The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24

new life; but the sight of Ringwood's
name In the papers and the knowledge
of his nearness, in my absence, revived
her passion for him, IN which her good
resolutions burnt like straw. I released
her hands, and brought water and put
1t to her lips and when she was quite
through exhaustion, I advised her to
lie down, and hoped she would go TO
sleep. As was leaving the room she
called me back, In a low. broken voice,
and when / stood beside the sofa on
which she lay, she joined her hands,
and asked me, with streaming eyes, to
forgive her. I did so, freely. OF
course, Ringwood was right. I had no
one but myself to thank. NY infatua-
ten had been so nonstrous, that I
could no more complain of the conse-
quenoes than man, sober, can COM
plain OF the consequences of some
drunken folly.
g In the morning I took Fanny away
to farmhouse in Kent, place she
knew of, and chose herself for q re-
treat. She was quiet and humble, and
apparently broken-spirited. But she
did not remain there a month; nor do I
know whittier she went, or where she
has been ever since. Before she left
she wrote me long letter expressing
her remorse at her behavior toward me
bad as 1 am, ended she, I will never
trouble you more. I do implore you to
be sure OF that, and to forget me, or
think of me as dead
/ am afraid to think of her at all,
made every possible effort to trace
her, quite In vain; aud 1 hardly know
where would be the good if I succeeded.
That's all, )" added Urquehart, after
a moments pause, " and there's the his
tory of your friend and the wife of his
bosom and if you still wonder how or
when my devil got into me, don't. I
believe you love me enough to think he
Is not SO black devil as he is painted.
l am not the kind of man in whose
heart such cash could be made, and
heal, and leave no mark. For long
while this world seemed, and often does
seem, really an Inferno, nothing but
plunging and breaking ones heart in q
swamp of suffering, with intervals of
quiet from mere exhaustion and despair.
o Charley! how wished your mother
had been alive 1 wanted some kind
woman, that was honest and pure, about
me we men all do in our dark hour.
BGsta let us go down to the drawing
room. and your friends, and the lamp.
By JOve, what a flash There's
mighty storm brewing, young fellow.
THE KING OF TIGRE.
An Adventurous Americans Remarka-
BILE Career
A San Francisco paper quotes this
metrical cOnundrum OF Joaquin Miller's
and proceeds to answer it:
King of Tigre. comrade truel
Where in all thine isles are thou
Sailing on Fonseca blue
Nearing Amapala now?
King of Tigre, where art thou?
Battling for Antilles queen?
Sabre hilt, or olive bough?
Crown of dust or laurel green
Rowing love or marriage vow
King and comrade, whore art thou?
Sailing on Pacific seas
Pitching tent in Pine now
Underneath magnolia trees
Thatch Of palm, or cedar bough?
So!oier-singer, where art thou
CUasting on the Oregon
Saddle bow. or birchen brow !?
Round the Isles of Amazon
Pampas, plain, or mountain brow
Prince Of rovers. where art thou?
Answer me from out the West,
! am weary, stricken now;
Thou art strong, and would rest
Reach a hand with lifted brow
King of Tigre, where art thou?
His majesty, thus charmingIy called
upon to disclose his whereabouts, is
alive and well, having his throne at
present IN a San Francisco hotel. Al
though registered as plain James Thorn
as and unaccompanied by even a servant,
bis history, glanced ct In the exquis te
poem quot69, Is so various and unique
as to be worth the narration. He was
bern in New York of humble parents,
and having passed laborious youth
commenced the study of law in an Ohio
village. Drifting to Cincinnati he saw
a popular actress in the role of Juliet
and with the ardor of q Romeo en-
bra ced the stage. BE wore out his boots
in prohtless trodding of its boards, and
when the curtain descended on his last
histrionic failure, he was in the streets
of New Orleans, penniless and alone.
Recovering from the yellow fever lie
left the hospital to join the Lopez ex-
petition to Cuba. He bore bravo front
in the disastrous campaign, and escaped
the island in a canoe. After floating
about for some days, experiencing the
pangs of thirst and hunger, he and his
companions were pick d up by a kindly
schooner and carried into New York.
There he became a Bohemian, and by
unexpected good luck, secured an editO-
rial chair in the rooms of a Brooklyn
paper. As soon as he heard the jingle
of a few eagles in his pocket, he set off
for New Orleans, where he secured a
journalistic position, remaining until q
quarrel led to duel in which he was
painfully, bis antagonist mortally,
wounded. He fled to Texas, and after
some wandering brought up in Califor-
Gia. After joining a filibustering ex-
petition which failed, he returned ..to
Texas, There he fought duel with a
desperate named Jack Tuley, known as
1" the Diamond Merchant" from hav-
ing stolen large number of the prec-
ious stones In Brazil and escaping with
them TO this country. He planted
bail in Tuley's shoulder, another in his
ribs, and received one in his leg which
famed him for life. After the failure of
Walkers Nicaragua expedition in which
he Joined, Thomas proceeded to Peru
and arrayed himself with the revolu-
tionists against the established govern
ment. After sustaining, with his fell
ioW-freeboOters, a five months siege in
Arequipa, he wandered through South
America, and finally drifted back to
New York. After some failures in mer-
camille ventures, he essayed the life of
a planter, choosing a ranch in the Isle
of Tigre, in Fonseca Bay, off the coast
of Honduras. The island is about TWEEN
ty-tiye miles in circumference, is luxu-
rant in vegetation, and then had pop
ulatiOn of some SIX thousand persons,
mostly Indians. Without seeking it,
he acquired such influence among the
islanders that he was known along the
coast as King of Tigre. he reigned IN
questioned, was temperate, humane,
frugal aud happy. In an unlucky mo-
ment he was induced to join scheme
for the consolidation of the central
American states. With thousand
armed men be joined Barras defeated,
he raL11rnad 70 the islaEa III IL :,