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f The tramp ia a product of our civilian
tton, aaeerta the New York World. Then
are about 2,000,000 of them in thisooun
' t7* ______
. The criminal statistic* of several civil
Ized nations, cited by the New Yorl
VoiMy prove that in new colonies the fre
quency of murder ia apt to increaae
while theft and suicide decrease. Ii
other words, peril, insecurity and suddei
changes of fortune all constitute a les
potent temptation to self-destruction thai
the tedium of settled communities alone
The amount of money paid bv Qrea
Britain for moat from foreign countrie
has been increased of late years. In 1881
it was larger than it had been in an;
other corresponding period. But in 189<
the amount of the preceding year wai
far exceeded. Up to December thi
amount paid in excess of that of the firs
eleven months of 1889 was nearly $15,
000,000.
, ' A San Franciscan says: 4'There Is i
itrong sentiment on the coast, and ii
gaining in strength, that will demand the
repeal of the anti-Chinese laws in th<
near future. If it had not been fo
Chinese cheap labor California and th<
whole Pacific coast would have been a
. least twenty-fire years behind the time
and the people are beginning to realia
i that fact." - - * :
Borne idea of the immense transports
tion facilities of the United States can b
gained by the fact that the Baldwii
Locomotive Works in Phlladelphli
turned out on an average three looomo
tires per day duriiig last year. Thea
engines are worth $18,000 eaoh, am
represent the output of but one among
score of prominent shops, a very smal
percentage of the machines manufacture*
going to foreign countries.
.Large families are at a premium 1
Quebec, Canada. In that provinc*
chronicle* the Chicago Herald, the happ
father of a family of twelve living chil
tires is entitled to 3.GG acres of crow
land and 1009 heads of families last jei
:A ' ouepise* ?m U f??
p?*?34 J9uuip sno]onop ?, po* 'sou??h 'n iffi
c ?
flQffU* *r? a* aflH
count in'-the provinoe of old Quottoc.
/ * i i ????
To marry in haste and repent at leisui
has been a common fault in most fault i
most communities. It is satisfactory I
?-SP flnd that it is becoming less common i
England. The proof of this, whioh
found in the registrar-general's annu
report, is idoui vuo uw woiuumg
of new the document contains. The
has been a steady rise, it appears, in tl
average age at which men an^wom
take upon themselves the responsibili
of contracting matrimony ever sir
1873. ______
A municipal youngster of marvelo
growth, thinks the New York TtUgra
~ is Fairhaven in the Btate of Washingto
Its population in the rhcsth of Septs:
ber, 1889, was 750. Exactly one y<
later it had 7000 residents, with han
some hotels, churchee, factories, re
roads, steamships and newspapers, li
situated in the angle where the waters
the Oulf of Georgia and'the Strait of,Ji
de Fuca meet and its hustling citis
feel that they are endowed with a 4'mi
feat destiny" of very large dimensic
Says the New York Prut: "On
rear end of a big empty truck that w
rumbling up the Bowery the other <
morning there perched a ragged, bri
eyed bootblack. He had his dlminu
"kit" under his arm, and as he jo
along he knocked his dangling feet
gather to keep them from freezing in
^ frosty air. Also he made disrespec
p and unbecoming gestures at his less
tunate fellows who were trudging a
the sidewalks or standing shivering
the corners. At Grand street there
a Bowery "jam." Teams, wagons
street cars got themselves tangled
gether with muoh alacrity and disp
while their drivers swore at.each<
w calmly and delighted small boys v
: tee red shrill advice from the oat
- - . 1. lh ik* i
The bootbiacn a trues. ?*?. ? .
of the "jam." Another truck pi
op cloaelj in its rear. The end o
polo struck the bootblack savagely
aide and he fell to the pavement,
picked him up and took him to a i
drug store. Even as tkej laid him
y/ again he gasped onoe and died. I
for a few coppers, his pockets
empty. Mo one knew anything o
h and there was absolutely no met]
5 identification. He had dropped
* the city's life as suddenly and with
tie stir as a starved sparrow that
with a stone and falls Into the I
Had he parents or friends f ]
knew.- Apparently, in this city
' j 1 thousand oostjy churches, no one
( The boy had not been so far
^ when, mounted on his trook, 1
crowed over his leas fortunate Of
on foot. For ho had ridden i
? into a land wharo thorn is neith
i nor hunger nor raggednese nor vi
jh And IhHiiiMrtili UliiUlli"
k
THE POPE DISPLEASED
i
With the Last Nominations of Bish.
ops In the United States.
