, 1878-07-06

WHIPPED TO DEATH Last friday
afternoon. says the Oregon City Enter
prise, a young boy aged about fourteen
wears. came to John Wolford's S at Silver
ton, and said he had been whipped in
harribe manner by man named Lock
Mister. who lived near Silverton, and
he was on his way to his fathers place
up the valley. Wolfoid took off the
boy s clothes, and found that be was a
mass of bruises and cuts. The boys
story, if we are correctly informed, is
substantially as follows:
He had been living with Mister and
last Friday morning the boy and Nils
ter's girl aged about thirteen or fourteen
years. we're discovered in the barn in o
peculiar situation. The enraged father
got his blackspake and gave the boy
sound thrashing. The boy thought 1t
WIS time to leave ard put out for his
fathers place. Mister WIS not satisfied
with the punishment he bad Inflicted on
the boy. so he started after him and
caught the offender about miie fr IL
the house. be stripped off his clothes.
tied him to u tree and proceeded to
beat him in an unmercifnl and inhumar
manner with his heavy blacksnake. The
boy begged and pleaded for mercy. but
not until life was almost gone did tie
brute cease to ply the whip. Ee then
un,ied his victim and left him.
The boy left Mr.. WoIford's and start
ed for his fathers. The same evening
be was discovered dead in the road
abou, two miles soath of Silverton, and
was buried he next day by the people
who found the body.
A relative Of the boy heard of the
affair Saturday, and a corOner's jury
was sun moned to hold an inquest over
the body. They rendered verdict
that death was caused by blow il fiict>
ed jus. above the abdomen.
Mister was at picnic near Silver:on
on Saturday, and learning of the death
of he boy he Immediately started for
home. On Monday "A warrant Was issu-
ed for his arrest, but he could not be
fonnd. His wife said that he came
bone on Saturday, but soon left. since
which time she has not heard or seen
anything of him.
A discerning young man at Carson
City observed with envy that among
other privileges of old men. they made
point of kissing all the pretty girls
they came across. with the stereOtyped
remark. Why, my dear, I am old
enough to be your father" This gave
him an idsa. There was to be ublic
ball that evening, so he wert to an actor
frierd at the thea.er and got himself
ma6e up as venerable old party OF
about seyenty>6ve. He then attended
the festivities, and made himself par
ticnlarly ''fresL. chucking pretty girls
nuder the chin and imprirting rather
freq1ent patriarchal salutes upon theil
blooming lips. pntting aside any femi.
nine objections with the above satisfy
ing quotation. He was about making
his tenth osculstory carom on the pret'
tiest mouth III the room, when the girls
sweetheart led him aside, scowling hid
eonslv: What in thunder are yor
soldering over that young lady for"
he demanded. ''Why. my good young
lad, am old enough to be her father.
chuckled the ambushed privateer. will
u sndden assumption of stage feebleness
Well. if that's so, you'd better tuck il
the end Of that yellow mustache, stick
ing out under Your beard" And Ii,
hammered the fraudulent elder up i'll
lot.
A barge with two thousant
beemves aboard is afoat in til,
! Mississippi, and is. to be movet
up and down the river during
the season, so as to be all th'
| time in the midst Of flowers
The bees will thus be kept con-
tinually within the reach of tn,