Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 26, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 December 1883 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DUANK, fullllr. JASPEtt. Indiana. TBS QVKHT. O thou Duett, no long delayed, purely, whea ihr bouse waa mad. 1b it chain twm, wide ft Ml frwt, There wm set a plac (or thet. Unrelr is mm room wm spread For tar mm a aowr bed, peeked with linen watte and 1m, Mt, U Uuest, for use of thine. Vet Ukiu heat not km the trvet. Other guest our Mm have kissed; ptiw tmm aart? tarrtea Mores of sunshine ana or songs For the rear waa bright with Mar All the binia kept holiday. AH the akle were elaar and Mo. When tiua house of oura waa new. Youth now Id with ua to dwell. Crowned with roM and aepbodet. Lingered loaf, and even yet Cm not iuit hla haunta forgot, Love hath aat beside our board. Brought ua treasure from hia hoard. Brimmed our eupe with fragrant wine, Vintage of tho MUs Ariiw. Down our garden-path ha strayeo Young Hosnanoa, In light arrayed; -J or hath flung her asrtand widot Faith sung- low at eventide; Car hath fltttod In and out: Sorrow atrnwa her weeds about; Hope mm ap her torch oa high Whan otouda darkened all the sky. Pain, with paUld Hp and thin. Oft hath alept our house within; Life hath called ua, loud and mat With a voioe a trumpet strong. AoumUmm we have thought, u Quest, Thou wert oomlnv with toe rest, Watubod to are thy shadow fall Oh the Inner chamber wan. For we know that, aoon or lata, Th'iu wl t enter at the gate. CroM the threahoM. paaa the door. Glide at will from floor to floor. When thou coin at. by thia sign We ahall know thee. Guest divine: Though alone thjr coming- be. Borne one rouat go forth with thee, Mr. J. C. H. Oorr, in Uarptr't Jtaoculn CAPE 1IIAXUXM. A Deteetlve Story. WHh four other masculine fellow-suf ferer ono of whom waa a small spectacled, inoffcnsixe-looking man Ned Girard and myself were Iho suffering inmates of a nondescript vehicle of the stage-wagon pattern, drawn by six small "Cape" hordes, on route from the Bloetnfontein diamond fields of South Africa lor Wellington, thence by rail to Cam; Town. Two-thirds of the truly terrible Journey had already been accomplished, yet there were still some two hundred and fifty utiles of travel over sun-beat plain and arid desert before us, with the mercury at 102 degrees, in such shade alone a oar tilted conveyance afforded for. in truth, there was no other. Oar eyes were blurred and blinded by the ceaseless glare of the sun, whose rays beat down on the sandy desert from the unclouded sky, which was as brass before us. Our bodies were sore and bruised by the unceasing jar and jolt of oar ratoly-hirag vebfcle. We were parched with thirst, which the lukewarm water along the route utterly failed to slake; and though continually drowsy could neither sleep by day nor by Bight, because of the intense heat, the sand-flies, swelled and burning feet, and intense nervousness engendered by the foregoing, with the other discomforts and sufferings incidental to a stage journey of some hundreds of miles through South Africa. The most of us knew each other by sight, through having met from day to day for some month, in and about the mining held which we had left. But I will venture to state that six more surly, unsocial fellow-pesengers than our dusty, unshorn sefres were perhaps never literally thrown together. If Ned and; myself were perhaps a little more pronounced in general disagnreeableness than the others, we con sidered, indeed, that we had ample provocation therefor. For thirteen months we had been toiling and perspiring, taking oar several turns in the dump," or in our twenty-four foot mining claim, as the case might be. In nearly, if not quite, a year of unremitting toil, we bad barely succeeded in washing out small stones" (the