THE INDEPENDENT I .jLi.jjn o-
IS ISSUED j ;
1 THE DOUGLAS Srf HDEPEIfDISfilT1
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lem, i vm7. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1882
liAlJr flJUWS SUMiJIAllY.
I.JASKULEK
i PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL YYORiTwARRANTED.
WMoh,, Clneks, Jewelry,
Spectacles tvd KyeKiMi-e,
And a Full Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Gootfa.
Tna only reliable Optometer ia town for the
proper sdjimment of Spectacles ; a! ways on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
. tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door aoutb of poet office, Rose
borg Oregon
BY TELEOBAPH TO DATE.
The fourth assistant engineer of the
English steamship Silvertown commit
ted suicide at Port Costa on the ls, by
outting his throat. The C&nftA xrua A a.
lirum tremens.
A Napa, CaL, dispatch says J. W.
Simonton, for many years general agent
of the associated press at New York, died
suddenly on the 2d, at his residence near
Napa, of heart disease.
I Jas. H, Storrs, a well known lawyer of
New York, died suddenly on the 30th ult.
kji late years atorrs acted as counsel in
that city for the Central Pacific
peake & Ohio, and Southern Pacific rail
' ways." :- - --.-.r--,v.,
The emperor of Russia has commuted
the sentences of death, passed by the
Kason military tribunal, on the political
criminals Polivanoff and Novis.
penal servitude in the mines for an in
aenmte period
On the 31st ult.. in the suburb of TTt
springs, wiiile a party of drunken hood
lums were sitting up with the corpse of
umu iuurpny, a pauper, tbe lamp was
upset and exploded, the dranerv of th
coucn containing the body ignited, and
oeiore the flames were extinguished the
corpse was burned to a crisp
.Joseph i. Zeigler. a miner emnlni
mm ' mm m mm ,, I , """o, JLUiUUBMJUe. WaS'
nome made Jnirmnirp ap iuied by an unknown man on
HAHOfJtY'S SALOOfJ
eanart to tie Railroad Depot, Oakland
Taw. Mahoney, Prop'r.
Tbi finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dovf
wuntj, ana wis osst
BILLIARD TA.Bll.BJ
in the State kept ia proper repair?
Parties trayeling on the railroad win find tkb
piace Tery bandy to Tint daring tbe stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land, Depot. Giro me aoall.
t - Ja8. iaAHGliEY.
JOHN FRASER,
THE INDEPENDENT
- HA8 THE : "
FIN EOT JOD OFFICE
I!f DOUGLAS COUNTY.
CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS
t And other printing, lnclading
Urge and. Heavy Posters and Showy
Hand-Bills,
. - : 1 Neatly and expedltioualy executed
JkTV POBTLAND 'Z. lRI0138.
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring M
Constantly on
FIIRNITIIRr lve Uhe bet stock
wiii.. lurnitnr south of PortUnd
And all of my own nitaufacture.
No two Prices
mil a
land.
t
I
i
sses, Etc.
ustomers
Keatdents of Douglas county areVcquested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT
0AKX.AKD,
Itiehard Tliomas,
Cholera has broken out in Cairo
George Crickhette, the eminent oculist
of Pans, is dead.
. A secret dynamite factory has been
discovered at Charolles, France.
Baker Pasha has issued an order for
six hundred men to guard the seaports
along the Red sea.
Frank W. J ones, warden of the Auburn
New York, state prison has resigned on
acconnt of ill-health.
A. L. Rhodes, of San Francisco, was
admitted to the bar of the supreme court
in Washington on the 2d.
Josiah Quincy, Jr., died at Wallaston,
Mass., on the 2d, aged about 80. He was
mayor of Boston in 1846-48.
Tty merchants were lost and over
100 sailors drowned during the terrible
typhoon which occurmrl fWnhoi. on
- wwvraWA mtJ sV
Manila.
Arthur Preston. enlnr.1
iue muruer oi Mary Dorsey at liellair
Harford county, Md.,has been sentenced
to be hanged.
xuereis a mile of forest fire in the
Katski 11a opposite Oermantown, N. Y.
Theflamesare working rapidly toward
the mountain summit.
Gen. Butler's sister-in-law, Mrs. Hii
dreth, died suddenly on the 2d at Lowell,"
Mass., interrupting the campaign tour of
the general two days.
Thirteen new cases of yellow fever at
Brownsville, Texas, and no deaths. The
weather is still very warm. Total cases
to date, 2250; deaths, 178.
The law in Mexico abolishing' custom
duty on money went into effect on the 2d.
It is a great relief to merchants of Texas,
and is generally approved.
A draft of an ordinance has been sub
mitted to the German hnnlsMi,
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nibitmg the importation of American
swine, pork and sausage meat. .
