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and so she was familiarly called by all
the villagers. "Fanny" is tall and stately,
with q face as purely Puritan as was Pris-
cilIa's, and her clean pretty face and petite
figure had been for many years the delight
of the villagers.
"I myself hev seed her." said my in
former, treading her way alone through the
fields of clover, rowing, knitting as she
went, and surely not thought of sorrow
filled her heart that day, for she was smiling
sweetly to herself. But, alasl Fanny fell
in love. It was one of the village swain.
"Jeannie" was his name, but Fanny's peo-
pie did not like him.
SHE MUST GO.
What wonder, then, that some nights ago,
when she pledged him beneath the trysting-
tree to marry him ere the moon was old, to
be his, his own, and his forever-what Won
der that her voice quayered, and when she
bade him by, she hung a moment on her
last words, uncertain what the rueing of
that pledge should bel At any rate the
lovers were awakened early to the bitter
truth that the doings Of that sweet day to
come were being seriously discussed by OBJ
iecring brothers and brothers-in-law; that
terrible steps would be taken to prevent it.
Fanny was called into council. In tears
she consented to go-to 60 away; and the
little valise was quickly packed and dis
patched to the peighboring depot, and poor
Fanny, the joy of the villagers and the
coustry round, was to be torn from them and
from the arms of her lover, and sent to the
care of relatives in far Western town.
What of "Jeannie'? For time it was
feared he would head the aroused villagers,
who had gathered to his aid, and bear his
bride away in the teeth of it all, and if
need be, over the bodies of his opposers.
But it was all of no use. The two brothers,
satisfied of their work, had gone to the
"public speakin'" in a neighboring town,
and Fanny was ticketed for the West.
FRIENDS TO THE RESCUE.
But Fanny had two friends, one brother
in they call him-a typical
Falstaff-a jolly good fellow; and the other
a determined little maiden, with a sort Of
Observation-Disclosures
wed" air, determined nevertheless that her
friend should prove the exception to this
rule. And her name was Fanny" like
wise.
So it was in the little waiting room at the
neighboring depot that the parting scene
was being enacted. The whistle of the train
was heard, and no time was to be lost
Alack the tears! the sighs! the groansl-the
yailing of the unfortunate lovers! 1t was
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BY WILLIAM BLACK z



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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17
VIRGINIA SKETCHES.
Senator John W. Daniel and His
Family at Their Pretty Home.
A STORY OF GEN. JUBAL A. EARLY
The Village of Mons Where Strangers Are
q Nine Days Wonder.
A GLIMPSE OF THE PEAKS OF OTTER
,wnrrrrN ron THE DISPATCH.


As earIy as half-past six this morning
groups of men, with very serious faces were
to be seen talking In hushed tones az tne
corners of the village roads, and women WAN
awed voices, were conversipg across the
fences that separated adjoining yards.
Even the children, on the way to the hills.
forgot to play, and fingered about the
groups of men to catch stray word or two.
For into the village OF Mons and in the
dead of last night, we had ridden, two
strange horsemen. and had gone to bed at
the village tavern, and slept And the
townsmen of Mons had never known its
parallel. Surely it had never occurred in
the recollection of the oldest inhabitant.
Two strange riders, clad in velveteen, on
bob-tailed horses, and swinging heavy
English riding sticks-all this and in the
middle of the night thus to cheat them! was
too much for the good people OF Mons, who
had lived away over here in the mountains
of Virginia for so many, many years, un-
disturbed by the entrance of other than the
native tuccahoe, and 1t was cruel-this
awakening.
FANNY AND HER LOVE.
And this is all there is or can be said Of
the village of Mons, for the little mountain
burg has long, long been sleeping, and F!
fear will know no waking. But found
one bit of romance. It was told me riding
down the mountain road. 1t is interesting;
it is a tale of love, and it's laughing at
locksmiths. In the skirts of this village
there lived few days ago q maiden as un-
happy as ever was the fair daugth-
ter of the house Of Capulet, only
Juliet of old was a trite more
courageous. Her name was Fanny, "
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yo', lfp gyrl Cord bress my li'l' darlin'
De aim nuther like her on de topper de
yeth, de am knowed twur comm ter
dis-I knowed it wur Twarn' no use O.
dem boys foolin' nohow. Mh-mh En- TO-
Cord, ed ll'P Missy gone en- all de po' chile's
skyrts in de wash-tub Look a-yeah,
Marse jeanne J. Look yeah-hoP up dar !!
Eff yo' dom treat dat li'P lady right 10
Cord, Marse Jeannie, tar de daylights
clean out O. yo' eff ever lay desc po' ole
hands on yer gain !"
And that night at Hagerstown Fanny and
Jeannie were made husband and wife.
A NATURAL BEAUTY.
It is not far from the scene of this odd
affair to the Peaks of Otter, and thither
over good roads is delightful journey.
People are often disposed to wonder that
this celebrated place has not ere this been
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w1Rz TOOK NO CHANCES.