A cablegram from Rome says: The
t pope baa informed the propaganda that
. he is exceedingly displeased with the
last nominations for bishops made by
'? tho United States and sent here for the
? approval of his holiness. This explains
x the delay in making the appointments,
which, according to previous announcement,
were to be made on Thursday,
February 12th. The pope was to have
held a consistory on that day, when he
was to have created two cardinals, MonL
ii"uWaHvvffi1
louse, who have recently been residents
) of Rome.
Upon the same occasion his holiness
' was to have appointed some Brazilian
3 and some American bishops. Upon the
i representation made by some of the
American Bishops as to the sad religious
condition of the Italian immigrants who
' landed in the United States, the propaganda,
which is making an exhaustive study
of the question under the pope's order,
has issued a pastoral letter addressed to
% the Italian bishops upon this subject,
i The letter states that tho pope is greatly
shocked at learning of the neglect which
' the immigrants are subjected to, and an?
nounces that his holiness is resolved to
take energetic measures to remedy this
g evil.
REV. SAM P. JONES' HEALTH.
He "Writes to a Texas Friend That
He Is Physically Broken Down.
A sprecial from Rherman, Tex., says:
A letter has been received by a prominent
0 Methodist of this city, from Rev. Sam
a P. Jones, the Georgia evangelist.
% The letter Was in reply to an expression
of approval of Mr. Jones's part in tho
recent clinching match in , Palestine,
s The writer is very despondent, and asj
sures his Texas friend that he is now a
physical wreck, an?l never hopes to regain
perfect health. The arduous labors
i of the past few years have brought him
| suddenly face to faro with a physical
collapse, which he dreads.
There is much sympathy expressed for
Mr. Jones here.
In ?
3, The South Can Produce Tea.
J A special from Baltimore, Md., says:
1, When, under the administration of Prcsn
ideal Hayes, General Le Due, Commissioner
of Agriculture, made his enthusiir
aatic, expensive, but. r.n'he
federation. Meanwhile. Owen A. Gillet,
of the tea honse of Martin Gillet & Co.,
Baltimore, with a valuable experience den
rived from a life-long training in tho tea
business baa been making the subject n
study and says that "some sections of the
South cun ca-ily become tea producers,
and there is reason to hope that before
&1 many years tea may become one of ita anco
nualiy profitable crops."
)Tt ?
Two Prospectively Important Events.
he ...
The Gould-lnmnn combination in the
00 South puts the strong Kansas City, Memitj
phis & Birmingham on the defensive and
ic? will probably result in a triple alliance
which will unite that company, the Macon
lines, including the Macon & Biryg
mingliam, Mfccon & Atlantic and Georgia
a?,.tknm? iKo QouKmifd Air F.ino kvs
^ OUUIIICIU, miu vuv uvm/vwx. .... ^ _
tem. Should thsse-arrnngcmcnts ho pern.
fectcd, they will he of ^reat benefit to
?- the prospective scr.port city of Coiiciuu,
aar
. Calvin 8. Brice, who has been in the
ia- South with a party of capitalists, said the
til- other day: "\Yei.a~- 4^-,' i miufCu^WiTR
. jg ?Brunswick and'Mobile?and wo expect
t to establish lines of steamers from them
to ports in Central and South America
a*n an?t Mexico. We are looking over the
?ns South with reference to a supply of coal
for these lines."
ras. Tbis Fellow'a Sina Found Him Out.
the Savannah, Ga.j [Special.]?Aftei
twenty years continued swindling, bj
which he has managed to defraud firm:
sold j? Georgia and other states of amount:
ight aggregating $50,00, A. J. Dickson, o:
tlve Merchon, is now on trial in the Unitec
States court for using mails for fraudu
lent purposes. According to the testi
to- mony he would send for a small bill o
the ?o?ds and refer to fictitious firms at Mei
... -ebon, where he served as poatmaatei
:tf When letters of inquiry came, he woul
for- answer them, giving himself first-clai
long business rating. The first bill he woul
pay as bait, then he would order annth<
* on lot of goods for which the money nevi
1 w*9 came.
and ?
f Foster Enters Upon His Duties.
Washington, D. C., [Hpeciai.]?Be
' retary Charles Foster arrived at tl
other Treasury department Thursday mornii
olun- and entered upon nis nuues hh nwi-m
aide ?' treasury. ?e received the chiefs
.. * division and spent the day in receivi
midst fiends who called to extend their co
ished gratulation*. Secretary Foster took i
f the oatTi of office Wednesday evening
in the 'he executive mansion.