First Assistant Posf.maaoi. I i.A-n Ann 1
Hatton has purchased Hallett Kilbomxe's
interest in the National Republican and
""""me us management November
15th.
HOTEL-
- OREUON.
-Theo-
JHI8 HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number o! years, and has become very
popular jtnth the traveling public. First-class
8LEKPINC ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the beat tbe market
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Kailroad.
J JAVINO OX AND A LARGE LOt OF FINS
Spanish
I offer the tame for gale. Cheap for Cah. at toy
Farm in Douglas county, six miles from Rosebur
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. G. STANTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
me 1st. -ine murder occurred just off
tne principal street. The assassin escansd
; .1. a i i . J .
iu iua utra.ueas leavin&r no oin t.n hia
identity. The motive of the murder is
also unknown. Zeigler was a quiet,
inoffensive citizen, acred 27 vears. Th
autnonties are workme the matter nn
but there is little hope of detecting the
perpetrator.
Acoounts from St. Petersburar mention
a strong revival oi tne nihilist agitation.
a copy oi a revolutionary reprint, the
iNarodwaie Welja, announces an outbreak
or revolution is imminent. Since Hia
czar return from Moscow fresh precau
tion nas Deen taien for his safety. No
one is allowed to know 24 hours in ad
vance what the czar's movements will h
ine ponce are in active communication
witn tne Vienna. Berlin and Paria
lice.
l'onowingare the particulars of "Hip
murder of liurt Scullv. the well known
horse trainer, who was shot and instantly
ameu vu uci. oisi, Dy iiooker Stivers,
in Paris. Ky. Phe parties lived nn A
joining farms, and tbe women of the two
iamines quarreled about some turkeys
loung btivers, aged 17 years, a brother
oi .Hooker, snot some turkeys which were
claimed Dy Scully's housekeeper. Scully
returned from Memphis, and hearing of
m case, ana meeting young Stivers
boxed his ears. When Hooker Stiver
neard of this he places his shot enn in
TVyr a buggy and drove to meet Scullv UDon u ieaaers 01 subsequent
MermO seeinfScnlly he called oui to him Tana been captured in Xudia.
ocuny Bianeu towards nim. out wtinn he . u. a prominent mer
got witbin a few feet of Stivers the latter .Tn? oi uomsviiie, Ky., a friend of
deliberately shot him dead. I Aoranam JLmcoln and a brother of his
A Female Desperado.
In Caldwell 'county, Ky., there lived
on the bottoms of the TraTlewater river
two families destined to most terrible
ends the Campbells. Reilly, J.
B., and Bud; and the Sullivans,
Tom and his sister Mary. They
They were considered neither better nor
worse than those about them. "They were
ignorant and rather shiftless, but so were
many otheis in the neighborhood. Soon,
however, the country people round
about began to say stranjre tinners of the
girl, Mary Sullivan. She was a bright,
quick girl of 20, with light hair, light
blue eyes, and a little above the medium
in height. Nft man for miles could out
lift her. Wif!s trun or pistol she was a
dead shot. On horseback there wasn't a
boy in the county who could ride faster
over rougher country, or who dared to
commit half the dare-devil pranks that
Mary constantly delighted in. She rode
a horse like a man. Mary had lost all
sense of girlish delicacy. The effect of
all this in a quiet country neighborhood
can hardly be imagined. Mary Sulli
van's nam9 became the by-word for all
that was infamous, and the staid country
matrons lulled their babies to sleep with
btories oi ine nornble Mary and her
midnight rides and crimes. Then ru
mor turned to other things. Mary was
seen often with the Campbell boys, and
once or twice she was seen with them
and her brother late at night, dashing at
her usual breakneck speed over the
country roads.
About this timi the most daring rob
beries began to be committed in the
northern end of the county. Farmers
found their smoke-houses open night
after night. Several stores were broken
into and robbed, and, strange to say, no
uue hubw wuo commuted tne crime.
One old farmer began to talk very freely
saying he recognized Mary Sullivan at
the head of the Campbells breaking into
his smoke-house. A day or so afterward
this time, but to make a anra Hinr nf it
At a dead gallop they rushed up to the
house, and iu an Instant it was sur
rounded. THE FOBTT MEN
Sat on their horses like statues, and each
man with a shotgun in his hand, the
hammer raised, finger on trigger, ready
for work. In the house was a family
named McMurtry, an old man and some
small children. The only other inmates
were Reilly Campbell "and his brother
Bud. The leader of the mob called out
to the McMurtrys to leave the house,
which they instantly did. standing m-if in
the woods shivering and waiting fo
what horror they hardly knew. Pre
parations were instantly made by the
two men in tha homa tnr fltrfct n .
death. Quarter was neither asked nor
given. The mcb opened fire and the
Campbells answered them. Then the
firing came fierce and fast. Balls rattled
against the walls of the old log cabin
like hail. The two men onene.1 litl
port-holes and answered as best they
could. A groan and muttered curse
came from the outside, and a little group
hurried a man off in their arms. It was
Hice Johnson, a well to-do respect
able farmer. He had a ball through his
uxettBfc, bbu oiea to deatn out on the road
Keeploff Up WUH Folltlcs.
