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ALBANY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1875. VOLUME VIII. BUSINESS OAKDS. SAMUEL. E. YOUNG, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, GROCERIES, X BOOTS & SHOES, THRESHERS, X REAPERS & MOWERS, WAGOHS, PLOWS, SEED DRILLS, EHOADGST SEED - SOWERS, ETC t . Fir stret, Albm'r, Onpw Terms : -, Oasli. St. Charles Hotel, Corner Washington and First St., ALBANY, OREGON, Matthews & Morrison, PROPRIETORS. House nearly furnished thwrahont. The best the market affords always on the table. FreC rn to mm tr i the Ilonae. EscHaLge Hotel, Corner First and Washington streets, ALBANY, ORECOX, . E. S. Merrill & Co., Proprietors. tTnder the new management, this popular Rntal has been refitted and refurnished, and now offers the t ravelin)? public the best accom modation on tne most reaaonaoie lenns. 6-Free coach to and from the House. 33-: A CARD. AH. BEIA ft PARKER, late of Oregon City, br leave to inform tho public that they have purchased the entire stock ot drugs, med MnM. JIil . fnrmerlv awnedbv R. C. Hill A Son. and that they design continuing tho business at the old stand, wncre tuey purpose Keeping in -ne lorurc a lull asrorunem oi Dmg, Chemicals, Talent Medicines, . Toilet Articlct, Perfnmery. and everything 09unlly tound In a flrstrclass '"While earnestly soliciting a continnnncts OT the lineral patronage heretofore extended to the old honse, we nape at the same time, by fair and liberal dealing, and careful attention tothe ir.nt. t.f nHtnmf iK. to merit the esteem of any hew friends who may favor us with their or ders. . r , Part fcniar attention win oc givrn to t nc com- onnding of pnysician 's prescript ions miQ raui ily recipes. at an nours oi tne hours of the layor liisrnt. A. H. BELL & PARKER. Successors to lc. c liiu. A ao. Albany, October 9, irrMl Here's the Place I C Clauglitaxi tt received and Is ofterin ar for sale a well sclee- . . , tea siockoi - ceheral ; merchandise Which he Is determined to sell ATT THE LOWEST PRICES Das i , or MerchantaWe Produce Please give tne a call, and examine c2-rols. and Prices. II. CUCGHTOK Lebanon, Or. 15v7 P. C. DARPEB 4c CO., Eeolers In detkiac, Boots um3 Shf, Hata, Orate- rtem, Vmmrf ttootfeH Sotlowt Kbotn-oiui . i mm rmtmta, lUrroro, " " Willmwri Wool ana- Willow ,Wara Twrts ad TsJIms, - roebe CteUorr, Ac-, . SoM wry Ytw either for cash, or to prompt pay- Eat& Hepsg ' parjbtr Shop. trjnEBSifiSEa wmin u ect- . JL fully 1 1 ' thank tno eitien . him for tire r seven yfrs.ar,d hopes for thai fntnre a continual ion " "ji accommodation of transient cnstomers, and friends to tb upper Pt ofw.n J d heat little bop nexAocAr Taylor roa. aloon, where a good wof kman will always be In auendanee to wait upon P-..- Deo. 11, 1S74. . JOK WEBBHT. tfiSX-TOlSUl- IflTEHESTS ! Old Kftnn, Mower Tfcr1,er" Repaired and made almoat aa good a new OIZl""1' OACHipS SHOP Isnow'preTBredtoddallkfndsof ' Woo4 Tmrutas Bowlmo Md Dressalsnc, Alan, anv Ironwork and general Blacksmun- n the trade demand. . - . in,n. ib,icAta will be ke t tana at au FOUK-AGBE LOTS a to call on W. IL.JW.juD A OO.rerr. iarrhewbolacan tteTlsmteawlttTBry Ut- tt expense. . rn Jyito " W. H. DOW tt CO. Horn IMexest New Patents. Through dispatches to t)ewey & Co., Patent Agents, S. F., wo receive the following advance list of U. S. Patents granted to Pacific Coast inventors, viz: S. II. Holm, S. F. bridle bit; W. F. Jeans and IX H. Bnlley, Ferndale, Cal., machine for counting stock; D. L. O'Con nor, Covelo, Cal., baling press. . DIED. September 3d, 1375, Charles W. Infant son cf James and Martha Depuy, aged 1 year, elevcu months and eight days. v Hpeelal Kotjces. Cork Soie3.-H. Fllndt makes a pair of genuine cork soled boots for $16, and makes any kind of boots, just as ordered. He also has boots bn hand. 50ml Lumber Eon Sale. Mr. F. E '. Robln- son is prepared to furnish nrst quality Lumber at the foot of Washington Street. (Jail before contracting. 