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which were entered the places which he
had worked" the names of several of
his victims, the amounts received each
day, and various other data of curious
interest.
"What's this ?" said the Chief, as he
pulled out two cigars.
"Cigars," replied the prisoner ''take
one? They are not very good; ten
centers generally smoke twenty-five
centers."
"You are first-class fraud" replied
the Chief, and the boy was not in
position to deny the charge. He said,
however, that he only cheat" those who
can stand it. He said he was born in
st. James Parish, La, of Creole parent
age. The name he goes by is Frank
Tayler, although in his diary he calls
himself Crank La Belle" which may
be pet name of his own, derived from
his girlish appearance. In fact, he says
he has been three times arrested Oh
suspicion of being girl in male attire
the last time in Newark, n. J.--but
never for any other offence. He says,
further, that he has travelled with Mrs.
Bowers, playing in Lady Audley's
Secret
His diary shows that he has visited
cities as far West as st. Paul, as far
South as Galveston, and has pretty
thoroughly worked Kentucky and the
Western States, and has just been max
ing the tour of the Central road. His
cash account shows that from. the 9TH
of last December to May 9 he took in
$459.05 above expenses; from May ? to
May his net receipts were S35.05. His
best days work was at Galveston, March
Is, when he took in $3.50. He re-
marks that Galveston and Houston are
the best and most generous places he
has met with. The names of his vic
tins include railroad and steamboat
officials, newspaper men, United States
Senators, bankers, lawyers, etc.
On being taken to the Police Court
this morning, Crank La Belle" was
sent to the Penitentiary for six months
lis a vagTant.
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family, and five minutes more and it
would go out. For an instant l stood
paralysed, when l saw that inside of
of two minutes more she would be
there.
"Seizing the lantern with one hand,
| struck the last match, and bending
down, l laid it carefully inside the
straw, and then / dashed forward
waving the the red light. The glare
from the head light shone down on the
track, and the engineer saw me, but
did not notice the red light-the sud-
den waving put it out-only screeching
he came straight on. When the train
was almost on me, l jumped on one
side, and Singing the lantern over my
head, dashed it on the cab. The en-
gineer saw the lamp as it broke on the
floor, and seeing the red glass and the
battered lantern, whistled the danger
signal and tiled to check up.
"Looking down the track l scream
ed from excitement. The last match
had found dry spot, and the straw
was blazing up bright. The train
came to stand-still. She was saved !;
that's all remember.
"The next l knew | was in the bag
gage car. They said that they had
found me lying in a dead faint, and
excuse me, we are going to stop now"
"StamfOrd p he sung out. The train
stopped and the writer went home, sat
isfied that a brakeman's life is an ex-
citing one.
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A Thrifty Tramp.
PROFITS OF A STROLL FROM LOUISIANA
TO NEW YORK-A CURIOUS CASH AC-
COUNT AND DIARY.
IFrom the ALBANY Timesl

PROFITS OF A STROLL FROM LOUISIANA
TO NEW YORK-A CURIOUS CASH AC-
COUNT AND DIARY.
From the Albany Timesl
Several of our lawyers were visited
yesterday by young etfeminate look
ing fellow, who represented that he was
on his way from Omaha and wanted
1910 to help him toward Portland, Me.
At one Office he asked very respectfully
for copying to do, and the good hearted
lawyer, having no work for him, gave
him half dollar to buy his dinner.
cents, which at first he was inclined to
refuse, but finally accepted, asking for
his benefactOr's business card that he
might return the money. At other
places he got orders for dinners on diff
ferent restaurants. Finally he called
on District Attorney Bailey and repeat
ed his request for 1910. Mr.. Bailey
was at first inclined to give it, although
he remarked that 1910 would not pay
fare to Maine. The boy, who is, per-
haps, seventeen, but quite small of his
age, said he could go for half fare. The
more the District Attorney thought of
it the less he felt like granting the re-
quest, and finally handing him twenty
five cents, told him that would get him
a dinner, and that was all he could do.
This sum the boy handed back, as he
had done at one or two other places
about town, and in going out slipped
under the door a card on which was
written vile language. Mr.. Bailey, con-
vinced that the fellow was an imposter,
reported him at headquarters and ac-
companied Detective Dwyer to the
Whitney Landing, where the boy was
arrested just as he was going to Troy
| Chief MalOy searched him carefully, and
on his person discovered two diaries, in
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Facing Death.

