Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 37, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 September 1878 — Page 3

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C, DO AXE, Fatliiher. JASPER, INDIANA, "THE HAM MAX OF HOME. tnm h Kaltlmore Kvvry SaturriKr.) Washoe Pete was generally oonsidtm a " bluffer " by the critic of Bodie, and his wilil exaggerations wuro the subject of merriment only in that "high oUtown." He ws bIIowckI to swagger nd boast to his heart's content; iiKl even when he chew his "nobby whwtler " shot the lights out of all the lamps in Ryan's saloon, the action only evoked a grin and tho doubtful compliment that it was "purty fair tootin', aud nigh as stiddy narvo as irfeh Tom showed when he popped sWjy at that 4 bad man ' from Deadwood." One day last summer Peto walked into Strobridge's saloon with thu remark tfcat he had "heerd the Last Chanco yia goin' to be sold, and they've sent bp an expert to look into it." The expert, a pale, small man, 4nmi in dusty gray, was standing at the bar and loosed around as tho tall, would-be ruffian uttered these words. Thet'sso, Fete," said one of tho nm present, "an' thet's the expert," pointing to the small man. "You are an expert, eh!" shouted Pete, eyeing the man menacingly. -'You're one of them fellers as allows be knows payin' mines, are you?" Then, after a pause, during which ho surveyed the stranger from head to fout, Wall, you're the wust I ever saw. Experts is bad enough, but you're the slinkiest, meanest, wust coot to set yourself up to report on a mine 1 over laid eyes on." I don't want to quarrel with you, sir," answered the expert. ' Ye'd better not, young feller; ye'd better not. I'm a" whirlwind of the desert in a fight, and don't you forget it." 'I'm a man of peace; I carry no weapons, and, of course, I could not hope to stand before even a zephyr of ;k desert, let alone a wild, untamed whirlwird." These deprecatory words only incensed the " bad man" still more, and, feeling that he hail a "soft thing," proposed in his own mind to " play it for all it was worth," and gain a " record" br whipping his man. Look a heyer, stranger, I don't want no insinuations. Do 1 look like a zephyr? Say!" Here Washoe Pete shook his fist in the expert's face. u What d'ye mean by talkin' about zephyrs? I'm a tornado. I 'tear' when I tarn loose. Zephyr sneezing. Why, I've a good mind to " "Please, mighty whirlwind, resistless tornado, don't hit me. You wouldn't strike a consumptive man, would you?" " Wouldn't I?" yelled the " fighter," in a terrible voice; "wouldn't I? I'd strike the side of a mountain !" "Hut a sick man!" pleaded the expert, " a man dying of consumption, an orphan, a stranger, and a man of peace!" "What'ro ye giving me? Do you know who I am?" fiercely demanded the whirlwind. "You're a gentleman known in Uodie as Washoe Peteat least I have heard you designated by that familiar appellation during my sojourn here," answered tke expert, moving off. "What else am I?" shrieked the rough, striding toward the cowering ex pert. " A gentleman, I suppose. Honestly, I don't know your other name." "Well, I'll tell you who 1 am;" and the tall man stood over tho shrinking stranger as if about to topple upon him aad annihilate him. "I'm bad; I'm chief in this yer camp, and I ken lick the man's says I ain't. I'm a raging lion of the plains, an' every time I hit I kill. I've got an arm like a quartzstamp, an' crush when I go fur a man. I weigh a ton, an' earthquakes ain't nowhere when 1 drop." "Hut I've only just been discharged from a hospital," replied the expert. "I'll send ye back again ! " and tho stalwart "bluffer" caught the little man by the collar and hurled him upon the floor. "It's unkind to use a poor, weak, suffering invalid that way," expostulated the expert, as he slowly arose from the aoer. " Please don't joke so roughly. Let's take a drink and call it square. I'm very sorry that I have offended you." " Ye think I'm joking, do ye ye take mefur a josh, eh? I'll show ye what I am afore I git through with ye. Ye don't play me for no tender-foot. I'm a native, I an, an' I've stood this yer foolin' longenough." Saying which he dashed the, stranger against a table and drew a long knife. As soon as the expert saw this he screwed his face into tho most piteous wape, and, throwing his hands up, cried i " I'm unarmed; I havn't got as Wuch as a pen-knife on me. Please don't carve mej kick me to death if you tist have my life, but, for heaven's wke, don't stick that terrible thing into nifl," Now, as Washoe Pete had no Intention of using the knife and thereby risking his neck he was well pleased wit i the opportunity thus afforded him ot displaying the deadly weapon, and, after asserting his bloody intention, returning it to Us sheath. He flourished the knife over the cringing export three or four times, and then lowered it with the remarks " Why, dern your cowardy soul, 1 wouldn't disgrace the weepin' byshovia'itintoye. No, sir; but I'll Plug ye and he drew a revolver.

