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Att orney .at-Law, tlillaboro, Washington County, Oregon. THOS. D. IIU31PHREYS. VOTARY PUBLIC and CONVEYANCER TOAL paper drown -and collections nude. - Bosin'ws entrusted to hia care at ' to promptly. ' OfPIOE New Court Drate x8 ; A KENTUCKY ROMANCE. How Three Young Girls were Cap tured and Rescued Ninety Nine Years Ago. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. It was Sunday, July 14, 1775 just niuety-ijine years ago to-tlay and the rudely-constrncted fort at Boons boro lay in drowsy stillness on the bank of the Kentucky Rivr. Dan- iel B-jone and his friend and associ ate, Rxcl ard Callaway, had been ab sent since early in the morning, and the Rood wives, sharers iu tha toil of the early pioneer days, were en joy D the rest that the Sabbath brought even to I he unbroken wil derness Iu the grateful fdiade of a tree in one corner of the enclosure, sat three young girls, giving an un wonted charm to the rough evidence of civilization which had but roeeut ly forced themselves upon the prini tive harmony of the surrounding scenery. The eldest of these maidens was Elizabeth Callaway. The experien ces of life rather than the observan ces of nature seem to have given turn to the thoughts and tastes of the early settlers, so, while the eu phonious name of Bessie might have harmonized well with the murmuring river and the soft and languid aspect of nature in her Summer garb, the hard, eveiy-day life of the adventu rous dwellers in the dnrkand bloody ground seemed to comport best with the harsher name of Betsy. Sj Eliz abeth was known simply as Betsy CallawBy not a name suggestive of romance, yet she was withal a gen tle and loving girl, and had maiden fancies that gave the deep color of romance to one of the incidents of her life iu the wilderness. She was just turned of sixteen. The oth i r girls, younger by two years," were Fanny Callaway, fairer than her sis ter Betsey, and Jemima Boone. Though but fourteen years counted the lives of the two girls, each had a i lover who was a hardy pioneer. As ; evetiinr drew near, one of the trills i n - i - tf i proposed that they .should go a short distance below he fort to where a ca noe was lying, and drift out upon the river to catch, the lising coolness of the evening. Hardly were they scatod and pre pared to pusli from the shore, when they detected a slight rustling in the brush, and in a moment more five stalwart and hideously painted Indians leaped to the side of the ca noe. What girl of sixteen could bo equal to such an emergency? Betsy Callaway, without ft moment's hesi tation, determined tp defend the honor and the lives of herself and her young companions, and rote her name in the aun.ils of Kei t jcky Standing erect in the cano, she seized the paddle, and at a single blow laid open to the bo e the head of the foremost savage. The other Indians pressed ou, but, still un daunted, the brave girl fought them. Filially exhausted, he sank to the bottom of the canoe, and with her trembling sister and friend was diag ged ashore, and hniried off to meet whatever fate might be iu store for them. The fathers of the girl soon re turned, and before the night closed iu, Daniel Boone, at the head of a party on foot. and Richard Callaway, at. the head of a party on horseb c';, were off in pursuit. In Boone's par ty were Samuel Heuderson, John Holder, and Flinders Callaway. As Hendeisou strode aloug he . wns Ihinki-ig of the olive cheeked hero ine, . Betsy Callaway; and Holder cem hed his hands and ground his teeth when he thought of poor, lit tle, frightened Fanny; and Inlanders Callaway almost forgot his kith and kin for thinking of his captured Je mima Boone. We can easily smile over it now, but let any man put himself in the place of these young men and ask himself how lie would feel in such a pursuit. When the Indians started with the girls they made the younger ones take off their shoes anil put on moc casins, bat Betsy refused to take off her shoes, and as she walked along she ground her heel into the soil ta leave a trail. NoticeingVhis, the In dians made the whole party walk apart and deviate from the course, -- . ac as to wade thriugh the water and destroy the trail. Then the. , un daunted Betsy broke off twigs and dropped them along the road, and when the savages threatened her with uplifted tomahawk if she per sisted in this, she secretly tore off portions of her 'dress and dropped tbem on the road. Boone's party soon found the trail and followed it rapidly, fearing that the girls might grow weary and be put to death. All Siinday night and ail Monday