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POLITICAL MATTERS
Ewnts and Opinions Published .Without Bias; for the Infor-
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GOVERNOR BUSK FOB FAIKCHITjTX
4 Governor ' Rusk, ' of Wisconsin, was asked by a'ieporter,'What about Frank .-Howe's story that you had declared y on rselfin favor of ; Arthur's nomination for - ProaEden v : . s - . . f All bosh, t assure yon' was the reply, f vVmdi I don't see how Frank Howe could
make such a statement. I saw him about five minutes.: He asked about Arthur's administration, and I told him I thought it was all rightl This was all we said in regard to politics. Then he went back to Washington and roid eyerybodythat I had declared rayselt in favor of Arthur's nomination.' f "Who is your choice for President and how do you think Wiscom in will goT
"I am frr Luchis Fairehild. Wisconsin will give him 40,000 majority. Mr. Fair eh Id has many elements of strength. -Be would make a strong compromise candidate. Ff there is anynd of split Fairehild will be the nominee. He can carry Massachusetts as easily as Wisconsin. Yes,! think his chaoes are very fine. . ; A !CALK WPTH- EX-SKNATOK CXJNGMAN. Washington Special. . ' ; . . -United Stses Senator OHngman, of North Carolina; in talking about the presidential poesibilities said that hje was eatisied that Tilden is not- and will not be a candidate. Be intimates that he became satified of this through talking with Mr. Dana, and he added: Mr- Bana is, or pretends to be for Holman of Indiana, l am for McDonald in preference. The only thing that Holman has to recommend him is the reputation he has far objecting to everything except drawing Lis salary. Now, in olden tunes, when I was in the Semite, if a man got up and objeoted'it was regarded pretty - much as
if yon were to see a buzzard look down.
You would think there was some carrion
about; But Holman has1 played himself
out, and when he objects the house looks
upon it with contempt, He farther said
that McDonald or Judge Field'would rill the bOl to h nicety, but that Bayard
would not do at all " " r MB. STOCKSTaAOEK GIVES' HIS OPINIONGcngressman StoekFlager was interviewed Thursday about Indiana politics undepressed the opinion that Mr Holman could easily secure the nomination
for governor if he would accept it. Speaking, of the visit of Mr. Holman - to-the fsr
Weil, Mr. Stockslaer said that he is determined to make a hard-nght to recover to ttte public domain the unearned land grants. Of course, the Northern Pacific will have proved up before congress assemblee and secured its title to thegrants but iin attempt, attended with? probable success, too, will be made to dislodge the
title and declare the lands forfeitei A
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" Being asked what was. the BepubHcan situation :xat the gubernatorial - nee he observed:. Mit ie said by a great many Bepuhlieans that General Gresham - will be nominated for Governor, and some
prominent man of the party given the second place, and that if the ticket
is ejected General Gresham will go to the
Senate,- and the laeufenant-governor will go up to the executive chair. That seems
a plausible programme, provided, of course the, Republicans elect their ticket j - . HIS UJ3T VIEWS. ' jk, Bhort time before his death,.- Judge Black was asked in regard to his views on the outlook for 1884. He raid-he ho p ed the old ticket would not be nominated nidess-it was reversed, Hendricks and raden;;;:::;;VJf:"; Jf ; V ?i r lie believed that Tilden might nil the office of vice president creditably, and . HeJidricks t would make an admirable
president; but his choice was for Hancock; he was for Hancock inside and out,
love of country, but but such is the truth
bur country is the sole object of our organization." Z2 BiU.Nye's Hornets. Last fall I decided to add to my rare colle3tion a large hornet's nest. I had an embalmed tarantula and her porcelain-lined nest, and I desired' to add to these the gray and airy home of the hornet. I procured one of the large size after cold weather and hung it in my cabinet by a string. I forgot about it until this spring. When warni weather came, something reminded me of it. I think it was a hornet. He jogged my memory in some way, and called my attention to it. Memory is not located where I thought it w as. It seemed as though wheneyer he touched me he awakened a memorya warm memory withf a red place all around it. " Then some more h ornets came and be gan to rake up old personalities. I re-
member that one of them lit on my upper
lip. He thought it was a rosebud. When
he went away it looked like a gladiolus bulb, I wrapped a wet sheet around it to
takeout the warmth and reduce the swel
ling so that I could go through the fold
ing-doors and tell my wife about it.
Hornets ht all over me and walked
around on my person. ' 1 did not dare to scrape them oh? because they are so sensitive; You have to be very guarded in -your conduct toward a hornet I remember once while I was watching the busy little hornet gathering horey andj June bugs from the bosom of a rose lon ago I stirred him up with a club, more as a practic al joke than anything else, and he came and lit in my sunny hint that was when -I wore my own hfiir and he walked around through my gleaming tesses quite a while, making tracks as large as a watermelon all over my head. If he hadn?t run out of tracks my head would h ave looked like a load'of sum mer quashes. I remember I had to thump my I head against the sm oke-house in order to smash him, and I had to comb him out with a fine comb and wear a waste-bask-et two weeks for a hat
Much has been said of the hornet, but he has an odd, quaint way after all that is forever new. Laramie Boomerany. A Good Story About Crook. Bar Francisco Chronicle's Arizor a Letter. An interview of General Crook on Indbn questions would dikely result in as much real, information as the soldier got, who, when on a campaign in this Territory, one evening after camp had been ms de and being detailed to bring in wood found the General sitting on a )og some distance from the camp. The soldier ap preached and thinking the General was a trooper or some camp follower (he dresses very plain- and seldom wears a uniform), sat down beside him and commenced as follows: "I am awful tired and worn out with our fearful longmarch .to-day ; ain't you V ' Yee; but I am resting" : Tf we could only kill some Indians once in awhile it would be some patisfac-
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down,-over burning sands and in t e cold of the mountains, wearing men out for nothing I don't believe we!H ever see an Indian; do you rt . MIt looks-that way.? Still, we may nnd them!' : .
