Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-18
lear, / q il. tho togs loose, = opened valves.

clear, + q lei the aogs loose, epeaea valves.
dashed through the cut, aIltiS-
Very, vesy nearly sMte eteshisg! DANCES
ID aaia to ha'YeTY fas6lastiHgi is j. fassisu'
larry 40 when ySa see II eh3iihg, have time
ts reflect UPON 1t, cad plan ana eEeeate q
faseae ct what you hope TO prove so. say
II plainly this night, the rail- halt removed
the figure Of the mailman still bent at ms
hellish work, saw him as he completed y
saw him shake his fist savageiy at me anG
| lump aside to watch the slaughter he had
plotted was not a second in sounding
"down brakes not an instant i'll reversing
the engine. but nothing could have saved
that train EXCEPT the madman's ''lack OF
mcthod.n orwant of the skill of the desplsed
surveyors. For want of this knowledge,
peIhaps for want of time, Macleod had re-
moved but one rail, and that the &ieSade one
of the cu9os. knew i'll could check the
"Lady's" speed she would not leave the
track, as the outside rail is the one which
guides the train ON q curve, and this was
impact Jim Torrance had come on the
locomotive with me- and [ turned to tell
HIM to lump for his life when | saw him
standing upright in the centre ofthe tender,
gaasping a huge block of wood and his eyes
cleaning like Goals. 1t was no time to look
after his safety | saw him hurl the stick OF
wood at Macleod as he ran down the en-
bankment, and the next minute we struck
the ground, and plunged into the break.
MY calculations had been correct jolt
ing violently overseveral cross ties, shatter'
ing "cowcatcher" and headlight, MASKING
the baggage and first passenger car; throw
ing Jim Torrance with great violence from
the tender onto the locomotive, leaving him
senseless by the shock, and nearly throwing
me onto the boiler the LADY" struck and
stopped without leaving the track except
upon the side where Macleod had removed
the rail- We were disabled for the time,
with nobody but Jim seriously injured.
Except Macleod. Jim's aim had been too
true, and the block of wood hurled with all
his force, gaining additional velocity from
that of the train, had struck Macleod as he
ran and felled him senseless-the fact is, as
| we soon found, dead. The billet had struck
him and killed him. Jim Torrance was
| never tried for it on earth poor fellow, he's
gone since, and don't much think they
| recorded any verdict against him in heaven
| After Jim was taken care of, the lanterns
| put out ahead and behind us to warn APP
| preaching trains, and the disabled train
was gone through to see after the wound
| ed, John MacLeods corpse was taken up
| and carried back to the station which he
had just left. t >"@ b" II"
"Frank," said Carew, when matters were
slightly settled again, "who is to tell this
story to Macs wife?"
"She does not suspect anything-that is,
| she don't know hoao it occurred"
"She knows there has been an accident
| but she doesn't know that Mac was thrown
| out of the locomotive and is the only one
| killed" s. f3 .i5U
Good Even Carew did not suspect how
Macleod had been felled by Torrance's
| blow and killed. -~@s '"t
Twill tell her. said, determined that
she should never know his crime, nor learn
how he had been suddenly and terribly
punished. l''-
Her grief was terrible to witness She
lay on my shoulder and sobbed half the
night away, but it was less from love OF
the man-who had always been cruel to
her--than from her woman's nervousness
At the inquest, next day, when she identi
fed his body and told the story Of his mis-
anthropy and superstition to the jury, she
was more collected, and surprised me by
her calmness. The jury thought its course
in the matter plain sailing-no suspicion Of
| the mans crime arose; Torrance and my
self were not examined we kept our Sc
cret to ourselves, and the jury brought in g
| verdict of death by accident" They
| knew nothing of his chief incentive to the
crime-the chief cause of his death--jeal
ousy. s.
l have told the story of my midnight
| trip on the Lady Franklin" Is it neces
sary to tell any more? Sudden transitions
from death scenes to marriage ceremonies
are always as offensive in the telling as il
the hearing and therefore think it use
less as well as in bad taste to waste further
words in saying that just one year and 6
half after the fatal accident took Isabe
home as my wife, and that ever since, by
Gods help, I've made her a happy wife
and repaired the wrongs of her youth by
being good and kind husband to her.
| AN OLD DANISH LEGEND.-LG France
announcing that the King of Denmark i.
repairing the Round Tower of Copenhagen
recalls one of the legends attached to this
one of the oldest edifices in Denmark. A
the beginning of the eighteenth century il
with the King of Denmark, Frederick the
Fourth. The two soyereigns, having az
rived at the summit of the tower, were
| 5eehhhS5 OIA viz p0hOl0thi@ W
! fore them, Peter, meanwhile, explaining tC
Frederick his political system:
"Wouldsyou like to have" he exclaimed
"an idea of the power of my authority p
And without waiting for Frederick te
answer, the founder of the Russian mon
archy nodded to a 'Cossack of his suite, anC
pointed with his finger to the abyss which
| yawned attheir feet
Jump = said he -se r.t rs
| The Cossack looked at the Gar, salute6
him., and, cast himself headlong down
wards. .f p. - t-..s--......-. -.
"There!' what do you think of that 2
said Peter, turning to the King of Denmark
Have you such subjects?" 81
"Thank God, mol" was the reply.
WHEN DIR. Dodge, an electric physician
was lecturing through this State on the
evils of tea and coffee, he happened tc