Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 May 1891 — Page 7

I1I8M8S THIEVES SIITIil'CS

HAHHU'ttTOK I14K A POI'l t.tTIOI OP CROOKS or ALI. K1SHS.

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[Special Washington CorresjybDUcnce.] It ts claimed by the pollcc department of this city that the District of Columbia Is the best governed, be&t jruarded and least criminal community in our country. Upon the surface, that is, so fsf asvisitors or indifferent ciUzcns ar© concerned, it appears to be a model cJty, ire* irom drunkenness and petty criminality. Bui another city lies beneath this one another population exists other lives breathe into and from the nostrils of a class of human beings of whom the world knows almost uoth|n#. Who haft ever heard of the world jrible pf the u:

IT. ?:v teca iixhahU. "i :U. 000 people. itmrrc 1 to if the :i! ',:\Y jOtspri axel&l e*r~-i wit -hi Hiji.Jn the (ii'irnai

Vend***! at,", seven- I •ys in mis -ity of 250,•4 eKt5niiit-d that one !ley is a fair average which gives us ,"free and untramizcan of the alley !,f the capitol, almost shadow of its dome.

•Phase *u*c the people who require the maintenance of a police department. There are "Louse alley," "Jackson Hall alley," "Tincup alley" and others ,of equally euphonious names scattered

All over the city. Probably as good a tyjMMi'i a is "Tincup alley," at the junctlorV'f trc-t and Maryland aveDt'c, th blocks from the b.'ise of Capitol 11 ill. and one block t.u- (treat Botanical ^ardetis. I ft 18»:»-4, wiica the ••oinpuiv):- improveraenth were going1 on in Washington, the block of nquaro frround bounded by street,Mainland avenue and Four-and-a-half tri ct, was found to be far below the coat •mplated gTade, and the streets were raided about three feet-, so that the entrant' to "Tincup alky" slopes very harply until it reaches the original I-vel in the center of the square. The alley wrus once paved with cobblo .tones, but they have been lost to sight and memory dear, lo these many moons for they are. all covered over with mud —and it in alley raud, too. Of all the slums in the city, "Tincup alley" is probably the most accessible for the night-hawks who drink and brawl in the ccntcr of the city.

These alley folk are of various shades of color—yhen water reveals their true complexions occasionally. The negroes are predominate, but the inhabitants pound the gamut of color, the chromatic scale, as it were for they vary in every conceivable shade from inky blackness s« alabaster whiteness. One of the moat beautiful middle-aged women I have e.vcr seen, albeit she was ragged md nr, dt »npe:ir«-d in "Tiueup alley" a "jri'vii! little tin .d hltrn iS though upon a ot to ..»• pierey. A polisemr.ti t^ -'d'.rig near h.- er ansiwercvlmy ioqtrry by saying "She's hnrrs ii home v,»ii 'meshing lo mt for her hr band. She has probably bought il with monc^y obtained' Komehow by herself. Iler husband is the toughest looking 'nigger' yon ever saw. If she don't hurry, she knows he'll beat her with his big fists."

How she sank to that level no one knows, nor does anyone care to inquire, for it is nobody's business apparently. Money is raised for the cause of the heathen in Greenland's icy mountains, India's coral strand, Afric's sunny fountains along their golden sand, and all that sort o' thing but nobody sends missionaries into "Tincup alley." The olfactories of the average cleanly Christian would revolt at the very entrance. Yet, it Is alleged that those people are souls and should be saved. jSnt this is no time fot* moralizing. I saw the husband of that handsome woman just as it was dark. He emerged from

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op ior the business a* burglary. thievery or possibly .u artier. There is a saloon for every alley, and the comI mLssioners of the district of Colombia grant the license*, although all power is vested in them to reject every application. These drinking' places furnish gin for fifteen cents & pint awl they r»v tail wtifol for five cents a drink. There is a murder in almot 1 r\ "u

Near midnight a tall

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shouldered, with long arms, big fists and big feet, r. set tva! kin?? down Maryland avenre tvarJ the gleaming white capItoL ii:, f.U os vvere unsteady, but he went ah.: *i: nbl ing something to himself, evidently having some mission to fulfill, something to be accomplished. The moonlight bathed the capitol in a sheen of moonbeams until it looked like er ,tle in the air, more the creation of imagination than tanreality. The negro "turned into place where light pure moonbeams

