Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 May 1874 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAFER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR .VXD PROPK1KTOK.

TKRKK HAUTE, MAY», 1874

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. Tts* FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, 1MM a largo circulation in the'surroundiajf

Umax, wh«re l* wild by newtrtwy* and

Tb« 8ECOMI KDITION, on Hatunlay Evening, goe* Into the hands of nearly every nailing pciKiD in the city, aad Uw flpuriii-and en of this Immediate vicinity.

Every Week*# Iwoe I*.Ul fa*. TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which ail AdverttwHoenm appear tw

ONB CHAROB-

WHAT ABE WEt

The question whether this Is a nation of people owing allegiance to one government, or afield whereon different nationalities have met to contend for the supremacy, is one which is forced upon us in many ways. A stranger coming among as, especially at the time of election, would naturally inler that the contest hero related to the supremacy of people ofXhis nationality or that. For our own psStwe have not the least raw* of KnowNothinglam in our veins. With measures and men the question with us is, what is for the interests of the country? We know of nothing in the simple fact that a man Is born an American that either qualifies or disqualifies him for office. We hold the same sentiment in respect to those born in other countries. The question whether a man is born an American, German, Irishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, or what not, has nothing to do with deciding whether we will vote for him. A good man and no questions asked, is our motto. We believe this is the sentiment of a large portion of the American people. But unfortunately it is not true of many who claim to be citizens of the United States. A company of editors come together, not simply as editors, But as German editors, and declare for whom they will use their influence. This is simply saying to the political parties that the Germans of this country intend to act as a body for the supremacy of their ideas. If not so, •why not put forth their resolutions as editors? Last Sunday a caucus of Germans was held to decide how the Germans should vote in one of the wards. The tact that the question of nationality entered largely into the campaign is also evident from the appointment of judges and inspectors of elections. It is customary to have all parties represented at each voting place. A German was appointed at each voting place, recognizing the fact that there is a German party. We do not object to these men as Germans. We would not have the slightest objection to the appointment of all Germans in any precinct. So for as we know all these men were good men. But we do object to the question of nationality being a test for any political position. To a certain extent what has been said in reference to the Germans, may be said in reference to the Irish. They are not so strong, neither are they held together so firmly. Yet, if we are not mistaken, there were bodies of Irishmen who, as such, met and decided what to do. Very likely other nationalities, if they were stronger would do the same thing. We do not urge that any of these did any thing hostile to good citizenship. It is not to what they decided to do that we object. But we do urge that it is time for all these distinctions as to nationality to be dropped. A man is neither better nor worse for being native American, German or Irishman. Our interests here are all identical, and this arraying of one nation against another, is not in accordance with the genius of American

We are all Americans, or

if we are not we ought to be. rIn expressing tbfa opinion we are confident that we express the sentiments of the better class of all nationalities. There area few native Americans who afrmfTM* airs of superiority on account of their birth and elevate their noses at the foreigners," but the great mass of American dtixens do not care a straw on what portion of the earth or sea a man waabont. Many of the most intelligent of the German and the Irish citizens have this sum* feeling, and are tired of fbeing "spotted" if they chance to differ in sentiment from those who attempt to direct the action of those who chance to come from the same country. And both the people generally and political parties are getting tired of this thing.

We have heard during the past week or two more and stronger expression® of disapprobation of the practice to which we refer, than ever before. There is such a thing as demanding much as to get nothing. And tbeoe demands are bound to react soonor or tattr upon the heads of those who make them.

THAT OHDINANOK

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The new city council should at once an ofdinanco mint ring a fee for permits to afcll Hquor, and the enforcement of the existing taw. There is no good reentm why the temperance and antitemperance member* should have the slightest difference of sentiment on this wrtgect. I**h the Attends and opponenta of the Ba\ T-uvte'l that ". of Its most sefftoa* -be omiaiuon to require a fee of those obtaining permit*. TM» 1*» been

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c*'jhv tfac opponents or the hill. Now & a and it i* fctotfr. f*

«IWs» hfcuus

to be of the expense occasioned by intemperance. And besklea, such an ordinance would hat# a strong Inflmmee to shut up the lowest class of saloons.. The city treas-

ury should have the benefit of a reasonable tee, t-.v. from three hundred to fifo, hundred tit ism. 1

