The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 11, 1882, Image 1

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THE S?MTEK WATCHMAN, Established April, 1830. "Be Ji-st and Fear nct--Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth s." the tkih sonnnox, Established 4uue. 186?. Consolidated Aug. 3, 1881..1 _STJMTER, S. a. TUESDAY, APRIL 11. 1882. _______Scw Series?Vol. I. So. 37. ; ^-blisiied every Tuesday, ?by the? Watchman and Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S; C. TERMS : Two Dollars per annum?in advance. advertisements. One Square, first insertion.Si 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private nterests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub lished free. For job work er contracts for advertising address Watchman and Southron, or apply at the Office, to N. G. OSTEEN, Business Manager. CHERAW [AND DARLINGTON AND CHE RAW AND SALISBURY RAILROADS. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, Socifty Kill, S. C, May 23. 1SS1. ON AND AFTER THIS D3TE, TRAINS on these Roads will run as follows,?every except Sunday. Leave Wadesboro. S 40 a m Leave Bennett's.~.-. 9 00 a m Leave Morren. 9 15am Laave JW cFarlan.~~.~ 9 35 a m Leave Cheraw_. 10 15 a m Leave Society Bill_. 10 50 a m Leave Darlington_. 11 35 a m Arrive at Florence. 12 10 p ui up. Leave Florence.-. 12 iO p m Leave Darlington. 1 20 p in Leave society Hill-~. 2 10pm Arrive at Cheraw.- 2 50 p m Arrive at Wadesboro. 4 15 p w The freight train will leave Florence at 6 30 A M every day except Sundity: making the round trip to Cheraw every day, and to Wadesboro as often as may be necessary?keeping out of the way of passeBger train. _g D TQWXSBXD. President. NORTH-EASTERN R. R. GO. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. Chablsstos, S. C, March 23, 18S2. On and after this date the following Sche dule will be run, Sundays included : Leave Charleston. Arrive Florence. 8 15 a. m.?....~.12 55 p. m. 7 00 p. ](.? ?.?.?.?? 3 50 a m. 8 30 p. m.1 30 a. m. Leave Florence. Arrive Charleston. 2 40 I. m.6 50 a. m. 11 35 a. M.4 35 p. m. 12 15 a. m.9 00 a. m. Train leaving Florence at 2 40 a. m. will stop for wav passengers. J. F. "DIVINE, Gen'I Supt. P. L. CLEAPOR, Gen'l. Ticket Agent. SOUTH CABOLINA CSNTEAL E. M \ T!E FOLLOWING DAILY SCHEDULE will be run on this Road, from Monday. March 6th, 1881, until further notice: Leave Sumter. 9 30 a m Leave Manning.10 30 a m Arrive at Lanes.12 00 m Leave Lanes.12 30 p m Arrive at Manning. 2 00 p ta Arrive at Sumter. 3 00 pm H. T. PEAKE, Sup't. $mm KfilNiT, Direct Importation. PJEKITYIA* GUANO, Direct from the Agent of the Peruvian Gov ernment. fish guano, 6@8 per cent. Ammonia. N07A SCOTIA LAND PLASTES. South Carolina Ground Phosphate, Fine Ground and High Grade. For sale bv HERMAN BULWINKLE, | KERR'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Jan 17 3m THE OLD RELIABLE! ?ONE O F? THE BEST NEWSPAPERS IN THE SOUTH. -o No Sensationalism! No Immorality! atotjsta doMcle aat CaMMb?, 1882, SUBSCRIBE FOE IT! -o THE CHRONICLE AND CONSTITU TIONALIST is the oldest newspaper in the South, and perhaps the oldest in the United States, having been established in 1785. While thoroughly Democratic in prin ciple, it is liberal, progressive and tolerant. The Chronicle contains the latest news from all parts of the world, and is recognized as a first class paper. As au advertising medium, it covers the country in Georgia and South Carolina tribu tary to Augusta. We endeavor to exclude sensationalism. "We publish no articles of an immoral charac ter. TERMS: Daily, one year.$10 00 Tri-Weekly, one year. 5 00 Weeklv, one year. 2 00 Address, WALSH & WRIGHT, jan24-td Augusta. Ga. pavilion hotel, CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS POPULAR AND CENTRALLY located HOTEL having been entirely renovated during the past Summer is now ready for the reception of the traveling public. ""^Popular prices $2 and 2.50 per day. Special rates for Commercial Travelers. E. T. GAILLARD, Oct 25_Proprietor. THE AIMAR HOUSE, CORNER OF Vanderhorst and King Sts HAVING BEEN LEASED BY Miss Herxot, (Formerly of 190 Meeting-St:,) IS NOW OPEN for the accommodation of Boarders. Parties visiting Charleston will find this House conveniently situated for busi ness, and directly on the line of Street Railway. Terais. per day, ?! 50. Feb IS hilber^ouseT 284 King Street, -next to Masonic Tem ple, Charleston, o. C. Rates ?1.so per day, reduced rates by the week or month, According to location of rooms. This house, so well and favorably known as being a sirictly first-clas* boarding house, is centrally located, accessible to wholesale and retail stores, theatres, and places of in terest, and especially desirable for business men or families visiting the city, nothing be ing neglected to make its guests comfortable. Ask for carriage at depot.?Respectfully MRS. 3. HILBERS Proprietress Sept 20?1881. CON?ENSEI> SCHEDCLE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. dated April 2, 1SS2 Leave Wilmington.j 10 15 pinj 11 10 pm Ar've Fieuiington .ill 36 '* jt2 17 " Ar've Marion.I 1 33 am 2 01 ata Ar've Florence. 2 20 " 2 47 *' Ar've Saunter. 4 IS " . Ar've Columbia. J 6 10 j. TRAINS GOING NORTH. iSo. 4S, { No. 40 Dailv. j Dailv. No. 43, Daily; No. 47, Daily. Leave Columbia. 10 00 pm Ar've Suuiter. 12 07 " Ar've Florence. 125pro 136am Ar've Marion. 2 13 " 2 3S " Ar've FleuiiDgton. 4 21 " 4 54 *' Ar've Wilmington. 5 55 " 6 20 " Nos. 4S and 47 stops only at Brinkiey's, Wbiteviiie, Flemington, Fair Bluff, Marion, Florence, Timmoosville, Sumter, Camdco Junc tion and Eastover. Passengers for Columbia and all points on C. <? G. R. R.. C, C. <fe. A. R. R. Stations, Aiken Junction, and all points beyond, should take No. 4S Night Express. Separate Pullman Sleepers for Charleston and for Augusta on trains 4S an<i 47 AU trains run solid between Charleston and Wilmington. through freight trais. Daily, except Sundays. Leave Florence.-...1140 p m ! Leave Sumter . 