Brother Gardner was yesterday white
washing the back of an old house on
Catherine street, when the staging gave
way and he had fall of about fifteen
feet. He was senseless when picked
up, but man poured about a gallon of
water down his back and brought him
to. Mr.. Gardner thus explains matters
to the reporters:
"Waal, | was up dar, an dar was de
house, an dar was DE scaffOld. and dar
brush aroun' to kill when | felt a gone
ness. Seemed | was prancin' arOun' on
the air, wild no chance to dig in my
toes"
"Why didn't you fall at once, and
have the affair off your mind ~ asked a
policeman.
"Why didn't l fall 2 Why, sab, I
was falling all the time. | went down
bout fifty feet head fust, and den
changed and went sideways, and den
struck on one foot and boat ears. All
dis time l was doing some powerful
thinking, | was"
"Did you think of oysters fried with
crumbs ?" asked reporter.
''DOan be talking that way, boy.
member all my bad deeds while l was
gwine down, an I called out that !
would live a better life if de shock
didn't kill me-"
In the group was colored man
whose face frightened at these words,
and he softly asked:
"Brudder Gardner, doan' you mem
Der de 81 you borrowed o. me ?"
81 do"
''Den pay than it over. De shock
didn't kill you, and begin on that dat
better life"
''Brudder JONES'" solemnly replied
Gardner, ode shock didn't kill me dead
but befo' l pays out any money, Ize
gwine to wait de result on my nervous
system. pears to be all right, but
possomly l may be fatally injured il
some of the corners and not know it fol
months. G'lang, Rrudder Jones, an
doan rob de cradle an de grave r'-De
trOit Free Press.
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business 9ireftorp.

V,De. Business and Location Of the lead
;,1 Business Houses IN ST. JOhnSbWy.
Agricultural Tools and Hardware.
HASKELL & SONS, Hoyt's Block, r. r. st
Apothecaries.
&. c. BINGHAM, No. 5, Bank Block, Main St
Attorneys at Law.
NJ MONTGOMERY, Jewett's Building, r. R. st.
ELISHA MAY. over Hall 81 Fletchers Store.
EELDEN Il IDE, NO2 Caledonian Blk, up stairs.
Books and Stationery.
HOWARD & ROwELL, Caledonian Blk Main ST
Book Binders.
T. ~ STONE & CO.. Agt's, Monument Square.
BIanks--LegaI and Business.
C.. NJ STONE & Co, Monument Square.
Bakers and ConfectiOners.
CROSS & BRADLEY, Main Street.
Clothing for Men and Boys.
eat. FAIRBANKS & Co, Fairbanks Village.
CrocIlery, Glass and Stone Ware.
EAT. FAIRBANKS g. Co, Fairbanks Village.
Carpeting, Paper Hangings, Window-shades.
. E. 4 T. FAIRBANKS & co. Fairbanks Village.
Dentists.
q. L. PERKINS, Caledonan Block, Main Street.
W. 1. Goods, Groceries and Fruits,
MATHEWS & PETTENGILL, Eastern Avenue
Dry Goods, and Ladies' Fancy Goods.
y. Il. II LIZ, Avenue DlOCh, H. H. ESlTttl.
Z. 4 r. FAIRBANKS & Co, Fairbanks Village.
Furniture and CaslSets.
NALL 4 SWTTSER, Main Street.
CALDERWOOD, & SEVERANCE, IO.O.F. Blk,
File manufactures.
81 Johnsbury File Works, opp. Passenger Depot
Groceries and Housekeeping Goods.
Z. 4 r. FAIRBANKS & CO.. Fairbanks Village.
Insurance, Uife.)
T.. E. SARGENT, (1Gtna,) Railroad Street.
Iron Founder and Machinist.
LUKE BUZZELL, North end, X. X. Street.
Photographs.
D. \. CLIFFORD, Caledonian Block, Main Street.
Printers and Publishers.
e. NJ. STONE & CO., CaedOnian Block, Main st.
Stoves and Tin Ware.
Y T. FLETCHER, Eastern Avenue.
H. L. & ID. @. WOODRUFF Railroad Street.
II. COWDERY, Eastern Avenue.
Watches, Jewelry and Toys.
HOWARD Il ROWELL, CaedOnian Blk, Main st
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10 Builders and Lumber Dealers.