But the amount of the fee i»of minor importance. We would be satisfied with nlnwiat any sum, no matter how wall. Wtial fa wanted ordinance requiring the enfo. »~ment of tho law* As it is, the city authpritiea, with or without good reason—the latter wo think—refuse to put the law in r.ie, and there are probably more unUetu^isd saloons in the oily than licensed. This la unjust to those who take tho pains to obtain permits, and oonfcrm to the law. Beside* a large share of tho abuse of the business Is In these illegal liquor shops, the more respectable are thereby brought into disrepute. With the views concerning his duty held by the mayor, we greatly need a city ordinance making it incumbent upon him to see that the law is obeyed. The opponents of the law ahould require this as well as ita friends. Five or six months of rigid enforcement would bring out all lta obnoxious features, and if it is as bad as represented do more to secure the eleotion of representatives pledged to ita repeal than any thing else. And beyond these considerations*, all men, temperance and anti-temperance, should stand for enforcement of existing laws, and this one can be enforced here only with a change in executive officers of the city, which cannot now be effected—or with an ordinance, which can and ought to be passed at once.

PIE REFORM.

Pie for breakfast, pie for dinner, pie for supper, pie for lunch morning and afternoon, and pie before going to bed. This is no exaggeration of the use made of pie in many families. It is

Pie to the right of them, Pie to the left of them, Pie in front of them.

And no more valiantly Into the valley of death, Bode tho six hundred," Who had cannon about them, than do many people encounter these pies. And just as surely, by doing so, do they rido

Into the Jaws of death. Into the mouth of hell."

There can be no doubt that no small share of the diseases and pains of the pieeaters comes from the excessive use of pastry. "We say the excessive use, because we do not object altogether to pies, properly made, and eaten at proper times, and in proper quantities, they are among the good things, and harmless too, for which we are to l»o thankful. But this incessant stuffing with pies made up of two parts crust to one of fruit, is enough to make dyspeptics of the whole nation. And it is doing it very rapidly.

Probably the country sins in this respect more than the city. Fashion has a great deal to do with all these matters, and the fashion of town and that of country differ. In town'pies are not in fashion—unless it be for dinner, and in the country they are in fashion at all times. And taken with the excessive use of sweetmeats and hot bread, and fried meats, have not a little to do with making the farmers, who as a class ought to be the healthiest people of the nation, in feet the most unhealthy. One long stride in the direction of the prevention of disease would be taken, if there could be a good strong reform movement started in reference to the use of pies. It need not be a total abstinence, but moderate eating. And let it be very moderate.

There should also be a reform in the manufacture of the article. Instead of two thick crusts, or even two thin ones, with a very thin filling of fruit between, there should be but one crust, and that a top crust, and a deep dish filled with fruit below. Such sensible pies will be found on the table of many English people. iWia the pastry, tho crust, that is unhealthfhl. There should- therefore bo diminution of crust and increase of "filling," if the filling happens to be of ft nit. If the filling is of some highly seasoned "conglomerate," then less of it. Bnt a reform in the manufacture and use of plea is in order. Who wil|.bOConfB an apostle of the movement

HAZING.

This is a College pastime. It is customary at most of the colleges for the Sophomore Class to "make game" of tho Freshman, by playing upon them all sorts of annoying tricks. This might bo tolerated if only harmless, though annoying, tricks wore resorted to. But often, in feet generally, there is resort to violence, and to the perpetration of acts which are degrading to those against whom they are committed, and more degrading still to those who are guilty of their perpetration. At the University of Michigan, located at Ami Arbor, the Faculty have taken the matter in band and suspended eighty-one of the students engaged in this business. The closing sentences of the order of suspensions are to the point, and full of sound sense. They are the following

The university can better afford to be without students than without government, order and reputation. This Action of tin jfceulty is none the less imperative, because the traditions with which they have to deal have so lowered the tone of Mmtia ,t in this as* las in other institutWi** that prwotic which, at hoine and away from oolite. w-xiid be though by stfjdrn?* sham-Ail rend erimhui, amusement in the university."

There te n- tMxxl nr.-n why the feet that a yonrtt' I* a should be any excuse f-.-r r-'mmiitiMir lendaof indecency and lawlessness. Tho faculty at Ann Arbor have entered upon aright course in ref this matter, and aneatsmj'!" wcrihyV* bo generally l.y Hi-- until- riti»«of other Invitations of )esrointhrotigbMit the land.