2 2S a m I Arrive at Columbia. ......... 5 30 a m i Leave Columbia.? .? 5 00 p m Leave Sututer..? - S 20 p m Arrive at Florence.11 10 pm local freight?(Daily except Sunday.) Leave Florence.. ... 6 00 a m Arrive at Sumter. 10 55 a m Leave Sututer.11 40 a m Arrive at Columbia. 4 00 p m Leave Columbia._........... 7 00 a m Arrive at Sumter.........11 15 am Leave Sumter.12 15 p m Arrive at Florence. 5 10 p m JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent._ Columbia and Greenville Bail Boad, PASSENGER DEPARTMENT, Columbia. S. C, August 31. 1SS1 ON AND AFTER THURSDAY, September 1st, 1 SSI, Passenger Trains will run as herewith indicated, upon this road aud its branches?Daily except Sundays : No. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Columbia (A).11 20 a m Leave Alston._.12 26 p m Leave Newberry. 1 21 p m Leave Hodges. 3 52 p m Lsave Beltou . . 5 05 p m Arrive at Greenville.-. 6 27 p m No. 43 Down Passeoger. Leave Greenville at.10 33 a m Leave Belton. .11 57 & m Leave HodgtS. 1 12 p ni Leave Newberry. 3 47 p m Leave Alston. 4 46 p m Arrive at Columbia (F). 5 50 p m Spa.utanbi;rg, Umos & Columbia R- R No. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Alston.-12 40 p m Leave Spartanburg. S U & C Depot (BJ 4 03 p m Arrive Spartanburg RAD Depot (E) 4 12 p m No. 43 Down Passenger. Leave Sparenburg R&D Depot (H) 12 4S p m Leave Spartanburg S ? <fc C Depot (G) I 07 p in j Leave Union. 2 36 p m Arrive at Alston. 4 36 p m Laurens Rail Roap. Leave Newberry. 3 55 p ui Arrive at Laurens C. H. 6 45 p m Leave Laurens C. H. S 30 a ui Arrive at Newberry.II 30 a m Abbeville Branch. Leave Hodges. 3 5C p m Arrive at Abbeville. 4 46 p m Leave Abbeviile.12 15 pm Arrive at Hodges. I 05-p m Blck Ridge lt. R. & Anderson Branch. * Leave Belion. 5 OS p in Leave Anderson.-. 5 41 p m Leave Peouleton. 6 20 p m Leave Senaca fC)>. 7 20 p m Arrive at Walhalla. 7 45 p m Leave Walhalla.. i? 23 a m Leave Seneca (D). ? 54 a m j Leave Pendleton.10 30 a m i Leave Anderson.11 12 a :u i Arrive at Bel ton..11 48 ami On and after above date through c*rs will be j run between Columbia and Ilenderscaviile with- ! out change. Connections. A?With South Carolina Rail Road from j Charleston; with Wilmington Columbia & As gusta R R from Wilmington and all points north j thereof; with Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Rail Road from Charlotte and points north j thereof. B?With Asheville & Spartanburg Rail Road J for points in Western N. C. C?With A. & C. Liv. R & D. R. R. for all points South and West. D?With A. & C. Div. R. & D. R. R. from At lanta and beyond. E?With A & C Div. R. & D. R. R. for all points South and West. F?With S.iuth Carolina Rail R<a?l for Char leston ; with Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta j Rail Koad for Wilmington and the N<?rth : wish i Charlotte; Columbia ?? Augusta Rail Road for I Caariottc and the North. (J?With Asheville & Spartanburg Rail litoad ! from ilendersooville. H?With A. & C. Div. R. & D. R. R. from Charlotte <fc beyond. Standard time used is Washington, D. C., which is fifteen minutes faster than Columbia. J. W. FRY, Sup't. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. August 2?. tf. South Carolina Railway Co,j COMMENCING FEBRUARY 13th, 1SS2. | Passenger Trains on Camdeti Branch will j run as follows, until further notice : ! I east to Columbia Leave Camdea. 7 40 a m j Leave C.:mden Junction... 9 50 a m Ajrivc at Columbia.12 13 p m j west KRuJl columbia?-daily except sundays. I Leave Columbia. 4 05 a in... 4 15 p to j Arrive Camden Junction, 12 11 p m... 6 00 p m ' Arrive at Camdea. 2 15 p m... 7 13 p ui i east to charleston and augusta Leave Camden. S (>U p u ; Leave Cam den June'. 4 19pm! Arrive at Charleston. 9 ?0 p m j Arrive at Augusta. 7 35 a m I west from charleston and augusta. Leave Charleston. 7 45 a in ' Leave Augusta. 4 45 p hi j Arrive Camdea June'".12 Ol p m ' Arrive at Camden. 2 15pm | connections. Columbia and Greenville Railroad both ways, for all points oa tha t Road and on the Spar- j tanburg. Union aud Columbia and Spartanburg j und Asbvilie Railroads, also with the Char- I lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad to and j from all poiuts North by trains leaving Camden at 7 40 a m, and arriving at 7 15 p tu. Connections made at At'gos'a t;> all points | West and South; also at Charleston with j Steamers for New York and Florida?on Wed- j n es days and Saturdays. Trains on Camden Brunch run daily except I Sunday. On main line. Columbia and Augusta t Divisions, trains r>.n daily- Pullman C-.rs are : run between Charleston nr'd Washington, on : trains arriving at Columbia 12:13 and depart- ! ing at 4:15 P. M. Local sleepers between j Charleston, Columbia ::nd Augusta On Saturdays ROUND TRIP TICKETS ate j sold to and from all Stations at one first class i fare for the round trip?tickets being good till j Monday noon, to return. Excursion tickets good for 10 days are regularly on sale to and from all stations at 6 cents per mile for round trip. THROUGH TICKETS to all points, can be purchased b;' applying to James Jones, Agent at Camden. D. C. ALLEN, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. JOHN B, PECK, General Manager. Cha.