yte ye.e subscriber has completed his new mill in
ana iyy and is now prepared to furnish lumber
r umenson timber of almost all kinds. His
t,nI are large, and he can furnish long and heavy
inc %a Ior especial purposes. The subscriber haV-
as,teeh IN the business more than thirty years.
wants wsnt himself he understands what builders
Hly "e can I'LL Olis speeuilS anu Sni
''' Johnsbury, May T. 1875. Tiff
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While group of criminals who had
been sentenced at Springfield, ILL.,, to
the State Prison at Joliet were standing
in the depot and waiting for the train,
last Friday, young woman stepped
forward and resting her head on a con-
vict's shoulder said, kiss me, George"
face was besmeared with paint. But
George" took the kiss, and more; for
between her lips was a small key with
which he could unlock the steel brace
let's around his wrists. AS the train
bOwled along the road, he shook off his
bonds and shot out of the window like
a rocket. The train was stopped, the
officers gave chase, and before long the
fugitive was recaptured. So the kiss
was thrown away.
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V A young lady clerk in a Phila-
delphia dry goods store tainted, and in
the presence of a pitying circle of Gus
toners the sympathetic proprietor sent
for a carriage and had her taken home.
Her weekly wages were six dollars, but
that week the envelope contained only
one. The explanation given in reply
to her question was that the other five
went to pay for the carriage.
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INSURE
Against Accidents

people a%ai, 10 PROVIDE PIotecII 10 oi ,b,
"a S day. Come and see me- EDWARD p.
Init Agent for Travellers Life and Accident
ovs, BSnce Company of Hartford, Conn. Office
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For Sale.

Ga,n two-story house situated on Railroad Street
scy;hI Vi Maple Street, now occupied by the sub
er' Tiff II. G. ELY, Administrator.
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Feminine.

Col. T. w. Higginson thinks that it
is thing to be deeply regretted that
some of the women who have by their
wit and vivacity most won the public
ear in America should now be using
their influence to denOunce and ridicule
civil service reform. He believes that
in the case of Gail Hamilton it will be
held to illustrate the inability of women
to rise above merely personal politics.
As for Mrs. Clemmer, he holds that by
such reasoning as she has recently used
in reference TO the women dismissed
from the Interior Department the i'm
preston is given that business women
cannot and will not accept the laws of
business, but that if they are displaced
for whatever cause they at once treat it
us wrong to their sex. And he adds ::
"No matter what mans sympathies
may be, or his desire to give favors to
women, he has no right to do it at the
expense of the Government. His duty
is to dismiss every clerk who is not
needed, man or woman, let the distress
fall where it will" Col. Higginson never
minces words nor seeks for velvet ex-
pressions when he writes to Tue Wo-
mans journal.
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Mayfair has a most excellent story
about the manager of an aquarium. His
wife induced him to go to church, where
he fell asleep. The minister was read
ing the first lesson of the day, which
happened to be the first chapter of the
Book of Ezekiel. AS he proceeded in
the description of the wonderful beast
which the prophet saw in the land of
the ChaldeaDs, by the river Chebar, the
aquarium manager moved uneasily in
his seat. every one had four faces,
and every one had four wings" The
aquarium manager rubbed his eyes, and
the preacher went on: "And they had
the hands of a man under their wings
ON their four sides, and they four had
their faces and their wings" The
aquarium manager was now wide awake.
GAS for the likeness of their faces, they
| four had the face of man and the face
of lion on the right side, and they
four had the face of an OK Oh the left
side. They four also had the face of
an eagle" The aquarium manager was
now standing up, his wife vainly pulling
at his coat tails. ''Name your own
price," he cried; ~ will take the thing"
Mrs. Stuart, the widow of the late
|
Gen. j. E. B. Stuart, suffers the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune, like
too many Southern women she will
teach in girls school at StauntOn, Va,
next session.
London has really gone wild over the
wonderfully beautiful woman who drop
ped down all of sudden from one of
the Channel islands. This is the way
Louis j. Jennings goes on about her in
his last letter to the New York World,
describing Lord Houghton's reception
of Grant: He is the lion of the season,
sharing the honOrs with lioness who
has suddenly appeared in the London
world and about whom everybody raves.
The lioness, my worthy editor, and had
you been there you would have made
chase after her just as all the rest of us
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Mrs. Dr.. Schliemann, herself Greek,
in a paper read before the London
Archaeological society, urges the teaching
of modern Greek to English children.
She says: The immense difficulties of
ouI ancient language could be easily
overcome by the highly intelligent Eng
lish children if they first thoroughly
learned our modern Greek language,
and afterwards the ancient tongue. In
stead of ten years, the children would
in this way acquire i'll less than one
year thorough knowledge of ancient
Greek, and they would have the i'm
mense advantage of our modern Ian
guage, which, as spoken tongue, would
make it totally impossible for them ever
to forget the language of Plato and
Homer. l, therefore, with intense en-
thusiasm advocate and advise you to
get from Greece teachers for all your
schools.
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The late Queen of Holland was a lady
of a swift and excellent wit. She read
very well Greek and Latin, and spoke
and understood thoroughly German,
Dutch, Russian, English and French.
She had literary tastes, and wrote divers
magazine articles. 1t is asserted that
she also had an irrepressible tendency
to dabble in the politics of the Dutch
kingdom, which, according to court
gossip, led to domestic infelicity be-
tween her and her husband, who did
not share her views of public policy.
Indeed, if the same authority may be
credited, the King on several occasions
administered corporeal correction to his
wife for her interference in State affairs.
The Dutch do not like Germans, and
she consequently never quite won the
hearts of her subjects. She was Il good
and cOnsiderate woman, with, however,
the exaggerated ideas of German eti-
quette.
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5. f. BROOKS, NJ. d.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Ohce hisresidence opp. the Bakery, STD Ohnsbury
WM. w. CIRCUIT,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Barton. Vermont.
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DnteLs.