OAOST famine stalks abroad In the the land this year. India and Asiatic Turkey have sent in their record of suffei' and "»i tl, Holy Land wi" like fction.

Ftm ua thousand dollars a man may a .-x«t that will carry him aroop^ th.l gfc'lH-.

In Switzerland thvre is a law which compels ev. ry newly married oouple to plant six trees Immediately altar the ceremony, and two on With of every ohild. If wsh a law was in force in this country ii would bo agreatm%ii

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and inladirootad raU oft*, addled

temperance people" for this result.

mences suicide and hasn't enough to go through with it.

THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has always had the reputation of being extremely unconventional.

An amend-ment—A toper's signing tho tcmperance pledge. The voice of the house—The baby's.

Bill before tho house—William on the sidewalk. Bills for a second reading—Duplicates of exchange.

The votes—Those on knotty questions. Iaid on the Tabic—The cloth. Introducers of long bills—Woodpeckers.

Popular party candidate—A handsome heiress. Open for discussion—Oysters at a din-

neY^ldin*g

CHANGES OF A CENTUR Y. jjThe nineteenth century has witnessed mftnv and great discoveries.

In*18O0 Fulton took out tho first patent for the Invention of the steamboat.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY JfiViiflSTIKQ- MAI3x

«£ENDER!

TOPEKA AND IDENTIFIED.

A Ftain &aUmmt of Urn Jtfsssoert of He Sr. d$ Charged.

The newspapets have been publishing

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pairs of trees set out in Torre Haute this for the past two weeks accounts of the spring* mssnssBBsasan A arrest'and imprisonment of a tnaa in THE Cleveland -dd says:

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Utah Territory who answered fully to

Brook" *nd Baxter would agree to settle the descriptiuu of Old John Bender, the their .i nferences in the old-fashioned K&nsss murderer. Southern way with pistols, rifles, or vreek he arrived in Topeka, Kanbowle knives, and end it after th t—h- na, from Salt Lake, and was at once ion of the Kilkenny oats, the j«- at identified by several who knew him ss largo would be inclined for oncc tlv{nk the man. Ho was then taken to Cherrywell of the code duetto. vale, Montgomery county, Kansas, the

II t, I 'JI uui.it theater of his monstrous butcheries. TB« "tty «to*1™ Be aura your sina will Had you out, bi iu "lert ou of ntw Democn* k» corno often «nd often and JburRapabllaui cauneihnen, and world for the fint tim In .IgUtaen y~n,, tij. b«,„ fcrgotton. cuyp-e. .nd t!« l»nd. U*t Wood upon

MK,,tonement.

Jf reportg tm6

TUB English Parliament is disposed to Benders, the sins of the old man have at look with disfavor upon suicide. A law last overtaken him, and he has been has recently been introduced in which it brought back a prisoner and in irons, to is provided that, while suicide itself is the theater of his monstrous deeds, not an offense cognisable by law, tho at- And were they not monstrous? None tempt to oommit it is, as is also the giv- committed in tho United States hsve ing assistance to any one else in commit- ever equaled them for savage ting it. The latter is punished by im- BLOODTHIRHTINKSS AND FEfidcrfT. prison ment of net more than twenty nor At the time tho discoveries were first less than fivo years, and the former by made on the Bender farm the country, imprisonment not more than two years, not fully realising the horror of the The punishment for the attempt should butchery, refused to believe the reports bo more severe—tho world has very lit- that came from It.» Later, and when it tie sympathy for a porson who com- stood forth naked, ghastly and revealed, there was a shudder that went from one end of the Union to the other. Perhaps every single newspaper in the land had more or less to say of the holocaust. It was but

energy

UP in Canada the judge and jury, when they lean, it is not as down here, on the side of mercy. At Montreal, recontly, a jury which came into court, hopelessly disagreeing, witnessed the sudden conversion of tho stubborn twelfth juror, who, after holding out for four days, surrendered and went against the defendant as the Judgo was ordering a discharge. Noxt week a Woodstock jury found a man guilty of murder, with a recommendation to mercy, acting on which tho Judge promptly sentenced him to be hanged. And now come twelve good men and true of Welland, who find that a gentleman who assaulted his wife vdth intent to kill, and desperately wounded her, committed "murder in a legal sense," upon the evidence of the woman who was murdered in a legal sense. Thereon the Judgo donned his black cap and sentenced Mr. Finn to lie hanged. Whether the execution will be only in a legal sense or in the usual matter-of-fact way is not clear.

