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The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1897-08-20

DICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG
IN AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APRIL 10, 1897.
LEAVE BYRD-STREET STATION
500 A. M, Sunday only for Washington and
points North Stops at Elba, Glen
Glen. Penoia. Milford. Guinea, Fred
ericksburg Brooke, and Whitewater
s:45 A. NJ. Daily except Sunday for Washing
ton and points North. Stops at
Elba, Ashland; Taylorsville, Dos
Woodslane, Guinea, Summit, Fred
ericksburg, Brooke, and Widewa-
ter. Pullman car.
1900 M Daily, except Sunday, for Washing
ton and points North. Stops at
Elba Glen Allen, Ashland, boswell,
Milford, Fredericksburg, Brooke
and Whitewater. Parlor-car. Also
connects with Congressional Linn
tied at Washington.
Tbs p. M. Daily, for Washington and points
North. Stops at E1ba, Ashland,
Brooke and Whitewater, and other
stations sundays. Sleeper Rich
mond to New York.
ARRIVE BYRD-STREET STATION
$40 A. M. Daily Stops at Whitewater, Brooke
fredericksburg. Milford, boswell,
Ashland, and Elba and other sta
tions Sundays. Sleeper, New York
to Richmond.
2:45 p. M, Daily, except Sunday. Stops at
Whitewater Brooke, Fredericksburg
Summit Guinea. Woodslane, Mil
ford Penoa Ruther Glen. boswell
Taylorsyie, Ashland, Glen Allen
and Elba. Par1or-car from Wash
ington
7:1O p. NJ. Daily Stops only at Fredericks-
burg boswell, and Ashland. Pull
from New York and
Washington.
$3.50 p NJ. Daily Stops at Whitewater, Brooke
Fredericksburg, Summit, Guinea
Woods1ane, Milford, Peno1a Ruth
Glen, boswell. Ashland, Glen AL
len, and Elba. Sleepingcar.
FREDERICKSBURG ACCOMMODATION.
DAILY except Sunday.)
400 p. M Leaves Byrd-Street Station.
$50 A. NJ. Arrives Byrd-Street Station.
ASHLAND TRAINS.
DAILY except Sunday.)
6:42 A. M. Leaves Eiba.
600 p. M. Leavee E1ba.
GAO A. M. Arrives Elba.
600 p. M. Arrives E1ba
c. A. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager.
E. T. d. MYERS, President.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

that has been erected to the memory
OF war correspondents and also the
only monument upon South Mountain
in sight of Antietam and Gettysburg
battle-fields. In 1884, at the close of
the republican party's long period in
possession of the government, George
Alfred Townsend, one Of the army COR
respondents with Mcclellan, Pope and
Grant, bought the land in Champions
Gap for retreat and built extensive
stone residences and literary Offices
there and built up also railroad sta
ton one mile below TO the west and
macadamized the entrances to the gap,
which became busy hauling and
crossing place. The villages of Burk-
ettsyille, Brownsville and Rohrersville,
numbering 1000 inhabitants, are be-
meath the gap. The monument was put
up of the rude, hard mountain stone
with dressed archways and belts. the
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
A chinaman.s Pun.

DR.. Macmillan, secretary of the Pres
byterian board of home missions, told
me the other day OF Chinaman who
actually perpetrated an American pun.
1t happened at the University of Mon
tana, at Deer Lodge. The punning fe-
yer was raging among the students and
penetrated even to the kitchen. where
Ching Lee, or whatever his name was,
presided as cook. The housekeeper OF
the students boarding club went into
the kitchen one day. Ching Lee,
said she, ''you may cook some hominy
for supper" And the Chinaman. with
out a moments hesitation. returned
For hominy ?'-Washington Post.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
MAY NEVER BE SCALED.
The Top OF Mount Everett Is Beyond
the Reach of Man.

