Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 22, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 April 1892 — Page 2
Complete Mis Paper,
Phyllis Fenwicke's Adventure.
Redskins seemed to be all the rage with English folk when Buffalo Bill was la England with his Wild West show, and the ladies especially appeared to invest those considerably-tamed specimens oa view at West Brompton with a sweetly sentimental, romantic interest which I fancy they would scarcely have been able to feel if they had ever Ix-en forced to face the Red-men at fearful odds in their native haunts.
I was fated to nn^rw this agreeable experience once, in tne good old days when
the
now almost extinct bison roamed the Wild West in vast herds, whilst the Indian and the white invader were at continual enmity, the former then being about as civilized as the coyote and aa friendly as the dreaded "grizzlies." Nevertheless, the white man established himself in the land, and on the whole he prospered.
The time of which I am speaking was the beginning of the "gold fever," and my brothers had been so bitten with the prevalent mania that they used all their influence to persuade my father to give up the old farm iu Ilawkesdale and go to New California.
Perhaps their arguments had more weight with my father because he was shrewd enough to see that farming was even then becoming a losing game, while the auriferous prospects held out to him .appeared unusually tempting by comparison.
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Phyllis, being only a girl, did not oi course count for much in these family arrangements yet, in a sense, because I was the only daughter and my mother was dead, I did count, very much in my father's eyes, and he would, I verily believe, have stayed at home sooner than leave me behind. But 1 was as venturous in disposition as any of my brothers, and looked forward to the now life with immense interest, all the deeper perhaps because 1 was so utterly without experience.
It was finally arranged that my fatliei should take
tip
somo land in Nope Valley
El Dorado county, and there, with Cnar lie Ripley's assistance, start stock farir. ing, whilst my three brothers tried theii luck at the "diggings" in the same county If I had been going to the must luxurious homo in the finest part of our own favored land, I could not possibly have been more eager or enthusiastic over our future prospects. It was enough for me that my lover was to share our fortunes and what more could a romantic girl whoso acquaintance with real hardship had not yet begun desire?
There had been Fenwickes at Moss-side and Itipleys at the Birkets for more generations than I can count tho two farms lay side by side, and Charlie and I had beon little playmates and child sweethearts ever since I can remember: whence Ilawkesdale considered it a "seemly" thing, atul that wo were only fulfilling our destiny, when wo grew up and blossomed into real lovers who were soberly and seriously engaged.
Naturally enough, since the course of true love, we know, never does run smooth, fate must put her linger iuto tho pie, to import a spice of romance into a love affair, that threatened to bo so decorously dull as ours and this element of interest was, it scorned, destined to bo snppliod at tho elovonth hour by tho sudden illness of old Mr. ltiploy.
To my dismay and Charlie's grief, his father was taken ill oarly in February, aud dlod boforo tho ond of the month. Now my folk had decided to start during tho second week in March, and to defer our departure would have been equally useless and impossible, since wo discovered, to our chagrin, that Mr. Ripley had left all he possessed to his wife during her lifetime, nnd it wjis afterwards to be equally divided between Charlie and his sister Alice. It was out of tho question that the only son, to whom tho widow now looked for everything, should go away, leaving matters In so unsettled a state and his mother to tho mercy of hirelings. Obviously tho duty that lay nearest to his hand was to stay at home aud manage the farm for his mother and sister till some permanent arrangomont could be made for their benefit.
It was a heavy blow for us—the heavier because it was so unexpected but Charlie did his best to cheer me and himself by steadily refusing to relinquish tho hope of comiug out to join us some time within a year or so and at nineteen when one is full of health and life, a year does not seem so very long to look forward to.
My lover camo with us as far as Liverpool, in order to bo with me until tho last possible minute and defer tho inevitable agony of separation. "There's just tho ghost of a chance, you know, Phyllis darling, that I sha'n't be tied down to tlve old country so long as your father seems to fancy," he said, trying to speak lightly.
We were standing on deck, hand iu haud, iu a quiet comer quite alone, whilst tho last precious moments fled away,. and tears chased one another rapidly down my pale cheeks. This farewell to my native lond was by no means what I had anticipated, and tlve dlfferenco between my rosecolored visions aud the sod, stem reality was too terrible just then for me to make even a pretext of cheerfulness. "I don't see how you can ever come," I returned, disconsolately: "there are the farm and Mrs. Ripley and Alice!"—enumerating all these terrible obstacles with a little smothered sob. "Yes, dear heart but you must remember there is also Hugh Dalton. He and Alice haven't settled matters yet still they understand each other and, If I can but get him to see his way clear, I know I may safely intrust my mother and sister to his tare. Hugh likes to 'see his way,' you know, Phyllis, he's sure and steady, honest as tho day. If I can work round Hugh and get on the right side of him, I'll come, my darling. But we'll say nothing to the others this is only a tiny bit of hope for your heart aud mine to feed upon when we two are parted."
