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tumorous department. HE CAUHHT THE OFFICERS. "Cap" Nelson is a moonshiner whose stills iu Clinton county, Ky., have never been found. The revenue officers have endeavored for years to catch him, but the nearest they ever succeeded was about two years ago, the details of which raid were told a Star reporter by Thad Arnold, oue of the deputies who accompanied the posse. "We left Point Burnside," he said, "and stopped the first night in Monticello, starting early the next morning for Boston mountain, near which Nelson was known to live. As we rode up the narrow bridle path, that is the easiest way to the top of the mountain, a mountaineer met us. " 'Howdy, strangers,' he said. " 'Howdy,' we answered. " 'Goin' to Albany ?" he inquired. " 'Yes.' " 'Wall, I reckon I kin do yo'uns some good an' make an bones' dollar,' he remarked. 40oe ofyo' all jess get down an' come byar.' "Our leader dismounted, and the man said, cautiously: " 'Thar'sa feller named "Cap" Nelson byar, an' thar's rewards fum 'im. Ef ye' all will -bring some men byar, I'll go halvere." "After a little sparring a deal was made with the fellow, who took us to a bouse for supper, where her said Nelson bad a engagement to come that nigbt. We watch the informer carefully, and kept our weapons ready for use. . " 'Yo'uns all go up yander in the loft an' keep a sharp lookout. When he comes, jump right down an' captor 'im suddint. Take me, too, for my bide wouldn' be worth shucks ef they hed any ijee he war given away." "We were a little suspicious, but kept a close watch upon the man. He was not out of our sight except when he went to feed the horses. "About the time it grew dark there were sounds of horses' hoofs, and our spy whispered up the loft: 'He'll ride up, an' I'll go out an' see 'im an' stop 'im. He won't come in 'cause thar's two others with 'im. When yo' all hear three pistol shots yo' kin' know It's 'im. Git yo' critters an' surroun' 'im.' "We started after the horses, and the pistol shots were beard as we reacnea the log stable. The horses were gone, the lights were out in the cabio, and when we got back it was deserted. We finally got into the house, and loosely scrawled on a piece of brown paper was written : 'I told yo' all I'd show you Cap Nelson for half the two thousand dollars. You all et supper with him, but he don't live here as a general thing. He took the horses for half what you owe him for showing himself and the rest can be sent him at Monticello." "It was the last trace we could find of him, and we walked thirty miles to town, expecting every minute to be shot at." i A Series of Misfortunes.?An Rnalishman of the last century, Sir Thomas Robinson by name, was famous for nothing but being a great bore. He made a great many visits, and sometimes many public men bad to resort to all sorts of expedients to avoid bim. At the bouse of a certain high official where he called, the servant's announcement, "My master and mistress are out," often bad no effect on bim. "Oh 1 well," he would say, "I will just drop in and have a chat with the children." Sometimes he said he "would have a talk with the parrott," or "I'll just take the opportunity of setting my watch by the great clock on the stairscase." One morning, when it was really impossible to admit him, Sir Thomas appeared bright and smilling, at the door. The servant looked down from an upper wjiiuuw. "My master and mistress are out," said the servant, as soon as he saw Sir Thomas. "Ah ! Well, I'll just step in and"? "The children are all asleep, sir !" "Indeed? Well I'll"? "The parrott is dead, Sir Thomas!" "Ah ! that's bad. At any rate I'll"? "The clock is stopped, sir ! It's uot going since last night." Completely baffled, the tiresome gentleman was compelled to withdraw without gettiug in. English as She Is Spoke.?The darky is fond of long words. The meaning doesn't matter, so the words are long, as this absolutely true story will testify : On the M.'s plantation in Mississippi lives an old "before the war" darky, too old to do any wotk harder than throwing feed to the poultry. She has known no other home and is a character. Visitors to the plantation olimn'c ?n to her pflhin and tr> their amitjo j," , ? question, "How are you this morning, Aunt Cris?" never fail to receive the following reply: "Well, honey, I'm kinder oncomplicated. De superfluity of de mornin' done taken de vivosity outen de air and left me de cousequence of comprehension." The Snub Direct.?Some time ago a young minister consented to take the evening service at a country church which was several miles away from his own town. He hired a carriage to take him there, and at the close of the service the beadle, who was a little outspoken, with a view to paying any expense, asked him, "And how much will ye hiv' to pay, sir?" "Oh, only a seven and a sixpence," replied the young minister. "What! seven and sixpence?" cried the beadle. "Well, sir, if you ever * think of coming again, and it costs that much, if I was you I wudna' come. It's not worth it." sltfatjside (gatherings. 