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\THE MISSOURI ROBBERS. i?{
"We take the following account of this ^
wonderfully bold affair from the interview ^
of the St. Louis Globe reporter wish Alford,
conductor of the Iron Mountain j
train, robbed on Saturday :
"Tell me all about this thing now," said ^
the Globe. "Commence at your start from
St Louis and relate the circumstances in .
detail."
"Well, I run out train No. 7, the Little
, et
Rock express, and started from Plum St. ^
at ten minutes of ten, Saturday morning. ^
We got. behind, and when we reached ^
Gadshill, one hundred and twenty miles
? _ ' . . no
from St. Louis, we were an hour late.?
Gadshill is a regular stopping place, tho'
there is no station there?only a platform. ^
It is a small place, of no account, and there
are only a few houses. There used to be
a mill there."
"A grist mill ?" ^
"Gristmill ? No. They'll never have
a grist mill there in the world. A saw ^
mill. The countrv round there is heavily ,
" - nil
timbered, and it is just the place for a saw- ^
mill or a robbery." co]
"Of what was your train composed ?" vaj
"Four cars. A mail, baggage and ox- ^
press car, all in one, two coaches and a ^
sleeper. I reckon we had twenty-five pas- ^
sengers iu all, five of them ladies. We ^
were due at Gadshill at six minutes past
r m(
fbur, but we didn't get there until a quar*
teroffive. As we approached the town}
the engineer noticed a red flag and whisc
3 tin
tied down, I was on the step of the car ^j,
and saw the flag, and jumped off before j
the car had fully stopped, for I thought ^.
lhe track was torn up or there was some
difficulty, because a red flag means danger.
As I struck the platform, I noticed the 011
train running on the side truck. The
Northern switch had been opened, and so a 1
was the Southern, and when we got onto an
the side track we wore stuck, for had we j'"'
started forward or back, we would have nirun
off the track# Just as I jumped off a
man grabbed me by the eollar and jamm- l"'
ed a pistol into my face. He was a huge
six-footer, aud his face was covered with
mask made of white cloth, with holes cut
for his eyes and mouth. "Here, I'll show tri
you," and taking the Globe's handkerchief
he put it over his face, tucking the lower he
corners iuto his vest.
"How many men were there in the
party ?" j:,
"There woo only five; and (he funniest (!?
thing was, they had captured the town j.e
first, and pulled every uian woman and n0
child out of their houses. They had built \\
a big bonfire near the platform, and there j?.
were the inhabitants crowded around it, j,;,
trying to kocp warm. The robbers stood ro]
over them on guard, all armed with two j j,
or three navy revolvers, and three of theui
had double-barrel shot guns. .When the
fellow grabbed me I didn't know what to d,
make of it." j0
* "Wern't you frightened ?"
"Well, I reckon I was somewhat fright* th
en?d, but lie put me right at my case?he go
comforted mc." go
"What did ho say ?" sb
"'Stand still, or I'll blow the top of 10
your d d head oflf.' 1 stood still. I
saw two of the gang jump on the engine. htl
and they made the engineer and fireman an
get down. They were brought to where
I stood and the robber covered us with P':
his pisjol. lie spoko to those wh<> looked
out of tho windows; and told them that if
a shot was fired he would kill the conduct- S"
or. That was mc. One of them stood
on the opposite sido of tho train, and as Wil
the passengers put their heads out he ,!*1
told them to "pull theui heads in, or you'll
lose 'cm." He had a double-barrel shot
gun, and I don't think he was foolin' any. Pa
Two of them wont into the baggage ear
and hauled out the baggageman and the , 011
brukciuan, and these they put under the l'u
same guard that had mc. There was an- ' oc<
other brakcuian, but he got into a sleeping , P?
ear and staid there. They then went in- 'hi
to tho mail apartment, and demanded tho ''(l
registered pac kages of tho mail agent.? W1
They rumuiuged the letters and picked SP
out those that had been registered and
then brought tho agent out on to the plat- f"1
form and handed him over to the guard.
