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Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
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; Resident of Douglas county are requested to
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And the
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WOOD, WILLOW AM IJLASSWARF,
ALSO
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, , A full stock of
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All kinds of STATION ERT, TOYS and
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To suit both Young and Old.
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keeping the Dongbs county Pauper lor the period o
two yean. AU person! In Deed of aaaistwee from rsid
count; most first procure a certificate to that effect
from an; member of the Coanty Board, ami present it
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LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
: BY TELEGRAPH TO DATE.
The bailiff in the employ of Lord
Leonfield has been found murdered at
Kildare.
It is generally conceded that Bancroft
Davis will soon leave the state depart
ment to return to the court of claims.
The senate appropriation committee
agreed to report to the house a resolu
tion appropriating $-405,000 for deficiency
in the office of publio printer.
Parnell, in accordance with terms of
his parole, notified the governor of Kil
mainham jail, he will be absent another
week on account of urgent family affairs.
Judge Westbrook publishes a card vin
dicating himself from the charge under
legislative investigation of venality con
nected with elevated road cases in New
York.
A petition will be referred to the house
committee on Indian affairs, charging
that funds intended for education of In
dians are being used in advancing sec
tarian interests.
i Mrs. S.J. Gray, colored, who sued the
Cincinnati Southern for refusing her ad
mittance to the ladies' car last August
on a first-class ticket, was awarded $1000
by the United States court.
Tbe U. S. consul at Valparaiso tele
graphs that officials who opened tbe let
ters addressed by the state department to
the U.S. legation at Lapaz, have been ar
rested and pu Dished.
' The house j committee on territories
agreed to report favorably to the house
the bill providing for organization of the
judicial district of Alaska and establish
ment of a civil government there.
The merchants' exchange and cotton
exchange of Stj Louis sent a telegram to
President Arthur on the 18th thanking
him warmly toi his message to the senate
on Mississippi driver improvements.
: The North Carolina state republican
executive comtiittee favors an alliance
with the liberal movement, and has called
a state convention for June 14th. The
anti-prohibitiot convention will meet
May 2d.
The Illinois senate passed bills for
redistricting the state in congressional
and legislative districts, The vote stood
80 ayes to 14 noes. The bills now go to
the house, where considerable opposition
is anticipated.
A "Washington special says: Bentley
and Jameson, evangelists, visited Gui
teau on the 19th and the three knelt to
gether iu the cell of the jail and prayed.
Guiteau winced when allusion was made
to sudden and imminent death.
Judge Pardu has just filed a decision
establishing the disputed contract of the
Pullman Company with the Texas Pacific
Railway Company as a valid and binding
contract upon the railroad company for
the unexpired term f nine years.
The house committee on Pacific reso
lutions directed an adverse report on
Representative Bingham's bill proposing
an appropriation of $100,000 to enable
the secretary of war to purchase the Pa
cific telegraph line and branches.
President Arthur gave a reception at
the executive mansion, to the diplomatic
corps and members of the house and
senate. The president was assisted in
the reception by Mrs. Folger, Mrs.
Brewster, Mrs. Frelinghuysen, Mrs.
Chandler and Mrs. Teller.
Bob and Charley Ford arrived in Kan
sas City from St. Joe on the 20th, brought
by Marshal Timberlake and Capt. Craig.
A large crowd were at the depot, but the
bovs were nuietlv taken away. It is un
derstood Bob Ford will be taken to Clay
county to answer to the charge of killing
Wood Hile.
The Evenincr Journal savs the latest
of the startling rumors at Washington is
that James G. Blaine is to be appointed
minister to England. Nobody need be
lieve the report who does not wisn to.
He informed a delegation of Indiaua gen
tlemen tbat he was going toEurope May
20th, and couldn't lecture for them.
Chas. A. Dana, of the San, presided at
the reception in Cooper Union of T. F.
O'Connor. The hall was crowded by
well known citizens, many of whom were
upon the platform. O'Connor said the
lund act of Uladstone was not a practic
able or final settlement of the land ques
tion, but a pretense intended to protect
the system of landlordism and rack rents.
O Connor was given.$rJ to take to ire-
land.
It is learned that Keifer is worr be
cause republicans don't support him but
embarrass him, yet he takes no steps to
right himself. It is understood he now
intends to remove McAlpine, official re
porter of the house. This would raise a
great storm. Kiefer's own district seem
to support him and Keifer believes that
he and Foster are trying to defeat him,
aa his district has been so cut up that
his reelection is a matter of doubt.
It is more than probable that the pres
ident will send a message to congress
recommending that the law regulating
the use of a posse comitatus be amended
so as to allow the president complete
authority to suppress lawlessness in any
state or territory when local authorities
are j powerless. The qnestion of the
power of the president to employ a posse
comitatus to suppress cowboys in Arizo
na is now under consideration ot tne
attorney general, and the message in
question will be mainly based upon his
conclusions in the premises.
Tn tha TT. S. circuit court at Charles
ton, S. C.,the grand jury returned a true
bill i against' nenry U. .uiCKinson ana
others, of Barnwell county, charged with
to intimidate U. S. witnesses.
The grand jury was composed of thir
teen republicans and seven aemocrais.