30tf N'ew FlRNT. Snm Miller ha9 boueht the Wnr- on and Sinithshop heretofore occupied ly Peters Snciilel. tocether with tbo material pnd unfinished work, and is now prepared to fnrntsh onvthinpr in nis nnc. consisting or Cnrriiures. Bnsrzies. Lumber W asfOns. Hacks. c, and senerai simtningr nearly anu wnn uis patch. I employ none but the best of nicclinii- cs. and insnre satisfaction. AH wortr war ranted. I think I can make It an object for vou to buy of me. tn price, style ana auraomi y of work. I use the best of material, hickory and oak, from the Eastern States. Call and e amine for Yourselves : all I want is a lair trim. I Have Had several years oi exrionion iui coast, and with the knowledge thus gained, aia certain I can please you. I (ruarantee to sell tor cash as low as can be bought in this city. A larse lot of lumber wagons, side and end spring carrintres and hacks on hand. Patronize borne manufactory do not send your money off out oi tne country, act- tne part oi wise iiit-n, mm bulla up your own aiate, ana you m prustH-T 0.11 Premium Chaiks. Those wishing; to nroenre the celebrated Metzler chair, wil taKe notice mat none are treimie tuiiess the name J. M. Metzler appears on tlic back of each chair. 44 tf. VARIOUS "TODllER.- The best sermon in the world won't stand an e;ghteen-minnte prayer. The new 6tyle of pantaloons to be worn this Fall will be largo enough to tie back. An Ohio pulpit has been made into canes and in thw manner still assists peo ple to lead an upright life. The best way tor a man to acquire a nne now oj i.nvsuazo is to siuo ni' toe against a raised brick. """If you wish" to make an editor mad ucr than a luarch hare just whistle in his Fanctura when he lstiyinsi to write a leader. The well-bred gentleman will not spit on the carpet of a lady's parlor while there is a match-box within easy reach on the niantlepiece. fceven iennessee women are mana factrwers ot whisky, and they make as poof liquor as any roan can. Swan B has many such things to etiebnrage her. A Nevada woman has a pair of gloves and a pair of shoes made from tlie hide of a Pawnee Indian,- and si says she'll never wear any other kind A Pennsylvania woman recently hung herself somehow with a corset This is the first instance on recod of woman who didn't know that corsets are unhealthy worn about tho neck. Nowladies, listen to this. A Cana dian priest has given notice that he wil refuse the bacrament to those wearing low-necked dresses or pull-back-skirts, Any young man who has not been in jail, and is 'tired ot standing around 6ghting flies will find that this is good time to go to California and start a bank. A correspondent asks why it is that mosquito bito is generally more poison oua to a woman than to a man ? Prob- Lablv becaupe it is only the. female mos- r - quito that bites. 2 Id Burlington, Vermont, three churches were, recently struck by light ning, net ' a number "of persons, who were at prayer-meetinC'g. were knocked down.' A terrible warning to church goeri. Wi caiA all o' us be great" re marked a seedy but benevolent philoso pher. "Some of us ha'e cot to-' run peanut stands, or children would gfow up comparatively unaccustomed to lax Mrs. Princo'of Wales has fifty-fouf Saratoga trunks, and yet when She' goes traveling she can't' find room for half her clothes. All women must -jiave something to cast a shadow over" an otherwise happy Hfe. - Tho dawn ot treedom tor women is seen in Kentucky. It is seen because Mrs Lovejoy left her husband and soven children when given her choice between that and lecturing on woman's When a Massachusetts man walked. seventeen miles to see a man hung, and the prisoner was respited, the disgusted traveler sat down in a fence corner and hoarsely inquired if this country wis drifting back to barbarism. A Cleveland tlentist committed suicide because he failed in his efforts to invent f sovereign remedy against the toothache. -His s access would have ruined the profession, and his colleagues are not wearing mourning for the de ceased. The young ladies of Abbot Academy were told by Prof. Smyths, of Andover, that while he was "not prepared to send them forth as captains in the social ship, there would be no difficulty in their going as first mates." Silver has been discovered in North ern Michigan in gratifying quantities. The. testa made from the vein rock give aresultrof $45 ,34 per ton, and people are rushing in to buy up the land. This district is in Ontonagon County, Upper Peninsular. She was an athletic and deeply reli gious, and "Here I raise my Ebenezer," she sang softly, as she lifted her hus band, Ebenezer Johnson, off the 6toop with an application ot her foot to his coat-tails, when he came home a little inebriated. A Cincinnati paper attacks the New York Herald for using the word 'gents.' The Herald is right. There are 'gents,' plenty ot them. They carry little canes, eat with a fork only, and smoke to ex cess. " The world would bo a wilderness without its 'gents.' A professional gentleman known when at home as "Arkansns Bill," has been traveling through Texas incog., dressed in dilapidated rustic garb and childlike and bland smiles, and bank rupting Texas generally at