-'ester., S. C. .RUBBER STAMPST NAME STAMPS FOR MARKING CLOTHING with ,'ndclliblo ink, or for printing visiting cards, and STAMPS OF A>Y KIND Call on C. P. OSTEEN, At the Watchman and Southron Office. JESSE JAMES" ASSASSINATED. Shot Dead in His Own House by a Mem ber of His Gang. The Assassin Claiming that he is a Detective and- that he has been for a Long Time on the Oatlav;s Track? Trie Body Identified. St. Joseph, Mo., April 3.?A great sensation was created in this city this morning by the announcement that Jesse James, the notorious bandit and train robber, had been shot and killed here in St. Joseph. The news spread with great rapidity, but most persons received it with doubts, until investiga tion established the fact beyond ques tion. Then the excitement became more intense, and crowds of people rushed to tbe quarter of the city where tbe shooting had occurred, anxious to view tbe body of the dead outlaw, and to learn tbe particulars. In a small frame shanty in the south east part of tbe city, on the hill, not far from the World's Hotel, Jesse James has lived with his wife since some time in November last. Robert and Charles Ford, two of his gang, have made their headquarters at his house. Charles, it is said, has lived with him in the shanty ever since November; Robert arrived about ten days ago, and the three have been making preparations for a raiding expedition on which they were to start to-nigbt. The house where James lived, and in which he was killed, has the appearance of an armory. A number of guns and pistols, including a repeating rifle, a needle gun, and navy revolvers, with a good store of amuuition, were found there. Jesse, was in the habit of wear ing two belts, with a brace of very fine revolvers and twenty-five extra car tridges. In a small stable near the house were discovered several fine horses, the property of James. The Ford brothers claim that they are detectives, and that they have been on James's track for a long time. It is believed they were with James in the Blue Cut train robbery, and that they were influenced in killing him by the hope of getting the big reward which has been offered for James, dead or alive, by the Governor and by the ex press and railroad companies. Ford is about 22 years of age, and looks liks a verdant' youth from the country. In appearar;<;e he is a mere boy, and is the last person in the world to be taken as the slayer of tbe famous outlaw. The following are the particulars of the shooting: After having eaten breakfast Jesse James and Charles Ford went to the stable to curry the horses, and on re turning to the room where Robert Ford was, Jesse said : 'It's an awful bot day.' He pulled off his coat and vest and tossed them on the bed. Then be said, *I guess I'll take off my pistols for fear somebody will see them if I walk in the yard." He unbuckled the belt in which he carried two 45-cailbre re volvers?one a Smith & Wesson and tbe other a Colt?and laid them on the bed with his coat and vest. He then picked up a dusting brush, with the in tention of dusting some pictures which hung on the wall. In order to do this he got on a chair, his back now turned to the brothers, who silently stepped be tween Jesse and his revolvers, and at a motion from Charley both drew their rc- ' volvers. Robert was the quicker of the two. In one motion he had the weapon on a level with his eye, with the muzzle j no more than four feet from the back of j the outlaw's head. Even in that mo tion, quick as thought, there was some thing that did not escape acute ears of the hunted man. He made a motion as if to turn his head to ascertain the cause of that suspicious sound, but too late. A nervous pressure on the trigger, a quick flash, a sharp report, and the well directed ball crashed throug the out law's skuli. There was no outcry? just a swaying of the body, and it fell heavily back upon the carpet ed floor, tbe ball having entered the base of the skull, and made its way out through tbe forehead over the left eye. It had been fired out of a Colt '45' wea pon, silver mounted and pearl handled, which had been presented by the dead man to his slayer only a few days ago. Mrs. James was in the kitchen when the shooting was done, separated from j the room in which the bloody tragedy occurred by the dining room. She heard the shot, and dropping her house hold duties ran into the front room. I She saw her husband lying on his back, ! and his slayers, each holding his revolv- | er iu his hand, making for the fence in ! the rear of the house. Robert had reached tbe inclosure, and was in the act of scaling it when she stepped to the j door and called to him: :Robert, you i have done this; come back.' Rub- j Robert answered : 'I swear to God I I did not.' They then returned to where j she stood. Mrs. James rau to the side j of her husband and lifted up his head. Life was not yet extinct, and when she ! asked him if he were hurt it seemed to her that he wanted to say something but could not. She tried to wash away the blood that was coursing over his face from the hole in his forehead, but j it semed to her that the blood came fas- | ter than she could could \;ash it away, and iu her arms Jesse James died Soou after the snooting a reporter was told by Coroner Ijeddcus that a man had '.. '-n shot and killed at Thirteenth j and L.ifayette streets. On approaching j the doorlcadingiuto the front room a man j was seen lying on the floor, with blood j oozing from his wound. The few who j had gathered around the d^or, more from 1 curiosity than anything else, were asked j what was the cause of the spooling. | None of them knew but said that the j man's wife, who was in the rear room j could, tell. Passing around the dead man's bodj , the reporter opened the door leading into the kitchen where he found tbe wife and two little children, a boy andgirl. At first she refused to say any- j thing about the shouting, but after j awhile she said that the boys who had j killed her husband had bc:u living with them for some time, and that their names were Johnson. Charles she said, was her nephew, but she had never seen Robert until he came wfth hei husband j a few weeks aro. Robert was an old ) friend of her husband, and when her ! husband met him on the streets some j time ago he invited him to come and j see them. He did so, and had rcmaiu-1 ed ever since. When asked what her husband's name was she said it was Howard, and that they had resided here about six months. 'Where was your home prior to mov ing here, Mrs. Howard V asked the re porter. 'We came from Baltimore, and in tended to rent a farm and move to the country, but so far have been unsuc cessful.' 'Did your husband and tbe two Johnson boys ever have nay difficulty Y 'Never. They have always been on friendly terms.' 