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RB1PTXG -tfJL lR OX EYERY jiGE
3IY DOG.
jirlAKYFIlA-CIS, WOODSTOCK, VEllllOKT.
Uead and ray heart dial with him !
Burled what love lies there I
Cone forever and ever,
Xo longer my life to fahare !
'Only a dog J" Ycs-"only"
Yet theso are bitter tears !
Weary, heartsick, and lonely,
I turn to the coming years.
Something that always loved mo!
Something that I could trust '
Something that cheered and soothed me,
Is mouldering here to dnst!
t,entle, and faithful, and noble
Patient, and tendr, and brave--
My pet, my playmate, my darling
And this Is his lbilcly grave.
1 gj to my emptj chamber,
And linger before the door
There once was a loving welcome
I shall listen for that no more !
I alt by my blazing hearthstone.
And lean my head on my hand
The best of my wayward nature
Lies low with the Newfoundland !
Oaep'ank when the ship was sinking
In a wild and stormy stid
One star when the skj' was darkened,
Was the love of my dog to me!
A star that will shine no longer
A plank that has missed my hand ;
And the ship may sail or founder
"So watcher Is on tho strand.
I stand bn icy sllnny upland
This beautiful autumn morn
The crimson-leaved maple o'er me,
Fronting the golden corn ;
I hear tne brook In the valley
It Mngs as It sang of yore
Unt the faithful eyes that watched It
Will answer to mine uo more!
Qver that sunny Upland ;
And climbing the breezy hill.
Haunting the depth of the woodland,
Lonely and silent still
Silent and lonely always,
I know that this life must be
But in the nnseen future
'. "What Is in store for me?
Oh! well may the Indian hunter
Lie calm on his -oiicll di skins
When the pain of this world ceases,
And the Joy of the next begins !
Va the "Great Spirit's" prairies.
Under the blue skies of yore.
. Will not his steed and watoh-dog
Answer his call once more?
Blue hunting-grounds of the red man.
Cannot Jdream. tho dream?
Surely my old companion
But waits till I cross the stream !
Walts with a faithful yearning.
Almost akin to pain
Till in some fewer heaven
Tie bounds to my feet aglan.
OUE NEW YOKE LETTER.
The Currency Bill The Veto Its Ef
fect In the City Cremation Galvin
3Ioek Auctlons-Femlulue uoctors
Business and Rum-Rapid Transit.
tiirttpondfcnco "o'oraska Advertiser.
New York, May
1S74.
INFLATION THE VETO.
The financial circles of the city
were agitated last Wednesday to a
degree seldom seen. It was known
that on that day the President would
either sign or veto the currency law,
and the whole money intertst of the
city hung breathless on the event.
The wires were burdened with dis
patches to Washington, for every
Speculator desired to have the first in
telligence of the fate of the bill, that
he might buy or sell,- as the case
might be. All sorts of He3 were put
afloat. One moment It would be an
nounced that the President had sign
ed the bill; the next that he would
6end in a veto message, and so on.
At last, at about 2 p. if., came the au
thoritative announcement, "the Pres
ident has vetoed the Senate Finance
Bill," which set the matter at rest.
Immediately those who were operat
ing for a rise in Governments became
jubilant, and those who were gamb
lingor a fall were correspondingly
depressed. The rich men out of bu
fcmesa, were gratified heyond meas
ure, while the younger men in active
business felt that a sure prop had
been knocked out from under them.
The papers of the city, without an
Exception, approve the act of the
Resident. Even the Tribune has a
good word for him. But there Is a
strong party in tho city that desires
an increase of currency ; and it i3 a
Power. The papers do not echo pub
lic sentiment in New York on this
matter. The question is an import
a&t one, aud will show itself in next
fell's elections.
CREMATION.
The idea of burning the bodies of
the dead Instead of burying them is
gaining favor rapidly. The matter is
being discussed every day in all the
Papers; the churches have been ap
pealed to for their opinion; in short,
ftere is a great deal of genuine feei
ng on the subject. And the feeling
Is all in favor of it. The idea of
avoiding the decomposition of the
dead of reducing the mortal remains
to ashes, and preserving the ashes,
strikes the people s something of an
improvement. The clergymen have
Sen it as their opinion that it in no
""ay crosses the dogmas of the churoh
and everybody seems' to' favor it but
the undertakers. It would be hard
on them. They see in this movement
fin abolition of the ugly coffin with
lls sickly smell of the gorgeous
heare, with its" ghastly trappings, of
carrlagesand all the absurd and costly
aecompanyings of funerals. Instead
of all this, a dead body resolved into
the elements in a simple way by the
action of fire, and the retnains, a
handful of whitish-gray ashes, placed
reverently in an urn, and kept as a
fiacred househeld treasure. Is not
this better than burying? I think
Eoi and so does almost all of ISfew
' York. Indeed, a society has beeri
formed to introduce it, the members
hindinj: themselves to dlreet in thek
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wills that their bodies shall be burn
ed instead of buried. It already
numbers eight hundred.