The court then commenced the trial of
the managers of the election at Mays
ville precinct, Summers county, charged
with stuffing ballot boxes and interfer
ing with the U. S. supervisor. The jury
consists of eleven republicans and one
democrat. Testimony began at once.
The house committee to audit expen
pes of President Garfield's illness made
report, which was rsf erred to committee
on tbe whole. It allows. Mrs. Garfield
$50,000, less any amount the president
nad receivea ior saiary, us9 ouviuw,
Agnew $15,000, Hamilton $15,000, Rey
burn $10,000, Mrs. Edson $10,000,
Crump $3000, secretary of the navy $1882,
undertaker Spear $1835, C. N. Jonea of
Elberon $1092, and other amounts vary
ing from 50 cents to $1000. It retires
Bame? with the rank of major general
and authorizes the promotion of Wood
ward to the rank and pay of lieutenant
colonel. Blackburn and Springer in a
minority report, do not object to pay
ment of services, but oppose the exorbi
tant figures. ,c They say the amounts paid
should come from the tfnpaid salary of
Garfield. They also oppose the retire
ments and promotions recommended by
t!,s r:r; :rity f'1 i raovfi to recommit the
The democrats are likely to stubbornly
contest the unseating of Chalmers.
The house bill passed fixing the second
Tuesday of October aa the time for elec
tion of congressmen in West Virginia.
The senate bill passed with amend
ments making sale of the past reserva
tion of Omaha Indians in Nebraska.
Upon the calendar ot the house are 523
bills which have been considered by
committees and recommended for pas
sage. The U. S. circuit grand jury found 48
true bills in Barnwell county, S. C, for
obstructing voters at the election on
Nov. H, 1881.
The Mississippi improvement bill was
temporarily laid aside in the senate,
while McDill spoke on the regulation of
inter-state commerce.
The Harvard-Yale university race is
fixed for the 28th after commencement.
The races for the next five years will be
rowed at New London, Conn.
Page presented the petition of citizens
of California favoring the passage of the
bill incorporating the maritime canal
ompany of Nicaragua. Referred.
Forest fires near Pachonge, N. J., have
burned many head of cattle and did dam
age to property amounting to $35,000,
but they are under control now.
Crop prospects throughout Northern
Kansas was never more favorable than
now. Winter fieat is looking unusually
well and farm work i3 remarkably well
advanced.
Geo. Bohannon was executed at Rolla,
Mo.; on the 21st in the presence of sev
eral ' thousand people. He said he
thought he was only guilty in the second
degree. He died soon after the drop was
sprung.
The Times' Toronto special says: Alex
ander Archer, manager of the Ontario
bank at Toronto, who committed suicide
recently, proves to be a defaulter for
$33,000, all of which was advanced to
friends on poor security.
The republican caucus, decided to
take every possible mode of preventing
conflict in the house as to precedence of
various measures, and authorized Robe
son to appoint a committee of seven to
arrange the order of bills.
Tbe house committee on pension claims
in the quartermaster general's office,
heard testimony tending to show there
was a species of black mail levied on
claimants, but this was generally dis
credited by the committee. The whole
subject, however, will be overhauled.
Three notorious forgers from New
York who began operations on banks last
fall and were immediately captured,
were sent to the penitentiary for three
years from Chicago on tbe 22 J. Their
names are John Bush, John Miller and
Wm. Lawrence. A pal, Chas. Palmer,
turned state's evidence.
The house committee on civil service
reform to which was referred several bills
to enlarge tbe scope of the agricultural
department, virtually agreed upon a sub
stitute which provides for a department
of industries and four bureaus of agricul
ture. The bill provides for a secretary
who shall be a cabinet officer, and four
heads of bureaus.
At Barnard, 30 miles from St. Joseph
a tramp murdered a man named Alkire
in cold blood. The citizens turned out
and ran the tramp to cover and found
him sheltered in a "lot of cordwood. Bot
tles of petroleum were placed against the
barricade followed by lighted cotton.
The heat forced the tramp out, when he
was riddled with bullets.
The house committee on territories di
rected Richardson to report favorably a
bill for the organization of the judicial
district of Alaska and the establishment
there of a civil government. The bill
provides for a justice and three associate
justices, and for a U. S. marshal who
shall act as an officer of the government.
It also provides for extension over the
territory of Alaska the land, timber,
mining laws of Oregon, Nevada, Colo
rado and Washington territory.
The board of control of the democratic
congressional campaign committee has
appointed the following financial com
mittee: H. G. Davis of West Virginia,
chairman; W. W. Corcoran, of Washing
ton, D. C.; August Belmont, of New
York; Augustus Schell, of New York; C.
W. Brice, of Ohio; George T. Marye, of
California; J. E. McDonald, of Indiana;
W. F. Nolan, of New York; H.T. Packer,
of Pennsylvania; Wm. A. Travers, of
New York; Gen. W. B. Franklin, of
Connecticut; D. L. Morrison, of Mis
souri; Lewis Beach, of New York; A. J.
Vanderpool, of New York; Airam S.
Hewett, of New York; J.-W. Singleton,
of Illinois; and J. S. Barbeur, of Vir
ginia. Representative Phillip B. Thomp
son, of Kentucky, hai been added to the
board of control anil selected as its sec
retary. The National Academy of Sciences, at
a meeting in November last, appointed
Prof. Chandler, Dr. Moreney, J. L.