invariable term for diamonds in South Africa) with which to pay our running expenses; and then one stroke of the ptk unearthed a rose -diamond of such sine and purity that for full sixty minutes our good fortune was the talk of Bioem'outeia. Well, that night, after our frugal supper, Ned, without speaking, extended Urn precious gem toward me In his open palm, at we sat at our rude table, in nor canvas-covered cabin. I do not answer for the scope of my partner's vision, of coortie. Bat in the uncut brilliant, at in the magician's stones, I myself saw but one object a sweet, wistful face framed in a wreath of dark hair, within the depths of whose soft eyes was a look as of patient waiting for the return of hint who bad gone to seek bis fortune in the far-away diamond fields. "Homer1 was Ned's interrogative query, raising his own eyes, which had bent upon tot gem, wiut a son mraway toon, to meet my own (flaw. ir I echoed, with joyous But hardly had the word escaped my line when a tall form dashed through the doer, and. upeetiug the candle by a sodden Mow, setred me diamond from Ned's still outstretched band, and was off m Urn darkness the whole even having taken place is far less time than . sat a i nave oc upiea tn teutng -Of coarse we gave the quickly as we could regain tared ideas; bat, though bett the nopeiaiieu of Dtoemtoaweni & was to no nertMse. The robber and his booty led tisvp peejvd, without tot sigatset onw

So It was thai being In local parlance "down on our luek'Sed and myself, disgusted and dtseoaraged, had sold our claim to s couple of newcomers for about 4300, and with those composing

our present atage-coaon pany !tkn passage, as I bare sakl, for Wel lington, intending to return home, even though with heavy beans and i:gbt pockets. Besides the small, spectacled man, who had represented himself as a sort of colporteur for a religious mclay at Cape Town, oar fellow-passengers composed two diamond brokers, together with a young nnd vorv boastful fellow, who called himself MeXrthur. The lat ter had been vers Mirce-wful. and it was with feelings of envy we beard him relate the result of two weeks' work in a deserted claim, where, as he informed ua with msnv nrufanc asseverations, he had struck -pocket,' from which he had taken stones, whose value ho de-nlai-mi waa at least 4.000. These he carried in a belt about his wsist, together with a considerable sum of money from the sale of bis claim, as he said, while girded to either Up wm a heavy revolver, m a safeguard against possible attack from road agents. After a wretched supper in a small. barren-looking station in the Hoogboora Bottom, the iotiraev wm resumed with a fresh relay of horses and a slight diminution of our ill-temper, the best being a degree or two less intense, by reason of the declining; sun The conversation naturally turned anon the subject of road-scents, some . recent depredations of these gentry having bean graphically narrated by the proprietor of the station we bad just left Thev wouldn't play any of their irameson me," replied McArthur, touch ing the butts of bis revolvers in a significant manner as he spoke. The nale-blue eves of the little man. who bore the1 not uncommon name of Smith, twinkled never so slightly be hind his spectacles at the remark, but he irroaned dismallv and shook his head "My dear sir," he exclaimed in deprecating tones, ''you surely would not commit the awful crime of murder, even to prevent the loss of the filthy lucre wh eh you hem; claim to have ncouired throusrh vour own honest ef forts." "Claim to have acquired? What the deuce do you mean bv that?" blustered McArthur. as Ned and my self glanced at the little man in some surprise, for it seemed to strike us simultaneously that there wm a sort of unconscious significance In Mr. Smith's tones. Yet it was, perhaps, a