"I dou't go much on Crook. He's got'
a of a reputation for fighting Indians, but I. think ifs all on paper nmifinaTUi f ollr Irvn'f vati
ft should' nt wonderi" ... Here an fficer-apnroached,saluted,and
preiacing his verbal message by calling
Crook "General," the soldier realized his
predicament, dropped his few sticks of
wood and broke for Jgasjy worse i Tight
ened than if he had been suddenly sur
rounded by yelling Apaches.
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- "U nominated again, would HancocK run better than in 3880?' was ashed and the reply was, 'He would have -to run
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uhk allndine to the; campaign of 1880, Jmlge Black was sery : severe on the news TMper correeTJMbndent who gave- publicity to a statement respecting the tarirl.alleg-
ed to have been made by Hancock, but whsah the judge characterized as n lie cut
out of the wh4e cloth. He was even more pnr.eDtia his remark xe-pelting Senator Bandolph, of New Jersey, in advising General Hancock to make a- writtec statement conceinjnhat alleged in ter view en thetarhf - 5 , ""Randolph a high-tarinT man, and thit ought to have disqualified him from grring adv.ee to a democratic candidate far president;' said the judge, taking another dainty chew of tine cut, made from the choicest of Lancaster county tobacco, and ending the sentence with the remark: "No man can be a good democrat who be-
ihmiBim airtarihTfor protection and has
ni rirht to ad vise undemocratic candidate ' for president.?--" ?1 -; ?-'"-'V
1Will fche repubHcaas nominate Gener
al Arthur?" i.
The judge hteitated a full minute, then
replied with an emphatic "No. -If Arthur
s hould be nominated he would not stand
t be reinoteet chance of an election,'
THE GRAND ABMTS OBJECT.
.Interview with a Prominent Member.
"What is the object of the Grand Army
of theKepubfic?1
Mltis the real army of the United
Btates. It is an association of veterans who are ready to fight for the government ;m ease of a war. We number over 80,- ' 000 picked men, 90 per cent 1 of whom
h could be relicd npon by the governxxent f aa BoAdiera in a ease o&ueoesaity. ' m1b it not a political organization Most decidedly, no,v '
Has this body any candidate for the
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-ir a -'t member of your, organization
were to-be nominated would he not com-
j mandthe solid vote of the aboiety V
- yneeter Ar Arthur, John A- Lo- . 8 Ottoeral WilKam T. Shennaii, and
umuj uwuar uwnaguished men aie mem-
bera of our grandarmy; yet, if any oneof
iV. : awm too io oeiwmmated he vnld tint
, Khope to secure any more votes than he would from any other Northern commu-
my on a similar number. Votini? is an
- dividual matter with the Grand Army. If
4e - attempt to make a political
iwwmiiewtte (Irand Army, it would
-it BoonOisoand. Those who find it hard to
oemve rn pure patriotism may find it hard to believe there are over 80,000 man
ti """W Mllf -iconny Kj the one tie of
-The Editor's Trousers.
Century. .
- An editor m uoioago recently oraerea
a pair of trousers from the tailor. On try
ing them on they proved to be several
inches too long. It being late on Satur-
dav nicrht. the tailor's shop was closed,
and the editor took thertrousers to his
wife and asked her to cut them ofi and
hem? them oven; The good lady, whose
dinner, perhaps, had disagreed with' her,
brusquely refused; The samo result fol
lowed an application to the wife s sister
and the eldest daughter. But before bed time, the wife relenting, took the pants,
and, cutting off six inches from the legs,
hemmed them up nicely and restored
them to the closet. Half an hour later
her daughter, taken with, compunction of
her unfilial conduct,1 took the trousers, and. cuttin&r off six inches, hemmed and
replaced them. Finally, the sister in law l et the pangs of conscience, and she, too performed an additional surgical operation upon the garment. When the editor appeared at breakfast on Sunday the family thought a Highland chieftain had arrived. -i, - . . The; Yanderbilts, New York letter. VWhen the Vauderbilts cime suddenly into poeession of vast wealth they splurged of course. lft their nature to?' All the Vanderbilts overdress, Wm. H. differs from his father, who was-quiet in manner and despieed show of all hinds. The one public show of the old man's life was on the road but even there, although a brutal reckles driver, he bore himself with dignityjwhich was as naturalito him who made the fortune, as its absence is to the present "Vanderbilts who spend it. It must be conceded that Jay Gould has none of the popicock about him. He prefers to silently steal away from men. He goes to theaters often, but not with a floursh an d very
seldon with a lady. When Vanderbilt goes
he sits in the far front of a box with his
face to the audience, unless he is in Wal
lace's when he turns his lamps on Miss
Coghlan the moment she touches the stage
and keeps them there until she leaves,
then he faces the audience with his re d
face ana wuck moutn ln wnion, nine
tunes in ten,;, ne carries 'ana enews a
toothpick.