"Tincup alley," a ni:vtr o'lmt: :,. v.h^n dure not stray, only to roil their beauty ai*d -sully their character. The lights in the .--alcoas arc being turned out,

the drunken revelers are coning forth, little lamps in alley houses are burning dimly or going out. Still the negro pursues his way down the alley until cbmes to a shanty wherein the noise of revelry continues. There is a "parlor social" going on a home entertainment very popular with dwellers of the alleys. Straight to the door ho goes, and enters. His wife is there, sitting on the knee of another negro, but no objection is raised to that feature of the case. Our first negro and his wife have not been living together for several weeks, the parting being mutually agreeable. However, our negro calls her out in the alley to talk with her. She goes. Her return is delayed, and half an hour later the revelers go out to i.iquire for her. The first one stumbles over a body just outside the door. Without word of warning her husband has ehohed her io death, and then slashed 3.,-r bo iy ho ribly with a razor. Wldsl:y did it cheap whisky. It is only one of the. crimes of the alleys.

Later the same aighfc our tall negro returns to his white wife and baby. Ho can scarcely r.ta/.rgc? along through the mud, but he knows the way, and finally kioks open a door and enters what he calls home. There are two rooms. One is dining-room, washroom, kitchen, laundry, etc., while tho other is bedroom, sitting-room, parlor, bathroom and drawing-room. The young woman, her baby and an old colored woman lie quietly in a bed in tho corner pretending to be asleep. Tho brute staggers across to the bed, strikes the woman a blow and orders her to shut the door which he has just opened. It is done without a murmur. Any back talk, any quarrel in his present condition would bring forth his razor. She stands by the door awaiting his retirement, whetj ho calls her to him. As she approaches with tho child in her arms ho fells her to the floor with his clenched list "just for fun" draws all the elqthes upon tho SSoor. leaving the bed bare, falls down {'. p-illet. u.ui i. In drunken .^1 i.1.o to tead?

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T0 HANDLE FIREARMS.

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A bronzed and bearded sportsman of seventy walked into a big gun store on Broadway and asked for some 23-caliber cartridges. A box was handed out to him and he examined them leisurely with the £ye of an expert "The last I bought didn't fit very well," he observed- "I think Fll try these," and with the familiarity of an old customer he* reached to take a gun down from the rack. "Don't, sir, please," said the proprietor. "You're an old customer and a good one, but it's the rule of the store never to let a gun or pistol be loaded in it." *Bosb," said the sportsman, a trifle i«stily "I've bandied guns before you or any of your clerks was born. I only want to see if they will fit. The last ones I had were a trifle too tight Jo work easily in my target rifle, wliich is this make." And the old sportsman opened the breech of the rifle he had taken down and shook two or three Cartridges out of the box he had just bought. Perhaps he did it a trifle more hastily because of the gun seller's protestation'.. "It's against the rules/* repeated the tte»\ hast ily. "J really can't—" !ah-:'!

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lie r.'.ver finished the science. The man had dropped the cartridge into the gun and close the breech and something bu" -d .-'r:]y wrov fur the first tune in hi, ci perieuce. The y:t: nr bullet whizzed t"..e I- nil and Inried iUelf ui th about ho door, not half where man sat loadinc -My Godr-s-iid t:v never had a tliinsr lil.

wouldn't s'-t tits if with She mesK/e «*f U-, ami vfOtti.'U'tt pull the 'fnni s-tie Anyth'rn nt would :r wtr er.r yrnn in my h.t:d 1 fror.i mr the* "h v. early is t"

,'.ry ox tin lit Ms the store woodwork yard from iridges.

fore." Hi: eh'-ek was v,h'.t s:ad his hand trembled like a leaf in the wind. The xnan who had been loading cartridges showed a sudden pallor, and all the clerks came running tip with consternation in their faces.

After the trouble was well over the proprietor—he was Mr. Ilenry C. Squires—was in a mood to talk about the safe handling of guns. "Yes," he said, "it's the rule of the store to let no arm be loaded in it. We simply won't load a gun or a pistol for a man and let him take it away. The fool who didn't know it was loaded isn't a patch to some of the people who come in here. They will grab the guns off the racks or counters and point them at each other, and play all sorts of monkey tricks. Of course they're ncypr loaded, but it isn't safe to presume upon that. People come in here, with pistols to be repaired. 'Is it, loaded?' we always ask. "Oh, no,' will be the reply. Hut we don't take it for granted. It is the invariable rule in receiving* an arm to look first for cartridges and you'd be surprised to see how often we find them, all rusted in sometimes sure not to go off when burglars are around and quite apt to explode when they're not wanted to."