Wirz, though he had given permission
for us to make the arrest, did not take a
moments chance on u.s. He had his guards
in the rifle pits surrounding the prison
armed with muskets and hand grenades, and
the 10 pieces of artillery were loaded and
the gunners stood beside them with the Ian
wards in their hands He was afraid to
open the gates to issue the rations to the
prisoners that night, owing to the commo-
ton, and the result was that we got no food
till the next day, and then the mush was
all spoiled. We were then being fed upon
mush and the days of corn bread were
PLAYED out. This mush was shoveled into
the wagons that were used to carry the dead
out of the prison at night, and by standing
in the sun all day maggots'were bred in it
and it was unfit Tor eating. We gotnothing
to eat until the next day which was Fourth
OF July.
Key, in the meantime, had given the
prisoners over to Wirz, and toward the even
ing of the 4th Wirz sent word that he could
not hold for him so many prisoners, and be
must pick out the worst and he would send
the rest back into the prison. Key then
went in and selected the worst for trial. He
iectured the rest and turned them back into
the stockade. In the meantime the rest of
the prisoners had learned what we were
doing, and they were all with MS.
TOOK THEIR REVENGE
They learned that some of the raiders were
to be sent back. and they formed line on
each side of the gate where they were to
come in. Nearly every man in these two
lines had suffered from their depredatlons
and they were ready for vengeance. Each
man had club, and the Confederate Off
GERS. who enjoyed the spectacle of seeing
the Yankees clubbing each other, only let
one man in at time. Every one had TO
run this gauntlet, and all received serious
beatings One man was killed. He was a
sailor. and he had secreted knife in his
boot. He cut his way along until he came
| TO a man who had rail. He dropped this
on his head. The sailor fell, and he was
beaten SO that the bad food and air finally
| killed him.
Kew now formed courtmartial consist
ing of ID sergeants selected from the newest
prisoners in order that they might be free
from prejudice. don't know where any
of these men now are except the Rev. 7. j..
Sheppard, of Kenton, o., who is now a
prominent Methodist clergyman there. He
was last year chaplain and chief of the Ohio
G. A. B. The Judge Advocate was a mem
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A Future for Him.

From the Chicago Herald.]
John Howels. son Of the novelist, has chosen
architecture for his life work. II the young
man succeeds a. well In his line ~ his father
has In literature, John viii ultimately beeoms .
plain carpenter,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17

TALKED last night
with q man who aided
in the hanging of the
six RAIDERS in Ander-
sonville in July, 1864.
These men were all
murderers. They were
bounty jumpers, thieves
and scoundrels, and the
full details of the eIe-
cution have never been
given to the public. It
is one Of the most re-
msrkable tragedies of
prison history during
the late war and 1t re-
suited in bringing or
der out of chaos for the
25, 900 men who were
confined in the Ander-
sonyille stockade.
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tack the raiders. They were ready for us
and in short time there was some club
practice there that would have put to the
blush the contests of Donnybrook Fair. We
made it rule to hit with a club every man
who did not belong to our squad, that came
near us, and we finally routed the raiders
and arrested 125 of them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17
An Incident of Prison Life at Ander'
sonyille That Has Never Before
Been Told in Type.
BREAKING UP A CUT-THRoAT GANG
That Murdered and Plundered Their Fellow
Sufferers in the Most Brutal and
Heartless Manner.
SIX HANGED ON THE SAME sCAFFOLD.
Story Of q Tragedy Told by Colonel John NcKlroy,
Who Participated in It

