Year: 1872

/ cart is framed with dove-tails, and each
sleeper bolted to the posts with iron
bolts. had made it so could carry
heavy loads there. By and by, after all
else failed the scamp commenced to hol-
Ter whoa to the horse, and kept it up un-
til he became quite hoarse. All this
time ! kept quiet, holding the reins firm
| ly, and kept poking the beast with the
stock.


We were not an hour going that doz-
en- miles--not bit of it. | hadn't mu b
fear--perhaps | might tell the truth and
say that had none, but l had a good
pistol, and more than that, my passen-
ger was safe /; yet was glad when came
to the old flour barrel factory that stands
at the edge of jackson village, and in
ten minutes more l hauled up i'll front
of the tavern, and found couple Of
men in the barn cleaning down some
stable horses


We'll, old fellow" says /, as l got
down, and went around to the back OF
the Wagon" you have had good ride
have not yep


"Who are your he cried he kind OF
swore little, too, as he asked the ques-
lion.


I'm the man Won tried to shoot" was
my reply.


"Where am l? Let me outr' he yell
ed.


Look here, we've come to a safe
stopping place, and mind ye, my revolv-
er is ready for ye the moment ye show
yourselves. Now lay quiet.


BY this time the two hostIers had
come to see what was the matter, and l
explained it all to them. After this
got one of them to run and rout the
sheriff and tell what / believed I'd got
for him. The first streaks of daylight
were just coming up, aud in halfan hoar
it would be broad daylight. In less than
that time the sheriff came, and two men
with him. told him the whole affair
in few wlrds, exhibited the hand bills
had for him, and then he made for The
cart He told the chap inside who he
was, and If he made the least resistance
he was dead man. Then slipped the
iron wrench out, and as | let The door
down the fellow made spring. / caught
him by the ankle and he came down on
his face, and in a moment more the off.
GERS had him. 1t was now daylight, an0
the moment saw the chap | recognized
him. lie was marched up to the lock.
up, and told the sheriff | should re.
main in town all that day.


! After breakfast the sheriff came down
to the tavern and told me that | had
caught the very bird, and if | would re.
main until the next morning I should
have the reward of two hundred dollar:
which had been offered.


| found all my goods safe, paid the ex
press agent for bringing them from In
dianapolis, and then went to work tc
stow them away in my cart. The bullet
holes we're found in the top of my vehi
Gle, just as | expected. They were in
line about five inches apart, and had
been where usually sit, two of them
would have hit me somewhere about ths
small of the back, and passed upwards


for they were sent with heavy charg,
of powder, and his pistol was a heav,
one.


On the next morning the sheriff called


upon me, and paid me Two hundred dol
! lars in gold, for he had made himsel


sure that he had got the villain. l af
! forwards found letter in the post offie,


at Portsmouth for me, from the sheriff
of Hancock County, informing me tha


Dick Hardhead is in prison for life."
] So ended the peddler's story. In th,


morning | had the curiosity to look a
/ his cart, and | found the four bullet hole
just as he had told us. though they wer
now plugged up with phial corks.
SOMETHING FOR LADIES TO READ
! A philosophic editor thus discourses t,
the ladies. Its effects on their move
: ments won't be, as Dominic Sampson
would say, prodigious:' = Among TIL
I young men in the matrimonial marke
: only small number are independent,
$ rich. and in America such rarely max
D good husbands. But the number ofthos
beginning in life, who are filled with nc
: bic ambition, who have future, is yer.


large. These are worth having. Bu
: such will not, they dare not, ask you t
: join them, while they see you so idle
e silly, gorgeously attired. Let them Sc
r that you are industrious, economical
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