'Why then did they do the deed T 'That is more than I can tell. Oh ! the rascals,' and at this she began to cry and ask God to protect her. 'Where were you when the shooting was done V 'I was in the kitchen, and Charley had been helping me all the morning j with my work. He eutered the front room, and in about three minutes I heard the report of a pistol, and on opening the door I saw my husband lying on the tL'Or. I ran to the front door and Charles was getting over the fence, but Robert was standing in the front yard with a pistol in his right hand. I said. Oh! you have killed him, and turned around and walked into the kitchen. Robert then left with Charles, who was waiting for him out side the fence.' At this juncture the brothers made their appearance and gave themselves up to the police, who bad arrived, tell ing them that the man they had killed was Jesse James. Those who were standing by were astonished to hear who the dead man was. 'My God !' exclaimed Marshal Craig, 'do you mean to tell us that this is Jesse James?' 'Yes,' answered the boys in one breath, 'that man is Jesse James, and we killed him and don't deny it.' Tbe Marshal th en took the wife of the dead bandit into a room, in company with two or three other persons, and asked her if she was the wife of Jesse James. She replied in the negative, but on seeing the Ford brothers through the window she screamed and called them cowards, charging them with killing the best friend they ever had. Then, turn ing to the dead body of her husband she fell upon it and prayed that death might come to her and her children. She finally confessed that the dead man was Jesse James. She then said that the murderers of her husband were Charles and Robert Ford of R.ay Coun ty, Missouri, and that they had been iu St. Joseph some time with her husband. Charley was engaged in the Blue Cut train robbery, and was the one who struck the express messen ger on the head. Robert was at tbe Winston robbery. 'Jesse was at the Blue Cut/ she said, 'but not at the Winston. We lived in Kansas City last summer, and were not discovered.' The dead bandit is about 5 feet 8 inches in height, rather slender, but compactly built; bair black and not over long, blue eyes, fair complex ion, and a full suit of brown whiskers. He was neatly attired in a dark suit, and looked more like a substantial business man than an outlaw. Mrs. James is a handsome brunette, about 36 years of age. She was handsomely dressed, and wore a profusion of jewelry. On Jesse's person were found a heavy plain gold ring, marked 'Jesse,' two gold watches, one a stem winder, engraved 'A. S. B.' which he is said to have taken from a former Governor of Arizona at the Sweet Springs robbery, and the other watch, a key winder, which was taken, with a solitaire dia mond ring, at the robbery of the Mam moth Cave stage line in Kentucky a few years ago. There were also found a set of jet studs and a lady's oval breastpin. Jesse's arms consisted of a forty-five caiibre Smith & Wesson re volver, a forty-five calibre Colt's revolv er, a Winchester repeater, and a double barrel shotgun. The Ford boys claim to have had no object iu view save to obtain the reward offered by G-ov. Crittenden for Jesse James, dead or alive. They had re cently had two interviews with the Governor at the St. James Hotel in Kansas City. The Governor was in formed of their plan of action, and ap proved it wholly. The boys have been in constant communication with Sheriff Timberlake and H. H.% Craig, and acted under their instructions. The assassin is 20 years old and his brother 25. They are line-looking, intelligent young men. After the shooting they promptly gave themselves up to the authorities to await judical action. Robert Ford also says that he killed Wood Bite, the man whom Dick Little has been charged with shooting. The affair, he says, occured at his (Ford's) house, two miles outside of Richmond; that Little and Bite had a shooting affray in the presence of the women of the family, and for protection he shot Kite, killing him instantly. Ed Mal loy of the same gang, he says, was killed when asleep by Jesse James, ^je Ford brothers were taken to the county jail in the afternoon, where a crowd of fully 2,000 persons awaited their comiug. The Ford brothers reside on a farm about two m>!es from Richmond, the couuty scat of Ray County, in this State. The family came from Yir^oia fifteen years ago, and has always been considered very respectable. Their aunt 'Mrs. Bolt is supposed to be the lady who recently had a secret in terview with Gov. Ciitendcu at Jeffer son City. Gov. CriUcnden asserts postivcly that, the body is that of Jesse James, and that his death was the result of an understanding between the authorities i and Bob Ford, who killed him, and j Dick Little, who surrendered to Sheriff Timberlake at the smuc time Furd did. Gov. Crittendcn is non-committal as to I the disposition to be made of Ford and ! Little, but admitted that their pardou was not improbable. Mrs Samuels, the mother of Jesse j Jumes. arrived this morning. She was j met by a sister of Jesse. She request- i cd tu be driven to the house where the . shooting n-ok place. The meeting | between ife. Samuels and Mrs. James j w-2 sad^N}. After the wife, be-j tweensoj^?tp d related all that bad oco" ;H tDcyte-entcrcd their carriages j and were driven to the undertaker's! where the corpse of Jesse James was i laid out on a plank. When the old | lady entered the room she almost j swooned, and it was with difficulty she j rallied aud supported herself. ' She j moaned, 'My poor boy, my dear sou, 1 my darling good boy,' and her tears! flowed fast. When she had gazed upon j the inanimate form of her son as long j as she desired, he three women, with Chief of Police Craig, were driven to the place where the Coroner's jury was in session. As she eutercd the room all eyes were turned upon her, and men stood on the scats, craned their necks, and used every endeavor to gain a view of her. She moved with a slow step and bowed head to the witness stand. She is a large woman, with kindly face and bowed head to the witness stand. Her hair is black, sprinkled with gray. She was dressed in black, with, a black straw bat and black veil, the latter partly covering her face. When she took the stand her face had a resolute appearance, but as the examination progressed that disappeared, and she was very much affected. She testified that she was the mother of Jesse James, and that she bad seen the body but a moment before. 