Can't you give me a few sensible rules about handling a gun?" I asked. "The one important rule is never, under any circumstances, to point the muzzle of a gun or pistol at yourself or anybody else. It makes no difference whether it's loaded or not. Everyone who has anything to do with firearms ought to make this a sort' of second nature, so that

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The «®a®0® jxtxk toegfeaaRff wben militiamen are practicing fhool at nntnbcrs of field r&ages, let *••5' -v weeks the stale camps® will way w!th sham ball sad 6cM work of all sorts. U&oallj men get hart during this raimie vr^.^sre, «nd went from the gua store «sk a Grae&noor marksman, who hasisajgn lots of badges fur rif sSsooHttff, l/there tv»* anj *ajr of avo^jj^ mjcH acc^ieate.

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he rr. lary •, .. ti, al t-.i. :. *iii. Tfce m-tsx ao close *. 3 that if a nam wens to carry his rifle muzzle down like a hunter he'd be plugging the legs of the man ahead of him full of lead. The safest military pose is the familiar one with the rifle over the shoulder, muzzle slanting up. Of course you know the four shooting, positions, standing at one hundred yards, sitting or kneeling at two hundred, lying down at three hundred to six hundred. Then in the long range matches they sometimes lie flat on their backs with the gun resting upon the ture, marksman's—' "How would you get over a fence with a gun?"

legs. That's hardly a military £os-

With a vivid re 1 1me hot summer after. 1 ,\i twenty-two caliber revolver bullet the small of the back of an csc-, who had come into possession of it hi a e- silly piece of boy play with ati-

The marksman seemed a little stag*gered and didn't return a very satisfactory answer. lie seemed to think, however. that it would be a pretty good plan to carry the gun over a fence precisely as if on parade. I am myself of opinion that this wouldn't always be easy. Imagine a man going over a high

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•e -rtce with his rifle in prim osl'ire. Probably it would pirn for militiamen to re

member Mr. Squires' rule of not pointing a gun at anybody while struggling with -b:r hrr! vnd tittering appropriate remarks. it's the disregard of this rule that accounts for the accidents at sham fights. How blank cartridges get mbced up with loaded ones is a mystery, but they do, sometimes. Perhaps the armorer is in too great a huny and makes a mistake, or perhaps one or two of the men happen to have loaded shells in their pockets and put them in by mistake in the excitement which even a sham fight always causes." Then when the oppos ing forces get at close quarters and there is a tremendous racket in the air and guns arc going off at close range ^d with deadly*him, some one is apt to get hurt. This happens even with the blank cartridges sometimes, the mere blaze and shock of the report making ugly burns at eloso quarters. Making it the invariable rule to fire in the air would obviate any possibility of accident.

Two ladies once lived as close neighbors.- Iloth had cherished sons, until one day the son of Mrs. A. got hold of a gun on the sly and by careless management blew his brains out. So soon sis Mrs. B. learned of the accident she bought her boy a gun and arranged to have him taught to use it properly. The horrified remonstrances of the entire neighborhood brought out the very sensible reply that it was better for a boy to have a gun and learn to use it than to be left to get hold of One surreptitiously without knowing, how to keep his skin whole.

Very different mothers must have had two young men whom I knew once who were hunting squirrels one day. When they were ready to go home one of them, holding his gun carelessly by his side, pulled the trigger to discharge it, not wishing to carry it home loaded. Just at that moment he looked up and was frozen with horror to see his companion standing in direct line of fire. But the gun didn't go off. Miraculous as it may seem, the flap of the shooter's open vest had strayed between the hammer and the cap. It was old-fash-ioned sntir-r1 loading shotgun, and if il r.T-ne the othtv udlo

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"itit €..«* tf mirn Ift rn Ih? \"A iVaS boat (kwti ihn rlt'cr 1:3 to e^capc amv ir it dm A a !»18tir.a«'at»aee fcpol-'" ts% hiiau %i~U be/tyy It^r vtnu mistaknrw st-si porsiixtiai^ Auzi tje waul tw poor feikttr v?as delifeerstely •fltelwacPt. Tb«t &txring 41® tntr c.v inch mar1 -xl ft" "if ^ui'ggace. It nt* .:•.}£ dan tTj «ji a *r* «&d fic ,#Ucn.i wasaM:.'.- jK-sr^icr. Ik %o- 1 in ttSBKfSSfiai otfefi-t aatt-r—?