ST. JOHNSBURY HOUSE,
MAIN STREET, ST. JoHNsBURY, VT.
GEO. b. WALKER, Proprietor.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-30
WHO is BE

There is no question that Grant has been
mBgni 6cently coached for his transatlant tic
tour. Ever since he touched the shore of the
Old World, he has made speeches of unex-
pected fuency, fitness, and grace. Presented
with the freedom of the borough of Ayr, he
pays n tasteful tribute to the birth place of
Burns; lionzed in Londen rich food Of his
toric reminisc"nce sweeps over his mind re-
garding that mighty city. SO has 1t been
with Edinburg, and Inverness, which he lately
visited SO Was IL with the continental cities !;
80 will it be with York, She field, Birmingham,
bennington and the other places he is about
to visit-eveTy where he finds something apt
to say, appropriately cbo and prettily
ex expressed that his surprised hearers ask each
other: " Can this be the taciturn soldier Of
whom we were told I"
Bat of America, who have heard Grants
attempts at oratory during the past dozen
years on some hundreds of occasions, know, of
course, that he has not suddenly blossomed in
to q fine after dinner speaker. travelling Is
a gCeat educator, no doubt, and q voyage to
Europe is inviRorsting; but we cannot fancy
it developing IN Gen. Grant vast fuDd of
local knowledge and an elegant facility in
responding Oft fhapd to puhuo toasts that
would indeed be suffering a change into some
thing rich and strange. The General, in
short, is palpably Crammed for his speech
making, and the question therefore arises, who
of his party deserves the credit for doing this
80 neatlyf A coach, who, with material so
good, ought to be known and honoTed for his
dexterity.
Meanwhile, the ex President goes on from
triumph to triumph, culling from history,
politicGl econSmy, and bellies lettTes tho
flowers wberewith 10 deck his pub addresses.
At this rate of progress, what will not be the
finish and force of his speeches after he shall
have practised all through Denmark. Sweden,
Russia Austria, and SwItzerardf We shall
await Gen. Grants coming back with an unex-
pected interest, and it is TO be hoped that he
will keep the same literary coach, go that " G
also may have the benefit of his best European
style of Oratory.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-30
THE HORRORS OF THE VAR.


EXTIRMINATING CHRISTIANS IN ROUMELIA.
London, Sept. % The pitiful stories OF
the cpIditon of the Christian population
south of the Balkans are beginning to Gre
ate uneasiness ard Indignation in Europe.
The despatch of Ahmed Veflk to Adrian
ople, ct the instance of Minister Layard,
has not had the ,ff-ct of putting a stop to
tie executions. The Italian Consuls are
sending To their government fearful &C
counts of the doings of Ottoman officials.
They say that executions and transporta-
tions are depopulating Roumelia. The
italian Consul at Tripoli says that 2. 900
Bulgarians have landed at Tripoi from q
Turkish transport, and have been sent
to the borders of the desert in the inte-
rior.
A correspondent of the Times engaged on
one of the relief agencies at work among
the Bulgariaus, sends hideous account of
the state of the province. He is at present
established at Carlova, on the southern
slope of the Balkans, twenty miles west of
KaZanlik~ In this place, the population of
which he estimates must have been nearly
&c, GOO, there is not n grown man left alive.
For Nix ~eeks tie place has been at the
mercy at irreguieIs o: the Turkish army.
7 here DOW remains anopg the ruins of
what was once beautiful and thriving town
but five or ak Thousand women and chill
dren. These poor creatures hide them
selves as best they may, dreading the out
RACES of which nightly some of them are
victims. They can hardly be said to have
shelter, clothing, or food, and have sus-
tanned life by furtively gathering roots and
vegetables left in their ruined gardens.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-30
THE TEXAS MULD00N LEGACY.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 1S,

