Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-05

an TUX him out an hung him Jest be-
cause he told the deputy marshals when
wuz a-makin' NV whisky. o, I donT
know what I'm goin' to do. Thar ain't
| nbthin' in the hourse fur the childuu To
| eat an -" here she broke down.
Lets cut him down." exclaimed onq
| OF the capitalists, springing out OF
the wagon. -" Perhaps he is not
dead"
10, yes, he is," the woman mourned,
'They hung him this mawnin' about
daylight, an, swore they'd shoot any
The capitalist climbed back into tho
wagon.
MY mother. has gone airter Justice
NV the peace" said the woman, "but I
don't see whut good he kin do. o,
Lordy! whutl become of my po' chillenp
Gentlemen, amt you got nothin' to cat
in yO' wagginp III you amt got nothin'
but piece NY bread, fur tho Lawd's
sake let me have it"
MADAM" said the man who seemed
to be the leader of the party, I'VE
brought q lunch with us, but unfortun-
ately ate it a few miles back; but we'll
see that you do not suffer. Here, boys,
I'll start the ball with $40. Chip in and
help this poor woman"
Pocketbooks flew open. Each man
contributed something, and the woman,
with many tears Of gratitude, accepted
the contributions. The capitalists drove
away, and when their wagon was out OF
sight, lank man poked his head from
behind n tree and said:
"How's the haul, Lize?"
First rate" the woman replied.
"Lemme see," he said, approaching
her. "Bled like. stuck pig, didn't
they?' he added, as he took the money.
s'Times is improving slow but shore"
sam, | hated to take this yere
money, Them men 'peared to be
teched."
''Oughter be teched to see pore man
hangin' In the weods thiser way. Hat :
sion gal. The government ought to give
man pension, no matter whut side
he fout on, an ef the government won't
do it, WY u man jest haster tocolfect the
best way he ken. Reckon we'd better
take down the gentleman " nodding at
the figure that nung from the tree, Gam
move him away. o, I tell you pr NV
ole boots, some ole clothes ana little
wheat straw pans out purity we'll some-
times"
'.sam, still think we oughtn't ter
tuck it,"
WY, gal, don't yer know they feel
jest ez good ez Of that thing hangin'
thar wuz ME, an L know that I'm better
off, so the thing has turned out all right.
Eff the wuz so teched they mOut be glad
ter know that yore pore husband ain't
dead. It don't make no diffunce ter
mans feelin's whether he's done good
ur not, jes' 50 he thinks he has. They
think they've done good, an we knoY
hnt, dad -. IN. -
beginnin' to be,leeve it, that this here
thing NV enterprise mighty nigh allus
wins" ,,t
AT Elmira, N, Y, big cat that fre-
quented the Erie railroad shops was
missed from his accustomed place.
Three days later the animal was found
at Jersey City, somewhat reduced in
crawled under. the floor of a Pullman
car that was being repaired, the work-
men had boarded up the hole, and pussy
had been riding about on. q palace car
for three days, It's cries finally at .
tracted the attention Of the trainmen
who released it,. ..
The colored people employed about
the Jail at Birmingham, Ala, a dozen
or more in number, all insist that every
night at 1890 they see the ghost of
George Williams, who was hanged there
several weeks ago, and that at precisely
that minute the trap of the scaffold falls
with a great noise which can be heard
all through the Jail.
A tenderfoot who had been hired to
'"herd geese" on General Montgomery's
ranch, near Chico, CAL, became tiredof
ordinary methods of killing the wild
birds, and, saturating "a quantity Of
wheat with strychnine, scattered it
about the fields. In the morning there
were 2,4OO dead geese lying about, and
their carcasses completely damned up
Pine Creek, so that it overfowed its
banks.