The otner night, just after the polls
had closed and sealed the political fate of
more than one candidate whose chance a
few days before had been so bright
worn-out looking tramp entered a saloon
where a hilarious party of men were
drinking and dropping his bundle near
the wall he approached the bar and asked
of a man who seeaied to be master of
liquid ceremonies:
"Say, who's elected?'? '
""""""i oioiaimea tne man.
lhe tramp had just arrived in the city
and knew nothing of Arkansaw politics,
but he grasped the hand of the master of
Iiq uid ceremonies an d yelled : :
. ''Shake, old pard. You bet 1 s&d
luru. jever worked so hard for a
man m my life. Smitherton elected.
.T4i? 7 Geor&. Give me a sour."
; Who else of your ticket is elected?"
he asked of the master.
"Bliokshire." s
"Well, by Georare. We '11 naira in t.Va
another drink on thatj Blickshire, by
JruT 6 of tho 8ame. f yu Please."
The tramp's enthusiasm attracted at
tention, and ardent men came up and
pressed his hand. .
mmC . mm - ;
ay, yelled the follower of
professions, tradesmen, clergymen, and
educated persoi s of all classes and
grades of society, -who are poorer and
more at a loss iiow to feed themselves
and their am ies. than the average
"poor" opon whose recognized needs
society is wont to exhaust its charity.
Would that there could be a '.'secret ser
vice fund" managed by committee of
trusted philanthropists who would not
need to publish their doings to the
world, and who had the wisdom to con
duct their "mission of mercy with the
taet that genuine benevolence always de
mands. The sufferers of whom, we are -speaking,
and for whom we would plead
""j,"ovn, uui ieei, mat pride in
life that j absolutely deters them from
makiit their circumstances known
They would, and do, die, rather than
confess the urgenoy of their poverty.
When we read of cases of "starvation"
that attract notice by finding of coroner's
juries, and disclosures made before the
magistrates, we wonder how many in
this ostentatiously charitable community
of ours even suspect the existence of the
poverty that hides. f The Lancet.
Postaga Stamps.
with the pistol-balls flying over his head I . :cular J?a of ambition, who was woist
SinCinc hia ran viam Tl. - I Cieiejted On the nfhei.
Prop'r.
po-
In Philadelphia two nliilil
i , , , ui owiizer were
probably fatally burned by the explosion
of a coal oil barrel with which they were
playing.
It is rumored in consennenna nt
fact that Dufferin is to reniarte ifoit
Egypt, the porte is considering the ad
visability of despatching a hie-h ftnmmifl.
sioner to Cairo.
'The British bark Wave Trine wrliJn
left Pensacola on the 24th nlV
yfllow fever on board, was towed back on
the 2d, having lost one man at eea and
two sick on board.
Salerman and Avonb Pashas have
mitted that the man who btarted the con
flagration in Alexandria. to?eHi er with
to leaders of snbsennent moaonnm,
Keeps constantly on hand
uient of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AS D GLASSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A, full stock of
HC IIOOL BO O It
Such as required by die Public County Schools
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FAXCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young and Old.
rjUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Draits on San Francisco.
QEEDSIJ -SEEDS!
S !
ALL KINDS F MsT UUiLHY
ALL OK DERS
l romptlv attended to and Goods shipned
with dire.
Address. ilacheney & Reno,
Portland. Oregon
Notice.
Notfc is hereby given, to whom it Jiay concern, that
tlu inilersi)f irtd has been awarded the contract for
keeping the Douglas county Pauper for the period ot
two years. All persons iu need of aaatatancu from -aid
county must first procure a certificate to that effect
from an member of the County Board, and present it
to one of the following named persons, who are author
ized to, and will care for those presenting such certificate
W. L. Butten, Boeehurg ;' L. L Kellotrg, Oakland ; Mrs
Drown, Looking Glass. Dr. Scroggs is authorized to
. tarnish medical aid to all pnnons in need of the same
who have been declared paupers of Douglas county.
Wit. B. CLARKfc, Supt. of Poor.
RomuvHO. Or.. Feb. 16, 180
Philosophy triumphs easily over pasi
evils and evils to come; but present
evils triumph over philosophy.- La
Rochefoucauld.
