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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, j. QOD _A "LSTX) OXJH COUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE, y VOLUME 8. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1874. NUMBER 21 . ?Frota tho Virginia, Nevada, Enterprise.] ^. Senator Jones' Fighter. Just previous to the eenat orial con test which resulted in his election, Hon. J. P. Jones hnd (he following fun ny adventure in this cicy with a man 'who came to him to hire himself out as a 'fighter:' Mr. Joeos and Feyeral friend < were in one of our first olass saloons sipping their wine, smoking, and chatting, when a rather strange looking oustom- r entered the place, aud Fauntcring up to the group, began tho operation of 'eye ing over' the gentlemen composing it. He was n man of middle age and ?medium height, with arum disproper tionntely long, great, spreading bauds ?and knotty fingers. Ilia angular, uu gninly form was poorly and scantily clad, and he was topped out with a cur ions little bullet head, Bet upon a very ?short allowance of neck. From the side 0.'' his little, round head ttood leaning out two great, pulpy oars, and all that ?appeared on his i'aee in tho way ol heard was a jet black stubbed moustache. 'This seemed to have been planted a hair at a time with a pegging awl and ham otter, the latter coming down on tho ?defenceless nose as euch bristle was iu fevted, so intimidating that organ that it hnd ever since remained crouched out ->of sight behind the hairy stockade. A large livid scar described a semi circle round one of his projc ctiug cheek boues. <and passing down entered the corner of his mouth, giving to the feature an ugly upward ditch on that side. Wub bling his little, glittering gray eyes over 'tho party bclorc him until suid orbs rcBtcd upon the rotuud form und rosy face of Mr. Jones, he pulled otf the hirsuto ten-pin ball, which he would have called his head, a acrap^of hat, and nmkiug an awkwujd'bow, said : *J. I'. Jones, I bolicve 1" 'That is my name, sir,' said Jones. 'Correct,' Beutentiously observed tho ?strange visitor. 'Do you want to see me ?' said Jones. 'About three miuutcs, aud iu private, ?f wou please.' j 'Mr. Jones led the way to a large {private room in the rear of the saloon. 'Mr. Jones, sir, you dou't'know mo,' said the fellow, 'but when you lived in ?old Tuolumne I.war also in that ptrt of 'Californcy?in the adjiuing couuty. Mr. Jones, I'm the Taruuterlcr of Ca la vcras; I'm a war boss fro n tho (hills and a fighter from h?1!' 'I don't dispute your word, sir,' said ?^J. P.,' 'but how docs your being -war thorre of the bills' concern nie V 'I'm hero to tell you. II re, now, you are goin' into this hero contest, and it's liable to bo a very lively one. About ?election day it'll be all fired hot. Now ?what vou'll need will'be a good tighter ; ?a feller to stund up, knock down and :drag out for you ; a man what can go to the polls and knock down right an' left r?wade through everything !' Mr. Jones said he hud not thought it would bo necessary to have euch a man aft tho polls on election day. 'Oh, but it will !' cried the man of ?muscle. 'You coo, you don't know about them things. I'll manage it ull >for yW' 'So ^ou want me to hire yon as my ?fighter V Medlao.' 'XvWt would bo your price from now till after the election Y You sec as I've toeveT-yet had occasion to hire a fighter, I doh't know much about the value of ?stich service.' 'Well, I couldn't undertake the job atfbrt of $1,000 there'll be lots of work kd'ao.' . 'Ain't that pretty high V 'Of course it'u a considerable sum, hut dhar'tt a terrible rough set over hore. 'These Washoe fellows are more on the cut and shoot than is healthy. You ecu '81,000 is no money at all when you talker late tire risk. I am liable to be 'chop^t'd all -to pieces, riddled with bul lets, and cftlher killed out and out or crippled for life. You see SI ,000 is no money at all.' 'Well, oomo to look at it in that light I don't know but your price is roasou able enough.' 'Cheap ! of course it is. I rather liko jour style, or I wouldn't undertake tho job at that figgcr. Come- is it a bargain ?' Am L your man at the figgor named V 'Weil, not soTast. If I am to havo a fighter, I want the best that is to be had. I don't want n fellow that will be kicked aud cuffed about town by every bummer. I am able to pay Fur a first cluss fighter, and I wou't have anything else.' 'Ain't I a fighter V rolling his eyes fiercely, nnd thrusting first hia right tbeu his left straight out from tbo shoulder, ducking his head comically about, and poising himself on one foot ; 'will any body kick and cuff nie? me, tho war hotsa of tho hills, the Taratiterlor of Calaveras? Not much.' 