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'14~~~ , J1A k TRI-WEEKL(-'Y EDITIONS, WINNSflORO, "S c MARCH1.83.*ETBIHD84 OUR OWN. If I bad known in the morning Hlow wearily all the day The words unkind Would trouble iny inind I said when you went away. I had been more careful, darling, Nor given you needless pain; flat we vex "our own" With look and tone We might never take back again. For though in the quiet evening You nay give me the kiss of peace, Yet well it might be That never for ine The Pain of the heart should cease. How many go forth in the morning Who never conte home at night; Anit hearts have broken f For harsh woids spoken, That sorrow can ne'er set right. M e have careful thought for the stranger, And sFiles for tile sometime guest, nut oft for "our own" The bitter tone, Though we love our own the best. Ali I ulp with t)ie curve inpatient; Ali I brow with that look of scorn, 'Tiwere a cruel fate Were the night too late To iUdo tile work of njorn. CIRUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Several lawyers were sitting in a court room waiting for "his honor" to come, so that the court would open and they could proceed with business. To amuse themselves they were "spinning yarns," and, as might be expected, every ktory was of some incident of the law. "Judge 'Holmes, it is your turn," said a young attorney, addressing an old man who had been a silent listener to what the others had related. .J udge Holmes brought his chair for ward nearly to the centre of the group, seated himself, and said: "I suppose, gentleman, that I might tell you something." "I do not doubt but what it would be interesting, and I am for one anxious to Ie'ar," said an attorney who had much it-spect for the old Judge. "Yes! go on Judge; tell us the queer est expor once you ever had," said V another. I-Well, gentlemen. I will tell you how I came to lose faith in circumstantial fi vvidonce," said the Judge. "It was when I was upon the northern circuit, m the first year that I was Judge. That. a was a good many years ago, when the t country was new. The judge then had y to go from one court house to another on horseback. There were no railroads h thon. I tell you there has been a great c change ij). CtLa .ftuntry. Well, I am gett-ing oil' from the aubjeot. i was d to hold the November term in Plam- in Nille; the court house was an immense a log cabin; behind it was a log barn made a Un purpose for the judge to keep his p horse in, After a long, tiresome ride. 1 c arrived at Plainville. I noticed a very 0 large crowd of people around the court I iouse, and wondered what it meant. a While I was caring for my horse four r; (ir live of the citizens, too, of the place, a eaine into the bai n. il 1 a ood morning, Judge," said one who y hiad appeared to) be the sipokesian of a: the party. "Gtood morning, sir," I replied, - "Fine day. Judge"' "Yes, sir, very f1ne." "Got much to do ini court?' "1 do not know." "You have got one queer ense, anld a bad one, too." t "la that so?' "Yes-a murder." "I am sorry." "it is bad, ,Tudge, and a woman,a too." "A wvoman nmurdered?" "No, no; a woman did the murder - ing." "That is bad; [ am very sorry to hear aJ that any woman should be accused of murder." "It's awful, Judge. She is guiilty, a and that makes it worse."a "Has she been tried?" a "No, she ain't tried; you've got to fl try her, and what we want is this: don't n1 lot up on her a bit; you just sentence b her, and we'll be glad to do the hang ing." 1 "Buit suppose that she is not guilty? n you don't want her hung in that case, dio you?" "Bunt she 'is guity. She bought poi.d son, and give it to her man. And did we not find his body in the river, and the poison in his body?" "And did not she and her husband have a big quiarrel, and she make awful threats to) him the night before he was found (lead? There is no question about f the guilt, Judge." "Has she been indicted?" "Yes, at the last court; she was indicted and we would have lynched , her; yes, sir, we came near stringing her "We must give her a fair trial before we hang her," I remarked. "We don't object to that, Everybody says that she is guilty; and she Ia guilty, and must be hung, that's all there is to K It, Judge." I concluded that It was not wise to continue the conversation any further .i. went into the court room and took my 12 seat on the bench. I had a hard time e to get into the court room, the crowd of t people was so dense; As I passed through 'among them, 1 received mang gratuitous admonitions like this: "Give i her what she deserves, Judge." I saw I that the popular feeling was against tlie Ii woman, and 1 too, began to think that 0 the people, for they were a good people, wore right. After the preliminary business of tile iourt was done, I found that by at 'angement with the attorneys every case ad been put off, so as to have the mur er trial first. So the jury was drawn. knew that every man in the jury box elieved her guilty, but I could not help t. It was impossible'to get any jury nen who thought differently. The