games of cards which he at first appeared not to understand. . They are talking ot abandoning the system ot giving prizes to Sunday scholars up in Willimantic, Connecticut, since they found a few weeks ago that the boy who won a copy of Paley's "Evidences of Christianity," had traded it off tor a meerschaum pipe and quart of peanuts. Six skunks got into a Pennylvan"a camp-meeting last week, and after stand insr it as long as he could, one of the brethren rose and remarked : "If you all say so, beloved, and I think you will, we'll get out of this. . The Arcl Enemy of mankind must be stirring up his fires, for I am sure I smell the gas." A sirrn of the giving way of caste theories in India was the recent mar riage of a native widow in fJomby, Over 500 friends wsro present at the ceramony, including a number of ortho. dos Brahmins. The groom was leading member ot the Parthana Somaji and the bfide belonged to the highest Hindoo caste. A candidate' for a vacant vicarage in Englan announces an invention of his own which mav prove to be useful. It is peculiar arrangement of the pulpit with a clock to give warning:- When at the end of the halt hour" the clock sounds an alarm, if tho' reachef Joes' not conclude within three minutes1, down comes the pulpit with the parson and the rest of the appendages. , . - ' ...... . In 1874 Lafe Lane, present Demo cratic candidate tor Congress, ; thought Republicans were ' honest men good enough men for him and- he supported a ticket, composed mainly of' Repub licans, tor. the several offices in Donglaa county. During the canvass he said he had been deceived in the Republican party, as he had been led to believe that it was very corrupt and its members dishonest; but a -better acquaintance with the principles advocated by the party and the1 members' composing it convinced , him that his, previous im pressions 'were wrong -f and done tha party- injustice; that ; the principles were correct and the advocates' of those principles honest and, truthful men Mr. Lane, then, was a good Republican -the principles ' of the Republican patty were good enough for even the pure and unsullied statesman. Late Lane, in 1874." ' Bu haVdly a' twelve- month expires, , and . he receives the nomination for Congress at the hands of the Democratic party, when he and denly becomes convinced that the Re publican party i really the most cor rupt and rotten political power that ever cursed this fair land! Now,' while we would not assume,' of course,1 that Mr. Lane is a political weather-cock and liable to change with every breeze, yet there are those who will incline to the', opinion that ha posses&sea the faoultyjin theflargest degree, ot adapt- ias himself to any line of policy of tak ing any pddtion, politically, that looks to the advancement of Lafb Lane. " SIGSIF1CA3IT. -.."T. - We have it from the best ot author ity that the Catholic priest at Jackson ville denominates ' Mr. Lane as ' "the Pope's candidate"! ft is understood that special orders have been 'sent to Coos and Curry counties to the faithful to support Mr. Lane, because he is the Pope's candidate. ' Every other consid eration is to be laid aside, and the faithful required to work withlnight and main lor Mr. Lane s election,' be cause the Pope sees in' him one .of the pillars of the Catholic" Churchy who will do what he can to break , down and overturn our tree school system. Do the people of Oregon want , such a ' man in Congress? v During a thunder storm in Maine the ightning killed a horse worth $300 and never touched an old cow which had just kicked a woman senseless. . - ' ; 111 ' "-..,..-1 A New York. 6tate farmer has a cow which loves to get drunk on whisky, and supply the fanily with milk-punch. In what color should babies be dress ed? Why, in-fancy colors, ot course. HALTERS PUB SIX. HALF A DOZES FRONTIER DESPERADOES HANGED AS EXTBAORDtSAKY SCENE AT I.ITTXE ROCK, ARKANSAS A BLOOD-CTTRD-tlNG RECORD OP OnTME MURDER FOR MONET, REVENGE aStD WANTONNESS COOL TO TflE LAST. . .... : : The following account of the hanging of six men at Fort Smith, Arkansas on Fri day, the 3d instant, -and tho crimes for which tliey suffered, is condensed from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat t ' . The six men executed were named John Whlttinetoii, Daniel Evans. Edmund Campbell, James Moore, Smoker Mau Killer and Samuel Fooy. wurrrrsGTos 4 lived in poverty with a wife and two chil dren, near the lied riyer, in Pickens coun- tv, Chickasaw Nation, and was sentenced for a murder committed in that vicinity on Snndav, Feb. 7th. -Oil the day in question V hittington and John-J. Turner, a neigh- Dor, startea in company, across tne river. On the evening; of the same day, while re turnincr, Whittii.gton knocked his compan ion offi Ids horse wlttfaclub, rendering him senseless, then deliberately cut bis throat from ear to ear.