'Have you ever whipped anybody ?'j 'Ever whipped anybody ? Me?havo 1 ever whipped anybody ? You make me laugh. Next you will be asking if I ever was whipped ? Show tnc your man ?show mo your men?for I ain't par ticulur about, em coming oue at a time. Bring' em ou, and I'll whip all that oan stand in this room in one minute by thu clock !' ?Well,' said J. P.,' 'I think you'll do ; but ns I said before, I want tho best man in the country. My fightor must be a regular fighting striker. Now I have another man in my eye. He is Bomethiug of a fighter ; his a graveyard of his owu ot considerable siz.J. It lies betivceu tho pair of you. Tho best man is the man for my money.' ?1)?u your mau ! Bring him on. P?n me, 1 11 devour him ! Show him to the Taranteller !' 'Remain here two uiiuutcs and I'll bring bim in.' Now, before coming into the room with the fellow, Mr. Jones had observed James N. Cartter?commonly known on the Pacific coast as Big J im Cartter? sauntering about the .saloon. As is well ?known to everybody_iii_this city, and pretty gonorally throughout the towns and cities of Nevada aud California, Jim Cartter is a powerfully-built man standing over six feet six inches in his stockings, a man who is'on the shoulder,' and is at home with either knife or pistul, as more than otto grave cu'i testi fy. Calling to Cartter, Mr.* Jones briefly u.ade known tho situation, aud invited bim in to interview 'he 'war horse of the hills.' This was as good a thing as Cartter wauled, aud into tho room they went. 'Here,' said Jones, as they cnteroJ the room, 'is the other man. Nobody will disturb you here, aud, after all is over, the best man is the mau for my coin.' Jim waltzed iuto the room with hi.-* hat standing on two hairs aud a wicked smile playing upon his features. Said he: 'Is this the blessed infant that has como to eat mo up? Is this the (Jala vcras tkuuk that has come over hero to set himself up as 'chief ?' Move back tho chair*.' With this Cartter began to wriggle from side to side in the effort to 'shuck himself of tho long-tailed black coat he always wore, and, in so doing, he dis played ou one sido that famous old while handled,siiteoo-i .eh bowie knife, h'i; constant companion, and on thcoth.T side the butt of a navy revolver. 'So this is the lop eared our of Gala voias who comes bore to set up as a fighter? Move the chairs to tho wall!' cried Cartter, still wrig^liug at his coat. 'Mr. Jones,' cried tho mighty devour cr of men, 'Mr. Joues, this man is a friend of yours. I<cuu't fight any friend of yours. With any frieud of yours, I am a lamb. I oould <not harm a hair of his head 1' 'No friend at all. He is a fighter like yourself. Besides, what has fiieod ship got to do with a transaction involv ing $1,000 ? I want the best I can fiud. If yon whip this fellow I hiro you as my fighter. That's all there is ubout it.' ? 'That's fuir and business like, you skunk!' oried Cartter. 'Pool.yourself and waits out hero !' 'Mr. Jones,' said the 'war boss ot the hills, in a mild, conciliatory tone, 'I am. satisfied that ? this mau is a friond of yours. You might insult and bautor me und tear mo ull to pieces, but agaio&t ?a friend of yours I'd never lift a hand. Now, your friend is of the right stripe ; I like his looks. Tfur's no use of two good men a figbrin' for nothing, so I'll fell yon what you'd best do. You give him 8500 aud me ?500, an' we'll work together. Tho two of us could chaw up the town?we'd bo a terror to it.' 'No,' said Jonc3, 'you won't do. You ain't game, you?' 'He's a dunghill,' chipped in Cartter. 'I can't fight in a room,' said tho fel low ; 'I buve uevoryet had a Gght in a room. I don't like it.' 'I guess you are not stuck after it anywhere,' faid Cartter. 'It is rather close to fight in a room,' said Jones. Tbeu turniugtothe iellow, whose eyes wero still wandcriog in the direction of Carttcr's coat tails, be handed him a twenty dollar gold piece, saying, 'Take thijs. I hire you for my open-air fighter. You are never to Gght for me except iu tho open air, where there is a good chance for yv.u to run.' Thank you, Mr. Jones,' said the fel low, pocketing the coin and making for the door. 'Thank you, and if I ever seo a sho to put in a lick for you, I'll uot forget to do it.' 