Smith of Kentucky, Dr. Goosman of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, and
Profs. Brewer, Johnson and Stilliman, a
committee to investigate and make a re
port of the sorghum sugar industry, with
reference to the methods employed and
results obtained in experiments made by
Prof. Collier during the pa9t three or four
years at the department of agriculture.
The committee have made their report.
It is a voluminous document and approves
all the chemical work done in the de
partment of agriculture by Prof. Collier.
It declares sorghum to be the best sugar
producing plant next to sugar cane in
Louisiana and the tropics; that it is as
rich in actual cane sugar contents, and
that it has the merit of variability and
adaption to various soils and climates of
the United. States. ,
Tbe bill reported to the senate by But
ler as a substitute for the pending meas
ure in regard to estabiisament of a gov
ernment for Alaska, is entitled a bill for
the organization of the territory of Alaska,
and providing for the establishment of a
civil government thereof. It provides
for appointment of a government in
whom shall be vest-id executive power
and authority in and over the territory;
for a secretary who "ball be ex-officio
treasurer, anil prescribes that the judi
cial power of the territory shall be ves
ted in the supreme court and four infer
ior courts: that the governor, chief jus
tice, surveyor general and marshal, all of
whom are provided for dv tne oiu, to
gether with the collector of customs for
diatricts. shall for tue nrst year oi opera
tion of the territorially government be
established a legislative council, with the
arovernor as ex-offioio president. It pro
vides further that Sitka shall be the seat
of government of the territory; that the
territory shall be entitled to a delegate
in the house of representatives who shall
enjoy privileges similar to other territor
ial delegates, nd all male citizens of the
territory, including civilized Indiana,
er.aU er;:tTcd to vct. "
THE JAMES BOYS.
The appropriately tragic death of tfe
.notorious Jessie James, the Missouji
outlaw, virtually breaks up a band ft
desperadoes which has terrorized t
western country for many years, a
w men nad its origin in tne lawless e:
of the war of the rebellion, This ga
has made the States of Arkansas, Ke
tucky, Tennessee, Kansas, lowa, an
portions of Minnesota and Texas i
stamping ground, and has kept all th
region in a condition of abject fear, di
fying the. officers of the law, raidin,
peaceable communities by day or night
disturbing routes of travel and commu
nication, pilaging, robbing, and murder
mg with seeming impunity. Nothing l
the annals of brigandage can furnish
more romantic and sensational incidents
than the exploits of the famous James
gang. - ;
The two James boys, who were the 1
acknowledged leaders of the gang, Frank
and Jesse, were the sons of a Baptist
clergyman, Rev. Robert J. James, of
Kentucky, who left his wife and re
moved to California, where he died.
Frank was born in 1841, and Jesse in
1845. Their mother, who is still living,
is represented to have been the initial
cause - of the boys' wild and reckless
course in life, they inherited from her
quick, fiery, passionate dispositions, and
imbibing from her example a reckless
disregard of the consequences of giving
full play to their evil impulses and in
clinations. Early in 1861 Frank James, then 21
years old, went to the war. His inclina
tion led him to join Quentrell's band of
guerillas, in which he soon became
noted for his daring and murderous fe
rocity. Jesse, only 14 years old, sought
service at the same time, but was rejec
ted as too young. Returning home he
became serviceable as a spy for the guer
illas infesting Clay and adjoining coun
ties of Missouri. His stepfather, Dr.
Samuels, was a pronounced secessionist,
and old Mrs. Samuels gave unbridled
license to her tongue in advertising her
sympathy for the South. The family
thus making themselves conspicuous
were marked for vengeance by the
Union militia of the State, who were
stationed at Kearney, and other towns in
that locality. Sometime in the early
summer of 1862 the Federals visited the
farm. Dr. Samuels was encountered
and abruptly told it was their design to
hang him. A rope was produced, and
con dc ting him a few rods from the
house, he was actually swung up with
out giving him time to expostulate. His
wife, fearing danger having seen the
squad of soldiers meet her husband and
go off with him followed and reached
tbe scene of the hanging just after the
Fedeials had turned from their work,
thinking it a completed job, and cut him
down. He was resuscitated with great
difficulty. Jesse James was threatened
with hanging, but his youth saved him.
He escaped with many curls and blows
at tbe Lands of the soldiers.
Later Mrs. Samuels and her daughter
were arrested and confined at St. Joseph,
which so enraged Jesse that heagain
sought admission to Quantrell's band
and was finally accepted. Frank had al
ready risen to eminence in that gang of
murders and cutthroats, and Jessa, em
lating the example, soon eclipsed him
and became the leader in all expeditions
where nerve, daring and a reckless dis
regard for lives were required. A
book eould not begin to tell in detail the
war adventures of the James' brothers
or those of their associates. Coldblooded
murder became their delight and their
pastime was to seek a foe, armed or un
armed, and slaughter him. In Quan
trell's command they found congenial
spirits in Cole and Jim Younger, Jar-
rette, Clell Miller, George Shepherd
and others, who have been partners in
their robberies since the war. Both
were in Quantrell's band of 200 when
Lawrence, Kansas, was sacked, burned,
and nearly every male inhabitant
ruthlessly murdered. Jesse James
boasted at this time to have shot down
thirty-six.