'Liked to A-Died A-Laughing."
Toronto Mail.
A lady residing- on Queen street started to laufirh at some amusing incident at
about 11 o'clock on Saturday morning.
and kept on doing so until she attempted
to stop, when she found she could not.
Dr; Duncan was called in who said the
ease was serious. She is now recovering,
jmt is not quite out of danger. '- '. "l m'' M '. . .
Agnes sorer, lamons ior ner wit 4 ana beauty, was the first to have diamonds
cut with facets.
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The use of oil stoves has greatly dimi
nished the consumption of coal among
the poorer classes in New York.
: The Delaware peach trains have begun
to arrive in Boston, and there is a temp orary paniekly feeling in beans.
A small-souled clerk in the Interior Department at Washington has won fame bv demanding that his vacation cover
thirty working days, as the law exempts
him from holding down a stool on Sun
days and holidays. ; K. H. Sanders, of th3 special United States treasury commission just returned from Europe,, expressed the belief that England will remove iis restrictions on the importation of American cattle, but that Germany wilt not remove its restrictions on the importation of American pork until this government inaugurates a system of thorough inspection. The Commissioner general of the Land Office 1 tas been investigating certain reports reaching that office of extensive timber deprecations on public lands adjacent to the Canadian boundary line. While the facts have been somewhat exaggerated, the Commissioner is convinced that depredations on a great scale would soon follow. Of .the timber already stolen a large percentage has been seized by the government, and criminal proceedings will be begun against the guilty persons. The Seoietary of State will aho be requested to take the necessary steps to secure the arrest and surrender of offending Canadians to the United States judicial tribunals. :. The Supervising inspector-general of steam vessels reports that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1S83, the total number of accidents i.esnlting in loss of life was 34, of which twelve were from explosions, 5 from fire, 11 from collisions, and 6 from snags, wrecks and sinking. The total number of lives lost by acci
dents from various causes during the
year was 284, of which 69 were from explosions or accidental escape of steam, 82 from collisions, 45 from firee, 50 from wrecks or founders, S3 from accidental drowning, and 5 from other causeB. As compared with the previous fiscal year the number of accidents to steamers was less, while the loss of life was greater, as the following will show: Total number of accidents to steamers resulting in loss of life in 1882 was 41 ; ditto in 1883, 34; decrease 7. Total number of lives lost in 1882, 205: ditto in 1883, 284; incrense, 70. The main increase occurred in accidents caused by collisions, 48 lives being lost in excess of the number lost in 1882. The next greatest was lost by shipwreck, being forty-four more than the previous year. The increase by explosion was 18. The loss by fire, accideiital drowning and miscellaneous was lesBthan the previous
year. The most serious single accident of this year was caused by the collision of the steamers Scotia and John Lamas, which occurred in the Muskingum river near a place called Mingo Junction, on July 4, resulting iu the loss of forty-eight lives. A sad reflection in the loss of life on the Scotia is the tact tht notwithstanding the sinking of that vessel no lives need necessarily have been lost, as the saloon deck of the steamer, where the ggjf nassengers were," was only submersed to
exceeding two and hurrican deck wss four to five feet above the waters edge. The great loss incurred must therefore be attributed to the fright and panic natural to suc h accidents causT ing the passenrerSnto tlirow themselves overboard. Assistant " Postmaster-General Hezen said tuesday sthat the surplu revenue of the Postoflico Department would probably exceed $2,5090,000 for t e last fiscal year, and advance of $.1,000,000 over the surplus of the previous year. "The saving is largely due' S8ys General Hazen, flto the cutting down of t he star-route expenditures incident to the exposure of te star roterings j3mes was'proud of his record in the departments, but bin successors, Howe and Gresham, have made an even better showing than he did. The net amount saved under JamesTs management was small. While cutting downjniany conspicuous extravagances, he increased the expenditures of the department in other ways, the mostnotaVe case being the putting on of a special train from Philadelphia to Harrisburg at an expense to the government of 80,000 annually r for the benefit of Smith, of the PhilaMphia Pies. Howe put a stop to this schema on entering ofiSce, General Hazen thinks that the reduction ofjletter pos3ge will not oausea deficit next year. He-looksfora sufficient increase of mail matter to"- enable the department with careful management, turn a han dsome sum into theitreasury on the
1st of July next year.