OALVIX,
convicted of the robbery of a jewelry
store on Kinth aveiiue, and sentenced
td twenty years ip the penitentiary,
was very recently a keeper in the
Tomb3f I mention this to show the
style of men who attain place under
the City Government. This man's
character was as well known before
his appointment a3 it is now; in fact
it was, probably, his character that
gave him the appointment. A rob
ber an official in a prison ! Is it any
wonder that great criminals have
cared nothing for imprisonment or
conviction? All they had to do was
to "stake" such a keeper as Galviu
and the doors would fly open.
How many Galvlns are yet in these
places? The Democracy are in con
trol of the city; the same kind of
men that put Galvin in his place
have yet the appointing power. New
York is in a bad way.
MOCK AUCTIONS.
The mock auction business, which
the authorities got .under some years
ago, has broken out afresh within a
few months. The Bowery is full of
them. Stores filled with the vilest
pot.metal jewelry, with thetongueiest
of auctioneers and the usual assort
ment of ropers-iu and bidders at the
door, are becoming as plenty as in the
old days before the poiico killed them
out. The young man from the coun
try Is roped-iu; the "genuine gold
watch" is put up; he buys it; and
while the "guaranty" Is being made
out it is adroitly changed, and he
finds when "away that he has paid
$40, $50, or $60 for a concern that
would bf dear at five dollars a bushel.
It is a fact that respectable" jewelers
have been driven out of localities b'
these Peter Funk concerns. Rascali
ty is irrepressible ; hold It in one way
and it will break out in another.
FEMALE DOCTORS.
There is very much that is bad in
New York, and a great deal that is
good. One of the best of the good
things is the idea of the female phy
sician. There are over fifty regular
practising phj-siclans in the city of
tho softer sex women who have
gone through a regular course of study
and hospital practice. And they
have practice, too. Few of them have
an income of less than $3,000 per an
num, and a number of be'm earn as
much as $10,000. Their practice is, of
course, entirely among 'women aud
children, and it is claimed by those
who employ them that they are more
successful than physicians of tho oth
er sex. There is a rea9oti for thi3.
The invalid woman cau confide more
fully in a woman than she can in a
man, and it is more fitting that wo
men should staud at the bedside of
women. There are four colleges in
the city devoted to the training of
women for this wide field of useful
ness. The"re cannot be too many of
them.
BUSINESS AND RUM.
Business has been dull, flat and un
profitable all last fall and all last win
ter, and it continues in the same state
of health now. The merohants have
made no money, and the same Is true
of all the professions. And yet there
has been more fine, costly liquors
consumed In this city this winter
than ever befortf. The amount of
costly champagnes that have been
drunk Is really startling. Now one
would suppose that when money is
scarce and tight, and business dull,
that men would economize in their
luxuries. But it does not so work.
The harder the times the more expen
sive the potations. Does a man get
desperate from adversity? That is
the question. The tailors, shlrtmak
ers, shoemakers everybody who fur
nishes necessities have suffered from
the hard times, because men have
worn their old clothes to economize ;
but the same men are drinking the
most costly drinks money can buy.
Curious, isn't it?
BAPID TRANSIT.
The city Is and has bfeefi for years
trying to get some better way to get
from one end of the island to the
other, bnt so far to no purpose. With
the exception of the elevated railway
on the west side of the city, there is
nothing better or faster than the com
mon horse-car or the primitive stage,
and as the companies owning these
lineB have untold wealth, and' as ev
erything in Albany is governed by
money, it is probable that there will
be nothing devfeed for years to take
their place. But it is a terrible want
nevertheless. It takes half the peo
ple of the city a full hour to get from
their homes to their places of busi
ness, which takes up two hours of the
twenty-four in travel. Then the dis
comfort of the travel is something
foorfiv Tf it rains- the cars swarm
with people
Every seat is occupied,
the aisle is crowded
with standing
men and women, the platforms front
and rear are jammed, even the steps
are occupied. When it is hot the
crowd Is the same ; in short, from 7
to 10 in the morning, coming down,
and from 4 to 7 irf the afternobn, go
ing up, each car is a moving purga
tory. The trouble the New Yorker
hss to face is, he cannot live near hta
business, because rents are fearfully
high he cannot live away from his
business, because of the waste of
time and discomfort of going to and
fro. But the latter alternative is the
one he has to accept, and consequent
ly he stands and rides and growis
three hundred and twelve days
in
h '1- J9 iV V s Y 1 I 1 T ' m ' -
the year. Various remedies are sug
gested. There is an underground
railroad, the cars intended to be pro
pelled by compressed air, on which
some hundreds of thousands of dol
lars have been spent; but it never
will be finished. Then it is proposed
to build a railroad around the city,
but that has been headed off. Rail
roads are projected underground, in
the air, on pillars, propelled by all
sorts of motive power, but nothing
has come of any of the schemes. It
is singular that a city of a million of
people should not be able to find a
way through a difficulty so simple.