rcoKRKsPoNDKNcE OF THE D1sPAToH.1
WASHINGTON, August 16.
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formed a very effective weapon. The raiders
at this time had their headquarters in big
tent made of blankets, which they nad
stolen from others. 1t was on the south
side of the prison and was known as the
round tent. As soon as they heard OF 1t
they sent three roughs armed with knives
and brass knuckles to assault Key, but hey
had gotten a revolver which had been
smuggled in in one of the Plymouth men's
knapsacks, and he stood them of.
THE PRISON HEAD CONSENTED.
We then saw that the conflict was I'M
minent, and that night was spent In prepar-
ing for il. Key went to see Wirz, the head
of the prison. He told him the condition
of affairs and Wirz agreed to suspend for
the next few days the order for the artillery
to open upon us without warning IN the
event of our assembling inside the stockade
in any numbers for any purpose except roll
call. Wirz sanctioned Keys actions and
agreed to take charge of the prisoners whom
Key should arrest. The whole prison in
the meantime, had become aware that some
thing was going on, but they did not know
what Ii was. A great many thought that
there was fight between the Knovnothings
and the foreigners and consequently the
sympathies of the camp were not with us.
The most of these robbers were, by the way,
foreigners.
We formed on the morning OF the Sd Of
July, and moved up to the round tent to at
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TALKED last nigh
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06
Needed Legislation.

She had gone away and left her chewing
gum stuci, on the back Of the sofa, and it was
perhaps unfortunate that her little brother
saw it. 1t was certainly grotesque OF him to
carefully dig out its inside, fill up the cavity
with red pepper, carefully plug lp the hole
and put the gum back in its place. 1t was
little short Of calamitous that her beau should
call just at that moment in the evening when
she had put the gum back in her mouth
again. He could not understand her de-
meanor. He does not even yet comprehend
why she danced and shrieked, and finally ran
out of the room. There is no question that
the bill now upon the legislature providing
for the killing of all boys between the ages
of and Is should 90 through
TraUelnr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06
Keep This for Future Reference.

The Fort Scott, Wichita 6 Western rail-
way Missouri Pacific Route" is the only
line running solid trains through from
Wichita to Kansas City and st. Louis
Leaving Wichita at 9:15 p. N. you arrive at
Kansas city next morning at O'Clock.
ing chair cars through TO Kansas City and
St. Louis without change. Remember if
you go via the Fort Scott Route you are
not dependent On main line connections at
junction Point, but you go right through
on solid trains This IS the only route
whose main line runs through Wichita.
All trains are made up here and run
through solid to Kansas City to St. Louis.
1t is the shortest line by forty-eight miles
and two hours the quickest Two trains
daily to st. Louis and all points east.
Ticket office 137 North Main street. Depot
corner Second and Wichita streets.
l.. T. BLECKLEY,
Passenger and Ticket Agent, 137 North
Main street, Wichita, Kan.
II. c. TOWNSEND,
q. Z. & I. A, St. Louis, No
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06

! During the last few years there has been
great rush of travel to the Pacific coast.
| 1t has seemed at times as if the entire pop
| ulatiOn of the eastern and middle states
was determined to settle in the broad inter
| iOr valley of the San Joaquin, or in some
of the pretty spots near the ocean, from
San Diego northward to San Francisco.
Almost everybody has been interested in
oranges and lemons and real estate
The Santa Fe route, being the shortest
and best line to the coast, gets the cream
of the passenger traffic.
But we did not intend to advertise Cali
fornia exclusively; we have another object
in view.
Today if there may be said to be a
"bOom" anywhere, it is in the New South.
Texas, which is half south and half a
western empire, has felt the rising tide of
business push and enterprise, and, as a
consequence, people are looking to Texas
as they never did before.
Are you going to Texas this spring?
If so, why not take advantage of the one
fare round trip excursion rate via Santa
Fe route to Fort Worth? Tickets on sale
May Z, 8 and 9, good 30 days; also on sale
daily from May s to 2S inclusive, limited
until June for return.
This Is a cheap rate, made for the big
show of the year. the Fort Worth Spring
Palace, which will attract thousands of
visitors from abroad.
Our double daily train service to Texas
clone Star Limited and Galveston Ex-
press } affords quick transit and excellent
accommodations. Through Pullman
sleepers and day coaches, Wichita to Fort
Worth, Dallas, Houston, Galveston, and
other principal cities, on day and night
trains The time from Wichita to Fort
Worth is only a trife over - hours; the
rate, in dollars and cents, is S11.30.
Persons wishing to go further than Fort
L ,r.l-
from that point to interior Texas towns.
For tickets and Pullman reservation
apply at Douglas avenue union passenger
station or union ticket office. 122 North
Main street. W. d. MURDOCH.
139 got Passenger Agent.
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The best, quickest and most direct line
from Wichita TO st. LOnis and all princi-
pal eastern, southeastern and northern
cities
The Frisco line runs two daily express
trains from Wichita TO St. Louis without
change. equipped with Pullman palace
sleepers and free reclining chair cars. No
other line does it. Close connections in st.
Louis union depot with solid vestibule ex-
press trains, without change, to Chicago,
Louisville. Cincinnati, Cleveland. Pitts
burg, Philadelphia New York and Boston.
The popularity of this line being uni
versally acknowledged by all competitors,
all passenger trains of other railway lines
entering Wichita from the north, south
and west arrive in time to connect with
the Frisco line fast express trains to the
east.
If you cannot purchase through tickets
reading via Frisco line from your starting
point, it will pay you to purchase to Wich-
tia in order TO secure the advantages and
comforts of this line.
For further information regarding rates
time. connections and through reservation
of sleeping car accommodations call upon
or address w. d. Murdoch, ticket agent,
122 North Main street, orDOuglaS avenue
union depot. ID. WISHART.
Gen. Pass. Agent,
d56-tf 81 Louis, No
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06
Notice.