There were just a few more last words, and then the long-dreaded moment came, I felt my lover's arms close about me, and the very lost pressure of his lips to mine: after that I think he put me into my father's arms and hurried away down th* ladder, I tried to distinguish his face as he stood on shore, but tears blinded me, and I obtained only a misty view of a sea of upturned face*, with here and there a waving handkerchief, as the Cteprty moved slowly out of dock ami down the Mersey.
We had beon settled in our new home nearly & twelvemonth, my brothers remaining with us until oar new house-*
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where they had been working very stead ly for some months with more or less success- Vf
At the log-house our party was a larger one than we bad at first anticipated, since some of our Moss-side laborers had accompanied their old master to Hope Valley in search of fortune and at that time extra hands were welcome enough,
Our venture prospered from the beginning, and I wanted only one thing to make me happy but that thing seemed no nearer of attainment than at first
Charley wrote as regularly as possible, and his letters were always bright and encouraging. Tiresome Hugh Dalton, however, seemed to have a terrible-time "seeing his way" to a mutual arrangement: and I could not feel very hopeful, knowing Hugh and all the circumstances so well. At any rate, my lover was still tied to his farm at Hawkesdale, whilst I was leading my new strange life on a ranche in El Dorado.
I think I enjoyed the winter as much as any time my father was at home a good deal, for one thing, and, for another, I was by this time growing used to the conditions of life, which has so very much to do with comfort anywhere. But with the lengthening days my father and the "boys" —as we called our laborers—were fully occupied, consequently I was often alone for many hours nevertheless, being a high spirited girl, I cared very little for that, and seldom felt lonely or dull.
Tramps were not particularly likely to molest us, since the rowdy element seemed to flow naturally in the direction of the diggings, where it mustered in full force. My brothers used to say all the jail-birds unhanged had migrated thither, the usual basis of society in a mining community consisting of the scum and refuse of great cities.
Of the Indians we had hitherto seen little, and that little had not been of an aweinspiring nature, despite the yarns we had heard from older settlers as we made our way to our "location" in the previous spring, we had been visited by a few Cherokees now and again, chiefly squaws and papooses, intensely curious about us, and some of them the most sturdy, impudent beggars I ever saw in my life otherwise they were rather friendly, though the men of the tribe seemed inclined to give us a wide berth. In short, with me familiarity bred contempt and I had nearly forgotten my old terrors of the ferocious Red-men, with their savage faces and warlike mien, hideous as paint and other native adornments could make them.
It was the afternoon of a dark and stormy February day, destined to be a memorable one for me, though I fancied tho great excitement was all over with the departure of tho United States mail in the morning.
The appearance of this man, who carried a couple of bags and was mounted on a fleet Mexican mustang, was quite an event in our isolated existence and he seemed the one link binding us to the outside world and civilized life. He did not come our way more than once in six weeks, and this time he was a week behindhand, so I was full of anxiety for his safety, as 1 well knew he literally carried his life in his hands every day, and had more than once owed his escape to the speed and endurance of his mustang. He was the recognized official bearer of the United States mails to these wild outlying districts, and I of course had always a letter to intrust to his care and many an anxious thought went with him through all the perils which that pfecious missive must encounter before the bearer reached a civilized region with his bags.
This time I had written to Charlie a particularly long letter, couched in a brighter strain, too, since I assured him that,
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if
he
could not come to mo I would return to him directly I was of age and my own mistress—that was provided he still wanted me, I added slyly. I seemed to have put all my soul into that letter, writing out of the fulness of my heart such tendei loving thoughts as he would be proud and glad to read.
Thereforo it was with feelings of the liveliest- satisfaction that I beheld the mouuted mail depart iu company with my father and the boys their way lay together for somo miles, aud with such an escort my precious letter and the man's life—like woman, I put the more important a thing last—would bo doubly safe.