THE WEATHER
has been frightful for a week. It has
been rain and slush, slush and rain.
Let us hope that winter will cease to
linger as soon as possible.
Pietbo.
muRderI:
A. Gang of Outlaws In
ziols.
Southern Xlli-
For the last foUr years Williamson
County, Illinois, has been infested
with a gang of murderers and ma
rauders who, in the atrocity of their
deeds eclipse the Bender family, of
Kansas. The principal places of their
exploits are along the lio j of the Car
bondale and Shawuoetown Railroad,
and the Big Muddy River, the latter
a small stream winding Its way thro'
the northern part of the county. But
their bloody deed3 are by no means
confined to that part of the county.
Other parts have shared in their aw
ful visitations.
About four years ago one Mr. Pin
key White, a respectable farmer,
school teacher and one of the former
sheriffs of the county, suddenly and
mysteriously disappeared from the
walks of men. As to.what become of
him nothing is known. But it has
been stoutly maintained by the citi
zens that he was maliciously murder
ed by the gang, and his body sunk in
the fiig Mdddy.
In 1871, one Mr. Walker, au old
farmer of Williamson County, was
brutally murdered while at work.
Suspicion rested upon John C. Owen.
He was immediately arrested and put
in jail. He broke jail once, b'dt was
captured and brought back again, and
chained to a ball. Circuit Court came
aud it was 011I3' after the examination
of over two hundred men that a jury
was obtained. And after the exam
ination of twenty or thirty witnesses,
enough circumstantial evidence was
obtained to convict him, and he was
sentenced to tho Penitentiary for a
term of twenty-five yerfrS.
In May, 1872, Mr. Vancll, an aged
farmer of considerable respectability,
living on tho Big Muddy, was taken
from bis house during the night and
hung by masked men. The men
guilty of this dastardly deed made
good their escape.
Last fall Mr. Bullinger was shot
dead, while riding homo in the even
ing from Uarbondale. A few weeSs
ago his son and son's mother-in-law
were shot while going home from
church, the young man dying in a
few hours.
In the early part of last week two
gentlemen retdrniiig from a sale near
Carterville a station on the Carbon
dale and Shawueetown Railroad
saw a man fall full length behind a
log by the roadside. They determin
ed to see who he wsfe; so, dismount
ing and hitching, they proceeded to
the spot. Upon their arrival they
found a man lying upon his face.
They demanded his name, when ho
presented a revolver and shot one of
the party through the thigh ; rising
to run, he fired another sho'S, which
took effect in the other thigh, near
the femoral artery.
But tho m'ost bloody, cruel aud in
human act remains to be told. In re
gard to it, the Observer of Saturday
contains th'e following: "One night
last week a peddler stopped to stay all
night with a family consisting of ii
mother and two daughters. The
mother was called away during the
night to see the sick wife of a neigh
bor. After tho peddler and the glrl3
bad retired to bod, the hushand of the
sick woman came to the house, and
after locking the door leading to the
peddler's room, told the girls that if
they did not pro'duce .the money be
longing to their mother, supposed to
be about $S00, ho would kill them.
They persistently refused to tell him
where the money was, whereupon he
drew a knife and cut the throats of
both the giils. Meantime, the. ped
dler hearing the noise, broke down
the door while the murderer was
Searching for he money, and quiok
as lightning shot him dead on the
spot. He then went to tho house
where the mother of the murdered
girls was, it being the nearest house
in the neighborhood, and broke to
her the terrible news. When de
scribing the murderer the sick wo
man swooned away, 'with the excla
mation, "My God, it was my hus
band !" And report says it so proved
to be. Undoubtedly, the idea of the
villian was to kill the girls and obtain
the money, leaving everybody to sup
pose that the dastardly deed was done
by the peddler. Even handed justice
deoreed it otherwise." &. Louis
Democrat.
What hankers were hardest off duT
ing the late panic ? Those who couldn'tf
even pay one a little attention.
I) is estimated that one person is
killed? arid' four injured every working
day in the year on American railroads.
BBOWJtYJLLE, NEBRASKA, THUESDAT, MAY 7. 1874.
COXGRES'SIOSTA-..
The Last of the Vetoed Bill.
Interesting Explanations toy Senators
SENATE.
Washington, April 23.
On the expiration of the morning
hour, Mr. Wright moved to lay aside
the pending order, and that the Sen
ate proceed td the consideration of
the Finance Bill and the President's
message vetoing the same.
Mr. Sherman moved that the bill
and message be made a special- order
for Monday next, and a long debate
followed, which took a wide range.
