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District Congressional Contention.

The Democratic convention for the Third Congress
sional district win be held at Music Hail. in the city
Of ST. Pa, on Friday Sept. 9Th, at 10 A. NJ, for the
purpose Of nominating candidate to represent said
district in Congress.
The basis OF representation agreed upon by the
committee is one delegate forea h $50 votes or ma
or fraction thereof of the average vote cast at the
last general election for the four principal State Off
GERS then voted for-each organized county, howev-
er, to be entitled to vote.
The several counties will therefore be entitled to
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sPECIAL MdRKET BULLETINS

Received by the "Globe" During Yesterday.
Especial Telegram to the GlobeI
CHICAGO. August I4-9 80 A. M.-Beerbohn, gener-
Ally sixpence higher all around and strong. Private
ables say weather is unfavorab,e for harves sting.
London inactive. Liverpool firm and heavy. Rain
here last night. Local feeling rather bullish on
wheat
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Markets in Detail.
The following quotations giving the range of the
markets during the day were received by
MO RIO N, MOORE & Co.,

Commits ion Merchants.
LIVERPOOL. August 14-lO:OO A. NJ.
Wheat frmer; held higher.
Floating cargoes turn dearer.
Cargoes passage firm.
Cargoes off coast spring and red winter Sd higher.
Cargoes off coast California cd h CHER.
California wheat nearly due shilling higher.
London steady.
LIVERPOOL. August 14-1O::O A. NJ.
Unfavorable weather causing firmer feeling.
LONDON, August l4-2 P. 81.
Market quietly steady.
New YORK, August l4-11 A. M
Corn active and higher
Wheat strong; full yesterdays prices bid.
New YORK, A, gust 14-12:t0 NJ.
Wheat strong
NEW YORK, August 14-2:OO p. n.
Wheat closed hi .her: 81 Ia bid Milwaukee; Chicago
norlnaIy 1.l3M; No. lao in store.
WHEAT.
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Minneapolis 4 81. Louis Halfway hort
Line Iowa Route via Buri rgt.n.
Running through express trains with Pullman
palace sleepers to 1T. Louis without change, rs
miles shorter than any other route.
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". Daily.
1:20 pm
- . -
La daily,
Ado Il
Minneapolis & st. Louis E1

Minneapolis g 81. LOule Ell - =
press ................... 4lJpn 1:20pm
Passengers at ST. Paul ley.
by the st. Paul Il Sioux. y.
r., at 2:45 P. u. connrcI
ing at Merriam juno; ais.
leave st Paul Pacific g
r. at 300 connecting al
Minneapolis daily, Sundsys
excepted. Train on Satin
day runs far Albert
Lea, only. I.e. daily VI. Dafy,
Minneapolis, BurlgtoD 81. Ex.suEi ExM ona'y
Louis mail and express. $3.50 o lO:l0 m
{Close connections coming
North).
Mixed Minneapolis and Meg-
Ram Junction, connecting
for local stations and st. p.
g. G. X. Il. as far as Wor-t Ell Sand sund'y
Ellington ...... .......... 6:t0A L TOO "a
Mixed, Minneapolis White En- stud !, >. Study
bear Lake, Duluth h Saltwater :s5 4 800
6:3J IL 5:2ilp
Omaha Ex., for all points Oh x.surd YEA Srnd'y
St. P. s. G. Ry., On:aii 2:36 p no 1:20p m
and Cahforn ........ -.
Trains arrive and depari from the III. Paul Pac-
&c depot, Minneapolis.
Tickets aud sleeping car bertha nief at city
ticket o2ice, No. Washington nue. Opposite
Nicolet House) W. G. Teier, ticket Agen and at
st. Paul Pacific depot Mir, ,eapo, 4pd at 1l6 Es>t
Third street, 81. Paul .,Eo. a. HAz1AHD Ticket
Agent. CHAS +. HATCd, tscI. Mau-
a. Il. BoD1. Cen Pass. Axs
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Don't Mud 1t.
[Rice County Journal.