They Ohloana in Georgia.
tearby Atlanta, Ga., March 1.?The S
down dusky, Ohio, party, eighty-five stro
'inapt 'n 'hree special sleepers, arrived here t
. morn?ng. They are farmers, fruit gr<
t were era and business men, who will mail
I him, tour of Georgia for tha purpose of tt
tod of ol,ghly investigating Us resources and
vantages. There ladies in
1P01 party. "
* . . Doea He Know the Wnr'e Orel
> ii hit
At an cvumiinUon of candid
gutter. jor pf)8itionB on th? Brooklyn pc
Ho One force, one cf them wan rejected beci
i of i be said that Jnmca O. Hluine waa Pr
. dent of the United States, and Or
Hill. Governor of New York. %
wrong
laga keil
Preeident Signs Throe Bills.
Wabbinotoh, D. C., J Special.]?
Preaident haa signed the fortifier
or oold impropriation bill. the army appro
reaping. lion and the bill to erect a public b'
>ng at liicliinond, Ky.
MARCH A LIVELY MltatH.
Strong Breezes Waft These News
Notes To Us.
From Many Points in the Progressive
Southland, Interesting We
Are Sure.
VIRGINIA.
Dr. Francis Drake, of Lecsburg, died
Wednesday in his ninety-fourth year.
A young white man named Arwood was
killed by a train near Petersburg ?hucm~my.
<?
A party of Massachusetts capitalists
embracing many members of the the Legislature
of that State ^visited Alexandria
Friday.
Col. A. 8. Buford, President of the
Virginia State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society, Thursday appointed Major A.
R. Venabie as Secretary of the Society,
and he has accepted the position.
The Farmers' Alliance of Pittsylvania
county will establish a cigarette factory
in opposition to the American Tobacco
Company.
J. M. McLaughlin has received the appointment
as postmaster at Lynchburg.
A party of men digging on Day street
at Roanoke Thursday found a tilm resembling
oil on the water. The depth
was seven feet. The smell of gas soon
became so strong that tho men were forced
to the surface for fresh air. A lump
of dirt from the pool has a greasy appearance
and smells strong of petroleum.
This is taken as an evidence of petroleum
or natural gas, or both.
The mortuary report for Norfolk during
January is most gratifying, showing
only fifty deaths during that period.
Eighteen of this number were over sixt v
years of age, while two were over ninety.
The Masons will build a handsome Masonic
temple in Wytheville this summer.
The building will contain two large
store rooms, a town hall aud a Masonic
hall.
Earnings of the Norfolk and Western
for the third week in February, 1891.
$157,186; 1800, $145,488; increase, $11,598.
Three weeks in February, 1891,
$456,620; 1890, $428,719; increase, $7,901.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Capt. W. Poldam has been unanimously
recommend by the Wilmington pub"
" l .n?r lite Primary Election :
*UI|WI III IIMIl wF ttoverabr
Raleigh offers $5,000? for the retenTion
of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and
Thomasville 100 acres of land. These
places are the only bidders so far.
Harriet KcKesson, a colored woman
living on John's river whose husband wns
in the Federal army, drew $1500 back
pension last week. A part of this she
Immediately invested in real estate near
Morgantou.
The solicitors' salary bill has been defeated
in the Legislature and the State's
attorneys will hereafter be paid as heretofore,
by four dollars eontribute^br
each person convicted, or by two dtHtv
by the county in each case where 4he
four dollars cannot be made out of the
convict.
The Charlotte Consolidated Construction
Company has given out the contract
for making brick aud building a handsome
pavilion in their new park, and
awarded the contract for the power station
and entire electrical equipment
(or their electrical railroad to the Edioon
company.^^^^ i ^ nt IMT; Ioca|C(^ thi
Agricultural and Mechanical Ci lleg<
at Louisburg, that town having efferci
$6,500 in cash and lands stated to b<
worth $10,000 and the necessary bnild
ini? tIip rnllopp. is to remain at hha\
"'ft0' ~ **v "~-"r _ - - University
here until the builds- g3 h
Louisburg are ready for occupancy.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The report is verified that Chew A Co.
of New York, are in treaty to place
, $1 ,200.000 mill on the "Island," noartli
i southern terminus of the Columbia Cans
f Secretary of the State Tindal appointe
1 ,Tas. M. Cooper, of Sumter, as assistai
agent of public lands. The appointmci
was confirmed by the commission,
f In the Circuit Court at Chailcstc
. Wednesday an order wa3 signed, appoir
j ing Ex-Governor D. II. Chamberlain p<
w maneut receiver for the Three C's Roa
j which will now be operated in eonnt
Kr tion with the South Carolina Railway,
Bj. which Gov. Chamberlain is also receivi
W. J. Redding, of Charleston, has pi
chased the Anderson granite quarries
Fairfield county for $34,010 and will- <
c velop them.
he The executive committee of the Bti
V
[1J/
ry Teachers' Association, of which Prof.