mistake, as well as the fancy that McArthur's bronzed face changed color never so little, even ae the other spoke. Mr. Smith shrank back into his corner as though terrined at the other's threatening manner. "Indeed. I meant nothing at all, my dear friend," he answered, in apparent alarm. " But his protestation wm cut short by the sudden and abrupt stopoage of the stage, and a terrined yell from the Krow-boy who drove. Almost at the same moment a man sprang from either aide of the road with a leveled rifle. "The first one that stirs gets a ball through his head!" said the taller of the two. a heavily-bearded fellow, the very counterpart of the ruffian in a border play. My own revolver wm in the small valise, which held Ned's and my own worldly goods. Even if I had carried It on my ptrnon, it is more than likely that with the ntusale of a rifle staring me fall In the face. I should not have aWempted to ate Ned wm nnarawd. So, as it then ap peared, wm the little eoiporttor. And the valiant McArthur dropped oa the bottom of the coach with a cry of terror, which was feebly echoed by Mr. Smith. In obedience to a gruff command. McArthur handed his revolvers to the smaller of the two road-agents, who, seeming to be assured that no weapont were worn by any others of the party. caused us to alight. Ned and myself submitted to be Marched with the calmness of despair. We bad about a hundred and fifty sovetehmi between us, and a bill of ex change on a bank ia Cape Town, which the tall robber took from as, while hit companion, with cocked hat and presented rifle, did the inUmidatinsr- MeArthur alternately raven and swore, at he wot relieved of hit belt. The little wrung his hands and raited hit In meek supplication, while hit spectacled eyes were fixed, at though In a sort of raect nation, anon the rufltaa who held the presented rine. " Now, then, riaManme, what have yen got about your" wot the jooete V"!!: ... . - ... And mtie nr. smith rHteoostv treated that the muxxie of the loaded rifle be turned mide from his aaYbjhted lace. It might gooff," be said, in tremuwas tones, 'anti it makes i out to have a deadly weapon pointed at mtv Do ptnase, take It awnyr witn a honi'M inugn the rend sweet tossed, ais not into arm. hollow of kit "All right, my carelessly. Go This to his fttthj BuL who an proaobed Smith for the mu ntaM of nvwe nssmrm nam searching him. Then there was a scene, indeed. The small man straight ened un like lightning, and with a quickness that seemed almost incredible, shoving kit hands in the tide pookett of a a. W at . .... . a. a an unw cons, m ejew mem em won ntrnhtid revolver la eeeh. Craek! mm the smarter rufllnn stag and finwa shot throusrh me heart.

Craek! and his astonished eompanion.

with a yell of mingled pain and ra-, sprang for his rille, which lay tcide bltn on the ground; tmt he was too iai. Before hU lingers closed upon in shining barrel he tumbled forwar I to the earth with a ball through hi brain. The whole affair wn over in ten mrontK Mr. Smith reiMM-keUd hi piU1, and takin-f off hit spectacle nE anted our astonifthod faces with a enevolout smile. "Deadly weapon oome handy sumotimes, after nil, gentlemen," be re marked. And I notitd a curious change in his voice and manner. So. too. did McArthur, who stood for a moment looking at him with seeming perplexity iu the midjtt of his evident stupe faction. Meanwhile, Ned. practical turn, began capacious pockets of who was of a taking from the the taller of the two outlaws the valuables and money of which our little oompsny had been dea polled, at the eager suggestion of the two diamond-brokers, who had been literally paralysed with terror during the entire scene through which we had passed, both of them having been relieved of large amounts. Of course they insisted upon receiving their own property first. Then