So for me this stormy February day was full of pleasurable excitement, and seemed neither dull nor long, since my heart had sped the way my letter went, and, as usual, my hands were busy enough with my ordinary household tasks. But I went singing about my work, scarcely giving a thought to my solitary unprotected condition I was used to being alone moreover, I expected a couple of the men to return before dusk.
About three o'clock one of them made his appearance alone, exclaiming abruptly as he eutered tho house— "If them darned cows hain't bin and got out of the yard agen, Miss Phyllis, and It will be dark in little more 'n an hourl The. master '111 be main vexed surely." "You'd better go after them at once, Joe," I returned. "I'd come with you on Dandv, only I'm afraid we shouldn't be back in time and it would never do to let father return to find the house locked up."
Joe got out a horse and speedily departed upon his troublesome quest, vowing that the spirit ot mischief was in the straying kine to induce them to depart at such an untoward hour and I was once more alone. But now I bustled about in good earnest, making up the wood-fire and preparing supper for the hungry men who would all come trooping in shortly after dkrfe.
The sun was almost down, bnt the cold gray light of the winter afternoon showed all near objects almost as distinctly as If were mid-day. I stood for a minute by the window looking out across the wide prairie beyond the cleared enclosure immediately surrounding our dwelling. I was so used to that great level expanse stretching away towards the purplish-gray horizon, dotted here and there with scrub and sage-bushes, that I had grown to have a certain liking for the boundless plain and the sense of freedom it gave one, looking far away to the west, where faint red streaks illumined the gray still sky. Yes, I enjoyed the prairie, though it was different from my native Hawkesdale,
Turning away from the window, I noticed a los of wood lying just inside the stockade at the farthest corner from the house which I did not remember seeing In the morning—though to be sure onr enclosure was not so famous for neatness that astray log or so made such difference —and 1 thought no more of it till, repassing the window ten minutes later, I again glanced out. Darkness was fast setting in on us now, and, though I could see things just outside clearly enough. I was surprised to find how dim and misty the disan el ok
And the log—it was lying in exactly tne same position of course! I laughed at my fancy, since logs are not usually endowed
with
the power of movement but it certainly appeared to me to be some few yards nearer the house than when first I observed it ... "Impossible!" I said aload, with emphatic solemnity.
I decided that I was growing nervous and foolish, and my first impulse was to sally forth and set my mind at rest by examing the suspicious object at close quarters but a second thought restraided me. It is' well to be bold, but not over-bold.
I peered anxiously into the gathering gloom, striving to take in the familiar aspect of the yard and my surroundings and an eerie feeling crept over me as I looked. Dusky forms seemed to lurk in distant comers, whilst at regular intervals certain posts in the rough palisade surrounding our dwelling seemed to project unnaturally. I would have given the world for a companion at that moment. Oh, if Joe had not gone in search of the errant cows! Then it struck me that, owing to the bright fire upon the hearth, my person dud the interior of the room were distinctly visible outside, whilst the growing dusk made it more and more difficult for me plainly to distinguish objects a dozen yards from the window.
I looked at the clock—it was barely halfpast three. Could the house stand a siege of an hour and a half? I ivked myself anxiously, as I knew right well there was little chance of help before that—for now the unwelcome conviction that the Indians had stolen a ruarfch upon me, aud were even now in aflibush around the house, could no longer be ignored or avoided. It
was
evident they knew me to be alone and had laid their plans well. What did they want? Simply plunder or was it a mingled desire for plunder and revenge? We had lately learned that they considered themselves aggrieved by the fact that a portion of the land occupied by my father was apart of their hunting-ground.
Anyway, I knew that I had nothing to hope from an Indian's chivalry, and everything to fear from his cold-blooded treachery and I resolved to hold the fortress against the Redskins till the last j'ossible minute.
Whilst these reflections passed rapidly through my mind, I hurriedly made such arrangements for the defense as lay in my power. First, I securely barred the heavy shutters, noiselessly slipped the bolts'of both doors—strong and well made, though rough—and also put an iron bar across the door opening into the stockade. I contrived to drag a big chest half-way across the kitchen, whereby I barricaded the back door and then I felt, if bolts and bars could keep out Cherokees, I was safe for a time. But there was no knowing what their fiendish ingenuity would devise and they evidently meant business, since they had mustered in considerable force.
