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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-09-27
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80 e@Os 49, ~>h P'uSh, NiiiiaI VI
he stole it. A tall fellow with blue
eyes and yellow-brown hair: he was
wounded. he said, and going to his
mother ut Green Bank. Not your
Rob"
And Charlie stood staring at me
with clenched hands; and he said:
1T was my dear old Rob, wound
ed and starving!-my dear Rob who
saved my life, and you have driven
him out i'll such night as this,
mother! Ny mother, to use Rob
SOL"
Condemn me, Charlie" said /,
condemn me if you like; l am
afraid God will. Three times he
came back; three times he asked
for only IA crust and II place to lie,
and | drove him away. land
he's lying i'll the road now. Oh, if
! had only Known
And Charlie caught mp his hat.
"I'll find him if he's alive" SAID
he. "Oh, Rob, my dear friend"
And then-I never saw the girl
take on SO. Down went Drusilla
on her knees. as if she was saying
her prayers, and said:
Thank God, I dared to do it,"
And says she to me:
ooh, aunt, I have been trembling
with fright, not knowing what you
would say to me. / took him in
kitchen way. / couldn't see him
go faint and hungry, and wounded,
and | put him i'll the spare chamber
over the parlor, and been So fright
ened Ill the while
The Lord bless you, Drusilli,.
said Charlie.
"Amen!' said /.
And she, getting boltler, went on:
And | took him some hot short
cakes and apple sauce, and tea,
SAID she, "lnd | took INN IL candle,
and hot brick for his feet, and
told him to eat and go to bed Ill
tie best chamber, with the white |
and all, and locked
the door and put the key i'll my
pocket, and told him that lie should |
have u good nights rest, and that
no one should turn him out unless
.ney walked over my dead body"
Drusilla said 1t more like an
lctress III IA tragedy, and went off
nto Mysteries the moment the words
we're out of her mouth. She'd been
to be half murdered. you
Know, and the girl, vino was sin
cell, always minded me before us if
WAS her mother.
Never WAS there any old sinner
o happy us | was that nIgLt--so
thankful to the good Lord; and it
would have done your heart good
you had seen the two meet III the
uurL ing-Charlie and his friend
sob. And Charlie, and IL mother
rho was not SO poor either, helped
lob into business. And he got well
'ser his wounds ut last and grew as
us picture, and to-day
ieek he is going to marry Drusiila.
Id give YOU any thing | have"
aid |, land L won't refuse you even
when he asked me, tell
~ ne that he loved her ever since
lie was SO kind to him on the ight
We told you of.
And Charlie is to stand up with ,
i'm, and | am to give Drusilla
way. Rob's sister, from Green i.
'lnk, is to be bridesmaid, and 1
ave IA uusss that sume day Charlie ,
, 1879-06-07
TIE uHxECAN CLANS.