'Is that the body of your son? asked the coroner.' 'It is,' she answered, and then sob bed, "I would to God it was not.' Placing her hands upon the head of the little son and daughter of Jesse j James, who were standing just in front of her, she continued : 'And these are his orphau children.' As she said this she was moved to tears. Mrs. James was asked to raised her veil, and as she did so Mrs. Samuels was asked if she recognized her. She answered that she did, and that it was the widow of Jesse James. Mrs. James testified that she recog nized the preceding witness as Mrs. Samuels. When Mrs. Samuels retired from the court room a thrilling incident occurred. Dick Little r.7as standing by the door, and as she neared the opening she saw him. Her eyes rested on him for a mo ment, then she turned upon him with the fierceness of a tigress. 'Traitor ! traitor ! traitor!' she excitedly exclaim ed, 'God will send vengeance on you for this. You are the cause of all this. Oh, you villain, I would rather be in my poo: boy's place than in yours ' Liule cowered before the bereaved mother. 'I did not hurt him,' he an swered. 'I thought you knew who killed him.' Mrs. Samuels's only reply was, 'Oh, God, my poor boy, my poor boy !1 She then left the room. The jury retired, and subsequently returned the following verdict: 'We, the jury, fiod that the deceased is Jesse James, and that he came to his death by a pistol shot in the hands of Robert Ford.' The two Ford brothers arc confined in jail, charged with murder, on a war rant sworn out by Mrs. James. Mrs. Samuels was well acquainted with the Ford boys, aud called on them at the jail this morning, but her stay was short. She railed at them some, and asked them how they could be so base and cowardly ns to kiil her son, who had never been to them other than a true friend. They did not say much to the old lady, as they did not wish to wound her more deeply. In the court room she met Dick Little in the aisle and called him a foul traitor, a base ras cal, and said he was the cause of this, as be had proved a traitor to her son and others. The old lady closed by de claring that all things would be even yet. Friends stepped between her and Little, fearing Mrs. Srmuels might harm him. Both the mother and wife look aged and troubled. "The wife was cool yesterday, but to-day she seemed broken down by her troubles. The mother, wife, and sister will remain to night in the cottage, which is well guarded, and to-morrow the entire par ty leave, with the body, for the old homestead in Kearney, Clay County. The news of James's death has cre ated a profound sensation in western Missouri, and farmers near this place and Independence who have not been in either place for years rode into town this morning in the rain to investigate the rumor. Some denounce Ford as an assassin whose only object was blood money, while others excuse bin; upou the ground of expediency. Some steps will be taken to protect Ford, who is thought to be in danger from the friends of the dead robber. All 'Cracker Neck' was upon horseback this morning, and ; some threats of vengeance are said to have been made against the lives of Ford and Little. Mattic Collins, wife of Dick Little, recently showed a letter received about two weeks ago from Jesse James, in which he stated that he would stay in , this country until be had killed Dick j Little, and that then he and his brother Frank and their families would put ! the Atlautic Ocean between them and the United States. BILL AKP. Experience and Misery and Progress ' and other Things. Experience is a dear school-master, j but the schooling sticks to a man migh- j; ty close. The other day I read iu a farming paper that sheep ought to be j; sheared early in the suriug, aud so I( I hired a nabor to come over ard take ; the wool off of mine, and that night I i i kept 'em uudcr cover, for it was damp \ ; aud chilly, and shore enough next day j ' three of'em laid dowu and- died. One i! of'em was named Mary, and Mary had { a little lamb, and now wc arc raising it | ; on the bottle, and it takes all the fami- j ly to do it, and of course this sad and j mclucholv misfortune was all my fault, j for they said it was too soon to shear j > ftlu'cp and take all their warm clothes > olT; but I said it wasn't and had my ! ' own way. for there are some tilings \ that 1 am rigi.L stubborn about aud so i if it goes Wir'it its all right ami no re- j marks, but if it goes wrong why then I j ?well, there is no use talking?fact is j I would run away if there was any- j where to run to. Those poor innoceuL! sheep and ih-'t. poor little motherless ; lamb, aud the awful eouse^ueuces and j the varegated remaks haunt me. Two j years ago wc tried shee^ and the dogs J killed 'em all iu one night, and last fall we bought some more?some fine cots wolds and merinos, and the young lambs were skipping about so merrily and shaking their little tails, and the old ones looked like the pictures you see in the books, but a sheared sheep don't took like any tiling in the books or outof'em. Good clothes, decently put on, become anybody, especially sheep. Well, I reckon I'll know when to shear 'cm next time. From the naborhood talk and general remarks about home, it seems that everybody knew but me. and so there is some comfort in finding out there ain't but one fool in the set tlement. misery loves