I do not want to make myself out to be the least bit of a heroine over this encounter. I was undoubtedly in what schoolboys call "no end of a funk but, being brought to bay in this fashion, I summoned to my aid what courage I possessed and vowed I would resist to the death. And, in spite of my sickening conviction of the almost hopeless horror of my fate, I was outwardly cool enough, keeping my wits about me sufficiently to appreciate and turn to account such slight advantages as were on my side. I even experienced ft certain odd elation in the thought that no one I loved was with me, sharing but not lessening, the awful danger in which I stood. I have all my life found it easier to be calm in the presence of death and peril when meeting them alone, knowing that my best-beloved, at least, were safe and free.
My small attempts at defence were speed-: ily completed, and I ascended the ladder to the upper story, where I placed a lamp in the window of the room overlooking the prairie, since that, I knew, would probably be the way by which my father would return, and the unusual signal might possibly warn him of his danger. Lastly, I retreated to ,my own room and fastened the door.
Tho whole of my arrangements, from the moment that I decided the moving log was an Indian to the instant I locked myself into my room, occupied something under five minutes, as nearly as I can tell, but my action had been significant enough for the cunning Cherokees, who instantly prepared for the attack.
I fancy they had intended to surround the house quietly, and then rush iu and overpower me before I could offer the slightest resistance. But I had been keener of sight, prompter in action than they anticipated, having taken the alarm whilst the scouts were lying in ambush.
There was no mistaking my position now, I thought, looking down cautiously from my window, which I took the precaution partly to barricade with my mattress, and beholding a score or more of hideous dusky forms below, moving stealthily In the twilight like so many cowardly, cruel hyaenas thirsting for my blood. -T
I caught up a spare revolver lying upon the kitchen shelf and a few cartridges as I retreated, but I resolved to be very cautious and remain strictly upon the defensive. I had apparently baffled my foes'for a brief space, and they were consulting, I judged by their gestures, as to the course they should pursue.
Suddenly they raised a hideous
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which made my blood run com, and flung themselves upon the barricaded doors and windows, absolutely shaking the house with the fury of their assault, but the good bolts withstood their united efforts and the next minute a shower oi arrows came rattling against the upper casements whilst a voice cried to me to come down, to surrender, as well as I could make out from the little Cherokee I had learned from the squaws.
The aim of those poisoned arrows was so accurate that the Indians twice succeeded in extinguishing by beacon-lamp and I had to remove it to the opposite end of the room, still keeping it in a line with the window. Then I cautiously raised a corner of the mattress and replied with my revolver, firing rather at random into the howling, threatening horde below.
I was anything bnt a crack shot, bnt my brothers had taught me how to handle and fire a revolver, and I determined to sell my life as dearly as possible, silently vowing that the Cherokees should never take me alive—I would so far be mistress of my fate
My answering fire produced an unexpected effect. They had not dreamed of a despised pale-faced squaw dating to defy them single-handed and, when I reconnoitered, I saw I had hit somebody, who was laid out on the ground to meditate at his leisure. Of course the cert minute my mattress was stuck fall of arrows like a target, and again and again the Red-men ottered their war-whoop and rushed upon
the house, hoping to carry the position by Twwiri force. They felt they had me like a 'coon in a trap, in spite of my resistance but at nineteen one dies hard, and refuses to give up hope till the last g&sp. Every minute I could keep the fiends at bay gave me a further chance of life.
I looked at my fast-lessening store of ammunition, and
then
be
I laid aside a cou
ple of cartridges for the agonizing moment when I must acknowledge the game to
played out. Even then, standing alone, above my tigerish foes, so full of health and strength and life and love, I could not realize that my life was numbered by minutes, or that, humanly speaking,
I should never look upon another sunset, or see the moon rise once more. Before another hour I should be past all pain, "beyond the reach of hands," and some day I should be able to tell Charlie!
I emptied my last shots into the seething mass of dusky beings howling around me —one lonely defenceless woman. They were quick to appreciate the fact that I had ceased to fire, and the shouts and yells grew more exultant as a tall flame Shot up suddenly into the gray dusk. What were the fiends about now?
I soon understood—they had failed to force an entrance, and were determined to burn me out.
Ah, merciful Heaven!' Then it was, I think, that hope flickered and went out, leaving my soul in a blackness worse than night. Well, I had vowed to wait till the very last, and I trusted that He who saw my cruel need and my utter helplessness would forgive me the desperate act I contemplated.
