The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-04-23

Inc ADVICE Given 30 parents by NasDUeZs
the Noted California Bandit, on the
ScanOId.
IiburCiO NasQuez was a bandit. He
and his band ravaged at will several of
the lower counties of California. In the
wild, free, Andalusia0 life of Los An
gelOs and Santa Clara, these brigands
found ample room and verge enough
for exploits whose recital takes us back
to the medieval times when rObber
barOns and predatory knights swooped
down upon the plains and valleys, and
bore away to their mountain Businesses
the spoil OF beauty and pelf. An adven-
turOus and romantic career was that of
VasqUez and his company. Their ex
plOits have furnished forth material for
cheap novels and - blood -and-thu
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 a man. The
country through which these bandits
ranged is thinly populated, ranches and
trading-pOsts dOtting at long intervals
the vast treeless plains which lie be-
tween woody hills and mountains cleft
by secret gOrges and canyons. For
years these precious rsscals defied the
law, and subsisted on a country laid
under contribution as thoroughly as
Mexico was under COrtez. Mothers
scared their children into silence with
the name Of Vasquez, and young men
tOlling in the vineyard or sultry glebe,
looked at the dust arising from the
hOofs Of his rough riders on the noun
tain side, half in fear and half in ad-
miratiOn. The chief bandit bore a
charmed life. He was thought invul-
nerable. No bullet ever reached him,
and no deputy-sheriff came near enough
to see the color of his horse.
In an evil hour for the young rObDer,
he fell into the tolls and was captured,
tried, convicted, and hanged by the
neck until he was dead. The bold,
dashing, handsome cGb0IIcrO died the
death Of a dog. He carried himself
with Gghtness and jolly recklessness to
the scatfOld bnt when he was hanged,
no man IN the thrOng that looked at his
taking off lamented his ignObie end.
The general verdict was, - Served him
RI ht." And so it did. The night before
this wretch was hanged, he asked to see
his coffin. 1t was shown him. He read
cUriOusly the inscription which set
forth that he died ''tO morrow" and he
felt the lining tenderly, saying "I
shall sleep long and well here. Then
he discOUrsed 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 be added
that if there were an eternity of life, he
should meet all his sweethearts next
day. Knitting his brOws, he dictated
I I Ii
" 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
I have seen it, I would urge upon you
to make your greatest care to so train,
influence, instruct, and govern the
young to whom you have given life,
that they be kept alOOf, as far IS in the
nature of things is possible, from the
degrading cOmpaniODship of the I'm
moral and vicious. The general welfare
of society depends upon the strict per
fOrmauce of this part of your duty.
This was the bandits hOmily and
warming. To his former associates he
dictated an equally unique address, IN
which he deprecated their reputed IN
tention to make bloody rrparatlon for
his death, and bade them TO take warn
ing by his fate and change their course
while life was left them. On the fol
lowing day, accompanied by a priest
who bade his beads and pattered prayer,
the brigand CHIEF stepped lightly to the
fatal tree, ioked about the dread here
after. told the hangman to be quick
about it, and so was launched into
eternity.
M. Geguin 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
ventiCn railway trains have been able
to attain their 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. His mind
had decayed some years before his
body. he was pupil aud a nephew of
MOntg ylier, the paper maker, 50 well
known by his connection With aerial