company. A few day's ago the old rauscovy duck quit her nest after she had been setting three weeks and last night a mink or a weasel or a snake or an owl or a fox or a possum or some other var- \ mint got in the hen house and killed a scttiug hen and tried to drag her off but her body wouldent go through the \ crack, and yesterday one of the glass shutters to- the Sower pit fell down, kerslam, and broke most ail the lights, and as I bavcat been runnliig the ducks I nor .be chickens nor the flower pit of) late I'm posting up the book as a set off J to the *?beep. Fta bound to get even some way, for misery loves compauy. They ought to have sctled tbe old duck on her nest, and set up all night watch- | ing for the weasel, and the flower pit o ugh tent to have been opened at all. Jesso. After a thing has happened i anybody can see how it might have been prevented. Nabcr Freeman killed a | dog yesterday while the dog was killing a sheep and of cours: that will make somebody mad for most everybody thinks his dog is better than another man's sheep and that's why we can't have a dog law passed for most every member of the legislature has got a dog and very few have sheep. It is won derful how much a man thinks of his own dog and how little he thinks of other people's dogs. 'Love me, love my dog,; is an old proverb and a true one A man will fight for his dog quicker than he will for his horse or his cow, and it is all because the dog loves him aud the horse or the cow don't. In old times dogs were uot allowed to be sold for the Scriptures say cursed is he who taketh a price for a dog, but I don't reckon they tolerated sheep-killing dogs any more thau we do, fur sheep was their chief dependence. dogs and sheep. In the state of Indiana they put a tax of three dollars on a dog and five dol lars oa his mother, and the money is I kept to pay for sheep the dogs kill, and it pays about half their value. The worst trouble about executing the law is that a man may have three or four dogs a hangiug around bis premises, but he won't own 'em. The boys throw 'em a bone or a chunk of bread now aud then, but the boys won't own 'cm, though they do hunt rabbits with 'em on the sly. Consequently they pay no tax. and it would be too expen sive tc hire a man to go round aud kill 'em, and if he did go he cooldu't find 'em. But they say the law is a good, one anyhow, and it is working better every year, for a man gets tired living on the dodge, and its getting more disreputa ble to keep vagaboud dogs, for the nabors talk about it, and sometimes they turn a feller out of the church for it, and now the people are getting better dogs and taking better care of em, and so I recon we had better try it awhile in Georgia and sec how it works. The days are getting mighty long to me. When a mau is engaged in digging up stumps or priziug em out and putting em up on a wagon, he be gins to listen for the dinner horn about eleven o'clock. Getting down on one's knees and cutting the tap root is a very humbling business. I wish we did un der.-tand that dynamite and wasent afraid of it. I would try it anyhow if I could get I\abor Freeman to try it first, aud he says he would if he belonged to the church. I see in the 'Country Gen tic ii; an' where a man out west made a crowbar hole under about .a hundred stumps in his low grounds and put a cartridge under each one and connected cm all^h^ a wire and set cm all of at once by a battery, and it blew em all up and tore em iuto fragments, and it just rained stumns for ten minutes. I think I would like that. It dident use to make so much difference about a few scattering stumps in a?eld, but with mowers aud reapers and cultiva tor plows they are awfully iu they way, and they must come out. bill's cornfield I've got a field of corn just peeping out of the ground, which is uncommon early for north Georgia, and it. may be i too early for good health, but I'm bet ting on it. I want to get ahead of the summer drought. Judge Henderson J sent me some maize and Egyptian [ wheat to experiment with and says rhat it is recommended as a good substi tute for corn and I'm going to plant and cultivate and send it to* mill and make some bread and send the Judge a pone and let him try it. That's the way to make progress?keep try ing. We made fun of sorghum for a while, but it settled down at last as a great thing for a poor man. I wanted to experiment with the genuine sugar cane and see if it wouldn't mature up here with enough stimulant and so I got twenty canes down die country and ordered it shipped by freight, but somehow it came by ex press aud the charge was two dollars j itid fifteen coins, and I just turned the cane over to the company for even and still they want more. 1 was a wonder-' ing if the railroad commissioners had i anything to do with express company. I reckou not. And so the children will have to do without swectnin next winter; John Turner raises cane over in Floyd, aud I don't see why we cau't raise it with fertilizers all over upper Georgia If they can raise cotton in Pennsylvania, \ know we can. I don't thiuk we experiment enough: BILL AUF. The public debt was reduced in March ?tlG.-i?lV.UG.lo. Jamful is the name of a Colorado town which has a population of only twenty-eight. A locomotive drinks forty-five gilions of water every mile it travels. I Silk Culture in trie United States. BY PROF. C. V. BILEV. j The Scientific American has recently I contained various items respecting silk J culture in the United States, aud as a I very marked interest in the subject has j of late been manifest, it may be well to . calmly consider the present prospect of the permanent establishment of the in dustry. This I have just done in the preface to a second edition of the 'Man ual on the Silk Worm,' issued by the Department of Agriculture, the sub stance of which I would here give in advance. We can best understand the present prospects of silk culture in this country by stating the dangers to be avoided and the obstacles to bo surmounted. They are: 1. The disposition to exaggerate. 