the pursuit was kept up. On Tuesday morning a slender column of smoke was seen in th distance, and t e experienced eye of the huut. r detected the cam?) of the Indians. A serious l:fil-td y now presented itself. How were the cap tives to bo rescued without giving the captors time to kill them? There was but little time for reflection, as the Indians must quickly discover their presence. The white men were sure shots, and s they picked their men, fired upon them, and then rushed into the camp to 'he rescue. At the moment of attack the girls were lif ting at the foot of a tr?e: Betsv with a red bandanna hanker cheif thrown over her hea 1, - while the heads of Fannv and Jemima were reclining in her lap. Betsy's olive complexion came near serving I her a bad turn at this juncture, for j one of the rescuing party coming J " - 1 1 I an Indian, and was a!out to knock her brains out wi'.h the butt of his " - (remarkably tougii and it takes a ing her death just at the moment! , . lmmmer ,)low to brt.ak it. wueu sue saw liberty within 1 er reacti. The fathers and gallants carried i their loved ones hot!?c in triumph, and this romance of real life in Ken tucky a ceniun ago would not be complete without the iuforaiatiou that the dreams of love and happi ness that were so cruelly disturbe l were subsequently all realized. Brave Betsy Callaway became Mrs. Samuel Henderson, and lived to tell the sto ry of her capture to her children ami her children's children. Little Fan ny became Mrs. John Holder, and Flanders Callaway took to Ids home Miss Jemima Boone, and thus ce mented the friendly ties of the Boones and Callawns. It is a long time ago, nigh on to a hundred years; and all tha actor:- in the ro mance have long since departed, but their memory is green with many o! us yet, and we can all well afford to give a few thought- to the event that marked their characters and the times in which thev live 1 and loved. , The Power of Conscien.ie. Vicksburg Herald, A member of the colored church was the other evening conversing earnestly with uu ac mintince, and seeking to have him change into better paths, but the frie d said that he was too often tempted to per mit him to become a Christian. ' Y bar's ver backbone, dat ve can't rose up an stand temptation?" ex claimed the good man. I was dat way myself once. Bight in dis yere town I had a clunce to Heal a pa'r o' bcots mighty nice ones, too. No body was dar to eee me, an I reached out mv hand and de debble said take 'em; den a good spirit whispered for ine to let dem boots alone." "And you'didu t take ein?" 'No, sah not much. I took a pVr o cneap sfioes off do shelf an left dem boots alone. The Walla Walla Spirit says: bers and have threshed their Fall wheat, as far as threshed the average is about 42 bushels to-tlic acre. Mr. C. Maier threshed a field of 21 acres, from wbicb bj realized 5 Jj bushels and some pounds as ar average .per acre. Messrs. Camplll. Jones and AhJ.!. A TERRIFIC STORM IN IOWA. Fruit Trees and Corn Whipped Clean- Two Pound HailstoneS Hogs and Cattle killed Shovehng Glass. The Nonpariel, a paper published at Council Bluff Iowa, g;ve-i the fol lowing account of a storm which passed through Omaha and towns in Iowa ou the 4th tf this month: This city, Omaha, suffered terribly by the storm and hail last night, and was the most terrifying and destruc tive this city has yet received. Even the alatm for personal safety was general, so immousa wera the size of the h.iilitonoi.. Buildings without shutters had thir windows riddled ! as with grape shot, and in the north ern portion of the city the hail crashed through shutters, and even in some instances removed the kj'fIi. Fruit trees wero whipped clean, says the Jiff, and corn looks as though elephants had trotted over it. The buildings facing north and cast hud, with rare exceptions, all their glu. broken out, and the sonth sides of Faruham and Douglas: suffered re morselessly. The hail storm lasted three-quarters of an hour, and the stones' were al) the way from un ounce to two pounds in weight, some of them measuring from 7 to 11 and 12 inches. The gardens and fields as far north n Florci ce are completely ruined, and h city gar j dens li e vise. Sne cattle, pig, land many fowls were killed. The ! greatest loss is in gla?, amounting I probably to $30,000. The force of i thn stiinf s ran hn ima'nned when we thfollJ,h French . te lasjj tliree.eigiltia of im ineh thick, and through the live-eighths t inch rolled plate glass on the roof of j the Union Pacific depot, with the j utmost of ease. Ibis latter glass is Seven or eight panes, two bv six feet, were broken. The