At Centralis, way station on the
Wabash railroad, in September, 1861,
Bill Anderson, assisted by Jesse and
Frank James, displayed their fiendish
spirit. They first raided the village,
and sacked the stores; then waiting for
the east bound train, they robbed it, and
robbed the passengers, of their money.
Among the passengers were 32 sick sol
diers, en route from St. Joseph to St.
Louis for bet er hospital accommoda
tions. These poor wretches were
marched into line by Frank and Jesse
James, and Bill Anderson, with his own
hands, shot and killed every man of
them, a pistol being handed him by
either Frank or"Jesse as fast as he emp
tied the one in hand. No amount, of
pleading saved a single life, and no pro
test was uttered by the guerrilla band.
They rather stood by and gloated over
tbe intrepid nerve of their monster chief.
Scarce had the diabolical massacre been
finished before a company of volunteers
appeared in the distance, and they, too,
became victims to the unerring aim of
these bandits. Thns within two hours
80 corpses ware piled about the village,
and a perfect carnival of blood was en
joyed by these fiends.
From 1865 till 1868 the exploits of the
boys were on a small scale and unde
serving of mention in comparison with
their earlier and later deeds, though they
lived all the time by robbery, and made
murder a mere pastime.
In the spring of 1868 Jesse James, ac
companied by Cole Younger, Al and
George Shepherd and Jim White, dashed
into Russellville, Kentucky, and robbed
the bank of $14,000. There they firat in
augurated the tactics that they have al
wavs followed in their operations. Part
of the party entered the bank, while the
others remained outside and began a
fusilade up and down the street to pre
vent the approach of succor. Accom
plishing their object, the robbers rode
away, and though vigorously pursued.
escaped. .
The Gallatin bank robbery, in Mis
souri, is still mentioned as a typical case
of dariner. Not only did they rob the
bank, but deliberately shot and killed
Captain Sheetz, the cashier, after they
had collected all the money in the bank
Frank and Jesse James and Cole Youn
ger were the only ones concerned in the
robbery. Frank guarded the avenues
of approach while Cole Younger and
Jesse entered the bank and forced tho
tribute. In the spring of 1870 the gang
descended upon the quiet village of
Corydon. in Iowa, and robbed a bank of
$40,000. At the time of this robbery a
political meeting was in progress near
the town, and when they had effectually
cratted the bank they rode to the public
gathering. There Cole Younger inter
rupted the speaker and announced the
fact of the bank robbery. The crowd
was fairly stupefied, and, derisively
laughing at the consternation produced,
1 the bandits put spurs to their horses and
jrodei off. Pursuit was given, but availed
nothing.
Two years later they robbed a bank at
Columbia, Kentucky, killing the cash- i
ier. Only $200 rewarded them for this !
raid. ;. j
In the fall of the same year they per
petrated one of their most noted and
daring exploits. A county agricultural
fair was in j progress at Kansas City,
when three men rode up to the gate.
They were well mounted, and wore long
linen dusters and wide brimmed hats.
On reaching the gate one dismounted,
handing his bridle reins to his com
rades. He approached the ticket office,
and, looking through the window, said
to the cashier: . "What if I was to say I
was Jesse James and told you to hand
Out that tin box of money, what would
you sayr
" "I'd aay I'll see you in first," was
the contemptuous reply.
"Well, that's just who I am Jesse
James and you had better hand it out
pratty d d quick, or I'll " and the
rest of the sentence was finished by lev
eling a huge navy revolver at the cash
ier. The box was handed out with its
contents of $10,000. Returning with the
cash, Jesse remounted, and th three
desperadoes began firing their pistols
and hurriedly rode off. The alarm be
came general, and almost immediately a
Eursuing party was organized, but the
oys got away with the money.
! Six weeks later they relieved the bank
t St. Genevieve, Mo., of $40,000, though
without bloodshed.
f In June, 1873, they wrecked a train on
the Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific
Railroad, and robbed the express mes
senger of $6000.
.Several stage robberies in Arkansas
followed, and were credited to the same
parties, who were held responsible for
all the outlawry committed throughout
the country during these years, j
They put a climax to their audacious
career in that section of the country by
the robbery of an Iron .Mountain train
at Gad'B Hill. They took possession of
the station, switched the train on a side
track, and at their leisure Clell Miller,
Jesse and Frank James and Jim and
Cole Younger stripped the passengers of
their surplus wealth and robbed the ex
press car of $10,500.
.Later tliev robbed a train a few miles
from Kansas City, securing $23,000 from
the express messenger, and a large
amount of jewelry which was being ship
ped to New York.
In the fall of 1875 Frank James, with
Cole Younger and ethers of the gang,
visited Huntington, W. Va., and robbed
a bank in that village of $60,000. The
four robbers, after securing their booty,
rode off, but in less than two hours a
posse of over one hundred men started
in pursuit. In the mountains, nearly
one hundred miles from Huntington, a
fight took place between the officers and
the fleeing robbers, and Thompson Mc-
Damels was killed, and Keene, alias
Hinds captured, but, as usual, Cole
Younger and Frank James escaped.