Iu view of the rjcent financial disturb
ances growing out of the flurry on Wall
street, some interest is felt as to whether
the Comptroller of the Currency, will soon call for a statement of the condition of the National Banks of the country. He is authorized under the law to issue five calls during the year. The custom has been to issue a call every quarter and an
extra one-whenever the condition of the banks seemed to warrant it. Comptroller Knox is out of town at present, and it
is not likely that any call will be made in
his absence. Certain New York parties
have been very anxious to obtain information as to the likelihood of such a call
being made soon. 3"nqniry was made at
the Comptroller's oifice Saturday, and it
can be authoritatively stated that no call
will probably be made before the 1st of
October. This will not bring out a statement as to J he collaterals on which the
banks loaned money or the amount
loaned by them during the recent de
pression in Wall street, but it is said at the Comptroller's office that there need be no apprehensioEt that a call at this time would develop anything adverse to
the banks. The statement would on'y
develop the relative condition of the banks in. the matter of loaut3 and discounts
as alloted to their resources. Special ex
am 'nations are ordered from time to time to determine the exact status of individual banks, but this will not be done except in rare cases,and the feeling at the Comptroller's office is thai: the National banks of the country ace generally in a solvent condition. . The syetematic robber' of ex-soldiers and pensioners by the claim-agent harpies resident here is even more extensive and Jar-' eaching than has generally been
supposed. Every day sinct the exposure of the Fitzgerald aaug additional facts
have come to light illustrative of the
swindling methods The fee-and-ex-penseB-in-advance Bstom of extortion ap
pears to have been the favorite rackot,and it was Worked for a Hit was worth. To
extract this, the most ingeniously worked
circulars are sent broadcast among the
ex-soldiers, and every inducement offered
to mak some sort of a oiaim against the
government Nine out of ten of these
tion in the Pension Office. It is not an exaggeration to say, with the former Com
missioner of Pensions, that one out of every five which went through were fraudulent. This is beginning to be found out. A Pension Office official says there is no reasonable doubt that more money has been fraudulently abstracted from the Treasury in one year on false pension claims than was obtained by the starroute ring iii the same time, and about which the country has heard so much; $100,000,000 in a single year formed a tempting prize to the pension -agent rinT, and out of it this pension ring must have got upwards of $10,000,000, their particulag portions being in fees and expenses. Claims by the hundreds and thousands are made up here in Washington, and sent ready-made to the ex-soldiers for signature and oath. Many men are found too honest to perjure themselves thus, but the temptations offered by the arrears act, which offered several thousand dollars in a lump if the case w eat through is too great io most eases to be resisted. The more squeamish are urged by circulars and letters to eign and "wear and forward. One of these circulars.; from N. W. Fitzgerald & Co., dated April 26, 1883, addressed, "Friend and client1 says it is sometime since the claim waa made up, and urges that it be signed, sworn to,and returned immediately. "Millions .of money," it says, "have been appropriated,and we can file your claim and secure to you the benefits of the recent enactment." Another sircular says the cases ' of those who pay their fees in advance "will be made special' ' by the department Every effort is being made to get hold of that fee. The sj'stem of wholesale prjury is believedto have been carried on to a greater extent than has ever yet been stated. In compliancy with a request made by the proprietors of one of the popular patent medicines which is widely sold throughout this country under the general name of bitters, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue tuesday rendered a decision in regard to the liability of such quasibeverages. He holds that where bitters are sold in good faith as medioine no special tax since July 1 will be required. An analysis of the particnlar specimen of bitters on which this decision was. .rendered, showed the following result: Abso
lute alcohol 32percent., water 64 per cent,
essential oils and flavoring extracts 4 per cent Upon this analysis it was estimated that the sample contained 82 per cent or
ordinary whisly, .
HOW WE TRIED TO LICK THE TEACHER, TOLD AT TIU5 OLD SETTLERS MEETING,
The Goldeu liUdUvr' of Charity. (From Mi iron ides, after the Talmud. There are eight degrees or steps, sayi Maiinonides in the duty of charity. The first and lowest degree is to give, but with reluctance or regret. This is the gift of tho hand but not the heart. The second is to give cheerfully, but not proportionately to the distress of the sufferer. The third is to give cheerfully and proportionately, but not until we are solicited. , The fourth is to give cheerfully, proBfjnjtely, and even unsolicited; but to "punShaSr man's hand; thereby
exciting in nimrai3&&
turning. . WfPs&r9 The fifth is to crive charity, in '8ueM.
wav that the distressed may receive tfie
bounty, and know their benefactor with-
out tneir oeing kdow.u w, uiui. uiwu was the conduct of some of our ancestors, who used to tie up money in the hind corners of their cloaks, so that the poor might take it tin perceived. The sixth, which. rises still higher, is to know the objects of pur bounty, but remain unknown to them. Such was the conduct of those of our ancestors who used to convey their charitable gifts into poor people's dwellings, taking care that their own persons and names should remain unknown.. , The seventh is still more meritorious, namely, to bestow charity in such a way that the benefactor may not know the relieved objects, nor they the name of their benefactor; as was done by our charitable forefathers during the existence of the temple. For there was in that holy building a place called, the Chambei'' of Silence or Inostentation, wherein the good deposited secretly whatever their generous hearts suggested, and from which the most respectable poor families were maintained with equal secrecy. V Lastly, the eighth and the most meritorious of all is to anticipate charity, by preventing poverty ; namely, to assist the reduced brother either by a considerable gift or a loan of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding up his hand for charity. And to this Scripture alludes, when it says: "And if thy brother be waxen poor and fallen in decay with thee, then thou shalt support him; yea, though he be a stranger or a sojourner ; that he may live with thee." Levit 25: 35. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's Golden Ladder. ' losers 4i' Money, Detroit Free Press.) "Pardon me for troubling you, sir, but did you drop a $20 gold piece 1" asked a man with an earnest look on his face and a memorandum book iu his hand, of
a well-dressed individual on the corner
of Jefferson and Woodward avenues. The man addressed ran his hand nervously into various pockets and replied: "Well, now, I declare! Can it be possible lihat I was so careless as to drop
that coin? Yes; it's gone. I must havo dropped it right here, near where we stand." : ... ... .,,r. The man opened his memorandum book, took from his vest pocket the stub of a lead pencil and said : ., ... v. "Will you favor me with your nam and address." ... .,. They were given, and the. questioner started on, when the well dressed man cried:' "Hi, there! Where's the mouey. Gie me my gold piece.' "Oh, I didn't lind any money. I took a notion this morning that in a city like this, where thousands and thousands of dollars arc handled every hour, there must be great losses, and started out to investigate the matter. Between here and the river I round seven men that lost twenty-dollar gold pieces, and I ex pect to run the list up to 200 before I reach the City Hall. Good-day sir.