Sayiag 10 4 miner, Ole OF family, What
fancy led you TO name this claim Tim Fin
negaa ?" he replied:
"Weli stranger, 1t was at Prescott, All
Tuscon Jake was playing game OF cursock,
les for the drinks, you know, when IN comes
one of them crazy, blood thirsty blood hounds
that turns loose in mining camps sometimes.
ripped ont his six shooter, and shot the bar
keeper dead then turning on me an Tuscon
Jake, said:
'.Now, either OF yOu move an inch and
I'll blow the top OF your--head of
1--WE knowed he'd do 1T. Thar Was the
barkeeper dead, an thar was the pistol
pointed right at us. II WAS fearful (; VIC dar-
sn't take full breath. Jake's feeilns
worked on him so powerfully that he couldn't
keep still he hitched round little Quick
as lightning bullet laid HIM at my feet
Now, the pistol was turned toward me, with
the muzzle within three feet Of my face, an
the eyes Of the scoundrel fairly blazed as he
said:
Move, more,-you, jes' the tenth part
Of an inch -
sIt was the most horrible time Of my lIfe-
The sweat stood on my face like cObbie-
stones. knowed he'd kill me if moved
finger. an it seemed all the time was going
to move in spite Of myself. Jes then pis-
tol flashed behind the wild beast, an he fell
dead In his boots. Tim Finnegan had got
too much whisky early IN the evenln, an
stretched cut on some barrels IN the corner,
an went TO sleep. The shots that killed the
barkeeper an Jake walked him. An beln
sooered by his nap, he, unbeknownst to me
an the murderer, easily an gradually drew
his pistol an sent the blood hound to king
dom come.
sYou He'd the scene Of horror
Il hugged an kissed Tim"
What is the name of tins prospect ih
front OF you .
Tim Fmnegan No. J.
''The one to the right
Tim Finnegan No. 3.
And this on the left "
.sTIm Flunegan No 4.
Glow many locations have y"u On TIN.
hill
Sixteen.
'TThe name of the last one ?.
Tim Finnegan No l?.
How is it that you have No. 10 and only
sixteen locations
.My boy an my dog an my horse is Tim
Finnegan Nos i6 II and an Is.
you haven't named your wife that
No. bnt If | died fore her an lin
he's bachelor-I want her TO be Mrs lin
Finnegan.
, 1879-06-07
YAKIMA LETTER.
YAKIMA CRY, May u, l8.

YAKIMA CITY, May II, l5.9
EDITOR STATESMAN We are still IA
vored with growing showers-mnrr ram
than usual for this locality. Indian affairs
all quiet at present General Howard
and Governor Ferry paid us visit last
Sunday. and remained IN town until
Monday evening They attended church
Oh Sunday, the Governor read the morn
inc lesson, and the General preached or
lectured in a general way on the subject
OF religion. To a generally appreclatlve au-
dience. We had general social talk with
those distinguished gentlemen on the In
dian question. They seemed to be satisfied
that perhaps the people had taken the
preper course under the existing cIrcum-
stances OF last year, and that possibly Chlef
Noses might have been wrong. We Ia
bored I, show them that the statements
recently published by Mr.. Schurz of the
department was based upon erroneous re-
ports. and that the department had got
ten hold Of the wrong horn OF the dl-
lemina- We are hopeful that in the fu-
ture the authorities viii first find out the
trnth of things in Yakima before they
undertake to cens,Te and condemn an IN
pocant and defenseless people, simply FOR
vipdicating the law, and for bringing mur-
de-ous and theiving Indians to justice
Those gentlemen indicated to US that
they would accompany Moses mp to his
naw home ON the Columbia, and would
also move the troops up IN that vicinity,
and establish a military post IN Moses
country for the purpose Of enforcing
peaca How it will turn out remains to
be seen. We hope their plans may result
in the general good of the country, but 1t
;s rumored that the Indians are dissatis-
fed Our village was frightened up
somewhat today by the presence OF a
surveying party Of the North racine
railroad company, they started from
a noipt at the foot of Priest Rapids, re-
nor; that they found an easy route from
that noint to this, distance Of 4S miles.
They say that they are working this sur
vev TO connect with the one made last
summer through the Cowlitz Pass. Ihis
branch road is the one long sought for by
this section of the territory, and Is the
rad. and the only enterprise to unite
eastern and western Washington, and the
sooner il is completed, the sooner the
territory will begin to advance in wealth
and commerce. Moses has stole away
our military post, but if we get railroad
We will then be able to take care OF our
80. YAKrsA-
, 1879-06-07
Pithy Political Paragraphs.