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept 1s, 1877.
| Editor Morning Star:
Ihave seen in your issue of September 9th,
| an article taken from the Boston Pilot and
headed the Muldoon Legacy and no heirs "
| 1t appears from the letter of DR.. McKeon, of
st. Paul, Mimi, that this Muldoou was born
in the County Fermanagb, Ireland, and there
fore cannot be the same Mudoon whose broad
acres have up to this remained unclaimed in
Texas BESIDES his name Bernard Null
doom. and from the County Fermansgh, whilst
orr Texas Muldoon was q Rev. gentleman
Michael Mnldoon by name, Snd born in Meath.
The heirs of our County Meath Muldoon ARE
more fortunate it would appear than their
Fermanagh name-sskes, as in the latter case
it is the - Muldoon Legacy and no beirs,"-
whilst in the former it is the "Muldoon Leg
scy and all the hei,s."
This property. which consists of Eleven
Leagues of lands-almost so 900 acres, was
granted to the Rev. Father Muldoon by the
States of Coahuila and Texas in the year 1880
He has been dead over forty years, and now
comes Thomas MuldooD-(w acquaintance
l have made few days sgo) q nephew of the
deceased, and the Attorney in fact OF the heirs
of Father Michael Muldoon,-Itcenfy three in
number, and is about to sue for the claims he
years search both in Ireland and America, in
finding the above number, with decl claration of
birth, kin, etc and full power of Attorney
from each and all of them. This is of the
largest land estates in Texas, and is distribu-
ted over the following counties: In Lavaoa
county, Leagues; in Wharton county, 2
kesgues; in Fayette county, Leagues; in
Galveston county, Leagues; and the legal
battles which will be fought, unqueston ably,
over it, will no doubt prove very in Interesting.
There parties this city who knew
Father Mnldoon well, ard the grants for this
land-whioh transpired years before the an
nexation-are duly recognised in the abstract
of titles and patented lands in Texas.
Messrs. Cayce 81 Tarleton-RssI Estate and
land brok ers of this city, have scared Power
of Attorney from Thomas Mnldoon, and all
the papers bearing upon the case, and will pro-
ceed at once 10 prosecute the claims of the
Muldoon heirs. Yours, ETC.,
j. B. SWEENEY.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-30
THE NIGHT THAT BABY DIED.

No black plumed bearfe goes slowly sweeping by,
No suits of zoe nor n ASKS of misery,
No long procession wind pg 10 the tomb
Its serpent length Of simulated gloom
Only one carriage and two mouIners there,
Who ON the other seat q burden bear
A little pine wood coffin. Iudely stained
10 initiate fabric finer graiped.
Who Who would suppose that that small box contained
The hopes the fears, the joys. the exultant pride
Which in the dark were crUcified
The night that Baby died
Poor Baby what geam of glory lit
Yon wretcted hcvel when he brighter ed it
With his sweet presence of a winter morn
Fay not that be to poverty was born.
For from the first fi. blue, contented eyes
Reflected vlsiot of serener skies.
He cav, beS ond tt Q world that round US liea,
That far. off shore whose outline seems dim
De found companions In the seraphim.
A nd all the n ealth Of Heaven belonged to him.
Its pearly portals angela open ed wide,
The night that Baby died.
He ot poor, but very poor were they
10 whom he came-bI isf eupshine of their day
The only sunshine that was ever lent
To light the gloom OF their dark tenement.
And when be fell into the final sleep
heir hearts ere torn by agony SO deep
hat, bending over him, they could Lot weep,
Bnt gszed NJ on him in their dumb despair,
Upon the little face supremely fair,
The aureole glory OF his yellow hair,
Then hugged the grief TO which tears were denied,
The night that Baby died.
Dear Lord who art the poor friend and shield
Be with that carriage in the Potter's Field
Command the white wings OF the Holy Ghost
To cover them, who need thy healing most.
And whe n upon tie little cofin lid
The dull earth falls-the poor pine box 10 hid
Thongh DO priest pray au d never prayer is said,
Be thcu Tith them to sanctify their dead
And though their lives throug tortuouB paths be LEI
7 each the IN to know, whatever is denied.
: hey gained the love of Him, the Srucifed,
Tie night that Baby died.