A bull-fight was recently given in
Orizaba, Mexico, or the benefit of the
public schools. The jroceeds of the per
formance amounted to 8550.
A politician of. Maryland is named
Skipwith Wilmer; lie should be the hero
of an elopement if there is anything in a
name. . j
An improved order of Red Men are
holding a convention at Easton, Pa.
That is tbe sort that appears to be needed
down in Arizona.
"Can you find room for a scribe on
your paper?" "Not unless vou want to
subscribe." And again was that sohol
arly youth crushed.
A Seattle dispatch of Nov. 2.1 rv
Twenty-four deep-water sail vessels en
gaged m tne foreign trade and in the
district of Puget Sound during the month
of uctober. They came from Mexico.
luenawuiian xsianas. reru. Airazil. .lanan
and Australia, and are bonni whan
loaded for the Hawaiian islands. Pom
Chili, Australia, Fiji islands and China
inuring the same month fifteen ships
buucu iroDj wis aisirict lor loreign ports
tarrying cargoes oi lumoer, tuese fifteen
cargoes aggregating in value $116,147.
They consisted wholly of rough and
dressed lumber, shingles, laths, pickets
and spars. Reducing all to rongh lnm
ber , the equivalent of these cargoes may
be given at about 9,500,000 feet. Seldom
or never before were the shipments to
foreign ports so great. Four of these
cargoes went from Port Blakeley mill,
five from Utsalady, three from Tacomaj
one from Port Discovery, two from Port
Gamble. One cargo was destined for
New Zealand, two for Australia, one for
Mexico, three for China, five for the
Hawaiian islands and three for Chini.
In the lumber trade of Bnrrard inlet, B
C, during the month five vessels entered
and five cleared, the latter taking about
2,500,000 feet of lumber valued at abdut
833,000. The coal exports from this port
aggregate 11,906 tons in October, all
going to California. From the Benton
mine 1 01 tons were shipped, from th
Seattle, 10,205.
The trial of A. C. Soteldo, charged
with the murder of his brother, A. M.
Soteldo, in Washington, was resumed
before Jndge Wylie on the 1st. Frank B.
Conger, business manager of the Repub
lican, certified to Soteldo's assault on
Barton, during which A. M. Soteldo was
fatally wounded by his brother, who fired
with murderous intent at Barton, but
missed his man. Witness told the storv
of the visit of the Soteldo brothers to
Barton'b office on the night of the tragedy.
A. M. Soteldo presented Barton with a
manuscript, which he looked at casually
uu men reiuaea 10 accept, telling Sot
eldo to give it to Gorbam. Soteldo then
sprang upon Barton and a seufHe ensued,
in which the lamp was knocked over.
Witness picked it up from the floor and
then started out of the door vith it. As
he passed through the door he saw Sot
eldo standing at one end of the desk with
a revolver in his extended hand. He
passed rapidly through the outer room,
hearing a pistol shot as he did so, ran
down the stairs and called for a police
man.- Hearing cries from above witness
started to return when Barton and the
defendant came tumbling down the stairs.
On the sidewalk Barton told witness he
had a ball in hia head, which was covered
with blood. He also said he was shot in
side and was too weak to proceed. Wit
ness started to retire with Barton to the
office and met A. C. Soteldo at the door.
He was struggling with several parties
trying to escape. Barton held a pistol
in his right hand as he and Soteldo Hy
at the foot of tbe stairs. It was a dark
and rusty weapon. On cross-examination
witness said that at no time did he see a
weapon in lhe hands of A. M. Soteldo.
He could see when he left the room
whether or not Barton and A. M. Soteldo
had a weapon in their hands. He was not
positive' as to the number of shots fired,
but believed it was four. Dr. Bliss de
scribed the naturo of the wounds of A.
M. Soteldo and Mr. Barton, and identified
the pistol. Charles G. Conger identified
Barton's pistol.
attorney general, died on the 31. His
wiie was a niece oi the poet Kents.
The physicians of Gov. Hendricks r-
port the disease does not seem to be
spreading. The condition
favorable and they are more encouraged
than at any time since the disease appeared.
Patrick Carey, a New York lonc-sho.
man crippled for life by the fall of a coal
tub into the hold of the steamer Rata
sued the Cunard Steamship company
claiming $30,000 damages. Tbe jury on
tne jj awarded $15,000.
The London Times, commentino- nr. nr.
the Longfellow memorial, savs it nn-
not think the form propose! a suitable
one. Westminister abbev isrrpminenflir
an English institution and should re
maiu a place of national and and not
cosmopolitan memorial.