The Herald says: We are glad to see
republican congressman taking ground
against the decision of contested election
cases on partisan grounds. ITS great
pity they hadn't thought OF it when they
were in power"
The Chicago Infer-Ocedn asks If the Kan
sas City Times is "A bigger man than the
PRESIDENT" you bet it is. replies the Kan
sas City Times, by a large majority. A de
jUrs newspaper is bigger thln hundred d.
.tacfo presidents.
Massachusetts, law makes il 4 misde-
meanor for negro to enter that state unless
he brings property with him. And this law.
the Buffalo Courier alleges, so far from be-
ing dead letter, is more rigidly enforced
than any law on the Massachusetts, statute
book.
The Boston Post paragraphs thus: The
New York Times is content to follow on
where Robeson leads the way. There WAS
a time when it would have seorned such
beacon-light. When Grant left Lucknow
there was lire of elephants drawn up in
his honor, When he get. tp this country
at that.-The Detroit Free Press says:
lack Chandler 'coachnfan is an cx-minis-
ter" Can it be possible that Chief Moses
took Zack out riding and a correspondent
who didn't know him was deceived by his
looks:-A Philadelphia Judge has issued
an injunction to restrain the production OF
play representing Gen Grants tour round
the world And yet Philadelphia has per
mitted the Black Crook to be produced there.
How awfully the Grant crowd Rlust have
acted
The Louisville Com-ier-Joluaai publishes
these paragraphs: The rulers that make
their seats of bayonets will have to sit on
them all the same when the cushions shall
have worn a bit.-lt Is now understood
everywhere that John Sherman is a presi-
iential aspirant His visit to Ohio has left
no doubt upon that subject radicals
don't want troops at the polls for the pur
pose of influencing elections Of course
not Ii Is only To enforce laws for the pro
lection of the ballotboX and the purity of
elections, What a righteous crew they
must be.-The democratic party is states
man, not warrior. 1t is a constructor, not
a destroyer IL IL no longer faction Ill
opposition. but a coordinate branch of the
government, and. if it had its rights, would
be the government itself. The republican
taunt, that it is going to ''starve the govern
ment," is as insolent Is it is absurd.
The Philadelphia Chronicle publishes these
paragraphs: Ohio ranks third in the list OF
maple sugar making states, and first IN
''taffy. Satan, We believe, subscribes for
the Okolona Southern States. He uses it to
klndle fires with-Senator Logan is the
author of several plays. He has also, We
believe, appeared ten nights in one BARRON
John Sherman declines to be candidate
for governor of Ohio. Now, you naughty
Agnes jerks, don't press him.-lowa has
two hundred and twenty-four brass bands.
No wonder they vote the republican ticket
in sheer desperation.-The Pennsylvania
legislature, 1t has been proven, cannot be
bribed It's just too sweet to live. VIII
somebody please knock it on the head,-
Mr. Hayes backbone has grown so strong
within the past two weeks that Mrs. Hayes
can now crack walnuts on 1t with the great
est ease.
, 1879-06-07

An OLD-FAsHIoNED REAPER - One
day Just before harvest an Ohio farmer
went to Cincinnati to buy reaper A
delighted agent collared the granger and
dragged him into his warehouse. As they
walked down the well i-stacked room, the
farmer, in meditatiye mood, quoted the
line ''There is a reaper whose name Is
Death" but before he could start the
second line the agent broke in: "Ah,
yes, know it, sir know it like book.
We handled that reaper one season, sir,
and I'd take $1,000 out Of my pocket this
minute, if it could undo the damage that
reaper did our business In that one year.
You don't want it, sir. You don't want
to look at it. The machinery is compii-
Gated it gets ont of order easily You
have to send clear to Akron for a new
piece of gearing it doesn't cut clean, and
it nearly kills the horses jams their
shoulders all to pieces, sir. 1 know that
reaper, sir. It's an old, old style, sir,
and yea don't want it. Now here, sir,
/ can show You reaper that. But
the astonished farmer just interrupted
him to say that he knew the reaper he
mentioned was an old style, but he
was certain that it done its work we'll,
though, all the same 1t wasn't the kind
he wanted, and he had no idea of buying
it to work on his farm He bought
another reaper, blood-thirsty as Cossack,
and red as an autumn sunset, and the
agent told how nicely he sold a reaper to
an old fellow who came in there Just dead
set for some old machine that he had
never heard of before.
, 1879-06-07