correspond

ent of tho New York Ledger writes to that paper to ascertain the truth or falsity of the many sayings and doings attributed to Mr. Beecher. The reverend gentleman answered the communication by saying he never said that there was a "hell-fired difference between his doctrine and that of a certain other clergyman that he is not a card player in fact, that ho does not know one card from another, and that he is not the originator of the slang phrase, "How is that for high He further says that he does not write out his sermons, but that mere outlines are made. In concluding this letter Mr. Beecher says: "I ao not promise to answer all questions, or any more but, being in the mood, 1 nave let fly at those croaking birds, as one returning from a hunt would fire at a crow to clean out his gun-barrels."

A PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. Tho joint resolution—A resolve to have a leg of mutton for to-morrow's dinner.

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the floor—:Xot participating

in "Tho German." A heavy vote—That in favor of highWSVft*

Move to adjourn—'The motion of the old man's boot. Seconding the motion—'The big dog in the front yard.

In 18& the fl»t patent for the mam*- tentlon anon it whatever.

In 1S45 th« first telegram was gent. Steel pens were iatrodnoed for 1808.

the

A YEAR AGO

Since the first dispatch was sent over the wires, making brief reference to the discoveries then taking place 011 tho Bender farm, and now that the probability is great that the chief butcher of all the bloody business is In tho strong hands of the law, and as it is more than probable that eight out of every ten newspaper readers have forgotten all about the particulars of the slaughter, we again reproduce them in connection with the report that Old Man

BENDER HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. Men had been missed in Kansas for some time. Generally they were poor, obscure, strangers to tho country, rugged waife cast adrift upon the restless tide of emigration and adventure, and even if mourned or missed for a day they were forgotten the next. No search was ever made for any of them. Here and there a brief paragraph or two crept into the local papers, but Deyond a

LOCAL NINE DAYS' WONDER,

That was the last sign of attention or recognition of the tragedy. One day, however, there came a sudden awakening from this placid species of toleration. A man was missing whom the people knew, who had friends, relations, a name, reputation, family, and whosesudden taking off had need to have a sequel.

Dr. J. Y. York was the brother of that other York famous for his betrayal of Pomeroy, and he had occasion to visit Fort Scott on business. When this had been transacted he started to his home in Independence, Kansas, on horseback. He was never seen alive again on earth. Search was begun for him. Parties of explorers, one of them headed by his brother, Col. York, took his trail at Fort Scott and followed it up step by step to Cherrvvale, Montgomery county, Kansas. Cherryvale was a small town on the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston raiiwav, 163 miles southwest from Kansas City. Here tho trail ended. He could be traced to Cherryvalo

BUT NOT BEYOND IT.

For weeks and weeks a long, minute, patient, unyielding search was kept up, but

clue whatever to the fate of Dr.

York was obtained. Some few, however, did not despair, and at Intervals renewed the quest.

About three miles from Cherryvale west stood the frame cabin of old man Bender. It was on the main road running to Junction City, it was but one story high, had two rooms in it, a garden attached, and an out house that was part stable and part cow-pen. Around this stable was a strong rail fence.

Old man Bender had one son, John, a brawny, strappin fellow probably 27 years of age, and a daughter, Kate, as large in proportion, and aged 25. Kate was a kind of a fortune-teller. She advertised herself as one who had been born "WITH A CAUL OVER HER EBES," And as one who oould tell where stolen horses might be found, and missing money discovered.

Old man Bender kept also an eating house, and a place where travelers might water their stock. He was but little

known In the neighborhood, and those who did know him regarded him as a

,.. hard-working, unsocial, and yet peaoea-

ir the Invention of the steamboat. ^j0 (jcrman. Nono. susplcioned him, The first steamboats which made regu-

much

lar trips across the Atlantic Ocean were horrible developments that were so soon the Sirius and the Great Western, in 1830. *0 w,

less did any one dream of the

made.

The first public application to practice i««i» the use of gas for Illumination was made In 1802.

