timately the air passages are
cleared of any obstruction. Th* precise
chemical process by which thi-t gas is.
formed depends, of course, som wanton
the c<nt-nts of the stomach, though
probably carbonic acid and nitrogen are
among the chief pro ucts of the
putrefaction going on. The tw»i* re
qmred for a drowned body to float vftr.es
gre tly. In some well-atte-tcd cax-s the
body has ris a to the surface wi hi.i three
« davis, but generally this occurs between
the fourth &ad ninth dpys. The preems
of d composition is iMßially thought to
, be tntw rapid in fresh than in salt water
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S’ UMBER 35.
FARTBD,
The sflvar brook will mi*s thee,
The breeze that used to kiss thee,
~ And ruffle with a soft caress thy curls of
sunny hair:
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 bowers,
TVlllknow thy joyous smile no more; the
woodland stand forlorn;
‘k ‘ -I hear the soft complaining
1 Os birds, from mirth retraining,
; < ’Tljat greeted with their carols sweet .thy
: .waking every morn.
’ Poor mother! hush thy weeping,
'Above thy darling
Nor frat with aught of earthly grief th* etill-
nrs-i where he lies; fe
t 'J jFtojrers in his Lttle fingers,
.Where the rosy flush still lingers,
angels are his playmates on the
of parodise.
. Chambers's Journal.
H t" ni.'.*
’ PITH AND POINT
E. f
xff alb wo: k—-The
> 1- •’*' R ’ c '
a nrnn is the' refti>
foftune/'b.t ne ■-er gels enoMrato* ,a W '
• build. -±Caii.
’ '“What did your father leave yon when
he*A Oil;'•'Hit: ” . ‘faith, he e.t .me an
orphan.”— Tid. Bits.
is a curious fact that the sun never
..smges so hot qn the baseball ground** as
“ on the hardest field
If’ It "’was not for the weath r there
never would be any variety m s me peo
.<‘ple s conversation.— Siftings.
<• Swinburne says: “When young men
♦Y.yell-arme—-I smile.” We suppoß that
• is when -they yell: “Swinburne, come
k and take a drink.”— Loicell Courier.
..... ,“Qh, mamma,” said a little boy when
he saw a Chinaman for the first ti ue,
1 took at man wit h his trouser 3
thoked into his shirt:”*— Merchant Trav-
” eler. B*
l, »riDo you know the nature of an oqth,
•toa’pm?”.inquired the Judge. “Well, I
I orter,” was the reply. “Aly
husband drives a canal boat.” — MercharA
■ •
' She had a pretty hat;
< And she had a httle cough;
And her little cough, it is no harm tomentum,
; ' When in the church she sat,
1 Shook the plumes upon her ,
Lt And to its many beauties called
JHHi
spier
r ing line between tlukhat and the head.
—Blm&y Adcertiserl .
The man whose hair was bald last year,
Who swore about the flies,
i Now of these insects has no fear
And their attacks defies;
For their assaults cares not a fig,
Because this year he wears a wig.
> ’ * —Bo ton Courier.
j At a revival meeting in a country town
noflong ago a young convert, who was
hy btt. ness a milkman, arose to speak.
Just at that moment one of the brethren
atarted in with the hymn: “Shall wa .
Gather at the River.”— Puck.
The old man goes a reaping,
While his oldest girl is weeping,
As the kitchen floor she's sweeping, !
’“Oh, pa, I want a tt ieycle.”
While her dad, with fun so jolly,
- , Laughs at his daughter s folly,
And a sickle gives to Dolly,
i .1 •*, Aadhesays: “Well, then try sickle.”
—Goodales Sun.
;:'■*-
■ ■ .'Suh.Firecs of the Red Man.
A Cheyenne, Wyoming, correspondent
of the Denver Tribune writes: Advices
from Fort Washakie, in the bhoshone In
dian reservation, are to the effect that
the Shoshones, wh > for twenty years
’-have been-the friends of the whites, aid
ing the go* eminent in fighting the bipux
aud pther hostile tnb.es. are almost starv
ing, ’Whlle’the bioux are provided abund
antly. ’ The reservat on is thirty miles
square, and it conta ns 1,500 Indians.
The buffalo are extinct the antelope are
axceed-ugiy scar e. and the Indian are
comtieiled to subsist on jack-rabbits and
plrSrie-dogs, whi h are also scarce.
spring Arge numbers of Shoshone
children d e ol a a vat on. The supplies
w idiare Jurnwh dby the ov -r me -t
are meagre th t they la-t only as w
weeks, Th/ rctens of t aching these
Indiaifs Faiming'fs ridiculous, as only
<fee firmer is there attempting to tea« h
•thJn, and the seeds which are sent are
usually <eaten for a la k of oth< r f< od.
The toial anount of potatoes sent for
i seed was not enough io pl nt w< nty five
a'-ret and ab nt cn mgh w i a wis ir.r
--i4 dished to s<>w one hundr d at tes. Ht
teosive mttcbiny y was sent, w ti h is ti
ter y fcthhere is not : ng rp use it
wn. and ifee Indian .are igno ant of its .
usga DHMtfkie, chief of t. eS. o hones.
isT ty n .ue yea s Id. ‘He is infirm and
destitute, but he bn# held the tribe
Gevernnteiit. Should he
. dw there ji sure to be a revolt, and he is
almost oitt of patience. Tneir reserva
tion far from the railroads Two com
Mgjifrit'of white Infantry and one com
ply of colored cavalry are at I ort
Washakie. The Indians would be able
bfi'c ea/*out th -country quickly, and *
revolt is expected, if something is not
done shortly to relieve these starving In
dians.
- S'-.*,’ ~~
‘Restortn? Color to Fabrics.
The restoration of color to fabric*
. which fronx ope or ant-iher have
deteraor ited in thisrespp thas suggested
vur ois chemical applicati ms aid pro
teges. It has bees customary to employ
iritf 4 ’onia d>r the purpose of m-ut'alizing
srid« that h >ve aciddental'y or otherwise
: - destroye l the color of the stuffs, this
■ beta'4 neces ar ly applied immediately,
or thr color is usually imp -rfectly re
stored, An a ppi cation of chloroform
haX effect of bringing o tthe colors
• ft* bright as ever. Hu h good* and all
•r'iele dyed with aniline colors, faded
rom expo ure to 1 ght, resume their
oriuinui. brightness o! apnea ance after
• being -ponged with ch’orotorm; the
commercial chloroform, which is leas
eo s t!y than the purified, answers well
for thia purrxx-e.
, In great houses of former times and io
, some college* there were movable stocks
for the ourreetiotJ of the servaota.