{jj B. Johnson is chairman, is now consid
, ing the time and place for the next aqi
n al meeting of the Association.
,hc In the United States court at Charl
at ton judgment was rendered in favor
P. P. Dtckerson, of New York, for J
762 against the York township, in Y
cmint.v. The suit was brought to ft
tn the payment of the coupons of bunds
sued in aid of the Charleston, Cincin
ijfg and Chicago railroad.
>w., A merchant in Columbia last Fri
e a found a live cat packed in a crat
ior- crockery that he was opening.
a(|. crockery was shipped from New Je
the eleven days previous.
Mias Ella Davidson, of Yorkville,
,p offered herself as a foreign mission
atea end she may be sent by her church t<
dire pen at an early day.
*us? A tiwUI from Orcenville savs: f
*?i- iff Grffflth early Tuesday morning
orer | tured Little Bill Howard, a picturr
mountain character, who escaped jni
November in his wife's clothes. Ho
wns convicted here last summer of
murder of Ben Ross, in the mountai'
The this fcounty, in February, 1888, and
ktion sentenced to hang.
Pr,R GEORGIA,
uild- The town of Wadley boasts six ari
wells.
. zA&j
Two bales of cotton were sold in Ban*
dorsville last week at 1 cent and M centa c
per pound, respectively. But it was cotton
of a very inferior grade.
Truck handlers around Savannah say /
that the crop this year promises to be unusually
fine, hut that it is much smaller
than last year's crop.
Papers in a $1,000 damage suit were /
served against the Central road at Ameri- /
cub Wednesday. F. A. Johnson, who
wan put oiT the train at that place several
weeks ago, wants that amount.
The new Merchants' and Farmers' (
Bank was organ izedat^^tman Wednesan
o'cciipt^" t. 'and there \
is a repugnance o? the pan of offenders
to he the first tenant. ^ ' t /
Claude Hampton Leach, as next friend
of his daughter, Margaret L. Leach, has
filed a suit for $15,000 against the city of ?
Atlanta on account of injuries received by
the child in falling on a pile of sewer piping
"!
W. F. Burge, town marshal of Alpharctta,
went to Atlanta last Tuesday and <
reSiaiued until Saturday. Saturday night
the council made a case against him for ,
going away and neglecting his duty without
leave, and imposed on him a fine of
$5. Mr.- Burge tnen made a case against
Mr. G. D. Rucker, one of the councilman,
for neglect of duty as a member of the
committee on streets. He evidently wants
to even up with them.
The high water in the rivers around
Rome has done Rome damage in the country
districts. Sunday morning a sawmill
floated down t.hq t Post-maul* and was
caught by two colored fishermen. During
the day a part of the ginhouse came
down, and with it a lot of seed cotton.
This was also rescued by the same men.
TENNESSEE.
J lie Lookout Mountain Guard*, a new
military company, was mustered at Chattanooga
Saturday night by the election of
officers, J. P. Tyffe, captain; Roster and
BerryinaD, lieutenants. There arc even
100 members.
A bill was passed by the. Legislature
last week making it a felony to burn cotton
or other agricultural products.
C. E. James, J. R. Whitman, H. H.
Webster and others have chartered the
Chattanooga, Kentucky & Chicago Railroad
Co. to build a railroad from Chattanooga
to Bowling Green,
The state encampinetmn L the grand
army of thjJtnmiMjc, c?n<p'?\l at Johuson
Citv ai^h''o*lVpii rcnn.
. pne-^: j
It is
railroad company "'"1 their
system from KnoxvillRHeSf^fotown,
from Knoxville to CafclflfBHujjKV from
Ooltewah to Chattanoogw^N^^Hpat an
extension will be built fittt^lQ^rsville
Junction to Big Stone VaiV Virginia.
The extension to Big StoS Gap will pass
through a country rich Jin mineral resources
and it will quickljrbecouie a rich
feeder to the system. ,
Citizens and taxpayers of Memphis,
says the Appeal-AvalyMfcfe, look with
open-eyed amazement afflhe miserable
street cars going up and down the streels
and ask one another whetrSfeill the relief
and assistance promised come. Probably
when the railroad magnates get things
"fixed" to suit themselves. Not before.
FLORIDA.
The Early Bird Phosphate Co., atDuuellon,
will at ouce develop phosphate
mines. ninav|>>.- ,?? ? 'ana[-Seam'e
laws, says the Jacksonville Timcs}
Union. If the wholesale destruction goes
5 on as ut present, the state will cease to be
3 a sportsman's paradise inside of two
1 years.