Hall is dreadful fellow on Beecher. He
is used to giving ''him fits and hail Colum
bia." But Beecher don't mind it.
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JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT,
STATE AUDITOR

The apportonment, ayr ed upon at the late
meeting of the State Central Committee Is based up
$50 ties. the major fra .tion thereof of the
vote asst at the last general election for the
four primer al State officers voted for at that me
each organized county beng, however, entitled to
one vote.
The several counties are, therefore, entitled to dele
pai as fnl,ws.
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Democratic State Convention.

Democratic State convention will be held at
Music Hall, in the city of st. Paul, on Thursday,
sept mber 9th, 1S7s at 10 oc.ock NJ. for the pur
pose of putting in nomination candidates to be voted
at the ensuing general election for the following
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IL HyIfPS!
The Eel.fLeuS fifIIlr

a newspaper carrier wit horse. Apply ut hin
neapols once of the GLOBE, corLe. Washington and
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-E.cept Sunday. tExGepi saturday.
Trains via the Braineri Il; sncl 81. Psul
daily, except Sunday, making da, run 81 twelve
hours to Fargo, arriving at Bismarck the fol owing
morning, saving nearly 90 miler de'.c, over the
old route via n. P. junction. Coz nection made at
Bismarck with stages for Deadwood sI, al points in
the Black Hills. Also with first elk noaA to Fort
beaton and all points on the Upper Missouri River
and the Yellowstone.
Connects at 81. Paul with trains to al points East
and Sonth. AT Duluth with steamer. tItnipn
Lake points, both American and Canadian also with
steamers running III connection Will. onsn Cen
tral Railroad at Ashland. In effect Aprll 1873
H. E. SARGENT. General Nas.a-er
IT, It. SASBoRN. 6eu. Passe' ger Agent.
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Foreign Produce Market,

LONDON, August II.
Observation-Disclosures ss 41ad.
LINSEED-Calcutta 5Us Cd.
LIVERPOOL, August IA.
for speculation aud export 1900 balls; receipts
$50 bales; American Z, 600 b lis.
PRoyIsIoNS-Lard American 39s. Bacon, long
ear 33s; short 36s.
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Not1ce of sheriff's Sale.
STATE OF MINNEscrA,
1k

Ramsey County,
District Court, d Judicial District.
G. NJ. Young against Martha McGinty, Cyrus De
Coster and Kenneth Clara:
Take notice: Whereas, an action was heretofore
commenced in the above court to foreclose mort
gage executed by the above named Martha McGinty
and dec: ee of foreclosure and order of sale WAS
July made and entered OF, the 18th day of December
1877 authorizing the sale OF the following d. scribed
real property. w: beginning at point on the
It the northeast corner of the land decided April T.
1855, by James II. Huganin aud wife to E. ineles,
md running theuce westerly along said Sixth street
southerly seventy 1--WE as feet then eastely and
parallel with said street sixty 60 feet thence north
ry seventy FIVE l75 feet to the place Of beginning,
nnmber five t5) and of the eastery ten 90, feet of
The north half Of lot number six 6 all in block num-
ner twelve (12) of SAINT Paul Proper according to
the plat thereof of record In the Office of Regis
Dee-s Of Ramsey County, Min esota, to satisfy the
mount ascertained to be due, to-wit: the sum Of
hirteen hundred and ten dollars, less the of
sixty dollars tn interest from the date of the said
lee 90, and the costs and expenses Of this sale.
In pursuance and execution Of the said decree,
u sell at publ auction, to the highest bidder at the
ront door of the common jail OF Ramsey County,
It. Paul Minnesota, at ten O'Clock A,M., of
THE FOURTEEN III DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1875,
the above described real property in accordance with
the provisions of law In such case.
Dated st. Paul, July 80, 1878
JAMES KING,
Sheriff of Ramsey Co.. MINI.
WARNER l. GnASet R, At orpeys for Plaintiff.
au9 1-7w-thnr
irATE OF Observation-Disclosures COURT
y Second Judicial District-County of Ramsey.
Robert Banks against aroline Banks.
SUMMONS.
The State of Minnesota to the above named defend
ant:
You are hereby summoned and required to answer
he complaint in this action which is fled in the Of
ice of the clerk Of the District Court of Ramsey
county. and to serve cory Of your answer to said
complaint on the subscriber at his Office, In Saint
luminous upon you, exclusive Of the day Of such
ervice, and if you fail to answer said comp q ut
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action
viii apply to the court for the relief demanded in
the complaint
Dated St. Paul, July 9th, a. D. 1873.
JOHN B. BRISBIN,
Plaintiffs Attorney, st. Paul, MINI.
aug8-7w thurs
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Is the best advertising medium in the scandinavian
language i'll the northwest. All kinds of Scandina-
Wan job printing cheap. Office, q Bridge square.
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MONEY AND TRADE.
FINANCIAL.
Money and Stocks.