I wu.5 a boy o soventeon ungainly, dull an1 tfil!t Ez green ez eny gozlin. but I tho't I knew it nil. I won to school at Piano. I chopped up wood an' corded Fur fiZophnriiat: Wilkinson to pay him far my board. One day Philetus Phinroy, another boy iu school. About ez rough and raw ez 1 about oz big a fool Jiat hinted, in a private way, 'twould bo a right smart featnr' An1 jriV ns lote o'glory, if we'd up an lick the .. teacher. He wouldn't ask no better fun than jist to make him climb. Wo'd tiov a long vacation an a whopper o a rime The teacher ho wuz sickly ho wuz not ez bi;g ez II knew that we could bounce him if we didn't half but try, ' Fur eny one on lookiu' at him would a said on sight . Thor' wuzn't eny eaud in him an1 not a speak o' fight. Ilia hands they wan't accustomed much to hangin' on to plows. To hoin' corn, to cradlin wheat, ormilkin, twenty cows, . Philetus said he'd use him far a mop to tuop the floor, ' An when he b'jgged an' hollered that we'd hist Mm ont tho door. We too! the beys at recess o' the plofcthat we hed planned; They ."aid 'f wo couldn't down him they' lend a helpin liand: . But big Phlletns Phinney, he wuz ticketed ez could be To think we tho't a snip liko that could liok a . chap lick he; F I'd kick th bucket over, he'd make the teacher dance . .. He'd flop hini in the water, and he'd mop it with his pant3. We heard the school-bell rigin', we scrambled in pell-meU; I ran again' the water-pail, on puppns, and I fell: I struck upon a stik o' wood. I badly raked my skin, Tho wather swoshe d upon me, an' it wet me to tlie skin . Why the scrawny little teacher, why? he bounced from his cha r. He took me by the trowser's and he held me i.n the ar Then round an round an' round an' round he whirled, mo like a top. An' when I seed a thousand stars ho sudden let me drop: Ho took me an he shook me till I tho't that I ... should die. He swished me with his ruler till my pants were nearly dry. While big Philefcns Phinney he wuz jist too scard . to attgn, He let the teacher thrash dm till I hollered like , a calf. An' all the other fightin' boys, with white an' frightened looks, . dot shakin' m the rvory boots an ras'lin with the'r hooks: , An' O, how hard they, studod not a feller spoke or stirred They dido't dar to whisper or to say a single word, Whar' is that little teacherlthat giv' me sicha .. scar.. He still is peaked lookbi' he's settm over thar' An tho he nearly seventy, an sickly yit, I vow Pd hate to hev him ft those hands o his'n on me .. now: .. . -3., He taught me one great lesson by that flogipn in his school; That a braggart an a bully ar' a coward an' a .. fool. v. From 4Away Out West," by Eugene J. J Jail,
THE.PASSKNGER'S STORY.
How He Helped Them Across. Leesburg News-Advocate. Two of our belles while walking omt the other day came to a ditch near the railroad grade at Montclair, which they did noil know how to get over. Seeing: a young man coining along the road, they appealed to him for help, whereupon he pointed behind them wifli a startled axr and yelled out -'Snakes." The way thoae girls crossed that ditch was a sight to bfr hold, and the young man still lives, Two white girls were arrested at Char
cases could not stand u minute examina-
lotto, N. C , while attempting to leave tho city with two negroes. liaise fichus aro high style.
'nbo niarbf. moil nnoTi tb rhimVkPrlnnd
aiiiiIra had reached the heavy upgrade alfeigOes beyond Kanakia fljatinn. whfiTi it iifinAi.-",lort to-the
passengers that eomethinaoeSi
i didedly wrong. The speed of the train
sensibly slackened; there came a Series of tremendous Jolts, accompanied by a curious and unpleasant whirring fionnd, followed in turn by a complete" stoppage. A dosn heads were thrust inquisitively out of the car windows, and as many voices insisted upon knowing all about it immediately. In these days of magnificent collisions and holocausts the travel-
public exhibits an astonishing
mg
amount of interest in railway concerns, to the great 6eorn and indignation of oflicials connected. "You have nothing to fear,'' said the conductor, who passed through the car superb in gold buttons and official dig"We have struck an up-grade hill where an oil train stopped an hour ago. The tracks are oiled and thedrivens don't take hold. We shall get the saucl running in half a minute. It was doubtless clear enough to those who understood such matter?, but to me his explanation was mere Jargon. As somebody once said of Oolcridge'fii commentary upon his poem "Cristabel," I wished he "would explain his explanation." , The gentleman who occupied the seat immediately in front of me, a fine, midr die-aged person, with an erect, military air, seemed to have no difficulty in making out the state of affairs. He smiled and rodded with an exceedingly knowing look, and was preparing to settle himself comfortably is his seat again, when I tapped him on the shoulder and said: "Excuse me, sir, but what has oosnrred The conductor e explanation is 3hinese to me. What does he mean by the track being oiled?" The gentleman turned. about and faced me. "It is simple matter," he said courteously, "to those who have an idea of railroad affaire. The oower of an. engine depends upon the friction of the drivers
on the trackstaking hold, as itis called.