The Top OF Mount Everett IL Beyond
the Reach of Man.
Prof. Ugolina Messo of Turin has
made some interesting experiments on
the effects experienced in ascending to
high attitudes. says the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat. All climbers of lofty noun
tains are aware that at great heights,
such the summit OF Mont Blanc, re-
SEPARATION becomes more or less trouble
some. the heart beats rapidly and some
times irregularly and feeling of eN-
haustion. often accompanied by nausea,
is experienced. These effects arise
largely from the rarity of the air. and
since the atmosphere becomes less
dense the higher one goes II is evil
dent that a limit must soon be reach
ed above which man cannot ascend
Prof. Messo made his first experiments
on Mont Rosa. next TO Mont Blanc
the highest peak of the Alps, where he
assembled to an elevation exceeding 49,
600 feet without serious inconvenience.
Returning TO Turin, he made his next
ascent, so to speak. without ascending
at all. In other words, he produced an
imitation of the rare atmosphere of a
very lofty mountain top by partially
exhausting the air from large pneu-
matte chamber in which he had shut
himself. When the air in the cham
her corresponded in density with that
which would be found at height OF
24.272 feet above sea level he suffered
such IN effects that he could not carry
the experiments further. The height
TO which Prof. Messo thus simulated
4 as ascent is almost mile less thar
that OF Mount Everest, SO that it seems
| improbable that man will ever be abl'
TO set his foot on the Hottest peak o
the earth.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

Elements are strong and rude, and give
a look of early antiquity to the profile.
while the color of the body of the
stone is light gray, with Iichens.
irons. ETC.. lending it the variety of age.
The cornerstone, well up the tower,
contains the date of the local battle
and the monument September Ia.
1926"
Before the facade the road has beer
opened into circular area of above
a hundred feet diameter, with urned
gate posts of Gapland breaking the in
closure of stone walls, which are on all
the roads, and of the material of the
monument. The gap is only about one
hundred and fifty yards wide, and in
the space of three acres are five stone
and one frame residence. with numer-
GUS adjunct buildings, the whole giving
the impression of village, convent or
collegiate institution. i
In the rear of the monument, which
shows a stern, gray castle, looking
down the descent, are tablets of the
correspondents and artists and of liv-
ing persons called to the directory who
were selected to represent the guild or
corporation.
At the south end of the monument is
genesis or biography or army chron-
iclers, from Thucydides to Stanley and
McGahan. At the north end is a state
ment of the motive of the monument
and part of stanza from the Army
Correspondents ballad below, begin
ming:
20 wondrous ruth"
The structure stands upon an artifi-
cial terrace, and is surrounded with
iron posts and chain. The contract
price was $1.400, all the material sup
piled by the society. The hauling of
materials cost $500. The dressed stone
and tablets and the carving Of letters
cost near s14,0O Materials cost $500.
besides freight, grading, fares. profess
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

when near Madclla. watonwan county.
MINI. a swcde boy saw the escaping
robbers. and riding into town reported
the fact TO the citizens. who turned
out on magsc to effect the capture
After some diminishing the pursued
were corralIed IN denae plum thicket
AZ a bend OF river. They we're sur
rounded on all sides. but made ucs-
perate fight. Shots we're poured IN
upon them from all directions. but they
would not come out. Finally the sner-
in OF the county. brave little Irish
man named Gillespie, called for voinn-
teerx 10 go into the thicket with MIN
ana bring the robbers out. Six men
stepped from the crowd. who. with the
aaertff formed line abreast ana
marched into the thicket, while the
crowd brcathIessly awaited the result
| 4 ahort. ehagp conflict ensucd, ana the
sheriff and party were victors.
Cole Younger. the only one standing
threw 40 his haGds and said; Don
snoot agin: we surrender; were az
~, an nieces." pitts was dead. while
Ism and Bob Younger were each seri.
nnsiv wouuded In several places and
unat,ic 10 arise. and Cole had received
~ loaa Than eight wounds. ball IRON
enc n tho robbers revolyers grazeo
Inc aherIf's wrist. and another MI
briarwood pipe III the vest poeNct u
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