NEW YORK, August IL.
Gold opened at 1O0ss and closed at lO0A.
Carrying rates per cent.
Borrowing rates 202h per cent. and fat.
Bar silver here lis in greenbacks; 114A in gold
Silver coin A@1 per cent. discount.
Silver bar at London 52A pence.
Governments strong.
Railroad bonds firm.
State bonds quiet and steady.
The stock market displayed considerable buoyancy
in the early part of the day. aud prices advanced u
to Oh per cent. At second call there reaction
Of IA a. but towards the close recovery took place
in many stocks, and the market left OF strong
Northwestern preferred the feature in late dea-
ings, and sold up to 6654.
The transactions aggregated 127 900 shares, which
$500 were Erie; "a, 900 Lake shore; l2,0Ul North
western common; 1900 Northwestern preferred
2s,0D0 ST. Paul comm NJ II, 300 st. Paul preferred
1900 Lackawanna; 1000 Michigan Central; I,h0f
Chicago, Burlington Quincy; 1880 Hannibal y ST.
10, aud 9.00I Western Union.
Money easy at Ils(D2ia per cent.
Prime mercantile paper $685. per cent.
Custom receipts S4a5, 900.
The assistant treasurer dlsbursed 500, 0eG.
Clearings $l3,0hO.0OO.
Sterling. long a4.z; short 49,
The following were the closing quotations:
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Local committees are earne. tly requested
promptly call county conventions for the lectic
of delegates.
il. HILL, Chairman.
F. j. MEAD,
HON. w. NJ. CAMPBELL,
I. GUTzWILLER,
w P. BRUNsoN,
Hon. GEO. BRADLEY.
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Pullman Sleeping Cars will run on re Mii Line
In Trains leaving st. Paul at 500 p. m. I ars run
through to Fishers Landing .ticut cha, sc, aud
connect there with Red River Trans ,or taton Co
River. j. p. FAR. EY. Ia, Manager
w. 8. ALEXANDER, Genl Fl, l. Tat Av,
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Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway.
Passenger Depot foot of Jackson street r,nke md
Freight Office Southeast Corner of 1lnid shG Iack
.on streets. Charles Thompson, Ticket Agent, ST.
Paul.
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OFFICIAL NOTICE.
CHANGE OF STREET GRADE.
CRY CLERKS OFFICE,

CRY CLERKS OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, July 20. 1873.
Notice is hereby given that the Common
Council at their regular meeting, August 10th,
1878, propose to change the grade of
FOURTH STREET, FROM WABASHAW
TO JACKSON STREET.
Official. II. j. OCONNOR,so
.-lLn 4 Sat Sw City Clerk.
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CHILsTROM & UILLARD,
Attorneys at Law. Collections Specially.
Office No. 50 Wash Ave. S., Mime polis, Mimi
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Southern Minnesota Railway, Cnnne,. IN. at
Ramsey with e. NJ. 6 st. +. Trains Nal. IL
and south.
AT Wells with Central Railroad of M,nnrsc.s and
at La Crosse with @. NJ. l. st. P. Railway for ill
points East
Going West-Trains leave La Crosse - 81 q m
Trains pass Ramsey. -. 2 AZ y III
Going Eas-Trains pass Ramsey. l0:45a In
Arrive at La Crosse 8 rs In
Minneapolis Time.
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st. Paul & Duluth itailIua.,.
Depot foot of Sibley str.,,.