prisoner was brought in hand affed. I thought the handoufling was iunecessary, but the sheriff took that recaution. -The first impression that ame to my mind as I looked at the risoner, was, how could one so young bud so beautiful commit such a terrible irime? She turned her pale; tear-stain i face and look,.d at me. In that piti ul look I read her prayer. It was that should protect her. "Are you guilty, or not guilty?" said he district attorney. "Not gulttyf" Her answ er was in irm, sad voice. For a moment 1 allowed myself to )elieve that she had pleaded truthfully. -ut when I heard the subdued hiss that ame from the people, I said to myself 're ie8. The evidence was conclusive. Her iusband had come home the worse for iquor. They had some hard words; she iad told him that if he did not top drinking, she would. stop him. 'You will be sorry for it. If you ton't stop, you will be a dead man. I -ill be better off as your widow than a he slaving wife of a drunkard. " Then ight after the quarrel she had bought oison. She told the druggist that she rished to poison some cats that dis urbed her sleep. The next morning he dead body was found and the doctor Dund poison in the body. There was nly one thing that looked queer. She ad not been allowed to SCe the remain, As I said betore, tue evidence was onolusive, and the verdict of the jury as "guilty," and I must do my duty. "Mary Brainard, stana up." She staggered to her feet and stood cing me. "The jury have found you guilty of urder in the first degree. Have you nything to say why the sentence of Lie court should not be pasPed upon o?" "I am not guilty!" She bowed her cad and stood waiting for what was to >me "Mary Brainard, this is a painful uty which I have to perform. Usually 1 pacsing a sentence upon one found ulilty of a crime, a court passing that intence utters words of advice to the vilty. In this case I cannot do so; the ime is too great. I will proceed at nec to pass the sentence of the court. Lary Brainard, the sentence of this Durt is that on the 21st day of Februa y next, between the hours of 12 o'clock . noon and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the court house yard, at Planville, on be hanged by the neck until you ro dead, and may God have mercy upon our soulI As soon as I had finished, she sank ack in her chair, like one exhausted. 'lie people in the court room cheered token of their approval. Just as the eriff was about to take her back to the Lil. a man elbowed his way through ie crowd, to where the prisoner was. asping her in his arms, lie cried out: "Mary! Mary!" She gave one wild scream. I shall Iways remember it. I heard her say: "John, is this you?" She then fell )rward upon his shoulder. '"he dead was alive; it was her huis and! "Yes," he said, "I am this womaii's iisband. I am John Brainard. I went ay vowing that I would not return. tain until I had freed. myself from my apetite for drink. I am now a sober an, and thank God that I am able to save' Ly wife from being murdered simply ocause the law says so." "That's my story," continued Judge [olmes. "Eiver since then I have had > faith in circumstantial evidence." "Who was the man that they found .ad?" asked one of the lawyers. "That I never knew; a ease of suicide, :rhaps," replied the Judge. "That was a queer experience, but it only a fair illustration of what may ave occurred many times in the past," id one. "And may occur many times in the ture," said another. "That is true," said Judge Holmes, But here is the Judge of this court. he train must have been behind, or he 'ould not have been so late. Business, entlemen, we must now attend to bus Marble. V ermont Is said to produce more arble than any other State in the mnon or than any country except this. 'he business has expanded with mar ,lous rapidhty since 1870, when comn aratively little Vermiont marble was to i found in the market. The aggro ate amount of the State's production ie present year is.1,000 000 cuble feet, ilued at over $2,000,04. The nm er of men employed in the quarries ,a mills exceeds 200, and it reqiuired 1000 cant to carry the marble away. early 81,000,000 was paid for the bbor of workinghien by the quarry ners. Iii washing mushans and lawns put a tle pulverizedi borax in the water, uma so but little soap. * ran-HuntIngr. . Sorry, indeed, even where death does not come to put an end to his existence, is the lot of the convict who has succeeded in escaping from the Mines of Eastern Siberia. Without resources of any kind, he must beg or rob his way back to Russia. The alternative of seeking employment is one which often has disastrous consequences. The convict of the lowest type regards the Biberian colonist as an inferior, and has a saying which describes hinas "blind for three days after birth." .But the colonist has his revenge. lie works the superci llous convict like a beast of burden, and gives him as little rest and as little food as possible. When wages are demanded the coionist has an original way of satisfying lis laborer. The money is paid without