In 1818 tho streets of London were for the first time lighted by gas. In 1813 there was built at Waltham, Mass., a mill, believed to have been the

On the 24th of April, 1873, as luck would have it, three small parties of hunters were out on tho trail of Dr. York, and without either of the three knowing aught of the

MOVEMENTS OR WH13RK.VBOCT9

ftreTlrt*the worldT which combined all Of tho others, each party during the day the requirements for making finished called at the Bender place and made cloth from raw cotton. earnest and rppwted inqulries of .Dr.

In 1790 there west Posfoflices in the whole country, and up to 1837 the rates of postage were twenty- of It.

IOTT W»«vu« IU4UUICV Vi there we»#/only twenty-five York, hoping in this way to establish a 1 in the wllole country, and up .thread of identity, even if nothing came

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cents for a letter sent over four hundred It is supposed that the first party exTOUOS. cited Old Bender's suspicions, the second In 1807 wooden clocks commenced to his anxiety, and the third his terrors, for be made by maohiueiy. This ushered the next day the whole family came into in the era of Cheap clocks. Cherryvalein atwjvhowe wagon, made

About tho year 1833 the first railroad some purchases at! the stores, and took of any considerable length In the United the western bound train inthealterm-on States was constructed. late.

In 1840 the first experiments in pho- So ansusp.'-nus were tho people, hmvtographywerefiutdeoyDaguorre. ever,thatjhoy P**"8*1 About 1840 the first express business the days of the 28th and 27th the team as established. tfed securely to the planlw of a t- n»

The anthracite coal busln-^s may be near by the depot, not seeming to sold to have begun In 1830. 11 ire it as Bender's, or to beatou any

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The first soc' *sftil reaper sttaeted 1888. In lH4tf Eliaa Howe obtained a patent for hi* i'n-t machine.

The ii ful method of vrt'r-in Ldngi' u1 'was patented in

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„.JM thaf'TAD been eanae to the Bender place, hrr 4rew witter Seat their horses, MIW SSJofUi. about the cabin, noticed tlm th« dnrvr was dU**d, the window* dmv n. that t!i" chimney sent up noamnke, ami no in In lia.l umiuUxI to ride v, 1

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noticed a dead calf in the lot adjoining the stable. He examined It tad saw that it had

DIKD or STAKVATIOZf.

For the first time then, as be said himself on examination afterwards, the idea flashed across his mind that "something was wrong. I knew no farmer in Kansas wouhr let anda a likely calf as this one starve to death when there was an abundance «f food handy/'

He enlarged on this idea to his commdes, and they went in a body to the house. Tho door was locked. Ibey met in. Not an article of furniture had been removed. Everything was just as the family bad left It. Then, with the instincts of a bora hunter, Bondin examined everv nook and corner of the lilding. As we have said, there were

two room* As a partition between the

TH* wtsnato BOOM,

And the other a sleeping apartment. In this there was a bed and some scanty furniture. By the ride of the bed there was a hammer with along handle in it —a hammer very much like those used bv railroad men in driving spikes in cross-ties. It was examined, and some splotches of blood discovered upon tho ends and up the handle to4he extent of several inches. Where the blood bad been split upon the iron a kind of an ominous rust had followed. The sheet forming the partition was dean and white. No staiijp anywhere oould bo found upon It. In examining the floor of the

SLKEPIKOBOGM MIKUTKLY,

A Crack was found in the floor, which, upon being traced carefully, revealed a closely fitting trap-door. There was no knob to it, but one of the party ran the long blade of a knife aloug the seam, got a kind of leverage upon it. and lifted up the lid. A pit was visible—a kind of hole in the ground—dark, damp, faeted with sinister exhalation. It was not explored then because there was no light. 'Ihe fire in the house ha*i been out for several days, none of the men had a match, it was impossible to see what was underneath, and so the search was abandoned for the day, and the party rodo into Cherryvale and reported in mil the discoveries made.

Instantly tho suspicious circumstances of tho wagon and team were 'recalled. Col. York, then in the town, was notified. A company was formed st once, and before the morning of tho 29th, nearly

ONE HUNDRED HEN

Had gathered about the Bender mansion. Along iron rod, pointed at one end and blunt at tho other, was taken along, to-

jther with a large plow with oxen to it. daylight the search had been recommenced. Two men descended into tho pit. The bottom was of the consistency of mud and putrid to the smeli. Some of this deposit was brought to the light and examined. The soil had been mixed with blood, and on the shoes of the men the oozy substance had gone almost to the ankles. Not a .spot about the house was then left uiiransacked, but nothing came of it. No corpses were found, and no signs of dead people except the blood at the bottom of the pit ?.nd on the ugly looking hammer.