Al tfa.ue
ITO and from the st. Paul Duluti debOf foot VI
Third street only. All others from st. Paul Pacific
depot, foot OF Sibley street.
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Foreign Money Market.
LONDON, August 14-5 P. NJ.

RFNTEs-110f 9Oc. Sterling exchange on Londo
ST 21Ac.
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Northern Pacific Railroad.
Depot foot of Sihley street. Ticket aud fr-rahs
office, No. 43 Jackson street.
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TRAVELLERS glide.
st. Paul Railroad Tim, 1o,,e.

FIRST Dtvisi n II. Paul u pacInc hat. cad.
Main Line through trauIs Tor Lisch,i~t1 frn,ar.
benson, Morris. tiiyudon. Gro, ks.on, Fish 9
Landing and Manitoba.
Leave. Arrive
81. Paul. 500 p. m. Fisher =. .It 70 a. m.
minneapolis. $50 p. III. iiunca, olh 10: III IN
Fishers Landing $3.50 p M 81. IA, 10:42 a. m
Wlilmar Accommodated.
Leave. Arrive.
st. Paul. 7:10a M Sltnneapuur 4:32rm
minneapolis 1895 y M 81. PAU $40 r m
6ranch Line through train for 81. Cloud. h ainerd
and Bismarck.
Leave. Arrive,
81: Paul. 1880 .. m. SinneapuI, 80 m.
minneapolis. $50 u. III. st. Paul 40 . NJ
q Paul, Minneapolis and Mmneionka t,s.us.
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TRAINS.

River Division
Through Chicago h East
ern Express ...........
Through Chicago i East
err Express.
iowa and Minnesota Div.
Prairie du CHI i, Milwan-
kee and C-.cago Express
St.Loui. Kansas City Ell
/ do
Ow' IOnna Passenger.
1T. Paul and Minneapoli,
and Minnahnha.
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MILWAUKEE. CHICAGO.
CORN.

Wheat receipts in Chicago 10000 bushels; shil !.
ments 48,O2S.
Wheat receipts in Milwaukee 14.7eo bushels; ship
ment,S II 49)
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PORK

Corn receipts in Chicago 412,ss7 bushels; ship
neuts 235,697.
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LEAVE. AfRI,h.

'll:22 a nj 'l.s4 p m
+7:.o p n IS At a m
10 q IL 20 81 pm
$n:lh q IL % q y N
s::25 i !" q 30 a III
%. 10 y m Ill Is q IN
trains via tori Smelling
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the mill at the time. Seven others, includ-
ing the engineer, were injured, two fatally.
Thomas White, a man killed, leaves a wife
and eight children. The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by earelessness
in allowing the boiler to get empty and hot,
and then turned cold water into it.
SAMUEL CHAMBERS and George Collins,
two negro men who were convicted at the last
term of Court, in Wilmington, Delaware, of
having committed, on August Is last, a
felonious assault on white female tramp,
named Kate Smith, were hanged in the jail
yard at New Castle, March %, in the pres
ence of about two hundred aud twenty-five
people. The prisoners passed quiet night,
and arose at an early hour in the morning,
saying they felt much better than they had
at any previous time since their conviction.
They ate but little breakfast, and spent the
morning in devotional exercises with their
spiritual advisers, the Revs. Isaac Young
and I. w. Herbert, both colored. Both men
asserted their innocence, and declared that
they were willing to go.
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The Four Queer Companions.