The express messenger was the next man, ""
and as they went into his room he covered
one of them with a pistol, but another hu
drew a bead on liirn with a gun, and in- , i?rC
slructcd liiui to lay that pistol down gent tin
ly. Ilodiilsu. Then they demanded liis 1
keys, opened the safe and took out the , tin
money packages. Thoy took out one fid
packet marked 'watch/ hut when they ?>p- kn
cued it and found it to lie a silver wateh
they dropped it. The)- jiut the packages If
into bags uud then went tlirougli the hag do
gage boxes. They opened my satchel and
took out my pistol. th
"After that exploit they went through th
the train. They wcrn't careful with the
passengers. They punched them in the ro
ribs with pistols, and pointed their shoot- w
;-irons into their faces. Not a man os
ped them. Every one was robbed tbo'
iy only took one gold watch. Several of
5 passengers had fine watches, but the
ieves passed them over. There were
pee ladies in the ladies coach, and two
the sleeper. Ono of the latter, Mrs.
ott, of Pennsylvania, bound from St.
Ilia to Hot Springs, with her son, was
3bed of $400, leaving her only ten cents. 1
ic other lady was relieved of three pock- 1
handkerchiefs, but that was all. She
d a magnificent gold watch olid heavy
ain, but they didn't take it. The one 1
By took belonged to a man who would
t give his name." * 1
"Do you know the names of those who
re robbed, and the amounts taken from
2111 ?"
"They got one thousand doilars in mon- 1
from the express car?Adauis Express. '
ven dollars from Uyrus Terry, one huncd
and fifty-four dollars from C. D. Hen- 1
, thirty dollars from Gr. L. Dart, t#o j
ndred dollars from Mr. Lincoln, two
ndred dollars from Mr. Moran; twenty 1
liars from 0. (jr. Newall, sleeping car
iductor, fifteen dollars in money, a ring
lued at thirty dollars and a pin valued
one hundred dollars from W. L. Mc.unan,
two dplldrs from James Johnson,
rter of the Bleeping car, forty dollars
mo the train boy, and fifty dollars from
;. They took my watch, but the baggo
man said: 'for God's sake, don't take
j watch, it was a present to him and
e captain ordered them to give it back,
tey seemed to be under the control of
o captain and gave the watch back to
a 99
"Did they get anything from any of the
izens of Gudshill ?"
' They took eight hundred dollars and 1
ifle from one man, but I did not hear of j
y other. We had a member of the Icgaturc
on the train, whoso son vas waitl
for him at Gadshill. He was under
ard, and 1 dont know whether they were
bbed or not."
"Hid they touch any baggage ?"
"Xo, they didn't stop for that. Mr. j
jrcly, the chief engineer was on the
kin, and lie expostulated with them, but
ey told him to sit down, and shut his ;
ad and mind his business.'
?r- I
' That was his business, wasn't it ?" j
''I think so, and so did he. but they j
ilu't seem to agree with him. lie asked i
i
em to restore the property they had fait.
but they shoved a pistol under his
se, und ordered him to keep quiet.? j
hen they took the money from the ex- j
ess car. one of them asked the agent for
? receipt book. He gave it up, and the
i>hcr wrote in it: 'Itobbed at Gadshill.'
s thci#suid: '1 think 1 have had tiie
nor of writing in this book before.' The
cut has been robbed five times, and ho
inks this fellow has had something to
with it. 1 shouldn't wonder if he lias
d. 1 think they wcrt all old hands at
e business. When I thought they had
t about through, I asked them if I could
. They said yes, and I sent a man to
ut the northern switch, and went myself
shut the southern. They had bent the
.1 so that I had to gel a board and
aightcn it. This took us some time,
d in the mean while they made off.?
ley went in a westerly dirootiou to the
I2e where their horses stood, and made
'as fa.it as they possibly could. Before
ey went they shook hands with the enncer,
and told liiui always to stop when
saw a red flag. Ho told them ho al
lys did. The engineer's name is Wiiin
Wctton, and the fireman's name is
implied ; I don't know his first name.
"One tiling 1 forgot. Before their dcrture
tlu-y wrote out a telegram for the
. Louis Dispatch, and gave it to a passgcr
to seiuh through. They said that
per had misrepresented llmm on one
easion, and they wanted to put it in full
ssession of all the facts. I telegraphed
e dispatch to the railroad office, in St
mis, and an operator took it off the
res and sent it to the Republican as a
ecial."
"How long had they been there waiting
you
"About two hours. It toi>k them forty
nutes to go through us, and in that
no the\ maic about two thousand throe
I
ndred dollars, besides the money packas
and thecighl hundred dollars which
sy took froui the fiadsliill man."