whole laid in cement and standing on
three feet of concrete and seven feet
of underground masonry. The sum-
nit width of the mountain at that
point is hardly 200 feet, and the plat
form of the mountain had TO be filled
out with 500 cubic yards of stone and
earth filling, revetted by dry walls.
Four roads ascend into the gap and
unite in one short road across the sum
nit Between two of these roads the
monument stands, the gap raveiling
down for a quarter of mile and open
ing out between woods to the east,
| and between these promontory woods
the valley OF Middletown or Catoctin,
eight miles wide and eighteen miles
| long, hangs like a veil, its mountain
boundary making wavy zone through
the large arch of the monument ana
upon its TANKS. The towns of Middle
town and Jefferson, the National or
Cumberland Road and the Potomac
| Gap at Point of Rocks are also seen
through the aerial arch.
The memorial of the army corre-
spondents is a section of wall like a
portal with a tower and pier. resemble
ing one OF the gates of the Alhambra.
1t has a horseshoe arch on the ground
of sixteen feet height and span, made
of brownish red Hummelstown stone
The shape of the arch gives the other
wise solid structure an instep or bow
peculiarly light and graceful. Three
Romano othic arches above give a
heavier Romanesque trinity of express
sion and arc of gray limestone. All
the four arches reveal the scene and
sky, as the edifice has no interior. be-
ing a facade. like the front of some ca
thedral altered from the Arabian and
left standing like an admired fragment.
The great arch typifies the horse
shoe on which the correspondent sped
to his work: the upper arches express
narration, picture and photograph
: Abreast of the upper arches in an
! alcoye is a white figure of Orpheus
D playing a pipe of Pan and idling with {
]. sword. In the fianking spaces of tbs
: arch are heads of Poetry and Mercur.
: in terra Gotta. paneled In carved brick
! with Acanthus borders. Two heads o
e horses in similar panels are above tn
y uDDeT dIIhtns n Pahtt VA A1<'S "a ~
( runs across the the monument, witt
o the carved letters WAR Correspond
/" ents," executed by the decorative
' sculptor, James r. Farley. Below tn
: symbolic heads are stone shields, car
/. rying the gold letters on their bands Q
Speed"
Heed"
The tower rises on the north sid
to the height of fifty feet, or ten fee
Il above the square of the structures
: which is near forty feet in height an
n width. A pier or gable on the sout
d side is some forty-six feet high. an
carries a gold vane of quill passin
IS through broken sword. Upon til
l. tower is Flagstaff, which reache
the height OF seventy-one feet from II
ground. bowels of galvanized iron a!
a cend the tower from the rear. III
d thickness of the curtain or center
l. three feet, OF the tanks from eight fe'
to six feet. tapering upward, The ha
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

(The law has since been changed In
this respect.) The murderers took
advantage OF the law. and to save their
necks very likely with the hope OF
future pardon or ESCAPED. plead guilty
and we're sentenced to the penitentiary
at saltwater for life. Bob Younger
died there a few years ago.
Several efforts have been made TO
secure the pardon OF the Youngers. but
M to this time no governor of the
state has cared to assume so grave q
responsibility: such action would in
sure his political death.
There was the usual sentimentality
and slobbering on the part of weak
minded women over these criminals.
Bouquets OF flowers were presented to
the prisoners, and their signatures So
lIcited for autograph albums.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

owl on professional visit, and after
making him dress Franks wound
forced him 10 exchange clothes: or at
least took his clothes and left him n
lew garments they had worn, Keen
ing on south the James boys reached
their Old haunts In Missouri. where
they had protection. Jesse lived IN
Kansas City for year or two prior
70 the spring OF 1882. when he removed
70 81 Joseph. where he was shot and
killed In April OF that year by Bob
Ford, one of his own kind. Ii il aaid
Ford received from the Missouri au-
thorities Immunity from crimes he had
committed for putting Jesse out OF The
way. Frank was arrested In jackson
county. Missouri, on some slight
charge. but on his promise to behave
himself and leave Missouri. was per.
mitted TO go scott free" He went 10
Dallas. Tex. where he was employed
for a short time In a clothing store
ont honest toll did not agree with him
and ne soon abandoned II TO devote his
Time 20 horse racing and gambling. |
saw aim in Dallas In 1892, but made
no effort 70 renew our acquaintance.
On their Journey the YoungerB and
Pitts saw party Of chicken hunters,
with teams. and proceeded toward
them with the Intention Of appropriate
Ing the horses. The hunters, dlyininp
their purpose, hastily exchanged tha
cartridges In their guns containing
chicken shot for come containing buck
shot and stood on The in,ruders by
sending q few yolleys toward them
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
DESTRUCTION OF PoMPErr.
Buried So Deep That IL Was Lost for
Sixteen Centuries.