Those in correspondence with friends in
the east who contemplate visiting Wichita
on business or pleasure in the near future,
should be advised Of the series OF home
seekers excursions to be run by the popu-
lar Frisco line from St. Louis to Wichita
on April %, May 20, September9, Septem-
Der % and October Il, 1890.
These tickets are good to return thirty
days from date of sale and are sold at the
extremely low rate of one fare for the
round trip. The Frisco line is the only
line running two daily express trains
between st. Louis and Wichita without
change D. WISHART,
General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo.
dIO0rf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06
AN ODD Tribe VI INDIANS
FACTS ABOUT THE ANTIQUITY OF
THE BLUE EYED MANDANS.
1t Is Claimed That They Are Descended

1t Is Claimed That They Are Descended
from Early Welsh Explorers-They Had
Customs and Manners Entirely Different
from Other Indians.
in the gallery at the National museum ara
portraits of Indians with light hair and blue
eyes. George Catlin found such Indians
among the Mandans During the months he
lived with them and painted his pictures he
developed the interesting theory that this
tribe was descended from band of Welsh
explorers who landed in North America near
" 200 years before Christopher Columbus
came in the Santa Maria.
There were ten ships which left North Wales
under the direction of Prince Madoc OF Ma
dave early in the Fourteenth century. They
never returned. 1t is historical supposition
that these explorers landed on the west Of
what is Florida now. or somewhere about the
mouth Of the Mississippi, Travelled into the
interior, and gradually amalgamated with
the Indians.
Catlin concluded that Madoc's men estab-
lished their colony in what is now Ohio. They
may have assembled the river from the gulf,
or they may have marched inland from the
coast. After be had lived among these In
disns in their fortified city on the upper Mis-
souri, Catin traced their course backwards,
down the Missouri and up the Ohio, to the
extensive Notifications in that state. He
found Mandan ruins in dozen places He
became satisfied that the ancestors Of the In
dams he knew had built these forts with walls
twenty or thirty feet high, and with covered
ways to the water. There was a striking
similarity in the work Of construction. Moth
ing like it was found among other tribes
The specimens Of pottery dug from the
Notifications in Ohio were like the utensils
in use by the Mandans. a visitor at
the village could see the Mandan women
molding vases, cups, pitchers and pots from
black clay and baking them in the little kilns
which they built in the sides Of hills. The
Mandans alone of North American Indians
possessed the art OF manufacturing q beauti-
full and lasting kind Of blue glass beads. They
had these beads III great quantities when the
fur traders first came among them. They
kept the process secret. Mandan canoes were
altogether different from the canoes of other
tribes. They were exactly like the Welsh
coracle, and were made of buffalo hides
stretched over a frame OF willows or other
boughs, and were shaped so as to be nearly as
round as a tub.
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sreaklnc ofFort Worth Spring Palace.

