The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-12

to light-drat9h vessels. This run will
extend from Colon proper to above
Gatun, and will enable an opinion to
be formed, even by tie most causuaf
observer, as to the changes effected on
the canal work began.
A PiOus Feud.
The dispatches in Tuesdays papers
tell Of O terrible tragedy in Florida,
the result Of "feud" between two
families. the Longfords and the VESTS
There were three Longfords and three
Vests, and they were all pious men,
teachers in Sunday school. They met
last Sunday afternoon at church
where Sunday school was being held,
and. while the choir was singing
"Nearer My God to Thee." the firing
began on the green in front of the
church. The little children tf1at these
pious men had been teaching the com
mandment, Thou shalt not kfA,''
were frightened and ran out of the
church TO see the fight, and to see
their dear teachers desecrate the holy
Sabbath day by filling their dear
brUthers with cold lead. An OCCASION
al corpse Of o Sabbath school teacher
would roll OIL: ut a wagon before the
little children, ana Us the organ pealed
forth tho glad anthem one of the pious
and God. fearing Brother Vests would
take knife and rip basket full OF
bowels out OF a brother LOngfUrd, and
the scene beggared description. The
truly good Christians who had gath.
cred in the church with their children
t<: l;okn,S IN thu ipt pf tl,o
scriptures by the Vests and the Long
fords, as teachers Of the little ones in
the way they should go. to hear the
children recte verses from the New
Tcstafnsnt, and to hear the good
teachers explain the meaning of SEN
tenccs, and unite in prayer that the
Good God would preserve them all
from harm and finally bring them be-
fore Him at the great white throne to
he judged of the deeds done Oh eartlrr
got behind trees and wagons to escape.
the fying bullets that were filling the
air on the Lords day, and they showed
the children behind the meeting house
that they might not be murdered by
their pious teachers with stray
shots. A pious old deacon who
was not interested IN the fight
held M his hands and with his
white hair streaming in the grateful
breeze of tho warm Southern Sabbath,
prayed that the sanguinary brethren
who were drawing beads on their
Christian ncighbors. might be turned
from the errOrof their wavs. and cease
firing, and shake hands over the cory
corpscs already prepared. Then
spent ball took him In the groin, and
he drew his own revolver and said he
was law abiding citizen and Chris
tian, but he could everlastingly plug
up the liver of any man that would
shoot him in tho groin when he yas
praying for peace, and he began to
shoot at the cOmbatants. The women
and children became frightened and
ran screaming TO the pine woods, and
after the Vests and Longf0rtis had alb
been killed or mortally wounded, the
fighting ceased, except that one pistol.
in the hand of dying Longford, kept
going off ut random, the dying man
Just having strength enough to keep
pulling tho trigger of his self-cocker.
though his eyes were glazed in death
from quart of bullets through the
liver and othor foreign parts, at the
hands of a brother Sunday school
teacher. The school was dismissed
for the day, and the women and chill
dren ran home screaming bloody muir
der, while the men gathered around
the corpses and talked Over the sad
occurrence, and told stories Of similar
cases they had known during their
lives, and finally tho dead we're loaded
into wagons and conveyed to their
homes, and as the sun went down on
the beautiful Sabbath day, and tho
birds ceased their singing and went
to their nests, all was quiet, and peace
white winged peace, that had been
stranger for the time, hovered over
the little city, and the Sunday-school
children who had been so rudely in;
terrupted in their study of the scrip
lures, and had seen their loved and
pious teachers stretched out cold in
death on the greensward in front Of
the church. went to bed and dreamed
they were in hell. What scene II
must have been, and what an impress
sion the horrible fight must have left
on tho young minds--PecE's Sun.