Cibber, the actor and dramatist, in
company with three friends, once made
an excursion. Cibber had q false set of
teeth, one of his friends glass eye, a
second friend cork legj but the third
had nothing particular, except a re-
markable way of shaking his head.
They travelled in a posteoach, and while
at the first stage, after each had made
merry with his neighbor's infrmity,
they agreed that at every batting place
they would all affect the same singu-
larity. When they came to breakfast,
they all squinted, and, as the country
men stood gaping round, when they
alighted:
"Od rot itp' cried one, chow that
man squints!'
"Why," said second, "here be an
other squirting fellowl"
The third was thought to be better
squinter than the other two, and the
fourth better than all the rest. In short,
language cannot express how admirably
they all squinted- they went one de-
gree beyond the superlative. At dinner
they appeared to have cork legs, and
their stumping about made more diver
sion than at breakfast. At tea they were
all deaf but at supper, which was at the
Ship, at Dover, each man resumed hil
character, the better to play his part il
farce they had concerted among them
When they were ready to go to bed, Glib
ber called out to the waiter:
"Here you fellowl take out m,
teeth"
"Teetfs sir?' said the man.
cay! teeth, sir! Unscrew that wire
and they'll all come out together"
After some hesitation, the man dit
as he was ordered. Then another Gale,
out:
"Here, you! take out my eyew
"Lor', sir!" said the waiter, "you
eyew
Yes, my eye! Come here, yo'
stupid dog! Pull up that eyelid, and
will come out as easily as possible"
This done, the third cried out:
"Here, your rascal take off my leg !!
This the waiter did with less reluc1
ance, having been before apprised ths
it was cork, andealso conceiving that
would be his last job. He was, howeve
mistaken. The fourth watched his OF
portunity, and while the frightene
waiter was surveying with rueful coul
tenance the eye, teeth and leg lying O
the table, cried out, in frightful no
low voice:
"Come here, sir! take off my head
Turning round, and seeing the man
head shaking like that of a mandari
upon chimney piece, he darted out {
the room, and, after tumbling headlon
down stairs, ran about the house swea
ing that the gentlemen above stairs wei
certainly all devils.
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A Fight with an Indian Devil.

On Thursday last Mr.. J. L. Ingraham
and son, of West Camden, Me-, discov-
cred the track of wild animal leading
toward Ragged Mountain, in the north
err. part of Camden. They at once put
the hounds on the track, and followed
them. After following the track about
two miles they caught sight of the ami
NAL, which proved to be an Indian devil
of the largest size. Being excellent
marksmen, and not in any way daunted,
they took different routes to cut him off
before he could reach the heavy growth
of timber that lies on the top of the
mountain. They agreed to meet at a
point half way up the mountain, where
they expected the animal would pass.
J. L. Ingraham arrived first, and dis
covered the animal coming up. Mr..
Ingraham's son followed Seeing Mr..
Ingraham in his path, the Indian devil
turned upon the hound, and terrible
combat followed. The fight lasted a
short time only, as the devil threw the
hound in the air about ten feet. The
men did not dare to fire for fear of kill
ing the dog.
After throwing the hound into the
air, the animal, seeing Mr.. Ingraham's
son coming up, jumped to the top of a
high cliff. The young man at once went
below and prepared to fire. The devil
made a tremendous leap from the cliff
to the young man below, over thirty-fve
feet. The father seeing that his only
chance fired, breaking one fore-leg. The
Indian devil struck the son, however
tearing his coat in shreds and knocking
him down, and they both rolled dowI
the mountain together about twenty
feet. The hound followed and attacked
the animal again.
The devil left the young man anc
turned ON the dog, and threw him int,
the air again, and the dog struck on
ledge below, nearly dead. Mr.. Ingra
ham took the gun his son had dropped
in the struggle and fired. The anima
fell on its side, but was still yer.
ferocious. Father and son then tool
their guns and struck him until he ceaset
to move. He measured five feet, ant
looked very much like an American
panther.
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A Rival to the Sea Serpent.
New York Tribune.1