Mr. Thurman said that he 'did not
understand this great diversity of
opinion between the administration
Senators. For his part he longed to
have a return to the good old days of
Andrew Jackson, when the Presi-
1
dent had a good wholesome influence
upon Congress; when the policy and
views of the administration had some
weight.
Mr. Edmdnds said that he liked
that speech. It nut him in mind of
old times. (Laughter.) The differ
ence between Republican aud Demo-
craucauministrations was tnac in a
Republican administration the Chief
Magistrate attended to his constitu
tional duties. In the good old days
of Andrew Jackson, if a Democratic
Senator failed to come to time, of sup
port any measure of the administra
tion, he was not allowed to have any
position in his party. It was for that
reason the people in this country
broke down the Democratic adminis
tratlon, because under them there
were constant aggressions against the
liberty of the people. In the Repub
lican party every Senator Ifad a right
to his own opinions, and acted ac
cording to his own views.
Mr. Thdrman, iiueply to this, re
ferred to the deposition of Senator
Sumner as Chairman of the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations as evidence
that Republicau administrations did
not brood opposition:
Mr. Edmunds replied that the non
election of Mr. Sumner to the chair
manship of the committee on Foreign
Relations was not for tho cause stated
by the gentleiiian, (Mr. Thurman,)
but solely for personal reasons. The
Senator had no right to say that Mr.
Sumner or any othe'r' Senator had
been pursued by the administration
or any of his party.
Mr. Cameron said he was not plac
ed at the head of the Foreign Rela
tions committee at li is own request.
The way he came to be made chair
man was by being gecond on the com
mittee. He had boon given that po
sition at the request of Mr. Sumner,
when that gentleman was chairman.
He was absent at his home in Penn
sylvania, when assigned the chair
manship. He came here at his ear
liest opportunity, intending to do
eline, but upon entering tho Senate
Chamber and hearing the remarks of
the Senator who was over-zealous in
behalf of Mr. Sumner, which were
not complimentary to him (Camer
on) he reconsidered his determination
and accepted. He had seen it- an
nounced in the newspapers that he
had robbed Mr. Sumner of his place
on the comfnittee. Great heavens,
he did nothing of the kind. Tho
feeling between himself and Mr.
Sumner was of the most friendly
character. When he (Cameron) had
to go home to his sick ftrtnily, he ask
ed Mr. Sumner to pair with him on a
bill then up ; Mr. Sumner replied :
,'Yes, Cameron, gladly," and we
shook hands. He said, "God bless
you," and I said, "God bless you1."
Mr. Hamlin said he thought ft ap
propriate to state that at the time
Mr. Cameron was placed at the head
of the Foreign Relations' committee
iu place of Mr. Sumner it was done
simply and solely upon the under
standing that Mr. Sumner was not
upon speaking terms with the Presi
dent or Secretary of State.
Mr. Anthony said Mr. Sumuer was
not removed on account of his oppo
sition to the San Domingo treaty, and
that reference had been made during
this" debate to a speeoh Mr. Sumner
wrote, that was not a speech of Mr.
Sumner's. He, wrote it, but decided
not to deliver it, and the man who
violated his confidence, over his" new
made' grave, committed an act of per
fidy which would not be forgotten.
Mr- Sumner did him (Mr. Anthonj')
the honor to show him that speech.
There were not more than half a doz
en copies given out and each one con
tained a memorandum, "This in strict
confidence." If Mr. Sumner had
lived no man would have dared to
make it public.
Mr. Tipton said he thought the
Senate of the United States had nev
er exhibited such a feeling as that ex
hibited on' this occasion ; it was a feel
ing of absolute terror for fear a debate
might spring upon the Presidential
veto'.
A vote was then taken' on Mr.
Wright's motion to lay aside the Lou
isiana bill and take up the Finance
bill with the President's message, and
it was agreed fo yeas 35, nays 27.
The Chair announced that the Fi
nance bill was before the Senate, aud
the question was should it pass not
withstanding the President's objec
tions. Upon this question the consti
tution required that the vote should"
be taken b'y yeas and nays.
No one taking the floor the roll wasr
called and the vote resulted yeas 34,
nays 30 as follows :
Yeas Messrs. Allison, Bogy, Bore
man, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton,
Couover, Dennis, Doraey, Ferry,'
Mich., Goldthwait, Gordon, Harvey,
Hitchcock, Ingalis, Johnston, Lewis,
Logan, McCreery, Merriman, Mitch
ell, Norwood, Oglesby, Patterson,
Pease, Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson,
Spencer, Sprague, Tipton, West,
Winslow and Wright 34.
Nays Anthony, Bayard, Boutwell,
Buckingham, Chandler, Conkling,
Cragin, DaVis, Edmunds, Fenton,
Frelinghuysen, Ferry, Coiin.j Flana
gan, Gilbert, Hager, Hamilton Md.,
Hamilton, Texas, Hamlin, Howe,
Jone3, Kelly, Morrill, Yt., Sargent,
Scott, Sherman, Stevenson, Stewart,
Stockton, Thurman and Wadleigh
30.