If there is oil upon, the rails, especially upon an up-grade, there is no friction, consequently the wheels spin around npon the tracks without moving tne train." "Ah, I comprehend," said I. "I could illustrate the case by an event which occurred to me on this very spot some years ago. I have always thought it a very remarkable incident, and perhaps you may find it so. The circumstance I refer to took place during the war. I was at that; time adjutani; under Gen. Thomas staff during the exciting and momentous campaign iu the mountains of Tennessee. If yovr remember, there were many times when it was feared that our hour had come. Our communications were repeatedly cut off and- onr whole command in danger of instant destruction. It was at one of thojie discs that the event I am going to rdate occurred. "We were at this time entrenched' upon n spur of the hills around Ghai tanoofa, whither we had been driven by the desperate courage of the confederates. Our own men had fought bravely and well, but they wore athausted with long marches and continued action. Our stores had run low and but one line of com munication was left open to us that of the railroad into the eastern portion ot the State. By a brilliant flank movement the confederates succeeded in throwing a Jiue across this one highway; aod there
we were, hemmed in li ke a wood chuck in his burrow. Starvation or surrender stared us in the face. One or the other of these alternatives ws a ust accept in a
few days at most, unless some unexpect-
ed change took place very speedily. "It is perhaps difficult for as to comprehend fchfi feelings of a commander, hitherio successful, m& with the mte, perhaps, of a nation depending upon his actioa, placed in such a position as our General th-n was. I saw his face grow hourly more pale and despairing, is step slower aid moro feeble, and his whole air that oi a maai whose heart and spirit was breaking under the strain. But Thomas was not the man to yield until every resource had been sounded to the bottom. And there was one resource yet leffc--a desperate and almost hopeless one, it is true. j . "Forty miles to the eastward of us lay Stocktons conmand' of nearly 30,000 men, serenely unconscious of our danger and their own. SeVeral days before Stockton had bean dhted to occupy a pass in the mountains! on the left, and to hold it intil further orders. Of course, unaware of the predicament of the main anny, he would make ;no movement for our relief. Communiioations were now cut ofl, and it seemed la matter of utter imxssibility to recpeiii them through the heavy line of Confederates which lay across the railroad. ; Thomas, however, determined to try it, a ud I was selected for the dangerous, but; honorable duty of the attempt. fWe had reason to suppose that the enemy had not destroyed the railroad, and that if we were not captured at the outset we might get an engine through to Kanakia station, wljiere Stockton lay. At 10:30 my orders trere given me, and I mounted the engin3, which was either to carry me to my deaSh, or to save the army. It was not a powerful machine, but it was the best at i our disposal, and in good order, fortunately. One of our men, who had been an engrineer, undertook to manage the engine, riiid another to fire it. Both were oool, tried men, but as we stepped into the: cab together I saw them shake hands with their comrades and bid them fere well1 Evidently neither of them expected to! get through alive. 'Put in a couple of extra tallow cans, John," said the engineer. "We are going to make tme, imd I expect the old machine will heat up finely." "The cans were stowed away in the caboose, the engineer oponed the throttlevalve, and amidst an "impressive silence in the crowd surrounding the starting point, we moved slow!:? away. About two miles distant lay the first battery which theenemy had thrown open to command the road; beyond that were sev ral more, to 6ay nothing of the picket lines scattered along the tracks. So you see Wb. were to run a pretty warm gauntlet. "We had proceeded but a very short distance when there whs a flash and a report from the shrubbery skirting the road and a bullet crashed tl .rough the window of the cab. An outpo&t had already discovered us, and had given us a foretaste of what we were to-expect further on. " 'Let her out? I sai 1 to the engineer. 'There is no use in try ing to hide ourselves. Speed is our rinly chance now.' " 'f 'Very good, sir!' replied the engineer, opening the valve as ho spoke. The engine bounded like a spurred horse. On we went, swaying from side to side, until
lijltsljemcd as if we must jump the track.
Meanwhileionfrien J along the road
were not idle.