5 Three years ago H. F. Nuckols pur
chased the Hoymn grove, ueiu miciiuoiij,
j of F. O. Sampson for $3,500 Monday
Mr. Nuckolls sold this grove to Mrs. A.
F. Miller for $6,04'0. During the time
that Mr. Nuckols owned the grove it
paid expeuses and a net profit besides.
1 O. K. Paxtou, convicted of conspiracy
lC in the White Springs postoffice case, was
j sentenced at Jacksonville Wednesday to
'. pay a line of $1,000 and costs. Amotion
'J for a new trial was overruled. The trial
^ of the alleged conspirators was postponed.
John O. Matthews, of Citra, has sold
his one hundred acre orange grove on
)n Orange Lake to Charles W. White for
lt. $134,000. This is the third large sale of
;r. productive groves on the lake this season,
d and second in imncxhir^totiwpurchase
.J of the James A. Ha..?s grort% vJolgate,
ot Hya and others. Jf
er. The Kirmess was a splendid success. It
llr_ was the grandest spectacular production
in ever presented in Jacksonville. The
je_ queen of the Kit mess was followed by
twenty-four Egyptian att nciantsin white
. dresses trimmed with gold. /nief.jgfr
1 e ried ostrich tips and waved them grace
r? fully over the fair queen's head.
erl OTHER STATES.
ou- The Tombigbee river is on a "tear,'
and the whole country for nygiy miles oi
les- each side of the rivor is flooded.
u""^ lit Innamoratinir a $100,
000 stock company for the purpose t
'>rk erecting a tannery at El Paso, Texas.
>rco
jj; Confederate Monument in Ohicagr
At a special meeting of the committi
. 011 ceremonies of the World's Columbic
Exhibition at Chicago, a grand proje
Th from the United Confederate Vetera
of the United States wmconsidere
' Tbe members of that orgaWSRtion, throu/
Lcc Francis, say that if to' the wish
"* South that feelings of loyalty be mr
HT' firmly established by having a great Ct
) Ja- federate reunion in connection with t
Grand Army of the Renublio at the d<
icatory exercises. At tne same time
is proposed to erect a costly roomitm
' " in honor of- the (1,000 Confederate dt
y ' lying in Oakwood Cemetery. The ic
to favorably received by the committ
' n,d "**
ns of 2>e Fonseca Elected Fnjplent
wfts Rio Jakikuo, jCablegram.]?The e!
tion of Gen. Ucndoro FonsecA as Pr
dent of the United Si :los of BmuII t?
lesiau place in tedcral congress. IftLrccei
tnajority of 23 votes,
LIFE b<
loldglow of noon, and gloom of utter night;
lileak, hitter days of winter storm and
stress *
lnil blnnd, bl ight hours of summer bloom OT
rnd light;
A voice that speaks strange secrets none
nmy guess;
In anxious ?ptestioning without reply;
I wind that comes and goes?a song, a sigh!
re
I dim, mysterious dusk of ancient trees, w
That ever stir with wild and wandering
tone
)f laughter, strife, old pains and prophecies; j)
Dee|> bjrcatli. of-hlisa. *? "* **""" **"" ai
" guisliod moan, hi
I narrow streak of sunlit path botween;
I bird's brief note, high, clear and keen I cc
I message written in the shifting sands,
Cloud forms that drift athwart the twllight
gleams, m
itray waifs, far blown from unImagined
lauds;
Faces that laugh or Irer in fevered dreams; co
foutb, flushed with flame of longing and do- wi
sire; W
taunt age, chill-flngered, crouching by the all
Are!
Is it a masquo of mingled tears and mirth-* w<
A shallow scene, a painted puppet-play, A
Vlade for the gods who sit above the oarth P1
And dose away the years! Ah, who shall
say?
rho fruit grows ripe and falls; men come
and go; ca
The end is death and silence?this we know. 10
?Charles L. Hildreth, in Belford. ?P
A PECULIAR CASE. a.
Ml
I haven't a bit of patience with thai
class of men who are always shaking gj
their heads in a solemn way and dfc- ^
claring that many an innocent man has
been sent to 8tato Prison on circum- .
A?-1 !J n- -L 9 ' * Dl
Butiumi eviuence. oucu instances novo
been known, of course, but they are .
very rare, and it is tbeu the fault of the a
accused. I am about to .narrate the particulars
of a cose which excited wide pread
interest in 1863, and I ask the 1
reader to follow the situations closely,
and to see what curious combinations
can arise through circumstances.