-. Tbtrobject wasol course, robbvry, -Whlttingtwg knowingtha'FTOfner nati juo on tns peroiwnicn tie Immedi ately possessed himself ot Turner had a son. not out of his teens, who, a short time prior to the murder. ( rod el out to meet bis father, and while CTWSing(a , small prairie noticed a man and two horses near the cde-c ot a strip ol woods ahead of him. The man's peculiar actions aroused susnlcion. as he seemed to be busily1 engaged with some ina isctngutsnaoie ooject on tne greuna As the disbmce lessened- betwesn the boy ana tne odjccb or nis iwtenuon- ne recog nized VVhittington. a-ho at once mounted his horse and rode off at full speed. The lad was hoi rifled on : behoMine tlie dlsflar- ured corpse ot his father, and immediately started to wreaii a terrible vengeance on tne cut throat. He came up with Whittlneton at the river bank, and compelled him to surrender at the month of a - derriiicer. Whittington afterwards escaped, but was again captured, and has been confined in the Fort Smith latl for the past six months. A knife, covered with blood and recognized as belonging to Whittington, was found near Turner's body, and Turner's money. wnicn was oisa identified, was lonna on Whlttington's "person after his capture. Thero was not the shadow ot doubt as to his guile j r,, i j ..- ( . . " -r TliE 'MCRCEBSra IVANS Was a native ef Tennessee and has not yet attained hisrjnajorirf fWbile traveling from Denisoiv Texas, in November last, with a yomig inan nasneerVilllam R. See bolt, he killed" Ms -eouiparlon and was con victsd'ol tb mnrdmv lie. was seen in com pany With Seebolt j ; 8 prior to his disap pearance, and Immediately after .the mur der was seenridirtw Seebolt's . horse and leading his" own: . I - body, which was touud about a wek a r the murder,- was" identified by a r : ;tuly worn over the left eve. and t pinorjindnm con taining notes iii t . t his relatives, from which wa csctu iaS;..ed tliat he be-. longed tor a " " mother resl i and be b&3 Missouri, arrested a . Creek Xa- -. -.a led a wiid i re fin be iu" a wi wore bis Victim's t rest, and give See one of the- hrwy Evans was utteri. When sentence w; -rati" family. Evans ,qne countyr Texas, relatives living in i Tennessee. .He was 'a house, nearEufala, - irderer has always r . life, .how : reckless let is .tated that, he '4, long after "hU ar horse 1u a fee. to 9 defended him, '3, and .hardened. ..... ed tnou him ho lauirbUisiy aM : : (.v u-iit you. - - "c A full blooded negro, . J1 bom? near Scul ly villc, Choctaw Nation, twenty year ago, and the crime for which he was tried and convicted was an unusually"-heinous one. On Febronry 13th, accom panted by bis thirteen-year-old brother Sam, and Frank Butler, a half brother,, he clandestinely visited the house of awson Ross, and killed him, as well as ft young colored girl reiidjng with fctm. EdmnutT and the half brother, Butler, were both arrested, and Campbell admitted having had a -hand in the crime, but asserted that' Butler did the actual killing. His only defense was that several years previously; his father' and mother had been injured by the murdered man, and the deed. wa! committed tofsat isly an overpowering longing for revenge. Butler was also oonvlctedv and would have ended bis existence by means of a hempen tie, were it not for the fact that he stte tutt ed to escape and was kiUed by, the officers Of the law. - :.-7 "" ' ' As he calmly stood Uctng Judge' Parker, was a perfect picture -of the Western des perado.. Orwr slx- fee-in night massive shouldered ar:.l tMt trom the ground tip. he was ;"'" I rpeciraen of physical manhood. i i ; boyhood' p he had led the wKd lzi cattle herder,; and of necessity had tn'wd in many a bloody 8criinmag-wf;,j"i;, redskins-- Bis asso ciates were ct t"ia w: rst .clasaand thoogh -ha was bn twey-e, bt yaara of age, nu merous bloody deeds baa been placed to his credit. The crime for which Moore suffered the extreme penalty of tlie law was committed in the Indian Territory un der following circumstances : About a year ago he brought some stock to Washington County. Arkansas, and after disnosinir of it lie and a confederate named, Huntou stole some horses from a farmer named Fox. who was a cripple. Indignant citizens Oh learning ot the outrage, at once .started in pursuit of the