tied by us, but f orfninntely, wha
darkness and rapidity of the motion,none of them reached us. "We had now arrived in sight of tihe first battery. By tihe lights moving hurriedly along the parapet it was obvious that our approach was expected. As we passed abreast of the battery it gave us its first compliment in the shape of a round shot, follow by a storm of grape, Here again the darkness and our speed saved us. Several of the grape shot glanced ofi the frame of the engine without doing any damage, however. " 'Give her some ma4e fire, John, said the engineer grim) y. 'If they happen to kuock a hole in us with one of them bite of iron you won't do no more firing, my boy, I can tell you that. " 'Not in this world, anyway responded the fireman, with Saturnine humor, 'Oan't tell wlat 1 may do in the next. "ihe reckless b) avery of the two men in the face of such danger shamed away my own arising tremor, and I folded my arms and looked toward the battery ,whioh
was evidently preparin g to give us anoth er salute. It came in the way of a conical shot, with so true an aim that it whizzed within a foot of ti e boiler and carried oil the bell, which felt with aclang upon the bushes. ' : " 'Thank you, said the engmeer, with a grxn, 'we didtft need the . bell, anyhow. Yon can use it yourseli'es ; to -ring to dinner with.' "By this time we had passed ont of the range of the first battery, and we were under the guns of two more. These works had'b-en coastr acted to oommand the j unction of our. road -with another running south. There was also a station at this point, and as we whirled bv I saw an engine standing upon a siding with steam up. 1 caught siht of a number of
men running toward it as well as others busy with at a car which stood near it. W hat they were at I could not make out, for we passed thm like a flash of lightning At this moment, too, the battel ies, which had probably received telegraphic notice of our approach, opened fire upon it aud fop a moment the air seemed to bo alive with shrieking iron. " 'More fire, John!' cried the engineer; 'ram her full to the doors, or it's all: up with us. - "The fireman utooped to obey, but at that moment a shell struck upon the ca boose and burst within three feet of us. It was a ten-inch jnonster, and how any of us escaped alive I fail to see. As it was, when the smoke and dist cleared away, I found the top oi the cab gone, a portion o the caboose torn oftj and tho fireman ljdng in a heap with one arm broken. :'I am knocked -out, Wilham,' he groaned, 'and who's to fire her for thereat of the trip?u 'I will,' said Is I think ! oan manage iV . - . "After placing' the poor fellow in e4s comfortable position an possible, Iseiz)d tho shovel and began my now duties. "By this time we hacl passed out of the range of the bat'terie8,, which now and then, however, sent a sullen shot iu . our direction, as a parting evidence of their good will. , " 'We are eat?,' I said, with a sigh of reiiof; 'that was their list line of works. f:Che road is oler before us,'
Bullet after&buil -Me-
" 'I hope so, sir, responded the engine3r. 'How's your arm, John?' " 'Very bad, William, groaned the fireman; but that ain't the worst of it. We ain t through with the trouble yet " What do you mean,' I asked. The scouts say that there are no troops beyond, except our own at Kanakia statjon.' " 'But they're following us,' replied ihe fireman. 'They're after us hot and heavy.' "I looked at the engineer, under t he impression that the poor fireman was in a delirium with his injury. ... '"He's right, captain, listening intently. 'Sure aa fate they have pulled out that engine we saw at the junction, and are chasing us.' ' . " Bnt there is no possibility of their overtaking us,' I replied. . " T don't know about that he said, gravely. 'That engine is a heavy one,and I've seen her make a good fifty miles with a train behind her. This one is a light machine, and I can't promise more than forty at most. Besides, they have tbe advantage of us in the fact that they have & car attached .and we are running alone,' . ,: ... . " 'I should suppose that our lighfeuess would be rather in our favor than otherwise,' I responded. . . .. .:,. '"Got something to baiancebergrunted the fireman, sententiously, " 'John is right explained the engineer. 'You see, sir, if an engine has no weight behind her sho is apt to jump and pound the rails, and if yon put her at full speed, to get ofi the track altogether. So, while that engine behind us can do hf r
level best, we can't even let out to forty
miles without danger of a smash-up "I now comprehended i he exten t of our peril. We had only run tho gauntlet of Scylla to be more effectually destroyed by Charybdis. To hav been killed by a round shot from the fort would at least have been a soldier's death. To be run down and picked off coolly like ducks in a puddle was to put it mildly, a decidedly undignified way of settling accounts with the world. As for surrender, I am certain that neither of my comrades bought of it as a menus of escape any more than I did. A sacred trust, involving the fate of an army, perhaps" of a nation, h & been placed with ns. To yield it to any but the skeleton hand of death itself was a notion that never entered onr heads. It was, then, life and more than lite, that hung upon theissue, and it was with such sensations as cr.me to few men's experience that we listened to , tbe dull roar of the approaching engine." "Meanwhile our own little machine was not idle. I had kept the furnace at white heat. The steam- pent up in the boiler, groaned and w heezed lilce the breathing of an imprisoned giant, the wheels spun around upon the tracks, crashing from side to side, un'il there were moments when even the engineer peered with a startled eye out of the side window at the complicated mechanism below. As we passed over a long tresle bridge, across a wide marsh I saw merging from the shadows at the other sua, the- black form of the pursuing engine, followed by. the car, through whose lighted window a crowd of anned men were visible. Here we had a momentary advantage, for desperate as our enemies might be, the 'engineer dared not carry his weighty engine over the light frame work as rapidly as we had gone. It was but.a trifling gain, however for once oi. the solid roadbed again, the monster came on at redoubled speed; " 'More fire, captain muttered the en-
5jLi2er,rr tin 9 momenc, -on cms graae we
mvdb4-will'-pe all oyer in five minutes. i-,. "I opened the furnace door began shoveling in the coal. Upon the utant
wci uuiiiiu uu mure ipiuiy man ever. . -r We were at the foot of the very upgrade where we now am It extends for nearly V three miles beyond Kanakia and is one f 'r? of the heaviest in the country. It was at.. t; this point that our fate was tube decided ",; J ,": From the moment we rah upon it our.;- . light engine began to lose ground1 JiopjBN lessly. "Our pursuers were now so newuV; ; that we could plainly observe the vaoye- -:. ments of those in the engine cab, by the; light of their gauee iamo. The nlatforin ; '
of tbe oar was crowded with them,cocking .g "J-., it ;
their muskets and making reading ,realy
for an extermiop.ting volley.