A Rreat increase in thennmbr nf Wo-a
fires in Russia has caused nearly all in
surance companies to fall back on reserve
funds. Insurance premiums have just
been raised by fortv per cent, on t,h
advice of delegates from Enelish com
panies present at the insurance eon&-ras
recently held there.
During last spriner a Frenchman
Goodenongh left Greenville for the woods
at the head of Moose-head lake, Maine.
Nothing subsequently was heard of him
till last week, when a skeleton was dis
covered with both hands in a bear tran
In some was he got his hands in the jaws
of the trap and was unable to move them.
iso assistance beini? near he died from
starvation.
Theatrical sensation oontinriea to b
the source of conversation in certain dr.
cles in Paris. Mirabeau. the eritio nf
Figaro, accused of writincr an article di.
rected against the actors and actresses of
Paris, and who was challenced to fio-ht a
.1 i i- i . .
uuei uy lamaia, ine nnsband of Sarah
Bernhardt, has written a letter to May
nard, editor of Figaro, denying he has
sent an apology to Damala. Maynard
has been challenged by Louis Deco.ia
and again refused.
A Berlin dispatch of Nov. 3d says: The
armament of Russian armies against Ger
many and Austria is being carried on
with great activity and without intermis
sion. Gsn. Todleben overlooks formid
able fortifications at Brestalof, near
Grodno. There is apparently a large
and well equipped camp upon the right
bank of the river. .The manipulation of
military forces and the manner in which
preparations are being conducted creites
the utmost uneasines among all classes
of society.
Dick Little, for conspiracy connected
with the robbery at Mussel Shoals, Ala ,
Aug. 10, 1881, waa found guiltv on the
2d. Little proved he was in Kentucky
at the time of the robbery, which he says
was committed by Frank or Jesse James
and Bill Ryan, who were hiding from the
officers. He admitted that he at other
timea and pUces ran and robbed with the
gang. The verdict is a peculiar one.
It rt cited a belief in accordance with
what Little testified, but says he is guilty
of conspiracy nevertheless. The court
suspended sentence and fixed. $1500 as
bond for the prisoner's appearance next
term. This action is said to be taken
because he is a valuable witness in sev
eral other cases against the James gang,
and may also be needed at HuUville to
testify against Frank James, should the
latter be put on trial for the Mussel
Shoals robbery.
Jmakx galloped xtp to his house,
Called him out and asked him what he
meant by saying what he did. "Did you
see me and the Campbells at your smoke
house?" asked she, at the same time pull
ing a big navy revolver and shoving it
under his nose. The old man stammered
out an apology, and was never afterward
heard to say a word against the Camp
balls. Among the most bitter denonn
cars of the gang was an old man named
Felkers, who lived a few miles away
from them on the Trade water. One
night, just three years ago, two men,
afterward discovered to be Tom Sullivan
and Reilly Campbell, rode up to old
man Felkers', took him and his old wife
out and beat them severely. They then
rode off. This affair caused the most in
tense excitement. A mob was hurriedly
organized and some forty men rode over
to the Campbells. Mary Sullivan had
in sume way heard that they were com -ing
several hours beforehand. She and
her brother Tom went over to the little
log hut of the Campbells and barricaded
themselves. When the mob came up
they demanded the instant surrender of
the whole gang. Mary yelled out taunt
ingly: "Gome and get us. vou cowardlv
dogs!" Fire was opened by the mob,
and the Campbellsand Sullivans prompt
ly returned it. After a little the bo
sieged made it so hot for the mob that it
bad to retire. The only man hurt in the
melee was Tom Sullivan, who was shot
in the breast, but who soon recovered.
The gang became more bold after this,
and robberies became more frequent.
At this time an event happened which
was destined to cause the entire destruc
tion of the band. Mary Sullivan met
Crockett Jenkins. The meeting itself
was romantic enough to merit its being
told. Mary was riding along the Trade
water one spring day two years ago,
when she saw a man on the other side
preparing to come over. The water was
deep, the little river had been raised by
frequent rains, and she: yelled over to
him not to attempt to cross there. He
either did not hear her or paid no atten
tion, for he plunged his home in. The
current was too strong for the horse, and
he soon threw his rider off and tried to
save himself. Then, with his heavy win
tor clothes on, Jenkins would most cer
tainly have been drowned but for Mary's
dashing into the stream with her horse
and rescuing him at
THE PERIL OP HER LIFX.
