Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 July 1889 — Page 5
A PRETTY SUGGESTION.
They lingered at her father's door, The hour was shining bright, •And to the maiden, o'er and o'er
The youth had said good night But still reluctant to depart Her tiny hand he pressed, While all the love that filled his heart
His ardent looks oonfessed. At length tho maiden blushed and sighed. And said, in accents low, "I hope, dear John, you will ncr try
To kiss mo 'ere ymi go." —Boston Courier.
IN THE RESERVOIR.?
I did not." His silver fin flashed upon tho block Acheron, like a restless soul that ho]ed yet to mount from the pool." "The place seems suggestive of fancies to you?" wo observed in reply to the rattlepate. "It is, indeed fori have done up a good deal of anxious thinking within a circle of a f®w yards where that fish broke just now. Shall I tell you about it?" "Praydb." "Well, you have seen tho notice forbidding any one to fish in the reservoir. Now, when I read that warning, the spirit of the thing struck me at once as inferring nothing more than that one should not sully the temperance potations of our citizens by steeping bait in it of any kind but you probably know tho common way of taking pike with a slip noose of delicate wire. I was determined to have a touch at the fellows with this tackle. "I chose a moonlight night and an hour before tho edifice was closed to visitors I secreted myself within the walls, determined to pass the night on tho top. All went as I could wish it. The night proved cloudy, but it was only a variable drift of broken clouds which obscured tho moon. I had a •walking cane rod with me which would reach to the margin of tho water, and several feet beyond if necessary. To this was attached the wire, about fifteen inches in length. "I prowled along the parapet for a considerable time, but not a single fish could I see. Tho clouds made a flickering light and shade that wholly foiled my steadfast gaze. I was convinced that should they come up thicker my whole night's adventure would be thrown away. '"Why should I not descend the sloping wall and get nearer on a level with the fish, for thus alone can 1 hope to see oner The question had hardly shaped itself in my mind before I had one leg over the iron railing. "If you look around you will see now that there are some half dozen weeds growing hero and there amid the fissures of the solid masonry. In one of the fissures from whence these spring, I planted a foot and began my descent. The reservoir was fuller than it is now, and a few strides would have carried me to the margin of the water. Holding on to the cleft above, I felt round with one foot for a place to plant it below me.' "In that moment the flap of a pound pike made mo look round, and the roots of tho weed upon which I partially depended gave way as I was in the act of turning. Sir, one's senses are sharpened in deadly peril as I live now, I distinctly heard the bells of Trinity chiming midnight, as I roso to the surface the next instant, immersed in tho stono caldron, where I must swim for my life, Heaven only could tell how long! "I am a capital swimmer and this naturally gave mo a degree of self possession. Palling as I had, I, of course, had pitched out somo distance from the sloping parapet. A few strokes brought me to the edge. I really was not yet certain but that I could clamber up tho face of tho wall anywhere. I hoped that I could. "I tried tho nearest spot. Tho inclination of the wall was so vertical that ii did not even rest me to lean against it. I felt with my hands and with my feet. Surely, I thought, thero must be some fissure like those in which that ill omened weed had found a place for its root I "Thero was none. My fingers became soro in busying themselves with tho harsh and inhospitable stones. My feet slipped from tho smooth nnd slimy masonry beneath tho water and several times my face came in rude eontact with tho wall, when my foothold gave way on the instant that I seemed to have found somo diminutive rocky cleat upon which I could stay myself. "Sir, did you over see a rat drowned in a half filled hogshead—how ho swims round and round and round, and after vainly trytog the sides again and again with his paws, fixes his eyes upon the upper run as if ho would look himself out of his watery prison? "J[ thought of the miserable vermin, thought of him as I had often watched thus his dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of eight or ten. (Boys are horribly cruel, sir boys, women and savages. All child like things are cruel —cruel from want of thought, from per verso ingenuity. I "I thought then, I say, of tho rat drownjs ing in a half filled cask of water, and lifting his gaze out of tho vessel as he grew desperate, and I flung myself on my buck, and floating thus, fixed my eyes upon the moon. "Tho moon is well enough in her way, however you may look at her but her appearance is, to say tho least of it, peculiar to a man floating on his back in tho center of a stone tank, with a dead wall of some fifteen or twenty feet rising squarely on every sido of him!" (Tho young man smiled bitterly as he said this, and shuddered once or twice before ho went on musingly.) "The last time I had noted tho planet with any emotion she was on tho wane. Mary was with mo I had brought her out here ono morning to look at tho view from tho top of tho reservoir. She said little of tho scene, but as we talked of our old childish loves I saw that its fresh features were incorporating themselves with tender memories of the past, and I was content. "Thero was a rich golden hazo upon the landscape, and as my own spirits roso amid tho voluptuous atmosphere, she pointed to the waning planet, discernible like a faint gash in tho welkin, and wondered how long it would be before the leaves would fall.