"i have heard that Maudevillc had ten
[iiisaud dollars on the train, and that it
1 into tlie hands of the robbers; do you
iow anything about that
"No. I have never heard that before,
e might have had it in hi* trunk, hut I
n't think lie dill."
"Have you any clew to the identity of
e robbers ; or any theory as to tvho
ey could have bceu ?''
"I think they are tlio same unug that
bbed the Hot Springs stage about two
;eks ago, aud the Iowa traiu souio time
past. They took dinner at Moark on
Tuesday and at Hot Springs on Friday.
That is the only trace we have of them
now."
"When did you come back."
"I wont to Piedmont and telegraphed
from thero, and then went on to the State
line, and came back this afternoon."
Alford is a quiet man, with a humorous
style of telling what he sees, and told his
story to the Globe in a quaint but straightfoward
manner. He is a man of nerve,
and a man of strong common Bense. He
evidently has reason for believing those
who attacked him to be the Iowa train
robbers. lu his narrative there was no
bragging. He seemed to accept the inevitable
situation, and make the most of it.
And so these bands of thieves seem to
make Missouri their home, intend to stay
here, get their money here and spenu it
here. Perhaps some effort will be made
to catch and punish them, and perhaps
not. In the mean time the traveling
public are to rojoice at the prospect of the
onlivenment of otherwise monotonous
railroad journeys.
What is Carlisiii?
Scribners' has a timely und interesting
paper on "(Jarlism in Spain." which at
this juncture of affairs in that unhappy
conntry will commend itself to many readers.
The faot is that what are painfully
notorious as the Carlist troubles had their
birth no longer ago than March 29,1830,
when Ferdinand VII. caused to be rcpub
lished with additional sanctions, the Praginaticaof
his father, Carlos IV. in order to
remove every obstacle which might be in
the way of the succession to the throne of
a then expected child, whatever its sex
might be. As the child proved to be a
daughter, since well known as Isabella
II., her birth became a signal for a civil
commotion in the interest of Bon Carlos,
Ferdinand's brother, aiming to revive the
French Salic law which Philip V. had
introduced, and which the Praginatica
had nullified. We have not space to give
the writer's graphic summary of historical
events occurring during Ferdinand's lifetime.
nor the lucid and interesting reeord
he reproduces, touching the Salic law itself
But our readers will be glad to look
over the following clear statement of the
Carlist question proper, and its present
position as an clement of discord in Spain.
' In a little less than a year thereafter
(the re-affirmation of the Pragmatic Sanction),
September 29, 1S33, Ferdinand
died.
"Iiis daughter, Isabella II., was proclaimed
()uucn of Spain, under the regency
of her mother, Maria Christina, and
immediately thereupon commenced the
war of revindication, or of the rival claims
to the throne of Spain. Such was the
origin of the Carlist party.
"The Don Carlos of that day styled
himself Carlos V., as though he were in
reality a king, unjustly deprived of his
throne. 11 is son, Carlos VP. Count of
Montmolin, perpetuated the claim but
died in 1801, without issuo, when his
brother, Don Juan dc Bourbon, inherited
his brother's rights, but instead of pursuing
them signed an act of abdication at
Paris, October 3, 1808, in favor af his
son, the Duke of Madrid, who now represents
the Carlos interests under the name
of Carlos VII.
"As between the opposing claims of the
Duke of Madrid and Alphonso, the Prince
of Asturiaa, it seems to us tliut there can
be no question. The right of Alphonso
rests upon the ancient and undeniable
law of the Spanish monarchy. It it be
asserted, in opposition to his claim, that
Philip V. changed the old Spanish law and
substitute a the Salic law, which prevailed
in France, with the consent of the Cortes,
it may be answered that Carlos IV. and
Ferdinand VI. changed the law back
again, with the consent of the Cortes, and
restored the ancient law of the realm?
and their act was surely as valid and effective
as that of Philip V. Alphonso is
the son of Isabella II. and Francisco
d'Assise, Duke of Cadiz, who were married
October 10, 1S-1C. The Duke of
Cadiz is the son of tho Infant Francisco
de Paula, brother of Fcrdinaud VI1.