She brought the man up to her brother
Tom's to let him dry his clothes. A mu
tual admiration soon sprung up, which
quickly warmed into love. From that
time on Mary Sullivan and Crockett
Jenkins were warm lovers. Jenkins
who lived some miles away, moved over
to Sullivan's, and the Jove of the two was
the talk of the oounty. From that time
on the gang had no more faithful follow
er than Crockett Jenkins. About a
month ago, however, Crockett tired of
Mary, ard began payiDg his attentions
to another woman. For some time Mary
was ignorant of what was going on, but
when she beard of it her jealous hate
was terrible. "I will kill Crockett Jen-
aina ii he dares to betray me. she said
to more than one. One night about a
month ago, Mary accused Crockett of his
infidelity. He laughed at her. She was
too excited to get her pistol, but sprang
at his throat. A struggle followed, and
Mary would have strangled him then and
there but for interference. Crockett left
the house. Some time before this the
band moved up from Tradewater Bottom
and hired a little grocery some four
miles away on a public road leading to
Princeton. A day cr 6o after the fuss
between Mary and Crockett, a crowd of
men from Princeton were riding by the
little grocery, all drinking quite freely,
when one of the men in a moment of
recklessness fired off his pietol. The
Campbells, thinking the mob was again
on them, rushed out of the grocerv and
began tiring. The men returned the
shots and galloped back into town. This
created another tempest of excitement,
and the next day a mob was got together
to'exterminate the Campbells. The rob
bing had continued without interniission
and did much to inflame the people. The
next night forty men armed to the teeth,
with masks on their faces and hatred in
their hearts, swept down tho road toward
the little log cabin where the Campbells
kept their grocery. The loaders were
picked men, and were followed bv somo
ui tue most desperate men m the county.
It was resolved to do no half way work
came from within, and Reilly Campbell
fell in a pool of blood at his brother's
feet a corpse. But Bud stood to his
guns, doggedly firing away into the
night whenever he saw the flash of an
enemy's gun. How long this wild war
fare might have lasted no man knows.
But But's ammunition gave ont anA hia
shots became less frequent. The mob
closed in on him. Thirty-nine to one
surely it was madness to resist longer.
Bud did resist, however, and barricading
doors and windows, he stood ready with
a, clubbed gun in his hand to defend his
life to the last. Suddenly he began to
smell smoke about him. There was
smoke around him, and it seemed issuing
from everywhere. There was an omin
ous crackle in the air, the sound of fire
eating away at dried wood. Then he
knew the horror of his fate. The mob
had fired the cabin. Thirty-nine men
stood ranged around, just outside, with
levelled guns, waiting for him. Death
by fire within, death by bullet without,
which would he choose? The smoke be
came denser; he could hardly grope
aiuuuu tuo room, ine oiaze was leaping
up around him like a mad wolf. The
roof was a mass of fire. Then the door
was burst open, and out of the fire and
the blinding smoke that man could not
breathe and live, out of this.
VERY. MOUTH OF HELL.
Staggered a man with singed clothes and
grimy face and bleared eyes, clinging to
the end of a gun. Twenty pistols were
leveled at him, but he fell before the
hands that were so anxious to pull tbe
triggers could movej A dozn men
garnered about him, bound him hand
and foot, and, dazed and half dead as he
was, dragged him down into the woods.
A rope was quickly brought, and as the
smoke of the burning cabin floated
through the trees it touched and moved
the dangling body of Bud Campbell.
A night or so later, some men return
ing from a visit to a neighbor's, thought
they heard a man's voice pleading with
someone for mercy. They were not
positive, but thonght the one addressed
was called "Mary." The next day the
lifeless body of Crockett .Tflnki
found swinging from the limb of a great
oak at the top of a tall hill. The moral
proof that Mary Sullivan committed the
crime, assisted by her mother and sister,
seems to be conclusive; but there was no
Eositive proof. And so when Mary and
er mother- and sister were arrested,
nothing could be done to them. They
were all discharged, and when Mary
went back home she found death's-head
notices glaring at her, warning her to
leave the neighborhood. All the rest of
her friends were either dead or wounded
or had left. Bud Campbell was dead;
Reilly Campbell was dead; Crockett
Jenkins was dead; her brother Tom had
gone away to recover from his wound,
which had begun to trouble him again;
uor uiumer nu sister naa ned; she was
an outcast and alone. But in spite of all
this the woman's indomitable courage
never failed her. She went off to make
arrangements about selling some cows,
primed and oiled ber pistols, and then
wrote defiant notes to her enemies. On
the 29th of September she rode over to
farmer Hubbell's and asked for lodging
for the night. She had her little three
year old child with her. About ten
o'clock
uuwtjcn, j
"Snackles? Well, by the deuce. Oh,
but we ve got 'em, We'll have to drink
on nis aeieat. Home of the same." He
slapped the leader and struck tbe bar
with political enthusiasm. "Let me see "
he exclaimed, "what was what's the ma
jority conceded to to er, what was the
majority?"
"Of Nedson?"