thieves and hunted them for 200 miles into the Indian Territory. As the chase became hot, the vhrilarues were joined by Cant. Erwin, a former United states deputy marshal, and a companion named Spivey. , The horse-tliievea . were brought to bay on a little creek near Red river, and tliey concluded to turn on their pursuers and show fight. At the first fire Spivey was killed by Hunton, and Erwin Daaiy wounaea oy .Moore. .Extra exer tions were then made to capture the thieves, and they resulted in success. Hunton, however, again succeeded in escaping, -was again pursued into the. Indian Territory, and killed. Moore's wife andtwo children. subsequent to his Incarceration, moved to the vicinity of ort Smith, where thev now reside. - SMOKER MAK-KTLLER "i ' Was a full-blooded Cherokee. Wm. Short, a popular young white man, living in the Flint district, was his victim. The scene of the tragedy is about forty miles north of tuts piace. exactly one year ago last Wednesday, Short, who wss a mere boy. being aged only 19, Started out on a bunt ing expedition. Smoker-man met him and asked to be loaned the gun for a few mo ments, vine request was compiled witu, when the red demon, true to the blood thirsty Instincts of his race, stepped back a lew paces, pointed tne nre-arm at nis ac commodating friend immediately pulled tne trigger, snort s aeatn was instantane ous. The deed was witnesse'l by two men who chanced to be in the vicinity, and who identified the murderer. The proot was positive, not only on this account, but be cause the fiend openly bragged of his crime. He was arrested at once oy the United States authorities, and speedily convicted. The prisoner's record was an unusually bad one. Though quite young, he has a wife and child. A few weeks prior to the crime for which he was convicted, he killed one of his own tribe, and was acquitted by the tribal laws, of course, no one ever having been punished for murder iu that territory. . FOOT AND DIS TERRIBLE CRIME. The murder for which Fooy was con victed was one of tre most extraordinary on record, and may well be classed among curiosities of crime. In the winter of 1871-72, John Km-nett Naff, a young school teacher, left Leavenworth, Kansas, for the Indian Territory. Being an indus trious young man, of fine address, and anx ious to work, the Cherokee trustees placed him In charge of a school near Tahleqnah, where he remained from February to July, 1872. Desirius to return North, Naff re signed his position, and on tlie 16th of July, in the same year, after receiving $200 due him by same school trustees, he started on foot towards the salt works on the Illi nois river. ' The next night he slept at the house of Caut. O. R. .Stevenson, deputy United States marshal. A member of this household was the murderer's sister. In the RMirniiiSi when aljeul t- take- M-d parture, Mr. Naff tendered to the lady of the house a $o bill, from which liny cents wa3 to be deducted for his lodging. There being no change in the house. NafFagreed to leave the amount due, fifty cents, in the store a, the salt works, and lie and the pris oner started for that place, Naff carrying a small traveling satcnei m nis nanu. lie was never asam seen, and the supposition was, of course that lie had continued on his journey north. Three residents in the vicinity know better than this. About the 1st ot August Fooy called upon a brother- ni-iaw named jueattie ana connuea to mm the terrible secret that he had murdered the school teacher.- Beattle did not betray the trnst. A tew weeks afterward Fooy again unbosomed himself, and this time a woman was his confidant.' For the time being she also kept the secret, and but for an accident the crime would doubtless never have oeen revealed. An ludian boy discovered the skeleton on a high bluff on the shore ot tlie Illinois river, and some papers, which proved his identity. Fooy was arrested Those to whom he had confided appeared against mm, anu nc was convicted DEATH ON TOTS SCAFFOLD. The six men, Moore, Evans, Whitting ton, Fooy, Campbell and Smoker Man kill er, were placed upon the scaffold, Fort Smith, at half past 9 o'clock this morning There wa3 a strong guard placed about the scaitoid, commanded by Captain Whitten, formerly of St. Louis. The death warrants were read by Majors Pierce and Blank, and it was interpreted to Smoker Mankiller by Captain King, official interpreter to the dis trict court. . The ministJerp then performed their functions,- and a- hymn was suns:. Father" Smith' ministered to Evans and Moorel The services were brief.' .iFhe ex ecutions were well managed. The men cjied comparafively easy. They were as brave men as ever mounted a' scaffold. With death lust before them they never flinched not a nerve trembled. They went bravely to death. Just as the black cap was dropped over tho face of Evans he waved a hand kercnier toward tne crowd, and bade farewell hi a clear ringiner voice Fooy smiled pleasantly jtist before he was shut out from seeing the forever. sight of heaven V A Difference. "Brother Smith, wliat uoes tn is mean r . ... , . - --m IVlid f- rlswia vltaf tnaen f" "Bringing a nigger to this church; v "i m pew is my own."