Two-thirds not voting in the affirm
ative the bill was lost.
A DRINKING SONG.
BY lONdFELLOW.
Cdtne, old friend, sit down and listen
From tho pitcher placed between us
How the waters laugh and glisten
In the head of old Sllenus.
Old Siledus; bloated, drunken,
Led by his Inebriate satyrs;
On his breast his head Is sunken;
Vacantly he leers and chatters.
Hound about blm fair Bacchante!!;
Rearing cymbals, flutes, and thyrseaj
"Wild from Xaxlan groves, or Zante's
Vineyards, sing delirious verses.
Thus hq won, through all the nations,
Bloodless victories, and the farmer
Lore, as trophies and oblations,
Vines for banners, plows for armor.
Judged by no o'er-zealons rigor,
Much the mystic throng expresses;
Bacchus .was the. typo of vigor.
And Sllenus of excesses.
Theso are ancient ethnic revels
Of a faith long since forsaken;
Now the satyrs, changed to devils,
Frighten nlortals' wine-o'ertaken.
Now to rivulets from the mountains
Point tho rods of fortune-tellers ;
Youth prepetual dwells In fountains,
Not In llasks, and kegs, and cellars.
Claud ins, though he sang of flagons,
Aud huge tankards filled with Rhoulsb,'
From that fiery blood of dragons
Never would his own replenish.
Even Eedi; though he chauntcd
Bacchus in the Tuscan valleys,
Never drank the wine he vaunte'd
In his dltliyraniblc sailies.
.1 .11 ..
Then with water fill the pitch'er,
"Wreathed about with classic fables ;
Ne'er Talernlan throw a richer
Light upon Lucullus' tables.
Co'me, old friend sit down and listen,
As it passes there between us,
How Its wavelets laugh aud glisten
In tht head of old Sllenus.
WHAT AN ENGINEER. Vdhv.
I am an engineer. Ever since the
C. road was laid, I'v traveled over it
every day, or nearly evefy day of my
life.
For a good while I've had the same
engine in charge the San Francisco
the prettiest engine on the road,
and as well managed, if I do say it, as
the best.
It was a Southern road, running,
we will say, from A. to Z. At A.my
good old mother lived ; at Z. I had
the sweetest little wife under the sun,
and a baby ; and I alwaj's had a dol
lar or two put by for a rainy day. I
was an odd kind of a man. Being
shut up with the engine, watching
with all your eyes and heart and soul,
inside and out, don't make a man
talktive.
My wife's' name was Josephine, and
I called her Joe. Some people called
me unsociable, and couldn't under
stand how a man could feel friendly
without saying ten words an hour.
So, though I had a few friends, dear
ones, too, I did not have so many a6
quaintences as most people, and did
not care to have. The house whioh
held my wife aud baby was the dear
est place on earth to me, except the
old house which held my mother, up
in A.
I never belonged to a club or mixed
myself up wftn'atraug'efs in any such'
way, and never should if it had not
been for Granby. You see Granby
was one of the shareholders, a hand
some, showy fellow. I liked to talk
with him. and we were friends. He
often rode from Z. to A. and baok
agaiu, once he said :
"You ought to belong to the scien
tific club, Gueldou."
"Never heard of it," said I.
"I am a member," said he. "We
meet once a fortnight, and have a jol
ly good .time. 'We want thinking
men like you. We have some among
us now. I'll propose you, if you
like."
I was fobd of su'eh th'fng's, and I
had ideas that I faucied might be
worth something. But then an en
gineer don't have night and day to
himself, and the club would" have oh'e
evening in a fortnight from Joe. I
said : fc
"I'll ask her. If she likes It, yes."
"Ask whom?" said fife.
"Joe," said I.
"If every man had a3ked his wife,
every man's wife would have said,
"can't snare vou. my dear,' and we
should have had no club at all," said
Granby.
But I mada no answer. At home I
told Joe. She said r
"I shall miss you, Ned ; buti you
loveTsuch things, and then if Granby
belongs to it they must be superior
men."
"No doubt," said I.
"It isn't everybody who could be
nfade a member," said Joe; Why, of
course you mustsay yes."
So I said yes, and Granby propos
ed me Thursday fortnight I went
with him to' the rooms'. There were
men with brains, and some
without. The real business of meet
!
ing was the supper, and eo it was ev
ery evening.
I'd always been a temperate man.
I actually did not know what effect
wibe could have upon me; but com
ing to drink more of it than I ever
had, at the club table, I found-it put
the steam on. After so many glasses
I wanted to talk ; aftB? so many more
I did.