James Stowe was a merchant in the 01
village of O , Illinois. Ho had
been there fifteen years. Ha was a H
church member, had no vices, and vrhilo t
accounted rather close-fisted, he was said a!
to be strictly honest. A year before the
^ystcry occurred he had taken a boy. ^
WIWIWW'WUM
I was a boy of Bob's age, and we came '
to be chums. It thus came about that I .
learned the cause of certain welts and
braises on his logs and body. His uncle, a
while pretending to feel a great interest r<
in his welfare, and while speaking to c
him in the kindest manner before others, "
was beating him on the slightest excuse, ,
and seeking to make'the placo so warm
for him that he would run away. Some P
boys would have gone, but Bob hadn't ^
the courage to get up and face the world ?!
without a shilling in his pocket. .
On the afternoon of the 23d day ol ^
June, 1863, as was sworn to in court, I
was in the alley back of the store, and I
heard Stowe whipping'Bob in the store- B
room. I heard him charge Bob with c
stealing some money, but the boy vigor- 7
ously denied it. After tbo whipping
Stowe told three different customers that
J;jvhwLr%UflrMJJv- HuAppcu
him. I saw Bob about an hour after the
affair, and ho made his denial in such a
manner that I felt sure of his innocence.
I then advised him to run away, but as I
bad no money to give him, and as he
had not a penny of his own, he did not
it i_ a. ITA iiron^l ma fn
ininK lb UBSl. 1U (JU. u? nuu^ ?
come and sharo his bed with him that
plight, as I had ofttn done before, but a
circumstance prevented. Stowe saw us
together, and ordered mo. away from the
store.
At seven o'clock that evening a man
named Chadwick arrived in the village
from Chicago to visit a sister. He had
#2000 in money with him, and ho asked
Stowe to keep it in his safe over night.
At eight o'clock the store was closed and
Stowe went home. At nine o'clock 1
left home to go to the store, calculating
to call Bob up by throwing pebbles
against his window, a signal often made
before. As I passed the alley I saw a
man skulk away. I afterward swore in
court that I believed this man to be
Stowe. The sight of him frightened me,
and I returned home at once. Next
morning "the mystery" opened with a
grand blast of trumpets. Bob Lisle had
disappeared during the night, and the
safe had been robbed of Chadwick's
?2000. Investigation heightened the
mystery.
There was blood on Bob's pillow. A
trail of blood led from his bedside to
a the back door of the store. The safe
had been opened in the regular way,nu<3
Stowe claimed that #400 of his monej
^ had gone with Chadwick's. The towr
was at once alive, and the village con
stable proved his enthusiasm and wortl
y by arresting two stiangers. One sooi
identified himself as an honest man
ce while the other admitted that he was
"J deserter from the army and a tramp
On searching him #120 in greenback
was found in one of bis pockets. H
' ' J?found this money i
<h UClyini u?i vun* mw
0f the alley ia the rear of Stowe's stoi
tre that morning about daylight, he havin
,Q- passed the night in a store shed forth
h" down the alley. If he expected any 01
to believe such a thin story as that ]
was sadly taken back. It was beliei
by all that tbo right man had be<
I arrested, and the constable at once b
a came the. hero of the hour. A Chicaj
detective, who happened in the tor
that Muno day, looked the ground ov
and declared the arrest to be a alick jc
Ice There bad not only been a robbei
cal- but murder had been done, and th<
ook was no doubt that both deeds had b<
ved accomplished by the same hand. Eve
body turned out to look for Bob Lis)
>dy, and every spot where it could have
sen concealed within a radius of three
ilea waa carefully examined. It could
>t be found, but this fact only strengthied
the general belief in the deserter's
lilt. He had, by the by, given his
ime as William Davis, and had vigorisly
and continually asserted his in cence
of any crime whatever. A war*
nt had been issued, charging him with
ibbery and murder, and inside of a
cek he had been examined and held to
te higher court without bail.
On the very day that this ocurred a
oym-E""' v?n*ce with a patent churn
-rived in town, and, of course, he soon
;ard all about the mystery. To evcryidy's
surprise he declared Davis inno:nt,
and argued as follows ;
"IIow waa the store entered? As tho
aors and windows were all right, it
ust have been entered by one of the
jors, with a key. How was tho safo
bbed? By some one who knew tho
rabinatiof and opened it. Tho boy
is up-stairs?tho safe down stairs,
hat need to meddle with the boy at
I?"