? . 'Your own ! is that any reason why you should insult the whole congregation t" ' "But be is intelligent and well educated.? 'Who cares for that he is a nigger." "But he Is a friend of mine." - e -r "What of that? Must you therefore in sult the whole congregation?" "But he Is a Christian and belongs to the same denomination." ; ... -i 'Wbat do I care for that? Let him go and worship with his fellow niggers.- ' . . "Bui he Is worth five million dollars.' "Worth what?" ' ,,. , r - v s "Five million dollars,' ? "Worth five million dollar!' Jerusalem! Worth five million dollars! Bro. Smith, Introduce me." - -: --'' r n,- ' . r- , J At Cumberland, Ind., an altercation oc curred between McMurrty and Lew YeAtch brothers-in-law, which resulted h Veatch shooting Murray with a shotgun, the dis cbarge tearing one of his arms off and oth erwise lace rating his body, causing Imme diate death. ' Tr " The railways in- India: seem to run to bridges. An .English firm has . built, no less than 18,000 Iron bridges for the Bom bay. Saroda, and the Central India' and Indian railways. . The last constructed and sent out is to have an entire length of 9,083 feet. o y -; ..rJlti, 3. ,f j-4 1 Advertisement in - the ; San' Francisco Call : "Notico-I will not be responsible for any debts contracted; by cay wife, Maria A. Charnay, she having put me out of the house Antoine Charnay..' IAW AJtD LAWTEIM. '. :". BY 3T. QUAD." -V,f. I happened to pa ss a corner the other day just as Mr. Kennedy struck Mr. Thomas a left-hander on the nose. I saw the blow struck;-1 saw, Mr. Thomas fall; ! saw Wood; I even halted and explained to' Mr. Ken nedy how a man could get along in this world without either fighting or running. Mr." Kennedy was arrested: Tr enough to arrest: him. If a man argues witn another man, knocks him down to en force his particular views, and doesn't ex hibit a meek and lowly spirit after the fit of anger 1ms passed away, it is but right that he should be arrested. , . His Honor the Judze made , mo tVrt solemn oath to tell the truth. He mlo-ht have judged from my. looks tiiat I would tell a deliberate lie about a' one-horse knock-down, vr perhaps be hoped I weald perjure myselt and elve him "a chance to send mc to prison for five or ten years. The counsel for the nrosecutlon thcri wanted to know .what my name was. I had lived next door to him for eleven years, but yet he suddenly suspected that I might be John Smith or William Patterson. Aft ter I had satisfied him that my name was my name he wanted to know If I lived In Detroit. He could have walked from .the court to my house blindfolded, but be per sisted in the question. Then he wanted to Know u i lived in "Detroit County of Wayne, State of Michigan.". He seemed to suspect that the name of the county bad been changed, and that I didn't know whether I lived in Ohio or Michigan;- but I satisfied him. ?. . , All this didn't take tin half an hour's time, and then he wanted to know if I saw the difficulty between Kennedy and Tliom as. I was quite sure I saw it, but he didn't seem to be. He wanted to know if I saw the blow struck; if 1 was certain I saw - itf if there was more than one blow ; if there were three blows; if there was any kicking; and after another half hour he seemed to believe that I had seen some part of the difficulty, if not all of It. - The counsel for the defense had been im patiently waiting, and as soon as I was lumen over to mm, no uegnn : you say your name is yuau?" "Yes, sir." "I want the jury to remember that! And you say yon live in Detroit?" "Yes. sir." "Let the jury remember that this man says he lives in Detroit!" exclaimed the attorney as he gave me a fierce look. He made a note of the fact himself and then continued : 'Now, sir, uo you own the house you live In?" "Yes, sir." "You hear that, gentlemen ?" he said. turning to the jury. "Now, sir, is there a mortgage on that house ?" I object!" said the counsel for the pros ecution, suddenly springing up. "You