"The i>uk%of Madrid, Carlos VII.,
> J._ Il_! ,4- 1} i
flic i rcicnaer, jtiiiuc ui nuiuuvu ?uu
Estc, was born at Venice, March 27.1818,
nf Don Juan do Dourbon and Donna Heatrix
d'Kie, Archduchess of Austria. He
was educated at the Military Academy of
Vienna. In 1307 he married, at Gratz,
Styria, the Princess Marguaritade Hourbon.
daughter of the Duchess of Parma,
ami niece <?1 (\unte do t h'?uib->rd. the
claimant of the French crown, as heir
of the elder branch of the house ot Hour-j
bun." I
In the eighteen mouths ending Decent- j
bcr 31, 1873. 210 vessels risked the uncertainties
of Port Hoyal harbor.
One of Life's Dark PicturesLrom
the Louisville Commercial.
Almost every day for more than a "week
wc have published the account of one or
more robberies. While none of them
have been of much moment, or netted the
thieves a large booty, they indicate a deplorable
state of affairs. There are doubtless
more idle people in the city now than
there ever have been. Many of them are
in destitute circumstances, have families
to support, but arc without the money to
buy tho actual necessaries of lifo.
Every night tho station houses are
crowded with strangers, who wander
through tho streets during tho day in
search of work, but how they live is a
mystery. Tho robberies committed during
tho past week all bear evidence that
they were not the work of expert!. In
every caso the object has been money, or
articles that could be easily converted
into monoy. No well planned robbery
has taken place, and the incroase of
crime may be attributed more to idleness
than to any other cause.
Several days ago a young girl, who,
judging from hor appearanco was not over
sixteen or soventeen years old, called at
a house on West Chestnut street, and
asked for employment. The lady of the
house who went to the door, replied that
she did not want any help. The girl
pleaded hard for work, telling a sad story,
and created a warm sympathy on the part
of the lady, who told her to come back
the, next day, and if a place could not be
found for her, something would be done
to assist her. As she was leaving, the
girl turned and asked for money to buy
bread, and as the lady was opening her
pocket book snatched it*out of her hand
and attempted to run away, but was caught
and brought back. She laid the pocket
book in the lady's hand, and looking up
with tears in her big, bright eyes?for
they were bright?cried in piteous tones,
"Oh, please don't do anything with me;
I couldn't help it; I am starving." There
was something in the girl's manner, and
an earnestness in her voice which seemed
to say that she was speaking the truth.
The lady quieted her apprehension by telling
her that she need have no fears of
punishment. The girl talked for some
time. It was not much of a story she
had to tell, but the picture she drew was
dark and gloomy. She said that her
father had died some years ago, and that
since then her uiother had found it very
hard to got along. Both her and her
mother had worked out, and her brother,
a boy about fourteen years old, had work
cd in a factory, but when the panic came,
the shop shut up, aud shortly after, the
mother and daughter lust their situations.
She had striven fur mouths to obtain
work, but was unable to do so. She received
the same answer wherever she applied.
No one had any work for her ?
She said that before she went to the house
that morning she had gone to mure than
a duzen houses, but was turned away with
the same answer; some had no employment
for her, and others did not believe her
story. Frequent disappointments and rebukes
had made her desperate and she
had determined to get money some way
if not by her own labor, to steal it rather
than starve. The lady listened to her
story, then gave the girl the money, told
her to call the next day, and secured tor
her a good situation, having ascertained
that her story was true.
This is only one case. IIow many othors
are there in this large city whose lives
are told in the sad story? Here we have
a young nature earnestly struggling with
poverty against crime, at every turn met
with opposition, and its brightest hopes
crushed, until at length, sunk almost into
despair, a savage determination takes possession
of it to wrest from tho world, by
fair means or foul, that little for which it
yearns, and the world too often denies.
A Hokriulk Fate.?Of all tho singular
and horrible deaths which have occurred
oflatc, that which overtook a Chinese
fisherman on the coast of California
is the most curious. We extract from the
San l>iogo World, premising that we eourmr
iminnuiec as to that creature call
I cd nu Abclon. Fung Chow, a professional
fisherman residing near Kosevillo, eall!
od among Americans by the nickname of
j -Chowder." started out to the corouades in
1 his boat to hunt abaloncs. Of courso, his
movements can only bo surmised by what
transpired afterword. The supposition is
that he moored his boat and began bis
<|ucst. Tito corouades arc quite abrupt
t in their formation, precipitous, but occasionally
broken. ' Chowder" saw an enii
ormous abalone ift a clelt of the rooks
in a place which was covered with water
when the tide was in, and. throwing himself
ou his stomach, he dropped over the
ledge, to wrench the delicacy from its
fastness. Abaiones ere univaivuuu
aud if in detaching one of them from the
rocks, to which it can fix itself almost im.