While the heroic constables and othe rs
Bro digesting tho above, tho Ynnkco
as turning things over in his mind and
reparing to add:
"What object to kill the boy, or even
arouse him? And, if killed, where In
e body 1 Why should the robber have!
rried it away at allV If Davis ia tho!
bber, there must have been blood!
ots on his clothing. What did hej
i with the bah? of tho j a
here did he get his key to enter?j
ow did he learn the combination of the)
re?" I
This line of reasoning upset everybody,
id it no sooner reached the cars of
;owe than he suggested the arrest of!
io Yankee as an accessory. It was not'
>ne, but the latter heard of it and roied:
"Investigate Stowe. He knows moro
>out this than the deserter does I"
His suggestion turned public attention
id suspicion in another direction, and
was not long before some curious re*
ilts were forthcoming. I gavo out the I
[formation that I saw him in the alley
\ about nine o'clock of the night of the I
imp Tho villncn blacksmith then >
ime forward and said he saw him on
le street half an hour later, and that i
towe dodged past him and did not rcirn
his salutation. Tho hired girl at
towe's house declared that he wont <Ait
ist before nine o'clock and did not reftit
was so unusual foi
i.-? " ]
bout that whilo the deserter was not ro
aRAd, Stowe w#? *rrA?tod. His story wa^ {
nat he had caught Bob pilfering from
bo money drawer on several occasions,
nd that on the day of the murder and
obbery he had laid a trap for him and
aught him taking $3. He said he had
fcoling when he got home that he had
eglected to close the safe door, and that
e had returned to make certain on this
oint. After finding that everything
ras all right ho had stopped to put up
omo goods left on the counter, and hud
hen returned home. He denied being
n the alley at the hour I thought I saw
lim, or of meeting tho blacksmith.
A new and more rigorous search was
nado for tho body, but no trace of it
ould be found. During this time a citicn
picked up a ten-dollar bill in the
ear of the store, and everybody at once
leclared that the deserter must have told
ha truth. . Whan Jhc\ man who rohhad
nust bare lost his grip on the money,
ind the wind had soattered some of it.
Tho case against Davis was dropped i
when called boforo the higher court, and 1
Stowe was put on trial for robbery.
Lvorybody now believed him guilty of
tho murder of the boy, but as tho body
could not be found this charge was not
included. Search was made high and
low for tho money, but it could not bo
found. The general idea was that he
buried the body somewhere in tho village,
and concealed all traces.
Just previous to tho trial Mrs. Stow?
admitted that when her husband camo
home his coat was covered with dust;
he was pale and nervous; one of his fin*
* " * ? ? or\r\ tKftf
ger3 was meecung irum ? VUt,
he sat up for an hour after sho had retired.
It was further discovered that
his business affairs had gone wrong, nnd
that two creditors were pressing him for
payment of debts. All in all, a prettj
good case was made out against him, bu
he had a surprise in store for the public
When called upon to plead he anawore<
"Not guilty" to the charge of robbery
but desired to plead guilty to tho accusa
tion of having murdered the boy. Thi
took everybody aback, of course, and n
they had no more proofs in the ono ens
than in the other, the charge of robber
was dropped and he was arraigned o
the other. On the stand he told th
' story as follows:
"I had discovered that Bob was
| thief, and had punished him sever
' times for stealing. I had punished hi
' on this day. When I returned to tl
* store in the evening I went up to L
' room to have a talk with him. lie w
1 impudent, and I struck him a blow ai
a broke his neck. I then carried tho bo<
'? to the river and flung it in, and the r<
* son you didn't find it was becauso
'* floated away with the current. I t
? very sorry. I had no malice and
6 thought of hurting him. I struck 1
n blow on the impulse of the moment."
When he came to trial a plea of "i
guilty" was, of course, entered, but
or lawyer made little or no effect, and
ie -was pronounced guilty and got a scnte
ie of fifteen years. After it was over p
rd lie opinion whipped about, as it gencn
Ja does, sod every person felt sorry lor
e- man. He went to prison, saying thr
jo was a just punishment, and it was a ;
m and a half before the real climax en
er One morning Bob Lisle walked into t
?b. as cool as you please, and when he
7* satisfied us that he was no ghost he
ire his story as follows:
?en On the night of the murder he
ry- hardly got to bed when he had i
le'a bleed. He was down stairs to looi
?
rater when hi* uncle came In aa4
>pcned the sfle tChd removed the money,
le did not aee Bob at alh, bttt after
ipnging around for a Spell left \Sf the
>ack door, falling, out of it M Mb went,
n this way he got. the* dust bn^his^cost;
ind at the same time let go of ,eome of
he money. Bob fcaliuM that it was a
obbery,and suspecting that it was a patip
job to get him sent tbprHon, ho determined
to run away. He took two or
three dollars left in the money dfhwer,
bundled up something to eat, and when
morning came was miles away. For upward
of a }*?r he had been running on a
steamboat. One day he had heard two
passengors talking of the case, and when
lie discovered that he was supposed to.
bnvc been murdered ho at once started
for prison to blear his uncle. Bto we was
in State Prison, as you know. When
old that the boy had returned alive and
well, he was all broken up. When Bob
vna tftknn frt tVm n^nnh his nnrl? lifvrt
lothing to Bay.
