The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-07-21

to rob a jewelry store, and then betrayed
his companions to justice. But in esti
flying against them, though he caused
their conviction, he lied so much thai
he was sent to prison for periury. Tim,
he found himself a convict in the st
Vincent de Paul penitentitiary with mer
who were his revengeful foes. One oi
these was Dan Everett, who deliberately
resolved to throw away his lie in order
to kill the traitor. He stabbed Saitel
to dea;h, and then, knowing that other
wise he would surely be hanged, he
committed suicide on the spoU.
General Henry A. Barnum suffers tc
this day from 9unshot wound not un.
like that of President Garfield, received
nineteen sears ago at the battle of An.
tietam. he was shot entirely through
| the right side of the body, and so des
perate was his condition that he could
not be removed from the field, the phy.
sician declaring that an attempt to re.
move him would be fatal, But he re-
covered after few weeks treatment in
a field hospital, and is to-day we'll and
hearty. His great annoyance is that he
Is compelled to wear q seton to keep the
wound open, and the careful washing OF
the wound is part of his daily toilet.
In his case, however, the liver was prob
ably not lacerated. The late General
Lowell H. Rosseau. of Kentucky, was
shot in 1856 by DIR. Standiford, for some
time President of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. The ball entered
the abdomen just above the navel and
lodged in the back. 1t was never re-
moved. He was in dangerous condi-
tlon for several weeks after, but finally
| recovered, and lived until 1869, dying
suddenly while apparently in the best
of health, from what his physicians at
New Orleans called "knotted bowels" y"
The different kinds of criminals in
New Mexico and Arizona are given dis
tlpgulshlng names. "Rustlers are
| thieves who steal cattle on the United
| States side of the line, run them into
| Mexico, sell them there, and then load
themselves with Mexican plumber for
the return trip. Cowboys are those
who earn an honest living by herding.
and behave well enough when at work,
although when in the towns for a holiday
they commit all manner of outrages for
fun. Gard jerkers" are professional
gamblers who cheat those with whom
they play. "Dinglers are stage rob
bers. "Nofchers" are men who wan
tonly take human life, apparen ly with
the sole object of gaining regulations a.
desperadoes They are the terror OF
the border, and little is ever done to
bring them to punishment, except bv
the sudden resentment of mob. Silver
City, however, is an exception in this
respect among border towns, for it has
district attorney who prosecutes vigo-
rously, and sheriff who does not let
his prisoners escape The trials are
queer the jurors often being unable tC
understand anything but Spanish, while
the speaking is done is English but
that does not seem to hinder convic
tions, for sixteen condemned murderers
are now in the jail under death sentences.
The census Of Ireland shows a popn-
lation of 8, 159, $40, being a decrease of
252, 53S since 1871. The population is
composed of 2, 522, ,S04 males and 2 637,-
O35 females. The decline of the last
ten years was sp! cad over all the coun-
ties except three. The counties which
did not decline were Antrim, Dubl n,
and Kerry, one of the poorest and most
remote localities. In all the others the
decrease went on varying from 1913, or
in round numbers IL per cent, in
Mona han, to 10 per cent. in Upper
ary, 10 exactly in Carlow, 80 in Gal
way, IT in Cork, and OF in Mayo. 1t
is remarkable that Carlow, tie garden
Of ireland, and all the other richest
tracts of soil should have suffered most
from depopulation. The religious dis
tribution of the population was-3,O51,-
SSS Roman Catholics, 635, go connected
with the church of Ireland, 4S5, 500
Presbyterians, 47,669 Methodists, and
the balance was made up of other de-
nominations. The decrease OF the Ro-
man Cutholics in the ten years was 1885,
979, of the Protestants 32, 1923, and of the
Presbyterians II, 145. During the last
ten years dwelling houses have disap-
peared to the number of 48,6l9, while
buildings used as accessories to farms
bad for business pursuits in towns have
increased to the number of Is, ,228.
Whilst no British monarch has died
by the assassin's hand, prime ministers
have been less fortunate. Mr.. Spencer
Perceval was shot, in the lobby of the
house of commons, by one Bellingham,
who had claims against the treasury,
and had worked himself into a frenzy
under sense of supposed injustice.
The man was undoubtedly more or less
mad, but was tried, condemned and ex-
ecuted while popular indignation was
red-hot The killing of the prime min
lister gave rise to apprehension that a
widespread conspiracy was aaoat, and
the mails were all stopped that night
pending the preparation of dispatches
to the authorities throughout the coun-
try. Sir Robert Peel, also, would have
fallen but for his secretary Ia near rela-
tive of the present secretary of the
British legation at Washington having
been murdered by mistake for him.
After miscreant struck at Queen Vic
toria, some twenty years ago, an act was
nQGQaH randa1innr Lind Of