I tried to pray, but nothing save the publican's brief petition rose to my lips, whilst the events of my whole life seemed to pass vividly before me in
a
moment of
time. I know in that last minute, when I was beyond despair, beyond hope, my chief feeling was one of thankfulness that my letter—the very last my own true love would ever receive from me—was safe, miles and miles on its way to him—that he would get it,
and
love
and
before
treasure it long
the news of my cruel fate could reach him. And, when he did know all that men would ever learn, the ghastly story would be less agonizing for the thought that my last words, my very last loving thoughts had been all for him. He would have that letter for his comfort until we met again in the silent land beyond the veil.
I hoped Charlie knew me well enough to be sure I would never let those yelling wolves take me alive. Ah. no!
I walked to the table and opened a little box that held all my trrasures. I was quite cool and steady now, calm as death itself, whilst I heard the crackle of the flames below and saw their lurid light against the cold gray sky. Well, my lover's portrait should be the last thing that my eyes rested upon in life. Ah, Heaven! it was joy unspeakable to know he would never realize the actual agony of these moments during which I could say "I yet live!"
A yell of exultation—the door wa£ down and those fiends in human form rushed in, scattering the hot embers with their feet! now!
What was that? An answering shout from English throats! I dropped the revolver and flew to the window. Yes, it was as I believed I saw my rescuers, I heard the thunder of the hoofs of half a spore of horsemen who galloped over tho short turf and drew bridlo at tho gates. The wolves were well in the trap now.
I leaned out of the window and cried to my rescuers to surround the doors, They understood and then came an awful hand-to-hand encounter. The Cherokees were three to one of their antagonists, but the Englishmen fought like lions and held on with the tenacity of bull-dogs.
It was an ugly struggle and a hot one while it lasted, but there was no doubt about the issue from the first.
I unbarred my door and stood Qt the top of the ladder, watching the breathless, deadly contest with fascinated, horrified eyes. I must be with them, I felt, facing tho same fearful odds, though I could do nothing.
It was over at last. The Red-men were ignominiously routed, and fled, making no attempt to carry off their dead or wounded, and leaving my rescuers masters of the field.
I was just dimly conscious that the fight was won, and then I remembered nothing more, for I had fainted.
Nature
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will have
her way, and, after such a desperate strain is removed, there comes the inevitable reaction.
When I recovered, I was lying upon the kitchen floor, with my head resting on someone's knee. "Father—is father safe?" I asked, looking in a dazed bewildered way at the anxious faces surrounding me. "Yes, Phyllis I'm safe enough, my bairn. We're all right, except poor Joe and Abel. She is too dazed, poor lass, to take it all in," he added, in a lower tone.
I opened my eyes again, aud looked up languidly to see who it was that was supporting me till then it had not occurred to me as strange that it was not my father. "Phyllis, my own!" murmured a low voice, whilst my wondering eyes met Charlie Ripley's.
It was no dream then, no delirium, but his own dear face bending above me, his honest gray eyes looking into mine with tender anxiety. "You are not hurt, Phyllis?'' he asked, in the same low eager tones
He was kneeling beside me. My head
lay
upon his shoulder now I could even feel his heart beating close to mine, and I knew it was no dream. I tried to smile as I shook my head, but a passion of tears came to my relief instead—I was so safe, go happy now!
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They let me weep, whilst iny lover soothed me, and the rest left us alone for a while: they were busy securing the horses and making the house safe for the night, thooch «hey resolved to guard against possible surprises by keeping watch in turns-
When my father and brothers—whom I now noticed for the first time—returned to the fire, I was sufficiently recovered to recount what had happened during that terrible hour in which I held the house sin-gle-handed against the Indians. Of course they told me I was a little heroine, and seemed as though they could never make enough of me. After that I had to hear the explanation of what had previously appeared to me a sort of miracle—that is, Charlie's timely arrival, and my father's return a good half-hour before Ithought it possible he could be home,
It appeared that Hugh Dalton had at last **seen his way," whilst he and Alice had so far settled matters that they wen married the day before Charlie left England. Hugh was to carry on the old farm for Mrs. Ripley as well as his own, and everyone was satisfied. Nevertheless, Hugh had "so much mind" that he had
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not been able to make It up In time for the last mall therefore Charlie had decided to bring the great news in person by the first ship as the quickest and most agreeable way. He. had procured a guide at El Dorado city, who had obligingly conducted him to the "diggings" at Heron Gulch, where my brothers made him heartily welcome, and decided to celebrate the occasion by bringing him on home the next day.