'Provided you havo % chance to run,' sneered Cartter. Turning as bo was passiug out of tho door, the fellow said : 'It's all very nice, Mr. Joaos ; buc that is cither Big Jim Cartter or the devil, and you can't riug him iu on mo.' About, a Baby. The Son of thk Mississippi?The SUNTIFAM THAT FfclTS A LONG THE o Shore, &o?Safe in Pour and in Training ton toe Presidency. When the good eteomboat Capitol *Cnpt. O'Xcil commander, left Yieks burg on her last trip up for ' tho "future ?.great.' sjie had ajnoug her cabin passen gcrs a genteel looking woman with hor 'juby. We all know what a well spring nf pleasure a baby is, but this particular baby was a bluo eyed, black-tufted boy ol three or four weeks old, and shone out grandly as a perpHud Buubuiui to the old salts and the ladies ou board . When be crowed aud cooed and eleva ted his infant legs?iu locrously at times ? iu the air he was a study for a pain ter, and wheu be took his rsjfUlar hash from a bottle and Glied in with nourish tnent from his list, his intelligence was admitted to be far beyond his weeks. In short he was quite a seductive b*?J, and he made a great many friends u )t only for himself but his mother, who however, rather avoided than courted at tention. When the mother of the baby came ou board fiho?inquired which was tho nearest town to St. Louis, and was told Chester. That, she aaid, was the place she wanted to go to, and when the b'Jit arrived at Cheater, just bolbre dinner au Saturday, she left tnking her eharge with her. The weather was warm aud pleasant, but as babies aro notoriously guilty of the croup at all kinds of un pleasant seasons, she had wrapped the blue eyed cherub up, aud held h'uu close to her mauternal boson as she swung across the gang plank aud mounted, the bank. Everybody was sorry the baby vr,i gouo. He had beeu such a thorough brick of a baby, ond the babies gonera ly took a rise in that market. Dinner time came, tho boat was on her way, and they sat down, Capt. O'Neil at tho head, as usual, concentra ting his beFt eno:gic8 on carving tho potatocs.Jwhcn of a sudden then* was a cry. It wasn't much of a cry either, but it was Bharp and remonstrative. "Thore was silence deep as (loath, And the boldest held hia breath, For a time.' Cnpt. O'Noll, with a presonce of mind, which doos immortal honor to bis head and heart, loll off carving the potatoes, and exclaimed with a burst of honest euthusiaam : 'I'm blessed if that isu't tho baby.' Thore was a rush for the stale room, and there sure enough wus tho blue-oyed babj wrestling with lifo under diffioul ties, over ? which be didn't appear to havo any immediate control. He had milked one first very dry aud had gone for'thefther with tho host of iuteutions but somehow or other he was left han dod?perhaps ho took It from his father ?and beseemed to havo an ill de fined idea that it ought to take au attach mont at his larboard eve. His maternal bot tle was by his side, M)ut perhaps, he didn't sec, for everybody insisted that if he had known it was there ho eould hare adjusted it just aa easy ns falling off a log. It was evident that the Vicks burg woman had deserted the baby, but ho didn't want for nurses. Every body wautod to parse him, and three officers dashed off immediately to the bar for millt punches, which Capt, O'Noil thought was the bes'. thing to bo done under the ciroumstan ces. Fortunately, libwrever' thoro were ladies on board who ^knew hotter, nud one matron tore the illustrious little stranger from the gallant captain's arms and retired, accompanied by a committee of the feminine ?vhoTW When tint ba by camo back again Jyou should havo seen him: Head and heels well up, and a smilo all over him that went right through the vests olghe old salts, and everybody declared/there never was such a baby, except, of course the hi by' of the matron on b&trdwhohad shared his market basket with him. What has been *.dono with him ? Well; wo must not say where he is, uor what he is called, because the people who deserted him arc not worthy tn have such a baby, fla^bt. John Scudd-jr like a thoroughly goori- fellow as ho is, adopted him at once, had him christon od, and placed whore ho will d > the most good to himself, let us hop?, and the kind friouds who pioked him up as a waif. The baby hits got a now b >tt!o ?we don't know what kind of a 'bottle it is and it don't n. itter, b it his appc tito is ferocious antfhis lungs arc vigo rous. He don't s'icm to care a conti uential whethor scljools keeps or not, nor docs he miss tie women who went ashore at Chester, 1 v he has fouu 1 hall a dozen mothers* icf Mrs. Scuddcr aud t he ladies of the ffluily. and have had of these Capt.. Scuddcr has declined, for he thinks sonic of bringing him up to be president. Hani (o Kill. FIVE DESPERATE ATT EM PI'S AT SUICIDE A young German, Wilhelm Young, residing near Cincitiuati, having been unsuccessful in business, recently re solved to put an on 1 to his life. How hard he fouud it to do this is told by a local paper. About 4 o'clock yesterday morning he arose from his bed. took a loaded revolver, stolo quietly into tho b ick yard, and there commenced the task of blowing out^his brains. As an uusuc ccssful attempt in this direction, Young stands, wethiuk, without a recorded