Strange girll did she mean to rebuke my Joyous mood, as if we had no right to be happy while nature, withering in her pomp, *nd tbe sickly moon wasting In tho blaze of
noontide, were there to remind us of 'the gone forever 'Tfcey will all renew themselves, dear Mary,' said I, 'and there is one that will ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature through all seasons, if thou wilt but be truo to one of us, and remain as now a child of nature.' "A tear sprang to her eye, and then searching her pocket for her card case, she remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson's opening of fall bonnets at 2 o'clock 1 "And yet, dear, wild, wayward Mary, I thought of her now. You have probably outlived this sort of thing, sir but I, looking at the moon, as I floated there upturned to her yellow light, thought of the loved being whose tears I knew would Dow when she heard of my »singular fate, at once so grotesque, yet melancholy to awfulness. "And how often we
Thirty years Ago yeu might have seen some of the best society of Now York on tho top of that Carian shepherd who spent"his 'damp the distributing reservoir at Forty-second nights u)on the hills, gazing as I do on tho 6treet any line October morning. There I''ustrous planet 1 Who will revel with her were two or three carriages in waiting and
haif a dozen senatorial looking mothers with young children pacing the parapet as we ourselves, one day in the past generation, basked there in the sunshine—now watching the pickerel that glided along the lucid edges of the black pool within, and now looking off upon tho scene of rich and wondrous variety that spreads along the two broad and beautiful rivers on each side. "They may talk of Alpheus and Arethusa," murmured an idling sophomore, who had found his way thither during recitation hours, "but tho Croton, in passing over au arm of tho son ut Spuyten Duyvil and bursting to sight again in this truncated pyramid, beats it all hollow. By George, tnn Mm hoy yonder looks as blue as over tho ^Egean sea to Byron's eye gazing from the Acropolis. Did you see that pike break, sir?''
have
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those old superstitions* Who, from our
own unlegended woods, will evoke their yet undetected haunting spirits? Who peer with her in prying scrutiny into nature's laws, and challeuge the whispers of poetry from tho voiceless throat of matter? Who laugh merrily over tho stupid guess work of pedants, that never mingled with the infinitude of nature, through love exhaustless and allembracing, as we have? Poor girll she will be companionless. "Alasl companionless forever—save io the exciting stages of some brisk flirtation. Sho will live hereafter by feeding other hearts with love's lore she has learned from me, and then, Pygmalion like, grow fond of the images she has herself endowed with semblance of divinity. How anxious sho will be lest tbe coroner shall have discovered any of hor notes in my pocket 1 "1 felt chilly as this last reflection crossed my mind, partly at thought of tho coroner, partly at the idea of Mary being unwillingly compelled to wear mourning for me, in case of such a disclosure of our engagement. It is a provoking thing for a girl of 19 to have to go into mourning for a deceased lover at tho beginning of her second winter in the metropolis. "The water, though, with my motionless position, must have had something to do with my chilliness. I see, sir, you think that I toll my story with groat levity but indeed 1 should grow delirious did I venture to hold steadily to the awfulness of my feelings the greater part of that night. I think, indeed, I must have been most of the time hysterical with horror, for tho vibrating emotions I have recapitulated did pass through my brain, even as I have detailed tuem. "But as I now became culm in thought I summoned up again some resolution of action. "I will begin at that corner (said I), and swim around tho whole inclosure. I will swim slowly and again feel the sides of the tank with my feet. If die I must, let me perish at least from well directed though exhausting effort, not t-ink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining myself till the morning Shu 11 bring relief. "The sides of the place seemed to grow higher as I now kept my watery course beneath them. It was not altogether a dead pulL I had some variety of emotion in