The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-04-01

and shawl of, the bed in the bed
room? IJrsvg s,7no, a.lr zil.g-aa se4ded
fs;l"O, Mrs. Brown, never mind about
Jonas; stay and take tea with us, and
Harry will take you'll home imthe eve
ming. 1 want to hear about those
oq" Come, Grandma am, amt you most
ready? ," said Jonas, putting his head
in at the door 10 s.a"1tl 3-- 10 I
I ayes, Jonas. I'm coming right
along Good bye, Mrs. Lester y
II" But those chickens, Mrs! Brown
those chickens 90 n"ij-9bP 9'2' ,' 2, "a.
-2s;" Caught by y a skunk afore they was
"a week, old" screamed Grandma'amnJ ]
Brown. as she ratified off. di.gb g.
.APACIFIC RAILROAD TOWN.
| Carleton writes to the Boston
Journal the following account of the
present terminus of the Union Pacific
Railway-the town of Bryan, eight
hundred miles west of Omaha. .Iosq
q The United States, at the present
time can exhibit one thing not to be-
found in any other country-a Pacific
Railread town. 81 BY that we do not
mean town like Omaha, whieh2is an
old-established city, but one Of the
mushrooms places which grow up in
a night, last week or two, and then
are torn down and moved to another
locality atThe railroad is pushed for
ward so fast, and the terminus changed
so often, that town only gets under
way before it iis pulled down and
sent forward toDa new places You can
find hoasesat the present terminus
Bryan, eight hundred miles west of
i Omaha, which have been pntup and
I, taken down fifteen or twenty times.
1.-THE people who live in them are
4 American Arabs. They are not only
4 nomads, ever on the move, but they
4 can steal and plunder as adreitly and
i with rs little compdnction of con-
science as their brethren the Bedouins.
q Civilization and Christianity have
4 not refined and softened their inhu-
man nature. +1SL1A 5-i-3 rs go
Let me not be understood to say
B thataeVeFy man in one of these rail
4 Fread towns is a william, or blackleg,,
| on the contrary, honest men are to be
found who, after bearing patiently
4 with rafiahs, till patience ceases to be
virtue, and there being no law on
4 order, or organized society, take mat
ters into their own hands and become
terror to eVil9 doersoa When some
J fragrant crime has been committed
9 murder or assassination-these law
tabidihg men purify the place by hang.
ing the murderers to the nearest tree
or if no tree is near they extemporize
galIows by fitting up the tongue o.
wagon, and sending the ruffian into
eternity before the body of the victim
is cold. Such sudden punishment i:
like lightning on a sultry day-p uri
flying and invigorating. -.
1t was late in the evening when we
:, entered the new town of Bryan, the1
about two weeks old. We rode up q
+ wide street, bright with lights flaming
: in the windows of restaurants and sa
looms, each shopnan or bar-keepei
! trying by Arrangement Of kerosene
lamps and colored glasses to outshin'
his neighbor in his endeavors to at
tract a crowd. 'sl'', 80
lfn aPher9 was q sound of revelry, ant
Bryan had gathered the largest part Q
her population for high time. Their
! was such dancing and tiddling, suel
drinking of healths, shufiing Of card
: and rattling Of dice, as we never. say
D. before. From the dance saloons cam
Y the Sound of hird y-gurdies, violin
t and banjoes,, the rattle and. ..clatter o
the double-shuffie and plantation
. breakdown, mingled with shouts ant
1, oaths, the jingling of glasses, as tn
& brude men, wild with whiskey, an
d ruder women, decked with silks, sal
Iins, flounced and ruffied, and glitterin
e; with trumpery jewelry, went whisk
8. ing in each others arms round th
e rooms.
II IL The saloons during the day are nc
o much pat:onized, but are thronged, 3
n night Q 1T il d lively town The whol
Cd population liYe on small territor.
d and are dependent wholly upon, tn
e railroad for supplies. Were the car
IS to stop running the community woul
u be brought To the verge of staryatio
~ in q week but that contingency is NJ
H. to be thought of, and this. crowd
ej railroad followers are here to gath,
e up the spoils which pass from Il
G. treasury of the company, through Il
q Workmen into theiI hands. .,. -,
...;I,5 AToUGH oNE.9soE Bio
" Talk aborit Fbedbugs,n 2 said Bi
81 Jones; who had been across the Plair
= you should have seen some of tt
i critters met in Idaho last spring. u
,s stopped one night with some settler
who lived in a! log cabin containir
). only one room, and q loft. When
!. came time to go to bed they strung
blanket across the middle of the roo
"a and the settlers family slept on ol
10 side Of it and give me tother. / la
n. down to sleep ; the bedbugs began I
,a gather around like lunch eaters aroul
of a free lay out.'9I tried to kiver I
as and keep away from fem, but the pc
ky Earmints would catch hold of t
av bedclothes and pull them off from n
an They didn't think nothin' of draggi
- me ROUND the room if held on. L
% sem till about midnight, and then
N, looked around for some way to {
10 cape. There was ladder reachin' I
into the loft, andI thought the be
xvav Tn oret ayvav from the blOOdguc