demur, but, before the convict can get clear, he falls dead, killed -by a bullet from the gun of hib cruel employer. This method of payment is sometimes carried out on a large scale. It is adopted in the case of vagabond laborers who, having finished their autunn work in the fields, return to the neighboring village to be paid off. The wages are forthcomingand the laborers allowed to depart with their hardly-earned money. But they have no sooner gone than the peasant farmer as re-mbles his neighbors, and, having provi de them with horses and firearms, the wh -le party sallies forth In pursuit of the Va abonds. The retiring laborers are lp iedlly overtaken; most are killed on the bisOt, all are robbed, the recovered money being divided between the farmer and his confederates. The only respect shown for authority is the prevalent habit, when robbery has been the motive of saighter, of concealing the dead. The murdered convicts are usually cut and mutilated, and the remains buried in out-of-the-way places. This hunting of "hunchbacks," as the escaped convicts are often called in derision, has gone on for years, entering so deeply into the habits of the people that it has escaped the attention of few travelers through Eastern Biberia. "Where are the men I ' was asked of a woman left in charge of a small vilage adjoining the highway. 4LUone after the hunchbacks," was the reply. Such is the prevailing demoralization In this respect that boys have been heard to ask their tathers to kill vagabonds in order that they may see "how the fellow will roll on his hump.' In some of the Governments it is certain death for a convict escaped, or still under supervision, to be caught re turning from the mine. Occasionally the soldiers imitate the colonists In their ex ploitation o the vagabond. The Cossack, as well as the ordinary colonist, covets cheap labor, and is in the habit of reward ing with an ounce or two of lead the con vict who declines to pass from one condi tion of bond slavery to another. During the colonixation of the Traus baikal region the hunting of vagabonds was one of the common diversions of the new ly-arrived settlers. From Tomsk .to Chiti there is a locality that has rendered Itself notorious for the pursuit on a large scale of escaped convicts. In the 'Toisk Go verment itself whole vilages are described as living solely by the 1-obbery of vaga bonds. The river Karasan has been so filled with the bodies of murdered con yicts u to become putrid. Near Fingul open woods are known as a favorite ground for the slai ghter. The whole of the dis trict is full of the memories and traditions of Biberian man.hunting. Heroes of the sport are still alive. .Bitkoy, lRomanoy, and gavorota were each expert in different ways. Rlomanoy, ter instance, gained celebrity in the village ot Fingul, where he was in the Labit of lying in ambush close to the highway, and shooting lown every vagabond who passed. In the autumn evenings Bitkoy used to pick off stragglers along the banks of, the river Augar. During subacquent sport along the Biryus there were individual Biberians who boasted that they had brought down as many as sixty, and iu some eases ninety vagabonds. Me~ias~ker's Uoid Deck. "Pass the punch bowl." The speaker, a broad-shlouldered, rud dy-faced man, with piercing brown eyes and a tawny beard of heavy growth, leaned over the oakeii table that stood in the centre of the room as he spoke these words, and across'his face there flitted a smile whose presence seemed to illumine with a kindly light the rug ged outlines of his countonance. It was a merry party that had assembled this Now Year's night in Coastelille Castle, and as the bright flames from the great wood fire sent their reflection along the walls, bringing into view the ancient tapestry that overhung the windows, and the suits of armor standing like grim sentinels in the niches of the room, it seemed as if the ghosts of long -ago had returned to celebrate with drink, and song, and jest the triumphs of their youth. Valdimir yohnson shoved a black bot tle across to Eric Mc~loskey as the lat ter spoke the words with which this chapter opens, and for an instant the silence was broken only by the low moaning of the wilnd as it whistled among the turrets of Coasteliffe Castle, and the solemn, almost painfuishuffhing of the prkor deck. Presently the loud clanging of the church bells, proclai ming the death of the old year and the birth of the new, fell upon the midnight air, and instinctively the men, rude et speech though they were, turned to a lhttle altar that had been erected in one corner of the apartment hundreds of years before, and murmured a silent prayer. Eric Mc~loskey did ,not join in these devotions, but when the others had finished a close observer might have noticed a cold, cynical sinile -on his face Two minutes later a solitary footman might have'been seen raking in all the money in the party over to hIs side of the table. The blow indeed had been a fearful one, but none of them knew that while 'their eyes were closed