QLANCg AT FOREIGN LANDS,!

though- Xow, when I wonttie ^A^thcrs and earth. IcEkAXD, letters from that island state, had a phenomenal winter, with never a flake of snow or an hour of frest.

$?!.563,00© gSlloa5.j(

sriae last year. OXE of the English hosiery firms robots all stockings purchased of them.

PRUSSIA will probably never get out sf debt. She now owes $1.460,000,000. DIAMONDS in considerable quantities have been discovered in the north of Lapland.

THE ground on which Yakutsk, Siberia, is built, is perpetually frozen to t. depth of 612 feet.

THE Chinese and Thibetans have a

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IT is said in Paris that twice as many crimes are committed by persons between the ages of 15 and 30 as by those between SO and 40.

THS North CMna News sayrs Chinese write most insulting re about foreigners on the backs ox circulated by i3'c .^n bj&ikers v» come in

BEIGA.Y

DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS.

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ElHTOK PfMTC $63,000 in a yacht. MR. W. W. ASTOR pays 32C».O00 a year rent for his London house.

WILSOX BARRETT, the actor, has been sued by Sarony, the Union Square photographer, for SltVj, the amount of an unpaid photograph bill.

JOHN J. IXGAIXS never smokes until after six o'clock in the evening. After that hour he smokes steadily until ho goes to bed at twelve o'clock.

GENTESAX. ALBERT PIKE owned the largest meerschaum pipe in tho world, and he knew how to operate it without materially cutting short the span of his life.-

HENRV IIART, one of New York's railway and steamship magnates, is over eighty, a bachelor, of traall stature, rugged build, and is as active ns a man of thirty. He is said to be worth over 5 .0,000,000.

Gkjt. Peijx Aoxes, edi'-or :nd prietor of the Baltimore Aiacil.-vt, hr.~ become famous r.- a breeder of 'ine horses. lie hn.t baautifv.l farm near Baltimore which ho calls .aeinun.:, the name of his newspaper reversed.

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TEMPTATION for desperadoes exists in the secret hoards of wealth in India. An Allahabad paper estimates that coin and gems to the value of f1,350,000,000 are locked up in that country. In Amrits&r City aloae there are hidden jewels worth S-!0.,. X,.O©Ol

THSRK -ro dve streets in Amsterdam on which ro horse is ever allowed to be drive: ten to draw a hearse or fire-engine. They- are kept as clean as floors, and when a pedestrian wants to rest he sits down in the street in preference to roost on a dry-goods box,

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Eve*y physician to whom the formula has been told says that it is one of the best posaltiplgpmbinationa, and nn claimy been but it

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Trains leaves for the South at 6:00 a ro: 10:26 a. m. and 10:0.)

Trains arrive frosn the South at .':» I am fp. m, aud i0:t0picn. T. II. .v 1'.

Trains leave for the Korlbwcst nt 7:i a S I5 m. Trains arrive from tho Northwest nt il::» and 7:10 m.

E. & I.

Trains leave for the South, mail audexprtH 5:10 am Worth. Mixed 4:05 ra. Arrive from the South, Wor^h mixed 10:30 mail and express, 4:05 m.

C. & K. I.

Trains leave for the North at 5:20 a ni m, Wateeka accommodation, &S0 pin &n 10:20 m.

Trains arrive from the North at 5:45 a mrk 9:50 Watseka accommodation, lQtVi PIG FOUR. Trains leave for the Kastat at 1:10 a 8:tt* 1:10 and 3:48 m. Leave for the West at 1:59 a a 10:09 a t:'. pm and 7:68 m.

VANDALIA.

Trains leave for the West at 1:42 am: 10:21^ 2:lo 3:10 mrD.Ol and 4:05 m. Arrive from the West at 1:12 a 1:42 a a 12:42 2:15 5:00 and J: 50 a m.

Trains lea re for the Kast at 1:20 am 1:51 a v. lf vm 1'.?:pm: ",'J0 m: 5:0fp m. Arrive from the Krn't at 1:20a 10:15 RBt ::X v., ,:«5 m: f,:45 p,m: and 9:00 iu.

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