making my circuit. When I swam in tho shadow, it looked to me more cheerful beyond in tho moonlight. When I swam in the moonlight I had the hope of making somo discovery when 1 should again reach the shadow. I turned several times on my back to rest just where those wavy lines would meet Tho stars looked viciously light to me from tho bottom of that well there was such a company of them they were so glad in their lustrous revelry and they had such space to move in! I was alone, sad to despair in a strange element, prisoned, and a solitary gazer upon their chorus. And yet there was nothing else with which I could hold communion! "1 turned upon my breast and struck out almost frantically onco more. The stars were forgotten tho moon, the very world of which I as yet formed a part, my poor Mary herself, were forgotten. I thought only of the strong man there perishing of me in my lusty manhood, in the sharp vigor of my dawning .prime, with faculties illimitable, with senses all alert, battling thero with physical obstacles which men like myself had brought together for my undoing. The Eternal could never have willed this thing! I could not and I would not perish thus. And I grew strong in insolence of self trust, and I laughed aloud as I dashed tho sluggish water aside. "Then camo an emotion of pity for myself —of wild, wild regret of sorrow, oh, infinite, for a fato so desolate, a doom so dreary, so heart sickening! You may laugh at the contradiction if you will, sir, but I felt that I could sacrifice my own life on the instant, to redeem another follow creature from such a place of horror, from an end so piteous. My soul and my vital spirit seemed in that desperate moment to bo separating while one in parting grieved over the deplorable fato of tho other. "And then I prayed 1 I prayed, why or whereforo I know not It was not from fear. It could not have been in hope. Tho days of miracles aro passed, nnd there was no natural law by whose interposition I could be saved. I did not pray it prayed of itself, my soul within mo. "Was the calmness that I now felt, torpidity? the torpidity that precedes dissolution, to tho strong swimmer who, sinking from exhausion, must at last add a bubble to tho waves as ho suffocates beneath tho element which now deniod his mastery? If it were so, how fortunate was it that my floating rod at that moment attracted my attention as it dashed through tho water by mo. I saw on tho instant that a fish had entangled himself in the wire noose. Tho rod quivered, plunged, came again to the surface, and ripplod the water as it shot in arrowy flight from sido to sido of the tank. At last driven toward the southeast corner of tho reservoir, tho Bmall end seemed to have got foul somewhere. The brazen butt, which,-every time tbe flsh sounded, was thrown up to the moon, now sank by its own weight, showing that the other end must bo fast. But tho cornered fish, evidently anchored somewhere by that short wire, floundered several times to the surface before I thoughtof striking out to tho spot. "Tho water is low now, and tolerably clear. You may see tho very ledgo there, sir, in yonder corner, on which tho small end of my rod rested when 1 secured that pike with my hands. I did not tako him from tho slip noose, however, but, standing upon the ledgo, handled tho rod in a workmanlike manner as I flung that pound pickerel over the iron railing upon tho top of tho parapet. Tho rod, as I have tola you, barely reached from tho railing to tho water. It was a heavy, strong bass rod, and when I discovered that the fish at tho end of the wire made a strong enough knot to prevent mo from drawing my tocklo away from tho railing around which it twined itself as I threw, why, as you can at once see, I had but little difficulty in making my way up the face of tho wall with such assistance. "The ladder you see lashed to the iron railing is in the identical spot where I thus made my escape and, for fear of similar accidents, tney have placed another one in the corresponding corner of the other compartment of the tank ever since my remarkable night's adventure in the lonesome waters of the Tvoir."—Charles Fenno Hoffman in Swinton's Story Teller.
GREELEY'S MARRIAGE.
HE WAS AN IMPATIENT, UNCONVENTIONAL YOUNG LOVER.
The Attire In Which He Preseuted Him
self Before the Fiance He Hod Never Seen—It WHS All tho Same to Him, but
She Felt Differently.