I seemed like somebody else, the
words were so ready. My little Ideas
came out and were listened to; I
made 6harp hits ; I indulged in re
partee ; I told stories ; I even came to
puns ; I heard sdme one say td Gran
by :
"By George! that man's worth
knowing. I thought him dull at
first."
Yet I knew it was better to be quiet
Ned Gueldon, with his ten words an
hour, than the wine-made wit I was.
I was sure of it when three, hours
after I stumbled up Stairs to flud Joe
waiting for me, with her babe on her
breast.
"You've been deceiving me," said
Joe ; "I suspeoted it, but wasn't sure.
A scientific club couldn't smell of a
bar-room." ,
"Whioh means I do,1' Baid I, wav
ing in the middle of the room like a
signal flag at a station, and seeing
two Joes.
"And look like one," said Joe, and
she went and locked herself and the
baby up in the spare bedroom togeth-
er- ...
"Ned," Bald she, "do you think a
thing so much like a bottled-up and
strapped-down demon as wteam, is fit
to put into the hands of a drunken
mau? And some day, mark my
wo'rds, the timo will home when not
only Thursday night, but all the days
of the week will be the same. I've
often heard you wonder what the
feeling of au engineer, who has about
the same as murdered a train full of
people, must be, and you will Know if
you don't stop where you are. A
steady hand and a clear head have
been your blessing all these years.
Don't throw them away Ned. If you
don't cdre for my love, don't rdih'
yourself."
My little Joe. She spoke from her
heart, and I bent over aud kissed her.
One club rilght, as I was dressed to
go, Joe stood before me.
"Ned," said she, "I never had a
fault to find with' you before. You've
been kind and good, and loving, al
ways ; but I should be sorry we ever
met If you are to go on this way.
Don't ask mo what I mean. You
know."
"Joe," said I, "It's only one club
nlght"
''It will grow," said she.
Then she put her a'rms around my
neck.
"Don't be afraid, child. I'll never
pain 5'ou go again"
And I meant it; but at twelve o'
clock that night I felt that I had for
gotten my promise and my resolution.
I couldn't go home to Joe. I made
up my mind to sleep on the club sofa,
and leave the place for good next day.
I Already I felt my brain reel as I nev
er had before. Iff an hour I was in
the land'of stupor.
It was morning. A waiter stood
ready to brush my coat. I saw a grin
npon his face. My head seemed ready
to burst; iSy hand trembled! I. look
ed at my watch ; I saw that I had
only just five miuutes left to reach the
depot.
Joe's words came 0 n'i'y rrfiud..
Was I fit to take charge of an engine ?
I was not fit to answer. I ought to
have Asked some sober man. As it
was I only caught up my bat and
rushed away. I was just iu time.
The San Francisco glittered in the
morning sun. The cars were filling
rapidly. From my post I could hear
the talking, bidding each' other good
by, promising to write aud come
agqln. Among them was an old gen
tleman I knew by sight, one of the
shareholders; he was bidding two
timid girls adieu.
"Good-by, Ritty ; good-by, Luo,"
i heard1 h'iuYsaj' ; "don't be nervous.
The San Francisco is the safest en
gine on the line, and Gueldon the
most careful engineer. I wouldn't be
afraid to trust every mortal I love in
the batch to their keeping. Nothing
could happen wrong with the two to
gether." I said, "I'll get through it some
how, and Joe shall never talk to me
again." After all it was ea's enough.
I reeled as I spoke', I heard the sig
nal. We were off.
Five hours from L.' to D. ; five
hours back. On the last I should be
myself again, I knew. I saw a red
Sutter, and never guessed what it
was uhtll we were past the down
train at the wrong place". T wo min
utes more and we would have had a
collilNon ; Somebody told me. I
heard him say respectfully.
"Of course, Mr. Gueldon, you know
what you are about?" " .
Then I was alone, and wondering
if I should go faster or slower. I did
so'riifetbiffg, and th'e ears rushed on at
a fearful rate.
The same man who had spoken to
me before was standing near me. I
heard some questions.
How many miles arr hour we were
making I did not know.
Rattle, rattle, rattle. I wa3 trying
now to slacken the speed of the San
Francisco. I could" not remember
what I should do. Was it this or
tlrat? Faster, only faster. I was'
playing with the engine like a child.
Suddenly there was a terrific roar
some
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a crash ; I was flung somewhere. It
was illtp the water. By a miracle, I
was only sobered, not hurt, I gained
the shore. I stood upon the ground
between the track and the river's
edge, and there gazed at my own
work.
The engine was In fragments, the
cars in splinters: dead, dying aud
wounded, were strewii around men,
women and children, old age and
tender youth. There were groans
and shrieks of despair. Tho maimed
cried out in pain ; tho uninjured be
wailed their dead ; and a voice, un
heard 6y any other, was in my ears
whispering, "murder."