came ours. And. at the tame time, from a bit of wash-leather in the same pocket rolled a diamond, of such pea ... culiar shape, site and color for it was a m . one oi uiom rare nun a psnwi diamond that both Ned and myself uttered a simultaneous cry of astonishment and delight, as well we might, for it wm our stolen diamond! "You are in luck, rentlemen,' auietlv remarked Mr. Smith, who had been watching the whole procedure wuile McArthur stood looking; on with covetous even. "I see that this is the xtone that you had stolen from you ia camp some days since. I had a glimpse of it the moraiiig Mr. Girard here" nodding: at Ned "wm showing it to Jacobs, the broker, on the corner of Krall Mreet. I should know it among s thousand McArthur. who, with hit recovered revolvers, which he bad buckled on. had asKumed hut usual air of braeiradoeio. was heard to express considerable dissatisfaction. One diamond it like another!" he growled. Ana ms men wm tnat unoer we g:tcumstances the whole had a sort of common interest in this one, to which the brokers srare ready assent ra like to see any one try to xaxe it!" said Ned, with a dangerous gleam in his eyes. And little Mr. Smith, noddimr annrovinarlr. removed from the dead man a Dodv tne money-oere oi waicn . a i Mr. McArthur had been deprived. But instead of handing; it to that gentleman, be buckled It about hit own waist, wiut an agrseaoie smite. What the deuce doss thas yelled McArthur, whose lace waa pur ple with rage, when, no mm to nm own than to our own astonishment, hit arms wert pinioned by the little colporteur. who teemed to have the stnawth of two ordinary men. And in another in stant hit wrists were adorned with pair of thintng steel handcuffs. 'It's no use kicking. William,'' euietly remarked his captor, removing a faded flaxen wig from his own head and exposinjr to view a short crop of stubby black hair. " I didn't mean to have pulled you till we got to Welling ton, but this little affair hat, t apeak, precipitated matters a little Ana after we were an again en route, havina left word at the next station to the disposition of the outlaws' bodies. the peeudo Mr. Smith informed us that the scowling prisoner on the seat oppo site, who was kept in bounds by the UTht of a cocked revolver in the capt or i hands, wm one wmtam uaray. . ,. ww 1 with a down aliases, whom he Den niton Hunt, the then best known detective In England had followed from Liverpool to the very heart of South Africa, a reward of 1.000 harimr been offered for hit apprehension as principal in a srreat ixinoon mum roDoerv. "But I never thought I should be the meant of helping yon two gents to your lost property,' atM Mr. mnitn, wiut his customary placid smile, as. after the wearisome tourney, we alighted In front of the Diner t Hetteat at Wellington. with dust bexrimed facet and stiffened limbs, four days later. And. to hut credit bs it said, the de tective would not accept a penny of recompeme from either of on. "The excitement of the little scrim mage wm enough," he shook hands at parting. A baby wirl born to Mrs. Niheon Lund berg on the Germanic, during its resent voyage New York. hM a grateful burden bear through life. The young mother wm on her way to join her husband tn Nebraska, and wm In the ateerase with scant meant. A. 8. Hewitt, who wm a paaaeuger on the Germanic, collected sixty dollars for her. Captain Kennedy pet tot1 used the rite of baptism, and the -0sv(ewamn- enn0onnsj(r Jesens wta0(fc euVmeT lesje B(nav nanmMary BLamnyHbwitt Gerrivhur hi New York changed Mrs. Lnndft art's entrant thdeet tor flrstejew and tieepinx -oar tiokote to Ososela Nob., where ner iMsu.-Ar. J. Jnutt. white hit A weusou. of Norwtoh, N. Y. ate bread recently and teen after died, on aoconntof tat panwiniion of ner ttmneen oy me unaneu awweaa, -j is it otwawM ny pnyetcnaat. press.