It was lucky VEey did so, "and doubly fortunate that they fell in with my father aud the "boys" returning from work. Charley was tho first to espy my lamp shining at the window, they at once came to the conclusion that the unusual light meant danger of some sort, and pushed on at a gallop, arriving in the nick of time, as I have, already narrated.
Well, I am now almost an old womnn, and I have been Charlie's wife for many happy years but, if I live to be a hundred, I shall never forget the agony of that awful hour during which I, a girl of nineteen. held our log-house, alone aud unaided, against the Redskins.
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ever possible I relieved my sufferings by taking opiate, bnt when I was obliged to go without It, I suffered fearfully and thought I •bMliMtmr. I tried every thing I could get with my limited means. Physicians said I would never be any better, finally my
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my
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few months, thank God (and I say itrev£S ently), the sores all over my body had healed, and now, four years later, ^aT® «'o0?!? any sien of reappearing," QEOMBJLjuif*OJn7219 Magnolia Street, Syracuse, N. Y.
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Railroad Time Tables.
Tnvln rked thus(P) denote Par'^r Cars attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Heeplng Careattnched daily. Trnl ns inn rked thus (H) denote Buffet Ctirs attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other train* run dally, Sundays accepted.
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No. 9 Western Express »(S«fcV) 1.42 a No. 5 Mall Train 10.40 a No. 1 Fast Line (P&V) 2.15 No. 21 8.10 pm No. 7 Fast Mall fl.M No. 13 ElRughnm Ace 4.05 pm
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No. 12 Cincinnati Express "MS) ... 1.10 am No. 6 New York Express (SsV). 1.51am No. 4 Mall nnd Accomraodatlcvn 7.16 am No. 20 Atlantic Express (P&V) 12.47 a No. S Fast Lino 2.35 pru No. 2 5.05 pm
ARHXVB FROM THK KAST.
No. 9 Western Express (S&V). 1.30 am No. 5 Mail Train 10.10am No. I Fast Line (P&V) 2.IH) No. 21 8.03 No. 3 Mull and Accommodation 0.45 pm No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00
ARRIVB FROM TDK WEST.
No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.00 am No. 6 Now York Express (tAV) 1.42 a No. 20 Atlantic Express (P&V). 12.12 No. 8 Fast Lino 2.15 pm No. 2 6.00 pm No. 14 Effingham Ac 9.80 a
T. II. & L, DIVISION. LKAVK FOK TUB NOttTIl.
No: 52 South Bend Mall 0.20 a No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 ARRIVE FROM THK NORTH. No. 51 Terro Haute Express 11.45 a No. 53 South Bend Mail 7.30 pm
E.&T.H.
ARRIVE FROM SOUTH,
No. 0 Nash & C. Ex* {8 & B). 6.00 am No. 2 T. H. & Knst Ex ..... ,11.50 am No. 4Ch&lndEx*(S) 10.80 No. (10 5.00
LEAVE FOR SOUTH.
No. 3 Ch A Ev Ex*(S) 0.00 am No. 1 Ev & Ind Mall 8.15 pm No. 5 Ch & N Ex^S&B) 10.00 No. 7 10.'12 a
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ARRIVE FROM SOUTH.
No. 50 Worth Mixed .\ 10.80 a No. 82 Mail & Ex 4.25 pm LKAVK VOR BOUTH. No. 88 Mall & Ex .... 8.50 am No. 49 Worth'n Mixed 4.25 pm
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ARRIVE FROM NORTH.
No. 3 Ch & Naoh Ex*(8) 5.50 am No. 49 10.2&* No. 1 Ch & Kv Fx 8.10 No. 5 & N Ex«(S&B). ... 9.60
LEAVE FOK KORTH.
No. 0 N & Ex*(B&B) 5.20 a No. 2 II A Ch Ex 12.10 No. 50 Watseka Acc f3.20ip No. 4 Nash A O Ex*(8) .... 10.43
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ARRIVX FROM NORTHWEST.
No. 4 Pass Ex 11.25 am No. 2 Pass Mall & Ex 7.16 pm LEAVE FOR NORTHWEST. No. 1 Pass Mail & Ex 0.65 am No.-, 8 Pass Ex 8.15 pm
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No. 12 Boston ANY Ex» ....... 1.84 a No. 2 Cleveland Acc 7.36 a No. 18 Southwestern Limited*.... 1.00 No. 8 Mall train1* 8.48 pm
GOING WEST.
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No. 17 Limited* l.«pm No. 3 Accommodation '58pm No. 9 Mall Train* ,10.'»am
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