In July, 187b, the two James boys and
others of the ganjr raided an east bound
passenger train on the Missouri Pacific
railway at a point about twenty mues
east of Sedalia, called Otterville. The
party consif-id of Irank and , Jesse
James, Cole, Jim and Bob Younger,
Clell Miller, Bill Chadwell, Charley
Pitts and Hobbs Kerry, a green country
minor, who eventually was capturud.and
at Boonville made a full and free confes
sion of the plot, and named Jesse James
astheleader.
In September of the same year they
made their disastrous laid on (he North
field bank, in Minnesota. On the after
noon of the 7th of that month the rob
bers, eight in number, entered the town
at a furious pace, shooting their re
volvers right and left in order to intimi
date the people on the streets. With
their horses on a dead run, the party
halted directly in front of the bank, and,
while Frank and Jesse James and Bob
Younger entered, the other five remained
outside to guard against attacks. J. L.
Haywood, the cashier, and two clerks
were in the institution at the time, and,
for refusing to open the time lock, Jesse
James killed Haywood in wanton
cruelty by sending a ball through his
brain, in the meantime tha citizens on
the street realized what was going on,
and opened fire on the robbers. Chad-
well was Bhot from his horse by a man
from the courthouse window just oppo
site the bank, and in a few seconds
Clell Miller, who had escaped dozens of
times in Missouri, was also killed. By
this time the firing became general, but
it was seen by Jessee James that he was
in the tightest place of his life. Jim
Younger had a bullet in his month, and
Frank James one through his left leg,
but the entire six succeeded in mount
ing their horses and escaping from the
town, and then began a flight and pur
suit which for persistency and endur
ance is almost without a parallel. The
robbers were in a' strange and unknown
country, followed by fifty armed men,
and when it was seen that the race was
to be one for death, a proposition .was
made to separate. 'Before this time
Jesse James wanted Bob Younger
killed. As the blood from his wounds
made a plain trail, but Cole Younger
would not allow it, and said he would
kill the first man who dared lay a finger
on his wounded brother. As a settle
ment Frank and Jesse James went off in
a northerly direction, while the three
Youngers and Charles Pitts remained in
a body. As, on all previous occasions,
luck followed the James boys, for while
they escaped after being pursued nearly
500 miles, the Youngers were shot down
and captured, and Pitts killed. The
three former were terribly wounded be
fore they would surren ier.
This disastrous affair quieted their
operations for a long time,but in the fall
of 1879 tbe James boys recruited a new
party and made a descent on the Chicago
and Alton road at uiendaie, a little sta
tion in Jackson county, seventeen miles
from Kansas City. Like all proceeding
train robberies this was a success, and
after battering down the door of the ex
press car. Jesse James and Ed. Miller
entered with revolvers in their bands,
and compelled Urimes, the messenger.
to unlock his safe and hand over the con
tents, variously estimated at from $25,000
to $30,000.
Their next noted exploit was the Win
ston robbery, on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacifio road. That, occurred
on the night of July 15, 1881. ! Winston
is a small town on the Rock Island and
Pacific, a 'ew miles beyond Cameron
It is supposed the robbers boarded the
train at Cameron, for at Winston they
made themselves known, and proceeded
after their accustomed style to rob the
train. As will be remembered, Con
ductor Westfall was wantonly Bhot down
as is now known by Jesse -James, and a
train hand named McConnell : was also
murdered. After securing their booty
the robbers took to the woods and effect
ed their escape aa usual, though a vigor
ous pursuit was undertaken and kept np
for several weeki. j i
Following this robbery, after some
delay, Governor Crittenden invited the
railroad authorities to a consultation at
St. Louis. , There it was determined to
offer a reward of $50,000 for the appre
hensiondead or alive, of the robbers.
Hardly had tbe oountry time to re
cover from the shock of, the Winston
robbery, than it was startled by the com
mission of another. This time tbe Chi
cago and Alton Railroad Company was
the victim of the band. The affair took
place on the evening of September 7,
1881, at Blue Cut, within a mile or two
of Glendale, the scene of the former ex
ploit. The usual tactics were employed,
but failing to get enough from the ex
press company, after having half mur
dered Fox, the express messenger, the
passengers were robbed, j
Frank James, the elder, is credited
with the better education, more brains,
and a thorough acquaintance with hu
man nature. Jesse was fiercer in tem
perament than his brother, and a fiend
incarnate when aroused. Seemingly he
killed for the pleasure it gave him, and
to him may all the wanton ; murders be
attributed that have taken place at their
numerous robberies. I
Frank was married in 1875 to Miss
Annie Balston,whose father resides eight
miles from Kansas City. She is reputed
to have been a beautiful and intelligent,
but sentimental girl, who became car
ried away by her romantic temperament
with accounts of the James boys. Ac
cidentally meeting with Frank, she fell
m love with him, and a clandestine mar
riage followed. Jesse was married to his
cousin, Mit8 Zereido Mimms, in 1874.
At the time she v ha a public school
teacher in Kansas City. On the occasion
of bee of Jesse's rare visits to his moth
er's she was summoned there, and the
two were united. Both ladies are repre
sented to be devoted to their husbands,
who, in turn, were kind and affectionate.