THUgM,x's SrEECH.-WlthOut transcend
ing parliamentary limits, and IN strict OBJ
seTvaDce of senatorial decorum, Mr. Thur
man managed to handle the veto messages
and the persons who signed them. IN man
ner Indicative of his contempt for the shall
low sophistry of weak man. He satirized
Mr.. Hayes pretended argument mercilessly-
He held him over a slow FIRE OF pitiless sar-
casm. and bassed him with irony In short,
be tore off the veneering that had been used
20 disguise the real parpose OF the vetoes,
and made so apparen. that denial Is imPossi-
Bile, their only possible object-the chance
70 use the army for unfair political advan-
taces In election Of 1889. Tns speech shonld
be circulated by the hundred thousand 1t
will make converts to democratic principles,
for there are many republicans in everytow
shin who can never be made to vote for the
domination Of bayonets, the control of cleo
tons by United States marshals or the pack
ing of juries in the federal courSs-
, 1879-06-07

WHEN a student at the bar Is called up
for examination he is asked the question,
''What is law ?" Whereupon he replies,
his eye in frenzy rolling "Law, IN
its most general and comprehensive sense,
signifies a rule of action. In this sense
it is applied indiscriminately to all kind
OF actions, whether animate or lnanImate,
rational or irrational" Three years after
he has begun practice, if he is asked what
law is, he answers disgustedly: "Law Is
deueed uncertain way of making pre-
carious living"
, 1879-06-07

FOOLISH Every day questions the
orange peddler, care they sweet 1nquir-
ing OF your friend Smith as to what the
weather is going to be in the future time,
certain or indefinite Demanding What's
the news - withsthe expectation Of getting
any answer other than ''O-o-h, nothing.
Hailing Tom, Dick and Harry with ''How
dye do" "How are ye - ct i'd genus omne'
As though You cared a rush bow they did or
how they vere.
, 1879-06-07

81 SHOULD ike to have you raise club, :
said 7x9 book canvasser TO a daughter OF
Erin, as he stood on the front step trying to
talk her to death on the subject Of the .'Ex-
tinction of the Seventh Century Il Will, y
said B:ddy, as she reached around behind
the door, .'but bad luck to your picture II
you're lingering around here when | get it
raised," He did mt hnger.
, 1879-06-07

AFTER the recent wholesale fiogging Of
bows at the Minot School, Nebonset, boy
who was one of the victims was questioned
as to the severity OF the punishment '.Did
he whip any of them so as to leave them
black and blue!" was asked. '.No, re-
piled the boy, "bnt he made some Of them
uaIl-oh 90
, 1879-06-07
O,n Rxo.DRRINs WIsDON

O1n BRoADBRIN WISDOM - Mary
clemmer. in . poem addressed to John
q whittier, saws: Thou hast never
t.ten INV hand, nor looked into my face
IN tenderwise." And We don't suppose
he ever will, for he is now too Odd for
such fooli.hness- When he remembers
the deplorabls fix Mr.. Cameron got into INTO
hv simply sending the widos few
o..nces. he firmly resolves that ne Will
continue never to take 4 womans hand
and look tenderwise into her face- Mr-
Whittier is . very sensible person, II he
does write poetry.
, 1879-06-07

ION, papa >. cried Angelina, eonVulsive-
lv. do not tear Us asunder You know not
how adore Theodore am madly In love
with him dote on hun wildly And
the cruel father broke in with, well, you'd
better SOW your wild dotes as soon as Poss'-
BILE. q" The monster.
, 1879-06-07

The class in geography was on exhibition
when the question came, Who discovered
the Sandwich Islands ," Every hand was In.
stantly raise, followed by 4 chorus Vi
Joseph Cook.
, 1879-06-07
j. DovELL, C.. NJ JOHNSON
j. DOVELL & CO.
= A = H, DOOR
FURNITURE FACTORY!
MAIN STREET, WALLA WALLA.
(Abope the Biz BRIDGE.