The news had gone back to A., and
people came thronging down to find
their lost ones. Searching for an old
man's daughter, I came to a place un
der the trees, ana five bodies verb ly
ing there in all their rigid horror an
old woman, a young one, a baby and
two little children. It was fancy, it
was pure fancy, born of my anguish
they look like O ! great heaven !
they were niy old mother, my. wife
and children ! all cold and dead.
How did they come on tho train?
What chance had brought this about?
I gazed on tho good old face of her
who had given me birth, on the love
ly features of my wife, on the child
re'ti. I called them by name ; there
was no answer. There never could
be; never would be. As I compre
hended this, onward up the track
thundred another train. Its red eye
glared on me ; I flung myself before
It ; I felt It crdsli me td trim's !
"His head is very hot," said some
body. I opened my eyes and saw my wife.
"How do you feel?" she said ; "a
little better?"
I was rejoiced and so astonished by
the sight of her, that I could not
speak a first. She repeated the ques
tion. "I must be crushed to pieces," said
I, "for tho train run" over me; but I
feel no pdlii."
"There he goe3 about tho train
again," remarked my wife. "Why,
Ned !"
I tried to move ; there was nothing
the matter with me ; I srtt up'. I was
in my own room opposite to' a crib in
which two children were asleep ; one
had a tiny bald head. My wife, arid
two children were safe : Was I de
lirious, or could it be?"
"Joe," cried I, "tell me what has
happened." , . ,
"It's nine o'clock," said Joe.
"You
came home in such a dreadful state
from the club that I couldn't wake
you. You were nut fit to manage
steam and risk people's lives. The
San Franolsco i3 half way to A., I
suppose,' aiid yo'u have been frighten
ing m'e to death with your dreadful
tall"
And Joe began to cry.
It was a dream, only an awful
dream. But I lived through it all as
though it were a reality.
"Is there a bible in the houso, Joe ?"
said I.
"Are we heathens?" said Joe.
"Give It to uie'this moment, Joe."
She brought It, and I put my hand
on it, and took au oath (too solemn to
be repeated here) that what had hap
pened never should occur again. It
never has. And if the San Francisco
ever comes to grief the verdict shall
not be a3 it ought to be so often "th'e I
engineer was drunk."
MUIII5ER AX ROBBERY.
The James Brothers at Bloody Work
Agahi.
AN
EMIGRANT SHOT DOWN ANO
ROBBED OF $4,700.
From the St. Lbrifa Republican.
Sra'ithville, Clay Co., Ho., April 0.
Our quiet little village was thrown
into a fever of excitement last night
by the announcement of an atrocious
murder and robbery commfttW on
the Platte City road, four miles west
o'f this place. The victim was a man
by the name of Isaac Clark, who, in
company with his wife and child (a
babe in arm,) was traveling from
Iowa to Kansa3 in a covered wagon
drawn by tv?o horses. They had
stopped for the night by the wayside,
and were attacked aboutabout two o'
clock by three desperadoes with
drawn pistols. Clark attempted to
defend himself and farn'ily, and had
reached for his revolver when he was
mercilessly shot down, alter which
the murderers proceeded to rifle his
pockets in the presence of his half
frantic wife. They found on his per
son the sum of $2,700, and left in haste
without harming the wife or child".
The three desperadoes in question
are believed to be the two James boys
and one Fielding Kenly. The last
tnaraed, &euly, i3 a fugitive from
justice, who formerly live'd' ?n Ken
tucky, but ha3 been living in this
county for the pa3t two years. He
Came here direct from" Buchanan
f county, where he associated with out
laws of the worst character.
No efforts have been' made1 to pur
sue the perpetrators" of the foul of
fense, es yet. Th'e inhabitants' stand
in awe of these desperate characters,
and are half afrafd to track them to
track tbem to their dens.
Kenly 13 about thirty-five years of
age, five feet erght Inches, stoop
shoulders, long sandy beard, and-'has
a bad countenance. The' murdered
man will be buried" to-day, by .the.
Masons of Smith ville. In the name
of God, how mnch longer are 'the peo
ple of Missouri to put up with these
deeds of horror ? Let something be
side resolving be done by our author
ities hpfnra thft nnricrht citizens of thft
State leave for safer quarters. Yours,
Ltnily,
Johnr. iNrxoN.
XiegalRdyertisein'entsfitlgaratesiOaeiqiiara
(1011neofi7bnpareUspace,or loss.) first lasortlon
1,00; eachsubsequentlnsextlon, 5x. a
3r All transclunt advertise ieau sxastbe paid
forln advancb.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUXTXi
BUSBY'S IRON WEDDKSG.