" I'm unarmed Tin unarmed don't ye hear me?" whined the expert. "Go an' heel yourself then," retortod the Imd man. "I don't want to fight." "I'll make ye light. I'll take ye at yer word, aud kick ye to death." " Please don't." Washoe Pete laid his knife and pistol

on the counter, and then strode rapidly to tue spot where the expert was nancrouching, half-standing. By this time the saloon was full of men, all of them j smiling at the picture before them, re-, garding it as tho height of enjoyment this lively encounter between tue greatest braggadocio in the Sierra and a small, pale, mining expert, new to the section and a stranger to the wild ways of tho border-rufilan. " This thing lms gone oh 'bout long nough," yelled " bad man," stopping before tho expert. " You've bin chinnin' to me till I'm riled. Squar' yourselfI'm goin' tor kick, an'aComstock mule ain't a patchin' as a kickor to Washoe l'ete d'ye hear mo?" " One instant, please Peter (I don't know your other name) ; are you suro you've got no other woapons about you? They might go off' accidentally and injure somo innocent party." " 'l hat's all tho woepins I've got, ei , the informational ease yer sueakin' . mind, and now I am goin' to begin kickin'. Clear tho track. 'The wooly hoss has broken out o' the kcrrell, and j there'll be a Coroner's inquest in jest , about seven minuted." . He raised his ponderous boot, but it' did not swing. , The little man straightened up like an , unbent bow, and his left hand shot direct from his shoulder like the piston of a locomotive, striking Washoe Pete bc-t tween the eyes and sending that worthy sprawling on the sawdust that covered the lloor. " I'm the cyclone of the West," he shouted, as he bounded to tho prostnito foimof the "wooly hoss," and raised the braggart into a sitting posture. The latter was dazed by the terrible blow he had received and did not even throw up his guard when the expert drew back to strike again. Then this blows fell like thunderbolts upon the head and face of the " Whirlwind," inducing that indi- i vidual to rise once more and attempt a defense. He made an effort to reach his weapons, but the active expert tlank-' ed him and planted two terrible blows , on his ears and neck. Then the " bad man " howled : ! "Letup! I was only foolin' can't ye take a joke, dern ye?" ' " Ye think I'm jokin', do ye? Ye I take me for a josh, eh? I'll show ye J what I am before I get through with ye. Ye don't play me for no tenderfoot. I'm a native, I am ; an' I've stood this yer foolin long enough." ' This apt reproduction of the native's ' speech a few moments previous, and its j almost perfect similitude as regards j tone, was too much for the good-natured , crowd, and a roar of laughter greeted , it that might have been heard beyond ) Bodio's bluff. j " I give in ! Can't ye take a man's word when he squeals?" shouted tho " tornado," swinging his arms wildly, i and stacfforinsr against the bar in his ef-, forts to dodge the lightning strokes of ', the athletic expert. ) " I'm a howling hurricane of wrath," j shouted the expert, sending in both lists with terrific effect. i " Let up, won't you? I ain't a sand-1 bar." 1 " Not much ; you're only a ragin' . lion o' the plains,' " and a swift left- J hamler lit upon the bully's nope. ; " I give in," hoarsely ejaculated the expert's victim. "Come on w ith your quartz stamps, old woolly hoss." When you hit you kill, and you weigh a ton. Fetch in a couple of your earthquakes. Why don't you chew my name? You'ro a 'chiet,' aro you? All right, chief, there's a neat one for you, ami there's a couple more." With these words tho expert " countered" on the " bad man's" cheek, and then stretched him panting for breath on tho tloor with a. "stinger" straight from the shoulder, inflicted upon the lower portion of his chest. Then the expert coolly called all hands to tho bar to drink, and