in prayer a fearful tragedy had beent en acted. But it was so. E~ric McCloskey hiatt brought a cold deck with him. . urderof Mr Jolln Smnith, the the inhu. man fibud who butche is thirt"een-year old son near Westnhisie Ualifornis, was brought to'los Angeles 4 ,(pled in jail ta await her ,trlal as aq9ompice to the muader of het eldest chd. The woman in personal appearance Ws hiot unpreposses sing, and there'Is nothing in her face to denote absence of the motherly instimcts of which she has shown herself to be utter. ly devpid. As she entoyed the room, beiring In her arms a pali d sickly look ing infant, the reporter ,pfore him a woman small In stature,: t1%a round face She was scantily led ti sn old dress, which seemed but the m~okory of. an at. tefipt to krtep off the . gusts whIch now and then came sw %ough teli jail-yard. A scrap of awi gathered loogly around her - tail fori and thati ot her crying babe, added liegerly to her physinal comfort -and forthe4 but another lne. -. apitare which,04d it not been for her surroundings, would have been an impressivply sad Qne. Deiring the intervieW, *hioh is in sub stance repioduced below, she would, from time to time, look .p into the reporter's face with the fierce flash of desperation in her eyes, and at other times the tears would well up from long unused springs and flood the face and Ohote the sound of her voice Her whole story seemea to be sincere; there was no effort at dissimula tion or dissembling. "Mrs. Smith you are here to answer the charge of assisting in the murder of your own son. Have you any objections to stating to me what impelled you to this act I" "I had nothing to do with it sir. If 1 could have preventedl it I would. My hus band told the ab.ut an hour before he did it that the Lord demanded a sacrifice of us and that our boy had to die. I. begged him to spare my boy. I eied and begged him to consider well what. he was about to do, but all the answer he made me was that Jesus Christ had died for us and the Lord had told him that our. sop had to die for His sake. He called my boy out of the house and told him he had to die for our Saviour. The boy asked him if the Lord had commanded us to starve and Josiah told him'Yes.' Then the little knelt down by his side and his father stood up. He raised the knife, looked hard in ,the .boy's face and then drove the knife iito is breast. Oh I it was awful, once it was done I ' "No; I felt bad a little, but when he told me what he was going to do it did not sem to me so terrible. It was only when I saw the boy fall over and a great stream of blood come spurting from his body that I felt how terrible it all was." "H'Ad your husband ever been a religlous man I Had he ever shoWn any sympiome of religious insanity 1'' "No, sir... le was not a religious man. He believed in God. but did not follow any religion He took to reading the Bible a great deal a few weeks before all this happened and used often to read me all that they say in the Bible about the sacri fice to the Lord. 1 begged him not to read them much, but they seemed to have a terrible fascination for him. He would read ->ver again about the Lord command ing Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac and how He sent a rani to be the victim. lUn got to talking to his old father, who is now seventy eight years old, and he said to hm: 'I am the Lord.' His old fatler argued with him when he saw the way he was going, but it was no use, and my hus band would go on saying to him that he had God in him." "How long have you -been married to this man I Has he been a good husband to you ?" "This coming December will be sixtee years. I have no complaint to make against him, for he hmas been as good a husband to me as a woman could want. lie was always kind to all of us, and did all that he could to keep us from want. But just, before he did it he said that we must all fast and that he would not let us eat anything. The boy asked him frequently if God had ordered us all to starve and he always said He had If it had not been that my head was sort of dazed and if the boy had not given in at once, I might have pre vented the killing, though he was mighty bent on It." "How did your husband's talk on this subject of sacrifice affect you.? " "Well, I used to feel that if the Lord comimandled mnc to starve or kill people, I woukti not do it. But when he would talk to ime and persuade ime that a good wife should th~nk as her husband (lid, I got so as to think that what he said must be right." "Oh, yes, sir : I often 'ho. I am always thiniking of him, and I can hear him at all times asking to be brought in and laid on his8 bed, and begging for a little water be.. fore he dieud. I have his face before me all the time, and 1 hear his voice in my ears day and night." The woman continued with heart rend. ing details of the boy's conversatlolis with his father and his numerous attempts to make his father go back to fisning after he had given It up. bhe pictured in her graphic but illiterate way the sickening details of her child'?""death. During the course of her narrative deep sobs would interrupt her story, but they seemed to be more the result of emotional excitement than natural grief of a bjireaved mother. Covering Arrears. *There died a few weoes ago an old man who may be mentioned hero as Uncle Rleube. For thirty years lie sold his vote as often as there was an elce tion, making no bones about it and ao cepting the market price without a murmur. One fall, ten or twelve years ago, he went to the man who had gen erally bought him, and said: Mr. Blank, I guess I won't soll my vote this time.'