parallel. With tho revolver in his right hand, and the muzzle close, a ball was fired straight at the centre of his forehead. The ball however flattened on the bone, and did not peuctrale the skull. Another shot was fired inclose behind the right ear. This produced, a wound, hut did not kill, as desired Another bullet was shot against tho back part of the hoad. This one," too. wounded, but ?s before, did not break through the skull and cause death. With his brain in a whirl from leaden bullets flattening on the skull, the man still preserved consciousness enough to pursue his attempts at self destruction. He was determined ou killing himself. Thinking that his cranium on the right side might bo harder than on the left hand and rhot in a bullet on that side, just behind the cur. The attempt was us unsuccessful as the other. 'Ihn fckin was broken, the thin flesh was lacerated and blood trickled down his nepk, as it didv from the other, three wounds, but death did not come yet. Poor Young ! He began to feel truly discouraged. He had met bud success in trying to live, and Ja perfect lailuro in an attempt to die. Still ho did not givo up. His head ached painfully, his brain turned in his skull giddily, ho began to feel weak and dizzy aud half crazed, but he did not givo up. Though his head appeared bullet proof, he would try a more vital spot. Accor dingly changing his weapon back to ?his right hand, aud having two more loads left, ho placed tho muzzlo against bis left breust, over tho rogiou of tho heart, and fired. The bulletjthis time penetrated ranging erratioilly, did uoi enter the heart, but lifter producing a serious flesh wound, lodged iu the spleen. About an hour after all this bombard nicnt, the reports from which were not parcularly noticed, Young was found lying on the gras*, exhaus cd from pain , and tho loss of blool. (Iowas perfoo conscious and afturwards told of his o f fort against bis life. Dr. Shaw, the District Physician, was at first sum moned sod rendered all the assistance possible, and afterwards tho regular family physician, Dr. Hiltnea, was call ed in. Both of the physicians cxamin ed tho wounds and prouounccd the last one inflicted in all probability fatal. Those in the head were almost enough to use up an ordinary man, but it was thought that a persou with Young's pluck might survive them. At last accounts Youug was alivr} but no hopes wese entertained of bis recovery. His family consists of a wife and two children. Follow Franco in Farming. With cot four times the territory of Georgia, France raises more who it th in the whole Un itcd States; she folds near ly thirty million of sheep, her work htock is only a little less than tint hel l by these thirty bcvcm States, an 1 b 5r system of rural culture, and, bettor still her'rutal economy, is a lesson that wo might heed with profit. Tlut we aro crazed on the subject of wide cultiva tion, and the ownership of the last ? the very last acre of land that a Ijoius us. Iu vain have the few lights among us shown the absolute madness, as well us folly, of tending poor lands, so far that wc kuow at the sta*rt that it will never, c an never, pay us. V? c go on buying more poverty strickeu acres; working more hunger consumed stock ,_nnd '.planting mare cotton, until we as a State and~^cttoh~ arVTieaPfy" ""tutrr^ ed. The poor wTdow uuec, in Georgia, could spread before you a good meal good enough lor any muu with an llOU est liver under bis ribd. lloro.vu fl rar her owu chickens' her golden butter ol creamy milk, her fruits and preserver, were always read}', and while 'til true, the dinner at half past eleven was a trille^prouipt, yet the good cheer was abundant and your welcome was beyond all suspicion. 1 be five plow farmer now feels the grasshopper a burd.-n. llospi tality is paying out because a meal fur a man and horse has at last. (Jod Lhulp us, a money value in the South. Friend, won't you pause aud save yourselves and the country from the ruin of your foolish ncss i Planters, won't you reform and be come farmers ? You men who feel that you arc s'.lffo uutiug for room and fresh air, if a man moves near enough for you to hear his chickens crow, will you not consent to "live" 04 well as p c'tcud to live your selves, by dividing out jour surplus land aud bringing iu men to work our soil, aud not to cumber it only. This to be our salvation, aud wo need not look for it iu any other device. Let the word pass round, and lei it fly; cut up your lauds iuto small farms; mow hay, and dou't pull it down with tho beastly bog; up with the mutton; quit syrup that you dou't make, and let the bee show you bow to work nod to sive; multiply all fruits you ever saw grow iu tho State by ten, on your place; beware that you are uot eaten up, like old Diomede, by your horses, aud feel that y> u have disgraced younelvcs whenever you aro cuughtwiib a bag of coro in your crib of another man's rais ing. This is plaiu talk, it is bull .talk, some may say; aye; we know they will say. it is impudeut talk. But eay on; tis the God's truth, _uud tho best man in Georgia kuows it whether be bo freo from tho censure we have utterel or I whether ho deserves it.?Atlanta Her uUl. A window full of pot plants suddenly de.