Buried So Deep That 1t Was Lost for
Sixteen Centuries.
When one hears of a buried city, It
Is very difficult to realize how city
can be buried SO deep as to be utterly
lost and the place of it know 1t no
more for sixteen centuries. Yet this
Ia what happened to Pompeii and Her
culaneum, Stablae and Retina and
thirteen other cities of the plain on
the ninth day before the Kalends of
September, in the first year of the
reign Of the Emperor Titus. Thus 1t
was when Pompeii was buried. When
next the sun shone into her streets
George III was King OF England. Six
teen years before the burial of the city
an earthquake had done so much mis-
CHIEF that the ruin was not yet quite
restored; but Mount Vesuvius had been
quiet ever since. The Gath of August
was terrible hot day. Most of the
people were in the amphitheatre at a
wild beast fight, when they saw a
strange cloud rise from vesuvius. 1t
seemed like pine tree: the trunk rose
up high into the heavens and then
spread out its branches some white,
some dull, some spotted-until slowly
drenching themselves from the parent
trunk they began to darken the sky.
Pliny, the elder, over at Misenum, was
reading in his study, when his sister
came to tell him of the strange cloud.
He ordered light galley to be got
| ready, and as he was coming out, with
his tablets in hand, ready to note down
what he saw, the mariners belonging
TO the galleys at Retina came up to
implore OF him to go TO their help. BY
the time Pliny got there with his gal
leys the ashes were falling thicker
every instant. Then came broken and
blackened stones and pumice. Vast
| fragments were rolling down the
| mountain, and the sea had suddenly
retreated The pilot was for putting
back, but the undaunted old philoso-
pher admiral would not go back.
Fortune" he said, "favors the brave"
| Everybody knows something about the
rest, and how the poor old gentleman.
being weakly and asthmatic, was suf-
| located by a sudden outburst of flames
and sulphur fumes In the awful
darkness, when the sudden rush OF
flames was the only light which pierre
ed the dense smoke. the fields were full
Of terrified people fleeing they knew no.
whittier. Ii is true that the destruc-
tion was not instantaneous. and grea;
number of the inhabitants saved their
lives. and even took away good deal
of their treasure, but it is estimated
that at least 100000 persons were en-
tombed in Pompeii. Herculaneum, and
the other cities of the plain. The un-
earthing of Pompeii, which began in
1850. and which is still going on, shows
that there is little difference in the life
OF to-day and the life of 1900 years ago.
People wrote on walls and cut their
names on seats. Just as we do now.
| They had stands for public vehicles,
and the schoolmaster used birch on
| his ounces.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

sixth district of Minnesota over
Charles A. Towne. has achieved
notable victory. Congressman Towne
is one of the foremost. ablest and most
active members Of the republicans who
bottled to free silver. His work in
congress and in the campaign has been
vigorous and effective. Judge Morris.
who will succeed Mr.. Towne in the
house of representatives. is fully the
equal of his noted predecessor as an
orator. Judge Morris is native Of
Lynchburg, Va, graduate of William
and Mary college, and an ex-professor
in the Texas Military academy. In
1880 he was admitted to the bar, and
returning to his home in Virginia there
began practice. In 1889 he came to
Duluth, and his great ability as law
yer made him prominent man in q
year. He was elected municipal judge
in 1891, city attorney in 1894, and a
year later was appointed district judge
| by Governor Clough. His campaign
was wonderful, and has made him, al
bound. one of the most prominent
men in the country.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

sss 70 near 10 being taken were
/ mat their horses we're abandoned
| left tied to trees. Not far from
.lsalo a farmer tone Dunningl fell
msif hands. and told them where
we're. and how 70 reach points
l9Fed for They threatened to Kill
aalns. bf finally released him. on
Promise 70 keep mum"
Neah impetus was given 10 the
u upon discovering that the fee.
BETTY had recently crossed the rail-
\ ofidge AT Mankato. Here the
V separated. the two Jamcees bear
y south. while the three YounEers
r,'s Kept on their westerly course.
saiaes brothers stole two horses
pasture and mounted on them
ns baga Of hay for saddles and
sioT brIdlesJ were riding along an
eqaehted road IN the woods when
,toh hunting for them with shot
'Wea his game. Not being seen
~, ~ robbers the boy stepped behind
!. w they passed him. and he was
~ were not innocent men. when
~, "a1eo away with both barrels, the
taxing effect In Frank James
@'sn iniIIcting q painful wound.
""Owlng how many we're In pur.
~ bandits dashed their horses
\. run and escaped.
oc prairie north Of Sioux City
'''aes brothers captured a doctor
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
ssssS$&&@S@ss~ &%*s#s ~ ~ sw sa 49, .assxM
Capture the Mortified Bank Raiders 4
n &.
s$sss*sss*s* &ss#a&&a.&ssx ~ ~ ~ x@~...a@@