You can buy round trip tickets via Santa
Fe Route, at one fare, to Fl. Worth, any
time between May and IS, and have until
June 3 to return.
In Fit. Worth you can purchase excur-
sion tickets at a low rate to points reached
via Santa Fe route in that state. TT.
Worth is the gateway of Texas. Once in
side the gate, every facility will be given
for looking around. This is an important
fact for land seekers and health seekers.
A cheap way to see Texas. Inquire of
local agent, Santa Fe route, or write to G.
L. Nicholson, g. p. & I. A, Topeka, Kan.
d-116-tf
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Like Other Bows,

Benedict to the minister, who is CALLING
There, sir, is my son. Fine, handsome boy,
isn't he? See him porting over his school
books there, studying hard when the other
boys are out playing bali. 1 tell you, he's a
wopder Come here, Jimmy, and tell me
what you are studying.
Jimmy-Studyin1 I'm tryin' ter decide
whedder ter call de nine I'm gettin' up dc
young Giants or de Fourt' Ward DaisiesE
Lawrence American.
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A pretty and taking fad is found IN the
floral gates that open 10 admit q bridal
couple SIS they so up the aisle Of the church
TIE initial OF the bride on enc gate s1d that
OF the groom on the other adds sentiment 10
the fancy.
In tancifuI note papers this vea- we have
coral pink, tIrQnoise blue, neutral gray and
q buff PINK. 4 light shade Of gray Is very
useful and pretty. The SddreSs on tee new
Xcre papers Is seiu stamped in white, bUs
white ink Itsslf has quite zone OF. Of fashion
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06
YnnnG Hnrses for Sale.

Anyone desiring finely bred colts coming
and 3 years old, unbroken, (bOth sexes
win find great bargains at the Tx farm on
Bluff creek, near Caldwell, where $50 head
may be seen. The sires are thOrOUghbreds
and trotting horses of high pedigree. The
colts Will make stylish and fast drivers
and excellent saddlers
THE AMERICAN PASTORAL COMPANY,
13S 12J Breeders.
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Ilne PLAYING Cards.

Send ten 40 cents in stamps or coin to
John Sebastian, general ticket and passen-
ger agent Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
Railway, for pack of the latest, smooth
est, slickest playing cards that ever glad
dened the eyes and rippled along the fin
gers of the devotee to seven-up, casino.
Dutch, euchre, whist. or any other ancient
or modern game, and get your money
worth i've times over.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06

Southern excursion rates in effect May
90, via the Frisco line. limited thirty days
for the round trip, at a little more than
one fare, TO the following points. Pine
vile, Ky, Niiddlesborough, KY, Columbia,
Tenn, Florence, Ala. Decatur, Ala. Shelf
field. Ala, Cullman, Ala, Ocean Springs,
Miss. Birmingham, Ala, Calera. Ala,
cursi0n tickets to Fort Worth via Paris,
Tex. at one fare for the round trip. linn
tied June 3. Dates Of sale, May : 70 2sth
inclusive 15g If
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A Dream.

Oh, Jennie, had the loveliest dream last
night / dreamed that George and | were
married, and he gave me a diamond brace
let and a string of gold beads, and pa gave
us his forgiveness, and a dear little house.
with a cunning little vevanda. and no
mort gage on IL, and-Oh. my! What
did you dream on? \ biscuit made of
Imperial -four. l59-tf
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Commencing Sunday, March %. tn

Commencing Sunday, March %, the
Great Rock Island route will place in
service between Kansas City and Denver
their new and magnificent dining cars,
Pence de Leon" ''Delmonte" and Ray
mOnd." Passengers leaving Wichita on
the morning trains for Pueblo, Colorado
Springs and Denver will be served with
dinner and supper on these trains. 1l0-tf
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Ypterpstional .Tou-uaIisu..

Hip Lung OF Chinese newspaper AZ PeEing1
Here's repo-t - \ most awfal storm II the
United StsteS Hs15reis we-o hiio1
Fin Wing .usana-i1g eilyor}-Gfiys ii five
lines on an inside page; that's In Esy they
trent orr 6iz-s-yrrS- IaacS
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Commencing April 3, the Missouri Pa
cifc railway viii sell tickets to Pueblo,
Colorado Springs and Denver for $3.50 from
Wichita. Cali at Missouri Pacific ticket
Office, - North Main street, if you want
cheap rates to all points. ll6-tf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums. alleys
all pain, cures wind collie, and is the best
remedy for diarrhoea. Ywenty-fivecents a
bottle. d64 If WIG If