Mr. White had met Horace Greeley, a young man from tho country, who was bold enough to start a newspaper in the city, and this bravo adventurer did not stop there in his reckless grasp at fortune's gifts. He had just returned from tho south, where he had married a young lady of the north who was spending a year with somo southern friends. She was very young, handsome and attractive. One of her friends, from whom I learned these facts, told mo that she admired Miss Cheney very much, and knew but one man who would be the one to win her heart and hand that man was the young journalist, Horace Greeley. Sho set to work, as somo women foolishly do, to bring about the union. Mr. Greeley aud Miss Cheney had never met. This matchmaker told her story of tho young lady with skill to the innocent young countryman, aud so awakened his desire to become acquainted with the lady that he allowed his friend to write to Miss C. that he would like very much to correspond with her. Her letters to tho mutual friend were written with a frankness and originality seldom found, and rather pleased tho young man to whom they were shown, and, having no experience in knowledge of the mysteries of tho female heart, ho was easily caught in love's not. His friends remarked the symptoms of the increasing fever, and lost no opportunity to laugh at tho jioor fellow.
Miss C. enjoyed the innocent pleasure of a correspondence with the gifted young journalist, and ought to have known the danger, but tho letters were so delightful, each ono growing more and more attractive, and at last Mr. Greeley, in the simplicity of his honest nature, avowed tliat his heart and his life ho offered to Miss C., aud begged that she would aocept them, unworthy as they were, etc. He had been told by his friend that she was beautiful and very young. It was not necessary, this friend thought, as she told me, to describe Mr. Greeley. So love bora in Miss C.'s heart from tho letters allowed her to picture him as fancy dictated. After a suitable timo had passed it was arranged between them that Mr. Greeley should go south, spend ono day, be married and return north immediately. Sis paper demanded this unroniantic haste. But Mr. Greeloy was not romantic. He was severely matter of fact.
Miss Cheney was in every respect the opposite of her lover. In the warmth of her youthful enthusiasm sho had clothed him with personal beauties and graces that were justified by tho adornments of his character as seen in his letters.
He announced to his companions that the fortunate event of his life was near at hand, and that a short absence must bo allowed to him to bring home his young wife. The hour of their first meeting was the one which both parties anticipated with a strange feeling of curiosity, but neither doubted tho full satisfaction to be realized. It was a dangerous experiment and a severe test of love. They met and stood face to face. Miss C. had, with womanly coquetry, decked herself to meet her lover, and looked charming in his eyes, more than fancy had painted her. He stood speechless a moment, while her large brown eyes opened wide in utter amazemsnt, scanning tho figure before her from head to foot, aud remaining in a state of almost breathless bewilderment, as if unable to believe her sight, so entirely was he unlike what sho had imagined!
His flax white hair was long and fell around his neck loosely his face was fair as a woman's and its oxpression was the mirror of a noblo heart his chin was dimpled and on his mouth sat tho firmness of his manly character that redeemed the face from effeminacy But the figure of Mr. Greeley, the young man before her, was to her painfully without grace, his voice was in the extreme drawling and uasal, and there was in his manner ti total disregard of conventional rules of ceremony.
Miss C. could not concoal her disappointment, but they sat down in tbe most matter-of-fact way to arrange tho business part of the immediate marriage. Mr. Greeley had traveled by land several days and presented himself in all tho haste of an impatient lover to his lady, without changing his apparel or even thinking of his appearance, and his delight with hor was so great that ho failed to see tho effect his presence had produced upon her. Her almost utter inability to speak'was attributed to a natural timidity on the occasion. "Can you go now?" ho asked, after a half hour's conversation. "Go whore?" she inquired. "Go to bo married," replied Mr. Greeley. "To be married! Why, I can't marry you. Now that I see you I do not love you," she said, half choked by tears. "No, I cannot marry you." His surprise was greater than hers had been. Then camo to his aid that firm, strong will that those remember who knew him well hi after years. Ho stifled pride, bore the humiliation like a hero, but insisted that Miss C. should keep her engagement with him. What his arguments were she did not tell me later but sho told me that he had a strange influence over her at tho timo that rendered hor submissive. Sho looked at his travel stained clothes and boots, and asked him to prepare for tho marriage, but to understand that ho married hor knowing that sho hail no love for him. Many, many men have ventured the same, some to win happiness, ofton more to wreck domestic comfort completely. Mr. Greeley went with all speed to a barber, and after the shave with a proud air told tho man that ho was to bo married in less than an hour. "Brush off my clothes," he ordered. The barber with brush in hand suspended in the air asked, "Not going to change this suit?" "No, no have not brought any other go on, brush off the dirt and dust." "But, sir, look at the bottom of your trousers the stains will show, do what I can." "Never mind cut off tho bottom."