. Under the Bed.
Tho man under the
bed does not al-
ways prove a mytn.
a mytn. .remaps it is an
actual fact that women who pray look
for him more regularly than others of a
less spiritual turn of mind; when the
good woman kneels at the bedside to
offer her devotions, it is tne most
natural thine in the world for her to first
explore that historic territory and satisfy
herself that no concealed burglar is lis
tening. It is also a well authenticated
fact that a pious woman in the suburbs
of London did discover the legs of a
bold, bad house-breaker sticking out
just as she began her petition. She did
not shriek, but went on with a prayer
for that particular sinner that would
have melted the heart of a Newgate thief.
I wish that it might be added that he was
converted on the spot, came out, and was
pardoned, and afterward married the
petitioner. But truth compels me to add
that the good woman was interrupted in
the most solemn part of her prayer by a
peal of laughter from tne graceless
young brother who enacted the part of a
burglar.
More tragic was the story of the lady
who. traveling alone, stopped at an inn
and mentioned the fact that she had been
followed and watched by a villainous
looking man with a shock of red hair,
whom she feared had designs upon the
valuables which she carried with her;
As nothing was seen of him at the inn,
she retired for the night carefully lock
ing the door, and was soon in bed, leav
ing a light turned up in front of a mir
ror. No sooner was her head on the pil
low than she had a distinct view of the
man with the red hair crouching under
the bed. She made no sound, but
reached for a scarf she had laid near,
made it into a running noose and waited.
The next morning when the servants
broke open the door, they found the lady
sitting up in bed, grasping with both
hands the noose, in which she held the
fearful weight of the dead man; she had
strangled him, but was herself a raving
maniac, from whom reason had forever
flown.
Some time ago a prominent Judge in
Birmingham, N, H., was found mur
dered in his own house, and no clue to
the murderer. It was immediately after,
an adverse decision he had made in a1
case of great importance, and the mur
der was supposed to. have been mstiga
ted by a desire for revenge, but as all
the parties were respectable people, it
was impossible to fasten the guilt on
any one. The J udge was a widower ,and
lived i alone, with the exception of a
young daughter and the servants. This
daughter was beautiful, and on tne even
ing in question had returned home from
a ball at a late hour and gone directly to
her own room, where she stood before
her mirror taking off her jewels. As she
did so, she held her white, rounded arm
above her, and conscious of its beauty,
said aloud: "What a beautiful arm!"
little thinking the idle remark of such
consequence as it proved to be in the
tragedy that followed. The girl both
saw and heard her father's murderer ,bnt
as he was masked, failed to distinguish
his features, but always declared she
should know his voice if she ever heard
it. Several years passed,and in another
city she was standing in a crowd observ
ing some passing sight, when she was
conscious of the curious regard of a
stranger who stood near. Looking at
her with a singular intensity, he male
this remark: "Oh, the beautiful aTm!"
She knew the voice in an instant, and
throwing herself bodily on the man, de
nounced him as her father's murderer,
he was arrested, tried and convicted, and
told how he had lain hidden under the
bed and heard the idle remark of the
joung girl which she herself had been
scarcely conscious of. He had recog
nized her on meeting her, and involun
tarily betrayed himself, aa be had been a
stranger and an unsuspected party.
Detroit Post.
A BtJBTED Fobest. A buried forest
has been found in the Red River valley.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer of the 2d
instant, says Robert J. Purdy, a farmer
living fifteen miles west of that place,
while engaged about three weeks ago in
siLkinga well upon his farm struck a
subterranean growth of timber. ; At the
depth of about thirteen feet from the
the surface his work was interrupted by
a large and obstinate root which was re
moved after a time of patient toil; but
what surprised him most was, after dig
ging a little further, the discovery of the
boby of sound ash tree, sixteen inches
in circumference. " which the ; had -Jto
cut through with an axe. A yeat?go
Mr. Purdy sank a well about s twenty
rods from this spot, and at about the
same depth came upon similar timber.
The discovery of sound timber, thirteen
feet below the surface of the present soil
of the Red River valley ought to enlist
the attention of geologists, from whom
the public would be glad to hear an ex
planation. ,
A Rural Ifogberrj
The following is a copy of the "decis
ion" rendered by the justice of 'Gim
mick, La Salle county, Illinois, before
whom James Kidd was arraigned for a
preliminary examination for an alleged
shooting of William Faust, as published
in the Ottawa Times and Mendota Bulle
tin: - :. r :
"Gentlemen of the Jury and Gentle
men of the Case: I have sat here since
twelve o'clock, listening to the evidence
of our witnesses and the pleadings of
our attorneys. " You all . know I have a
mind or I wouldn't have sense enough
to sit here. I am a young man twenty
seven years of age, and my mind has
been worked as it never has been before.
I have just spent six hours closest at
tention, and am somewhat confused, but
not so much confused but that I can
reprimand this case as stated to me. I
have listened to the expert physicians
and attorneys. In relation to a man's
property in peril we have a right of de
fendance, but my way of defendance
would be to enter complaint and do
away with the pistols. Exercising my
own sound judgment Mr. Kidd is proba
bly guilty, but to be proven at Ottawa.