as tho " bad man from Uodie" crawled away he was heard to mutter that he " didn't layout to fall up against batterin1 rams, no moro'n he Mowed ho was game in front of a hull gymnasium." Am iHcldent of Hallway Travel. The monotony of the travel from Buffalo to New York was somewhat enlivened on the Erie train, duo here at halfEast seven o'clock Thursday morning, y one of the boldest robberies on record, which happened as the train reached Castile. An old gentleman, apparently a resident of Castile, stepped on the train at Buffalo, and when it reached his town, in passing through the car door, a stranger brushed against him, and hastily jumped from the train. At the same moment the old gentleman became aware that his pocketbook containing $3,000 in bank notos had been abstracted from his person. He instantly raised a cry, but another man, apparently an accomplice of the thief, exclaimed, " Just you wait, I'll catch him for you." Thus deluded, the old man allowed the robber to get a good start, and when the train moved on tho passengers who had been more or less excited by the event, saw tho thief skurrving through a cornfield, the old gentleman straddling the fonce of tho same, and the villagers keenly watching both. On arriving at Horneflsville, the passengers on the train wore informed by telegraph that one of the thieves had been captured. No names wore learned. N. r, CewHueroisi Aiivwtmr,

ITEMS OF INTEREST. fercunnl aad Literary. A scrap-book, compiled by Thomas Jefferson while he was President, ha

recently been added to the collection of the Virginia Historical Society. Ladv Caroline Norton left 600 by her will to " the good cause of woman suffrage," and Airs. George Oakes, another Englishwoman, has lately contributed $'2,600 to the same cause. It is reported that the Western Union Telegraph Company has mud-, a contract with Air. Edison to pay 1m $(5,000 a year for 34 years, on condition that he will give tho company all right, title and interest in his telegraphic in ventions. Prof. Skeat has undertaken an etymological dictionary of the English language, illustrated by a few selected quotations approximately illustrating the period of introducfion of the various words into the language. It will take about three more years to complete i the work. ! Mr. Edison's peculiarities were strikingly illustrated rccontly as a plaster cast of his head was being taken. While the work was in progross he em- j ployed his time in experimenting as to the sound conductivitj" of the wet and dry plaster, and in communicating with those about him by a telegraphic instrument which he could not see. Henry M. Stanley's real name, according to the Baltimore Every Saturday, is Henry M. Eastway, and he was born in New York. His father was a sea captain. The family went to Europe when Henry was very young, and soon afterward the Captain died. Henry quarreled with his mother at the age of 10, and went away to seek his fortune. Other accounts make Stanley a Welshman, by name Rowland. A discussion of tho question, "What is Inspiration?" sppears in the September-October number of the North American Tscvicw. Tho writers are the Itev. Dr. F. H. Hedgo (Unitarian), the liev. Dr. K. A. Washburn (Episcopalian), tho Rev. Chauncey (Mies (Swcdenborgian), tho Rev. Dr. .1. P. Newman ( MethodisU, Most Rev. Dr. James Gibbons, Arch bishop of Baltimore (Roman Catholic), and John Fiske (Independent). In appearing as Julia, in the play of tho " Hunchback," Mary Anderson wears first a simple white muslin dress, llounccd nearly to the waist. The second dress is a pale pink satin, the front of which is a solid mass of silver embroidery. The third dress is a robe do ehambre of pink cashmere. Tho fourth dress is violet velvet, trimmed with amethyst silk; and the fifth a bridal robe of white satin, profusely onramonted with Brussels lace and orange blossoms. Science