A relay of workmen went into the garden—a cultivated spot of about an acre between tho house and the main road. Col. York was with his party, laboring like the rest. In a dozen places and more the iron rod

WAS THRUST INTO THE GROUND, Withdrawn, the point examined, and then thrust back again somewhere else. Finally, the man who held it said he had struck something soft. He gave it a turn or two and withdrew it at an angle. Adhering to it was a dark, discolored substance that was very offensive. Eithera man or an animal was buried there. Spades were brought at once, some four or five inches of dirt were removed, and there, sure enough, was the naked body of a man. Horrified, tho workmen drew it out, and indeed it was a ghastly corpse. There had been no coffin. The throat had been cut from ear to ear. All the lower left base of the skull bad been crushed in. Earth mixed with blood formed a horrible mask for the face. The hair had been kneaded in the putrid mire. It was a monster with the outlines of a man.

They brought water and cleaned the features, and then sickened at the sight, a strong man yelled:

Mv God! it is Dr. York!" And it was. Hi3 brother, standing by shuddered to his feet and fell on his

his

knees by the mutilated body. The scene that ensued never had a parallel in Kansas. It should not be dwelt upon—it is too horrible even for narration. But the work went on and before dark on the day of the 29th, five more graves were discovered, each containing a butchered occupant. On all was the same devil's works. The throat of each was cut, the skull crushed in, the body stripped, the left arm disarticulated at the elbow and crossed upon the breast, and the same mark of mire and blood clinging to the face and hair of all. From six graves without coffins six murdered victims had been dragged forth and with their features to the sky they were laid upon the ground waiting to be identified.

All that night the crowd increased, aud the news of the human butchery was telegraphed to the four quarters of the earth.

By daylight again the next morning the hunters were at work. The plow was put into use and backwards ana forwards until noon it went deeper and deeper into the accursed soil of that fell charnel garden. It eeems Incredible, but by twelve o'clock

FIVK MORS GHAVKK

were uncovered—the eleventh and last grave containing tho body of an old man, and that of a little girl, not seven years of age. Hie hair of the old man was white and his features shrunken. Certainly ho could not have been less than sixty.

Like the first, each of these had THK THROAT CUT, and the head driven in. Even the poor little innocent girt was disfigured so that her own mother might not have recognised hen

These are the facta, plain and unvarnished, of the Bender butchery. Does it not appear as the imaginings of some distempered dream Nino of the twelve were identified before they were buried. Three none to this day know who they were, or where they came from. Afterwards many things were made plain. The partition of white cotton had its duty to perform in the monstrous pn!amine. Old Bender kept an eating and when a traveler stopped for a meal, ho was matted with his back again- hiasluh or partition. Leaning headjtiit I TOUCHINO TIIK PARTITION, ,- tiio back part of the skull naturally outlined Itself upon it. Within tho eatin„ mm a man with the terrible he ni's in his can-I. At a signal there deadly How, a victim stunned ami ho1ple*s and ov#r him three monsters thai never In all their

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I. j.i- r, a iTM.'uahutii^r natm-d Boudin,

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thrown inun tildar knosa came thai they might be burled.

Dr. York was the last victim, and but for the prominence of the man, the large acquaintance he had in the persistency of the search that folio wedhi* taking off the singular coincidence that led three scouting parties to old Bender's the same day, and the hurried flight of the family, the same species of horrible lying-in-wait and killing might now still be going on.

[Written for The Mai).]

THE COMING MAN AND WOMAN. It is interesting, nay, instructive to the student of the world, to note the wondrous improvement which has taken place of late in the demeanor and appearance of the long-eufleriug fanner. His very face breathes volumes of mystery, and he looks you in the eye with a you-can't-get-anything-ont-of-ino expression of countenance that is impossible to describe. Hie mystic pow-wows of the county council are new and delight fill experiences to him, and ho actually hugs himself with proper joy that he is getting ahead ol "them city fellers," on their peculiar hill of compost.