Now as to the question of com
mitting him to jail or to give
bonds and let him go to his family is a
question that is weighing my mind. I
is a serious case, and if I should put Mr.
Kidd under bonds what bonds should I
put him under? Mr. Seaman says $3000
or $4000 bonds. I wouldn't feel safe to
do that. I would be afraid to walk from
here home to-night, and wouldn't be
able to sleep, and would be dreaming
bad dreams ell night. As to the Honor
able Mr. Kidd (relernng to his prisoner)
I feel sorry for his family, but when it
comes to law I must exercise my own
sound judgment. If I put him under
bonds, the least I would put him under
would be $20,000. To modify I will re
verse my judgment; I will put it at $30,
000. If I do less, which if the Honor
able Mr. Kidd can give bail he can go to
his family. Now the question which
weighs my mind ia whether I shall take
bonds or commit him to jail. The stat
ute says (Here the 'squire sat down and
rapidly passed his finger over an open
book, but did not read). As far as I am
versed in law I feel it bailable. We may
feel as safe one way or the other. (Then
he pondered and closed) . I am willing
to accept $30,000 bail."
Bobbing An Editor.
Soon after the completion of the plank
road between Detroit and Lansing, a pe
riod of twenty-seven orm twenty-eiglit
years ago, the editor of a newspaper lo
cated about half-way between started for
Detroit, one evening, on the wagon of a
teamster. After traveling about an hour
the vehicle was stopped by a highway
robber. The teamster shelled out about
twenty dollars, but when the editor
showed up the "pot" only reached fifty
cents. ,
"You've hidden your money in your
boots!' shouted, the robber, and bemide
the editor pull them off. No more cash
being found, the robber insisted that the
coat and vest should come off for a
closer search; but at the the end of the
search he demanded angrily:
"What sort of a man are you to set
out on a journey with only fifty cents in
your pocket? '
"I am getting my ride for nothiog.and
I was going to pay my expenses in De
troit by advertising the hotel at which I
stop."
"How much advertising will you give
me to let you off?"
"A straight column per week for four
weeks."
"Well, I'll take it, and the teamster' is
witness to our bargain. I'll send in the
copy in time for the next issue."
The robber presently moved off into
the woods, and as the vehicle once more
rolled over the plank road, the editor
rubbed his hands together and chuckled:
"Egad! but isn't this a lift forme! I
found a chance to pass off a bogus half
dollar, got a splendid item of news for
my local, and worked up a column ad.
to help tide me over tbe dull season! I
tell you the Herald will be on a paying
basis in less than a year."
Entertaining.
i It is not hard to have a little company
to tea, or to spend the evening, if the
lady of the house knows how to plan the
work and does not crowd too much in
one day.
If the cake is made the day before it
will be fresh enough, and if you are so
unfortunate as not to be entirely success
ful in making or baking, yon will have
tiine to remedy .this trouble by trying
again. : '-. -
If salad is to be part of the supper,
the chicken may be prepared in the
morning, and then late in the afternoon
the dressing may be prepared and salad
mixed.
- When it is in the dish and ready for
the table, wet a clean cloth in vinegar
and lay over the top; this will keep it
moist, and it will not lose its flavor by
standing.
If you are to have sandwiches they
may be buttered early and a damp cloth
laid over them.
Have the dishes and silver ready, and
put in a convenient place where you can
get them with no delay or trouble of
counting. Silver may be rubbed and
tablecloth and napkins laid aside days
before. " " :
Above i ll, after having done these
things do not worry; think over all the
times yon have been out to tea, and yon
will; hardly, be able to recall a single
time where anything went very badly.
Avoid confusion; if any one is to help
you, le Bhe servant or friend, let her
distinctly understand what her duty is to
be, bo tbat you will not interfere with
each other.
' A Brave Child. A gentleman living
near Henderson, while ploughing a few
days ago, sent a ten year old daughter to
the house for his gun, for the purpose of
shooting some rica birds that were in the
field. Returning with the gun the
braye little heonne was attacked by an
infuriated bull, but instead of screaming
and thus urging the beast on as most all
other children would have dene, she
stood her ground, and as the beast ad
vanced she let go the contents of both
barrels into his face. The beast, seem
ingly, in astate of intoxication, ran here,
there and efery where-in search of the
child, against fences, trees, etc., but
climbling the fence hastily she managed
to escape. She ran and told ner latner
of the incident," who, hearing the report
of the eun. was rushing to her to, ascer
tain the cause of the shooting. With the
assistance of two colored men the, now
co wed. animal was driven home, and it
was discovered that both his eyes had
been shot out, I Montezuma (Georgia)
Weekly,
Two Speeches. . " ;
A practical joker is justly served whr
his victim pays hint in his Own cr-'
Among the humors of the 4stumr
told a capital instance of this sort '
ribution. The characters in thf
were . the late Senator Mortr
General George A. Sheridan, .
isiana. - rf ' - ". ' -
Some years ago, when Mr.
made a famous campaign in In
he was accompanied by , Gen.
The Senator's health was at
very poor, and whenever he r
equal to making his speech M
took his place.
Upon one occasion both on
to deliver speeches, and Mi
who had a remarkable memory
of a joke delivered SheridanV
Tffe ground being thus taken aa
under the General's feet, he wa
moment nonplussed. But as soo
applause died away he arose and
to deliver Mr. Morton's Bpeech.
