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. ?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.