HHdladustiT. The Great Eastern, it is said, has been bought by a company for use as a cattle boat to carry Texas meat to England. Her capacity will bo 2,000 head of cattle and 3,000 sheep. Sylvanus Morris, of Ellington, Conn., is raising about 25,000 cabbtigos for the city market. Ho claims that the crop is fully as profitable as tobacco, and loss of a drain on the land. The hair of tho deer, it has been discovered, is five times lighter than cork, and a Government commission reports that 1 pound of hair will support a weight of 10 pounds for three days. Within the last two years deers' hair has been extensively used in the construction of life-preservers, cushions, etc. Emerson, CorvilleA Co., owners of a salmon-canning factory in Collinsvillc, and reputed owners of tho cannery at Sacramento Cal., which establishments have been for two months putting up salmon for exportation, in violation of the law, havo been arrested. Over 50,000 seed-salmon, on their way to the spawning grounds, are believed to havo been dostroyed by canneries since Aug. 1, and the State has thereby lost not less than a million of dollars. East Liverpool, Ohio, has the largest potteries devoted entirely to ironstone china and decorated ware in America. Firms that formerly gave employment to CO and 70 hands now havo work for 200 and upward, anil the whole number employed in the potteries is now over 2,000 men, women and children. The shipment of crockery from that place from January 1, 1878, to Juno 4 were 29,479 packages. The Augusta (Ga.) cotton factory shows a very satisfactory sort of a balance-sheet. It has been making cotton goods for 19 years, during which time it has omitted only one quarterly dividend, and its profits have ranged from 20 to 8 per cent, a year. Its present capital is $000,000, its surplus $250,000, and it made about 15,000,000 yards of cloth last year, while a factory in New Hampshire, having more looms, made only 10,000,000. Quinine has advanced in price, until it is higher than it has beforo been in this country since the rebellion. This is attributed not only to the spread of malarial disease, but to the falling Off of the supply of bark, owing to troubles among the South American tribos of Indians, who are the principal gatherers. They have shipped no bark for eight or nine months. It is not generally known that the Chlnoso make very fino razors, andthat for a long period no European shaving knife could compare with theirs in keenness and durability. A fino edge is a necessity with them, since they regularly shave their heads carefully omitting tho pigtail without using soap or any other emollient. They only moisten the scalp with a little warm water. An electric alarm has been recently designed which may be fixed to an or-

diaary olook. It is so arranged that when the hour hand of the olook toohes a button an electric oircwltU completed ; the minute hand ywum over the button without effect. There is a series of

holes for the different hours, into any I one of which the button can be pushed, acoording to tint time at wuioti tue alarm may be desired. The completion of the electric circuit may ring a bell or sundry other alarms. geheel aad Cfaarea. Oakland, Cal., has a Chinos Presj byterian Church with 29 members. - The Methodist Conference in , France, after a generation of labor, has 1 29 churches. Misses Stratton and Boyd, two young lady evangelists, aro carrying on a very successful camp-meeting, near Pittsburg, Pa. The " Spanish Christian Church" is the name taken by the Protestants of Spain. The Church is Presbyterian, having a Presbytery at Madrid, where the first assembly was held, and another at Andalusia. An African Methodist congregation of Norwalk, Conn., has been received into the First Congregational Church of that town, and constituted a mission church. The congregation has become weak and dissatisfied with the itin