churches sufiVred severely all of them. The High School lost 270 medium sized panes, and the other schools panes amounting, in the aggregate, to $200. Between fifty and hc-venty-five largo windows in the Grand Central were dem dished, at a rough estimate of $1,000. The Western Union Telegraph Company lost their $200 French plate glass. The Creighton Bl"ck lost wsver.nl French plate pants, r.t a loss of not less than $1,500. Stephens fc Wilco are ort $1,000 iu the way of a plate glass, and Kurtz, Mohr & Co., and J. K. Ish figure up $500 more. Max Meyf r & Co., are out $C5; the Hill man Building, $150; Milton Rogers, $500; the Central Block 325 panes; Wirth's restaurant a $150 French dlate pane; Solomon a $250 window; and the Union Pacific lost ten thous and lights of gl'iss, largo and small, plain, cut, colored and ornamented. The headquarters buikling is out 250 glas. The east end of the cars standing in the. Yards were all broken out, and those cars going vest had to be entirely refitted. 11k hhops came in for great damage, and the company's loss will be from $1,000 to $5,000. Omaha received her share this time, ; nd the hhoveJing of glass is going ou clinkinglv. The Stah'anuin says that S. J. Wniteman who lives near Jefferson and who has been arrested for cas trating a young man bv the name of Watkiuds who Whitemau asserted had had improper relations with his (Whitcmau's) wife, was .bailed out of jail last evening. The . folio .itig gentleman became his surities iu the sum of $800: H. E. Ankeny, It. M. Wade, I). A. Wood aud John, Ed wards. There is soul to be good ev idence that bis victim in alive, aud that the rumor that' he has died or been killed is without foundation. citen its readers to a'fortv-acTe lot of thn kind of laud on the farm-. of w Anson B. Henry, Five" yearn ago Ibis piece of land was na densely covered with oak and fir mbs at could be found. Thia land 'thi yeir yielded 1.350 bushelsof wl e it. a little over thirty four bushels to the ucre. Flirtation. No woman cau carry ou a flirta tion with a married man that is not crimiual. No Ionian can flirt inno cently evoa with a youn, tniu.' It is the firt tcp toward unbalancing his character.: Through hr he sees other women and forms an estimate. The young worn .n who enter a fam ily and wins the affections of the husband and father knotvlugly and she cu not do otherwise has en tered on the road to perdition. There i a puuishmeut for thehoue breaker, but none foi the home breaker, w ho steals and mnra life's beast treasures. Every woman bos the best right to her husband. He is hers in sickness aud hers iu health, to loo aud cherish, as exclusively us if she bo his. Ho i to provide for her, liouor and love her. He is her urotector against all the adverse circumstances of life; no other wo man has any right to bis attentions and endearments, ami a wife has; a perfect right to resent such attention-. A inau who saw another man's arms around his wife's waist would consider it a case of court, or an exercise for pistol shooting. Wo-, men, with keener - Feasibilities and finer nature, feel it deeper. It touches the he li t. A certiin Honruble woman says there are two things bho will never allow auybody to meddle with her husband and her eewiug machine. Such flirtations are uuworlhv of true manhood or womanhood. They blight the lives that were created in the image of God, and make the in nocent sufler for tho guilty. All mothers will do well to see that their daughters are uot mentally growing up ou tho morbid books in which somebody is always represented as falling iu love with somebody else's husband or wife, and a "soul union" picture which iy mteuded to yeil the incarnation of lust. Tbrra are enough men and women to fall bv the force of circumstances or the de pravity of original sin, without edu cating any of it. It is well euough to pull our os of as3 out of tho pit; but we do not ant to dig pits for them to fall into. M .nv nroui has got e blood-stained inso the presence of 1 i Maker, sent thither by a climax of dark circum sta i ce brought about by u woman's flirtation. Don't flirt. It is unwo manly; it is untrue to your sex; it is wrong against the motheryou revere. Tho man whom you aro tempting will not respect you, and worso, you will uot respect ..yourself. Er. A Young Statesman. The other dar when tt Vicksburg loy had tioublo with his neighbor's boy and camo out first best, he rea lized that something must bo done at home?, and he hlid into the house and said: ' "Mother, you knov how good and kind you hae been to Mr. B next door?" 