. "You won't Why, what on earth all you, Uncle Beube?" "Well, I want to see how it seeme to cast a free ballot once.''."You'd botter tale., thie uisual two dollarsa' '.Wo, -Iguess. not; I'll try it the other way .oe, even if it kills me." He .kept to his resolution and cast a free ballot, bift e didn'feel tight over it, andi thme next election he basis ted on having fotar dollars to cover ar rears. Somne Lost states. Some of the obscure facts of our his tory relating to the formation, the speedy rise and as speedy fall of organizations that promised to become prosperous and permanent States, are full of interest. They have, in general, no place in the current histories of the country; and only the delver in original records and out.of the-way documents islikely to find them. Now Connecticut inciuded a number of towns oA both sides of the Connecticut river, which, in June, 1779, attempted to form a separate government, but the effort was short lived. New Albiop was a grant made in 1684 by th Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (the only American grant under the great seals of jbo Emerald Isle), to Edward Plowden, of thdtlt 'tract of Noik Jeroaeyf, with all the adjacent islhuds. It was not dftilized by Plowden, probably on account of the Dutch claims. New Amatel was a giant to the city of Anisterdam in 1656 by the Dutch West India Co. of the part of that same territory between the Christiankill and the Delaware, in consideration of a large payment. It was named from a suburb of AmsterdAin. It was successful ly colonized, but so many difficulties were experienced in the administration of its affairs that after eight years, the India company was asked to take it back again. The beginnings of government in Ken tucky were made by a party of nine North Carolinians, headed by Uol. Richaid hen derson. In defiance of the ancient policy and statutes of Virginia, which ruled the land, they assumed tu purchase from the Uherokees 17,000,000 acres, between the Cumberland and Kentucky rivers, upon which they tried to found "the colony of Transylvania.'' A .Legislature *of seven teen members met under an elm at Fort Boone, or Boonesborough, May 28, 1775, the first Anglo-American Government west of the Alleghanies. Sundry measures were passed during the five day's session, when the Assembly adjourned, never to meet again, as the movement was squelched by the Virginia Legislature, and the retusal of the Contmental Congress to receive the delegate sent to that body. The post-revolutionary era was prolific in schemes for extending the American empire. Congress looked wisely to- the early settlement of the western country, and to its subdivision and erection into States. In 1784-indeed, before the ses sion by Virginia of her vast tracts in the northwest to the United States-an ordi ntce of that body, reported by a con mittee of which Jefferson was chairman, provided for the subdivision of all territory acquired er to be acquired in the then west from the frontier of Florida to the north line of the lJni-n. With the growth of population in each prescribed division of 20,000 or more, seventeen States in all were to be successfully created-feight be tween the Mississippi and a north and south line druwn through the falls of the Ohio, eight between this line aim! a mer. idian through the mouth of the great Kan awha, and the seventeenth between the latter and the western boundary of Penn sylvania and Virginia. Each State, in general, was to have a breadth of just two degrees of latitude, without regard to natural boundaries. A provision, doubt less introduced by Jefferson. but which did not pass with the bill, anticipated the ordinance of 1787 in declaring that there should be no slavery or involuntary servi tude in the States formed (in this case after the year 1800), except for puuish meat for crime. The proposed division was found impracticable, and was super ceded three years afterward by the ordi nance just named, for the government of territory northwest of the Ohio river. In Jefferson's original draft of the act of 1194, he provided definite bounds and titles for nte of the States as might be formed north of Ohio. That between the 45th |parallel and the noith limit of the United States was to be Sylvania; next south of this, Michigan, east of which, in the present lower peninsular of Michigan, would come Choronesus ; the two States south of these, Assinispia on the west and Metropotamia to the east ; below