Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-09-08
IN. Y. HeraId.]
The Wickedest City in the World.

from Deadwood City, the great me.
tropolis of the Black Hills, passed
through here the ether day. He has
just quit driving the overland stage to
Deadwood, which place he emphati-
callv pronounccS the must diabolical
town on earth, and beyond question
the wickedest spot this side of the
internal regions. lie has come back
to Gods country" as he calls the
east, to get little money that has
been left him, and to see his old home
before he goes back to get some more
holes shot through him, as be puts it.
The man from Deadwood is one of
those quaint, original characters that
are essentially American, and only
| found in all their uncOnventionalitv
in the great west. After yOn have
conversed with him FIVE minutes you
will find him to be shrcwd, observing
sort of man, quick and keen as a razor,
with a dry humor, and peculiar
expressive vocabulary; rather slahgy,
it is true, and at times coarse and
profane, but always vividly pictu-
rescue, apt. and striking.
AN EvENTFUL HISTORY.
The man from Deadwood has
history. Tie nephew of one of the
richest and best known men in Brook
lyn and of one of the Empire states
NEST distinguished United States
senators, be comes Of good stock.
But he has always been rolling stone,
and his fondness of adventure and
change Of scene have taken him all
over the world, into many occupations
and professions, and fully initiated
him into the ups and downs of a
rowing life. AS a Snowman he has
travelled through the north and west,
as a soldier in the late war he went
through the south, and as sailor he
has circumnavigated the globe His
fondpess for horses kept him in the
circus business for some years, and
he knew all the old showmen, from
old Dan Slickney and John Robinson
to Barnum and the Tippodiome peo-
pie, of whom he is full Of anecdote
!, With the circus he has been engaged
in various capacities, but generally in
charge of the stock, and he is justly
r proud of the fact that be is one of the
few drivers in the business who can
successfully handle a sixteeu-horse
golden circus chariot with a brass
| band. Lately he has been roughiDg
2 it in the west, saw the shooting OF
Wild Dill and the hanging Of the
assassin, and has more recently, as an
J overland stage driver, experienced life
IN Deadwood City, the new mining
town 10 the Black Hills that has
q already earned the reputation of being
: the most depraved community under
i, the sun.
l. Ii view Of the interest that attachc;
c TO this phase of American border lit
} | have tried to jot down portion o
, what the man from Deadwood tolt
o me about this typical mining town o
&c the far west. Between expec,orations
It of tobacco juice were the answers t
my questions given by the man iIon
Deadwood. whose manner Of speecl
I, had a peculiarly solemn drawl tha
was very odd and amusing.
NOLAN AND NO SUNDAY.
- is Deadwood as rough I'd lawles
y place as we are told by the western
% newspapers Z"
~ Worse. | don't know what tn
% papers say of it, but | know it's wors
e any language can tell. It's tn
;, ornerest place this side of hell There
y y no law an no Sunday. Every man
II bis own court, an bis revolver is hi
lawyer, judge, jury, an executioner-
especially executioner. An the gan
10 blin', drinkin', an fghtin' go' on a
'e the time, day an night. You wouldn
re know when Sunday comes around
s. you didn't put it down in book.
,e SOFT TING FOR CORON,Es.
a Murders? Oh, yes there's pleut
G. o. them, but they don't call 'em tina
At least three day on au average
D. some fellow gets the worst Of q
ie argument an is laid out. It's putt
lie dull in town them days when some
"a body don't get killed. An they d
10 have the queerest coronor's inques,
:. out there ever see. Why. jur
Is sot on stiff there not long ago, Al
at they heerd the evidence an foun
n, that Bill Jones came TO bis death b
,x calling red-beaded Marks a liar
- Marks arrested? Not much. The
. darsnf. An another jury sot on
e' poor devil who bad difference
opinion with notorious rough cha
acter, and although seven of :he jur
, net men saw the shootin' an the NJ;
i've what did it, an Notwithstanding tn
Of fellow went around boastin' of it, ii
to jury brought in a verdict Of murd
m by some person to US unknown
an II" Interestin, wasn't it? There's funera
i.h every day, but most of 'em is qui
like an don't go much on style. u