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leader the Republican party now tarns for hopeful consolation to a man whom the party leaders regard with small conideration. Too much of a man to cringe and cower oefore the clamor of 7f I 1 UL.... 1. - mnisn apei. urnenw rfwiiMw in season and out of season spoke hn mind upon all public questions and more than once expressed his opinion of the men who were donning the garb of patriotism for ambitious end. While ue nu sougtu no opportunities w attack the partisan leaders of the Republican party, be hM never minced hit words nor tempered his thoughts when their manner and methods were iieing discussed. He wa a txld, blunt man. and said what be had to av without caring whether anybody like. I it or not. Having never allowed the buzzing bee of political ambition to find lodgment in his brain, he wm under no restraint and so managed to go through b s publie duties with satisfaction to the! people, though never highly valued by politicians, who early found that they could not ate him. 10 m s grim warrior, m independent in speech as he was brave in the held, the jtepuDiican party is now inclining itself, in the hope that'his good name and military services may furnish them with a bridge by which they might re-establlsn connection with lost public favor. Although General Sherman has repeatedly announced his determination not to enter the field of political ambition, and has looked forward to the period of his re tirement for rest and repose, rtill he is pursued with the dreams of ambition which certain men, anxious to bold on to power, present to him for their own benefit. The party must indeed in desperate straits when it attempts to force into an unwilling candidacy a man who wants none of it, and is determined to have nothing to do with it. The fact is the candidates who want the Republican nomination are scarce, and those who would take it tne party is afraid of. to they are obliged to worry and annoy people who constantly turn a deaf ear to all their implo rations. When the chances were reasonably fair the politicians cut each other's throats in their ambitious strifes, but now when defeat is almost certainly written aarainst them they tarn to men whom they then ignored, and wboe candidacyhey would have laughed at- If them men think they can now induce General Sherman to lead their forlorn hopes and pull their chestnuts out of the fire they will doubtlest make a serious mistake. Tbev will have to fall hack noon their old party hacks and meet their defeat under their old lead era. General Sherman hM no idea of clouding the evening of his days with a discouraging and dtebeartening de feat, He stands well before the country m one of the heroes of the war, and m such will live long; in public branoe. He would not be the man the oountrv trivet him credit for if he should give rein to an ambition which could not add to his name more glory, might cover him with regretful i -Anunoan Btgxmer. The Benssernne Party Before the Ohio election the tfiiemnati Commercial Qwuite asked what the lMmoeratie parry had done for the coun try during the past twenty-five years. Of course, it Is tcgy to ask a question like that, and ia connection with the fact that the Democrats have been given very limited opportunity to do mock directly for the country in that time, the question is comparatively a tale the ere of election. But it is not intended for tbouThtful men. They know that in the mad riot of Republican pas sions immediately succeMlnr the war. the result that the war brought about would have been thrown away, and condition of affairs but little better than anarchy would have ensued had not the Democratic party been a constant check upon constitutional encroachment and noon the wanton wastefulness that was one of the dominant resultant evils of the war. Ws are triad that .Senator Bay aid in his speech at Orange. N. J.,Tueedny night, dwelt upon the true service and value of the Democrat':; party since the war. It fully answered all such foolish and impudent questions and sneers m that which supplies the reason for this article. Mr. Bayard mm " The Democratic party hM had great usefulness simply by standing upon the nrineioles of restraint anon power. What will history say of the events of the last fifteen years? It will say that those men who, in minority and defeat. hold fast to the principles of constitutional liberty, are the men who really aavved the Union. There is not to-dav a nroMem of finance or economy which civet us trouble or caiamity that not be traced back to a violation of the limitations on power placed by the Constitution. Do you believe that the giving of the vote to the negro immediate ly after his enfranchisement without education, without preparation anything else than to obtain an extension of power in thoM States where the negfoet were numerous? Itwntakynoerttal act. So wm the Cfv 1-rights hill, whteh wm a ejsingenoue attempt to intorfoic with tho polios dtttim of the States for the parnoee of binding the astro to the Remthlienn poUtkel ear. ITthi laws wert net being every day declared unconstitutional tats nepaniic would be doomed. Instead of a United State we would have a United State a aait mttead of a Union. This is a sharp, strong and dlscriminatiag presentation of hnportant facta. It It this restraint upon power that hM won by sure de grees the oonnaenee or a people emntttored and demoraliasd by the snort treintemal strlfs hi the werhl's history, natfl at ssy''J(ajpHgefew 9& Ottl United