movably, one happens not to wrench it
clear at once, it often fixes icself on the
rock, prisoning the spoiling hand, and
causing excrutiating agony. This was
poer "Chowder's" fate. As his evil star
would have it, the abaione was unusually
large, and the Chinaman, unable to release
himself, must have early roalized that he
was doomed. From his position, leoniug
over the rocks he could not brace himself
to obtain any leverage by which, at the
sacrifice of the hand, if need be, he could
free himself. We can imagine the agony
of the poor wretch as he waited for hours
for the rising of the tide, which would
freo him from his misery by death. The
actual paia endured must nave Deen unspeakable,
and no help was nearor than
eighteen miles. The poor Chinaman's
suffering was horrible, but, happily, the
returning tide preveuted his torture from
boiog lasting. The inexorable waters
shortly did their work. There came a
time when the poor Chinaman could struggle
no longer, and when the flood sucked
from his lungs the breath of life. When
Chowder's body was recovered by a brother
Chinaman, the dead hand was still helu
in the inexorable grasp of the abalone,
which had so terribly avenged the invasion
of its rocky home. The agony the poor
fellow had endured in this novel martyr
dom was imprinted on his face."
The End op the Matter.?The Nea
York Sun points out the perils of the Republican
party, and draws a conclusion ,
It says: "At the last four Presidontia!
elections, the Republicans have had it a
their own way. The precedents point to
its dissolution at the next trial. Moreover,
the great principles which it arose
to vindicate have been settled, thoroughly
settled in its favor. And more fatal to
its contiuucd supremacy than all this, it is
permeated with corruption, aud tuc name*
of many of its chief leaders are odious to
honest men.
This is not a hopeful view of the Republican
situation. There aro twoi-wlcs
by which the party may possibly escape
destruction. The one is legitimate and
the other fortuitous. The former is to
purify itself and discard its venal leaders.
The latter is to rely once more upon the
stupidity and uupopularity of the Democracy."
The Green Bay Advocate says: It was
many years ago, in 1S43. There were nc:
many white men around Green Bay at tha.
time. Five was a crowd, aud a dozen a
convention. There were several at Kau
kaulo (now called lvaukuuua) one day in
that year. A blue bird was observed i:.
the dim distance to fly aud alight. Co1
Tullor, of Grocn Bay, expressed the belief
that he could shoot it. The idea seemou
ridiculous, but the Colonel picked up a
Kentucky rifle about six feet long and
blazed away, and the bird fell. An investigation
proved that the bird was shot in
the head, and that the distance was abou
a mile and a quarter. The Col. was no shot
but this triumph was a mere accident ?
George W. Law kept a house at that ^oiut,
and it was here that this feat was perform*
cd. An Indian stead there clad solely iu
breech clout, and when the result was
made kuowu, he privately.inquired of the
Colonel how ho had uimcd. lie answered:
"Itigbt between the eyes." The Indian
stepped up, took off his sole article
of dress and laid it on the counter, ex
claiming: "Treat um white man; whisk
ey."
The subject of incremation; or tho burning
of the human body after death, hi
some strong advocates in England, as tin
extracts published yesterday, from th?
Contemporary Review demonstrates* Th
practice of burning is of great antiquity
It was practiced by tbc ancieut Jews fc
the Greeks and the Romans, and if V
were to adopt it would conic to us by i
hcritance,*sfrom the Germans, the GauN,
the Danes and the Calao. And yet Christians,
in all ages, have never given their
consent to other modes than thatofburi
in the earth. Says that quaint old aut1 ority,
Sir Thomas Rrowno, in his "Urn
Rurial:" "Christians, though they stick
cd not to give their bodies to be burned
in their lives, detested that mode *fte;
death ; affecting rather an deposituro time
an absumption, and properly submitting
unto the sentence of God, to return n???
unto ashes, but unto dust again, conform*
able unto the practices of the patrhreVs
the interment of our Saviour, to St. I'cter
l'aul and the ancient martyrs." In a re
ligious point of view, it makes no difference
whether tho body is burned or buried
For sanitary reasons, burning ha* the
preference. There are difficulties, howerer,
in cases of poisoning, for instance, when
the body ia needed for analysis I