In this speech Morton discusser
subject of hard and soft money, and ,
a dramatic way of producing 4
dollar and a greenback. 8heri?an had
so often heard the speech that he was
able to imitate it exactly. Thursting his
hand into one pocket he produced a dol
lar note, and holding it up to the audi
ence, exclaimed: '
"What is this? Ia this money? No,
my fellow citizens, this is not money.
Let me read it to you: "The United
States promises to psy bearer one dol
lar.' That is not money. That is merely
a promise to pay money." s
W'ben Mr. Morton was making this
speech, and arrived at this point, he
would return the note to his pocket and
produce a silver dollar. Sheridan was
about to do the same thing, but found to
his dismay that he had no silver dollar
with him. The audience began to titter
at this, when Sheridan, turning to Mor
ton, who was listening to his ownpeech,
said: V "."." - -" - -
"Senator, lend me that silver dollar
which you use when you deliver this
speech!" , '
It is needless to say that this wap as
good as a play to the audience. jpew
York Sun. Xv
Instincts of Treat.
Generally speaking, a thunder storm
is regarded by trout fishers as putting a
decisive stop to their operations. It is
not always the case, however, that trout
then cease rising. Just as pheasants al
ways crow loudly after a clap of thunder
and the electrical state of the atmos
phere at such a time has a curious effect
upon eels, causing them to be much
more active than at other times, so Mr.
W. Henderson relates acase ef unwonted
activity in trout during a thunder storm
and that at night. Between the flashes
he cast his flies, straight across a rushing
mill stream in the Black Forest. "I
fished the stream steadily downward," he
writes ("My Life as an Angler," page
299), "for about a hundred yards. Tje
lightning showed me where to thro w my
flies: all around was inky blackness. I
cast and rarely failed to hook or take a
fish. The strength of the current, en
abled many a nsn to break away, but at
the end of hall an hour my basket held
eight fish; and when they were tabled
at - the hotel they - proved to be
three trout, three grayling, and two fish
resembling chub. The least was three
quarters of a pound in weight, and the
largest a pound and a ball altogether a
beautiful dish, and the fish by far the
largest in size that I had captured dur
ing my week s angling. ' Most anglers
must have noticed when fly-fishing in the
dark that after a certain moment, as if
some piscine curfew had rung under
water, every rising hsu stops, and none
can be taken afterward for some time.
I found this to be the case night after"
night in the balmy darkness of June in
Devon last year; and Mr. Henderson re
lates the same thing of the Wear, when,
immediately before, his ears had been
assailed "by such a tumult of fish splat
tering and splashing as I had never be
fore heard, the water seemed alive with
large fish. ; There seemed something
uncanny in the affair. Before the cessa
tion of their rise, however, he had secur
ed six trout, as in the previous case, con
siderably larger than any which he could
capture by day. Jjondon Field.
A IToBfiertol Creature.
When a 'critic" begins to gush there
is no stopping him.j: For example, take
this ' 'masterpiece of criticism" upon
Pattiirom the Cincinnati Commercial:
She eould not have beeu painted by
any artist whatever. She stood there
beyond the brush of even Bonnat; she
stood there, not only the artist without a
peer, she stood there art embodied she
was art. The first effect of her presence
was so dazzling that the people held
their breath; they knew that she dazed
them, but did not at first know why. In
ber ears and around her neck she wore
diamonds, and each one of those tone
would have made the dower of a prin
cess, the ransom of a king. They flashed
and flashed, until around her face played
the exquisite tints of the rainbow; the
necklace looked like an aureole dropped
from the-head weary of its weight of
glory; yet the aureole seemed not con
tent to be thus placed, but sent its lines
of light to encircle the head above that
needed no longer to wear a crown. Any
other face wonld have grown into almost
indistinctness thus lighted with the rain
bow flashes,; of the diamonds, but not
Patti's. Bright as were the jewels, they
were not brighter than her dark eyes.
Dazzling as were their flashes, her face
gave out glories as brilliant. It was not
until the graceful salutations she gave to
every part of the house to tbe box on
the right she gave her Art t how not un
til her arms were raised that any eye was
taken from her face, set as it 'was in the
glorious. light of the flashing jewels;
then her arms flashed like electric fire;
they were the diamonds that in that
light and with the motion gave another
kind of brilliant setting to the shapely
arms. Then, perhaps the eVes wandered
to the dress she ore. f
How Beds aek Minn IIealtiful. A
great deal of decorative, color is now
fashionable for bed coverings. Silk cov
erings of embroidery or of rich damasks
are used over the entire bed. If a white
Bpread is preferred, it is brightened by a
scarf drapery of rich, dark brocade, that
is thrown carelessly across the foot of the
bed. The Japanese embrc idered quilts,
and those done with gilt threads in tapis
try designs, are especially handsome.
Antique laces, combined with white mus
lin, are used over colored (ilk linings for
bed-spreads, with pillow spreads to
match. A border -of.'., red flush, upon
which the lace edge fall i, is a pretty
finish; when not lined thes lace spreads
are used oter down comfor ablea that are
covered with rose, blue tt -red ailk.
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