Putting down his brush, for fear's sake he obeyed tho order and cut off the garment, and the good man soon presented himself to the lady, telling her that ho had inado arrangements with a minister to perform tho ceremony, and to go with him at onco to tho placo apioiiited. "I went in a trance, it seemed to me," said Mi-s. Greeley two months later to me, "and I am yet in a state of wonder at my own act."
Thoy were married. Mr. White and Mr. Greeley met after tho return of tho bride and groom to New York and arranged to take tho largo brown stono house in Greenwich street together and thero began a friendship between them that incrtiased yearly, and lasted through many years till each had risen to distinction and to the honor of a good name among men.
Both are now gone to judgment and reward. Many wero the precious hours of social intercourse between Mr. and Mrs. Greeley Judge White and myself. During the war a closer union of thought and action existed between us. Mrs. Greeley and I were well acquainted, and though differing in many points, loved to compare ootes. I remember when she wished to compliment me. she told me I was like her.—Rhoda E. White in New York Sun.
SHORTEST AND LONGEST.
Tho longest day Is In June, thoy say The shortest in December. They 11-1 not come to me that way
The shortest 1 remember You came a day with ma to stay, And filled my heart with laughter The longest day (you were away)
The very nest day after. —George Blrdaey*.
A Young Lady.
Sho was a pretty young lady, very charmingly dressed and personally particularly attractive. She was out at the park the other day and she got on a crowded car. She had a seat and several men wore standing up. There came on to the car an old lady very poorly dressed. She looked frail and soemed tired. She looked around. Several very elegant dudes were seated around, but nobody made any movement to give up his placo. Seeing this, the young lady of whom I spoke got up and gave the old lady her seat nnd stood up bosido a dude decked in tho very latest fjushion plate style, who took a onl™ look at her and—kept his seat. Then a mnn sitting beyond him in tho open car, who had just noticed her, got up, walked over the dudo's knees and invited tho young lady to tako his seat. About all the dude expressed was an annoyance at being disturbed. This is not very much of a story, it is not a verydramatic situation, but it somehow means a great deal.—San Francisco Chronicle.
Hardness of Wood.
Tho relative hardness of woods is calculated by tho hickory, which is the toughest. Estimating that at 100, we get for pignut hickory, SO white oak, 84 white ash, 77 apple tree, 70 red oak, 60 white beech, 65 black walnut, 65 black birch, 62 yellow and black oak, 60 hard maple, 50 white elm, 58 red cedar, 50 cherry, 55 yellow pine, 53 chestnut, 52 yellow poplar, 51 butternut and white birch, 4S, and white pine, 35. According to this formula, woods possessing a degree of hardness equal to only about 40 per cent, or less than that of hickory, should not be classed as hard woods. Such woods are, however, limited in quantity, and are not of sufficient importance to justify a classification, and the trade will continue to construe hard wood to mean everything except white pine.—New York Telegram.
The Bufty Beetle. •VVY
A curious result of the work of a species of beetle was recently discovered in a houso in Portland. Where two matched boards came together in tho sheathing of a room, the ounded rib, ab^ut the size of a lead pencil, for a length of two feet and a half, had been replaced with what looked like a porous m«gq of fine sawdust, which was by some means so held together as to assume the exact shape of the original wood. Investigation with a penknife, at one end of this, revealed a sm^n tunnel uuder tho surface, filled with the same fine dust and about three inches long, at the end of which was a small and very active black beetle, busily engaged in literally eating his way through life, with nn inexhaustible supply of food in front. The ant is not the only bug model of industry.—Lewiston Journal.
5Tot One of Them.
"Good morning, ma'nin—good morning!" he saluted as he met a little woman faco to face at th.e Central market. "Goodhnorning," sho humbly replied. "Hell,.have you concluded to accept my proposal" "I—I ckm't kuow what you mean, sir." "Why.*d-id»*t I propose marriage to you last wcc'JWB give you five days to ttail it over "No, sir. I've been married ten ve^a fc.it is." "Ila! Excuse me. I thought you were one of them. Well, no harm done. Mistakes will happen, you know. Good morning."— Detroit Free Press.