erancy. The $25,000 given anonymously to Andovcr Theological Seminary will be appropriated to the enlargement of the old chapel. Announcement is also made of a pledge of $25,000 for the endowment of a chair of theology in Oberlin by a Massachusetts lady. An impoitant experiment is being tried in tho Boston public schools, where books have been excluded from the primary departments, and oral exercises and object-lessons substituted. The young pupils are specially taught to express ideas in their own language. Tho teachers lecture, or talk, daily about such knowledge as little children may best acquire. Two thousand delegatos attended the International Conference of Young Men's Christian Associations in Geneva August 14. The United States, Canada, Nova Scotia, Sweden, Denmark, all of Central Europe, and England were represented. Tho whole number of Young Men's Christian Associations in the world was reported to be 2,000 ; of this total one-half aro in America. Tho next International Conference will bo held in London. The widow and daughters of the lato Prof. Agassiz, Mrs. Horace Mann, Miss E, P. Peabody, George B. Emerson aud others havo been made a trust company at Boston to receive donations and oequosts for the publication, among other objects, of a standard library of the works of Froebel and his chosen apostle, Baroness Marenholz Bulow. Over $1,000 has been received and spent I thus far in publishing two books, and l more money is asked for. ! Prof. C. F. Thwing has collected i very valuable statistics of the religious life of American colleges, some of which aro new. One fact of importance named is that leading denominational colleges such as Amherst, Princoton, Oberlin and Brown University require no religious tests of tho members of their faculties of instruction. Practically the majority of professors in nearly all American collogos are communicants of Christian churches. As to the students, nearly half of the total number in the United States 20,000 are reported as I decided Christians. Hapi and MUaapt. A young son of Charles Fritzer, of Laportc, Inil., fell into a boiler of scalding water, and died from tho effects in a lew minutes. At Buchanan. Mich., a child of Mr. Simmons, aged five years, was choked to death by getting a watermelon seed iu its windpipe. P. W. Fauntleroy, a prominent citizen and farmer of Lssex County, Va., was found dead in his orchard with a load of shot in his side from his own gun. A lad named Mack McCrystal was fatally burned at Leavenworth. Kansas, by the explosion of a cal-oil lamp, caused by blowing down the chimney to extinguish it. William Beers, of Mishawaka, Ind., a farmer, aged about 70, endeavored to pun a ramrou irom a loaucu riue, wnen the weapon was discharged, blowing the rod through his body and killing him in an hour. H. J. Bosworth, manager of the telegraph at Muscatine, Iowa, drank a glass of water from a pail in which some of the boys had spilled a quantity of blue vitriol. His life was saved by the liberal use of raw eggs. A man named Anderson was out hunting near Grayson, Ky., and attempted to draw his gun through a fence. The hammer caught on a rail, discharging the contents into his arm and side, causing lockjaw, from which he died in a few nours. The boiler of a threshing engine exploded about nine miles north of Rochester, Ind., fatally scalding Louis Strong, engineer, and seriously injuring a boy named Albert Highway. Several others were slightly injured. The cause was a defect in the boiler. At Winchester, Va., Mrs. Edwin Lewis, a beautiful young widow, and her two young children, were poisoned by eating toad-stools, which they mistook for mushrooms. She had gathered the supposed mushrooms for a fine dinner for her pastor, who was expected but was detained by a railroad accident. Her two children died in a few hours, and Mrs. Lewie was lying at the point of death.