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m ano noey enajegoa w9t the next fiisldimt wg be a Democrat. Yes, within twenty t ear the their lull share to pit serve the mtegrny of the Union; and though thev hare struggled against great odds ana a desperate opposition, with many mistakes, ho doubt, they hae made constat prorc. and the party will ataad again M it ha stood be ore. and a it ought to stand, the party of the Constitution, the par y of the people, the party in whose abiding principle alone lies the perpetuity of our republican form of Govern ment. Boston Hut. flgnrtns; en tht IVetldtney. I nder the new Congrotsiontl appor tionment the Electoral vote tn IBM will oe m follows: Alabama JO Missouri.., Arkansas TKehraska. 1 California t Nevada. Colorado t new Connecticut Si Hew Jersey. Delaware a. New Taste Florida 4 Norm CaroUaa. Gwwarta XT-Ohio Illinois mOreeoa - Indiana uPeanajrlraala.... Iowa lSHaode Island... Kr.anai Si Booth Caruliaa. . Kentucky 18 Tennessee LouUlina STesaa Maine...., t Vermont mmry huw & . uiaw MleManui nWawonaui... ft Mlaneaota 1 Mhauaalppi Total M Maxaacnuaeua. 14 wem Virginia... The Southern States, those which ht tht campaign of 1880 were classified for partisan purposes m "the totti South M are Alabama. Arkansas, Dat aware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland. Mississippi, Mis souri, worth uarotina. nouta carotma Tennessee, Texas, Virginia am Vinrinia. They will give the cratic candidatos for Irssident and Yice-President 153 votes, whieh it 4S lest than the number necessary to a choice. The Northern States to whieh the Democracy must look for these 49 votes are the following: California t New York. Colorado.. 1 Ohio Coaret'ticut s Oregon Indiana tt rVnasylvaaia erada t Wlaoonsln. New Jeraejr. ' m Of these States three (CalUornia, Ne Torai, vada and New Jersey) cat their Electoral vote for Hancock in lMfi. Several of the others, more important on account of their Electoral strength. have since been in Democratic line, and still others have shown rapid Democratic promise. With National issues ht the balance and the factional quarioja sngendered by local qoestiou out of the way. there are strong tiemoemwe Srobabilities ia a majority of the ehjten orthern States tabulated above, and Democratic possibilities in all of Onto leads off with a Demoe-atic ioritv of twelve fhootand ia & full in the year immediately preceding that of the Kesidential election. The signs of Democratic promiM in this State were never before so brilluuit. The bead of the feputhean ticket it elected in New York, but the Demosrato have the larger share of I and the Legislature it latwehr through the manner in the State fedtftrioted. New York overwhelminsrly Demoer tiirough the wide-spread apathy In the Repuhiican party. The have not resrained their 1 New York Is left a bellies 1011 ltd for 1884. with tht advaataget fit favor ei the Democracy. New Jersey remain DsmanratlmHy steadfast, and may be eounted en lot 1884. We may also look and California again. The comparatively unimportant ebotiott in Pennsylvania this year dost net obliterate the warlike attttnde nnd tri umph of the Democracy la 188S. Indiana is a lemocruuc the performance in Oow year doM not leave m in the land of wooden nutmegs 1 habits. Then mere are fating chancM hi Colorado and Oreeon, nnd hi worth the trouble to keep the Demoorath) fmf flo::'.nff in Wlsoonata, and even m Maetaehatetm and two or which are hie eleven. The vote of New York tev added to that of tht Smtes would lack only three vlna the Deaaocrats the Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey mi fornia can do it. New York, New Jensty, Olne 1 diana, all going Damocrttto, give the Democratic oandidate n ity. and thlrty-lve to twnre. Indiana, California, , new Jwnaa, Ne. vada. Coaneetkmt, Colorado con, united for "oome within one of H." out New York and Onto. If New Yoik and fifty-one votes for tht didatot they wOl he sard to may do. All this, of eourse, on tht 1 the "SelmftounY wttl hostility: cratic and we mnv osrtalnlr on that at reaeonahly m we did in 187and 1880. The great bettto-greouds will he New York. Ohio and Infihnuv Thete am the Statos fat which the Democrats hare lientatt hopes, nnd If their esanipaigm hi wimly managed they wfll ha careful to ntaiiitein for contingeaeieg me Ptato cratic hold oa such States at New Jersey. Pennsylvania, California nnd Ne vada, and coltrvnto tlw teed been town fat setta, etc It will hi searcelv any way of stutiuaT tiontonuuuHlook aumverahh to the