But not tho less wonderful is the change which has come over the spirit of our country politicians' dream. They see, alas, the horny-handwriting upon the brick and mortar, and tremble In their oalf-skins without regard to party. The mere possession and cultivation of a flannel garden or flower-pot will not gain them admission to the sacred fold of Apis—too well they know it and now the demon of discord holds high mardigras where yesterday, master and man amicably contended in ministering to the wants" of that important integer, number one. And that vast army of vicarious sacrifices to other business arrangements, such as tho deputy tiysquares, deputy wood-corders, deputy coffin-luggers, deputy tax-wax, deputy roustabouts, and deputy Lord knows who and what, being middle-men exofficers, are fondly dreaming of the blissftil day when, tearing of tho galling fetters of deputyship, to bind tbem securely on the limits of some brftwny Patron, they will elevate the shovel and the hoe, and mass themselves in tho swelling ranks of tho perspiring earners of the staff of life. Why? Because, forsooth, the agrestic mind ingenuously imagines that if a deputy coffin-lugger, for instance, can do the planting business for six hundred dollars, it is the hight of absurdity to elect a man not to do it for eighteen hundred dollars per annum, besides cabbaging chances innumerable. Hark to the slogan of tho coming man and the yawp of the granger is heard in the land,—

Blessings on hee, farmer man! Patron with the horny han'! Mealing round in thy pontoons, With both hands in pantaloons.

See a gathering of these radicals drawn to a single point by the poultice of selfinterest. On horseback, mule back, and footback in landaulets, one-horso chaises, and low-backed cars wagons, buckboards, and buggies,—in every variety of horse and description of vehiclo invented since Adam, they come and a close observer may notice the significant fact that of this uproused army of sleeping martyrs, just ninety-five percent. perambulate, do business, tnako love, and roar thrilling speeches, with both hands deposited in their own—oirn, mark ye,—breeches' pockets—a habit some of our city men should cultivate. The remaining fivo per ccnt. aro agricultural stripplings, who hide but one honest palm, or giving both metacarpuses as though in the act of cradling a thumping harvest of turnips, (^ow, wo do not brag much on our knowledge of agricultural matters, because, do you see, we're not a candidate for office but if there is ono thing that we do know something about, it is that cereal called turnip.) See the frantic baker shoving cords of moist candy on an unsatiablo market, while scores of gingerbreadless Patrons, as Noll Twist did voraciously bawl, More! Tho demand for cheese and crackers is far in oxoess of the supply, and impromptu bootbacks shino muddy acres of cowhide, while the needle-threader man, wiard oil man, and stencil-plate man reap harvests of nickels. Middle-men starve? "BOSH!" in the largest of capital, we say.

See that sidewalk politician watching them with deep calculation in his wary eye. He knows all about it. Pshaw! politics is the little fly that will punctuate their ointment for them after the ooming election they will all go to grass. Combined business action, indeed—acting through county councils, and on through accredited business agentsgood land then through the authorised state agent—why, 'tis nothing more than the old story over again, sir,—all middlemen, every mother's son of them. Out of the frying-pan, into the fire, sir!

And the lady granger—joyous theme! Who would not be a granger to be ruled( by rosy-cheeked Pomona, or pink-car-ed Cerca! List to their merry laughter as In bewitching crowds they drive the paper-collared oounter-jumper of tho middle-man merchant to the verge of dost met ion, and even threaten to wear out the job-like patience of the agile photograbber. No modish arts there, no truckling to the caprices of the Frenchwoman as to the o:t of their gowns or attitude of their u-ible boot-heels. No prunes, prisms, f-paw, or potatoes not even palpi' t' nrs. No, «r! But all is nature i'.- if,, all life and hi'jh all thatinno-esiK-o u.av larewiM nwoman of the world sfcti ldereveii to toi Though worth in Into ud iiic laugh:r at sit oft! Ir eooi'.vt.U4« gown hot lib thi ir saoqnemay r.Uea cotton ha. kr aud f.K.iiath their sei\iea.ii'iiai n..'\rbe al'-unii*.eoiixiiructedso ',Vt.. coy. r'h« f^ad y«jf. oity lady, the "r..mi th'ir i'!r,tnp ch» ksare real, as well H« tin-plump «ad I he '.iliflfroftb*

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