The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-04-22
4 Bandits Warninn.
the Advice Given 80 Parents by Nasqup1,
the Noted California Bandit, ON the
Scnf1OIl,

| tue Noted California Bandit, ON the
! Scnnold.
Tibnrcio VasqueH was n bandit. He
and his band ravagc,l mt will several of
the lower counties OF California. In the
Wild, free, Audalusjal life of Los An
gelos and Santa Clara. these brigands
found ample room and verge enough
Tor exploits whose recital takes us back
to the medieval times when robber
barons and predatory knights swooped
down upon the plains ana vnlleya, and
bore away to their mountain Businesses
tho spoil Of beauty and peli. An ajven-
tnrous and romantic career was that of
Nosqucz and his company. Their ex
ploits have furnished forth material for
cheap novels and blo0a-and- thunder"
dramas They stole. ravaged, burned,
plundered, and murdered in that gay
and dashing manner which fascinates
callow youth, and sets romantic maidens
to signing for "such q man. The
country through which these bandits
ranged is thinlv populated, ranches and
tradlng-posts dotting at long intervals
the vast trecless plains which lie be.
tween woody hills and mountains cleft
by secret gorges and canyons. For
Years these precious rascals detied the
law, and subsis'el on n country laid
under contribution "a thoroughly as
Mexico was under COltez. Mothers
scared their children into silence with
the name oi Vasquez, aud young men
tolling IN the vineyard or sultry glebe,
InnknI of thn Inyt nrig,,,f, thn
'hoofs Of his rough riders on the noun
tain side, half in fear and half in ad-
miraton. The chief bandit bore
charmed life. He was thought invul-
nerable. No bullet ever reached him,
and no deputy came near enough
to see the color of his horse.
In an evil hour for the young robber,
he fell into the tolls and wa4 captured,
tried, convicted, and hanged Dy the
neck until he was dead. The bold,
dashing, handsome cub0icrO died the
death of u dog. He carried himself
with liShtness aad JOLT rackIessnets to
tho scatiold but when he was hanged,
no man Ill the throug that looked at his |
taking off lamented his ignobie end,
The general verdict was, "ServCd him |
ri. ht." And 50 it did. The night before
this wretch was hanged, he asked to see
his coffin. 1t was shown him. lie read
curiously the inscription which set
forth that he died "to morrow" and he |
felt the lining tenderly, SAYING: 81
shall sleep long and we'll here. Then |
he discOurscd of that silent land into |
which he was to travel, saying, with
some show of seriousness, that he was
not sure of an eternity. "The sages
say there is one," he remarked, with a
shrug of the shoulders and he added
that If there were an eternity OF life, he |
should meet all his swenthearts next
day. Knitting his brows, he dictated
an address which he wished directed
"To fathers and mothers of children.
This singular document began thus :
Standing at the portals Of the I'M
known and unknowable world, and
looking back upon the life of this, as
| havs seen it, ! would urge upon you
to make yoGr greatest care to so tram,
influence, instruct, and govern the
young to whom you have given life,
that they be kept aloof, as far fs IN the
nature of things is possible, from the
companionship OF the I'M
moral und vicions The general welfare
of society depends upon the strict per-
formauce of this part of your duty"
This was the bandits homily and
warning. 10 his former associates he
dictated an equally unique address, in
which he deprecated their reputed in
tention to make bloody reparation for
his death, and bade them 10 take warn
ing by his fate and change their course
while life wGs left them. On the fol-
lowing day, accompanied by a priest
who bade his beads and pattered prayer,
the brigand chie stepped lightly to the |
fatal tree, joked about the dread here
after, told the hangman to be quick |
about it, and go was launched into
eternity.
Nj. ceguin is dead. He built the
first railway in France (from Lyons to
st. Etienne); he invented iron wire sus.
pension bridges and the tubular boilers
of locomotive engines, by which in
vention railway trains have been able
to attain thor present great speed, for
the tubular boiler generates steam
rapidly enough to supply the vapor as
fast as it is wanted. He lived TO attain
the age of eighty-nine years. Ais mind
had decayed some years before his
body. He was a pupil and nephew OF
MontgJlfer, the paper maker, so well
known by his connection with erial
navigation. |
Success is said, by a western sIge,
to greatly depend upon the possession
of tsree qu .lisies grit, grip and gnmP-
ton.