- co. ded into the street, Monday morn ing lillmg the back, bosom and hair of an elderly, party with bulbs, earth, thorus aud hair pins. As soou.as he recovered his speech ho stated thut ho was a pilgrim and a stranger, but held be d?d if ho couldn't Hok the man tvho touched off that powder. How Old Joo Became Beautiful. Poor old Joo was aa ugly old ram, indeed nearly everybody called him' "ugly Joe." The older pooplo used him nfi a kind of scarecrow for their ohildrea, so that tho poor little thing3 ran off whenever ho came near. But thia was a great pity, for poor old Joe was as harmless as they wero, and dearly lovod. little children. Often he tried to coax them to him, but they wonld have ?oth ing to do with tho poor old man. So one day he went up to tho graveyard and there, off by itself, he found a negloctadf little gravo with no littlo ston to tell who lay beneath and overgrown with woods. Carefully old Joe pulled up evcry-weod, then sodded the littfo grave with fresh, green grass and brought sweet wild flowers and planted thorn upon it. Every day he spent much time upon it till he seemed to love that little gravo. And ouc morning l.o was found lying close besido it, with his arms stretched out above it cold and dead ; for poor old Jo j had gone where thcro would bo many to love him, and they buried his body cloas beside the little gravo he had lovod. I A day [or so afier old Joe wasburicd a lady and gentleman came to tho village. They were the parents of the child who slept beneath the little grave. "They had left the village semo years before, too poor to buy a little tombstone to place above their child's grave, but had now come back wealthy. They were surprised when they saw the littlo gravo so wol\ taken euro of, and the mother wept who? she heard the 6tory of old Joe. Aud ore* his grave they placed a beautiful monu met, with these words engraved upon it: "He will beautify the meek with salvation." And in the resurrection day may wo all be beautiful as old Joe will be. Wo take the following from tho Greenville correspondence oXj-ho Oolutn *?*"-*--"V-rt-f-i-_^ bia I nam-.Ifcrald: "Much complaint having existed in one of the townships of this county for the past year as to the manner in which one of the school tr as tees had discharged his duties, tho Judge instructed the Grand Jury to investigate the charges that were preferred against him, which ihcy did fully, arriving at the conclusion that his case demanded indictment, which the Judge promptly ordered tho Solicitor to do, and his trial .will come off uext term of the Court. Tho man's name is A. C. Stepp, apolitical Baptist preacher, who is vory fond of making stump speeches, denunciatory of Kapuh Head's aud thoir rule?porhaps the .bit tcrcst Democrat in the county, who has prated more of Democratic virtue, and moro of'Tladical" dishonesty, than any other man in the county- Ho otaud* charged with having run the'machinery of tho public schools in his township regardless of the public interest as to their location, and having taught one himself with less than the requisite number of scholars required to establish a public school, signing his own certi fleates, and drawing more money for himself than for any other teacher in his dominion, besides other and graver charges His principal accusers and most prominent witnesses before the Grand Jury ?verc of tho Democratio persuasion?men of character and prom ient citizens. Thus you see ercu up here, in the ' Democrats' paradise," tho only official presented for prosecution is a Democrat, and better, too?a man who has some ability, and a great deal of assumption as to both biblical, politico tncdieolegal and every kind of learning known to human tongdc; but ero the idea of October shall havo passed he will have seen perhaps that the law in its majesty can reach a Democrat as well ag a Republican. Put him on your blaok list, Mr. News. - "i . 4 ? v;t*o f?.f. i.mww?-. tmmi n? - A Brooklyn -undertaker: offers a chro mo with ovary 850 coffin Brigham Young has made his will giving his heirs ten children apiece. Some Indiana ministers havo been arrested for fishing contrary to the law. Nrist is calculating the whoathor for his next year's almanac. A Wisconsin widow hat just buire j bor eighth |husband.