2. Inexperience. [ 3. The higher value of labor as com | pared with older silk-nroducing coun j tries. 4. The want of a ready market I 1.?The disposition to exaggerate is j ! common. Enthusiasm is laudable; but ! j the difference between the practical and j ! successful and the visionary and unsuc- j cessful man lie? in the ability of the i former to fully appreciate the obstacles j to any undertaking against the tenueu j cy of the latter?whether from igno rauce or purely speculative motives? j to exaggerate the bright aud ignore the j dark side of auy project. The multi- j caulis furor, the white willow fever, and j more recently, the Utopiao claims for j tea-culture and corn-stalk sugar, are ! examples of the evil effects of the over- I zealous promulgation of narrow and one- j sided views ; while the failure of recent j attempts to establish sericulture on the I Pacific, in Kansas, at vincland, and ; elsewhere, may, in each ius'ance, be j traced to over-zeal on the part of the ! projectors, coupled with inexperience ! of our country and our people. To avoid j this danger we caunot too strongly en- I force the facts that the elements of sue-1 I cessful silk culture on a large scale are I at the present time entirely wauting in ! ! the United States ; that the profits of j silk culture arc always so small that j [ extensive operations by orgauized bodies { must, necessarily fail because there are j : so many more lucrative ways to employ j capital; that extensive silk-raising is fraught with dangers that do not beset less ambitous operations ; that silk cul ture, in short, is to be recommended only as a light and pleasant employ ment for those members of the farmers j household who have no other way of j earning money, and have time to spare. I ! tl.?The want of experience is a sori- j ous obstacle to silk culture in this couu- j try; for while the mere feeding of a cer tain number of worms, and the prepa- ! ration of the cocoons for market, are j simple enough operations, requiring i neither physical strength nor special | mental qualities, yet skill and expert- j once count for much, and the best re- i suits canuot be attained without them, j In Europe and Asia this experience is \ traditional and iuherited, varying in different sections both as to methods! and races of worms employed, With tfie great variety of soil, climate, and i conditions prcvailiug^ia this country, I experience in the same lines will also vary, but the general principles which I have iodicated in the manual afore mentioned should govern. They may be adopted from the older countries and should be inculcated in our common | schools. We have a number of special j agricultural colleges to which both J sexes are admitted : but 1 am not aware that the principles governing silk cul ture are ever taught to the girls attend ing them as helping to one means of j remunerative employment which is be- j coming more aud more desirable for j that portion of our rapidly increasing j population. 3.?The greater value of labor here, as compared with labor in the older silk-growing countries, has been in the past a most serious obstacle to sericul- j ture in the United States, but conditicus j exist to-day that render this obstacle by j uo means tnseperabie. In the first place j comparative price;-:, as so often quoted, J are misleading. The girl who makes j only twenty or thirty cents a day in [' France or Italy docs as well, because of! the relative lower price of all other com- j moditics there, as she who earns three j. or four times as much here. Again, the conditions of life are such in those j, countries that every woman among the j j agricultural classes, not absolutely nec- j, essary in the household, Suds a profita- j i bio avenue for her labor in field or fac- j | tory, so that the time given to silk rais- j iug must be deducted from other profita- j ble work in which she may be employ- |. cd. With us, on the contrary, there j \ arc thousands?ay, hundreds of thou sands?of women who, from our very j conditions of life, arc unable to labor iu , the field or factory, and have, in short, j no means outside of household duties of j converting labor iuto capital. The time j < that such might give to silk culture j j would, therefore, be pure gain, aud iu i. this sense the cheap labor argument! . loses nearly all its force. This holds : ( more particularly true in the larger per- ; j tions of the South aud West that are I least adapted to dairy products, or j j where bee-keeping and poultry-raising arc usually confined to the immediate j. wants of the household. In the early j part of the century the females in most households, even of the well-to-do, . found profitable employment iu the j j spinning wheel and the distaff. With j j modern improved appliances and the ; jrcneralintroduction of machinery the! average American girl is too often doom- j cd to idleness or else forced to leave i' her home to add to the family income, j 4.?Thj want of a ready market for i the cocoons is. as it always has been, the ! most serious obstacle to be overcome, i aud the one to which all interested iu i establishing .silk culture should first ' 1 direct their attention. Iguore this, and j efforts lo establish the industry are i < to fail as they have failed iu the past, j A permanent market once established, ; and the other obstacles indicated will slowly but surely vanish as snow before the coming spring. Owing to the pre- ' valence of disease in Europe there grew \ up a considerable dcina; i for silkworm \ eggs iu this country, so that several j persons found the production of these eggs quite profitable. Large quantities are yet shipped across the continent from Japan each winter, but this de maud is in its nature, transient and limited, and with the improved Pasteur methods of selection and prevention of disease, silk raisers are again producing