'Yes, I have tried to be a good neighbor to her." . ,; . . Well, do you know that she pays you clean your teeth with a white wash brush, and that father ought to have .a pension for living with He lid out, and when Mir. B. reached the gate, on her Way to tho house to ask why her boy must be pounded up in th it 'way , she heard a shrill voice call out: : Vile wretch; don't you enter that gu e or you'll get scalded 1" ' . She returned lio..ie, and theyourig statesman dropped ' down under a shade tree, kicked tip his heels, and softly chuckled :- I ' i - ' . "That settles her, and now 1 want to catch her Tom again for just four teen seconds!" "I , 4 ' An Irishman got out of ( his j er r- ringe' at a 'railway station for re fresdiments,' but unfortunately 'the bell fang and the train1 left before he had finished his repa$t. ' Hould on!" cried Vatt as he rati lilte a nfnd man after the-ear, "bould on v ye liiuthenn'- ould fetatnelnjin ye've got a passenger on bbktA thatV tttt behind." j , A Gentleman from Boston Mc'e t s V t hr An Astpnishing RcceptioK hi Arkansas.: ; t , ' ; . J " t i.-'if'I From tho Baltimore Atnericau.J . 4 A few weeks , fiinco a mideot of Boston, who had beon passi'tigayear in Texas, started for homo 'wl nis wife, to renew hi? business f,CjOnjjec tions in Boston ' He reached jLiUle Hock a few days after the 17th of June, aud, having recorded his name aud residence, was shown to'liis room. He had scarcely dusted his coat and washed up when a rap at the door was given, ... Upon opening it he found three strangers. i ? "You are from Boston; I'tliinl:?" said the spokesmini "" k ' ', r l" "Boston is in n Uivo place, and Boston my doiliuation," replied the gentleman. ' t 'Vell, you arc the gent'erain ' wo arc after,"continu :d the Little Rock er. "We want you to step down stairs a few mi m. e ." . , i "Don't go," said his wife, who had unpleasant reminiscences of past un pleasantnesses. "We want you to go, too," con tinueit the gentleman. , ' , , ... "Well, what does all this ' mean?" said the Bostonian. Has anything broken, gentlemen?" ' , "Broken?" reiterated another member of the self-appointed com-' mittec. "Haven't you read "the newspapers?"- "Have not Been a newspaper for three days," was the reply. " ' "Well, my friend. " ho continued, "Massachusetts and South Carolina have buried tho hatchet on Bunker Hill, and Maryland and Virginia saw it accomplished. ' But como down stairs, for we've got something en ice, and as you are tho first .Bosto nian tint we have have got hold of, we propose to have the deed of re conciliation between Arkansas and old Massachusetts signed and wjt ucsicd right hero auel now," . ,; The Bostonian was a little dazed but ho went down stairs where he was received with cheer9. He wins interviewed by the local editor, be and his wife were shown the beau tic of the phc? in the best turnout iu the place, and ho was sent on his way rejoicing, with bis hat chalked and hi hotel bill paid. Hi ' now states that hois prouder1 than ever of old &3ton, and rebates tho inci dent as indicative of tho effect of the greetings given to our visitors Ly the people of Boston on the'occaion 'bf tho centennial of the battle of tin ker Hill. , ' ' Capturing Ostriches. r ) It The greatest feat of an Arab bun ter is. to oaptoro an ostrich."' It i the largest of living birds; and prob ably tho swiftest 'of all living ani mals. Being vety shy and cautious, and living on tho sanely plains, whero there U little chance 16 tako it by ,bui prise, it ran only be v cap tured by a well planned and loo g ixt)tiuuo4 pursuit with thoiwiftat horses. The .stri;h has two curious habits iu running when alarmed. It always j : M aria o(ft vitU ; ou taprrrtd wings, againkt the wind, so that it can stent the uppioach of att enemy.. Its tit-use of Hint) 1 is bo keen that it ran detect a person at a great distance, long before , ouo pan be teen. ; The other curious habit is that of running in a circle. Uually,fivei or iX; os triches, ro fpuud . in in company. When dievwq red, part of the hunters, mounted on-fleet horses, will pursno the birds, while the other banters will gallop away at l'igl t angles to the course the ostriches have taken. When these hunters thiufc they have gone far enough to cross the path the binU will bo likely to take,-they watch upon tome rise of - ct-ouud for their approach.: tt t the'' bub iers hit mo ligni pnico ana see lue osinyuea, tby,nt once start in 'pursuit with frehU, horses, And Homotimes they overtake one or twa( of ' the 'bird, but often two or three 1 of i, her fleet horses fall, compleiejy tired out with bo bharp a chase. . , . - -j T. f . ScrscaiBE for your local paper. mm n