The sea serpent has a rival. 1t is
land animal an animal as large, as fam
tastic, and as elusive as the celebrated
as mysterious.
The minhocaois is new wonder. A very
slight change in its name might have
prejudiced the world against it-as for
instance, if it had been baptized min
hoaxo. 1t is well fathered in the realm
of science, being brought to notice by
one Fritz Muller, of Brazil, in the
Zoologische Garten, and receiving full
page of large type in recent number
of Nature. The minhocao is believed to
be a resident of the region of South
America where the Uruguay and Paraha
rivers have their sources. The animal
is said by different observers to have
the following characteristics 1t is worm
shaped; eighty-two feet long, by guess,
and more than a yard in thickness; ;
"not very long," however. according to
another account; two horns on the
head; snotit like pig;. a less definite
description makes the animal "as big as
house" and measurement of the tracks
indicates its possible width at six and a
half to ten feet. Some years ago, it is
said, there Was dead minhocao wedged
in the cleft of a rock near Arapohy,
Uruguay; its skin was as thick as the
bark of pine-tree, and formed of hard
scales like those of the armadillo.
| The i1e# animal is, however, chiefly
known by his works. Great trenches
are found in this region, which are sup
posed to be the evidence of the min
hoeao's industry. Heaps of earth are
turned up in the process, and where
pine-trees stand in the way of the trench
| they are rooted up, and sometimes part
of their bark and wood may be torn off.
The devastation of this performance,
which is chiefly near or under the sur
face Of the earth, though eften under
the bed of stream, is enormous. In
case the entire side of q hill was under
mined, it is supposed, by two of these
animals, and was traversed by deep
trenches. By such proceedings marshes
have been drained, or dry land con.
verted into morass, and the courses o1
streams entirely changed. Some of the
trenches are spoken of as being from
| three-fourths Of d mile to d mile il
length. They are excavated with grea'
rapidity.
/ It viii be noticed that the new as
pirant for fame has been almost as ittl'
seen as the sea serpent. The subter
ranean monster is simply more fortunate
than the submarine, in leaving NOR
palpable traces than a wake of foam
We may expect soon to hear of a scien
tifc expedition to Uruguay in search o
the minhocao. Whether it will be foun,
like ceratodus or lepidosiren or
glyptodont, it is yet too soon to guess
Possibly, when unearthed, it will b
recognized as the descendant of one 0
the gigantic armadillos that certainl
dwelt in South America during the rel
tilian age of geology.
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Texans, on whose conduct he had acted
as spy. found that out twelve months

Texans, on whose conduct he had acted
as spy. l found that out twelve months
ago." e-
" Then, you are madman yourselfl"
exclaimed Webb. "Deaf Smith was
never known to miss his mark" -
"The thing is settled" said Morton,
have agreed to meet him. There
can be no disgrace in talking before such
a shot, and if l kill him it will be the
greatest feat of my life." 9-a
Toward eveninga vast crowd assembled
to witness the meeting, and so great was
the popular recklessness as to affairs of
this sort that bets were offered and taken
on all sides upon the result. At sunset
the two men arrived, with long, heavy
rifles, took their places, back to back,
and at a given signal walked slowly and
steadily offin opposite directions, count
ing their steps until each had measured
fifty. They both completed the given
number at about the same instant and
wheeled around, As the distance was
great both paused for some seconds.
The face of Colonel Morton was calm
and smiling. The face of Deaf Smith
was as stern and impassive as ever. The
Colonel was in broadcloth, the scout in
smoke-tinted leather. er5ra
The two rifles exploded at the same
instant. Colonel Morton sprang into
the air and dropped to the earth, dead.
Deaf Smith quietly reloaded his rifle,
and walked away into the forest.
Three days afterward General Hous-
ton, accompanied by Deaf Smith and
ten other men, appeared at Austin, and