these, Illinota and Baratoga ; between the latter andi Pennsylvania, Washington ; and be tween the Ohio and the 40th parallel, Polypotamia (from the many rivers within It) and Polipsia (from an 01(1 name of the Beautiful river). But when the bill was sent back to the comimitee, the elaborate provisions for these were stricken out. In the same year (1784) 1'orth Carolina ceded her western lands to the general government. Among them were certain counties of east Tennessee, whose people revolted at the scession, met in Jones boro' in D~ecember, and Iormed~ a separate organization called Frankland. rdevler brigadIer-general of the military district, was made Governor in March, 1785, and ruled alter a fashion for a year or two, until an armed "ollision occurred between his militia and a force under Col. Tipton, leader of a party favoring allegiance to North Carolina. The "Governor" was de feated andtaken to prIson in irons ; and with lia incarceration expired the eiibryo State. In 1788 North Carolina passed an act of obhlon in regard to all persons concerned in the movement. cireus Carnage. "I was just reading, " said an old show man, "a letter from Billy Cole, and it sot me thinking about men being killed with circuses. i've been witil shows many a year; used to travel with old Dan Rice and Uncle John Robinson and Forepaugh, and I've seen many a toug~h battle between the people and the shewmen. When I joined they uased to hire canvassmon as much. for their ability to fight as to work. A canvassnian watching the tent is just like a man watching his home. kie'll fight in a minute if the outsider cuts the canvas, and if a crowd comes to quarrel ho will yellh 'Hey, Rube!' That's the circus rallying-cry, and look out for war when' you hear it. Almost every man about a show, no matter what ho is doing, will start and rush to the place that cry comes from; and he will take any weapon he can lay his hands on, too. Sometimes the parties that cause the trouble are knocked down and the matter ends, and sometimes others take their part and the fight lasts a long time. I've heard them yell 'Hey, Rubet' many a time, and seen as bad Aighting s I did in the war. I was with the old Van Amburgh party when they* did tough work, I tell you. There was the fight at Steubenviile, Ohio, in 185'7, when they killed three of the out-. siders, and lost a man in Murfreesboro, Tenn., when John Line got killed. in 18158, at Toledo, a boy tried to get under the canvas and a showman steracr him. Some one raised the cry of 'murder.' am there was a fight, and fiually they arreste the whole show. In 1865 we had it hot a Rockland, Me. A party forced themselvei into the side show, and tried the sami gamd at the circus door. They wern drunk. Billy S1mpson, the boss canvas man, had men at the big show door readi for them, and the Mayor read the riot act and said he would degutize the showmer to keep order. The gang thought thej could get in anyway, and at last some one was hit and the cotilion commenced. I was a fine party to tackle, and the way that gang was done up was a caution, "In Paterson, K. J., about 1858, DieI Saidids was told the gang was going to teal his show to pieces, so he goes over to Nem York and gets Tom kiyer, the fighter, wh< theimept the Punch House in th 1owery, fom gdtigang, and when the-fight begar it was a stunner. Hyer had, about twent3 men from the' iowery and some friends it Paterson, besides, and they went at ii with a will. There's never been a bi .fght there since, What was the worsi fight? Why, that one at Jacksonville, Texas, with the Robinson show in 1875 Noyes' show had a fight there once au four were killed, and the Orton show got cut to pieces there. A bad town and bad men, and circuses don't show at night there. One drunken fellow goes into the Robinson show and seats himself on the ring-bank, and they threw him out boey Ily, He went up town an( got a gang. They were going to run the show out of town. 'The Town Marshal told the men to protect their property, and they did. The gang waited around until even ing, and when they were loading the show on the cars they commenced. Gil Robin. son asked Uncle John what to do, and the old man says. 'Let 'em swear all they want to, but if they shoot, give 'ern the best you've got.' A shot was t'red, and they went at it. The show had about fifty carbines, and they were all in good hands. The fight began about halt-past 8 o'clock in the afternoon and lasted until 11 at night. They charged and fought in the streets and about the cars, and twenty three were killed and more than lifty wounded. It was a regular battle. The show lost seven men. They finally got the traim away, but th6 people undertook to saw down a railroad bridge just out of the town. As the train passed it a volley was tired and one man killed. The next day they were at Urockett '(then Hunts ville), Houston and Galvestcn. The au thorities took the show bills and sent out warrants for all the men whose names were on. them, but they were lost by the Sheriff, and that night