a. nursuit and capture OF the men
,,laed the First National bank at
r..s,sasla Mimi, In September. 1876.
.,,sd In many thrilling adventures.
l.. aarty AZ IL escaped from town in
E,.a,d Frank and Jesse James. Cole.
~ anil Bob Younger. and Charley
Rhs
r~ay.ng Northfield. the crowd tool;
-, 4 aue west course. keeping near
n. timber All the time. and in IL as
- : possible. A few miles out.
y, rode into field where a man was
Esslrs and unceremoniously Dor
E,.esr one Of his horses for Bob
E.,agsr ii np TO this time he and
Z. ssd ridden the same horse. A cold
4. .,zllng rain set In the day after the
y ma continued nearly every day
\. no weeks. During this. time the
|,A,es mad 40 shelter and no heavy
[,~blng ana il Is wonderful how any
a,n beIng could endure the exposure
r. AID some 81 them seriously
4 ,ne5 a. they were. Ii simply
.srs he desperate fight one win make
an They would occasionally call
or ous of tho way house and buy
~ fiof they subsisted chiefly on
- corn taken from fields along the
| mh.e1 they partially roasted. Flo.
sssgs hes had a watermelon or i
i'll, * ire refuse Ia their several
sar places Indicated The wholy
sisy FeFnef out 70 chase the ban.
i all several times their pursaers
e. Is as.a, * them. when shots wers
zr so one OF their camplna
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

one OF the sherlff's party, glancing
harmlessly away.
Cole Younger talked freely at the
time OF his capture. quoted Byron and
Shakespeare, and said while he had
lived In the south all his life, and
thought he was familiar with warm
weather. Minnesota was the hottest
climate he ever struck. He compli-
mented the citizens OF Mortified and
the sheriff and party on their bravery
but said he had no use for detectives
and policemen.
Pitts body was taken to ST. Paul and
turned over to DIR. Murphy. who now
mas his bones. | went to st. Paul 10
identif, Pitts as the enc who shot me
while ! was defending the banks
property. While viewing the re-
mains DR.. Murphy asked me Ii
would like the finger that
pulled the trigger as a keep
sake" II ! did he would "cut It of
and fix II up for me-" declined the
kind offer. thinking | would remember
the incident without such a memento
The foungers were taken to Rice
county and placed in the county Jail a;
Faribault 10 awit the action of the
grand jury. They were charged with
murder and speedily indicted. At that
time the penal laws of Minnesota we're
such that II one charged with capital
crime plead guilty, the seyerest pen
atty was imprisonment for life. II tbs
plea was mot guilty" and conviction
followed. the death sentence might be
pronounced by the officiating Judge
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
he Learned something.

"what did my little boy learn at
Sunday school to-day?' asked Mrs. Sir-
mingham of Benny, when he came in
with his lesson paper and reward
card.
Il learned that in the olden times
they had stone fences" replied Ben
ny.
How did you learn that?"
Because in the lesson there was a
verse about stone of stumbling and
a rock OF q fence, "-Pittsburg Chroni-
Gle.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

sional services. printing. engraving. ar
tisans, etc.
On the north end of the monument
the tablet: ITO the Army Core
spondents and Artists. 1876, Whose
Tolls Cheered the Camps, Thrilled the
Fireside, Educated Provinces of Rus
tics Into Bright Nation OF Readers
and Gave Incentive TO Narrate Distant
Wars and Explore Dark Lands. Erect
ed by subscription, 1896"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16

'Updike." said Fosdick. who had an
swered the telephone ring. heres a
message saying that your house is
burning down
"ThsEk heayensw replied Updike fer
yently.
"What makes you say that? Is 1t
injured for several times It's value?"
ooh. no: but my wife has cards out
for n mink tea for tomorrow afternoon
and now she can't have lt."-Judge.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
TO WAR WRITERS.
HONOR TO THE MEN WHO
WROTE ITS DAILY HISTORY.
The Only One in the World 1t Is
Erected in View of Antietam and
Gettysburg Battle-Fields Built by
Popular Subscriptions.
Gettysburg letter.

HE handsome mon
ument erected as a
memorial to the
war correspondents
of the great civil
war which was
dedicated recently
at Gapland., Md,
is unique in more
ways than one. 1t
is the only monu-
ment in the world
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
A Possible Indian Army.

A writer in the Fortnightly Review
says that 'if the Prussiaa CONSUMPTION
were applied in India we should have
$500, 900 regular soldiers actually in
barracks. with 100000 recruits coming
up every year-a force with which not
only Asia, but the world. might be SUBJ
dued."
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-01-16
JUDGE PAGE MORRIS.

He Will Succeed Congressman Townc,
in the Sixth Minnesota
Duluth, MIMI. Lottery
Judge Page Morris, who has just
been elected congressman from the