"AVING ENLARGED ALL THE DE.
LII partmenss of our Factory, we are better
prepared than ever to supply the increasing
demands of our business. We do all kinds Of
House Work that can be done in a Factory.
Dress Lumber, Make Sash, Doors, Blinds,
Door and Window Frames, and all kinds of
Mouldings. All kinds of Turning done, and
Scroll Saving neatly done.
We KEEP IN STOCK
Broom Handles, Washboards, Cedar and Pine
Shingles. Cedar and Sugar Pine Dcors. ANY
kind Of Brackets made to order. We have the
largest
FURNITURE WAREROONS
This side Of Portland. We have large stock
OF all kinds Of Furniture, and make all kinds
of Upholstery goods and repair the same We
have the right and sell the lest Spring Bed now
made.
PICTURES, PICTURE FRAMES, ETC.
A large stock of Walnut Mouldinss, Pictures
and Picture Frames, Window Shades, Mirrors,
Hair and Wool Mattresses, Feather Pillows,
Sewing Machines, etc, always on hand.
We are also prepared to Match, Cut, Sew
and put down Carpets, and make Window
Cornices, Trimmings, etc.
12tf J. DOVEEL L co.
, 1879-06-07

cs.r1,s MosreAess at this cl6ee 70, sale
, 1879-06-07
FOURTH OF july.

The glorious anniversary OF our independ-
ence is fas. approaching and not red to buy
a cracker with. Our people can't enthuse
as they should Everybody works out his
own road tax and We can't get job even
mending roads. and if a fellow steals horse
and sells it, the trees are too plentiful to be
healthy. What is poor devl to do, If
Walla WalIa is short of business perhaps
some of us VIII try that climate for while
L. LOoNER.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-16
Between Heaven and Earth.

Charles May and his brother Robert,
in the spring of 1870, offered to pass
railroad ties down TIE Arkansas from
it's mountain source. He says: 'Our
offer was accepted, when we started
into the upper entrance of the canyon
with large skitf, provided with SIX
days provisions and 200 feet of rope
with which, by taking running turn
around some firmly planted obj sct, We
could lower our boat 100 feet at time.
In this way, at the end of three days,
having set adrift many hundred ties,
we reached the entrance of Royal
George. Here we discovered that an
attempt to descend the first waterfall
with two in the boat was certain de-
struction, and to return was impossible.
Accordingly, ! determined to lower my
brother down III, fall in the boat.
At a distance of 200 feet 1 gave him
the rope and let him take the chance OF
the canyon Qife seemed more certain in
that dlrectioD), while I could risk my
physical ability to climb the canyon
wall, which was about 200 feet high
About 10 o'clock IN the morning !
shook hands with my brother, lowered
him in the boat safely to the foot of the
fall; gavs him the rope and
saw him no more. Then throwing aside
nav coat, hat and boots, and stripping
the socks from my feet, / commenced
my climbing way, often reaching the
height of 100 or 200 feet only t. be
compelled to return to try some other
way. At length, about 4 O'Clock in
the afternoon, l reached height on
the smooth canyon of about a Thousand
feet. Here my further my further
progress was arrested by shelving
ledge of rock that juttsd out from he
canyon side foot or more. To ad-
vance was without hope; to return,
certain death. Reaching upward and
outward, 1 grasped the ledge with one
hand, and then with the other; my
feet slipped from the smooth side OF
the canyon, and my body hung sus-
pended in the air 1000 feet above the
roaring waters of the Arkansas.
Atthat moment looked downward to
measure the distance would fall when
the strength of my arms gave out. A
singing sensation crept through my
HAIR as my eye caught the strong roos
of cedar bush that projected over the
edge just beyond my reach. My grasp
of the ledge was fast yielding to the
weight of my person. Then l deternin-
ed to make my best effort to raise my
body and throw it sideways towards
the root, 30 as to bring 1t within my
grasp. At the moment of beginning
the effort / saw my mothers face, as
she leaned out over the ledge reaching
down her hand and caught me by the
heir. Stranger, my mother died while
yet q young woman, when l and my
young brother were small boys. / re-
member her face. / was successful in
making the side leap with my arms,
when drew myself upoI the ledge and
rested for q time. From here upward
my way climbing was laborious, but
less dangerous. Preached the top just
as the sun was sinking down behind
the Snowy range, and FASTENED to our
camp at the mouth of the canyon,
where found my brother all safe"
''Charley," said he, shave you had
your head in q -four sack9" Ii Was tsea
discovered that my hair was as white
as you see it now.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-16