" 'Oh, for fiv3 minutes more V I groaned' . . . . It ia horrible to be trapped or -killed ". - sight of fiiends and safety; v "4" V" 'Yes muttered the engineer; there V. is no hope now. When ,tbey fire there -vT won't be much left of ua And tbey :wjll- ; p0rt too, in halt a momeut ', . r ' vfy'i " Tye an ides said the fireman, aria-. iig stffly from the corner. ; fI can't fight . v v
and I can't fire the engine, but- Pye one arm left, and that'll, do to hold her steady
while you and William put a spoke in (? ; J
their wheel.
.'"But how?' cried the engineer. 'Speak '. .'!.!' " '.' "I'll."" " T ' 'r ""'V;
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" 'Where are the tallow cansl we ut
aboard?' asked the fireman: ; ' " " 'Bravo, John; just the thingl exclaimed the engineer, as if perceiving a mean-: ing in the other's Words, which escaped ;;c
me utterly. 'Captain, those dispatches are Safe, and yon are it to Johni :5for. 'M never should have thought of it in a life time. f ' ... I. J'.' - "By this time the fireman was standing at the valves, and the engineer had found the tallow cans, f wo brass vessels, each holding a gallon or more, with long curv--ed sponte. One 'of thtfse he gave to me,
while he kept the other blmsehV and we v
scrambled over the coals to the rear of
the tender. I had not the remotest idee . of what we were going to aocomplieh, but there was no time to lose in explanation. u 'Now said my companion, in an ex- r? cited tone, 'lean over and pour yonrv' tal; low caretnlly npon tihe- track , as we go... along. Don't waste a drop and don't let s foot of rail nnsoiled -" .v .. "I obeyed him & silence, and scon the ;, tracks for a longdistance behind lis were ! shining with the . thick, greasy fluid. J When the contents of the earn wwreex hansted the engineer said; as-he . aroset from his position, I think we hare fixei J them. John, old man, you oan ease her upVi; a trifle. We needn't smash the machine with trying to get away. - We shaU Aavis no more feronble to-inghfe v"; "
"I looked back and saw that onr pnr 5 i suers had just reached the oiled section i: of the track. Their own momentum cari ried them forward some distance; then- ; there was a harsh, whirring sound and a . furious escape of steam. All was plain tpfe. :
me now. un tne np-grade tne anvers, finding no resistance on the oiled tracJnJ x simply whirled around, without bearing " the engine onward a foot. It wsw ..asybslpT less as a hamstrung elephanv t . Yr ? "At this moment shot was fired in the : road before ns,- and a hoarse ' voice com mandd ns to halt. Well aware ths& we were now among friends, our engine was: stopped and the facta - explained to thej officer in command of the detachment f .
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pursuers -and their engine were n
captured. Stockton's division madeTa forward movemenV and. reUeved Gen. Thomas and hk army from their perilons
position. As for myself and my braw
companions, we wore urn . luii$vmu, I am glad to say that the invejitive Jobrij whose timely suggestion had -saved our
engine, and perhaps our army, left, tbe service with the rank of captain inL the:
. Engineer Corps."
there was a flash and report from the cs Having finished his storyi onr M windows of the pursuing engine, and a ri- 'train at the same time bBifW4 file ball smashed the nlorlr innnrmk . . ::r. - -li-l ZLLalS -: ..
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. "'Ihe flame gives them a fine mark observed the engineer, calmly. The ball was meant for mejand but for the swaying of the engine it would have hit, too. "I completed my task as soon as possible and closed the furnace door. We were
nq w in darkness again,andif a ball reach
ed us it must be by accident. Our enemies made no further attempt, however; confident, doubtless, of running us down very shortly. And ell they might be. We had ten miles yet to run before reaching a point where they would themselves be in danger of capture or destruction from our own division at Kanakia. Durs ing the last ten mites they had decreased the distance one-half, and running as we now were, it would be all up with us in Uve miles more. "Is there nothing we can do?" I asked .anxiously. " ' ... ; " 'Pitch something on the track said the fireman from his corner 'Maybe you can oateh their wheels. Try one of the fire-bars '"It's a good idea, Tohn," replied the engineer; "perhaps you had better make the experiment, captain.' "I seized one of the heavy bare, a piece of metal as thick as a crowbar and ten feet long, and clambering over the coal in the caboose, leaned down and dropped the bar as nearly as I could across the track. Heaven forgive me! but with what interest I waited for some crash or ont cry which should signal the destruction vt our pursuers. In a moment more t here was a sharp clang along the rails behind us, and a crackling among the bushes lin
ing the road, -tf." 'She has 'it off said the engineer, ' Pry my heavy overcoat. Fve known a piece of cloth like that to get among the w heels and jam them so that you could't stir them an inch' "I did as directed. The garment fell across the track, and exactly where the forward trucks could strike it. Presently there was a heavy jolting sound behind vis, and a shrill escape of steam. . " 'Caught cried the engineer. 'If it has only wedged iuto the piston bar, they may work all night before they get it out.' 'Some accident had certainly happened to our enemies, tor all sounds of pursuit rapidly died away and wo began to breathe freer. We had now reaohed a point within five miles of Kanakia, in two or three more we should be within the line of our outposts. At that moment I saw the engineer lean forward and listen intently again. ........ " 'What is it?" I asked, '"After us again he said quietly 'The eoat merely retarded them a little. There t hey' are!' .... ;. I . . , .. . 1 could now plainly perceive the black figure of the engineemitting whiteolouds of steam into the pale night sky, whirling swiftly around a curve not sixty rods-be
hind. Angered by the delay, and knowing that if we were to be captured at all it must be within the next ten nnutee they
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