do, eh?" "Yes, I do. I can't see what bearing the question has on the case." . "Well, your nonor," replied the other lawyer, facing the desk, the question is vital one a hinge question- We expect the answer to that question will prove the innocence of tny client." His Honor leaned back as if the fate of kingdoms depended on bis decision. - and the lawyers read from the Twelfth Michi gan report, the Seventeenth Massachusetts, the Ninth New York, tlie Eleventh. Vei mont and one or two others, and for an hour and a half the case was put aside. Tbey finally got through, and the court de cided that I need not answer the question. It was then noon and the court adjourned until two o'clock. . ; . ; When the court opened in the afternoon the lawyer resumed the cross-examination by asking : : : "How old arc you?" "Thirty-two." -' '.Thirty-two! Didn't you tell me this morning that you were fifty-five?" "No sir." "You didn't, eh?" "No, sir." '"Remember, sir, you are on your oath ! Be careful, sir! Now answer me, aren't you forty years old ?" " "No, sir." He noted the answer down and then asked: "Haven't you been arrested for, man slaughter?" . i "Never." ' ' ' i - : - : "What? Remember,' sir, yon are on oath!" . : - "Were ydu ever engaged in a riot?" "Yes, sir." s ! .. , ' "Ah! you were eh? Let the jury make a note of that ! , This case is becoming in teresting, and before we get through with it we will make tlie prosecution open their eyes! Now,-then, when was the riot?" "Iu 1870." . , . ' "And where ' 'Un La Crosse." -" "Tell the jury what started' it and what part you took, and the sentence 61' the court in your case." i . ; "We hung a lawyer to a lamp-post for for " ' ...... . "What??' be yelled,- slinking his fist, "am I td be insulted by this witness, your Honor?" ;' Tlie tWO attorneys then brought in an other pile of law books, and after arguing tor an hour the court decided that tlie de fense had no right to ask roe tbe question. The cross-examination was then resumed by bis asking: : t "You saw the difficulty?" - f - "Yes, sir.""- " "You swear to tliat?" i ? ji. -i "Yes, sir." - , . . . . - "And you say the plaintiff struck the de fendant nrst?" '.:...,; "No, sir: it was the other " way." , -Now, sir, look me in the eye and? tell me which man struck first," "The defendant.'? " Heifld?" . . -- -' - - " ' ... "Yea, sir." . , , . . "Look out, Mr. Quad, you are under oath, and if you swear to a lie the punish ment will not be less than one year In State prison.- Do you say that my client here kicked the defendant m the stomach?" . "No; sir." , - ; "rAh, ' I thought my warning" would touch you.; So my client nfiwin't kick te r)lalntiff ?" - - f "No, Blr."" " -v' - : "Nor bite him ? " , .-;--,' j "tin. , . i ' "No, sir." . "Nor draw a revolver on feimT ,r ''No,sir.", .. i . r, , l"Weli Mr.' Quad that'k all. : Oh! by the way, did you ever have a fight With njy client??? -4 t .tvi..-. '..'-.J tNcssir." . ,- "Didn't you threaten to shoot him about a year ago tn. . , , v . "No. sir. "'"St" X ' As 1 was the only witness,' the lawyer . at once. Went to bnsicesvand a the titird day after the suit commenced tbe etsa was S.ven to the jurr, "and the jury jxoczz'.? eared th deicndantC 'possibly on' t grcuna tnat l never votea tor Anarew Jackson. "Hallo, stranger, you seem to be"goIng to market?" .,. , "Yes, sir 'I am." "What are yott'earryine that' plow along fi" .- ... '. :. . uomg to send it to nttsourgn." . . "To Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania?" . "Yourre mighty right;-1 am." "What are you going to send It there' tor?". :v. ;y .'v;f "All the way to-Pittsburg to get sharp" !ned?" - ... "You bet! We've sUrverTour blackamltJi. out; he pulled tip stakes the Other dajrandr went to Tt'''' s " . Well, tliat's a rather novel faea. my . friend scndinn a dIow so-far to get sharp- ened' -- . t t t joi so novel as yon nesra a was . 'Yoti're right tt i; vf tm& to have tr- mill at Pdnklrivine Creek, but. the, owner got too puur to neep u op, ana so wo turned to getungour. gnnoing done ftt t. Lottis.".- ,';: - ' - - -c . . You don I mean to say via eend. .tocT grist all the way.to.St. LouU by rail?". .. -'xatou'c say nouisng aoone grtsc we hain't got no grist :efc send J3et we " jgefc our flour and meal from St. Louis." " . "I see you. have a bide in your wagoa." "Year our old' cow died last week. March winds blowed the life out'a her., Sendin' hide to Bostoh to get it tanned.' "All the way to Boston? ' Is nee that rather exMnslve," my friend . The treights, will eat the hide up." , ..... "That's a fnet cleaner than zm bnzaird did the old carcass., But what's tbe use' bein taxed to' build -rauroada 'tbout Tea trpt the pohd ofemf. .. IJaed to have a tan- yard over at Lickskillert and a sboem&ker,"' too. uut they're Kernumrauxea.'