Buabv. of Trenton, celebrated
his
iron wedding" one day last week,"
and ho invited about 120 guests U ine
wedding. Of course each person felt
fcdnlp'elled to bring & pr.eserit df some?
kind, and each one di3. "Whon Mr.
and Mrs. Smith came they handed
Busby a pair of flat-irons. When
Mr. and Mrs. Jonesarrjved, theal&o
had a pair of flatifons. All' hahda
laughed at the coincidence. And
there was even greater merriment
when the Browns arrived with two'
pairs of flatirons. But when Mr. and
Mrs. Robinson came in. with anoth-
erpair of llatirous the laughter be
came perfectly convulsive. Thero
was, however, something less amus
ing about it when the Thompsons ar
rived with four flatirons wrapped in
Brown paper. And Busby '3 face ac
tually looked grave when the tnree
Johnson girls were ushered Into the
parlor carrying a flatiron apiece.
Each one of the succeeding sixty
guests brought flatirons, and -thero
was no break in the continuity
Until old Mr. Curry arrived from
Philadelphia with a cast-iron cow
bell. Now Busby had no erirtlj.ly',
use fdr a cowbell, tiud, at any oihe
time, he would have treated suoh d
present with scorn. But now he wad
actually grateful to Mr. Curry, and
he was about to embrace him" When
the Walslngharos came In with the
new kind of doubie-polnted fiaUrouti
with wooden handles. And all the
rest of the gnesta brodght the same"
articles, except Mr. Rugby, and hd
hud with him a patentstand for hold-
ing flatirons. Busby got madder and
madder every minute, and, by the
time the company had all arrived, be
was nearly insane with ia"ge ; and ho
went up to bed, leaving his wife to"
entertain the guests. In the morning
they counted up tho spoils, andfound
they had 213 llatirous, one stand, and"
a cowbell. And now the Busbys h'avo.
fciit th'e Smiths, afid Bfowiis, anti
Johnsons, and the rest entirely, fo
they are convinced that there was a
preconcerted design to play a trick
upon them. The fact, however, Is;
that the hardware store in the place,
had an overstock of flatiron, and
sold tbem at an absurdly low figure,'
and Busby's guests unanimously went'
for the cheapest thing they could'
find as people always do on such oc
casions. Busby thinks he will not
celebrate his "silver wedding"" Maui
Adelci'.
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a.
A RELIGIOUS IV All IN TOIjAXD.
New York. April 27. A letter from"'
St. Petersburg!! gives som particular
of the disorders in Poland, growing
out of an attempt to force th6 Inhabi
tants to' attach themselves to the Rus
sian National Church. The priests of
twenty -six parishes in the govern
ment of SieuYee were'all thrown into
prison for refusing to carry out the
orders of the Russian Greek Churoh.
The inhabitants refused to recognize
the Russian preists or to attend the
churches, whereupon they were sentr
thero by force. In some places tho'
the peasant stoned the priests, and
iu the village of Carlef resistance wan"
made to the military, and several,
sofdiers were wounded by pikes audf
stones.- The soldiers fired on tho
peasantry, and a large number Ward
killed.
In tho village' of Prolulir similar
disturbances took place, in which
several officers and many soldlera"
were killed, and some fifty-seven
peasants were shot down. The pris
ons of Siedleo aud other chief fowpa
are crowded with prisoners. Besides
the arrests that wero made, the in
habitants of the troubled? districta'
were sentenced to be beaten, the nfen
with fifty blows, the women with 25
blows, virhile the children received
ten blows each, without distinction
of age or sex. Some women who'
were violent iu tneir language, re
ceived as many as one hundred' and
fity blows.
REMINISCENCE ,.OP
MR. SUM-
The opinion recently expressed by
his physician, Dr. Brown-Sequard,
that the blows received upon hlsheacf
at the bands of Bully Brooks, were
not the cause of the death of Mr.
Sumner, has' revived many interest
ing reminisences of the distinguished
statesman's career in the early days
when Mr. Sumner attacked the "bar
barism of slavery" in its stronghold.
Arrfcng the bold followera of Mr.
Sumner .was the fat'e Anson Burlin-"
game, who represented the district in
Congress now represented by Mr.
Hooper, of Boston. Bully Brooks'
had outrageously insulted Mr. Sum
ner and his friends, and Mr. Burlin-1
game, not afraid of plantation' black
guard nor Southern bullet, pitched
into the South Carolina bully, and did
not shrink from a defense of speech'
ffnd" the Honored-State which bo, with
Mr. Sumner, represented. Result:'
Mr. Burlingame was" challengeo 5y
Brooks; the challenge was immedi
ately accepted, the weapon's rifles,,
and the place Niagara Falls. Brooks
discovered that he btfd canght a Tar
tar caught a man who' was one of
the best shots in the country and
"crawfished," so to speak. Massa
chusetts half condemned-, half ap--prove'd
the acceptance of the" chal
lenge, but in- the meantime Brooks
slunk away add went into disgrace
And now Sumrier, Bnrlingame and?
Brooks have gone to' th'eir Ibrig' rest?
but Brooks has b'een forgolfen. The
others still live In the hearts of their
countrymen. Chicago Evening 'Journals