Well, as a matter of course, steps wore
aken to secure Stowo's pardon, and it
vas soon granted. Then canto the question
>f trying him for the robbery, but various
ielays occurred, and bis lawyers advanced
various technical objeotions, and
be case finally petered out. lie disappeared,
going to Australia, and It was
wo or thrco years later when the final
particulars came to light. He had been
loarding bis cash for three or fbur years,
calculating to skip out. He had robbed
;he safe and buried the money (.'"J- ,?
w, nu<i to Aitry mteuaso. te wouiw Bob ?
jf the crime. He suspected that Bob hod
run away, aud therefore accused himself
pf the alleged murdor to cover up tho
other crime. After he had skipped,
leaving his family without a dollar, a
great many of his dishonest transaction*
came to light, and it became plain to
everybody that ho was a rascal in dis?
guise.
While I do not deny, as I told you
at the outset, that a mau entirely fhnocent
of a certain crime may bo sent to
Drison as guilty of it, it can scarcely hap
pen if he is an honest man and nbovo
suspicion, llis conduct must bo against
him as an innocent man. Circumstances
?such as being seen near the place of
crime, betraying guilt when accosted,
being unable to make satisfactory answers,
etc.?go a long ways where direct
proof is lacking, and I think I am safe in
Baying that tho man who has been found
innocent of the crime for which he was
hung or sent to prison wasguiitj of some
N imm
IIWAJ. ' _2
. .. ?w ? V ?? -*-? ' 'III ?
Suffering is always a consecration. It
brightens and purities.
It is always our own fooling that illuminates
the objects around us.
No one is useless in this world who
lighteus tho burdens of it for any one
else.
Woman possesses in good, as well as
evil, au energy which surpasses that of
man.
Some persons have tho luck of perceiving
stupidities only after having committed
them.
Every sorrow has its limits, and the
most violent outbursts exhaust most
quickly the fountain of pain.
A cynic Las written: Tho hearts of
most men are like the grates in inns,
where tho shiilc of any pretty woman is
enough to set it in a blaze.
I picase, to Dfiaamireti, to be love a, is in
| some way the cause of all heroic, aelfI
denying and sublime actions.
Bulwer had said that" when a He onco
gets into the world, itis astonishing howlmrd
it is to get it out. You may beat
it about the head until it ^em^to have ^
given up the ghost, and then the next '
day meet it on the street as healthy as
ever."
Those whe are truly married are
neither mastors or servants. The idea of
obedience is ldfct in the desire for the
happiness of each. Love is not a convict,
to bo detained with bolts and chains.
Love is the highest expression of liberty.
Love neither comman'ds nor obeys.
Selfishness may be said to bo at the
root of most of the sin of this world, but
vanity is a form of selfishness that doea
an intolerable amount of barm, and
usually works woe to all wdio corue in
' contact with it, as well as eveutuully to
t its possessor, undermining character, til'
4i.~ ...lw.io K..inrri?like those timbers that,
IUC WV.M^ .
I perforated and honey-combed by decay,
? tmddonly one day fall in powder.? Chi*
okjo Saturday UtraUl.
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&
e Don't Wear Tight Collate.
y A clinpter might be written on tlifl
n deleterious effects of tight collars, and
ic especially that variety which project!
stiilly beneath the neck, to the manifest
a discomfort of the wearer and the amuse*
al ment of beholders. By compressing the
m veins they of course interfere with the rc?
ho turn of blood from the head, and thereby
ii? promote red uoscs and pimpled faces,
ftfl against which all the cosmetic lotions in
nd the world are of no avail so long as tht
dy mechanical cause is allowed to remain,
ja- Tight collars are even accused?aud with
it some show of rra9ou?of causing serious
defects of the visual apparatus, duo to
no heightened blood pressure, arising from
die the artificial impediment to the blood flow
at the root of the neck. We should not
not be surprised to tiud that those execrable
his contrivances were also responsible for
he watery eyes, pindaut lips and tho general
nee vncuousuess of expression which usuab
ub- ly characterizes the physiognomy of their
??ii.J /??n.
ally wearers.?rtoiywu,
the
it it
year A Oneer Block ?f lee.
,n?* Alexander Loucks, while cutting ic?
own recently, discovered a spider frozen in *
had golid block of ice. He ingeniously cut
told into the ice, when the spider stepped out
and hopped about. The ice was some
bad seven inches thick and was frozen about
lose- two weeks ago.?San Framiioo JAp*
i for atniner.
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