.' u '2 i "KerfiUmmnxed What's that?" . , you and me,: fSat's .mighty nigh .the case' ullh run- Stis-'' ' ' X- -' "IE means, xrone im s mni-aoO'iHU "When do you expect to get your leather?'.' -a-... . "Doh't expect to eit no leather at aa expect to git shoes, some day,' made at . Boston or tliereabouts." . ? J -t "Rather, a . misfortune to lo&e a muca' CoW, taf frFend'.'' ; : .. . . . . . . -; Not so .mucn a misrorrane as yon oenru. , it was. Monstrous sight of ehrtttklm' ana ( nubmin' a cow, and milkin her night and morntn' and gettin' only about three quarts. a day." - -. ....... . "vv nat are you going. to 09 or hiuu - "Send North for it.' . f eud North for milk?" , ; "Yes; concentrated rm"S and Qoshea! butter.". "OhM see the point."'-"" - -; .-: "Mighty handy tilings these railroad, make them Yankee fellers do afl our Jobe tor US' now do puf arttltliih' and gtlnofn and tannin' and milkin' and churnln V "Yes we go our bottom niekle on -cotton. Sendin". it up to Massachusetts to get it carded, spun and woveV .nme'ir come when we'll send it there to bs giru ned then we'll be happy. Monstrous sighs of trouble rnnnlngthese gins." "That would be rather expensivey sead lrn Tfntton in scedt" -r"-- : ;. '. . '. ':. " "jno more so man uiem vy estem ieuera pay when they send corn East and get a dollar a bushel and "pay six bits freight. Besides as I said, what is tbe use ot py in for railroads 'thdht we nse tm roads? -"You seem to appreciate tbe advantages of railroads." 5 "I think we ought we pa enough for" 'em." ., "I reckon you' ffcttfcn'your own pork?' , "Well,-you reckon- wrong, strangei . I get them Hlinoy fellers to do that for me It'a mighty convenient, - too monstrous . sight of trouble toting a big basketful of corn three times' a day to' hogs in a pen' especially when yon balnt got nohfl to tote" it to:". . ' . "I should think so.' .. "There's one thing lacking though' to make the business complete.' i t "What's that?" ... tj t.j UUUH IA O-GUU bJIX2 mgVjiyi a&kVI cobkedv - Cookin and preparln'1 wood tor' cookin' takes up a heap of time that ort by rights to be employed in" the cotton patch.' I was sayih' to my Old' woman the other day. if we MississloDl folks got our cookin. and washin' done up- North- and sent bV. express, we'd be as liappy k ofScaMlders.". "Youre horse in the lead there seems to be lame." .; .J1--j - - - "Yes,- needs' shoelh. " If he wasn't "the only horse I've got, and can't spare him I'd send him up where they make tae horse shoes and' natUr and get him ahod.' Can't get such a thing '-dond ftr :ur parU perhaps 1 can at the depot." , . ' "How do yCtf manage to live In yonlr parts, my old frleftd?'V 4. ' ... , "Why. we ral cotton. My mad tarna offhere, stranger,-1 Gee, Bali, back Brandy I'm giaa l scea Weekly Democrat, you atranger.' -Watch Aaether Bey Ftead. A boy desirous of emulating Jesse . FonV eroy has turned up In Newton, llasi. " Ills name is Archibald Jdaisdh. and tS Eoaoa 3oi?'repdrfe'' lila -"'estniteafioli ' ii&iiti a1 Police Court.' h.yitm -mO ' . Jack86n,vw1iois eighteen, ysara of agev with a boy named John Dwyer," nine yars ydiihger, and "who was Intimidated tnia, joining : him, . succeeded in getting' . ti Mullen child into the field, where Jadvia1 deliberately stripped him naked 'and-t": tat administered to jBm a wvere wh' after which' he rroc4-- " to taunt Cue 1 . , fellow on his helplts eondteldn.- IftiU thus engaged, Jackson saw approaching" a young glrU" about eleven yttun rf ,' whereupon he tied te limbs of te 2 ran' boy ahd then-aeiwd the girl ami k 1 -her fca' t5 prostrate form of his little viea; cotn pellfrig, her to gaze upon the cMld ' ttr nndity. After eatSsfyir" irs dyli?h! ,f e- pensltles in, this manner he released t'a, rfrL wlio fled at once. Then 'he catler' young llnllenrswh frf -i raptiTy ,-r t was about to depart, 1 Jackson " ia approached hlm,-wlth ta evident lr : , ja of renewing bis wfnn,I i!'.?n,. nowever, wa v s, ..a uy wben benrw-'Lu torontor t,'rju-'.i,-r ru' rinxtf wvnlrot.lrTl! arid .. tttiwat"!!. to stab Ja picked up t- -dealt tha hand,- com"" ,.-ii. staJ cairied and rs?-? Uow epos--one' afcd f.b& for - - rcacMng,h" - r' S"d UrSU -ve 1" -t)a af rtsst f -caae-tlCwwtdc more t.-fi f" 'n', ' lyfceldt " ofti,Cn' "--nw it s txcjaect" in ;. r 1- 'ry :i t.y THlIttu. V denceiJi e c ww t55 T?T-r 1 ase.iws fflof0T00fl Tto defeat tee ssote