9ST Revenge, however sweet, alwaj costs more than it is worth. tfef It is generally the man wh can't waltz who declares that dancin is sinful. fMan will utter 10 words to e: press his joys and 50 to lament h sorrows. tS^Two dollars is the price of divorce in Japan, and it only taki four hours to get one. IST A wise man says it is better 1 be accused without occasion than I have occasioD to accuse yourself, A mau who cheats at cards wi steal in other transactions. This is a invariable and irrevocable rule. 10" Go where duty calls, but turn i and help when you get there. Don stand around with your hands in yot pockets. There is always a demand f< the best fruits, the best products < the dairy, the truck patch, the garde or the field. There is always room t the top. I^A better stretcher for a tigt shoe than any cobbler's last is to wal through a pool of water, or, if poss ble, wet grass, and tbnn keep on wall ing till the boots are dry. W&* Not rapid transit: "Is this a fat train ?" asked tde traveling man 01 in porter. "Of coarse it is," was the r< ply. "I thought so. Would yo mind my getting out to see fehat it i fast to ?" B&T A. white object of any size ma be seen in the sunlight at a distance c 17,250 times its diameter; that is t say, if it is a white ball a foot in d ameter, it can be perceived at a dis tance of 17.250 feet. ST Fogg say8 that sometimes he i led to believe that there are people i the world who are religious not becaus it does them any good, but because i guts them in the way to make a grea many other persons uncomfortable. The most remarkable instanc of absent-mindedness on record is tha of a gentleman who, being sent to th shoe shop to have a peg taken from hi wife's shoe, went to a dentist's instead and had one of his teeth pulled. "I ain' goin' in so ter'ble stron for dese new women idees," said Unci Eben, "but I kain symperthize wif lot ?' able-bodied citizens dat seem te think er woman mus'n't do er man' work, onless she's done married d man." tSTJosh Billings says: "There i one thing about a ben that looks lik wisdum?they don't kackle much un til after they have laid their eggs. Sue pbolks are alwus a bragging and i kackling what they are going tew d aforeband." ?- "How jaded your horse looks cabman !" remarked an old lady, as sb dismounted from the cab. "Is no the bit uncomfortably large for hi mouth?" "It ain't the big bit in. hi moutb, mum. It's the small bit in hi stomach." ?6T We often complain of the fre quent changes in the temperature, ye without these changes there would b no seasons, no clouds, no rain, no life There would be one eternal calm, an< * 1 " ~4 * ' ?- ? ~ ??1'1 "A'm Kunnm loe aimu?pucrc wuuiu ouuu u^vui stagnant and poisonous. So scienc tells us. 1ST Undertaker?Perhaps you wouh prefer one of these higher-priced cask ets ? You naturally desire to show i becoming respect for the deceased Unconsolable son-in-law?Not exactly respect for public opinion was what was thinking of. A dead person can' talk ; live persons can, and do. AST" "Poor Jenny! It must be ai awful shock to you,'' sympathized he friend. "And to think you trusted hin all these years, while he was em hezzling such enormous sums !" "Yes,' sne soooeu, "1 Kuew my lluijiljcjj alone came to more than his salary, bu I never suspected him." ?6T" The way of auctioneers in differ ent parts of the world vary greatly In this country and England the seller bear the expenses of the sale ; but ii France the purchaser bears the cost five per cent, being added to his pur chase. In Holland it is still worse, thi buyer being required to pay ten pe cent, additional for the expenses of thi sale. ?6T We must face the fact that thi large majority of our people cannot bi clerks, bookkeepers, salesmen type writers, telegraph operators, much les miuisters, actors, editors, doctors, law yers and politicians. There must b laborers, mechanics, carpenters, black smiths and farmers, ard the publi' schools must educate the majority fo the work they have to do in life. ti&F A lady tells this: "We needei eggs one morning, and old Maggie wa sent to the grocery to get some. Late in the day Maggie volunteered tk general remark that 'eggs is high. 'Are they ?' I replied. 'How much ? 'Forty cints a dozen, mum. Sure IN be after buying no eggs at that price mum, and so I borried them of th neighbors!'" t8T Orange growing is being aban doned on the peninsula of Lower Cali fornia. and the orchardists are cuttinj down their trees and planting the lan< with coffee, cotton and sugar cane The low prices obtained for orange grown on the peninsula have discour aged the growers, and they believ more profit will be derived from th other crops, especially from cotton which grows well. t&F The highest wages paid in Japa are to superior porcelain artists, wh earn 72 ceuts per day, aud the lowes 10 cents per day, which is paid to tea firing women. Blacksmiths get 3 ceuts a day; carpenters, 26 cents compositors, 29 cents ; dyers, 24. Oi dinary laborers receive 19, while woo savvvers corn 29 rents a dav. Factor laborers get even less than these prices Farm hands receive $1.44 a month. $he ?tory Idler. "? CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. A Fragment of California History. c_ The annals of jurisprudence arc js marked by many strange cases ol circumstantial evidence. Many a man has passed out of the world and many a one gone unwhipped of justice on what was considered "reliable authority but which has afterward proved :o the reverse?a combination of causes ;0 producing a chain of evidence supposed to be irrefutable. We ourselves nave seen pregnane illustrations 01 me n unreliability of evidence based on circumstances?a remarkable instance D of wbich was shown in the case of >t Berdu, a man accused of an assault on Ir Jansen, a merchant of San Francisco, in the year 1851. The facts of the )r case are as follows : jf Jansen kept a store ou Montgomery Q street near Washington, close by the edge of the once famous cove of Yerba Buena. One evening two men entered, and asked to look at some blankets. They wiere ill-looking men, . dressed as miners, and armed in the I_ warlike fashion of the times. Some"* thing in their manner excited the suspicions of Jansen,' who observed them closely. He proceeded to obtain e the blunkets. While stooping for this J" purpose, one of the men reached across u the counter and grasped the till. As 18 he did so, Jansen noticed bis hand. It was a hand few could forget after y having once seen it. The middle >f finger was encircled with a ring drawn o in India ink, while the first joint of the i- forefinger was broken, or rather twisti ed, giving the finger a peculiar appearance. [g Jansen had scarce time to notice D these things when be was struck with e a slung-shot. He fell, and rememberit ed no more. The ruffians then broke ^ open the safe, and adding this to what they found in the till, departed. Jansen was found late in the evening lying e on the floor almost dead. He was immediately placed under the care of a e physician, but several months passed ,9 before be was able to quit his bed. > In the meantime the citizens organized, and, forming themselves into a ? nn - - - r TTS ?!I 11 g "tommiiiee 01 v igiiuuue, ciuyiujcu e every exertion to discover the perpea trators. Their effort met with no r success, and the impression became 8 general that the guilty parties bad fled e the country. But, while the pursuit was being relaxed a message was sent z to Samuel Brannan, who in conjunce tion with William,T. Coleman, formed i. the direct head of the committee, that a man answering Jansen's description of ei one of his assailants was ranching in a o shanty on the northern side of Telegraph Hill. .. , Measures were at once taken to arg rest this man. An armed detachment t of the committee proceeded to his hut, g where they found him cooking bis sup8 per. He was terribly surprised, a?d s vehemently protested his innocence. But his appeals availed nothing. He was carried to the rooms of the com'* mittee on Battery street, and securply e imprisoned. ' The next day he was examined, j He gave bis name as Berdu, said be e was born in England, and a seafaring e man by occupation. This was all that could be learned of his history. His life bad doubtless beeD marked with ' crime. His appearance was against bim. His face was sinister, and, a 1 malignant soul looked out of bis blue, ' restless eyes. _? This man was con'fronted by Jansen. 1 The latter was still suffering from his 1 injuries; but at once identified the man as the one by wbom he was 3 assailed. Of this there could be . no r doubt. Besides au exact personal i similarity, the man had an India-ink - ring on his middle finger; the knuckle 1 of his forefinger was also broken or y rather twisted similar to that describt ed. Such evidences could not be doubted. It was impossible two men . could be similarly marked. Despite . the frantic prostestations of the pciss oner, it seemed downright infidelity to i question such incontestible evidence. f Berdu was accordingly pronouueed * ? ta Kto noli onH t^lH ^ U I 1 IJ J ICUiaUUVU KV UIO VV1I) Mi?u Wiv> B to prepare for deatb. His execution r was set for the following Sunday, ou e the Plaza. The day came. He was brought e out, and preparations were made to e haug him. But certain members of the city government interposed. They s had doubts of bis guilt, and implored the committee to respect the law, e promising the prisoner should be well guarded, tried fairly, and hanged if c found guilty. Merciful counsels ofr ten prevail when warmly urged. These pleas succeeded. The hot, angry mul, titude reluctantly yielded. Berdu was turned over to the authorities, and lodged in the county jail. His advor cates, among whom Calhoun Beuham, ? General John E. Addison, county ;, clerk; Colonel Jack Hays, sheriff; , Malachi Fallon, city marshal; and Levi Parsons, were conspicuous, still ' stood his trienas. e Berdu was brought to trial?Calhoun Benham and Hall McAllister appear* ing as bis counsel. Their efforts avail* ed naught. Jansen's testimony could ? not be shaken ; Berdu was condemned. ^ His fate seemed now determined ; yet such was the earnestness of his 8 denials that many were prejudiced in '* his favor. Several of these beiug men e of influence obtained an extension or e his sentence, although bitterly opposed 'i by the committee and a majority of the people. Berdu was again led to n prison, which it" was presumed he o would not leave till conducted to the it scaffold. i- Three weeks passed. It lacked but 6 a week of the fatal day. Berdu, abau* doning hope, prepared for death. But his fate was not yet determined, d One night a message was received by y the leaders of the committee from the 3. sheriff of Sacramento, to the effect that a man arrested for robbery said be