j DEATH IN THE MINE. IHrt!HlKr KftgartliiHc tan Xiit TtrrtMm Calamity la tatrth Waln. Londox, September 12. The fall extent of the terrible disaster at Aberoorne yesterday is now known. At 2 :80 this morning a flooding of the pit was commenced. At that time the fire was within a short distance of the bottom of the shaft, and all hope of further had to be abandoned. When this decision was announced to the relatives ot the 251 men still in the pit, the scene ' was terrible beyond description. Thirteen additional bodies of viotifias were . recovered before the flooding of the pit began. THK ABKKCOKNK dOM.IKRV 1 is the property of the Ebbervale Steel, 'Iron and Coal Company, one of the largest iron and coal proprietors in i South Wales. It is situated a few huadred yards from the Abercorne Railway i Station, in the Western Valley Section jof the Monmouthshire Railway. The 'pit is 330 yards, and one of the

longest and best worked in the district. It was yielding 1,000 tons of steam coal daily. The machinery for water-pumping and ventilation was of the best kind, and the use of safetylamps in the mine was rigidly enforced. The cause of the explosion can not even be surmised. .Three detonations were successively heard in the surfase frameworks, and the castings of the pit were thrown to a height of 300 feet above tea mouth of the shaft. The colliery employees, upwards of 1,000 hands, of whom 373, taking their turn in the shaft, went down at 11 o'clock in the morning. Twenty-one of this number came up at noon, up to which time nothing had occurred to create suspicion of the danger. At 12 :10 p. m. a loud rumbling noise was hoard, quickly followed by a FLASH OK FLAME from the pit's mouth, and columns of smoke, dust and debris ascendinsr hisrh ' in the air. The explosion damaged the winding-gear, thus destroying the only means of communication with the men ' in the pit. As soon as the gearing could be repaired working parties t were sent down the shaft, ana 82 mon'and boys, I working within a few hundred yards ' from tho shaft, were rescued, but it bevmuc cuuoub niuc uujjo kvum isu vmaitained of the life of those remaining. About four hundred yards from the bottom of the shaft are stables, and fourteen horses were found, all dead. Beyond this point the explorers could not go on account of the impurity of the air and prevalence of the choke damp. VOLUNTEER EXPLORERS succeeded in bringing in ten or twelve men very much burnt, also seven dead bodies, but it is fearod that twenty others can't be for tho present got, in consequence of the lire extending, and there remains no reasonable hope that any further lives can be saved. The whole district of Monmouthshire is much excited, and it seemed last night as if the entire female population of the district had gathered about the mouth of the shaft. The accounts today from the scone of the disaster are distressing: in the extreme. The mia- ! ers employed in this district are of a rather suoenor class, and are muus- ' trious and generally well to to do, and a good degree of intelligence and edu- ! cation prevails among them. The agony ' of wives, parents and children of the ' 250 men who are without douht killed in the mine is impossible to describe. t Prayer Time at the Yankee Deacon's, i The Deacon was 50, a prosperous merchant, gray-haired and a little bowed with care, but still a vigorous man, raisi ing a young family around him. To his country store, which wa3 a veritable J museum, if you came at 9 o'clock of a ' summer morning, or at 8 in winter, yoa I heard the voice of prayer load and strong and lasting sometimes half an hour. The Deacon's house was connected with the store, and after breakfast, when family prayers were ordered, oae of the sons knelt in the passageway and kept one eye on the open door of the store while he reverently closed the other and shut business out of it that he might let devotion in. It was a large family circle, and there were young children who, sometimes annoyed at the protracted solemnity of the father's plea to the throne of grace, would begin, to frolic, innocently enough no doubt, and would now and then break into laughter. At such times the Deacon would continue his prayer unmoved, but when he had concluded it, would take the offender aside and sentence him to punishment, which the mother immediately proceeded to inflict in an adjoining room. Some wicked critioe say that deacons1 sons "turn oat worse" than sons of other people; bat such was not the case in this deacon's family. The punishments, probably, did just the good they were expected to do. The son stationed in the store passageway was privileged to leave his kneellng-place and wait on customers, and I remember once to have had ray vouthful gravity thoroughly disturbed by an incident which occurred one summer morning in the store at prayer-time. The eye of the sentinel in the passage saw the burly form of an Irish woman entering the doorway. He darted out to receive a demand for a codfish, and the remark, as the good woman wiped , her streaming red face and barkened to tho accents of prayers "Dear I i dear! the Deacon do be goin' it mpighty (strong, and the thermomter nointyin ithe shade, too!" Jiikmrd Kingt in , Borten Journal. Seventy-eight more Communists have been pardoned or had their sentences commuted.