Arizona silver belt., 1888-04-14

running time of the trains that inter- feres with your trade. A band of train robbers from Missouri came here five years ago, hoping to establish branch of their-great cooperative train wreck ing and robbing emporium; but they were not successful.
 It is said that they established them selves up near Round Knob, armed to the teeth and awaited the arrival of the train.
 Time passed on.
 At first they were not very hungry and did not think it advisable to devour any of their number, but at last starva- ton overpowered good resolutions and reason; so one after another of the younger and weaker of the band yielded to the frenzied and famine-stricken frag ment of the once buoyant and self-reli- ant company,
 At last one night, just as the moon Clumb the picturesque step-ladder of stars and looked down upon the wild and beautiful pictuIe of glorified noun tain and somber valley, as the last col ored loiterer had returned from the distant revival, softly humming to him. self, while a pair of Plymouth rocks sleepily peered from the pockets of his army overcoat into the glorious night, as the ever-regretful pine of the Old North State gave back to the night wind hopeless whisper in answer to its light caress, the last of the lusty rob- bers yielded to long exposure, famine and the sharp, remorseless tooth of time. His latest fiuttering breath went out upon the bosom of the mountain zephyr as shrill whistle sounded from beyond the ''trussel," and in less than two hours, almost before his body had be- come cold and rigid in death, the train with untitled rumble and grumble and roar, with a mad shriek and hot box, passed him in its resistless flight.
 So you see. MT. White, that this is no place to rob trains. It is too uncertain. This is a good place for health, but it is no place to rob trains. l can tell you where there are some good, robust chickens, or at least where they were an hour ago; but until the road here has more respect for its timetable, would not advise a train-robber in whom felt an interest to come here.
 Iknow that at times your dornick farm will look bleak and desolate to you, and you will madly yearn for more soil, but it is better than the oneryating toll of sitting night after night in cold culvert, wearing set of false whiskers, a size too large for you, and waiting for train that may never come.
 That is not all, friend White. Train robbing is not now what it was fifteen or twenty years ago. More people go ''heeled" now than formerly. And those who do not go heeled have no money.
 In riding through Nebraska some years ago, I was awakened one night while in an upper berth by train rob- Der who was total stranger to me. He did not move in our set His weapon wobbled so, owing to his excitement, that I caught hold of it to keep it steady, and also in such position that if it happened to get itself discharged the contents would go througha medical student who occupied the lower berth. The train robber seemed to think l wanted to steal his nice new revolver, which he had no doubt secured by pro- curing two fresh subscribers fora child S paper, and so he resisted. We struggled there for half an hour, presume, be- fore I succeeded in robbing him.
 A band of robbers, it is said, tried to rob train bound north from Florida three years ago, and though they met with some resistance that was about all they did meet with.
 One robber got a package of flea powder, a set of false teeth and chest nut bell.
 Another secured a white vest, buff falo overcoat and a small wet alligator. 1 He did not know that he had secured the alligator until two hours afterward, when look of pain came over his face, I and one of his companions removed him from the small alligator which, it seems, had become very much attached to the robber by means of the brow of his pants,
 (The mans pants mean.)
 Another got diary for '73, an audo- phone and truss.
 Still another got cigar case, a spec tacle case and case of smallpox.
 In my opinion man is fool who will sit up nights and lose his rest in order to rob trains when he can go to Congress and get in his little work on the surplus.-BiU Nye, il1 Boston Globe.
 An Englishman of fifty-five recently sued lady of forty-six for breach of promise, and the jury awarded him t27.