"Job; what was Nedson's majority?"
em.
Well
"By George, we've got
uave to arm on that." ;
"On what?" exclaimed the master of
liquid ceremonies.
"On Nedson's majority."
"Why you blamed fool, he was on the
other side."
V?on "afaanderstand me. I mean that
u nis majority is no more than 200 we can
afford to drink." ;
"Wheie do you live?" asked the mas
ter, j
"Now listen to that. Ask an old citi
zen where he lives! That's too bad. We
will have to drink on that."
"Hold on. Don't be so rash. Are vou
a Democrat or Republican?"
"Now I know we'll have to drink."
"Get out of here," and the master
kicked the tramp over his bundle and
tnen meted him out of the house.
When the tramp met his companion a
few moments afterwards he asked:
"What's luck?" ;
"None. I struck a prayer meeting.
Did you do anything?"
"I never fail. I struck a crowd of my
constituents and lushed. A man never
looses anything by keeping up with the
Tohties of the country." Arkansaw
Traveler. i
Wasn't In.
A VOICE CALLED
Her to the door. Her usual prudence
seems to have deserted her. She did
not even take her pistol, which for five
years had never left her hand day or
night. t She reached the door, opened it
and peered out The night was dark
and windy. Heavy, rainy clouds hid
everything, and she failed to see the five
men with pistols in their hands, stand-
ing witnin a few feet of her. She
opened the door and stepped ont. Three
strong pairs of arms reached out from !
the darkness, and in an instant she was
whirled away out to the public road. I
She knew what fate lay in store for her,
but uttered neither threats nor entreaty.
She said never a word, but walked along j
quieuy wnn ner captors. They bound
her arms and feet, and, tossing her over
a horse as though she were a meal sack,
they joined the mob which was waiting
for them on the road. They rode on till
Mary recognized with a thrill of horror
that they were approaching the dace
where Jenkins was hanged. They halted
under the very tree, and the" leader,
making a rope from behind it, solemnly
fastened the noose about : the woman's
neck. She never flinched. They took
her off the horse, dragged her to the foot
of the tree, threw the rope over the same
1? 1 m " m . . mr
iimoirom wnicn urocKett Jenkins had
dangled a week before, and drew the
woman up. A convulsive, horrible shud
der raa through her frame, but she
spoke never a word. The wind
moaned dismally through tho branches
of the wood, whispering to the trees as it
went that a woman's body, cold and stiff
in death, was swinging from the tallest
branch of the old oak tree. f Louisville
Ijrvy.j uom.
The occupant of an office on Congress
street wett, fixed matters one day this
week in such a shape that any caller had
to run the gauntlet of a boy in the ante
room, and as he retired into his den-beyond,
he said to the youth:
. "Now, young man look me in the
eye."
"fes, sir."
"And remember what I say."
"Yes. sir." -
"It any person calls and asks if I am
in, you must say you don t know. You
will then ask their business. If they say
it is a financial matter you must come in
here, stop a minute, and return and say
I am out of town to take baths for my
rheumatism."
"Yes, sir."
It was hardly an hour before a stran
ger came up, and when asked his busi
ness, he replied:
"Well, I called on a little errand in
volving some money."
That was the cue for the boy. He re
heated to the back room, winked at bis
employer, and returned to the ante-room
and reported:
"He has just left for the oouatrv on a
vacation." . j 7
"Then I'll leave a note," said the man,
and he sat down, wrote a few lined, and
took his departure. When he had been
gone ten minutes the employer came out
to read it. It read: "
"Called to pay you that $90 but you
were out. Am off for Tennessee. See
you when you return in January. Tra
la." !
It was the work of only ten seconds to
fling on his hat and reach the street; but
it was too late. An hour's hard work,
including a walk to one of the depots,
failed to turn up the man who bad
money to leave instead of a bill to col
lect. The boy over there was looking
very much cast down yesterday. One
would have said that somebody had
been swearing at him. Detroit Free
Press. v
Silence is the
Charles Buxton.
severest criticism.
The Poverty that Bides.