Four Requirements for a rainier. "There aro four things for a painter," Corot was wont to say. "Theso are—Form, which ho gets through drawing: color, which results from truth to values sentiment, which is born of tho received impression and finally tho execution, the rendering of the whole. As to myself, I think I have sentiment that is, a little poetry in tho soul which leads me to see, or to complete what I see, in a certain way. But I have not always color, and possess only imperfect elements of tho power to draw. In execution I also fail sometimes—which is tho reason why I labor harder than ever, little though some people may imagine it."—A© Century.
Simple Remedies.
A ankeo colonel, who had spent several years in the south, was one day telling a friend, a surgeon, of a kind of illness which onco attacked the men of his regiment. "It was a fever common in tho low, hot country where we were marching," said ho. "People down there call it tho 'broken bone fever.' When a man has it he feels as if every bono in his body had been broken." "There is a very simple, old fashioned remedy that I should recommend for such a ciso said tho surgeon, with a twinkle in his ev0 "What's that?" asked tho colontl 'Buneset."—Youth's Companion y4pjfP
A Very Good Cut.
Juhu B. Mudd, of this city, has a wonderful cat. He assists in the care of a brood of chickens. During tho day he is often seen scratching up insects for them, which they appreciate, and bringing them mice, which they refuse to eat. At night the cat and the old hen divide tho honor of hovering them. He is also on good terms with the other hens, and especially with the old cockerel, and strokes his sides against them in tho most familiar way. Ho passes nearly all of his time with tho poultry, and they seem to love his companionship.—Memphis (Mo.) Register.
Tho Delinquent Subscribe!, /.•' TV aro torn again with grief because L. A. Underwood has left Weston owing us some 86.50. Tho postmaster there explains, "'Whereabouts unknown," but Underwood can't run away from himself nnd the consciousness that tho man who deliberately boats a friend out of an honest obligation is mean cuss. He may bo Underwood or under the daisies, but Ills reputation will follow him and give him away as surely as tho odor of a skunk.— Ludlow (Yt.) Tribune.
Stock lCxchange.
Granger—Hello, mister! Is this tlio stock exchange Manager—Yes.
Granger—Wal, I've got a shoat out hero I kinder thought I'd liko to swap olE for a young calf or mebbo a coarse wool sheep or (Granger floored by a lead inkstand.)—Burlington Free Press.
Why It Was Awful.
"Mary," said Miss Ponsonby to her maid,' "you must really never again allow ^'do to get on my bod. "I've done my best to break him of tha habit, ma'am," she replied, "for it's awful." "I should say it wns awful," returned Miss Ponsonby. "I just foond a bedbug on the' poor little thing."—The Epoch, •.-«••••• ^-.-,.•,.•.,.^1
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Word was passed along the river, and fifteen to twenty men gathered at a designated placo aud galloped to the cabin of Averili and Cattle Kate withoutunnecesary noiso. The "rustlers" wero at home, and a peep through the window disclosed the thieves and a boy in their employ sitting bosido a rude tire-plnce smoking cigarettes. As half a dozen men rushed into tho room a Winchester was poked through each window and the command to throw up handsgivon with uumistakablo earnestness. The trio sprang for their weapons, but were quickly overpowered. Averili blubbered, begged and whined, protesting his innocence. The boy was quiet Kate cursed. Her execration of tho lynchers was something terrible in its' way. An extensive vooabulary collected du*l ing long association with roughs and ruffians was exhausted and repeated. In summing up, she cursed every thing and every body, challenging tho Deity to harm hor If IIo possessed tho power. An attempt was made to gag her but her struggling was so violont that this was prolonged. She called for her own horse to ride to the tree selectod for a scaffold, and vaulted astride the animal's back from the ground. Averili did notresisti, nnd tho boy, who had been told that ho would not bo harmed, followed. Either end of the same ropo was fastened about the necks of tho "rustlers" as they Bat in their saddles. The boy made a pass with a knife at the man who was preparing Kate for hanging. He was knocked insensible by a blow with tho butt of a revolver. It appears that tho lad was 'a nephew of tho bandit queen. When preparations for tho execution had been completed Averili aud the woman were asked to speak. The man spoke only of his office, saying that he did not wish a certain man to bo his successor. Ho was promised the luliuence of tho part}' for another candidate. Kate made quite an address. She wished the affair kopt quiet as possible, desiring that hor mother remain in ignorance of her disgraceful career aud tragic death.
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Sate Maxwell, the Famous *Oat« ,. tie Queen, Lynched.
