The examiner., 1886-02-27

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 They were going to whip man at the public post at Glendale, Va, and three or four of us rode from Malvern Hill battle field to see the operation. The culprit was a burly big negro, and the audience, num- bering 500, was largly composed of blacks. When we reached the scene the. man was already triced up. They had his wrists dashed to crossbar and he was trying hard to work his courage up to meet his fate like a white man.
 stHi! dah, Moses-doan' you wish you hadn't?" queried one of the crowd.
 "Nigger, you go'longr'
 sI'n bet he'll squirm like an eel"
 sAn' you'll h'ar him hollar 8 mile away"
 ,- He answered most of them gruff1y but one could see that he was 'srattled." When the official finally appeared, strap in hand, Moses broke down and began to beg. Not one black person in all that whole crowd seemed to pity him. Indeed, his own wife pushed into the front rank, her face covered with grin, and called out;
 'I dun tole ye, ole man! Recken dey am gwine to tickle ye all over!''
 The official laid on the strap and count ed out one-twO-three-and so on, in a loud tone of voice, and when he had reached thirty-nine old Nose was the worse licked darkey in Virginia After y prayed and begged, and his wife sat down on the ground and waved her arms around and shouted:
 "Jist you harken to himi He hain't got no mo- grit dan boy fo' vars olep'
 After the licking one of our party in quired of Moses how he felt
 .sI feel dat all de bad has all gone outer me; sah.'' -,-.- s%.
 "And you won't steal again?"
 '.No, sah. If you should lay a millyun dollars down dar in de road dis chile wouldn't nebber tech it. No, sah. He'd jump de fence an' make a break for de woodsI'
 t'This will be warning to you."
 ssYes, sah.- From dis time out I ain't gwine to do muffin but git up camp meetin's and show desc yere niggs deers path to glory!''-T Detroit Free Press
 A Lion in a Locom olive Car.
 The engineer and fireman of the train from the South had an extensive scare to- day. John Else is the engineer and Joe Davis is his assistant. The train was run ming along at y-mile-an-hour gait rounding the curve near the cliffs below Silver Bow. Else was as usual at his post and it was growing dusk when he noticed a dark object spring upon the cow-catcher. He naturally whistled ''down brakes'' but as there was no disturbance he concluded that it was rock or lump of dirt that had been in some peculiar way thrown on and off, and the train resumed it's ordi- nary speed.
 About this time Davis had occasion to go out on the footboard and oil some of the machinery, but before he had completed the Job he rushed back into the cab, more dead than alive. The dark object that Else had seen spring on to the cow-catcher proved to have been full-sized mountain lion. How it obtained footing in it's perilous position will never be known, but it is certain that it clambered from the cow-catcher and reached the footboard just as Davis was finishing his oiling. As soon as he saw the ugly object the man naturally retreated to the cab, to which point he was followed by the beast. The pair entered the cab together Davis speeches. and the lion growing. John Else is man of nerve. and expedieuts He had no weapon, but as quick as thought he opened the valve and there was piercing shriek from the whistle. The scheme proved a good one. The ami nal was then more frightened than the men, and he took headlong plunge from the cab. Singular to relate in the jump he fell headforemost and his neck was broken by the fall. After the train had been brought in, Else and a party took teams and went in search of the brute and found him. The carcass was brought to the city and found to weigh 300 pounds. Butte City, Montana, Core spondent.