TWENTY millions Cf dollars have Just
been expended in pension arrearages.
As between the government and its
beneficsries 1t is right and just enough,
but when Northern newspapers con-
trast the poverty-stricken condition of
the South with the tffi crescent splen-
doris of the North let them reflect that
hardly dollar of ell this vast sum
enters the South, which, in proportion
to wealth and population. pays out two
thirds of The whole sum. But cotton, su.
gar, tobacco and rice and in few years.
Nicaragua wheat will 6qualize losses
aud gains. But these navigation acts
and tariffs and river and harbor bills
and pension laws all operate in the
same direction, and are designed to
rob and impoverish the South and en-
rich the North. We could endure the
theft and robbery if we were not re-
Viled for the necessary consequences.
Labor in the South is deprived by Fed
eral taxation of its just rewards. 1t
bears at last all just and unjust
burdens, and the discontented negro
HES away to Kansas, and the Tribune
and the Times grow eloquent in denun-
citation of Southern injustice to the poor
negro. The wolf once muddied the
stream and devoured the lamb far be-
low for the grievous offense.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-16


VERY certainly. IL the rev telegraph
company fail OF its asserted purpose to
MAINTAIN rival line to all points. and
il it fail to reduce the cost OF iele-
graphy to European rates, Congress
will be forced, however oil .ctionable
the vast volume of power and patron
age thus seiz-d by the central govern
ment, to assess and seize the telegraph
system and make it part of Postmas-
ter General Keys duty to manage it.
Perhaps it was In view Of this tenden-
cy OF public opinion that so order went
into effect on the second of October on
the Western Union Telegraph Com
psny's lines reducing the tariff to all
points where 1t has been more than
two dollars for ten words. In no case
in future will there be 8 rate higher
than two dollars for ten words. On
the first of N1vembar all offices OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company
will be made haif-rste Offices. Only
the principal off ces at present are half
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-16

THERE are only about twenty Ameri-
can horses in England. Against these
there are not less than thousand ready
to be matched. Though Parole was
seventh in the great race Of last Tues
day for the Cesarewitch stakes MIR,
Sanford's horse Anstocrat, on the SINE
day. won in an equally hard contested
struggle. Mr.. Sanford has SIX or seven
and LorrillArd twelve or thirteen
American horses inEaeland and
though 1t does not1oOk well and is
not agreeable to fhd Parole thus left in
the lurch We hare no right to complain
of our American horses and their own
ere. English h5rses, too, have thar sd-
va1tsge over ours which Northern
horses have over those of Texas, when
the latter run on Northern race courses.
II a Texas horse run great race IN the
East, IS often happens such . horse
would defeat any competitor from any
country on . Texas race course. We
would gladly have Northern men give
our stssds fair trial Of bottom and
speed on the unsqaalled race course
here At Austin. Would heavy purse
induce Lsrrillard, Harper and Others
10 send their swiitess animals to the
State FART Dallas and Austin stables
can produce horses sqaaiin eli things to
Parole and AEiktocrss, ana would lead
them essily in = rsce in the tropics.