SIOCKMES TAKE FEARFUL REVEKGE.
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tnrngeil at the Depredations of the Ff u.alo Bandit and Her Paramonr. l'ostluastor Averlll, They Bang Theu' to the Same Limb.
DIED WITH CUBSES ON HER LIPS CHEYENNE, Wy. T., July 23.-James Averill and the notorious cattle queen, Kata Maxwell, were lynched by cowboys Sunday night. The bodies of tho "rustler" and tho ranjje quoon dangled from the same limb of a big cottonwood. The scene of the lawless but justifiable deed of the midnight riders is on tho Sweet Water river, In Carbon County, near Independence Iiock, a landmark mado historical during the rush overland to tho California gold fields. Averili was postmaster at Sweet Water. Kate Maxwell la the heroine of a sensational story which appeared throughout the country a few months ago when sho raided a gambling house and recovered a large sum oil money won from her employers. Stockmen of the Sweet Wuter region have been tho victims of cattlo-thioves for years. On account of prejudice against the largo outfits It has been impossible to convict on this charge, and the rustlers have bocome very bold. Averlll and his remakable partner had been very nctive in thieving. The woman could hold her own on the range, tiding like a demon, shooting on the slightost pretence and handling tho lariat and branding-iron with the skill of the most expert vaquero. Fifty freshly-branded yearling steers were counted in the Averili aud Maxwell herd Saturday morning. A stock detective whose suspicious wore aroused was driven from this place when he was noticed viewing the stolen property. This circumstance was reported to the rauohmen, who determined to rid tho country of the desperatn pair. Averili and the woman had soveral times been ordered to emigrate or cease appropriating mavericks, but had disregarded all warnings. After her celebrated gambling-house escapade Mrs. Maxwell degenerated from a picturesque Western character into a reckless prairie virago of loose morals, and lost most of her following, but continued partnership with the postmaster.
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it was useless to deny that thefr herd had been stolen from the ranch-' men of that seotion, but if they did. not wish to divide it among themselves she would like to have it sold and the money given to a homo for wayward girls. She bade her nephew good-bye and commenced to deliver a blasphemous harangue. The horsos were led from under the pair while Kate was still cursing. Both, kicked in lively style from ten to fifteen minutes. A few bullets were sentinto Averill's body and the lynchers rode away. It is doubtful if an inquest will be held and the executors have no fear of punishment The cattle men have boon forced to this, and more hangings will follow unless there is less thieving.
HOItSE-THIEVES NO LONGEIi.
ALBEQURIIQUE, N. M., July 23.—Several days ago a number of horses were stolen from Sam Dedrick. A posse started in pursuit, and when they met the thieves a battle took place. The leader of the band was killed, two others being captured and taken to Kelly, Socorro County, and confinded in a house. Sunday^ night a gang of masked men surrounded the place and took the men from tho guard, hanging them to tree and riddling the bodies with bullets. The men lynched were Mexicans and desperate.
BASE-BALL.
Result of tlio Contests at tho National Guine in Various Cities on Monday. National League: At Chicago—Indianapolis, 2 Chicago, 1. At Philadelphia—Philadelphia, 10 New York, 9 (eleven innings). At Cleveland—Pittsburgh, 7 Cleveland, 2. At Boston—Washington, 3 Boston, 2.
American Association: At Columbus St Louis, 5 Columbus, 1. Western Association: At MinneapolisMinneapolis, 9 St Paul, 2. At OmahaOmaha, 11 Denver, 1. At Des MoinesMilwaukee, 7 Des Moines, 0.
Inter-State League: At Davenport— Peoria, 2 Davenport, 1. At Quincy— Springfield, Quincy, 7.
Surveyors Drowned.
DENVER, COL, July 23.—A party of surveyors headed by Frank M. Brown leh here May 23 to explore tho Colorado river for a railroad company. News has been received that Brown w'*s drowned tn Mar» bio canyon rapids,.July 10, by the upsetting of his boat in a whirlpool Peter Hasbrough and Henry 0. Richards were drowned by the upsetting of anothor boat* The boats containing tho others of tKe party passed the rapids safoly
A Flour Mill Burned.
MILWAUKEE, July 23.-A fire at La Crosse, Wis., destroyed Leo fc Clarko'B flour mi)L The loss is $2j,0(JU, with 813.U00 Insurance.
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