kDew Berdu; that he was not guilty of the crime of which he was : accused. This man further affirmed that be knew the perpetrator, who was a notorious character named Stephenson, passing under the alias of Stewart. This intelligence surprised the committee, who at once sent word to the , sheriff to send this man to San FranC cisco. The request was obeyed. Bei ing confronted with Berdu, he at once pronounced him innocent; alleging , that Stewart himself had told him the . whole story of the assault soon after its perpetration. Beyood this be was , silent. The committee were puzzled. Jan, sen insisted that Berdu was the guilty , man, and was sustained by the bulk of , tbe citizens. Others took sides with , Berdu. The city was divided ; and as f both parties were equally angry and zealous, serious consequences might have followed bad not an incident | occurred which put all doubt out of question. Tbe man who believed in Burdu's innocence was discharged, ! nothing of enough importance being found against him to justify arbitrary punishment. He went off. Three days after, be Called at the city ball and asked to see the marshal* | The official being absent, he was introduced to General Addison, county clerk, to whom he stated that while rambling over the bills in the vicinity ofYerbaBuena cemetery be chanced upon a small tent made of blankets, pitched in a valley surrounded with """iK nnlr Th? lAnt WAD nrwunied bv i OVI MW WM*** %""" ? ? ?I y ; a solitary man whom be believed to be Stewart. * This intelligence was immediately conveyed to the sheriff, Colonel Hays, , who, with an armed squad of police, went in search of tbe hermit. He was found asleep, surprised after a bard struggle, and taken prisoner. Meanwhile the committee bad received notice of the proceeding, and, being resolved to have no tampering with justice, called an assemblage. As the deep tones of MoDumental's hell rolled over the city, a thrill shot through tbe citizens; they forsook their employments, and repaired to the headquarters of the committee. Soon after the first alarm 800 men, armed with muskets and led by Samuel Brannan, drew up in front of the jail. The authorities eudeavored to resist, hut were ovemowered. The door of the jail was forced, Berdu and Stewart were led out, placed in a back, aud driven to the rooms of the committee. There the two men were compared. The similitude was marvelous. They were of an exact height, exact shape, and exact expression of countenance. Their eyes were of tb? same color, their hair alike, their beards trimmed in the same fashion. ' Each had an Indian-inking on the middle finger of the right hand, and the first finger of each was broken or crushed out of shape. Their dress was almost similar; their voices and manners exactly alike. It was almost impossible lo tell them apart. Jansen, however, gave Bedu the benefit of his doubts; though be found it difficult to decide between the prisoners. Some one then proposed to hang them both, to make sure of the culprit. The proposal was received with cheers. Measures were taken to carry it into effect, when Stewart came to aid of bis companion. He made a confession of his crimes. By his own showing he richly deserved death. He bad committed numerous acts of violence, had assaulted Jansen and killed the sheriff of Yuba county. His fate was soon decided. The public voice clamored for his blood. That afternoon he was conveyed to the place of execution?a derrick at the foot of Market Street wharf. This derrick was used in discharging goods from lighters; it was now called to serve a more ghastly purpose. A '"lo lino tvaa ro?v?H fhrnnirh the ?? Uttiu 1IUV *???w * W ? V.V. - _0? block poised to the cross-beam on the top. When the. noose was ready the culprit threw of his necktie and assisted in adjusting the rope. Drawing his hat over his eyes, he told the executioners to make his hands fast. These being secured, he was asked if he had anything to say. His auswer was, "I die contented ; my sentence is just." The words were scarcely uttered when the line was extended, and with a jerk the criminal rose in the air, swuug over the water and mounted to the scaffold. As the rope belayed, his head struck with a loud thud agaiust the biock. His struggles were iiitense, and bis hat blowing, off revealed the frightful change death had wrought in bis features. But his agony did not last long ; life was now extinct, and a mass of lifeless clay was all that remained of the criminal. * * * * Berdu was afterward set at liberty. A purse of $250 was raised for him, with which he decamped. His name is inscribed on the historic pages of San Francisco, and will ever be identified with one of the most remarkable cases of "circumstantial evidence" on record. ? Secretary of War Lamont is being talked of as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. He, however, denies that he has any aspirations in that direction. ROYAL Baking Powder AbsoluTely Pare ROYAL Baking Powder Absolirtely Fu re ROYAL Baking Powder AbsoloTel^ Pure CONDITIONS FOR The premiums that are now bein are for clubs made up during the scription entered before APRIL iS these special premiums. Every m rates?$1.75 per year?when entere will be delivered when the requirec and paid for. 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