Robinson got his people and the most valuable part of his show on board a boat and went to Vew Orleans, leaving a good deal of property behind him and giving up a dozen towns where he was billed to appear. The show has not been in Texas since. "The reason the show loses so few mn i because they are prepared for fight. As soon as it commences they seize the first weapon that they can find, and fight as bulldogs fight. No run there. They have to stay. If they run, they are simply going away from home and assistance. Then, you see, practice makes pertect, and they are generally cool and sober, and know what to do. Forepaugh got into a row in Kentucky, and had a running fight for three days, and they finally sent a reg iment from Louisville to protect and get the show out of the 8tate. John 0 Brien used to have what was called the 'Irish brigade,' and woe it was to those they battled with. There have been several cases where the militia have been c Aled out, and the whole show arrested. Co.,ier & Bailey's circus had a fight at Qeiincy in 1872, and a negro policeman was killed. The fhte-bells were rung, the militia came, and every man belonging to the show was arrested and eid until the following day. when it was shown that the policeman was in the wrong and the circusmen right. Harry Gise, the boss eanvasman, was fined $400, however, for hitting the policeman. De Mott & Hhlyard's circus was surrounded after a fight in Iowa, a few years ago, and all arrested. Resiees these generad rows i've t..ld you about there have tueen a great many cases in which a revolver has been drawn, usually by a drunken man, and the shownman has dropped dead or mortally wounede. Many an owner of a show has died at its dooer, some drunken brute who wanted to force his way in firing the fatal shiot. John May, a clown with Mable's show, was shot in Missouri in 1855 by a party who did net like his jokes. James McFarland, of the Spaulding & Rogers party, was killed at Liberty, Missouri, in 1858. J. Leonard, a doorkeeper for Buckley's exhibition, had his head cut off in Georgia by a man to whom ho had re fused admission because he was drunk. in 1806 Jack Robinson was kilied at the door of Robinson's circus in Crittenden. Ky., and a fight followed in which five other . lives were taken. Gil Eaton, an agent of Robinson, was killed in thec same way at Lincoln, ill., in 1809. That was a bad year f or doorkeepers and proprietors. Bill Lake, proprietor, was shot, down at his (leer in Granby, Mo. Den Orton, of the Orton show, was killed at the door while showing at Boston, Texas. Harry Whitby, of the Whitby & Cooper'party, was killed at the (leor in Louisiana. Col onel U. F. Ames was fatally wounded at Dawson, Georgia. These all occurred in 1809. Bill Lake's widow married Wild Bill, and he used to stand at the door, gun in hand, but they never bothered him. It takes a man of nerve to tend a cIrcus d~oor, especially in the South. it's all right in large cities, but when you come to the small towns where the wild boys conmc in, filled up with red iquor, and then go to the show, it's different. .in Texas it's not unusual for a (desperado to present a re volver when asked for a ticket, exclaim. Ing: 'There's mny ticket.' Sometimes they allow him to pass, but oftoner a row en sues and the man kIlls or is killed. I'hlosophters have told us that all ener gy upon the earth must have been brought into existence by solar influence. Prof. Milne has, however,:called the attention of the SeismologIcal Society of Japan to the fact that one vast reservoir of energy,quite independent of the sun, has been overlook ed, vis: the earth's internal heat. It is not impossible that the surface out-crop. pings of this inexhaustable supply of force -found In volcanoes, hot springs and the like-may, in the near future, be used' to generate electricity for transmission to nleighborlng cities, where it may be put to practical sertilce. -A valuation of $400,000,000. in round numbers is reported on property -n Toia this- ya. The Empero1's Aeuyicy. A letter from ?luremberg, of a late date, ')llimg of the imperial review hold at Ri foa, between Chemnits and Berlin, in the fall, says: 'he Emperor, with his faintly and suite, and the king of Oaxony and suite, together with representatives of t'ie royal families of England, Austria, lussia and Italy were present, when the immense thiong beheld the stalwart form of an old man, with white hair and white whiskers, ridi'g toward the head of the line, con trolling with one hand a proud and spir ited black horse, and grasping his sword with the other; giving orders to his aids and making suggestions to hig generals: moving about with the.activity of a man of 20, and displaying not.only wonderful tact in the management of the soldiers, but admirable horsemanship and coolness -when the thousands recoguized the well-known face and form of the well beloved Emperor of Germany, at the ago of 85, doing all this, the enthusiasm began to border upon the insane. For four long hours the Emperor sat in its saddle, directinq the troops here, cor recting them there, and watching their inoveenets with a keen eye everywhere. A'. his age-and but few attain his age at, all-ordinary men ire either buried in or are sinking ibto second childhood, "sans sight, sans teeth, sans everything," b,it there were few more active men on the parade field than William was that day. 