The poor are always with us, and yet
we know them not. The poverty that
parades its needs and is perpetually ask
ing for "relief" is not the real indigence
that true humanity should be most
solicitous to help. It is the poverty that
hides which the genuine philanthropist
should search out and succour. In this
great city there are thousands who know
the bitterness of unsatisfied hunger, who
endured the misery pf that most blight
ing Of all COld. the Chill of atarvifi .
who suffer torments of mind-worry and'
wiowuouusss; ana wno are, in short
dyuig of destitution while they keep up
an external appearance of respectability
and even of content. Medical men who
are permitted to see life stripped of its
tinsel, especially those who have to deal
with the mental phase of human nature
at close quarters and in its weakest mo
ments, when pretense is no longer pos
sible, have this hidden poverty brought
painfully home to tbem. The outside
public has no conception nf the extent
and depth of the impecuniosity that pre
vails, and the bitter aching void that is
unsatisfied. We pity the so-called
-starving poor." Heaven , hely the
starving "well to-do" and even seem
ingly "wealthy!" It is a grim fact that
there is at this moment members of the
Some things are so common that few
apprehend the ingenuity and .labor re
quired to make them. Postage stamps,
for instance, are in everybody's month,
except the wise ones, who use a wet
sponge, but scarcely any one knows how
they are mwiufactured. In printing
them steel plates are used,, on which two
hundred stamps are engraved. Two men
are kept hard at work covering them
with the colored inks and passing them
to a man and girl, who are equally busy
at printing them with large rolling hanil .
presses. After the small sheets of paper
upon which the two hundred stamps are
engraved have dried "enough they are
sent into another room and gummed.
The gum used for the purpose is a pecu
liar composition, made of the powder of
dried vegetables mixed with water, which
is better than any other material, for in
stance gum arabio, which cracks the
paper badly. The paper is also of a
perfect texture, somewhat similar
to that used for bank notes. At-
ter . having been again dried, this
time on little racks, which are
fanned by steam power for about an
hour, they are put between sheets of
pasteboard and prtssed by hydraulic
presses, capable of applying a weight of
two thousand pounds. The next thing
is to cut the sheets in half; each sheet of
course when cut contains a hundred
stamps. This done by a girl with a large
pair of shears, cutting by hand being '
preferred to that of machinery, which
method would destroy too many stamps.
They are then passed to other squads, '
who, in as many operations, perforate
the sheets between the stamps. Next
they are pressed once more, and then
packed and labled and stowed away in
another room, preparatory to being put
in mail bags for dispatching to fill orders.
If a single stamp is torn, or in any way
mutilated, the whole sheet of one hund
red is burned. . About fivo hundred
thousand are burned every week from
this cause. For the past twenty vears
not a single sheet has been lost,"such
care has been taken in counting them.
During the progress of manufacture the
sheets are conn" ted eleven times. Scotch
man. Peaehf s and Otner Sew Fruit.
In California, these davs. the ia -
stir among fruit men, as to what to plant.
All agree that it is possible to overdo the
market unless great care be taken to plant
only the best. There. is a growing convic
tion that good peaches will be profitable
for a long time to come, and many are
looking into the subject. A clingstone
peach is wanted which does not curl, is a
large bearer and a good grower, and cans
or dries well. The pit must be compar
atively small. The peach should not be '
red at the center, for that is not so good '
for canning use. The larger and finer
and higher-flavored . it iB, the better for
the grower. There is a seedling, origi
nating in Sacramento county, which is.
certainly the . handsomest and largest
cling we have yet observed. So highly
is it prized that the entire stock of buds
from the original tree have been
put into other trees and none are yet for
sale. There are choice seedlings now in
the hands of private parties, of which
nothing will be heard for several years to
come, but which are apt to make a sen
sation in the market some day. In faot,
there is often more money in planting ha
orchard of some improved fruit than in
selling the trees. A man who has a good
seedling fruit of any sort should show
his faith in it by ptanting largely, and
holding his peace on the subject till the
market returns begin to justify the ven
ture. This is true of peaches, and of
other fruits, also. There are enough
varieties of fruits now for amateur uses
and exhibtions. Each new fruit must
now De an advance; it must drive out
some older sort; it must be more profita
ble to the grower than the kind -whose
place it takes hs been. Then it will '.
easily win success.
U Didn't Bam After All.
When McUlellan reached Mai vern
Hill in hia retrograde movement he had
the Federal gunboats at his back; They
sent their monster shells over the Fed
erals and into the woods where the Con
federates, were forming. One of the
shells fell in front of a ;brigadier-gen6ral
ftom Georgia and two aids, and came
rolling to their very feet. Like light
ning each of the trio threw himself flat
on the ground, rolled over once or twice,
and then hugged the ground and waited.
They could hear the splutter of the burn
ing fuse, and tbe chances of being wiped
out were ninety-nine in a hundred. In
this situation one of the aids called out:
"Gentlemen, I believe secession is
wrong, and I'm sorry I took up arms."
"And I know that rebellion is wicked,
and I'm ready to resign," groaned the
other side. : , ..
it was then the General's turn to say
something? and while they were waiting
to hear bim declare himself he suddenly "
Called out: ? :
"Get up, gentleman; get up. The .
dum tl ing isn't going to bust at all?"
Detroit Free Press.
Yorkville, S. U., has prohibited bicycle
riding on her streets.