their own eggs in Europe. Silk culture must depend, therefore, on the produc tion of cocoons, and these will find no remunerative sale except where the silk can be reeled. Reeling establishments are, therefore absolutely essential to the success of silk culture. Now, if the mere raising of cocoons is a simple operation, the reeling of the silk is one requiring both skill, capital, and experience. There is little hope of inducing our business men to engage in the establishment of filatures so long as the reeled silk from other countries can be obtained free of duty, and this is the whole difficulty. Under a heavy protective tariff our silk manufactures have grown rapidly in importance aod wealth, until during the year 1881, raw silk to the value of ?11,936,765, and waste silk and cocoons to the value of ?700.180, were imported at the ports of New York and San Francisco, while our manufactured goods ?eached in value between ?35,000,000 and ?40, 000,000. Now the so-called raw-silk thus imported to the value of nearly ?12,000,000 is just as much a manufac tured article as - he woven goods, and its importation free of duty is as much an encouragement to foreign manufac turers, and an impediment to home in dustrv, as the removal of the duty would be os the woven goods. Yet just so sure a? you attempt, for tbe en couragement of silk culture in this coun try, to get Congress to impose a doty on the 'raw' material, you will be met and overcome by the combined capital of the manufacturers, who, with their powerful organizations, can more readi ly influence our legislators. A protec tive tariff for the succoring of an infant industry is all well and good, as the masses are thereby so indirectly taxed that the tax is less noticeable; but when it is imposed for the benefit of strong and wealthy corporations at the expense of home production, it becomes mono poly, and is adverse to public interests. It matters little that the treasury coffers are overflowing, or that the manufac turers, now firmly established, could afford a reduction in profit. They hold the vantage ground, and will not lose it without a struggle. There are left but two other ways of establishing a home market?either by getting government aid iu an indirect way, or by the patriotic and benevolent efforts of private individuals. Iu the line of the former method, tu quote from my manual: 'I have urged, and would urge that Congress give to the Department of Agriculture the means to purchase, erect, and appoint with skilled hands, on the department grounds, a small filature or reeling es tablishment. In such establishment reelers could be trained, and the co? coons, at first raised from eggs distribu ted by the department, could be skill fully reeled and disposed of to our manufacturers. A market would thas be formed for the cocoons raised in dif ferent parts of the country, and a guar antee be given to those who chose to embark in silk culture that their time would not be thrown away. All indus tries should be encouraged in their in fancy ; aud for the first few years, or until the silk industry could be consid ered well established, the cocoons should be paid for at the European market rate, plus the cost of reeling, which would range from 50 cents to 75 cents per pound of choked cocoons. This last should be looked upon as a premium of fered by the government to the raisers in order to stimulate the industry until such times as the reeling might be safe ly left to private enterprise, when gov ernment encouragement might be with drawn/ Meanwhile the establishment of a fila ture by any private indidvidual or organization will prove a benefaction, and it is gratifying to be able to state that Messrs. Crozicr & Co., of Corinth, Miss., have made preparatious*for reel ing, and offer to purchase cocoons at Lyons prices, and that the 'Women's Silk Culture Association,' of Philadel phia, by the use of a good hand reel and the employment of a skilled recler, is also able to purchase cocoons. These are beginnings in the right direction. Messrs. McKir trick & Co., of Memphis, Tcuu., also inform mc that they have established a silk school and a filature, aud are prepared to purchase cocoons; but I fear that such efforts are so far cfatranted only either through benevo lent support, or as an aid to the general business of supplying eggs and mulber ry cuttings. The obstacles which I have set forth ire none of them permanent or insuper lble, while we have some advantages aot possessed by other countries. One >f infinite importance is the inexhausti ble supply of osage orange (Madura z?raiiti?ca) which our thousands of miles of hedge furnish ; another is the ?realer average intelligence and -ingen uity of our people, who will not be con ;cnt to tread merely iu ways of the Old IVorld, but will be quick to improve on heir methods; still another may be 'ound in the more spacious aud commo lious of the farmers barus aud out louses. To all interested in this iudus ry I would, therefore, say: Go on in ;hc good work by avoiding exaggcra ion and by disseminating accurate and leeded information as to methods and mucinles. Above all we should bear n mind the admirable adage, 'Festina ente ' To move slowly and with cau "ion is the only way to move surely to ucccss iu this matter.?Scientific American. G keexvillb, April 5.?Richard Bates iiuder sentence of death, for arson, to jc executed on the 2Sth iust, and Ann Lr?od. sentenced to two years' imprison ment at hard labor iu the Penitentiary for graud larceny, were married to-day u 5 P. 31. by Col. Edward Croft. The eevemony took place in the cell of the jail wherein are confined three others who with Bates await the execution of the death sentence on the 2Sth inst. for rhe same crime. The pair will remain together with the other prisoners in their cell through to-night. To-mor row the bride goes to the Penitentiary to serve her term of imprisonment, and three weeks from that day the groom goes to the gallows.