'The enthusiasm with which his soil "Unser Fritz," was received was only a trifle less hlearty than that which greetedl the aged emperor. "Fritz" is himseon an old man in years now, and a grandfather, but as young a looking grandfather as ever I beheld. He Is, like his father, a tall, well-built, muscular, soldier-fike man, with a pleasant, even benevolent face, ania a bright and cheerful eye. He rouc by his father during the day, and the two made a handsome picture as they galloped over the plain. The enthusiastic chcering broke out afresh when the daughter of Queen Victoria, the crown princess of Germany, mounted upon a white horse, rode by at the head and in command of a detachment of troops. She is 42 years of age, a graumother, and as full of life as a girl of 16. In every review hold durig the autumn she took an active part, being in the sad'die at Breslau with her imperial father-in-law for over five hours. Sho has the bearing of a princess, and no matter how it may shock my democratic Ameri can readers, I must say there is some thing in the appearance of the imperial family of Germany-I don't pretend to know or to say what it is-which raises them above the level of ordinary people. It is sheer nonsense to say that the peo ple of Germany are not pleased with the present order or things. Why, it was only three months ago that the workiugnien of Dresden gave the Emperor one of the grandest ovations he ever had. They tnir the horcoe fromx Ida hearriago, *bonii dered the Vehicle and bore it through the streets, while 500,000 people yelled and cheered for William until exhauetion coin polled them to keep quiet, This was in the capital city of the kingdom which, in the past, has been less friendly than any of the others to Prussia, and where evi dence of disloyalty would be most'likely to appear, if any disloyalty existed. When the workmngmen, so called, are sat isfied in any country, with any form of government. what more could be asked? Pere La Cnaise. A vast multitule of people visited Gambetta's tomb at Pere la Chaise the day after the interment, and it is evi (lent that the spot where he is buried will for years be the one most sought in a cemetery which is known the world over, and in which repose the romains of many of the illustrious dead of France. In 1791 interments within the limits of French cities were prohibited, and in 1804, when Louis ItV gave a part of his estate to his confessor. Pere de Lachaise, for a cemetery, the ground was outside of the city. It is now in a thickly-settled suburb, and so crowded that burial there is Impossible except to the wealthy. It is somewhat remarkable that although Gambetta had declared himself in favor of crema tion, nothing has been saidl since his death about the cremiation of his re mains, The crowded condition of the Paris cemeteries has resulted in the in troduction in the Chambers of a incas urc to legalize cromation. In Mont Parnasse and Mont-.martre bodies are placed above each other to the number of live or six. Pere la Chaise, situated on an elevation which commands a vie w of the city on one side anid of the coun try on the other, Is the best known of the cemeteries of Paris, and in it were buried A belard and Heloise, LaFontaine, Moliere, Beaumnarchanis, Bellimi, We ber, Laplace, Ouvier, Marshal Ney, and many others whose names are famihiar in all lands. Time will doubtless make the grave of Gambetta less' conspieuous than others contained in the famoua cemetery, but during the present gener ation it will be the centre of Interest ini Poe la Ohaise. Fancy Floweor F'ots. The best pots for plants are undcubt ly those of common red clay, such as you see in every greenhouse. They are cheap, porous and not unsightly if kept clean. The florists all use them, and that is a proof of their excellence,. If there was a better kii, all things considered, those who make a business of raising plants would soon find it out. If you don't thiink the red pots are ele gant enough for your apartment you cani cover them with the lattiee work cache. pots which can be obtained at any seed store at a coat of from fifteen to fift~y cents, If yea want to be elegant, with still less expeaditure, maks your each pots of paper. Take a strip of glazed and rather stiff paper, of a widlth, 001r reesponding to the height of the pot and long enough to go three times afround the pot's to p citoumference. (Gathet this from end to' end, like a fan, In folds from half to three-quarters .of an inoh'in width; run a oomd throngh the folds at the to p and bottom. Now glue the two ends together. set your pot in, drtaw up'the oordstll the papris its the pot at the top aond bottom, and your jardiniere is made.